Growth Stories

TagLast edit: 12 Nov 2021 18:06 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Recollections of personal progress, lessons learned, memorable experiences, coming of age, in autobiographical form.

Sequences:

Yudkowsky’s Coming of Age

Related Pages: Postmortems & Retrospectives, Updated Beliefs (examples of), Self Improvement, Progress Studies (society level)

My Wild and Reckless Youth

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Aug 2007 1:52 UTC

105 points

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Why I’m Blooking

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Sep 2007 17:49 UTC

49 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

My Childhood Death Spiral

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Sep 2008 3:42 UTC

64 points

106 comments4 min readLW link

My Best and Worst Mistake

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Sep 2008 0:43 UTC

67 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Raised in Technophilia

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Sep 2008 2:06 UTC

62 points

33 comments6 min readLW link

A Prodigy of Refutation

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Sep 2008 1:57 UTC

46 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Sep 2008 1:30 UTC

85 points

18 comments7 min readLW link

Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Sep 2008 1:23 UTC

43 points

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My Naturalistic Awakening

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Sep 2008 6:58 UTC

69 points

47 comments5 min readLW link

The Magnitude of His Own Folly

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Sep 2008 11:31 UTC

97 points

127 comments6 min readLW link

My Bayesian Enlightenment

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Oct 2008 16:45 UTC

67 points

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Against Maturity

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Feb 2009 23:34 UTC

56 points

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Formative Youth

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Feb 2009 23:02 UTC

33 points

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Tell Your Rationalist Origin Story

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Feb 2009 17:16 UTC

38 points

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In What Ways Have You Become Stronger?

Vladimir_Nesov15 Mar 2009 20:44 UTC

31 points

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How Pascal’s Wager Saved My Soul

SRStarin18 Dec 2010 20:47 UTC

12 points

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My story / owning one’s reasons

jwhendy7 Jan 2011 0:17 UTC

70 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

Recent de-convert saturated by religious community; advice?

jwhendy4 Apr 2011 3:25 UTC

38 points

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New Post version 1 (please read this ONLY if your last name beings with a–k)

lukeprog27 Jul 2011 21:57 UTC

39 points

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Teenage Rationalists and Changing Your Mind

KPier5 Aug 2011 18:19 UTC

87 points

31 comments3 min readLW link

Leveling Up in Rationality: A Personal Journey

lukeprog17 Jan 2012 11:02 UTC

51 points

59 comments5 min readLW link

Learning critical thinking: a personal example

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 14 Feb 2013 20:43 UTC

59 points

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How I Became More Ambitious

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 4 Jul 2013 23:34 UTC

126 points

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Humans can drive cars

Apprentice30 Jan 2014 11:55 UTC

53 points

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On saving the world

So8res30 Jan 2014 20:00 UTC

227 points

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How Going Meta Can Level Up Your Career

Matt Goldenberg14 Apr 2018 2:13 UTC

24 points

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Swimming Upstream: A Case Study in Instrumental Rationality

TurnTrout3 Jun 2018 3:16 UTC

76 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

Saving the world in 80 days: Epilogue

Logan Riggs28 Jul 2018 17:04 UTC

51 points

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Reflections on Being 30

sarahconstantin2 Oct 2018 19:30 UTC

52 points

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(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

I want it my way!

nickhayes4 Jan 2019 18:08 UTC

39 points

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Starting to see 2 months later

Pausecafe23 Jan 2019 20:46 UTC

32 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

How to Ignore Your Emotions (while also thinking you’re awesome at emotions)

Hazard31 Jul 2019 13:34 UTC

351 points

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Mediums Overpower Messages

lsusr20 Oct 2019 5:46 UTC

54 points

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Fibromyalgia, Pain & Depression. How much is due to physical misalignment?

leggi29 Oct 2019 14:58 UTC

7 points

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{Math} A times tables memory.

aaq1 Dec 2019 15:40 UTC

19 points

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[Question] how has this forum changed your life?

Jon Ronson30 Jan 2020 21:54 UTC

26 points

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[ELDR Tactics] Consider switching to (mostly) decaf.

aaq31 Jan 2020 15:09 UTC

29 points

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Let Your Mind Be Not Fixed

Gordon Seidoh Worley31 Jul 2020 17:54 UTC

46 points

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Writing Piano Songs: A Journey

Logan Riggs10 Aug 2020 21:50 UTC

24 points

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How to Absorb a Shared Success Script (while also thinking you’re living without one)

Hazard31 Jan 2021 20:17 UTC

62 points

6 comments16 min readLW link

Reflections on the cryonics sequence

mingyuan3 Feb 2021 1:17 UTC

100 points

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Training the YouTube Algorithm

lsusr15 Apr 2021 6:37 UTC

30 points

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Small and Vulnerable

sapphire3 May 2021 4:55 UTC

158 points

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My Journey to the Dark Side

Slimepriestess6 May 2021 0:27 UTC

22 points

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(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Changing my life in 2021, halfway through

Borasko10 Jun 2021 1:36 UTC

42 points

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And the Darkness Answered

Slimepriestess11 Jul 2021 5:54 UTC

11 points

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(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Books Worthy of Integration

Roven Skyfal20 Feb 2022 8:03 UTC

13 points

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Looking back on my alignment PhD

TurnTrout1 Jul 2022 3:19 UTC

318 points

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Who is this MSRayne person anyway?

MSRayne1 Jul 2022 17:32 UTC

32 points

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Effective altruism in the garden of ends

Tyler Alterman14 Sep 2022 22:02 UTC

24 points

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There are no rules

unoptimal23 Sep 2022 20:47 UTC

34 points

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Refactoring Myself: 4 Years Later

Pausecafe20 Nov 2022 14:45 UTC

16 points

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It’s ok

stratospher23 Jan 2023 18:11 UTC

1 point

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Honesty, Openness, Trustworthiness, and Secrets

NormanPerlmutter6 Mar 2023 9:03 UTC

13 points

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why I’m here now

bhauth20 Jun 2023 17:13 UTC

8 points

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Lessons Learned: Properly Publicizing a Regional Meetup Event (also, last call to apply!)

Willa25 Jun 2023 0:58 UTC

9 points

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My “2.9 trauma limit”

Raemon1 Jul 2023 19:32 UTC

164 points

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Going Crazy and Getting Better Again

Evenstar2 Jul 2023 18:55 UTC

118 points

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My Time As A Goddess

Evenstar4 Jul 2023 13:14 UTC

26 points

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My Weirdest Experience

Bridgett Kay11 Jul 2023 14:44 UTC

37 points

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(dxmrevealed.wordpress.com)

[Question] On being in a bad place and too stubborn to leave.

TeaTieAndHat6 Aug 2023 11:45 UTC

12 points

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Categorization Hell

UtilityMonster24 Sep 2023 18:18 UTC

1 point

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(utilitymonster.substack.com)

Thomas Kwa’s MIRI research experience

Thomas Kwa, peterbarnett, Vivek Hebbar, Jeremy Gillen, jacobjacob and Raemon

2 Oct 2023 16:42 UTC

169 points

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If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them

Zack_M_Davis30 Dec 2023 17:40 UTC

40 points

191 comments87 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

Project ideas: Governance during explosive technological growth

Lukas Finnveden4 Jan 2024 23:51 UTC

13 points

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(lukasfinnveden.substack.com)

Agreeing With Stalin in Ways That Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles

Zack_M_Davis2 Mar 2024 22:05 UTC

37 points

19 comments58 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

My intellectual journey to (dis)solve the hard problem of consciousness

Charbel-Raphaël6 Apr 2024 9:32 UTC

37 points

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