More Dakka

TagLast edit: Apr 2, 2025, 8:50 AM by gustaf

More Dakka is the technique of throwing more resources at a problem to see if you get better results.

Originally, More Dakka is the trope of solving problems by unloading as many rounds of ammunition at them as possible. In the rationalist community it was popularized by Zvi to have the above meaning.

More Dakka

ZviDec 2, 2017, 1:10 PM

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A Dozen Ways to Get More Dakka

DavidmanheimApr 8, 2024, 4:45 AM

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Singularity Mindset

alkjashJan 19, 2018, 12:32 AM

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One Day Sooner

ScrewtapeNov 2, 2023, 7:00 PM

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Increasing IQ is trivial

George3d6Mar 1, 2024, 10:43 PM

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How to Build a Lumenator

RaemonAug 12, 2018, 5:11 AM

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Increasing IQ by 10 Points is Possible

George3d6Mar 19, 2024, 8:48 PM

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Personalized Medicine For Real

sarahconstantinMar 4, 2019, 10:40 PM

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Work dumber not smarter

lemonhopeJun 1, 2023, 12:40 PM

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More Dakka for Coronavirus: We need immediate human trials of many vaccine-candidates and simultaneous manufacturing of all of them

avturchinMar 13, 2020, 1:35 PM

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Dual Wielding

ZviAug 27, 2019, 2:10 PM

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[Question] Why aren’t we all using Taffix?

ChristianKlFeb 26, 2021, 11:09 PM

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Use the Try Harder, Luke

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 2, 2008, 10:52 AM

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It Takes Two Paracetamol?

Eli_Dec 13, 2022, 4:29 PM

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Anti-social Punishment

Martin SustrikSep 27, 2018, 7:08 AM

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Less Anti-Dakka

Mateusz BagińskiMay 31, 2024, 9:07 AM

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Hammers and Nails

alkjashJan 23, 2018, 1:19 AM

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Rational Effective Utopia & Narrow Way There: Math-Proven Safe Static Multiversal mAX-Intelligence (AXI), Multiversal Alignment, New Ethicophysics… (Aug 11)

ankFeb 11, 2025, 3:21 AM

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Gratitude Journal Fallacy

KvmanThinkingSep 12, 2025, 12:21 AM

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The Thing and the Symbolic Representation of The Thing

ZviJun 30, 2015, 12:15 AM

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Static Place AI Makes Agentic AI Redundant: Multiversal AI Alignment & Rational Utopia

ankFeb 13, 2025, 10:35 PM

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What failure looks like

paulfchristianoMar 17, 2019, 8:18 PM

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Being good at the basics

dominicqNov 4, 2023, 2:18 PM

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Intelligence–Agency Equivalence ≈ Mass–Energy Equivalence: On Static Nature of Intelligence & Physicalization of Ethics

ankFeb 22, 2025, 12:12 AM

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Eight Short Studies On Excuses

Scott AlexanderApr 20, 2010, 11:01 PM

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Social behavior curves, equilibria, and radicalism

Eric NeymanJun 5, 2021, 1:39 AM

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Security Mindset: Lessons from 20+ years of Software Security Failures Relevant to AGI Alignment

elspoodJun 21, 2022, 11:55 PM

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For God’s sake, Google it.

Aaron BergmanAug 10, 2021, 11:52 PM

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