Social & Cultural Dynamics

The Virtue of Silence

Scott Alexander

14 Jun 2013 19:00 UTC

64 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Anti-social Punishment

Martin Sustrik

27 Sep 2018 7:08 UTC

199 points

64 comments6 min readLW link 2 nominations 3 reviews

The Intelligent Social Web

Valentine

22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC

224 points

113 comments12 min readLW link 3 nominations 2 reviews

I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

Scott Alexander

2 Sep 2017 8:22 UTC

30 points

1 comment28 min readLW link

Society Is Fixed, Biology Is Mutable

Scott Alexander

11 Sep 2014 0:27 UTC

14 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

How The West Was Won

Scott Alexander

26 Jul 2016 3:05 UTC

18 points

1 comment17 min readLW link

In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization

Scott Alexander

23 Feb 2014 22:24 UTC

42 points

6 comments20 min readLW link

Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons

Scott Alexander

24 Mar 2017 4:33 UTC

33 points

3 comments19 min readLW link

The Ideology Is Not The Movement

Scott Alexander

5 Apr 2016 1:52 UTC

18 points

1 comment24 min readLW link

Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

Scott Alexander

7 Jun 2014 16:44 UTC

13 points

1 comment22 min readLW link

Meditations On Moloch

Scott Alexander

30 Jul 2014 4:00 UTC

46 points

5 comments47 min readLW link

Book Review: Secular Cycles

Scott Alexander

13 Aug 2019 4:10 UTC

62 points

8 comments16 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Different Worlds

Scott Alexander

3 Oct 2017 4:10 UTC

92 points

16 comments14 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Ethnic Tension And Meaningless Arguments

Scott Alexander

5 Nov 2014 3:38 UTC

41 points

5 comments22 min readLW link

All Debates Are Bravery Debates

Scott Alexander

9 Jun 2013 19:00 UTC

64 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Against accusing people of motte and bailey

Kaj_Sotala

3 Jun 2018 21:31 UTC

88 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander

13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC

223 points

359 comments8 min readLW link

Outside Analysis and Blind Spots

orthonormal

21 Jul 2009 1:00 UTC

71 points

34 comments5 min readLW link

Predicting Future Morality

ESRogs

6 May 2018 7:17 UTC

25 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies

Scott Alexander

13 May 2009 22:51 UTC

153 points

286 comments7 min readLW link

Book Review: Ages Of Discord

Scott Alexander

3 Sep 2019 6:30 UTC

36 points

3 comments21 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Book Review: Why Honor Matters

ryan_b

25 Jun 2018 20:53 UTC

31 points

9 comments12 min readLW link

Book review: The Complacent Class

Richard_Ngo

13 Oct 2018 19:20 UTC

21 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Book review: The Righteous Mind

jml

4 Feb 2018 21:48 UTC

14 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Book review: The Righteous Mind (2)

jml

4 Feb 2018 21:49 UTC

9 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Teachers vs. Tutors

[deleted]

26 Oct 2010 16:59 UTC

14 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Professing and Cheering

Eliezer Yudkowsky

2 Aug 2007 7:20 UTC

65 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

Applause Lights

Eliezer Yudkowsky

11 Sep 2007 18:31 UTC

149 points

90 comments2 min readLW link

Dunbar’s Function

Eliezer Yudkowsky

31 Dec 2008 2:26 UTC

47 points

65 comments6 min readLW link

The Nature of Offense

Wei_Dai

23 Jul 2009 11:15 UTC

107 points

179 comments3 min readLW link

Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult

Eliezer Yudkowsky

12 Dec 2007 3:04 UTC

70 points

32 comments3 min readLW link

Alignment Research Field Guide

abramdemski

8 Mar 2019 19:57 UTC

207 points

5 comments17 min readLW link

Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate

Eliezer Yudkowsky

20 Mar 2009 8:37 UTC

185 points

201 comments9 min readLW link

Of Two Minds

Valentine

17 May 2018 4:34 UTC

164 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

How to Seem (and Be) Deep

Eliezer Yudkowsky

14 Oct 2007 18:13 UTC

66 points

119 comments4 min readLW link

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

Servant

24 Mar 2011 17:11 UTC

9 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

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

Yuxi_Liu

16 Jun 2019 2:23 UTC

12 points

1 comment26 min readLW link

Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

26 Jun 2007 21:13 UTC

125 points

141 comments3 min readLW link

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

Kaj_Sotala

10 Jul 2018 17:14 UTC

21 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.nature.com)

