Politics

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Politics is the Mind-Killer

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Feb 2007 21:23 UTC

200 points

234 comments2 min readLW link

Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists

Zack_M_Davis24 Sep 2019 4:12 UTC

250 points

40 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

A Fable of Science and Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Dec 2006 4:50 UTC

252 points

102 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Have epistemic conditions always been this bad?

Wei_Dai25 Jan 2020 4:42 UTC

190 points

107 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Politics is hard mode

Rob Bensinger21 Jul 2014 22:14 UTC

53 points

108 comments6 min readLW link

In Defense of Politics

ChristianKl10 Apr 2020 19:26 UTC

16 points

23 comments7 min readLW link

I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 8:22 UTC

57 points

1 comment28 min readLW link

Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Mar 2007 18:53 UTC

211 points

185 comments4 min readLW link

Free Speech and Triskaidekaphobic Calculators: A Reply to Hubinger on the Relevance of Public Online Discussion to Existential Risk

Zack_M_Davis21 Dec 2019 0:49 UTC

72 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

Curtis Yarvin on A Theory of Pervasive Error

Zack_M_Davis26 Nov 2019 7:27 UTC

21 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(americanmind.org)

Book Review—The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution

Zack_M_Davis21 Jan 2020 6:28 UTC

27 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

Speaking Truth to Power Is a Schelling Point

Zack_M_Davis30 Dec 2019 6:12 UTC

51 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (I.)

Martin Sustrik19 Jul 2020 1:11 UTC

151 points

33 comments24 min readLW link 2 reviews

Choice Writings of Dominic Cummings

Connor_Flexman13 Oct 2021 2:41 UTC

113 points

75 comments5 min readLW link

Building Blocks of Politics: An Overview of Selectorate Theory

Yoav Ravid12 Oct 2021 11:27 UTC

55 points

19 comments47 min readLW link

Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Jun 2007 21:13 UTC

164 points

143 comments3 min readLW link

Blue or Green on Regulation?

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Mar 2007 18:04 UTC

73 points

41 comments4 min readLW link

Avoid Unnecessarily Political Examples

Raemon11 Jan 2021 5:41 UTC

103 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Probability that the President would win election against a random adult citizen?

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Jun 2022 20:38 UTC

15 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Against Active Shooter Drills

Zvi16 Jun 2022 13:40 UTC

88 points

30 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Something about the Pinker Cancellation seems Suspicious

Virgil Kurkjian8 Jul 2020 18:08 UTC

9 points

34 comments5 min readLW link

The Ideology Is Not The Movement

Scott Alexander5 Apr 2016 1:52 UTC

32 points

1 comment24 min readLW link

A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies

Scott Alexander13 May 2009 22:51 UTC

172 points

288 comments7 min readLW link

Musical Outgroups

eapache19 Jul 2020 22:55 UTC

9 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Political topics attract participants inclined to use the norms of mainstream political debate, risking a tipping point to lower quality discussion

emr26 Mar 2015 0:14 UTC

63 points

71 comments1 min readLW link

Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (III.)

Martin Sustrik11 Aug 2020 5:09 UTC

66 points

5 comments22 min readLW link

I’m Voting For Ranked Choice, But I Don’t Like It

jefftk20 Sep 2020 18:40 UTC

30 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Political Lottery in Switzerland

Martin Sustrik8 Oct 2020 5:03 UTC

29 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Utopianism

Mateusz Mazurkiewicz4 Jan 2021 18:40 UTC

1 point

2 comments2 min readLW link

The Forces of Blandness and the Disagreeable Majority

sarahconstantin28 Apr 2019 19:44 UTC

127 points

27 comments3 min readLW link 2 reviews

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Politics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC

253 points

45 comments11 min readLW link

Russia has Invaded Ukraine

lsusr24 Feb 2022 7:52 UTC

165 points

270 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How to prevent authoritarian revolts?

lc20 Mar 2022 10:01 UTC

18 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

Limits of Bodily Autonomy

jefftk27 Jun 2022 19:50 UTC

23 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Reflections on Arguing about Politics

