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Social & Cultural Dynamics
Eliciting Latent Knowledge (ELK)
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Information Cascades
Groupthink
Conformity Bias
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Social Status
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Finding gliders in the game of life
paulfchristiano
19d
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Systems of Survival
Vaniver
11d
5
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Mechanistic anomaly detection and ELK
paulfchristiano
25d
17
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Here's the exit.
Valentine
29d
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The Social Recession: By the Numbers
antonomon
1mo
11
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Feeling Old: Leaving your 20s in the 2020s
squidious
28d
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5
Who should write the definitive post on Ziz?
NicholasKross
5d
30
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Triangle Opportunity
Alex Beyman
2mo
10
273
Frame Control
Aella
1y
270
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ARC's first technical report: Eliciting Latent Knowledge
paulfchristiano
1y
88
117
Narrative Syncing
AnnaSalamon
7mo
46
130
ELK prize results
paulfchristiano
9mo
50
120
We're already in AI takeoff
Valentine
9mo
115
141
Prizes for ELK proposals
paulfchristiano
11mo
156
17
Why Are Women Hot?
Jacob Falkovich
2d
10
15
College Admissions as a Brutal One-Shot Game
devansh
15d
26
197
Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes
alyssavance
6mo
40
85
Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
Aaron Bergman
4mo
7
102
Book review: Very Important People
Richard_Ngo
8mo
17
171
Motive Ambiguity
Zvi
2y
59
40
Virtue signaling is sometimes the best or the only metric we have
Holly_Elmore
7mo
44
166
The rationalist community's location problem
mingyuan
2y
143
18
Everyone is an Imposter
Tharin
5mo
1
90
Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch
Viliam
2y
12
71
[Geo: California/Bay Area] Mini-Research of 2020 Fire Situation
Ruby
2y
13
91
Propagating Facts into Aesthetics
Raemon
3y
33
82
Approval Extraction Advertised as Production
Benquo
3y
39
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Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368