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Pitfalls of Rationality
Valley of Bad Rationality
Explicit Reasoning
Repository
25 posts
Information Hazards
Conflict vs Mistake
Epistemic Hygiene
157
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
2y
116
136
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
AnnaSalamon
12y
95
122
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
104
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
83
86
Adding Up To Normality
orthonormal
2y
22
85
"Epiphany addiction"
cousin_it
10y
94
84
On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality'
gwern
11y
95
75
Incremental Progress and the Valley
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
114
68
I'm scared.
Mass_Driver
12y
81
66
Worst Commonsense Concepts?
abramdemski
1y
32
62
My experience with the "rationalist uncanny valley"
Thomas Kwa
2y
18
62
Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
166
59
Summary of "The Straw Vulcan"
alexvermeer
10y
27
164
Conflict vs. mistake in non-zero-sum games
Nisan
2y
40
154
Staying Split: Sabatini and Social Justice
Duncan_Sabien
6mo
28
133
Terrorism, Tylenol, and dangerous information
Davis_Kingsley
4y
46
129
Memetic Hazards in Videogames
jimrandomh
12y
164
90
Bioinfohazards
Spiracular
3y
16
78
Don't use 'infohazard' for collectively destructive info
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5mo
28
64
publishing alignment research and infohazards
carado
1mo
10
64
SlateStarCodex deleted because NYT wants to dox Scott
Rudi C
2y
95
61
Conjecture: Internal Infohazard Policy
Connor Leahy
4mo
6
54
Thoughts on the Scope of LessWrong's Infohazard Policies
Ben Pace
2y
5
54
How hard is it for altruists to discuss going against bad equilibria?
abramdemski
3y
6
51
A point of clarification on infohazard terminology
eukaryote
2y
21
50
Noting an unsubstantiated communal belief about the FTX disaster
Yitz
1mo
52
48
Mistake Versus Conflict Theory of Against Billionaire Philanthropy
Zvi
3y
34