Social & Cultural Dynamics

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The Virtue of Silence

Scott Alexander14 Jun 2013 19:00 UTC

67 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Economic Class

lsusr2 Mar 2021 1:58 UTC

24 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

Social behavior curves, equilibria, and radicalism

UnexpectedValues5 Jun 2021 1:39 UTC

160 points

17 comments20 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Anti-social Punishment

Martin Sustrik27 Sep 2018 7:08 UTC

227 points

64 comments6 min readLW link

Duncan Sabien: “In Defense of Punch Bug”

Davis_Kingsley3 May 2018 8:26 UTC

35 points

187 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Self-consciousness wants to make everything about itself

jessicata3 Jul 2019 1:44 UTC

42 points

68 comments6 min readLW link 1 nomination

(unstableontology.com)

Book review: WEIRDest People

PeterMcCluskey30 Nov 2020 3:33 UTC

93 points

54 comments9 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Unwitting cult leaders

Kaj_Sotala11 Feb 2021 11:10 UTC

90 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Politics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC

238 points

45 comments11 min readLW link

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

David_Gross6 Sep 2021 22:31 UTC

30 points

105 comments7 min readLW link

The Intelligent Social Web

Valentine22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC

148 points

114 comments12 min readLW link

I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 8:22 UTC

50 points

1 comment28 min readLW link

Society Is Fixed, Biology Is Mutable

Scott Alexander11 Sep 2014 0:27 UTC

28 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

How The West Was Won

Scott Alexander26 Jul 2016 3:05 UTC

34 points

10 comments17 min readLW link

In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization

Scott Alexander23 Feb 2014 22:24 UTC

62 points

9 comments20 min readLW link

Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons

Scott Alexander24 Mar 2017 4:33 UTC

44 points

5 comments19 min readLW link

The Ideology Is Not The Movement

Scott Alexander5 Apr 2016 1:52 UTC

26 points

1 comment24 min readLW link

Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

Scott Alexander7 Jun 2014 16:44 UTC

13 points

2 comments22 min readLW link

Meditations On Moloch

Scott Alexander30 Jul 2014 4:00 UTC

74 points

7 comments47 min readLW link

Book Review: Secular Cycles

Scott Alexander13 Aug 2019 4:10 UTC

61 points

11 comments16 min readLW link 2 nominations 1 review

(slatestarcodex.com)

Different Worlds

Scott Alexander3 Oct 2017 4:10 UTC

62 points

16 comments14 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Ethnic Tension And Meaningless Arguments

Scott Alexander5 Nov 2014 3:38 UTC

47 points

5 comments22 min readLW link

All Debates Are Bravery Debates

Scott Alexander9 Jun 2013 19:00 UTC

71 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Against accusing people of motte and bailey

Kaj_Sotala3 Jun 2018 21:31 UTC

39 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC

285 points

360 comments8 min readLW link

Outside Analysis and Blind Spots

orthonormal21 Jul 2009 1:00 UTC

81 points

34 comments5 min readLW link

Predicting Future Morality

ESRogs6 May 2018 7:17 UTC

13 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies

Scott Alexander13 May 2009 22:51 UTC

163 points

288 comments7 min readLW link

Book Review: Ages Of Discord

Scott Alexander3 Sep 2019 6:30 UTC

33 points

3 comments21 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Book Review: Why Honor Matters

ryan_b25 Jun 2018 20:53 UTC

32 points

9 comments12 min readLW link

Book review: The Complacent Class

Richard_Ngo13 Oct 2018 19:20 UTC

20 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Book review: The Righteous Mind

jml4 Feb 2018 21:48 UTC

5 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Book review: The Righteous Mind (2)

jml4 Feb 2018 21:49 UTC

5 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Teachers vs. Tutors

[deleted]26 Oct 2010 16:59 UTC

18 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Professing and Cheering

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Aug 2007 7:20 UTC

75 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

Applause Lights

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Sep 2007 18:31 UTC

187 points

93 comments2 min readLW link

Dunbar’s Function

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Dec 2008 2:26 UTC

55 points

65 comments6 min readLW link

The Nature of Offense

Wei_Dai23 Jul 2009 11:15 UTC

126 points

179 comments3 min readLW link

Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2007 3:04 UTC

82 points

33 comments3 min readLW link

Alignment Research Field Guide

abramdemski8 Mar 2019 19:57 UTC

209 points

9 comments17 min readLW link 2 nominations 2 reviews

Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Mar 2009 8:37 UTC

220 points

206 comments9 min readLW link

Of Two Minds

Valentine17 May 2018 4:34 UTC

90 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

How to Seem (and Be) Deep

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Oct 2007 18:13 UTC

82 points

119 comments4 min readLW link

Why Would A Certain Hoax Story Be Reported For So Long?

