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It’s Probably Not Lithium
Natália Coelho Mendonça
5mo
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What 2026 looks like
Daniel Kokotajlo
1y
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Accounting For College Costs
johnswentworth
8mo
41
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Reflections on six months of fatherhood
jasoncrawford
10mo
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Taboo "Outside View"
Daniel Kokotajlo
1y
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“PR” is corrosive; “reputation” is not.
AnnaSalamon
1y
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Beware boasting about non-existent forecasting track records
Jotto999
7mo
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A non-magical explanation of Jeffrey Epstein
lc
11mo
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245
A Brief Introduction to Container Logistics
Vitor
1y
22
244
Your Dog is Even Smarter Than You Think
StyleOfDog
1y
105
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Embedded Interactive Predictions on LessWrong
Amandango
2y
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Confidence levels inside and outside an argument
Scott Alexander
12y
193
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Toni Kurz and the Insanity of Climbing Mountains
GeneSmith
5mo
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A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation
lukeprog
11y
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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
136
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Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
1y
80
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You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
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Industrial literacy
jasoncrawford
2y
128
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Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
51
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12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature's laws
Ben Pace
10mo
40
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A tale from Communist China
Wei_Dai
2y
65
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Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great
Scott Alexander
13y
281
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An Observation of Vavilov Day
Elizabeth
11mo
42
228
Zoe Curzi's Experience with Leverage Research
Ilverin
1y
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Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?
Jacob Falkovich
3y
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Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia
lukeprog
10y
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"Flinching away from truth” is often about *protecting* the epistemology
AnnaSalamon
6y
56
209
Gravity Turn
alkjash
1y
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