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More Dakka

TagLast edit: 2 Apr 2025 8:50 UTC 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

Zvi2 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC
224 points
31 comments13 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Dozen Ways to Get More Dakka

Davidmanheim8 Apr 2024 4:45 UTC
135 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Sin­gu­lar­ity Mindset

alkjash19 Jan 2018 0:32 UTC
52 points
16 comments4 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

In­creas­ing IQ is trivial

George3d61 Mar 2024 22:43 UTC
39 points
61 comments6 min readLW link
(epistemink.substack.com)

How to Build a Lumenator

Raemon12 Aug 2018 5:11 UTC
83 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

One Day Sooner

Screwtape2 Nov 2023 19:00 UTC
125 points
8 comments8 min readLW link1 review

In­creas­ing IQ by 10 Points is Possible

George3d619 Mar 2024 20:48 UTC
23 points
51 comments5 min readLW link
(morelucid.substack.com)

Per­son­al­ized Medicine For Real

sarahconstantin4 Mar 2019 22:40 UTC
214 points
16 comments5 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Work dumber not smarter

lemonhope1 Jun 2023 12:40 UTC
101 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

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

avturchin13 Mar 2020 13:35 UTC
54 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Dual Wielding

Zvi27 Aug 2019 14:10 UTC
60 points
23 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

ChristianKl26 Feb 2021 23:09 UTC
63 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Use the Try Harder, Luke

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2008 10:52 UTC
292 points
45 comments2 min readLW link

It Takes Two Parac­eta­mol?

Eli_13 Dec 2022 16:29 UTC
33 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Anti-so­cial Punishment

Martin Sustrik27 Sep 2018 7:08 UTC
322 points
66 comments6 min readLW link3 reviews

Less Anti-Dakka

Mateusz Bagiński31 May 2024 9:07 UTC
32 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Ham­mers and Nails

alkjash23 Jan 2018 1:19 UTC
102 points
35 comments4 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Ra­tional Effec­tive Utopia & Nar­row Way There: Mul­tiver­sal AI Align­ment, Place AI, New Ethico­physics… (Up­dated)

ank11 Feb 2025 3:21 UTC
13 points
8 comments35 min readLW link

The Thing and the Sym­bolic Rep­re­sen­ta­tion of The Thing

Zvi30 Jun 2015 0:15 UTC
17 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

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

ank13 Feb 2025 22:35 UTC
1 point
2 comments11 min readLW link

What failure looks like

paulfchristiano17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC
436 points
55 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

Be­ing good at the basics

dominicq4 Nov 2023 14:18 UTC
33 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

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

ank22 Feb 2025 0:12 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readLW link

Eight Short Stud­ies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC
867 points
253 comments10 min readLW link

So­cial be­hav­ior curves, equil­ibria, and radicalism

Eric Neyman5 Jun 2021 1:39 UTC
190 points
18 comments20 min readLW link1 review
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

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

elspood21 Jun 2022 23:55 UTC
362 points
42 comments7 min readLW link1 review

For God’s sake, Google it.

Aaron Bergman10 Aug 2021 23:52 UTC
19 points
16 comments4 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)
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