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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
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Rationalism before the Sequences
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Reflections on six months of fatherhood
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Beware boasting about non-existent forecasting track records
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You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
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Accounting For College Costs
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Industrial literacy
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A Fable of Science and Politics
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
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Taboo "Outside View"
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1y
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Your Dog is Even Smarter Than You Think
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Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)
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2y
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Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners
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Feeling Rational
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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Book summary: Unlocking the Emotional Brain
Kaj_Sotala
3y
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How to Ignore Your Emotions (while also thinking you're awesome at emotions)
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3y
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There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
eukaryote
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Building up to an Internal Family Systems model
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3y
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Book Review: Design Principles of Biological Circuits
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3y
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Thou Art Godshatter
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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My attempt to explain Looking, insight meditation, and enlightenment in non-mysterious terms
Kaj_Sotala
4y
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Notes from "Don't Shoot the Dog"
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Learned Blankness
AnnaSalamon
11y
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The Importance of Sidekicks
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7y
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Noticing the Taste of Lotus
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An Alien God
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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