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Accounting For College Costs
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Taboo "Outside View"
Daniel Kokotajlo
1y
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Your Dog is Even Smarter Than You Think
StyleOfDog
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A Brief Introduction to Container Logistics
Vitor
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“PR” is corrosive; “reputation” is not.
AnnaSalamon
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Toni Kurz and the Insanity of Climbing Mountains
GeneSmith
5mo
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Embedded Interactive Predictions on LessWrong
Amandango
2y
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A non-magical explanation of Jeffrey Epstein
lc
11mo
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What Do GDP Growth Curves Really Mean?
johnswentworth
1y
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Almost everyone should be less afraid of lawsuits
alyssavance
1y
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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
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Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
1y
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You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
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Industrial literacy
jasoncrawford
2y
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Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?
Jacob Falkovich
3y
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Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great
Scott Alexander
13y
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An Observation of Vavilov Day
Elizabeth
11mo
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Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
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A tale from Communist China
Wei_Dai
2y
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Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia
lukeprog
10y
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Zoe Curzi's Experience with Leverage Research
Ilverin
1y
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Gravity Turn
alkjash
1y
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12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature's laws
Ben Pace
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Why haven't we celebrated any major achievements lately?
jasoncrawford
2y
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