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Poli­tics is the Mind-Killer

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Feb 2007 21:23 UTC
263 points
240 comments2 min readLW link

Are Your Ene­mies In­nately Evil?

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Jun 2007 21:13 UTC
191 points
144 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­fess­ing and Cheering

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Aug 2007 7:20 UTC
104 points
45 comments2 min readLW link

Ap­plause Lights

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Sep 2007 18:31 UTC
308 points
99 comments2 min readLW link

The “Out­side the Box” Box

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Oct 2007 22:50 UTC
89 points
51 comments2 min readLW link

How to Seem (and Be) Deep

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Oct 2007 18:13 UTC
108 points
122 comments4 min readLW link

Eva­po­ra­tive Cool­ing of Group Beliefs

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Dec 2007 23:08 UTC
153 points
50 comments3 min readLW link

Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2007 3:04 UTC
112 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

Asch’s Con­for­mity Experiment

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Dec 2007 7:03 UTC
60 points
67 comments4 min readLW link

Lonely Dissent

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Dec 2007 4:23 UTC
146 points
88 comments4 min readLW link

Dun­bar’s Function

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Dec 2008 2:26 UTC
68 points
65 comments6 min readLW link

An Afri­can Folktale

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Feb 2009 1:00 UTC
28 points
62 comments3 min readLW link

Rais­ing the San­ity Waterline

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Mar 2009 4:28 UTC
236 points
232 comments3 min readLW link

Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Mar 2009 8:37 UTC
287 points
211 comments9 min readLW link

Tol­er­ate Tolerance

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Mar 2009 7:34 UTC
139 points
87 comments2 min readLW link

Ter­ror­ism is not about Terror

gwern24 Mar 2009 17:08 UTC
48 points
25 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

Hel­pless Individuals

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Mar 2009 11:10 UTC
84 points
244 comments3 min readLW link

The Brook­lyn So­ciety For Eth­i­cal Culture

MBlume3 Apr 2009 8:06 UTC
19 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

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

Roko5 Apr 2009 20:22 UTC
29 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

GroupThink, Theism … and the Wiki

byrnema13 Apr 2009 17:28 UTC
−2 points
62 comments2 min readLW link

Spe­cial Sta­tus Needs Spe­cial Support

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 May 2009 22:59 UTC
30 points
75 comments2 min readLW link

A Parable On Ob­so­lete Ideologies

Scott Alexander13 May 2009 22:51 UTC
184 points
288 comments7 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

The Laws of Magic

Annoyance15 Jun 2009 19:13 UTC
20 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

What’s In A Name?

Scott Alexander29 Jun 2009 12:54 UTC
47 points
138 comments3 min readLW link

Out­side Anal­y­sis and Blind Spots

orthonormal21 Jul 2009 1:00 UTC
82 points
34 comments5 min readLW link

The Na­ture of Offense

Wei Dai23 Jul 2009 11:15 UTC
135 points
179 comments3 min readLW link

Why Real Men Wear Pink

Scott Alexander6 Aug 2009 7:39 UTC
98 points
155 comments3 min readLW link

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

MBlume12 Oct 2009 22:27 UTC
25 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Levels of communication

Kaj_Sotala23 Mar 2010 21:32 UTC
61 points
73 comments3 min readLW link

The Tragedy of the So­cial Episte­mol­ogy Commons

Roko21 May 2010 12:42 UTC
62 points
91 comments4 min readLW link

Fight Zero-Sum Bias

multifoliaterose18 Jul 2010 5:57 UTC
28 points
164 comments2 min readLW link

The Threat of Cryonics

lsparrish3 Aug 2010 19:57 UTC
43 points
216 comments4 min readLW link

In­tel­lec­tual Hip­sters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC
358 points
367 comments8 min readLW link

Teach­ers vs. Tutors

[deleted]26 Oct 2010 16:59 UTC
18 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­ce­du­ral Knowl­edge Gaps

Alicorn8 Feb 2011 3:17 UTC
190 points
1,496 comments1 min readLW link

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

Servant24 Mar 2011 17:11 UTC
12 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Crime and punishment

PhilGoetz24 Mar 2011 21:53 UTC
50 points
192 comments2 min readLW link

Offense ver­sus harm minimization

Scott Alexander16 Apr 2011 1:06 UTC
85 points
429 comments9 min readLW link

Is Kiryas Joel an Un­happy Place?

gwern23 Apr 2011 0:08 UTC
28 points
188 comments3 min readLW link

Ethics and ra­tio­nal­ity of suicide

anonymous2592 May 2011 1:38 UTC
67 points
205 comments2 min readLW link

Mal­ice, Stu­pidity, or Egal­ité Ir­réfléchie?

