Well-being

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Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC

570 points

92 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Mental Health and the Alignment Problem: A Compilation of Resources (updated April 2023)

Chris Scammell and DivineMango

10 May 2023 19:04 UTC

256 points

54 comments21 min readLW link

Counter-theses on Sleep

Natália21 Mar 2022 23:21 UTC

447 points

135 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

On Tables and Happiness

Alexander25 Apr 2022 9:51 UTC

25 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Fitness

David Gross21 Dec 2020 16:51 UTC

18 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Utilitarianism and the replaceability of desires and attachments

MichaelStJules27 Jul 2024 1:57 UTC

5 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

Some implications of radical empathy

MichaelStJules7 Jan 2025 16:10 UTC

3 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Really radical empathy

MichaelStJules6 Jan 2025 17:46 UTC

19 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Ureshiku Naritai

Alicorn8 Apr 2010 20:08 UTC

243 points

159 comments6 min readLW link

If you are too stressed, walk away from the front lines

Neil 12 Jun 2023 14:26 UTC

44 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

Training My Friend to Cook

lsusr29 Aug 2021 5:54 UTC

71 points

33 comments3 min readLW link

Why I am no longer driven

dominicq16 Nov 2021 20:43 UTC

71 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone)

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Nov 2007 3:19 UTC

108 points

109 comments3 min readLW link

Be Happier

Klevador16 Apr 2012 1:51 UTC

167 points

267 comments35 min readLW link

A Few Tips on How to Generally Feel Better (and Avoid Headaches)

moridinamael30 Apr 2018 16:02 UTC

28 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

On the proper piloting of flesh shoots

Mordecai Weynberg11 Oct 2022 18:52 UTC

−4 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Meaning and Moral Foundations Theory

bryjnar7 Apr 2018 17:59 UTC

14 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

The Fun Theory Sequence

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Jan 2009 11:18 UTC

100 points

31 comments13 min readLW link

The Anxious Philosopher King

Jacob Falkovich1 Nov 2021 16:05 UTC

0 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Differential knowledge interconnection

Roman Leventov12 Oct 2024 12:52 UTC

6 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Improving productivity and wellbeing

Valdes4 May 2022 12:15 UTC

12 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

A Primer on the Symmetry Theory of Valence

Michael Edward Johnson6 Sep 2021 11:39 UTC

25 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

Some Technical Problems With Measuring Happiness (and some solutions)

Alexander de Vries23 Feb 2022 15:02 UTC

16 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Why Doesn’t Healthcare Improve Health?

George3d616 Feb 2022 11:28 UTC

63 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

(www.epistem.ink)

[Question] Does it make sense to get 2 flu vaccines?

dawangy2 Nov 2021 1:48 UTC

3 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Loneliness

DirectedEvolution8 Sep 2020 8:14 UTC

18 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Health & Lifestyle Interventions With Heavy-Tailed Outcomes?

MondSemmel6 Jun 2022 16:26 UTC

12 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Experience on Meloxicam

jefftk8 May 2022 0:30 UTC

9 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Resources On Mental Health And Finding A Therapist

lynettebye5 Jul 2021 7:54 UTC

20 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

The case for “mental strength”

VipulNaik7 Feb 2022 15:43 UTC

39 points

9 comments9 min readLW link

Apply for Productivity Coaching and AI Alignment Mentorship

Nick17 Jun 2022 21:36 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge

lukeprog20 Jan 2011 20:44 UTC

235 points

502 comments10 min readLW link

Clarifying the palatability theory of obesity

Matthew Barnett10 Feb 2022 19:16 UTC

88 points

19 comments10 min readLW link

Book review: Lost Connections by Johann Hari

maia20 Oct 2021 2:40 UTC

38 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

How to Become a Magician

Nicole Dieker21 Jan 2022 18:12 UTC

18 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

How to Lumenate (UK Edition)

chanamessinger13 Mar 2022 13:43 UTC

49 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Epistemic Spot Check: A Guide To Better Movement (Todd Hargrove)

Elizabeth1 Jul 2017 5:20 UTC

16 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Mental health benefits and downsides of psychedelic use in ACX readers: survey results

RationalElf25 Oct 2021 22:55 UTC

119 points

18 comments10 min readLW link

Nudging My Way Out Of The Intellectual Mosh Pit

Elizabeth15 Jan 2022 23:40 UTC

42 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Why Take Care Of Your Health?

