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TagLast edit: 2 Apr 2022 18:01 UTC by identity.key

Identity is an individual’s conception of themselves (1). We might conceive of this as the set of I am ___ statements an individual would make about themselves. It seems correct that identity can be dangerous for epistemics since the desire to maintain one’s identity can interfere with updating correctly or changing actions [1], but at the same time there are potentially useful and safe ways to maintain an identity which even enhances one’s rationality [1, 2].


(1) We might consider cases where an external party imposes an identity on someone, but that case has not been the topic of most discussion of Identity on LessWrong.

External resources: Keep Your Identity Small by Paul Graham

Related Pages: Personal Identity, Self Improvement

Iden­tities are [Sub­con­scious] Strategies

Ruby15 Oct 2017 18:10 UTC
39 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Use Your Iden­tity Carefully

Ben_LandauTaylor22 Aug 2013 1:14 UTC
144 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Why I no longer iden­tify as transhumanist

Kaj_Sotala3 Feb 2024 12:00 UTC
55 points
33 comments3 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Forc­ing your­self to keep your iden­tity small is self-harm

Gordon Seidoh Worley3 Apr 2021 14:03 UTC
40 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Strate­gic choice of identity

Vika8 Mar 2014 16:27 UTC
124 points
58 comments2 min readLW link

The curse of identity

Kaj_Sotala17 Nov 2011 19:28 UTC
214 points
303 comments6 min readLW link

The In­tel­li­gent So­cial Web

Valentine22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC
228 points
112 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews

Self-con­scious­ness wants to make ev­ery­thing about itself

jessicata3 Jul 2019 1:44 UTC
44 points
70 comments6 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

The Ac­tion­able Ver­sion of “Keep Your Iden­tity Small”

Hazard6 Dec 2019 1:34 UTC
81 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

The Witch­ing Hour

Richard_Ngo10 Oct 2023 0:19 UTC
112 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Roles are Mar­tial Arts for Agency

Eneasz8 Aug 2014 3:53 UTC
238 points
59 comments3 min readLW link

A Ra­tional Identity

Kaj_Sotala12 Jul 2010 22:59 UTC
44 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Silver Bul­letin: For most peo­ple, poli­tics is about fit­ting in

Gunnar_Zarncke1 May 2024 18:12 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.natesilver.net)

On the con­struc­tion of the self

Kaj_Sotala29 May 2020 13:04 UTC
71 points
18 comments17 min readLW link

Three more ways iden­tity can be a curse

gothgirl42066628 Apr 2013 2:53 UTC
68 points
105 comments11 min readLW link

Pre­dictable Iden­tities—Mid­point Review

Jacob Falkovich12 Sep 2019 14:39 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Wormy the Worm

River Lewis21 May 2022 15:34 UTC
3 points
23 comments5 min readLW link
(heytraveler.substack.com)

An at­tempt to dis­solve sub­jec­tive ex­pec­ta­tion and per­sonal identity

Kaj_Sotala22 Feb 2013 20:44 UTC
53 points
68 comments11 min readLW link

The An­thropic Trilemma

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Sep 2009 1:47 UTC
69 points
232 comments6 min readLW link

“Per­sonal Iden­tity and Upload­ing”, by Mark Walker

gwern7 Jan 2012 19:55 UTC
7 points
19 comments16 min readLW link

You’ll be who you care about

Stuart_Armstrong20 Sep 2011 17:52 UTC
29 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Out­side Anal­y­sis and Blind Spots

orthonormal21 Jul 2009 1:00 UTC
82 points
34 comments5 min readLW link

Cached Selves

AnnaSalamon22 Mar 2009 19:34 UTC
214 points
81 comments7 min readLW link

Learned Blankness

AnnaSalamon18 Apr 2011 18:55 UTC
260 points
188 comments5 min readLW link

A non-mys­ti­cal ex­pla­na­tion of “no-self” (three char­ac­ter­is­tics se­ries)

Kaj_Sotala8 May 2020 10:37 UTC
113 points
65 comments20 min readLW link1 review

LSD, Med­i­ta­tion, En­light­en­ment, and Ego Death

Fink20 Apr 2014 19:41 UTC
9 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

How I [Kaj] found & fixed the root prob­lem be­hind my de­pres­sion and anx­iety af­ter 20+ years

Kaj_Sotala26 Jul 2017 12:56 UTC
23 points
21 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

“Win First” vs “Chill First”

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)28 Sep 2020 6:48 UTC
101 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

Which Parts Are “Me”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Oct 2008 18:15 UTC
66 points
117 comments5 min readLW link

The Black Team—A Parable of Group Effectiveness

JGWeissman22 Apr 2011 2:37 UTC
59 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Two kinds of Agency

Elo8 Feb 2018 6:28 UTC
10 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

An anec­dote about names

Manfred30 Oct 2012 3:40 UTC
39 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

A case for ga­mete per­son­hood (re­duc­tio ad ab­sur­dum)

Ansyn131220 Jul 2023 8:25 UTC
−1 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

So You Want to Colonize The Uni­verse Part 5: The Ac­tual Design

Diffractor27 Feb 2019 10:23 UTC
20 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] An ar­gu­ment for per­sonal iden­tity trans­fer.