Pontor13 Apr 2020 17:33 UTC

11 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Blues, Greens and abortion

Snowyowl5 Mar 2011 19:15 UTC

13 points

155 comments1 min readLW link

The Two-Party Swindle

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jan 2008 8:38 UTC

67 points

69 comments8 min readLW link

Gaming Democracy

Froolow30 Jul 2014 9:45 UTC

14 points

27 comments6 min readLW link

Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons

Scott Alexander24 Mar 2017 4:33 UTC

48 points

5 comments19 min readLW link

Outside Analysis and Blind Spots

orthonormal21 Jul 2009 1:00 UTC

82 points

34 comments5 min readLW link

(Some) politicians might be more rational than they appear.

orthonormal4 Oct 2010 4:05 UTC

22 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Does My Vote Matter?

orthonormal5 Nov 2012 1:23 UTC

23 points

77 comments6 min readLW link

Morality and International Humanitarian Law

David_J_Balan30 Nov 2009 3:27 UTC

3 points

101 comments2 min readLW link

Book Review: Ages Of Discord

Scott Alexander3 Sep 2019 6:30 UTC

35 points

3 comments21 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Book review: The Complacent Class

Richard_Ngo13 Oct 2018 19:20 UTC

20 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Book review: 23 things they don’t tell you about capitalism

Richard_Ngo18 Oct 2018 23:05 UTC

21 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

[Link] “Will He Go?” book review (Scott Aaronson)

ioannes12 Jun 2020 22:16 UTC

15 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Politics and Awful Art

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Dec 2007 3:46 UTC

33 points

49 comments3 min readLW link

Playing Politics

sarahconstantin5 Dec 2018 0:30 UTC

96 points

45 comments12 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

When None Dare Urge Restraint

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Dec 2007 23:09 UTC

88 points

123 comments2 min readLW link

Ways that China is surpassing the US

Wei_Dai4 Nov 2019 9:45 UTC

60 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

(palladiummag.com)

Typical Mind and Politics

Scott Alexander12 Jun 2009 12:28 UTC

58 points

133 comments6 min readLW link

The American System and Misleading Labels

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Jan 2008 7:38 UTC

36 points

30 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Plans / prepping for possible political violence from upcoming US election?

anon0331 Aug 2020 18:18 UTC

18 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Naming the Nameless

sarahconstantin22 Mar 2018 0:35 UTC

96 points

43 comments13 min readLW link 3 reviews

Escalation Outside the System

jefftk8 Sep 2020 18:20 UTC

25 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How much to worry about the US election unrest?

AspiringRationalist12 Oct 2020 3:39 UTC

23 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Bet On Biden

sapphire17 Oct 2020 22:03 UTC

38 points

89 comments2 min readLW link

PredictIt: Presidential Market is Increasingly Wrong

Zvi18 Oct 2020 22:40 UTC

37 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Changing the size of Congress

jefftk22 Oct 2020 20:50 UTC

4 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Why Huntington-Hill?

jefftk25 Oct 2020 0:50 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Scoring 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Predictions

Zack_M_Davis8 Nov 2020 2:28 UTC

36 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(zackmdavis.net)

Supporting the underdog is explained by Hanson’s Near/Far distinction

Roko5 Apr 2009 20:22 UTC

28 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

The 9/11 Meta-Truther Conspiracy Theory

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Dec 2009 18:59 UTC

89 points

182 comments4 min readLW link

Competitive Universal Basic Services?

Gentzel9 Nov 2020 3:20 UTC

13 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

[Link] Digital Democracy Is Within Reach

Alexei11 Nov 2020 22:12 UTC

20 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(your-undivided-attention.simplecast.com)

It’s not economically inefficient for a UBI to reduce recipient’s employment

paulfchristiano22 Nov 2020 16:40 UTC

85 points

60 comments4 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Containment Thread on the Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda

Zack_M_Davis10 Dec 2020 8:30 UTC

26 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

Will we witness the compassion of a nation?

kithpendragon10 Jan 2021 11:10 UTC

−9 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

epistemic stalling.

