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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
136
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Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
1y
80
524
It’s Probably Not Lithium
Natália Coelho Mendonça
5mo
181
512
What 2026 looks like
Daniel Kokotajlo
1y
98
441
Reflections on six months of fatherhood
jasoncrawford
10mo
21
432
Beware boasting about non-existent forecasting track records
Jotto999
7mo
110
403
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
399
Accounting For College Costs
johnswentworth
8mo
41
388
Industrial literacy
jasoncrawford
2y
128
333
Taboo "Outside View"
Daniel Kokotajlo
1y
26
333
Your Dog is Even Smarter Than You Think
StyleOfDog
1y
105
315
A Brief Introduction to Container Logistics
Vitor
1y
22
297
Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?
Jacob Falkovich
3y
74
292
“PR” is corrosive; “reputation” is not.
AnnaSalamon
1y
92
439
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
353
A Fable of Science and Politics
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
103
332
Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)
alkjash
2y
68
324
Epistemic Legibility
Elizabeth
10mo
28
317
Frame Control
Aella
1y
270
306
Politics is the Mind-Killer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
238
296
Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
187
289
The Intelligent Social Web
Valentine
4y
115
281
Politics is way too meta
Rob Bensinger
1y
44
265
Editing Advice for LessWrong Users
JustisMills
8mo
13
255
Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists
Zack_M_Davis
3y
40
251
Conservation of Expected Evidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
80
234
Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
143
226
Social behavior curves, equilibria, and radicalism
Eric Neyman
1y
18