Epistemic Tenure

Scott Garrabrant

18 Feb 2019 22:56 UTC

72 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

A Self-Respect Feedback Loop

ialdabaoth

11 May 2018 23:09 UTC

80 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

Duncan Sabien: “In Defense of Punch Bug”

Davis_Kingsley

3 May 2018 8:26 UTC

78 points

187 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

The Relationship Between Hierarchy and Wealth

sarahconstantin

23 Jan 2019 2:00 UTC

60 points

8 comments12 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

The Case for Privacy Optimism

bmgarfinkel

10 Mar 2020 20:30 UTC

37 points

0 comments32 min readLW link

(benmgarfinkel.wordpress.com)

T-Shaped Organizations

Vaniver

16 Dec 2019 23:48 UTC

51 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Levels of communication

Kaj_Sotala

23 Mar 2010 21:32 UTC

54 points

73 comments3 min readLW link

Market norms and Social norms

TruetoThis

6 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs

Eliezer Yudkowsky

7 Dec 2007 23:08 UTC

77 points

46 comments3 min readLW link

Asch’s Conformity Experiment

Eliezer Yudkowsky

26 Dec 2007 7:03 UTC

32 points

62 comments4 min readLW link

Lonely Dissent

Eliezer Yudkowsky

28 Dec 2007 4:23 UTC

57 points

84 comments4 min readLW link

Status Regulation and Anxious Underconfidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky

16 Nov 2017 19:35 UTC

88 points

10 comments21 min readLW link

Self-consciousness wants to make everything about itself

jessicata

3 Jul 2019 1:44 UTC

43 points

67 comments6 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

Notes on Brainwashing & ‘Cults’

gwern

13 Sep 2013 20:49 UTC

40 points

103 comments16 min readLW link

Honors Fuel Achievement

Samo Burja

10 Jun 2019 16:10 UTC

39 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Social Technology

Samo Burja

2 Mar 2018 19:54 UTC

39 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Long Now, and Culture vs Artifacts

Raemon

3 Feb 2020 21:49 UTC

27 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

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

Raemon

12 May 2019 22:03 UTC

31 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The Asshole Filter

DragonGod

7 Oct 2017 16:51 UTC

32 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(siderea.livejournal.com)

What makes a good culture?

toonalfrink

5 Feb 2019 13:31 UTC

30 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

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

Gentzel

15 Jan 2020 23:10 UTC

31 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

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

Benquo

26 Jul 2018 20:59 UTC

29 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Conflict, the Rules of Engagement, and Professionalism

habryka

5 Sep 2020 5:04 UTC

35 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Social Capital Paradoxes

abramdemski

10 Sep 2020 18:44 UTC

65 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

Affordance Widths

ialdabaoth

10 May 2018 23:37 UTC

132 points

54 comments4 min readLW link 2 nominations 6 reviews

Procedural Knowledge Gaps

Alicorn

8 Feb 2011 3:17 UTC

138 points

1,479 comments1 min readLW link

Living in an Inadequate World

Eliezer Yudkowsky

9 Nov 2017 21:23 UTC

130 points

48 comments20 min readLW link

Melting Gold, and Organizational Capacity

Raemon

11 Dec 2017 19:16 UTC

126 points

22 comments5 min readLW link

The Typical Sex Life Fallacy

ozymandias

7 Oct 2017 21:48 UTC

110 points

293 comments5 min readLW link

Norms of Membership for Voluntary Groups

sarahconstantin

11 Dec 2018 22:10 UTC

193 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Misery Pits

Alicorn

10 Mar 2018 23:50 UTC

100 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Degrees of Freedom

sarahconstantin

2 Apr 2019 21:10 UTC

112 points

31 comments11 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Meditations on Momentum

