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A post looking at a particular idea through a real-world example or examples.

What Cost for Ir­ra­tional­ity?

Kaj_Sotala1 Jul 2010 18:25 UTC
94 points
119 comments7 min readLW link

Swim­ming Up­stream: A Case Study in In­stru­men­tal Rationality

TurnTrout3 Jun 2018 3:16 UTC
76 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

When Giv­ing Peo­ple Money Doesn’t Help

Zvi7 Jul 2022 13:00 UTC
58 points
12 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

When sci­en­tists con­sider whether their re­search will end the world

Harlan19 Dec 2023 3:47 UTC
29 points
4 comments11 min readLW link
(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Ra­tion­al­ity Case Study—Ad-36

Perplexed22 Sep 2010 18:32 UTC
32 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

Non­mind­kil­ling open questions

Scott Alexander23 Mar 2012 16:23 UTC
32 points
113 comments1 min readLW link

Open loops in fiction

Kaj_Sotala14 Mar 2021 8:50 UTC
70 points
13 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Raw Post: Talk­ing With My Brother

DirectedEvolution13 Jul 2019 2:57 UTC
23 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

An akra­sia case study

[deleted]10 Dec 2011 20:46 UTC
44 points
29 comments3 min readLW link

Case Study: the Death Note Script and Bayes

gwern4 Jan 2013 4:33 UTC
34 points
44 comments1 min readLW link
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