Alfred10 Jan 2021 9:24 UTC

−2 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Prediction: The Defense Department Will Blame Trump for the Slow Response on Jan. 7, 2021

rockthecasbah11 Jan 2021 1:02 UTC

2 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

In Defense of Twitter’s Decision to Ban Trump

ragintumbleweed11 Jan 2021 18:08 UTC

4 points

21 comments5 min readLW link

Three thoughts on Deplatforming

betulaster14 Jan 2021 12:40 UTC

13 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

Moral basis for regulating social platforms

solus23 Jan 2021 20:39 UTC

0 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] “New EA cause area: voting”; or, “what’s wrong with this calculation?”

Optimization Process26 Feb 2021 16:50 UTC

18 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Impact of delaying vaccinations on the total number of deaths

qbolec11 Mar 2021 23:49 UTC

5 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

The consequentialist case for social conservatism, or “Against Cultural Superstimuli”

Sophronius14 Apr 2021 21:50 UTC

19 points

49 comments6 min readLW link

Rising rents and appropriate responses

dominicq18 Apr 2021 14:05 UTC

10 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Transitive Tolerance Means Intolerance

orthonormal14 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC

38 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Anatomy of a full school climate strike

tcelferact22 Aug 2021 15:17 UTC

0 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

A Small Vacation

DanB29 Aug 2021 19:55 UTC

44 points

24 comments8 min readLW link

I read “White Fragility” so you don’t have to (but maybe you should)

David_Gross6 Sep 2021 22:31 UTC

34 points

105 comments7 min readLW link

[linkpost] Political Capital Flow Management and the Importance of Yutting

mike_hawke10 Sep 2021 7:27 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(everythingstudies.com)

Does Diverse News Decrease Polarization?

jsteinhardt11 Sep 2021 2:30 UTC

11 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Andrew Yang on “The Priests of the Decline”

Timothy Johnson4 Oct 2021 19:24 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.andrewyang.com)

Theory: The Political Incentives for Progressive Policy Promote Policy Failure

BDay6 Oct 2021 12:10 UTC

−2 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Are democratic elections incompetence-as-a-service?

acylhalide8 Oct 2021 13:33 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

TheRealSlimHippo13 Oct 2021 16:22 UTC

28 points

3 comments17 min readLW link

Book Review: ‘Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House’

TranscendetalIdealist20 Oct 2021 0:42 UTC

10 points

0 comments15 min readLW link

Book review: Lost Connections by Johann Hari

maia20 Oct 2021 2:40 UTC

37 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

Frankfurt Declaration on the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

Jan24 Oct 2021 9:54 UTC

9 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

Everything Studies on Cynical Theories

DanielFilan27 Oct 2021 1:31 UTC

25 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(everythingstudies.com)

[Question] Rigorous political science?

abramdemski12 Mar 2021 15:30 UTC

23 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Eight political demands that I hope we can agree on

ChristianKl1 May 2018 16:59 UTC

4 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Uncontroversially good legislation

braces10 Jan 2022 2:26 UTC

32 points

57 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is state a (semi-) rational agent?

Birke10 Jan 2022 19:53 UTC

2 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Political Office for Beginners?

Asgård12 Jan 2022 17:27 UTC

36 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Land Ho!

Zvi20 Jan 2022 13:30 UTC

120 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

There is a line in the sand, just not where you think it is

Wuschel Schulz22 Jan 2022 10:33 UTC

46 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How would you go about testing a political theory like Neofeudalism?

