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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
40
240
Epistemic Legibility
Elizabeth
10mo
28
189
A Fable of Science and Politics
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
103
183
Yes Requires the Possibility of No
Scott Garrabrant
3y
52
183
Mistakes with Conservation of Expected Evidence
abramdemski
3y
22
172
Approving reinforces low-effort behaviors
Scott Alexander
11y
25
167
Editing Advice for LessWrong Users
JustisMills
8mo
13
164
Have epistemic conditions always been this bad?
Wei_Dai
2y
107
157
A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies
Scott Alexander
13y
288
157
Rational Me or We?
RobinHanson
13y
157
154
Negative and Positive Selection
alyssavance
10y
263
145
Why I think there's a one-in-six chance of an imminent global nuclear war
MaxTegmark
2mo
169
144
Politics is the Mind-Killer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
238
143
Conservation of Expected Evidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
80
239
Politics is way too meta
Rob Bensinger
1y
44
229
Frame Control
Aella
1y
270
227
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
206
ARC's first technical report: Eliciting Latent Knowledge
paulfchristiano
1y
88
200
Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)
alkjash
2y
68
200
Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes
alyssavance
6mo
40
185
Motive Ambiguity
Zvi
2y
59
167
Act of Charity
jessicata
4y
49
155
Undiscriminating Skepticism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12y
1361
151
Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief
AnnaSalamon
10y
71
150
The rationalist community's location problem
mingyuan
2y
143
140
Social behavior curves, equilibria, and radicalism
Eric Neyman
1y
18
135
The Nature of Offense
Wei_Dai
13y
179
131
When Truth Isn't Enough
Scott Alexander
13y
59