Richard Meadows

14 Dec 2018 10:53 UTC

109 points

29 comments10 min readLW link

On hiding the source of knowledge

jessicata

26 Jan 2020 2:48 UTC

109 points

40 comments3 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

Civility Is Never Neutral

ozymandias

22 Nov 2017 16:54 UTC

87 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Tolerate Tolerance

Eliezer Yudkowsky

21 Mar 2009 7:34 UTC

81 points

92 comments2 min readLW link

Mandatory Obsessions

Jacobian

14 Nov 2018 18:19 UTC

81 points

14 comments6 min readLW link 1 nomination

Everybody Knows

Zvi

2 Jul 2019 12:20 UTC

77 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Beware Social Coping Strategies

Lulie

5 Feb 2018 4:48 UTC

80 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

Preschool: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know

Zvi

20 Nov 2018 19:30 UTC

68 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Approval Extraction Advertised as Production

Benquo

15 Dec 2019 14:51 UTC

85 points

28 comments19 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

Vaniver

23 Nov 2019 22:12 UTC

66 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.paulgraham.com)

In My Culture

Duncan_Sabien

7 Mar 2019 7:22 UTC

65 points

49 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Making yourself small

Helen

8 Mar 2018 14:26 UTC

217 points

53 comments11 min readLW link 1 nomination

The “Outside the Box” Box

Eliezer Yudkowsky

12 Oct 2007 22:50 UTC

60 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

Why Real Men Wear Pink

Scott Alexander

6 Aug 2009 7:39 UTC

57 points

155 comments3 min readLW link

Does Age Bring Wisdom?

Scott Alexander

8 Nov 2017 7:20 UTC

61 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Isolating Content can Create Affordances

Davis_Kingsley

23 Aug 2018 8:28 UTC

55 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

On the construction of beacons

Benquo

16 Oct 2017 9:10 UTC

58 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Helpless Individuals

Eliezer Yudkowsky

30 Mar 2009 11:10 UTC

53 points

243 comments3 min readLW link

Why people want to die

PhilGoetz

24 Aug 2015 20:13 UTC

53 points

175 comments2 min readLW link

Sacred Cash

Zvi

3 Mar 2018 13:20 UTC

49 points

26 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ethics and rationality of suicide

anonymous259

2 May 2011 1:38 UTC

49 points

203 comments2 min readLW link

The Skewed and the Screwed: When Mating Meets Politics

Jacobian

29 Jan 2020 15:50 UTC

44 points

5 comments15 min readLW link

Sapiens

Vaniver

8 Apr 2015 2:56 UTC

52 points

12 comments13 min readLW link

[Link] Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

[deleted]

14 Jun 2012 3:41 UTC

45 points

46 comments1 min readLW link

Noisy Poll Results And Reptilian Muslim Climatologists from Mars

Scott Alexander

12 Apr 2013 10:49 UTC

26 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

“Cheat to Win”: Engineering Positive Social Feedback

sarahconstantin

5 Feb 2018 23:16 UTC

267 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

Offense versus harm minimization

Scott Alexander

16 Apr 2011 1:06 UTC

63 points

429 comments9 min readLW link

Rules of variety

KatjaGrace

8 Dec 2017 17:10 UTC

64 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Self-Keeping Secrets

lsusr

10 Nov 2019 7:59 UTC

44 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Kevin Simler’s “Going Critical”

habryka

16 May 2019 4:36 UTC

56 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.meltingasphalt.com)

Permissions in Governance

sarahconstantin

2 Aug 2019 19:50 UTC

56 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

What’s In A Name?

