Politics

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Politics is the Mind-Killer

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Feb 2007 21:23 UTC

238 points

240 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

263 points

40 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

A Fable of Science and Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Dec 2006 4:50 UTC

285 points

103 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Have epistemic conditions always been this bad?

Wei_Dai25 Jan 2020 4:42 UTC

200 points

107 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Politics is hard mode

Rob Bensinger21 Jul 2014 22:14 UTC

51 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

66 points

2 comments28 min readLW link

Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Mar 2007 18:53 UTC

222 points

187 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

73 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

19 comments2 min readLW link

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

Martin Sustrik19 Jul 2020 1:11 UTC

159 points

38 comments24 min readLW link 2 reviews

Choice Writings of Dominic Cummings

Connor_Flexman13 Oct 2021 2:41 UTC

114 points

76 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Democracy Is in Danger, but Not for the Reasons You Think

ExCeph6 Nov 2022 21:15 UTC

−8 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

Building Blocks of Politics: An Overview of Selectorate Theory

Yoav Ravid12 Oct 2021 11:27 UTC

70 points

23 comments49 min readLW link 1 review

Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Jun 2007 21:13 UTC

173 points

143 comments3 min readLW link

Ukraine and the Crimea Question

ChristianKl28 Oct 2022 12:26 UTC

−2 points

150 comments11 min readLW link

Blue or Green on Regulation?

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Mar 2007 18:04 UTC

77 points

41 comments4 min readLW link

Politics and Awful Art

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Dec 2007 3:46 UTC

36 points

49 comments3 min readLW link

Avoid Unnecessarily Political Examples

Raemon11 Jan 2021 5:41 UTC

105 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

91 points

30 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why Balsa Research is Worthwhile

Zvi10 Oct 2022 13:50 UTC

87 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On Cooking With Gas

Zvi13 Jan 2023 14:20 UTC

37 points

60 comments6 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

37 points

1 comment24 min readLW link

A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies

Scott Alexander13 May 2009 22:51 UTC

180 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

71 points

7 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

129 points

27 comments3 min readLW link 2 reviews

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Politics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC

271 points

46 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Russia has Invaded Ukraine

lsusr24 Feb 2022 7:52 UTC

171 points

274 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How to prevent authoritarian revolts?

lc20 Mar 2022 10:01 UTC

20 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

Limits of Bodily Autonomy

jefftk27 Jun 2022 19:50 UTC

28 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Announcing Balsa Research

Zvi25 Sep 2022 22:50 UTC

233 points

60 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What’s Not Our Problem

Jacob Falkovich9 Mar 2023 20:07 UTC

19 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

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

14 points

156 comments1 min readLW link

The Two-Party Swindle

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jan 2008 8:38 UTC

69 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

53 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

Playing Politics

sarahconstantin5 Dec 2018 0:30 UTC

97 points

45 comments12 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

When None Dare Urge Restraint

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Dec 2007 23:09 UTC

98 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

39 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

101 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

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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

38 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

29 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

The 9/11 Meta-Truther Conspiracy Theory

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Dec 2009 18:59 UTC

93 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

90 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

27 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

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

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

17 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

39 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

39 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

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

38 points

4 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

130 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

6 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

158 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

14 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

18 points

20 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

Why is so much political commentary misleading?

contrarianbrit28 Jun 2022 17:10 UTC

−2 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(thomasprosser.substack.com)

[Question] How to Navigate Evaluating Politicized Research?

Davis_Kingsley1 Jul 2022 5:59 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Culture wars in riddle format

Malmesbury17 Jul 2022 14:51 UTC

7 points

28 comments3 min readLW link

Why are politicians polarized?

ErnestScribbler21 Jul 2022 8:17 UTC

13 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

Letter from leading Soviet Academicians to party and government leaders of the Soviet Union regarding signs of decline and structural problems of the economic-political system (1970)

M. Y. Zuo1 Aug 2022 22:35 UTC

20 points

10 comments16 min readLW link

Covid 8/18/22: CDC Admits Mistakes

Zvi18 Aug 2022 14:30 UTC

46 points

8 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Review] The Problem of Political Authority by Michael Huemer

Arjun Panickssery25 Aug 2022 5:18 UTC

21 points

22 comments12 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Grand Theft Education

Zvi31 Aug 2022 11:50 UTC

66 points

18 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Biden should be applauded for appointing Renee Wegrzyn for ARPA-H

ChristianKl18 Sep 2022 19:57 UTC

34 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Easy fixing Voting

Raphaël S2 Oct 2022 17:03 UTC

10 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Why I think there’s a one-in-six chance of an imminent global nuclear war

MaxTegmark8 Oct 2022 6:26 UTC

172 points

169 comments4 min readLW link

Weekly Non-Covid News #1 (10/13/22)

Zvi13 Oct 2022 15:40 UTC

52 points

16 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Podcast: The Left and Effective Altruism with Habiba Islam

garrison27 Oct 2022 17:41 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Quickly refactoring the U.S. Constitution

lc30 Oct 2022 7:17 UTC

7 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Housing and Transit Thoughts #1

Zvi2 Nov 2022 12:10 UTC

35 points

5 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Could a Supreme Court suit work to solve NEPA problems?

ChristianKl3 Nov 2022 21:10 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

What’s the Deal with Elon Musk and Twitter?