Servant24 Mar 2011 17:11 UTC

12 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

28 social psychology studies from Experiments With People (Frey & Gregg, 2017)

Yuxi_Liu16 Jun 2019 2:23 UTC

12 points

1 comment26 min readLW link

Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Jun 2007 21:13 UTC

150 points

142 comments3 min readLW link

Study on what makes people approve or condemn mind upload technology; references LW

Kaj_Sotala10 Jul 2018 17:14 UTC

21 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.nature.com)

Approval Extraction Advertised as Production

Benquo15 Dec 2019 14:51 UTC

83 points

39 comments19 min readLW link 2 nominations 3 reviews

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Epistemic Tenure

Scott Garrabrant18 Feb 2019 22:56 UTC

89 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

A Self-Respect Feedback Loop

ialdabaoth11 May 2018 23:09 UTC

36 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

The Relationship Between Hierarchy and Wealth

sarahconstantin23 Jan 2019 2:00 UTC

57 points

8 comments12 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

The Case for Privacy Optimism

bmgarfinkel10 Mar 2020 20:30 UTC

43 points

1 comment32 min readLW link

(benmgarfinkel.wordpress.com)

T-Shaped Organizations

Vaniver16 Dec 2019 23:48 UTC

49 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Levels of communication

Kaj_Sotala23 Mar 2010 21:32 UTC

59 points

73 comments3 min readLW link

Market norms and Social norms

TruetoThis6 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Dec 2007 23:08 UTC

105 points

47 comments3 min readLW link

Asch’s Conformity Experiment

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Dec 2007 7:03 UTC

47 points

63 comments4 min readLW link

Lonely Dissent

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Dec 2007 4:23 UTC

76 points

84 comments4 min readLW link

Status Regulation and Anxious Underconfidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Nov 2017 19:35 UTC

65 points

13 comments21 min readLW link

Notes on Brainwashing & ‘Cults’

gwern13 Sep 2013 20:49 UTC

62 points

104 comments16 min readLW link

Honors Fuel Achievement

Samo Burja10 Jun 2019 16:10 UTC

38 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Social Technology

Samo Burja2 Mar 2018 19:54 UTC

13 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

Long Now, and Culture vs Artifacts

Raemon3 Feb 2020 21:49 UTC

25 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What are some “Communities and Cultures Different From Our Own?”

Raemon12 May 2019 22:03 UTC

28 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The Asshole Filter

DragonGod7 Oct 2017 16:51 UTC

15 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(siderea.livejournal.com)

What makes a good culture?

toonalfrink5 Feb 2019 13:31 UTC

29 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

The Alignment-Competence Trade-Off, Part 1: Coalition Size and Signaling Costs

Gentzel15 Jan 2020 23:10 UTC

30 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Culture, interpretive labor, and tidying one’s room

Benquo26 Jul 2018 20:59 UTC

25 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Conflict, the Rules of Engagement, and Professionalism

habryka5 Sep 2020 5:04 UTC

35 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Social Capital Paradoxes

abramdemski10 Sep 2020 18:44 UTC

68 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

Charisma is a Force Multiplier

Davis_Kingsley11 Oct 2020 10:21 UTC

34 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Everything I Know About Elite America I Learned From ‘Fresh Prince’ and ‘West Wing’

Wei_Dai11 Oct 2020 18:07 UTC

44 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nytimes.com)

Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)

alkjash26 Oct 2020 20:25 UTC

238 points

64 comments9 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

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

Roko5 Apr 2009 20:22 UTC

28 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

Socratic Grilling

SilasBarta12 Nov 2020 21:16 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Debugging the student

adamzerner16 Dec 2020 7:07 UTC

41 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

We desperately need to talk more about human challenge trials.

