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Expertise (topic)
Heroic Responsibility
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Bystander Effect
Deliberate Practice
Trolley Problem
Something To Protect
Tacit Knowledge
24 posts
Ambition
Tsuyoku Naritai
Motivational Intro Posts
285
When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is The Real Wealth
johnswentworth
2y
61
279
What Money Cannot Buy
johnswentworth
2y
45
229
What Are You Tracking In Your Head?
johnswentworth
5mo
75
215
Hero Licensing
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5y
83
156
Something to Protect
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
78
116
Competent Elites
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
112
114
On Doing the Improbable
Eliezer Yudkowsky
4y
36
100
Toward A Bayesian Theory Of Willpower
Scott Alexander
1y
28
80
Dominic Cummings: "we’re hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos"
ESRogs
2y
57
79
Epistemic Spot Check: The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
Elizabeth
3y
9
75
A discussion of heroic responsibility
Swimmer963
8y
217
72
Don't judge a skill by its specialists
Academian
12y
36
70
Self-empathy as a source of "willpower"
Academian
12y
31
62
Willpower Hax #487: Execute by Default
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
59
255
Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
82
242
How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious
Swimmer963
10y
240
119
How I Became More Ambitious
Swimmer963
9y
48
110
The Level Above Mine
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
393
106
Make an Extraordinary Effort
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
48
90
Shut up and do the impossible!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
162
79
Mentorship, Management, and Mysterious Old Wizards
Raemon
1y
13
69
Self-Keeping Secrets
lsusr
3y
9
68
Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
35
64
The Yudkowsky Ambition Scale
loup-vaillant
10y
61
63
Logan Strohl on exercise norms
Rob Bensinger
1y
30
59
How do people become ambitious?
Raemon
3y
39
42
To Lead, You Must Stand Up
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
39
39
Don't Fear Failure
atucker
11y
12