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)13 Jun 2011 20:57 UTC
32 points
62 comments2 min readLW link

Dis­abil­ity Cul­ture Meets the Tran­shu­man­ist Condition

Rubix28 Oct 2011 19:02 UTC
39 points
150 comments3 min readLW link

Why do peo­ple ____?

magfrump4 May 2012 4:20 UTC
36 points
255 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Can We Re­v­erse The Stan­ford Pri­son Ex­per­i­ment?

daenerys14 Jun 2012 3:41 UTC
66 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] So­cial in­ter­ven­tions gone wrong

[deleted]20 Aug 2012 9:24 UTC
34 points
77 comments7 min readLW link

Noisy Poll Re­sults And Rep­tilian Mus­lim Cli­ma­tol­o­gists from Mars

Scott Alexander12 Apr 2013 10:49 UTC
40 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

All De­bates Are Brav­ery Debates

Scott Alexander9 Jun 2013 19:00 UTC
105 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

The Virtue of Silence

Scott Alexander14 Jun 2013 19:00 UTC
123 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Notes on Brain­wash­ing & ‘Cults’

gwern13 Sep 2013 20:49 UTC
80 points
106 comments16 min readLW link

In Fa­vor of Nice­ness, Com­mu­nity, and Civilization

Scott Alexander23 Feb 2014 22:24 UTC
82 points
9 comments20 min readLW link

Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

Scott Alexander7 Jun 2014 16:44 UTC
19 points
3 comments22 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tions On Moloch

Scott Alexander30 Jul 2014 4:00 UTC
176 points
10 comments47 min readLW link

Burdens

Scott Alexander16 Aug 2014 19:00 UTC
40 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

So­ciety Is Fixed, Biol­ogy Is Mutable

Scott Alexander11 Sep 2014 0:27 UTC
45 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

You’re En­ti­tled to Every­one’s Opinion

satt20 Sep 2014 15:39 UTC
33 points
23 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

Eth­nic Ten­sion And Mean­ingless Arguments

Scott Alexander5 Nov 2014 3:38 UTC
78 points
8 comments22 min readLW link

Sapiens

Vaniver8 Apr 2015 2:56 UTC
70 points
12 comments13 min readLW link

Why peo­ple want to die

PhilGoetz24 Aug 2015 20:13 UTC
91 points
174 comments2 min readLW link

The Temp­ta­tion to Bubble

gressettd23 Sep 2015 23:34 UTC
35 points
29 comments5 min readLW link

The Ide­ol­ogy Is Not The Movement

Scott Alexander5 Apr 2016 1:52 UTC
37 points
1 comment24 min readLW link

How The West Was Won

Scott Alexander26 Jul 2016 3:05 UTC
39 points
10 comments17 min readLW link

Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons

Scott Alexander24 Mar 2017 4:33 UTC
64 points
5 comments19 min readLW link

I Can Tol­er­ate Any­thing Ex­cept The Outgroup

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 8:22 UTC
88 points
4 comments28 min readLW link

Differ­ent Worlds

Scott Alexander3 Oct 2017 4:10 UTC
73 points
16 comments14 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Clue­less World vs. Loser World

michael_vassar27 Oct 2017 0:03 UTC
12 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

The Ass­hole Filter

DragonGod7 Oct 2017 16:51 UTC
21 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(siderea.livejournal.com)

The Typ­i­cal Sex Life Fallacy

ozymandias7 Oct 2017 21:48 UTC
38 points
30 comments5 min readLW link

On the con­struc­tion of beacons

Benquo16 Oct 2017 9:10 UTC
21 points
9 comments10 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Seed­ing a pro­duc­tive cul­ture: a work­ing hypothesis

Benquo18 Oct 2017 9:10 UTC
11 points
15 comments3 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Does Age Bring Wis­dom?