Gadersd12 Dec 2020 21:03 UTC
6 points
32 comments6 min readLW link

State, Art, Identity

musq25 Jan 2021 20:22 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Don’t call your­self a ra­tio­nal­ist.

KenChen14 Oct 2011 20:26 UTC
28 points
121 comments1 min readLW link

Can group iden­tity be a force for good?

Eric Neyman4 Jul 2021 17:16 UTC
22 points
13 comments6 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

And the Dark­ness Answered

Slimepriestess11 Jul 2021 5:54 UTC
12 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Is so­cial the­ory our doom?

pchvykov15 Jul 2021 3:31 UTC
6 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

In­ter­view with Nec­tome CEO Robert McIn­tyre—Brain Preser­va­tion, Per­sonal Iden­tity, AGI, and More

JohnGreer23 Feb 2022 1:54 UTC
20 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Notes on Robert McIn­tyre’s Brain Preser­va­tion Talk at the Long Now Foundation

JohnGreer28 Apr 2021 20:47 UTC
14 points
2 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] How to openly main­tain a sin­gle iden­tity while keep­ing it pri­vate?

identity.key3 Apr 2022 0:53 UTC
8 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Ram­bling thoughts on hav­ing mul­ti­ple selves

cranberry_bear11 Apr 2022 22:43 UTC
15 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] Choice := An­throp­ics un­cer­tainty? And po­ten­tial im­pli­ca­tions for agency

Antoine de Scorraille21 Apr 2022 16:38 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[About Me] Cin­era’s Home Page

DragonGod7 Feb 2023 12:56 UTC
30 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

What fuels your am­bi­tion?

Cissy31 Jan 2024 18:30 UTC
29 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(www.moremyself.xyz)

Gold, Silver, Red: A color scheme for un­der­stand­ing people

Michael Soareverix13 Mar 2023 1:06 UTC
17 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

A Day into my thoughts!

PranayJairam17 Mar 2024 22:07 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ists As Peo­ple Who Build Piles Of Rocks

Sable1 Jul 2024 10:32 UTC
9 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

Con­ta­gious Beliefs—Si­mu­lat­ing Poli­ti­cal Alignment

James Stephen Brown13 Oct 2024 0:27 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(nonzerosum.games)

A Weird Trick To Man­age Your Identity

Gleb_Tsipursky19 Sep 2016 19:13 UTC
15 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter in The World of Path Semantics

Sven Nilsen22 Mar 2023 20:22 UTC
−3 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(raw.githubusercontent.com)

Ca­ma­raderie at scale: in search of shared identity

eq24 Apr 2023 16:46 UTC
8 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Self-Ac­tu­al­iz­ing AGI—Gam­ify­ing AI Align­ment & Mean­ing-Making

kibagateaux27 Oct 2023 6:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readLW link
(nootype.substack.com)

State­ments that AI is close to con­scious­ness are re­ally fan­tas­tic.

valb444427 Apr 2023 17:13 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Prob­lem With Patternism

B Jacobs19 May 2020 20:16 UTC
5 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Some Thoughts on My Psy­chi­a­try Practice

Laura B16 Jan 2019 23:16 UTC
154 points
43 comments4 min readLW link2 reviews

Sys­tem­iz­ing and Hacking

SatvikBeri23 Mar 2018 18:01 UTC
40 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

On hid­ing the source of knowledge

jessicata26 Jan 2020 2:48 UTC
115 points
40 comments3 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Of Ex­clu­sion­ary Speech and Gen­der Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jul 2009 7:22 UTC
90 points
669 comments5 min readLW link

Turn­ing 30

Vaniver8 May 2018 5:37 UTC
46 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Wron­gol­ogy 101

sarahconstantin25 Apr 2018 0:00 UTC
32 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Whin­ing-Based Communities

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Apr 2009 20:31 UTC
84 points
99 comments4 min readLW link

Real­is­tic thought experiments

KatjaGrace4 Apr 2018 1:50 UTC
26 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

LW Women- Min­i­miz­ing the In­fer­en­tial Distance

daenerys25 Nov 2012 23:33 UTC
99 points
1,261 comments7 min readLW link

Miss­ing the Trees for the Forest

Scott Alexander22 Jul 2009 3:23 UTC
87 points
159 comments7 min readLW link

I no­tice that I am con­fused about Iden­tity and Resurrection

ialdabaoth14 Nov 2013 20:38 UTC
65 points
80 comments6 min readLW link

Gen­der Iden­tity and Rationality

lucidfox1 Dec 2010 16:32 UTC
56 points
114 comments6 min readLW link

Reflec­tions on Be­ing 30

sarahconstantin2 Oct 2018 19:30 UTC
52 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Hog­warts House Primaries

ozymandias20 Nov 2017 17:56 UTC
21 points
16 comments7 min readLW link

Pri­vacy: Defin­ing Yourself

Lulie18 Jun 2018 2:15 UTC
38 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Be se­cretly wrong

Benquo10 Dec 2016 7:06 UTC
66 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

Evil Demon

sanroot24 May 2023 4:13 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­abil­ity Cul­ture Meets the Tran­shu­man­ist Condition

Rubix28 Oct 2011 19:02 UTC
39 points
150 comments3 min readLW link
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