FinalFormal22 Feb 2022 17:09 UTC

3 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

On Bounded Distrust

Zvi3 Feb 2022 14:50 UTC

129 points

19 comments56 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Urgency of Normal: An Exercise in Bounded Distrust

Zvi3 Feb 2022 18:10 UTC

46 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Convoy

Zvi4 Feb 2022 21:40 UTC

28 points

18 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Manifesto: The Land is our Birthright (inspired by the Lars Doucet Georgism book review)

talelore15 Feb 2022 23:50 UTC

−21 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Convoy Continued

Zvi16 Feb 2022 14:40 UTC

28 points

16 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book review: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Richard_Ngo14 Feb 2022 7:50 UTC

34 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Convoy Crackdown

Zvi21 Feb 2022 22:10 UTC

92 points

21 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

PSA: if you are in Russia, probably move out ASAP

yagudin3 Mar 2022 20:01 UTC

90 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

Ukraine Post #2: Options

Zvi10 Mar 2022 16:10 UTC

84 points

56 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why a No-Fly-Zone would be the biggest gift to Putin, and why Zelenskyy keeps asking for it [Linkpost and commentary]

Dojan17 Mar 2022 3:13 UTC

47 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

The Dawn of Everything: a review

David Hugh-Jones21 Mar 2022 12:53 UTC

32 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

Albert Hirschman on liberalism and nationalism

David Hugh-Jones23 Mar 2022 10:08 UTC

5 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

Using Prediction Markets to Guide Government Policy

lsusr1 Apr 2022 10:21 UTC

37 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Dr Fauci as Machiavellian Boddhisattva

Benquo4 Apr 2022 20:38 UTC

35 points

39 comments5 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Judge Overturns Transportation Mask Mandate

Zvi20 Apr 2022 13:50 UTC

38 points

19 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The New Right appears to be on the rise for better or worse

Chris_Leong23 Apr 2022 19:36 UTC

6 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Repeal the Foreign Dredge Act of 1906

Zvi5 May 2022 15:20 UTC

157 points

16 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How would public media outlets need to be governed to cover all political views?

ChristianKl12 May 2022 12:55 UTC

13 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 5/19/22: The Law of Five

Zvi19 May 2022 12:20 UTC

53 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is there any way someone could post about public policy relating to abortion access (or another sensitive subject) on LessWrong without getting super downvoted?

Evan_Gaensbauer28 Jun 2022 5:45 UTC

16 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the information value of government hearings?

Kenny18 Jun 2022 17:13 UTC

6 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Parliaments without the Parties

Yair Halberstadt19 Jun 2022 14:06 UTC

17 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

A Book Review

Zack_M_Davis28 Apr 2020 17:43 UTC

15 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

Negative Feedback and Simulacra

Elizabeth29 Apr 2020 2:00 UTC

144 points

24 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

Is fake news bullshit or lying?

HarperSachs26 May 2020 16:55 UTC

22 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

[META] Building a rationalist communication system to avoid censorship

Donald Hobson23 Jun 2020 14:12 UTC

36 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Improving local governance in fragile states—practical lessons from the field

rockthecasbah29 Jul 2020 1:54 UTC

16 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Billionaire Economics

Virgil Kurkjian28 Jul 2020 3:01 UTC

16 points

30 comments1 min readLW link

The Bias You Didn’t Expect

Psychohistorian14 Apr 2011 16:20 UTC

131 points

92 comments2 min readLW link

The Jordan Peterson Mask

Jacob Falkovich3 Mar 2018 19:49 UTC

50 points

154 comments12 min readLW link

Civility Is Never Neutral

ozymandias22 Nov 2017 16:54 UTC

55 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Lost Purposes

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Nov 2007 9:01 UTC

135 points

79 comments6 min readLW link

Your Rationality is My Business

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Apr 2007 7:31 UTC

124 points

28 comments3 min readLW link

The Power to Demolish Bad Arguments

Liron2 Sep 2019 12:57 UTC

97 points

78 comments11 min readLW link 6 reviews

Mandatory Obsessions

Jacob Falkovich14 Nov 2018 18:19 UTC

76 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

Covid 7/30: Whack a Mole

Zvi30 Jul 2020 15:50 UTC

39 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Of Exclusionary Speech and Gender Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jul 2009 7:22 UTC

88 points

669 comments5 min readLW link

Helen Toner on China, CSET, and AI

Rob Bensinger21 Apr 2019 4:10 UTC

68 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

(rationallyspeakingpodcast.org)

First(?) Rationalist elected to state government

Eneasz7 Nov 2014 2:30 UTC

105 points

54 comments1 min readLW link

Mod Notice about Election Discussion

Vaniver29 Jan 2020 1:35 UTC

61 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Against Premature Abstraction of Political Issues

Wei_Dai18 Dec 2019 20:19 UTC

77 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

Does the US nuclear policy still target cities?