Scott Alexander8 Nov 2017 7:20 UTC
37 points
8 comments4 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Liv­ing in an Inad­e­quate World

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Nov 2017 21:23 UTC
88 points
46 comments20 min readLW link

Sta­tus Reg­u­la­tion and Anx­ious Underconfidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Nov 2017 19:35 UTC
81 points
17 comments21 min readLW link

Ci­vil­ity Is Never Neutral

ozymandias22 Nov 2017 16:54 UTC
57 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Rules of variety

KatjaGrace8 Dec 2017 17:10 UTC
31 points
8 comments3 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Melt­ing Gold, and Or­ga­ni­za­tional Capacity

Raemon11 Dec 2017 19:16 UTC
72 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

Mean­ing wars

Elo14 Dec 2017 23:17 UTC
11 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Book Re­view: The Com­pla­cent Class

Zvi16 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC
10 points
3 comments17 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Be­ware So­cial Cop­ing Strategies

Lulie5 Feb 2018 4:48 UTC
49 points
24 comments7 min readLW link

“Cheat to Win”: Eng­ineer­ing Pos­i­tive So­cial Feedback

sarahconstantin5 Feb 2018 23:16 UTC
184 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

The Sig­nal and the Corrective

MalcolmOcean11 Feb 2018 0:28 UTC
21 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

The In­tel­li­gent So­cial Web

Valentine22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC
224 points
112 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews

Cat­e­gories of Sacredness

Zvi27 Feb 2018 2:00 UTC
21 points
35 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

So­cial Technology

Samo Burja2 Mar 2018 19:54 UTC
13 points
3 comments11 min readLW link

Sa­cred Cash

Zvi3 Mar 2018 13:20 UTC
27 points
29 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Mak­ing your­self small

Helen8 Mar 2018 14:26 UTC
127 points
53 comments11 min readLW link

Misery Pits

Alicorn10 Mar 2018 23:50 UTC
47 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Dun­can Sa­bien: “In Defense of Punch Bug”

Davis_Kingsley3 May 2018 8:26 UTC
30 points
187 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Pre­dict­ing Fu­ture Morality

ESRogs6 May 2018 7:17 UTC
13 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Affor­dance Widths

ialdabaoth10 May 2018 23:37 UTC
67 points
53 comments4 min readLW link6 reviews

A Self-Re­spect Feed­back Loop

ialdabaoth11 May 2018 23:09 UTC
38 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

Of Two Minds

Valentine17 May 2018 4:34 UTC
93 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Against ac­cus­ing peo­ple of motte and bailey

Kaj_Sotala3 Jun 2018 21:31 UTC
42 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Why Honor Matters

ryan_b25 Jun 2018 20:53 UTC
33 points
9 comments12 min readLW link

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

Kaj_Sotala10 Jul 2018 17:14 UTC
22 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.nature.com)

Cul­ture, in­ter­pre­tive la­bor, and tidy­ing one’s room

Benquo26 Jul 2018 20:59 UTC
25 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Iso­lat­ing Con­tent can Create Affordances

Davis_Kingsley23 Aug 2018 8:28 UTC
49 points
12 comments1 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)

Anti-so­cial Punishment

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

On in­se­cu­rity as a friend

Kaj_Sotala9 Oct 2018 18:30 UTC
42 points
17 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Book re­view: The Com­pla­cent Class

Richard_Ngo13 Oct 2018 19:20 UTC
20 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Manda­tory Obsessions

Jacob Falkovich14 Nov 2018 18:19 UTC
77 points
14 comments6 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

Preschool: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know

Zvi20 Nov 2018 19:30 UTC
65 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Values Weren’t Com­plex, Once.

Davidmanheim25 Nov 2018 9:17 UTC
33 points
13 comments2 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

Norms of Mem­ber­ship for Vol­un­tary Groups

sarahconstantin11 Dec 2018 22:10 UTC
192 points
10 comments7 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Med­i­ta­tions on Momentum

Richard Meadows14 Dec 2018 10:53 UTC
103 points
32 comments10 min readLW link

Good ar­gu­ments against “cul­tural ap­pro­pri­a­tion”

Tyrrell_McAllister18 Dec 2018 17:23 UTC
24 points
12 comments2 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

Fi­nance Followups

Jacob Falkovich17 Jan 2019 17:54 UTC
26 points
8 comments4 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)

Co­op­er­a­tion is for Winners

Jacob Falkovich15 Feb 2019 14:58 UTC
21 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Epistemic Tenure

Scott Garrabrant18 Feb 2019 22:56 UTC
89 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