Zvi7 Nov 2022 13:50 UTC

60 points

11 comments31 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Weekly Roundup #5

Zvi11 Nov 2022 16:20 UTC

33 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Where’s the economic incentive for wokism coming from?

Valentine8 Dec 2022 23:28 UTC

−8 points

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[Question] World superpowers, particularly the United States, still maintain large conventional militaries despite nuclear deterrence. Why?

niederman28 Dec 2022 5:38 UTC

9 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(maxniederman.com)

The Twitter Files: Covid Edition

Zvi30 Dec 2022 13:30 UTC

32 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Childhood Roundup #1

Zvi6 Jan 2023 13:00 UTC

82 points

22 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to Bounded Distrust

Zvi9 Jan 2023 13:10 UTC

117 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Wokism, rethinking priorities and the Bostrom case

Arturo Macias14 Jan 2023 2:27 UTC

−29 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

A general comment on discussions of genetic group differences

anonymous810114 Jan 2023 2:11 UTC

69 points

45 comments3 min readLW link

Path-Dependence in ChatGPT’s Political Outputs

lsusr4 Feb 2023 2:02 UTC

28 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Housing and Transit Roundup #3

Zvi3 Feb 2023 15:10 UTC

21 points

6 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Conflict Theory of Bounded Distrust

Zack_M_Davis12 Feb 2023 5:30 UTC

111 points

26 comments3 min readLW link

Politics is the Fun-Killer

Adam Zerner25 Feb 2023 23:29 UTC

28 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

What should we do about network-effect monopolies?

benkuhn6 Mar 2023 0:50 UTC

29 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Acolytes, reformers, and atheists

lc10 Mar 2023 0:48 UTC

9 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Testing ChatGPT 3.5 for political biases using roleplaying prompts

twkaiser18 Mar 2023 11:42 UTC

−2 points

2 comments19 min readLW link

(hackernoon.com)

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

149 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

21 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

150 points

79 comments6 min readLW link

Your Rationality is My Business

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Apr 2007 7:31 UTC

131 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

89 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

83 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

84 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

85 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

76 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

58 points

99 comments1 min readLW link

Catalonia and the Overton Window

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2017 20:23 UTC

30 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

87 points

24 comments12 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

Only You Can Prevent Your Mind From Getting Killed By Politics

ChrisHallquist26 Oct 2013 13:59 UTC

61 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

75 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

54 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

61 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

35 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

42 points

145 comments5 min readLW link

Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled

Benquo2 Nov 2017 9:10 UTC

14 points

15 comments8 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

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

Logan Zoellner29 Dec 2019 18:55 UTC

30 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

179 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

21 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

11 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

20 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

39 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

56 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

11 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

Gordon Seidoh Worley9 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

84 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

6 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

62 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

67 points

13 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

22 points

512 comments3 min readLW link

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

lsusr2 Nov 2021 5:49 UTC

93 points

135 comments23 min readLW link

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

Zvi28 Oct 2021 14:40 UTC

289 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

141 points

181 comments17 min readLW link

A tale from Communist China

Wei_Dai18 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC

242 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

22 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

COVID Skepticism Isn’t About Science

jaspax29 Dec 2021 17:53 UTC

127 points

77 comments7 min readLW link

Omicron: My Current Model

Zvi28 Dec 2021 17:10 UTC

251 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

43 points

1 comment26 min readLW link

Notes on Social Responsibility

David Gross19 Mar 2022 14:44 UTC

17 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

20 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

The Fetishization of Dystopia

john yardsale22 Apr 2022 16:39 UTC

−8 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Rationalism in an Age of Egregores

David Udell1 Jun 2022 7:29 UTC

13 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Florida Elections

Double13 Aug 2022 20:10 UTC

−3 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

The Domain of Politics

CarlJ21 Jul 2013 18:30 UTC

−2 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

The Village and the River Monsters… Or: Less Fighting, More Brainstorming

ExCeph3 Oct 2022 23:01 UTC

7 points

29 comments8 min readLW link

(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

[Question] Rough Sketch for Product to Enhance Citizen Participation in Politics

rodeo_flagellum20 Oct 2022 20:04 UTC

13 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: Churchill and Orwell

Sammy Martin9 Oct 2021 19:01 UTC

41 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

The Puce Tribe

mike_hawke28 Feb 2021 21:11 UTC

9 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

An easier(?) end to the electoral college

ejacob19 Dec 2022 2:09 UTC

2 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Housing and Transportation Roundup #2

Zvi27 Dec 2022 13:10 UTC

25 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Against the paradox of tolerance

pchvykov10 Jan 2023 0:12 UTC

0 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

No Room for Political Philosophy

Arturo Macias21 Feb 2023 16:11 UTC

2 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Forecasts on Moore v Harper from Samotsvety

gregjustice5 Mar 2023 0:47 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(samotsvety.org)

Overton’s Basilisk

Alex Beyman15 Mar 2023 21:54 UTC

−20 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Morality Doesn’t Determine Reality

Alex Beyman17 Mar 2023 7:11 UTC

−15 points

8 comments11 min readLW link

Don’t take bad options away from people

Dumbledore's Army26 Mar 2023 20:12 UTC

41 points

95 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How Politics interacts with AI ?

qbolec26 Mar 2023 9:53 UTC

−18 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

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