AllAmericanBreakfast19 Dec 2020 10:00 UTC

28 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

The 4-Hour Social Life

lsusr30 Dec 2020 0:58 UTC

13 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Three thoughts on Deplatforming

betulaster14 Jan 2021 12:40 UTC

13 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

Overconfidence is Deceit

Duncan_Sabien17 Feb 2021 10:45 UTC

73 points

29 comments11 min readLW link

[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Vaniver8 Mar 2021 15:22 UTC

61 points

185 comments2 min readLW link

[Book Review] Destiny Disrupted

lsusr21 Mar 2021 7:09 UTC

54 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

Gossip

Yoav Ravid21 Mar 2021 13:36 UTC

12 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

Politics is the Mind-Killer

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Feb 2007 21:23 UTC

169 points

234 comments2 min readLW link

Academia as Company Hierarchy

Virgil Kurkjian9 May 2021 17:29 UTC

62 points

44 comments18 min readLW link

[Letter] Imperialism in the Rationalist Community

lsusr25 Jun 2021 0:33 UTC

−20 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

Book Review: Order Without Law

philh10 Jul 2021 21:50 UTC

64 points

5 comments49 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Book review: The Explanation of Ideology

PeterMcCluskey20 Jul 2021 3:42 UTC

42 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Continuous Minority Elimination

MakoYass29 Jul 2021 9:29 UTC

6 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Affordance Widths

ialdabaoth10 May 2018 23:37 UTC

46 points

54 comments4 min readLW link

Procedural Knowledge Gaps

Alicorn8 Feb 2011 3:17 UTC

176 points

1,480 comments1 min readLW link

Living in an Inadequate World

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Nov 2017 21:23 UTC

81 points

48 comments20 min readLW link

Melting Gold, and Organizational Capacity

Raemon11 Dec 2017 19:16 UTC

67 points

23 comments5 min readLW link

The Typical Sex Life Fallacy

ozymandias7 Oct 2017 21:48 UTC

27 points

293 comments5 min readLW link

Norms of Membership for Voluntary Groups

sarahconstantin11 Dec 2018 22:10 UTC

186 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Misery Pits

Alicorn10 Mar 2018 23:50 UTC

46 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Degrees of Freedom

sarahconstantin2 Apr 2019 21:10 UTC

102 points

31 comments11 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Meditations on Momentum

Richard Meadows14 Dec 2018 10:53 UTC

99 points

30 comments10 min readLW link

On hiding the source of knowledge

jessicata26 Jan 2020 2:48 UTC

101 points

40 comments3 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

Civility Is Never Neutral

ozymandias22 Nov 2017 16:54 UTC

54 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Tolerate Tolerance

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Mar 2009 7:34 UTC

99 points

93 comments2 min readLW link

Mandatory Obsessions

Jacob Falkovich14 Nov 2018 18:19 UTC

76 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

Everybody Knows

Zvi2 Jul 2019 12:20 UTC

98 points

20 comments4 min readLW link 2 nominations 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Beware Social Coping Strategies

Lulie5 Feb 2018 4:48 UTC

45 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

Preschool: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know

Zvi20 Nov 2018 19:30 UTC

65 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

Vaniver23 Nov 2019 22:12 UTC

62 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.paulgraham.com)

In My Culture

Duncan_Sabien7 Mar 2019 7:22 UTC

56 points

58 comments1 min readLW link 2 nominations 2 reviews

(medium.com)

Making yourself small

Helen8 Mar 2018 14:26 UTC

108 points

53 comments11 min readLW link

The “Outside the Box” Box

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Oct 2007 22:50 UTC

72 points

32 comments2 min readLW link

Why Real Men Wear Pink

Scott Alexander6 Aug 2009 7:39 UTC

79 points

155 comments3 min readLW link

Does Age Bring Wisdom?

Scott Alexander8 Nov 2017 7:20 UTC

35 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Isolating Content can Create Affordances

Davis_Kingsley23 Aug 2018 8:28 UTC

49 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

On the construction of beacons

Benquo16 Oct 2017 9:10 UTC

21 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Helpless Individuals

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Mar 2009 11:10 UTC

67 points

244 comments3 min readLW link

Why people want to die

PhilGoetz24 Aug 2015 20:13 UTC

84 points

175 comments2 min readLW link

Sacred Cash

Zvi3 Mar 2018 13:20 UTC

23 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ethics and rationality of suicide

anonymous2592 May 2011 1:38 UTC

61 points

203 comments2 min readLW link

The Skewed and the Screwed: When Mating Meets Politics

Jacob Falkovich29 Jan 2020 15:50 UTC

46 points

5 comments15 min readLW link

Sapiens

Vaniver8 Apr 2015 2:56 UTC

64 points

12 comments13 min readLW link

[Link] Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

daenerys14 Jun 2012 3:41 UTC

66 points

46 comments1 min readLW link

Noisy Poll Results And Reptilian Muslim Climatologists from Mars

Scott Alexander12 Apr 2013 10:49 UTC

28 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

“Cheat to Win”: Engineering Positive Social Feedback

sarahconstantin5 Feb 2018 23:16 UTC

165 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

Offense versus harm minimization

Scott Alexander16 Apr 2011 1:06 UTC

83 points

429 comments9 min readLW link

Rules of variety

KatjaGrace8 Dec 2017 17:10 UTC

31 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Self-Keeping Secrets

lsusr10 Nov 2019 7:59 UTC

55 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Kevin Simler’s “Going Critical”

habryka16 May 2019 4:36 UTC

56 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.meltingasphalt.com)

Permissions in Governance

sarahconstantin2 Aug 2019 19:50 UTC

53 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

What’s In A Name?