In My Culture

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien7 Mar 2019 7:22 UTC
66 points
59 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
(medium.com)

Align­ment Re­search Field Guide

abramdemski8 Mar 2019 19:57 UTC
263 points
9 comments17 min readLW link2 reviews

De­grees of Freedom

sarahconstantin2 Apr 2019 21:10 UTC
103 points
31 comments11 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

The State of Affairs

Jacob Falkovich3 May 2019 16:18 UTC
33 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

Blame games

Benquo6 May 2019 2:38 UTC
45 points
13 comments7 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

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

Raemon12 May 2019 22:03 UTC
29 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Kevin Sim­ler’s “Go­ing Crit­i­cal”

habryka16 May 2019 4:36 UTC
56 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.meltingasphalt.com)

Asym­met­ric Weapons Aren’t Always on Your Side

Davis_Kingsley8 Jun 2019 8:47 UTC
35 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Honors Fuel Achievement

Samo Burja10 Jun 2019 16:10 UTC
38 points
2 comments8 min readLW link
(medium.com)

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

Apoca­lypse, corrupted

Stuart_Armstrong26 Jun 2019 13:46 UTC
20 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

The Com­pe­tence Myth

Davis_Kingsley30 Jun 2019 18:55 UTC
48 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

Every­body Knows

Zvi2 Jul 2019 12:20 UTC
125 points
21 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Self-con­scious­ness wants to make ev­ery­thing about itself

jessicata3 Jul 2019 1:44 UTC
42 points
70 comments6 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Per­mis­sions in Governance

sarahconstantin2 Aug 2019 19:50 UTC
53 points
12 comments8 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

[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

Book Re­view: Sec­u­lar Cycles

Scott Alexander13 Aug 2019 4:10 UTC
62 points
10 comments16 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

Book Re­view: Ages Of Discord

Scott Alexander3 Sep 2019 6:30 UTC
35 points
1 comment21 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

The Tech­nique Taboo

lsusr30 Oct 2019 11:22 UTC
54 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

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

pjeby31 Oct 2019 20:20 UTC
25 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Self-Keep­ing Secrets

lsusr10 Nov 2019 7:59 UTC
72 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

The Bus Ticket The­ory of Genius

Vaniver23 Nov 2019 22:12 UTC
63 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(www.paulgraham.com)

Antimemes

lsusr26 Nov 2019 5:58 UTC
52 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Ap­proval Ex­trac­tion Ad­ver­tised as Production

Benquo15 Dec 2019 14:51 UTC
82 points
39 comments19 min readLW link3 reviews
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

T-Shaped Organizations

Vaniver16 Dec 2019 23:48 UTC
49 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

How to Talk About Antimemes

lsusr22 Dec 2019 11:57 UTC
20 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Defin­ing “An­timeme”

lsusr26 Dec 2019 9:35 UTC
17 points
10 comments1 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)

On hid­ing the source of knowledge

jessicata26 Jan 2020 2:48 UTC
115 points
40 comments3 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

The Skewed and the Screwed: When Mat­ing Meets Politics

Jacob Falkovich29 Jan 2020 15:50 UTC
62 points
6 comments15 min readLW link1 review

Long Now, and Cul­ture vs Artifacts

Raemon3 Feb 2020 21:49 UTC
26 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

The Case for Pri­vacy Optimism

bmgarfinkel10 Mar 2020 20:30 UTC
43 points
1 comment32 min readLW link
(benmgarfinkel.wordpress.com)

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

curi5 Aug 2020 8:50 UTC
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Mar­ket norms and So­cial norms

TruetoThis6 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Asch Con­for­mity Could Ex­plain the Con­junc­tion Fallacy

curi6 Aug 2020 21:46 UTC
7 points
1 comment5 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

So­cial Dynamics

curi10 Aug 2020 19:29 UTC
10 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Con­flict, the Rules of En­gage­ment, and Professionalism

habryka5 Sep 2020 5:04 UTC
47 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

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
26 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] So­cial Cap­i­tal Paradoxes

abramdemski10 Sep 2020 18:44 UTC
69 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

Against boots theory

philh14 Sep 2020 13:20 UTC
42 points
15 comments6 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Charisma is a Force Multiplier

Davis_Kingsley11 Oct 2020 10:21 UTC
39 points
10 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
286 points
68 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

So­cratic Grilling

SilasBarta12 Nov 2020 21:16 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book re­view: WEIRDest People

PeterMcCluskey30 Nov 2020 3:33 UTC
99 points
57 comments9 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Notes on Courtesy

David Gross16 Dec 2020 4:08 UTC
11 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

De­bug­ging the student

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 7:07 UTC
46 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

How to Compliment

less_penguiny16 Dec 2020 8:25 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

We des­per­ately need to talk more about hu­man challenge tri­als.

