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Eight Short Studies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC

474 points

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Preface

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC

410 points

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The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC

385 points

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Schelling fences on slippery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC

371 points

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Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC

364 points

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Generalizing From One Example

Scott Alexander28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC

334 points

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Reason as memetic immune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC

331 points

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Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)

HoldenKarnofsky11 May 2012 4:31 UTC

322 points

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Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

Zvi24 Dec 2020 15:10 UTC

300 points

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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC

299 points

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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners

jefftk3 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC

293 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

Humans are not automatically strategic

AnnaSalamon8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC

281 points

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The noncentral fallacy—the worst argument in the world?

Scott Alexander27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC

269 points

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Dying Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC

267 points

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The Blue-Minimizing Robot

Scott Alexander4 Jul 2011 22:26 UTC

257 points

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Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation

kalla72411 Apr 2012 0:48 UTC

253 points

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Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC

252 points

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The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship

lukeprog5 Jan 2011 7:22 UTC

250 points

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Reality-Revealing and Reality-Masking Puzzles

AnnaSalamon16 Jan 2020 16:15 UTC

238 points

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To listen well, get curious

benkuhn13 Dec 2020 0:20 UTC

237 points

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(www.benkuhn.net)

The Parable of Predict-O-Matic

abramdemski15 Oct 2019 0:49 UTC

235 points

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Ugh fields

Roko12 Apr 2010 17:06 UTC

234 points

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Why the tails come apart

Thrasymachus1 Aug 2014 22:41 UTC

233 points

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Industrial literacy

jasoncrawford30 Sep 2020 16:39 UTC

232 points

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(rootsofprogress.org)

What failure looks like

paulfchristiano17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC

231 points

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Great minds might not think alike

UnexpectedValues26 Dec 2020 19:51 UTC

231 points

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(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

100 Tips for a Better Life

Ideopunk22 Dec 2020 14:30 UTC

228 points

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Anti-Aging: State of the Art

JackH31 Dec 2020 19:07 UTC

225 points

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Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Jan 2011 0:15 UTC

224 points

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CFAR Participant Handbook now available to all

Duncan_Sabien3 Jan 2020 15:43 UTC

220 points

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Are we in an AI overhang?

Andy Jones27 Jul 2020 12:48 UTC

219 points

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A Fable of Science and Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Dec 2006 4:50 UTC

217 points

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Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists

Zack_M_Davis24 Sep 2019 4:12 UTC

217 points

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[Question] Coronavirus: Justified Practical Advice Thread

Ben Pace and Elizabeth

28 Feb 2020 6:43 UTC

217 points

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Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)

alkjash26 Oct 2020 20:25 UTC

217 points

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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

What Do We Mean By “Rationality”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC

216 points

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Embedded Interactive Predictions on LessWrong

Amandango20 Nov 2020 18:35 UTC

216 points

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The Least Convenient Possible World

Scott Alexander14 Mar 2009 2:11 UTC

215 points

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Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC

214 points

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Roles are Martial Arts for Agency

Eneasz8 Aug 2014 3:53 UTC

214 points

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Expecting Short Inferential Distances

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Oct 2007 23:42 UTC

212 points

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How to Beat Procrastination

lukeprog5 Feb 2011 18:49 UTC

212 points

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What Money Cannot Buy

johnswentworth1 Feb 2020 20:11 UTC

212 points

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A tale from Communist China

Wei_Dai18 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC

212 points

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Credibility of the CDC on SARS-CoV-2

Elizabeth and jimrandomh

7 Mar 2020 2:00 UTC

210 points

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The Apologist and the Revolutionary

Scott Alexander11 Mar 2009 21:39 UTC

209 points

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How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious

Swimmer96323 Jan 2012 23:50 UTC

209 points

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Anti-social Punishment

Martin Sustrik27 Sep 2018 7:08 UTC

208 points

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Book summary: Unlocking the Emotional Brain

Kaj_Sotala8 Oct 2019 19:11 UTC

206 points

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That Alien Message

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 May 2008 5:55 UTC

205 points

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