Jeffrey Ladish2 Oct 2019 0:18 UTC

61 points

7 comments10 min readLW link

A Rational Argument

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2007 18:35 UTC

80 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

Cheerios: An “Untested New Drug”

MBlume15 May 2009 2:26 UTC

9 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Missing the Trees for the Forest

Scott Alexander22 Jul 2009 3:23 UTC

84 points

159 comments7 min readLW link

Why I am not a Quaker (even though it often seems as though I should be)

Benquo26 Sep 2017 7:00 UTC

48 points

20 comments16 min readLW link

Stop Voting For Nincompoops

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Jan 2008 18:00 UTC

75 points

92 comments8 min readLW link

The risk of an American Civil War is remote

Samo Burja23 Jul 2018 18:00 UTC

37 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(medium.com)

“Politics is the mind-killer” is the mind-killer

thomblake26 Jan 2012 15:55 UTC

50 points

99 comments1 min readLW link

Catalonia and the Overton Window

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2017 20:23 UTC

28 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

UBI for President

Jacob Falkovich18 Oct 2018 15:09 UTC

45 points

14 comments10 min readLW link

The Skewed and the Screwed: When Mating Meets Politics

Jacob Falkovich29 Jan 2020 15:50 UTC

61 points

6 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

When None Dare Urge Restraint, pt. 2

Jay_Schweikert30 May 2012 15:28 UTC

84 points

92 comments3 min readLW link

What Botswana Can Teach Us About Political Stability

Samo Burja9 May 2019 18:30 UTC

40 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (II.)

Martin Sustrik22 Jul 2020 13:50 UTC

82 points

21 comments12 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

Only You Can Prevent Your Mind From Getting Killed By Politics

ChrisHallquist26 Oct 2013 13:59 UTC

59 points

144 comments5 min readLW link

Strategic High Skill Immigration

Gentzel6 Dec 2017 1:15 UTC

32 points

8 comments21 min readLW link

On memetic weapons

ioannes1 Sep 2018 3:25 UTC

42 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

Book Review: Narconomics

ketchupduck3 May 2020 1:19 UTC

74 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Under-acknowledged Value Differences

Wei_Dai12 Sep 2012 22:02 UTC

70 points

68 comments1 min readLW link

My paper was signalling the whole time—Robin Hanson wins again

rockthecasbah4 Aug 2020 21:13 UTC

49 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Simple Rules of Law

Zvi19 May 2019 0:10 UTC

53 points

24 comments28 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Russian x-risks newsletter spring 2020

avturchin4 Jun 2020 14:27 UTC

16 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on the Psychology of Power

gwern27 Jul 2012 19:22 UTC

59 points

49 comments40 min readLW link

The Signal and the Corrective

MalcolmOcean11 Feb 2018 0:28 UTC

21 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(everythingstudies.com)

Exploring Two-Level Visual Mnemonic Compression

armatures6 Aug 2020 23:58 UTC

11 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Why no total winner?

Paul Crowley15 Oct 2017 22:01 UTC

36 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Voting is like donating thousands of dollars to charity

Academian5 Nov 2012 1:02 UTC

41 points

212 comments5 min readLW link

Beware Trivial Fears

Stabilizer4 Feb 2014 5:40 UTC

55 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

Solutions to Political Problems As Counterfactuals

Scott Alexander25 Sep 2009 17:21 UTC

44 points

36 comments6 min readLW link

Additional arguments for NIMBY

Zvi11 Oct 2018 20:40 UTC

32 points

10 comments13 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Competition for Power

Samo Burja4 Apr 2018 17:10 UTC

17 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Asymmetric Weapons Aren’t Always on Your Side