DirectedEvolution19 Dec 2020 10:00 UTC
29 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

The 4-Hour So­cial Life

lsusr30 Dec 2020 0:58 UTC
13 points
4 comments3 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
3 comments7 min readLW link

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

Raemon19 Jan 2021 18:23 UTC
111 points
24 comments4 min readLW link
(www.bloomberg.com)

A few thought on the in­ner ring

KatjaGrace21 Jan 2021 3:40 UTC
77 points
23 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Notes on Judg­ment and Righ­teous Anger

David Gross30 Jan 2021 19:31 UTC
13 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Un­wit­ting cult leaders

Kaj_Sotala11 Feb 2021 11:10 UTC
119 points
9 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(kajsotala.fi)

Over­con­fi­dence is Deceit

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien17 Feb 2021 10:45 UTC
77 points
29 comments11 min readLW link

Germs and Poli­tics

Savio Coelho1 Mar 2021 21:57 UTC
1 point
1 comment10 min readLW link

Eco­nomic Class

lsusr2 Mar 2021 1:58 UTC
24 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

The av­er­age North Korean mathematician

Malmesbury7 Mar 2021 17:28 UTC
65 points
19 comments8 min readLW link
(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

[Lec­ture Club] Awak­en­ing from the Mean­ing Crisis

Vaniver8 Mar 2021 15:22 UTC
71 points
207 comments2 min readLW link

Poli­tics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC
282 points
46 comments11 min readLW link1 review

Open, Free, Safe: Choose Two

jaspax20 Mar 2021 16:42 UTC
108 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

[Book Re­view] Destiny Disrupted

lsusr21 Mar 2021 7:09 UTC
58 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

Gossip

Yoav Ravid21 Mar 2021 13:36 UTC
12 points
7 comments11 min readLW link

Elec­tion re­sults in Cen­tral Europe match some pre-WW1 borders

ForensicOceanography24 Apr 2021 6:24 UTC
19 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Academia as Com­pany Hierarchy

Virgil Kurkjian9 May 2021 17:29 UTC
72 points
40 comments18 min readLW link

Unat­tributed Good

Filip Dousek4 Jun 2021 20:47 UTC
10 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

So­cial be­hav­ior curves, equil­ibria, and radicalism

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

Covid vac­cine safety: how cor­rect are these alle­ga­tions?

DPiepgrass13 Jun 2021 3:08 UTC
45 points
93 comments19 min readLW link

The Cult Deficit: Anal­y­sis and Speculation

rogersbacon13 Jun 2021 5:33 UTC
18 points
11 comments13 min readLW link

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

Andrew Vlahos22 Jun 2021 4:19 UTC
22 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

[Let­ter] Im­pe­ri­al­ism in the Ra­tion­al­ist Community

lsusr25 Jun 2021 0:33 UTC
−22 points
41 comments2 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)

Book Re­view: Order Without Law

philh10 Jul 2021 21:50 UTC
64 points
5 comments49 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Is so­cial the­ory our doom?

pchvykov15 Jul 2021 3:31 UTC
6 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Book re­view: The Ex­pla­na­tion of Ideology

PeterMcCluskey20 Jul 2021 3:42 UTC
43 points
10 comments9 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Violent Un­rav­el­ing: Suici­dal Majoritarianism

mako yass29 Jul 2021 9:29 UTC
6 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Mildly against COVID risk budgets

Optimization Process16 Aug 2021 5:53 UTC
54 points
15 comments5 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
103 comments7 min readLW link

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

David Gross20 Sep 2021 15:19 UTC
56 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

What can we learn from tra­di­tional so­cieties?

mukashi5 Oct 2021 0:24 UTC
18 points
11 comments11 min readLW link

Sasha Chapin on bad so­cial norms in ra­tio­nal­ity/​EA

Kaj_Sotala17 Nov 2021 9:43 UTC
48 points
22 comments5 min readLW link
(sashachapin.substack.com)

