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Social & Cultural Dynamics
Eliciting Latent Knowledge (ELK)
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Information Cascades
Groupthink
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Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)
alkjash
2y
68
317
Frame Control
Aella
1y
270
289
The Intelligent Social Web
Valentine
4y
115
281
Politics is way too meta
Rob Bensinger
1y
44
226
Social behavior curves, equilibria, and radicalism
Eric Neyman
1y
18
218
ARC's first technical report: Eliciting Latent Knowledge
paulfchristiano
1y
88
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The Importance of Saying "Oops"
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
31
189
Act of Charity
jessicata
4y
49
188
We're already in AI takeoff
Valentine
9mo
115
180
Here's the exit.
Valentine
29d
138
176
Prizes for ELK proposals
paulfchristiano
11mo
156
173
Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
47
150
Lonely Dissent
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
86
149
COVID Skepticism Isn't About Science
jaspax
11mo
77
439
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
194
Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes
alyssavance
6mo
40
182
The rationalist community's location problem
mingyuan
2y
143
175
Science as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
89
169
Pretending to be Wise
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
78
157
Motive Ambiguity
Zvi
2y
59
146
What Is Signaling, Really?
Scott Alexander
10y
174
129
When Truth Isn't Enough
Scott Alexander
13y
59
113
Undiscriminating Skepticism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12y
1361
113
Book review: Very Important People
Richard_Ngo
8mo
17
106
Propagating Facts into Aesthetics
Raemon
3y
33
103
Making yourself small
Helen
4y
53
94
Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
Aaron Bergman
4mo
7
94
That other kind of status
Scott Alexander
12y
113