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Pitfalls of Rationality
Valley of Bad Rationality
Explicit Reasoning
Repository
25 posts
Information Hazards
Conflict vs Mistake
Epistemic Hygiene
191
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
2y
116
71
Worst Commonsense Concepts?
abramdemski
1y
32
104
"No evidence" as a Valley of Bad Rationality
Adam Zerner
2y
21
81
Adding Up To Normality
orthonormal
2y
22
65
My experience with the "rationalist uncanny valley"
Thomas Kwa
2y
18
142
Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
patrissimo
12y
261
42
Simplicio and Sophisticus
Zvi
4y
1
179
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
83
36
Stoicism: Cautionary Advice
VivaLaPanda
4y
16
27
Don't Pull a Broken Chain
johnswentworth
3y
6
119
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
AnnaSalamon
12y
95
38
Defense against discourse
Benquo
5y
15
25
No Really, Why Aren't Rationalists Winning?
Sailor Vulcan
4y
89
69
"Epiphany addiction"
cousin_it
10y
94
56
Noting an unsubstantiated communal belief about the FTX disaster
Yitz
1mo
52
69
publishing alignment research and infohazards
carado
1mo
10
29
Charging for the Dharma
jchan
1mo
17
119
Conjecture: Internal Infohazard Policy
Connor Leahy
4mo
6
148
Staying Split: Sabatini and Social Justice
Duncan_Sabien
6mo
28
59
Don't use 'infohazard' for collectively destructive info
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5mo
28
162
Conflict vs. mistake in non-zero-sum games
Nisan
2y
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39
"Infohazard" is a predominantly conflict-theoretic concept
jessicata
1y
17
89
SlateStarCodex deleted because NYT wants to dox Scott
Rudi C
2y
95
129
Terrorism, Tylenol, and dangerous information
Davis_Kingsley
4y
46
79
Bioinfohazards
Spiracular
3y
16
49
A point of clarification on infohazard terminology
eukaryote
2y
21
47
Thoughts on the Scope of LessWrong's Infohazard Policies
Ben Pace
2y
5
20
Often, enemies really are innately evil.
Andrew Vlahos
1y
56