[Linkpost] Be­ing Nor­mal by Brian Caplan

Gunnar_Zarncke27 Nov 2021 22:19 UTC
38 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Frame Control

Aella27 Nov 2021 22:59 UTC
314 points
282 comments23 min readLW link2 reviews

Reneg­ing Prosocially

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien30 Nov 2021 19:01 UTC
172 points
15 comments17 min readLW link1 review

The end of Vic­to­rian cul­ture, part I: struc­tural forces

David Hugh-Jones9 Dec 2021 19:25 UTC
22 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

We’ll Always Have Crazy

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien15 Dec 2021 2:55 UTC
36 points
22 comments13 min readLW link

The end of Vic­to­rian cul­ture, part II: peo­ple and history

David Hugh-Jones18 Dec 2021 18:55 UTC
9 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

Con­verg­ing to­ward a Million Worlds

Joe Kwon24 Dec 2021 21:33 UTC
11 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Causal­ity and de­ter­minism in so­cial sci­ence—An in­ves­ti­ga­tion us­ing Pearl’s causal ladder

tailcalled3 Jan 2022 17:51 UTC
12 points
10 comments9 min readLW link

[Book Re­view]: The Bonobo and the Athe­ist by Frans De Waal

J Bostock5 Jan 2022 22:29 UTC
17 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

Book Re­view: The Righ­teous Mind

Tornus20 Jan 2022 21:42 UTC
7 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ment­ing with microsoli­dar­ity crews

Jarred Filmer6 Feb 2022 11:41 UTC
48 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

What The Foucault

adamShimi19 Feb 2022 22:48 UTC
39 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

We’re already in AI takeoff

Valentine8 Mar 2022 23:09 UTC
133 points
117 comments7 min readLW link

Notes on So­cial Responsibility

David Gross19 Mar 2022 14:44 UTC
17 points
4 comments19 min readLW link

The Dawn of Every­thing: a review

David Hugh-Jones21 Mar 2022 12:53 UTC
32 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

Giv­ing cal­ibrated time es­ti­mates can have so­cial costs

Alex_Altair3 Apr 2022 21:23 UTC
99 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Notes on the Au­to­bi­og­ra­phy of Mal­colm X

Benquo6 Apr 2022 19:34 UTC
11 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The Amish

PeterMcCluskey12 Apr 2022 2:54 UTC
49 points
5 comments6 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Two Proso­cial Re­jec­tion Norms

Emrik28 Apr 2022 20:53 UTC
52 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Nar­ra­tive Syncing

AnnaSalamon1 May 2022 1:48 UTC
117 points
48 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Fem­i­nism and Femininity

NathanBarnard18 May 2022 22:53 UTC
4 points
8 comments6 min readLW link

Benign Boundary Violations

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien26 May 2022 6:48 UTC
202 points
84 comments18 min readLW link1 review

On The Spec­trum, On The Guest List: (ii) LAVO

party girl27 May 2022 16:45 UTC
18 points
3 comments18 min readLW link
(onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com)

An in­quiry into the thoughts of twenty-five peo­ple in India

KatjaGrace28 May 2022 8:30 UTC
21 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Eter­nal youth as eter­nal suffering

shminux4 Jun 2022 1:48 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Fourth Arena 2: New be­ings in time

Bill Benzon5 Jun 2022 13:30 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Stay­ing Split: Sa­ba­tini and So­cial Justice

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien8 Jun 2022 8:32 UTC
151 points
28 comments21 min readLW link

[Question] Silly On­line Rules

Gunnar_Zarncke8 Jun 2022 20:40 UTC
8 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

On The Spec­trum, On The Guest List: (v) The Fleur Room

party girl10 Jun 2022 14:50 UTC
8 points
1 comment14 min readLW link
(onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com)

The Malthu­sian Trap: An Ex­tremely Short Introduction

Davis Kedrosky19 Jun 2022 15:25 UTC
5 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(daviskedrosky.substack.com)

How to Be­come a World His­tor­i­cal Figure (Péladan’s Dream)

rogersbacon7 Jul 2022 22:39 UTC
21 points
3 comments30 min readLW link
(www.secretorum.life)

Wy­clif’s Dust: the miss­ing chapter

David Hugh-Jones22 Jul 2022 18:27 UTC
9 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

Ex­pected (So­cial) Value

algrthms7 Aug 2022 8:16 UTC
5 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Align­ment via proso­cial brain algorithms

Cameron Berg12 Sep 2022 13:48 UTC
42 points
28 comments6 min readLW link

Open Bands: Lead­ing Rhythm

jefftk26 Oct 2022 14:30 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The So­cial Re­ces­sion: By the Numbers

antonomon29 Oct 2022 18:45 UTC
165 points
29 comments8 min readLW link
(novum.substack.com)

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

ExCeph6 Nov 2022 21:15 UTC
−7 points
4 comments12 min readLW link
(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

Mastodon Link­ing Norms

jefftk10 Nov 2022 15:10 UTC
9 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Here’s the exit.

