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Don’t judge a skill by its specialists

Academian26 Sep 2010 20:56 UTC
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What Money Can­not Buy

johnswentworth1 Feb 2020 20:11 UTC
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53 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Epistemic Spot Check: The Role of De­liber­ate Prac­tice in the Ac­qui­si­tion of Ex­pert Performance

Elizabeth25 Jun 2019 23:00 UTC
80 points
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(acesounderglass.com)

Hero Licensing

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Nov 2017 21:13 UTC
239 points
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Author­i­ties and Amateurs

jefftk25 Mar 2020 3:40 UTC
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(www.jefftk.com)

How to Learn from Experts

SatvikBeri4 Oct 2013 17:02 UTC
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Eval­u­at­ing ex­per­tise: a clear box model

JustinShovelain15 Oct 2020 14:18 UTC
36 points
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When Money Is Abun­dant, Knowl­edge Is The Real Wealth

johnswentworth3 Nov 2020 17:34 UTC
327 points
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What Are You Track­ing In Your Head?

johnswentworth28 Jun 2022 19:30 UTC
279 points
83 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Do­minic Cum­mings: “we’re hiring data sci­en­tists, pro­ject man­agers, policy ex­perts, as­sorted weirdos”

ESRogs3 Jan 2020 0:33 UTC
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(dominiccummings.com)

Ju­lia Galef and Matt Ygle­sias on bioethics and “ethics ex­per­tise”

Rob Bensinger30 Mar 2021 3:06 UTC
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Don’t feel bad about not know­ing ba­sic things

Adam Zerner24 May 2021 1:49 UTC
89 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

Against Con­flat­ing Ex­per­tise: Dist­in­guish­ing AI Devel­op­ment from AI Im­pli­ca­tion Analysis

Ratios31 May 2023 9:50 UTC
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Pre­dic­tion-based-Medicine in­stead of E̵v̵i̵d̵e̵n̵c̵e̵ ̵b̵a̵s̵e̵d̵ ̵M̵e̵d̵i̵c̵i̵n̵e̵ Author­ity-based-Medicine

ChristianKl30 Jul 2021 10:42 UTC
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Could you have stopped Ch­er­nobyl?

Carlos Ramirez27 Aug 2021 1:48 UTC
29 points
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Mun­dane, sharp, crazy

Nyeogmi28 Feb 2022 20:02 UTC
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Re: So You Want to Be a Dharma Teacher

lsusr23 Apr 2022 22:31 UTC
30 points
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(hardcorezen.info)

Book Re­view: Talent

Zvi3 Jun 2022 20:10 UTC
70 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Epistemic mod­esty and how I think about AI risk

Aryeh Englander27 Jun 2022 18:47 UTC
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On In­ves­ti­gat­ing Con­spir­acy Theories

Zvi20 Feb 2023 12:50 UTC
115 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How Emer­gency Medicine Solves the Align­ment Problem

StrivingForLegibility26 Dec 2023 5:24 UTC
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How defer­en­tial should we be to the fore­casts of sub­ject mat­ter ex­perts?

VipulNaik14 Jul 2014 23:41 UTC
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You don’t know how bad most things are nor pre­cisely how they’re bad.

Solenoid_Entity4 Aug 2024 14:12 UTC
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Fight the Power

Jacob Falkovich22 Jun 2020 2:19 UTC
23 points
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Com­pe­tent Elites

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Sep 2008 0:07 UTC
129 points
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Trust the (lo­cal) expert

rk9 Apr 2018 10:22 UTC
14 points
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Lay­ers of Ex­per­tise and the Curse of Curiosity

Gyrodiot12 Feb 2019 23:41 UTC
19 points
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Ex­per­tise Exchange

ChristianKl14 Mar 2018 18:04 UTC
21 points
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The challenge of ar­tic­u­lat­ing tacit knowledge

Nina Panickssery31 May 2023 23:10 UTC
48 points
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(ninarimsky.substack.com)

Moloch’s Toolbox (1/​2)

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Nov 2017 21:46 UTC
154 points
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The Epistemic Author­ity of Deep Learn­ing Pioneers

Dylan Bowman29 Aug 2023 18:14 UTC
8 points
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List of civil­i­sa­tional inadequacy

ChristianKl23 Nov 2017 13:56 UTC
22 points
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Ten Com­mand­ments for Aspiring Superforecasters

Evan_Gaensbauer25 Apr 2018 4:55 UTC
29 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Who are the Ex­perts on Cry­on­ics?

