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Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
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
103
Making yourself small
Helen
4y
53
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Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
Aaron Bergman
4mo
7
94
That other kind of status
Scott Alexander
12y
113
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Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief
AnnaSalamon
10y
71
85
Why Real Men Wear Pink
Scott Alexander
13y
155
82
We can all be high status
4y
24
194
Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes
alyssavance
6mo
40
182
The rationalist community's location problem
mingyuan
2y
143
106
Propagating Facts into Aesthetics
Raemon
3y
33
86
Things you are supposed to like
PhilGoetz
11y
372
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The Steampunk Aesthetic
Raemon
4y
17
72
Naming the Nameless
sarahconstantin
4y
43
69
[Geo: California/Bay Area] Mini-Research of 2020 Fire Situation
Ruby
2y
13
66
What is up with carbon dioxide and cognition? An offer
paulfchristiano
6y
49
57
A map of Bay Area memespace
Julia_Galef
9y
29
34
Bay Area: vibes
KatjaGrace
4y
2
30
Berkeley visit report
EvelynM
10y
12
28
[Link] The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.
10y
44
19
Planned Power Outages
jefftk
3y
18
14
What’s good about haikus?
KatjaGrace
1y
3