Valentine21 Nov 2022 18:07 UTC
62 points
178 comments10 min readLW link5 reviews

Feel­ing Old: Leav­ing your 20s in the 2020s

squidious22 Nov 2022 22:50 UTC
37 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(opalsandbonobos.blogspot.com)

Sys­tems of Survival

Vaniver9 Dec 2022 5:13 UTC
63 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Why Are Women Hot?

Jacob Falkovich18 Dec 2022 23:20 UTC
17 points
19 comments11 min readLW link

Shared re­al­ity: a key driver of hu­man behavior

kdbscott24 Dec 2022 19:35 UTC
126 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

In­creased Scam Qual­ity/​Quan­tity (Hy­poth­e­sis in need of data)?

joshuatanderson9 Jan 2023 22:57 UTC
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Against the para­dox of tolerance

pchvykov10 Jan 2023 0:12 UTC
0 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] When to men­tion ir­rele­vant ac­cu­sa­tions?

philh14 Jan 2023 21:58 UTC
20 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Robin Han­son on “Ex­plain­ing the Sa­cred”

Raemon6 Feb 2023 0:50 UTC
13 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(www.overcomingbias.com)

Why is Every­one So Bor­ing? By Robin Hanson

trevor6 Feb 2023 4:17 UTC
54 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.overcomingbias.com)

Avoid large group dis­cus­sions in your so­cial events

RomanHauksson15 Feb 2023 21:05 UTC
36 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Some­thing Un­fath­omable: Unal­igned Hu­man­ity and how we’re rac­ing against death with death

Yuli_Ban27 Feb 2023 11:37 UTC
13 points
14 comments19 min readLW link

The bur­den of knowing

arisAlexis28 Feb 2023 18:40 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ism and so­cial rationalism

philosophybear10 Mar 2023 23:20 UTC
17 points
5 comments10 min readLW link
(philosophybear.substack.com)

High Sta­tus Eschews Quan­tifi­ca­tion of Performance

niplav19 Mar 2023 22:14 UTC
124 points
36 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What do “at­trac­tor dy­nam­ics” re­fer to in the con­text of so­cial struc­tures?

JavierCC20 Mar 2023 1:39 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Will peo­ple be mo­ti­vated to learn difficult dis­ci­plines and skills with­out eco­nomic in­cen­tive?

Roman Leventov20 Mar 2023 9:26 UTC
18 points
33 comments5 min readLW link

Key Ques­tions for Digi­tal Minds

Jacy Reese Anthis22 Mar 2023 17:13 UTC
22 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Meme or Die: Modern So­cieties are Depen­dent on Emo­tion­ally Rich Memes to Rapidly Evolve

monkymind30 Mar 2023 8:59 UTC
11 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

In fa­vor of ac­cel­er­at­ing prob­lems you’re try­ing to solve

Christopher King11 Apr 2023 18:15 UTC
2 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Notes on Teach­ing in Prison

jsd19 Apr 2023 1:53 UTC
270 points
12 comments12 min readLW link

Stop try­ing to have “in­ter­est­ing” friends

eq19 Apr 2023 23:39 UTC
40 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

De­cep­tion Strategies

Thoth Hermes20 Apr 2023 15:59 UTC
−7 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(thothhermes.substack.com)

Ca­ma­raderie at scale: in search of shared identity

eq24 Apr 2023 16:46 UTC
8 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

The Tox­o­plasma of AGI Doom and Ca­pa­bil­ities?

