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Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 27, 2007, 5:49 PM
338
points
82
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Yudkowsky Ambition Scale
loup-vaillant
Sep 12, 2012, 3:08 PM
64
points
61
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Notes on Ambition
David Gross
Nov 22, 2020, 7:53 PM
19
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
Make an Extraordinary Effort
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 7, 2008, 3:15 PM
156
points
49
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Shut up and do the impossible!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 8, 2008, 9:24 PM
116
points
165
comments
12
min read
LW
link
The Grandest Vision for Humanity (Light)
Ruby
Feb 24, 2021, 7:15 AM
32
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(hackernoon.com)
How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Jan 23, 2012, 11:50 PM
256
points
240
comments
10
min read
LW
link
The Level Above Mine
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 26, 2008, 9:18 AM
138
points
358
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition
Elizabeth
Aug 27, 2023, 11:10 PM
270
points
28
comments
8
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(acesounderglass.com)
Mentorship, Management, and Mysterious Old Wizards
Raemon
Feb 24, 2021, 10:00 PM
92
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
How I Became More Ambitious
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Jul 4, 2013, 11:34 PM
132
points
48
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 28, 2007, 5:49 PM
92
points
35
comments
2
min read
LW
link
“Win First” vs “Chill First”
lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)
Sep 28, 2020, 6:48 AM
101
points
20
comments
3
min read
LW
link
To Lead, You Must Stand Up
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Dec 29, 2007, 6:38 AM
48
points
31
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Unstriving
Jacob Falkovich
Aug 19, 2019, 2:31 PM
38
points
7
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Notes on Industriousness
David Gross
Nov 3, 2020, 1:55 AM
12
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
Preparing for ambition
Adam Zerner
Jul 19, 2021, 6:13 AM
19
points
8
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Don’t Fear Failure
atucker
Apr 3, 2011, 10:52 PM
40
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Go Try Things
atucker
Mar 3, 2011, 1:51 AM
14
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
Beyond a better world
Davidmanheim
Dec 14, 2022, 10:18 AM
14
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(progressforum.org)
On Doing the Impossible
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 6, 2008, 3:13 PM
118
points
40
comments
7
min read
LW
link
What’s Stopping You?
Neel Nanda
Oct 21, 2021, 4:20 PM
40
points
2
comments
19
min read
LW
link
1
review
(www.neelnanda.io)
Extenuating Circumstances
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 6, 2009, 10:57 PM
56
points
42
comments
4
min read
LW
link
“Agency” needs nuance
Evie Cottrell
Sep 25, 2022, 7:40 AM
23
points
1
comment
14
min read
LW
link
Adequacy as Levels of Play
Davis_Kingsley
Jan 22, 2018, 8:57 PM
27
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How my math skills improved dramatically
JonahS
Mar 5, 2014, 8:27 PM
35
points
25
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Competition for Power
Samo Burja
Apr 4, 2018, 5:10 PM
17
points
8
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Saving the world in 80 days: Prologue
Logan Riggs
May 9, 2018, 9:16 PM
12
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Bug Hunt 2
alkjash
Feb 20, 2018, 5:00 AM
37
points
17
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)
Designing for a single purpose
Itay Dreyfus
May 7, 2024, 2:11 PM
48
points
12
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(productidentity.co)
Self-Keeping Secrets
lsusr
Nov 10, 2019, 7:59 AM
72
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
“Playing to Win”
CronoDAS
Apr 9, 2009, 3:45 PM
29
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How do people become ambitious?
Raemon
Apr 4, 2019, 7:12 PM
59
points
39
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Seven ways to become unstoppably agentic
Evie Cottrell
Jun 26, 2022, 5:39 PM
64
points
16
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Einstein’s Superpowers
Eliezer Yudkowsky
May 30, 2008, 6:40 AM
120
points
92
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Attending to Now
ialdabaoth
Nov 8, 2017, 4:53 PM
27
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Four kinds of problems
Bird Concept
Aug 21, 2018, 11:01 PM
35
points
11
comments
3
min read
LW
link
You Play to Win the Game
Zvi
Aug 30, 2018, 2:10 PM
27
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Higher Purpose
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Jan 23, 2009, 9:58 AM
44
points
28
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Stop trying to have “interesting” friends
eq
Apr 19, 2023, 11:39 PM
42
points
15
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Netflix’s “Start-Up” and sincere work dramatization
Maxwell Peterson
Dec 25, 2020, 5:32 AM
17
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Sin of Underconfidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 20, 2009, 6:30 AM
107
points
187
comments
6
min read
LW
link
What fuels your ambition?
Cissy
Jan 31, 2024, 6:30 PM
29
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
(www.moremyself.xyz)
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