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Pitfalls of Rationality
Valley of Bad Rationality
Explicit Reasoning
Repository
25 posts
Information Hazards
Conflict vs Mistake
Epistemic Hygiene
191
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
2y
116
179
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
83
142
Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
patrissimo
12y
261
119
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
AnnaSalamon
12y
95
104
"No evidence" as a Valley of Bad Rationality
Adam Zerner
2y
21
85
Incremental Progress and the Valley
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
114
81
Adding Up To Normality
orthonormal
2y
22
71
Worst Commonsense Concepts?
abramdemski
1y
32
69
"Epiphany addiction"
cousin_it
10y
94
65
On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality'
gwern
11y
95
65
My experience with the "rationalist uncanny valley"
Thomas Kwa
2y
18
58
Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
166
56
I'm scared.
Mass_Driver
12y
81
49
Summary of "The Straw Vulcan"
alexvermeer
10y
27
162
Conflict vs. mistake in non-zero-sum games
Nisan
2y
40
148
Staying Split: Sabatini and Social Justice
Duncan_Sabien
6mo
28
131
Memetic Hazards in Videogames
jimrandomh
12y
164
129
Terrorism, Tylenol, and dangerous information
Davis_Kingsley
4y
46
119
Conjecture: Internal Infohazard Policy
Connor Leahy
4mo
6
89
SlateStarCodex deleted because NYT wants to dox Scott
Rudi C
2y
95
79
Bioinfohazards
Spiracular
3y
16
69
publishing alignment research and infohazards
carado
1mo
10
59
Don't use 'infohazard' for collectively destructive info
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5mo
28
56
Noting an unsubstantiated communal belief about the FTX disaster
Yitz
1mo
52
49
A point of clarification on infohazard terminology
eukaryote
2y
21
47
Thoughts on the Scope of LessWrong's Infohazard Policies
Ben Pace
2y
5
46
How hard is it for altruists to discuss going against bad equilibria?
abramdemski
3y
6
42
Our House, My Rules
David_J_Balan
13y
232