Mati_Roy27 May 2023 19:24 UTC
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(biostasis.substack.com)

Ra­tion­al­ism and so­cial rationalism

philosophybear10 Mar 2023 23:20 UTC
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(philosophybear.substack.com)

[Link/​cross­post] [US] NTIA: AI Ac­countabil­ity Policy Re­quest for Comment

Kyle J. Lucchese16 Apr 2023 6:57 UTC
8 points
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Li­tany of a Bright Dilettante

Shmi18 Apr 2013 5:06 UTC
89 points
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Teach­ing the Unteachable

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Mar 2009 23:14 UTC
55 points
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Is there a Con­nec­tion Between Great­ness in Math and Philos­o­phy?

Scott Garrabrant3 Mar 2018 23:25 UTC
13 points
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Hu­man perfor­mance, psy­chom­e­try, and base­ball statistics

Craig_Heldreth15 Oct 2010 13:13 UTC
33 points
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Un­teach­able Excellence

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Mar 2009 15:33 UTC
45 points
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Above-Aver­age AI Scientists

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Sep 2008 11:04 UTC
69 points
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The mas­ter skill of match­ing map and territory

Rafael Harth27 Mar 2018 12:06 UTC
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Ex­pert trap: What is it? (Part 1 of 3) – how hind­sight, hi­er­ar­chy, and con­fir­ma­tion bi­ases break con­duc­tivity and ac­cu­racy of knowledge

Paweł Sysiak9 Jun 2023 23:00 UTC
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Will the world’s elites nav­i­gate the cre­ation of AI just fine?

lukeprog31 May 2013 18:49 UTC
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Ex­pert trap: Why is it hap­pen­ing? (Part 2 of 3) – how hind­sight, hi­er­ar­chy, and con­fir­ma­tion bi­ases break con­duc­tivity and ac­cu­racy of knowledge

Paweł Sysiak9 Jun 2023 23:00 UTC
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Trust­ing Ex­pert Consensus

ChrisHallquist16 Oct 2013 20:22 UTC
41 points
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The Prob­lem of “Win-More”

katydee26 Mar 2014 18:32 UTC
40 points
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The Paucity of Elites Online

JonahS31 May 2013 1:35 UTC
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Aca­demic Cliques

ChrisHallquist8 Nov 2013 4:27 UTC
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Ex­pert trap – Ways out (Part 3 of 3)

Paweł Sysiak22 Jul 2023 13:06 UTC
4 points
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Great Math­e­mat­i­ci­ans on Math Com­pe­ti­tions and “Ge­nius”

multifoliaterose11 Oct 2010 11:50 UTC
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Cause Aware­ness as a Fac­tor against Cause Neutrality

Darmani13 Aug 2018 20:00 UTC
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en­ergy land­scapes of experts

bhauth2 Oct 2023 14:08 UTC
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(www.bhauth.com)

Near and far skills

cousin_it19 Oct 2009 13:16 UTC
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The 10,000-Hour Rule is a myth

lynettebye1 Feb 2021 4:47 UTC
52 points
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Why I Am Not in Charge

Zvi7 Feb 2021 18:20 UTC
144 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Link] Thick and thin

[deleted]6 Jun 2012 12:08 UTC
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Pro­duc­tivity as a func­tion of abil­ity in the­o­ret­i­cal fields

Stefan_Schubert26 Jan 2014 13:16 UTC
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[Question] Re­sources to find/​reg­ister the ra­tio­nal­ists that spe­cial­ize in a given topic?

tailcalled29 Sep 2022 17:20 UTC
25 points
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