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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
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You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
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Epistemic Legibility
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“PR” is corrosive; “reputation” is not.
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A Fable of Science and Politics
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
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Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners
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There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
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How to Ignore Your Emotions (while also thinking you're awesome at emotions)
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Book summary: Unlocking the Emotional Brain
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Feeling Rational
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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Roles are Martial Arts for Agency
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8y
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Building up to an Internal Family Systems model
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3y
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Learned Blankness
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11y
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The Importance of Sidekicks
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The 5-Second Level
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11y
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Notes from "Don't Shoot the Dog"
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Cached Selves
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13y
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Book Review: Design Principles of Biological Circuits
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The curse of identity
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11y
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