Davis_Kingsley8 Jun 2019 8:47 UTC

31 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

The Cybersecurity Dilemma in a Nutshell

Gentzel12 Dec 2019 3:20 UTC

32 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Sex, Lies, and Dexamethasone

Jacob Falkovich20 Feb 2018 19:56 UTC

15 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

Mitt Romney’s $10,000 bet

MileyCyrus12 Dec 2011 2:14 UTC

50 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: The Captured Economy

Zvi11 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC

14 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

80,000 Hours: EA and Highly Political Causes

The_Jaded_One26 Jan 2017 21:44 UTC

46 points

25 comments7 min readLW link

The File Drawer Effect and Conformity Bias (Election Edition)

Salemicus8 May 2015 16:51 UTC

48 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Mechanics without wrenches

PhilGoetz15 Apr 2009 20:09 UTC

36 points

78 comments3 min readLW link

Help, help, I’m being oppressed!

Scott Alexander7 Apr 2009 23:22 UTC

39 points

145 comments5 min readLW link

Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled

Benquo2 Nov 2017 9:10 UTC

13 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

[Question] Why is the mail so much better than the DMV?

Logan Zoellner29 Dec 2019 18:55 UTC

29 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Politics as Charity

CarlShulman23 Sep 2010 5:33 UTC

37 points

165 comments8 min readLW link

Status for status sake is a fact of political life

rockthecasbah18 Aug 2020 22:06 UTC

10 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

What the Haters Hate

Jacob Falkovich1 Oct 2018 20:29 UTC

29 points

36 comments8 min readLW link

Trusting Expert Consensus

ChrisHallquist16 Oct 2013 20:22 UTC

41 points

81 comments17 min readLW link

Journal article about politics and mindkilling

CronoDAS7 Sep 2011 7:46 UTC

41 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.

[deleted]2 Dec 2012 12:50 UTC

43 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

Analyzing Blackmail Being Illegal (Hanson and Mowshowitz related)

curi20 Aug 2020 18:56 UTC

1 point

4 comments8 min readLW link

Counterfactual Coalitions

Larks16 Feb 2012 21:42 UTC

30 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Is That Your True Rejection? by Eliezer Yudkowsky @ Cato Unbound

XiXiDu7 Sep 2011 18:27 UTC

44 points

83 comments1 min readLW link

Planned Power Outages

jefftk12 Oct 2019 14:10 UTC

27 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Manufacturing prejudice

PhilGoetz3 Apr 2011 17:26 UTC

37 points

73 comments1 min readLW link

Has “politics is the mind-killer” been a mind-killer?

SonnieBailey17 Mar 2019 3:05 UTC

29 points

26 comments3 min readLW link

A Proposal for Defeating Moloch in the Prison Industrial Complex

lululu2 Jun 2015 22:03 UTC

33 points

77 comments4 min readLW link

Factions, inequality, and social justice

John_Maxwell3 Dec 2012 19:37 UTC

44 points

173 comments6 min readLW link

Divergence on Evidence Due to Differing Priors—A Political Case Study

Davidmanheim16 Sep 2019 11:01 UTC

27 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Hierarchy and wings

Benquo6 May 2019 18:39 UTC

25 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

You’re Entitled to Everyone’s Opinion

satt20 Sep 2014 15:39 UTC

33 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Why don’t countries, like companies, more often merge?

Vishrut Arya22 Aug 2020 23:56 UTC

13 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Belief in religion considered harmful?

[deleted]17 Dec 2011 22:38 UTC

33 points

54 comments7 min readLW link

Yudkowsky vs Trump: the nuclear showdown.

MrMind11 Nov 2016 11:30 UTC

27 points

172 comments2 min readLW link

A Parable of Elites and Takeoffs

gwern30 Jun 2014 23:04 UTC

39 points

98 comments5 min readLW link

Rationality of demonstrating & voting

bfinn7 Nov 2018 0:09 UTC

24 points

20 comments8 min readLW link

Anyone know of empirically driven lobbying efforts?

palladias27 Aug 2012 22:02 UTC

37 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

In Defense of Tone Arguments

OrphanWilde19 Jul 2012 19:48 UTC

32 points

175 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is libertarianism unsustainable? Why?

