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Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
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Motive Ambiguity
Zvi
2y
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What Is Signaling, Really?
Scott Alexander
10y
174
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Undiscriminating Skepticism
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12y
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Science as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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When Truth Isn't Enough
Scott Alexander
13y
59
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Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief
AnnaSalamon
10y
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Pretending to be Wise
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
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Making yourself small
Helen
4y
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That other kind of status
Scott Alexander
12y
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Book review: Very Important People
Richard_Ngo
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Why Real Men Wear Pink
Scott Alexander
13y
155
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A signaling theory of class x politics interaction
Scott Alexander
11y
61
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Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch
Viliam
2y
12
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Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes
alyssavance
6mo
40
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The rationalist community's location problem
mingyuan
2y
143
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Things you are supposed to like
PhilGoetz
11y
372
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Naming the Nameless
sarahconstantin
4y
43
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Propagating Facts into Aesthetics
Raemon
3y
33
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What is up with carbon dioxide and cognition? An offer
paulfchristiano
6y
49
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A map of Bay Area memespace
Julia_Galef
9y
29
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[Geo: California/Bay Area] Mini-Research of 2020 Fire Situation
Ruby
2y
13
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The Steampunk Aesthetic
Raemon
4y
17
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[Link] The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.
10y
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Berkeley visit report
EvelynM
10y
12
40
Bay Area: vibes
KatjaGrace
4y
2
27
Planned Power Outages
jefftk
3y
18
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What’s good about haikus?
KatjaGrace
1y
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