Scott Alexander29 Jun 2009 12:54 UTC

47 points

139 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Can Social Dynamics Explain Conjunction Fallacy Experimental Results?

curi5 Aug 2020 8:50 UTC

8 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Special Status Needs Special Support

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 May 2009 22:59 UTC

28 points

75 comments2 min readLW link

The Competence Myth

Davis_Kingsley30 Jun 2019 18:55 UTC

47 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

Categories of Sacredness

Zvi27 Feb 2018 2:00 UTC

21 points

36 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Blame games

Benquo6 May 2019 2:38 UTC

44 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Asch Conformity Could Explain the Conjunction Fallacy

curi6 Aug 2020 21:46 UTC

7 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

The Threat of Cryonics

lsparrish3 Aug 2010 19:57 UTC

43 points

217 comments4 min readLW link

The Signal and the Corrective

MalcolmOcean11 Feb 2018 0:28 UTC

21 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(everythingstudies.com)

Disability Culture Meets the Transhumanist Condition

Rubix28 Oct 2011 19:02 UTC

39 points

150 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What is a reasonable outside view for the fate of social movements?

jacobjacob4 Jan 2019 0:21 UTC

33 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Raising the Sanity Waterline

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Mar 2009 4:28 UTC

189 points

229 comments3 min readLW link

Good Citizenship Is Out Of Date

Ben_LandauTaylor10 Sep 2018 0:15 UTC

44 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

(benlandautaylor.com)

The Technique Taboo

lsusr30 Oct 2019 11:22 UTC

50 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

Antimemes

lsusr26 Nov 2019 5:58 UTC

51 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

How to Talk About Antimemes

lsusr22 Dec 2019 11:57 UTC

18 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Defining “Antimeme”

lsusr26 Dec 2019 9:35 UTC

16 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

The Law of Least Effort Contributes to the Conjunction Fallacy

curi9 Aug 2020 19:38 UTC

7 points

53 comments3 min readLW link

Asymmetric Weapons Aren’t Always on Your Side

Davis_Kingsley8 Jun 2019 8:47 UTC

31 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

The Tragedy of the Social Epistemology Commons

Roko21 May 2010 12:42 UTC

60 points

91 comments4 min readLW link

Social Dynamics

curi10 Aug 2020 19:29 UTC

10 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Terrorism is not about Terror

gwern24 Mar 2009 17:08 UTC

41 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Crime and punishment

PhilGoetz24 Mar 2011 21:53 UTC

50 points

192 comments2 min readLW link

Values Weren’t Complex, Once.

Davidmanheim25 Nov 2018 9:17 UTC

32 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Could we solve this email mess if we all moved to paid emails?

jacobjacob11 Aug 2019 16:31 UTC

29 points

50 comments4 min readLW link

Finance Followups

Jacob Falkovich17 Jan 2019 17:54 UTC

26 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war continued by other means

Eneasz21 Oct 2014 19:39 UTC

39 points

48 comments4 min readLW link

The Temptation to Bubble

gressettd23 Sep 2015 23:34 UTC

35 points

29 comments5 min readLW link

Clickbait might not be destroying our general Intelligence

Donald Hobson19 Nov 2018 0:13 UTC

25 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

The State of Affairs

Jacob Falkovich3 May 2019 16:18 UTC

30 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Fight Zero-Sum Bias

multifoliaterose18 Jul 2010 5:57 UTC

28 points

164 comments2 min readLW link

You’re Entitled to Everyone’s Opinion

satt20 Sep 2014 15:39 UTC

33 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

Why do people ____?

magfrump4 May 2012 4:20 UTC

36 points

256 comments1 min readLW link

Seeding a productive culture: a working hypothesis

Benquo18 Oct 2017 9:10 UTC

11 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Good arguments against “cultural appropriation”

Tyrrell_McAllister18 Dec 2018 17:23 UTC

23 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Book Review: The Complacent Class

