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Rationalization
Pitfalls of Rationality
Information Hazards
Cultural knowledge
Conflict vs Mistake
AI Safety Camp
Memetics
Valley of Bad Rationality
Explicit Reasoning
Compartmentalization
Memetic Immune System
Modularity
302 posts
Fiction (Topic)
Planning & Decision-Making
HPMOR (discussion & meta)
Fallacies
Surveys
Narratives (stories)
Transcripts
Hamming Questions
Value of Information
Planning Fallacy
Generalization From Fictional Evidence
Conjunction Fallacy
341
Reason as memetic immune disorder
PhilGoetz
13y
181
206
Dark Arts of Rationality
So8res
8y
194
164
Conflict vs. mistake in non-zero-sum games
Nisan
2y
40
157
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
2y
116
154
Staying Split: Sabatini and Social Justice
Duncan_Sabien
6mo
28
154
Steelmanning Divination
Vaniver
3y
48
139
Reason isn't magic
Benquo
3y
19
136
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
AnnaSalamon
12y
95
133
Terrorism, Tylenol, and dangerous information
Davis_Kingsley
4y
46
129
Memetic Hazards in Videogames
jimrandomh
12y
164
127
The Bottom Line
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
15
126
Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality
AnnaSalamon
12y
123
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Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
patrissimo
12y
261
107
"No evidence" as a Valley of Bad Rationality
Adam Zerner
2y
21
328
Generalizing From One Example
Scott Alexander
13y
416
248
Privileging the Question
Qiaochu_Yuan
9y
312
226
Simulate and Defer To More Rational Selves
LoganStrohl
8y
115
218
Leaky Delegation: You are not a Commodity
Darmani
1y
34
207
The correct response to uncertainty is *not* half-speed
AnnaSalamon
6y
44
158
2014 Survey Results
Scott Alexander
7y
283
148
2011 Survey Results
Scott Alexander
11y
516
146
2012 Survey Results
Scott Alexander
10y
653
144
2013 Less Wrong Census/Survey
Scott Alexander
9y
620
143
The Fallacy of Gray
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
80
142
2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey
Scott Alexander
8y
730
142
Value of Information: Four Examples
Vaniver
11y
62
136
2013 Survey Results
Scott Alexander
8y
560
124
2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey
Scott Alexander
11y
699