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Logical Induction
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Eight Short Studies On Excuses
Scott Alexander
12y
244
608
Preface
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7y
14
597
The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
lukeprog
11y
394
561
Making Vaccine
johnswentworth
1y
249
554
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
136
524
Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
1y
80
440
Pain is not the unit of Effort
alkjash
2y
83
428
Luck based medicine: my resentful story of becoming a medical miracle
Elizabeth
2mo
87
423
It’s Probably Not Lithium
Natália Coelho Mendonça
5mo
181
415
The Redaction Machine
Ben
3mo
35
409
Counter-theses on Sleep
Natália Coelho Mendonça
9mo
130
404
Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners
jefftk
1y
35
386
It Looks Like You're Trying To Take Over The World
gwern
9mo
125
385
100 Tips for a Better Life
Ideopunk
1y
127
512
Schelling fences on slippery slopes
Scott Alexander
10y
247
452
Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease
Scott Alexander
12y
355
419
Humans are not automatically strategic
AnnaSalamon
12y
275
417
Reason as memetic immune disorder
PhilGoetz
13y
181
395
Generalizing From One Example
Scott Alexander
13y
416
365
The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world?
Scott Alexander
10y
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341
Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
261
318
To listen well, get curious
benkuhn
2y
39
298
The Blue-Minimizing Robot
Scott Alexander
11y
162
288
Great minds might not think alike
Eric Neyman
1y
44
285
Expecting Short Inferential Distances
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
106
284
Leaky Delegation: You are not a Commodity
Darmani
1y
34
280
Why the tails come apart
Thrasymachus
8y
100
272
What Do We Mean By "Rationality"?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
14