Zvi16 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC

10 points

3 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Changes in Reality

eapache7 Sep 2020 16:18 UTC

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Indignation in response to the 1890 census

jasoncrawford8 Sep 2020 20:14 UTC

24 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Against boots theory

philh14 Sep 2020 13:20 UTC

34 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Malice, Stupidity, or Egalité Irréfléchie?

lionhearted13 Jun 2011 20:57 UTC

32 points

62 comments2 min readLW link

An African Folktale

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Feb 2009 1:00 UTC

26 points

63 comments3 min readLW link

Burdens

Scott Alexander16 Aug 2014 19:00 UTC

24 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

[Link] Social interventions gone wrong

[deleted]20 Aug 2012 9:24 UTC

34 points

77 comments7 min readLW link

Is cognitive load a factor in community decline?

ryan_b7 Dec 2018 15:45 UTC

18 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

The Hidden Origins of Ideas

cleonid28 Mar 2009 2:27 UTC

5 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Framing Effects in Anthropology

Scott Alexander29 Mar 2009 22:05 UTC

10 points

15 comments8 min readLW link

The Brooklyn Society For Ethical Culture

MBlume3 Apr 2009 8:06 UTC

19 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Clueless World vs. Loser World

michael_vassar27 Oct 2017 0:03 UTC

12 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

GroupThink, Theism … and the Wiki

byrnema13 Apr 2009 17:28 UTC

−2 points

62 comments2 min readLW link

Cooperation is for Winners

Jacob Falkovich15 Feb 2019 14:58 UTC

21 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Is Kiryas Joel an Unhappy Place?

gwern23 Apr 2011 0:08 UTC

28 points

188 comments3 min readLW link

Apocalypse, corrupted

Stuart_Armstrong26 Jun 2019 13:46 UTC

20 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Dissenting Views

byrnema26 May 2009 18:55 UTC

22 points

212 comments2 min readLW link

A social norm against unjustified opinions?

Kaj_Sotala29 May 2009 11:25 UTC

16 points

161 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a definitive intro to punishing non-punishers?

pjeby31 Oct 2019 20:20 UTC

23 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Do the ‘unlucky’ systematically underestimate high-variance strategies?

MBlume12 Oct 2009 22:27 UTC

25 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

The Laws of Magic

Annoyance15 Jun 2009 19:13 UTC

18 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

Meaning wars

Elo14 Dec 2017 23:17 UTC

11 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

Notes on Courtesy

David_Gross16 Dec 2020 4:08 UTC

8 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

How to Compliment

less_penguiny16 Dec 2020 8:25 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

My unbundling of morality

Rudi C30 Dec 2020 15:19 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Mini thoughts on mintheism

CraigMichael11 Jan 2021 5:14 UTC

14 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Matt Levine on “Fraud is no fun without friends.”

Raemon19 Jan 2021 18:23 UTC

102 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bloomberg.com)

A few thought on the inner ring

KatjaGrace21 Jan 2021 3:40 UTC

59 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The maximally relativistic zeitgeist

ForensicOceanography27 Jan 2021 21:41 UTC

1 point

2 comments2 min readLW link

(forensicoceanography.wordpress.com)

Notes on Judgment and Righteous Anger

David_Gross30 Jan 2021 19:31 UTC

10 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Germs and Politics

Will_Crowley1 Mar 2021 21:57 UTC

1 point

0 comments10 min readLW link

The average North Korean mathematician

Elmer of Malmesbury7 Mar 2021 17:28 UTC

63 points

19 comments8 min readLW link

(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

Open, Free, Safe: Choose Two

jaspax20 Mar 2021 16:42 UTC

93 points

17 comments5 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

Unattributed Good

Filip Dousek4 Jun 2021 20:47 UTC

10 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

The Cult Deficit: Analysis and Speculation

rogersbacon13 Jun 2021 5:33 UTC

11 points

11 comments13 min readLW link

Covid vaccine safety: how correct are these allegations?

DPiepgrass13 Jun 2021 3:08 UTC

45 points

77 comments19 min readLW link

The homework assignment incentives, and why it’s now so extreme

Andrew Vlahos22 Jun 2021 4:19 UTC

22 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

In-group loyalty is social cement

David Hugh-Jones6 Jul 2021 9:57 UTC

19 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

Is social theory our doom?

pchvykov15 Jul 2021 3:31 UTC

2 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Mildly against COVID risk budgets

Optimization Process16 Aug 2021 5:53 UTC

54 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil: A Report on the Beguilings of Evil

David_Gross20 Sep 2021 15:19 UTC

37 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

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