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Why Are Women Hot?
Jacob Falkovich
2d
10
15
College Admissions as a Brutal One-Shot Game
devansh
15d
26
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
18
Everyone is an Imposter
Tharin
5mo
1
90
Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch
Viliam
2y
12
82
Approval Extraction Advertised as Production
Benquo
3y
39
333
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
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Making yourself small
Helen
4y
53
49
My paper was signalling the whole time - Robin Hanson wins again
rockthecasbah
2y
19
76
Mandatory Obsessions
Jacob Falkovich
4y
14
38
What Does "Signalling" Mean?
abramdemski
2y
18
197
Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes
alyssavance
6mo
40
166
The rationalist community's location problem
mingyuan
2y
143
71
[Geo: California/Bay Area] Mini-Research of 2020 Fire Situation
Ruby
2y
13
91
Propagating Facts into Aesthetics
Raemon
3y
33
9
Northboro Air Quality Measurement
jefftk
6mo
0
99
Naming the Nameless
sarahconstantin
4y
43
68
The Steampunk Aesthetic
Raemon
4y
17
84
What is up with carbon dioxide and cognition? An offer
paulfchristiano
6y
49
40
Bay Area: vibes
KatjaGrace
4y
2
27
Planned Power Outages
jefftk
3y
18
14
What’s good about haikus?
KatjaGrace
1y
3
102
Things you are supposed to like
PhilGoetz
11y
372
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A map of Bay Area memespace
Julia_Galef
9y
29
9
How much can surgical masks help with wildfire smoke?
Gordon Seidoh Worley
2y
5