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Expertise (topic)
Heroic Responsibility
Willpower
Bystander Effect
Deliberate Practice
Trolley Problem
Something To Protect
Tacit Knowledge
24 posts
Ambition
Tsuyoku Naritai
Motivational Intro Posts
226
What Are You Tracking In Your Head?
johnswentworth
5mo
75
219
When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is The Real Wealth
johnswentworth
2y
61
207
What Money Cannot Buy
johnswentworth
2y
45
196
Hero Licensing
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5y
83
109
Toward A Bayesian Theory Of Willpower
Scott Alexander
1y
28
105
Competent Elites
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
112
102
A discussion of heroic responsibility
Swimmer963
8y
217
99
On Doing the Improbable
Eliezer Yudkowsky
4y
36
92
Something to Protect
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
78
91
Dominic Cummings: "we’re hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos"
ESRogs
2y
57
91
Don't judge a skill by its specialists
Academian
12y
36
75
Epistemic Spot Check: The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
Elizabeth
3y
9
75
How to Learn from Experts
SatvikBeri
9y
10
72
Self-empathy as a source of "willpower"
Academian
12y
31
233
How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious
Swimmer963
10y
240
142
How I Became More Ambitious
Swimmer963
9y
48
121
Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
82
97
Mentorship, Management, and Mysterious Old Wizards
Raemon
1y
13
84
The Yudkowsky Ambition Scale
loup-vaillant
10y
61
78
Make an Extraordinary Effort
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
48
74
Logan Strohl on exercise norms
Rob Bensinger
1y
30
65
How do people become ambitious?
Raemon
3y
39
64
The Level Above Mine
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
393
61
Shut up and do the impossible!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
162
58
Self-Keeping Secrets
lsusr
3y
9
50
Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
35
46
To Lead, You Must Stand Up
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
39
43
Unstriving
Jacob Falkovich
3y
7