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Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
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It’s Probably Not Lithium
Natália Coelho Mendonça
5mo
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Taboo "Outside View"
Daniel Kokotajlo
1y
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Accounting For College Costs
johnswentworth
8mo
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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
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“PR” is corrosive; “reputation” is not.
AnnaSalamon
1y
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A non-magical explanation of Jeffrey Epstein
lc
11mo
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12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature's laws
Ben Pace
10mo
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Confidence levels inside and outside an argument
Scott Alexander
12y
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Reflections on six months of fatherhood
jasoncrawford
10mo
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Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
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What 2026 looks like
Daniel Kokotajlo
1y
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Can the Chain Still Hold You?
lukeprog
10y
361
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You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
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Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists
Zack_M_Davis
3y
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Epistemic Legibility
Elizabeth
10mo
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239
Politics is way too meta
Rob Bensinger
1y
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Frame Control
Aella
1y
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Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
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ARC's first technical report: Eliciting Latent Knowledge
paulfchristiano
1y
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Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)
alkjash
2y
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200
Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes
alyssavance
6mo
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189
A Fable of Science and Politics
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
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185
Motive Ambiguity
Zvi
2y
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183
Yes Requires the Possibility of No
Scott Garrabrant
3y
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Mistakes with Conservation of Expected Evidence
abramdemski
3y
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Approving reinforces low-effort behaviors
Scott Alexander
11y
25
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Editing Advice for LessWrong Users
JustisMills
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