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It’s Probably Not Lithium
Natália Coelho Mendonça
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Taboo "Outside View"
Daniel Kokotajlo
1y
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Accounting For College Costs
johnswentworth
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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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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What 2026 looks like
Daniel Kokotajlo
1y
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Embedded Interactive Predictions on LessWrong
Amandango
2y
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A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation
lukeprog
11y
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Transportation as a Constraint
johnswentworth
2y
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A Brief Introduction to Container Logistics
Vitor
1y
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Almost everyone should be less afraid of lawsuits
alyssavance
1y
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16 types of useful predictions
Julia_Galef
7y
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Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
1y
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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
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12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature's laws
Ben Pace
10mo
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Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
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Can the Chain Still Hold You?
lukeprog
10y
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You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
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A tale from Communist China
Wei_Dai
2y
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"Flinching away from truth” is often about *protecting* the epistemology
AnnaSalamon
6y
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208
Common knowledge about Leverage Research 1.0
BayAreaHuman
1y
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Zoe Curzi's Experience with Leverage Research
Ilverin
1y
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The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”
Owain_Evans
1y
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An Observation of Vavilov Day
Elizabeth
11mo
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Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great
Scott Alexander
13y
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Industrial literacy
jasoncrawford
2y
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