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Pitfalls of Rationality
Valley of Bad Rationality
Explicit Reasoning
Repository
25 posts
Information Hazards
Conflict vs Mistake
Epistemic Hygiene
254
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
83
225
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
2y
116
162
Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
patrissimo
12y
261
102
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
AnnaSalamon
12y
95
101
"No evidence" as a Valley of Bad Rationality
Adam Zerner
2y
21
95
Incremental Progress and the Valley
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
114
76
Worst Commonsense Concepts?
abramdemski
1y
32
76
Adding Up To Normality
orthonormal
2y
22
68
My experience with the "rationalist uncanny valley"
Thomas Kwa
2y
18
54
Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
166
53
"Epiphany addiction"
cousin_it
10y
94
49
No Really, Why Aren't Rationalists Winning?
Sailor Vulcan
4y
89
46
On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality'
gwern
11y
95
44
I'm scared.
Mass_Driver
12y
81
177
Conjecture: Internal Infohazard Policy
Connor Leahy
4mo
6
160
Conflict vs. mistake in non-zero-sum games
Nisan
2y
40
142
Staying Split: Sabatini and Social Justice
Duncan_Sabien
6mo
28
133
Memetic Hazards in Videogames
jimrandomh
12y
164
125
Terrorism, Tylenol, and dangerous information
Davis_Kingsley
4y
46
114
SlateStarCodex deleted because NYT wants to dox Scott
Rudi C
2y
95
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publishing alignment research and infohazards
carado
1mo
10
68
Bioinfohazards
Spiracular
3y
16
62
Noting an unsubstantiated communal belief about the FTX disaster
Yitz
1mo
52
51
What are information hazards?
MichaelA
2y
15
47
A point of clarification on infohazard terminology
eukaryote
2y
21
40
Thoughts on the Scope of LessWrong's Infohazard Policies
Ben Pace
2y
5
40
Don't use 'infohazard' for collectively destructive info
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5mo
28
38
Our House, My Rules
David_J_Balan
13y
232