Robert_AIZI24 Apr 2023 18:11 UTC
68 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Ro­mance, mi­s­un­der­stand­ing, so­cial stances, and the hu­man LLM

Kaj_Sotala27 Apr 2023 12:59 UTC
69 points
32 comments16 min readLW link

Dark For­est Theories

Raemon12 May 2023 20:21 UTC
136 points
48 comments2 min readLW link

Mob and Bailey

Screwtape25 May 2023 22:14 UTC
75 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

The In­trin­sic In­ter­play of Hu­man Values and Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence: Nav­i­gat­ing the Op­ti­miza­tion Challenge

Joe Kwon5 Jun 2023 20:41 UTC
2 points
1 comment18 min readLW link

Model, Care, Execution

26 Jun 2023 4:05 UTC
104 points
9 comments12 min readLW link
(bayesshammai.substack.com)

The Seeker’s Game – Vignettes from the Bay

Yulia9 Jul 2023 19:32 UTC
136 points
18 comments16 min readLW link

Paper di­ges­tion: “May We Have Your At­ten­tion Please? Hu­man-Rights NGOs and the Prob­lem of Global Com­mu­ni­ca­tion”

Klara Helene Nielsen20 Jul 2023 17:08 UTC
4 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(journals.sagepub.com)

AI ro­man­tic part­ners will harm so­ciety if they go unregulated

Roman Leventov1 Aug 2023 9:32 UTC
25 points
71 comments13 min readLW link

Si­mu­late the CEO

robotelvis12 Aug 2023 0:09 UTC
23 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(messyprogress.substack.com)

Re­port on An­a­lyz­ing Con­no­ta­tion Frames in Evolv­ing Wikipe­dia Biographies

Maira30 Aug 2023 22:02 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link

What is the op­ti­mal fron­tier for due dili­gence?

8 Sep 2023 18:20 UTC
41 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Per­ils of Professionalism

Screwtape7 Nov 2023 0:07 UTC
40 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Scott Alexan­der is wrong about slurs

[deactivated]21 Nov 2023 8:43 UTC
−27 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

“Model UN Solu­tions”

Arjun Panickssery8 Dec 2023 23:06 UTC
36 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

Ideoculture

elv11 Dec 2023 10:29 UTC
8 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

[Valence se­ries] 4. Valence & So­cial Status

Steven Byrnes15 Dec 2023 14:24 UTC
34 points
19 comments10 min readLW link

AI Gir­lfriends Won’t Mat­ter Much

Maxwell Tabarrok23 Dec 2023 15:58 UTC
42 points
22 comments2 min readLW link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

A Crisper Ex­pla­na­tion of Si­mu­lacrum Levels

Thane Ruthenis23 Dec 2023 22:13 UTC
72 points
13 comments13 min readLW link

Fact Check­ing and Re­tal­i­a­tion Against Sources

jefftk4 Jan 2024 0:41 UTC
7 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Loneli­ness and suicide miti­ga­tion for stu­dents us­ing GPT3-en­abled chat­bots (sur­vey of Replika users in Na­ture)

Kaj_Sotala23 Jan 2024 14:05 UTC
44 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.nature.com)

Pal­world de­vel­op­ment blog post

bhauth28 Jan 2024 5:56 UTC
79 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(note.com)

Ten Modes of Cul­ture War Discourse

jchan31 Jan 2024 13:58 UTC
54 points
15 comments15 min readLW link

Ar­ro­gance and Peo­ple Pleasing

Jonathan Moregård6 Feb 2024 18:43 UTC
25 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(honestliving.substack.com)

story-based de­ci­sion-making

bhauth7 Feb 2024 2:35 UTC
86 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Quan­tum Dar­winism, so­cial con­structs, and the sci­en­tific method

pchvykov7 Feb 2024 7:04 UTC
6 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] How do high-trust so­cieties form?

Shankar Sivarajan9 Feb 2024 1:11 UTC
20 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Sham­ing with and with­out naming

KatjaGrace23 Feb 2024 7:30 UTC
15 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Balanc­ing Games

jefftk24 Feb 2024 14:40 UTC
60 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

my the­ory of the in­dus­trial revolution

bhauth28 Feb 2024 21:07 UTC
13 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

So­cial sta­tus part 1/​2: ne­go­ti­a­tions over ob­ject-level preferences

Steven Byrnes5 Mar 2024 16:29 UTC
104 points
15 comments21 min readLW link

So­cial sta­tus part 2/​2: ev­ery­thing else

Steven Byrnes5 Mar 2024 16:29 UTC
56 points
2 comments23 min readLW link

min­i­mum vi­able action

Sindhu Prasad12 Mar 2024 16:06 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
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