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Ambition

TagLast edit: 7 Aug 2020 21:19 UTC by Raemon

Ambition. Because they don’t think they could have an impact. Because they were always told ambition was dangerous. To get to the other side.

Questions to all these answers and more in the ambition tag!

Never confess to me that you are just as flawed as I am unless you can tell me what you plan to do about it. Afterward you will still have plenty of flaws left, but that’s not the point; the important thing is to do better, to keep moving ahead, to take one more step forward. Tsuyoku naritai!

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

Tsuyoku Nar­i­tai! (I Want To Be­come Stronger)

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Mar 2007 17:49 UTC
270 points
82 comments3 min readLW link

The Yud­kowsky Am­bi­tion Scale

loup-vaillant12 Sep 2012 15:08 UTC
64 points
61 comments1 min readLW link

Make an Ex­traor­di­nary Effort

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Oct 2008 15:15 UTC
108 points
48 comments5 min readLW link

Shut up and do the im­pos­si­ble!

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Oct 2008 21:24 UTC
96 points
165 comments12 min readLW link

The Gran­d­est Vi­sion for Hu­man­ity (Light)

Ruby24 Feb 2021 7:15 UTC
27 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(hackernoon.com)

Notes on Ambition

David Gross22 Nov 2020 19:53 UTC
19 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 23 Jan 2012 23:50 UTC
243 points
240 comments10 min readLW link

The Level Above Mine

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Sep 2008 9:18 UTC
114 points
393 comments4 min readLW link

How I Be­came More Ambitious

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 4 Jul 2013 23:34 UTC
121 points
48 comments8 min readLW link

Tsuyoku vs. the Egal­i­tar­ian Instinct

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Mar 2007 17:49 UTC
70 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Men­tor­ship, Man­age­ment, and Mys­te­ri­ous Old Wizards

Raemon24 Feb 2021 22:00 UTC
79 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

On Do­ing the Impossible

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Oct 2008 15:13 UTC
93 points
38 comments7 min readLW link

Unstriving

Jacob Falkovich19 Aug 2019 14:31 UTC
38 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

To Lead, You Must Stand Up

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Dec 2007 6:38 UTC
45 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­ten­u­at­ing Circumstances

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Apr 2009 22:57 UTC
47 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

Don’t Fear Failure

atucker3 Apr 2011 22:52 UTC
39 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Go Try Things

atucker3 Mar 2011 1:51 UTC
11 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

“Win First” vs “Chill First”

lionhearted28 Sep 2020 6:48 UTC
94 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Prepar­ing for ambition

Adam Zerner19 Jul 2021 6:13 UTC
19 points
9 comments10 min readLW link

What’s Stop­ping You?

Neel Nanda21 Oct 2021 16:20 UTC
39 points
2 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(www.neelnanda.io)

Beyond a bet­ter world

Davidmanheim14 Dec 2022 10:18 UTC
14 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(progressforum.org)

[Question] How do peo­ple be­come am­bi­tious?

Raemon4 Apr 2019 19:12 UTC
59 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Ein­stein’s Superpowers

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 May 2008 6:40 UTC
96 points
93 comments5 min readLW link

Bug Hunt 2

alkjash20 Feb 2018 5:00 UTC
31 points
15 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Sin of Underconfidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Apr 2009 6:30 UTC
93 points
185 comments6 min readLW link

Ad­e­quacy as Levels of Play

Davis_Kingsley22 Jan 2018 20:57 UTC
27 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Self-Keep­ing Secrets

lsusr10 Nov 2019 7:59 UTC
70 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Four kinds of problems

jacobjacob21 Aug 2018 23:01 UTC
35 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

At­tend­ing to Now

ialdabaoth8 Nov 2017 16:53 UTC
27 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Com­pe­ti­tion for Power

Samo Burja4 Apr 2018 17:10 UTC
17 points
8 comments9 min readLW link
(medium.com)

“Play­ing to Win”

CronoDAS9 Apr 2009 15:45 UTC
29 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

You Play to Win the Game

Zvi30 Aug 2018 14:10 UTC
27 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sav­ing the world in 80 days: Prologue

Logan Riggs9 May 2018 21:16 UTC
12 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Higher Purpose

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Jan 2009 9:58 UTC
44 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

How my math skills im­proved dramatically

JonahS5 Mar 2014 20:27 UTC
34 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Industriousness

David Gross3 Nov 2020 1:55 UTC
10 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Net­flix’s “Start-Up” and sincere work dramatization

Maxwell Peterson25 Dec 2020 5:32 UTC
17 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Seven ways to be­come un­stop­pably agentic

Evie Cottrell26 Jun 2022 17:39 UTC
51 points
16 comments9 min readLW link
(eviecottrell.com)

“Agency” needs nuance

Evie Cottrell25 Sep 2022 7:40 UTC
23 points
1 comment14 min readLW link
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