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Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
121
Making yourself small
Helen
4y
53
118
That other kind of status
Scott Alexander
12y
113
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Why Real Men Wear Pink
Scott Alexander
13y
155
103
How can we get more and better LW contrarians?
Wei_Dai
10y
335
101
Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch
Viliam
2y
12
81
Give praise
4y
87
74
Social status hacks from The Improv Wiki
lsparrish
10y
46
68
The red paperclip theory of status
Morendil
12y
22
64
High Status and Stupidity: Why?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12y
145
64
The Contrarian Status Catch-22
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
102
62
Status Regulation and Anxious Underconfidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5y
17
57
Social status & testosterone
gwern
11y
39
56
The many faces of status
Morendil
12y
109
185
Motive Ambiguity
Zvi
2y
59
155
Undiscriminating Skepticism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12y
1361
151
Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief
AnnaSalamon
10y
71
131
When Truth Isn't Enough
Scott Alexander
13y
59
126
What Is Signaling, Really?
Scott Alexander
10y
174
120
A signaling theory of class x politics interaction
Scott Alexander
11y
61
102
The Singularity Institute's Arrogance Problem
lukeprog
10y
308
91
Science as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
89
91
Book review: Very Important People
Richard_Ngo
8mo
17
83
Approval Extraction Advertised as Production
Benquo
3y
39
80
Things You Can't Countersignal
Alicorn
12y
126
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Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
Aaron Bergman
4mo
7
76
Mandatory Obsessions
Jacob Falkovich
4y
14
69
Pretending to be Wise
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
78