Vishrut Arya10 Oct 2020 2:09 UTC

2 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Election Preparation

jefftk15 Oct 2020 20:30 UTC

18 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Which headlines and narratives are mostly clickbait?

Pontor25 Oct 2020 1:19 UTC

5 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Posting on Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jan 2008 7:25 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Politics is work and work needs breaks

KatjaGrace4 Nov 2019 17:10 UTC

19 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.com)

Dominic Cummings: how the Brexit referendum was won

The_Jaded_One12 Jan 2017 21:26 UTC

30 points

69 comments1 min readLW link

(blogs.spectator.co.uk)

A Genius for Destruction

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Aug 2008 19:25 UTC

16 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Today’s Inspirational Tale

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Nov 2008 16:15 UTC

17 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Rationalist Politicians

Bound_up21 Dec 2017 23:29 UTC

9 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable

Scott Alexander19 Dec 2014 5:00 UTC

33 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

Occupy Wall Street: Predictions, Speculations

byrnema19 Oct 2011 0:44 UTC

−8 points

43 comments1 min readLW link

Two reasons to expect a peaceful change of power in the US

rockthecasbah8 Nov 2020 17:13 UTC

11 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Are the social sciences challenging because of fundamental difficulties or because of imposed ones?

ozziegooen10 Nov 2020 4:56 UTC

53 points

13 comments11 min readLW link

Tell it to someone who doesn’t care

PhilGoetz14 Apr 2009 18:15 UTC

25 points

34 comments3 min readLW link

The mind-killer

Paul Crowley2 May 2009 16:49 UTC

29 points

160 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Please steelman the accusations of election fraud

rockthecasbah10 Nov 2020 4:39 UTC

2 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Did anybody calculate the Briers score for per-state election forecasts?

ChristianKl10 Nov 2020 17:51 UTC

10 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Would You Slap Your Father? Article Linkage and Discussion

Annoyance2 Jun 2009 18:49 UTC

2 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Less wrong economic policy

G Gordon Worley III9 Jun 2009 20:11 UTC

7 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

Representative democracy awesomeness hypothesis

taw18 Jun 2009 3:02 UTC

4 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Probability and Politics

CarlShulman24 Nov 2010 17:02 UTC

28 points

31 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Rationalists from the UK—what are your thoughts on Dominic Cummings?

Davis_Kingsley21 Nov 2020 10:00 UTC

11 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Some recommendations for aligning the decision to go to war with the public interest, from The Spoils of War

Eli Tyre27 Dec 2020 1:04 UTC

28 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

An overview of forecasting for politics, conflict, and political violence

VipulNaik24 Jun 2014 22:10 UTC

10 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

The Politics of Age (the Young vs. the Old)

Martin Sustrik24 Mar 2019 6:40 UTC

16 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

What is going on in the world?

KatjaGrace17 Jan 2021 11:30 UTC

83 points

48 comments3 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Making Expertise Legible: Being right should make you respected, not the other way around

ejacob7 Feb 2021 23:15 UTC

7 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

(eidan.substack.com)

Don’t encourage prisoners dilemmas

Yair Halberstadt16 Feb 2021 6:33 UTC

8 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Chaotic era: avoid or survive?

Just Learning22 Feb 2021 1:34 UTC

3 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Germs and Politics

Will_Crowley1 Mar 2021 21:57 UTC

1 point

0 comments10 min readLW link

On Changing Minds That Aren’t Mine, and The Instinct to Surrender.