Scott Alexander

29 Jun 2009 12:54 UTC

43 points

139 comments3 min readLW link

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

curi

5 Aug 2020 8:50 UTC

8 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Special Status Needs Special Support

Eliezer Yudkowsky

4 May 2009 22:59 UTC

20 points

75 comments2 min readLW link

The Competence Myth

Davis_Kingsley

30 Jun 2019 18:55 UTC

49 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

Categories of Sacredness

Zvi

27 Feb 2018 2:00 UTC

54 points

36 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Blame games

Benquo

6 May 2019 2:38 UTC

44 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Asch Conformity Could Explain the Conjunction Fallacy

curi

6 Aug 2020 21:46 UTC

6 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

The Threat of Cryonics

lsparrish

3 Aug 2010 19:57 UTC

36 points

217 comments4 min readLW link

The Signal and the Corrective

MalcolmOcean

11 Feb 2018 0:28 UTC

48 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(everythingstudies.com)

Disability Culture Meets the Transhumanist Condition

Rubix

28 Oct 2011 19:02 UTC

33 points

150 comments3 min readLW link

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

jacobjacob

4 Jan 2019 0:21 UTC

36 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Raising the Sanity Waterline

Eliezer Yudkowsky

12 Mar 2009 4:28 UTC

144 points

228 comments3 min readLW link

Good Citizenship Is Out Of Date

Ben_LandauTaylor

10 Sep 2018 0:15 UTC

47 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

(benlandautaylor.com)

The Technique Taboo

lsusr

30 Oct 2019 11:22 UTC

46 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

Antimemes

lsusr

26 Nov 2019 5:58 UTC

30 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

How to Talk About Antimemes

lsusr

22 Dec 2019 11:57 UTC

13 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Defining “Antimeme”

lsusr

26 Dec 2019 9:35 UTC

14 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

The Law of Least Effort Contributes to the Conjunction Fallacy

curi

9 Aug 2020 19:38 UTC

7 points

53 comments3 min readLW link

Asymmetric Weapons Aren’t Always on Your Side

Davis_Kingsley

8 Jun 2019 8:47 UTC

37 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

The Tragedy of the Social Epistemology Commons

Roko

21 May 2010 12:42 UTC

44 points

91 comments4 min readLW link

Social Dynamics

curi

10 Aug 2020 19:29 UTC

10 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Terrorism is not about Terror

gwern

24 Mar 2009 17:08 UTC

32 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Crime and punishment

PhilGoetz

24 Mar 2011 21:53 UTC

39 points

192 comments2 min readLW link

Values Weren’t Complex, Once.

Davidmanheim

25 Nov 2018 9:17 UTC

34 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

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

jacobjacob

11 Aug 2019 16:31 UTC

32 points

50 comments4 min readLW link

Finance Followups

Jacobian

17 Jan 2019 17:54 UTC

29 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

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

Eneasz

21 Oct 2014 19:39 UTC

28 points

48 comments4 min readLW link

The Temptation to Bubble

gressettd

23 Sep 2015 23:34 UTC

27 points

29 comments5 min readLW link

Clickbait might not be destroying our general Intelligence

Donald Hobson

19 Nov 2018 0:13 UTC

26 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

The State of Affairs

Jacobian

3 May 2019 16:18 UTC

33 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Fight Zero-Sum Bias

multifoliaterose

18 Jul 2010 5:57 UTC

25 points

164 comments2 min readLW link

You’re Entitled to Everyone’s Opinion

satt

20 Sep 2014 15:39 UTC

25 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

Why do people ____?

magfrump

4 May 2012 4:20 UTC

25 points

256 comments1 min readLW link

Seeding a productive culture: a working hypothesis

Benquo

18 Oct 2017 9:10 UTC

28 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Good arguments against “cultural appropriation”

Tyrrell_McAllister

18 Dec 2018 17:23 UTC

23 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Book Review: The Complacent Class

Zvi

16 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC

24 points

3 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Changes in Reality

eapache

7 Sep 2020 16:18 UTC

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Indignation in response to the 1890 census

jasoncrawford

8 Sep 2020 20:14 UTC

24 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Against boots theory

philh

14 Sep 2020 13:20 UTC

30 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

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