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Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
103
Making yourself small
Helen
4y
53
94
That other kind of status
Scott Alexander
12y
113
85
Why Real Men Wear Pink
Scott Alexander
13y
155
82
We can all be high status
4y
24
82
Status Regulation and Anxious Underconfidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5y
17
79
Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch
Viliam
2y
12
72
The Contrarian Status Catch-22
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
102
71
Give praise
4y
87
61
How can we get more and better LW contrarians?
Wei_Dai
10y
335
54
Social status hacks from The Improv Wiki
lsparrish
10y
46
50
High Status and Stupidity: Why?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12y
145
46
The red paperclip theory of status
Morendil
12y
22
40
I've had it with those dark rumours about our culture rigorously suppressing opinions
Multiheaded
10y
865
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
94
Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
Aaron Bergman
4mo
7
91
Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief
AnnaSalamon
10y
71
81
Approval Extraction Advertised as Production
Benquo
3y
39
76
Mandatory Obsessions
Jacob Falkovich
4y
14
68
Things You Can't Countersignal
Alicorn
12y
126
66
The Singularity Institute's Arrogance Problem
lukeprog
10y
308
64
A signaling theory of class x politics interaction
Scott Alexander
11y
61