Anomal313 Mar 2021 16:08 UTC

14 points

13 comments6 min readLW link

A New Center? [Politics] [Wishful Thinking]

abramdemski12 Apr 2021 15:19 UTC

59 points

36 comments3 min readLW link

Election results in Central Europe match some pre-WW1 borders

ForensicOceanography24 Apr 2021 6:24 UTC

19 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

[ACX Linkpost] A Modest Proposal for Republicans

mike_hawke30 Apr 2021 18:43 UTC

9 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

Improving parliamentary information processing

victorsintnicolaas26 Jun 2021 16:11 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Interview with Olle Häggström: Reason, COVID-19 and Academic Freedom in Sweden

Erich_Grunewald21 Aug 2021 15:08 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

AI Prediction Services and Risks of War

isaduan3 Oct 2021 10:26 UTC

3 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

Possible Worlds after Prediction Take-off

isaduan3 Oct 2021 10:26 UTC

5 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Dominic Cummings : Regime Change #2: A plea to Silicon Valley

ChristianKl2 Oct 2021 19:35 UTC

68 points

73 comments1 min readLW link

(dominiccummings.substack.com)

The World According to Dominic Cummings

Chris_Leong14 Apr 2020 5:05 UTC

57 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

9/11 as mindkiller

NancyLebovitz12 Sep 2011 17:44 UTC

23 points

112 comments1 min readLW link

On Walmart, And Who Bears Responsibility For the Poor

ChrisHallquist27 Nov 2013 5:08 UTC

20 points

512 comments3 min readLW link

[Book Review] “The Bell Curve” by Charles Murray

lsusr2 Nov 2021 5:49 UTC

91 points

135 comments23 min readLW link

An Unexpected Victory: Container Stacking at the Port of Long Beach

Zvi28 Oct 2021 14:40 UTC

278 points

40 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Paths Forward: Scaling the Sharing of Information and Solutions

Zvi2 Nov 2021 23:50 UTC

64 points

21 comments21 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 8/12: The Worst Is Over

Zvi12 Aug 2021 13:30 UTC

79 points

66 comments26 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 8/5: Much Ado About Nothing

Zvi5 Aug 2021 14:00 UTC

63 points

34 comments31 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 7/22: Error Correction

Zvi22 Jul 2021 14:20 UTC

66 points

45 comments21 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 7/8: Delta Takes Over

Zvi8 Jul 2021 13:00 UTC

72 points

16 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 6/10: Somebody Else’s Problem

Zvi10 Jun 2021 13:10 UTC

57 points

26 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 11/4: The After Times

Zvi4 Nov 2021 15:20 UTC

51 points

35 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Voting Puzzle, Some Political Science, and a Nerd Failure Mode

ChrisHallquist10 Oct 2013 2:10 UTC

140 points

181 comments17 min readLW link

A tale from Communist China

Wei_Dai18 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC

239 points

65 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] What are the limitations on politically motivated relocation?

Asgård4 Dec 2021 15:16 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

Zvi24 Dec 2020 15:10 UTC

276 points

147 comments31 min readLW link 2 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Hedging the Possibility of Russia invading Ukraine

Annapurna23 Dec 2021 1:13 UTC

17 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

COVID Skepticism Isn’t About Science

jaspax29 Dec 2021 17:53 UTC

125 points

77 comments7 min readLW link

Omicron: My Current Model

Zvi28 Dec 2021 17:10 UTC

246 points

73 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why do people avoid vaccination?

KatjaGrace10 Feb 2022 21:10 UTC

52 points

57 comments6 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Review: Václav Havel’s “The Power of the Powerless”

David_Gross21 Feb 2022 2:18 UTC

40 points

1 comment26 min readLW link

Notes on Social Responsibility

David_Gross19 Mar 2022 14:44 UTC

15 points

4 comments22 min readLW link

A Primer on God, Liberalism and the End of History

Mahdi Complex26 Mar 2022 20:07 UTC

33 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

The Irresistible Attraction of Designing Your Own Utopia

David Udell1 Apr 2022 1:34 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Summary: “Internet Search tips” by Gwern Branwen

Pablo Repetto8 Apr 2022 2:02 UTC

12 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

The real reason Futarchists are doomed

lc1 Apr 2022 18:37 UTC

18 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

The Fetishization of Dystopia

john yardsale22 Apr 2022 16:39 UTC

−7 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Rationalism in an Age of Egregores

David Udell1 Jun 2022 7:29 UTC

12 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Politics is the Mind Killer. But is it getting worse?

Trevor122 Jun 2022 19:47 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

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