MondSemmel6 Apr 2022 23:11 UTC

40 points

21 comments6 min readLW link

Cultivating Valiance

Shoshannah Tekofsky13 Aug 2022 18:47 UTC

35 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Should I treat pain differently if it’s “all in my head?”

jp5 Sep 2021 8:06 UTC

19 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Miscellaneous thoughts on handling a stressful life

VipulNaik5 Feb 2022 17:48 UTC

19 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

Entitlement as a major amplifier of unhappiness

VipulNaik8 Jun 2022 22:08 UTC

29 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

On Need-Sets

Marcello15 Aug 2020 23:25 UTC

48 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Bedbugs are a Solved Problem—DIY Bio-Weapon works.

sapphire30 Nov 2022 3:40 UTC

59 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the goal in life?

Konstantin Weitz18 Jun 2022 6:09 UTC

5 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

How to choose a massage therapist

mingyuan1 Mar 2020 6:53 UTC

21 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] How do I use caffeine optimally?

randomstring22 Jun 2022 17:59 UTC

18 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

How Long Can People Usefully Work?

lynettebye3 Apr 2020 21:35 UTC

154 points

8 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

My Terrible Experience with Terror

monkymind21 Apr 2022 17:58 UTC

6 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

3-bit filters

iivonen28 Apr 2022 11:55 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Working yourself ragged is not a virtue

So8res21 Jun 2015 3:00 UTC

24 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(mindingourway.com)

[Linkpost] Hormone-disrupting plastics and reproductive health

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel19 Oct 2021 11:01 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Book review: Happiness by Design

Richard_Ngo23 Sep 2018 4:30 UTC

12 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Recognizing and Dealing with Negative Automatic Thoughts

Shmi3 Mar 2022 20:41 UTC

28 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

Rest Days vs Recovery Days

Unreal19 Mar 2019 22:37 UTC

225 points

36 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Orexin and the quest for more waking hours

ChristianKl24 Sep 2022 19:54 UTC

131 points

39 comments5 min readLW link

Taking vitamin D3 with K2 in the morning

ChristianKl30 Nov 2018 19:00 UTC

54 points

47 comments4 min readLW link

Ineffective entrepreneurship: post-mortem of Hippo, the happiness app that never quite was

Elizabeth27 May 2018 23:03 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(effective-altruism.com)

Increasingly vague interpersonal welfare comparisons

MichaelStJules1 Feb 2024 6:45 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The Balance Between Hard Work and Exhaustion

Rossin17 Oct 2017 4:06 UTC

15 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

How to Support Someone Who is Struggling

David Zeller11 Mar 2023 18:52 UTC

76 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

Going Crazy and Getting Better Again

Evenstar2 Jul 2023 18:55 UTC

139 points

13 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

“AI Wellbeing” and the Ongoing Debate on Phenomenal Consciousness

FlorianH17 Aug 2023 15:47 UTC

10 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

Knowledge Base 3: Shopping advisor and other uses of knowledge base about products

iwis9 Oct 2023 11:53 UTC

0 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

How dangerous is it to ride a bicycle without a helmet?

habryka9 Mar 2019 2:58 UTC

34 points

30 comments4 min readLW link

AI alignment for mental health supports

hiki_t24 Feb 2025 4:21 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

6 non-obvious mental health issues specific to AI safety

Igor Ivanov18 Aug 2023 15:46 UTC

147 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

Sabbath hard and go home

Benquo27 Sep 2017 7:49 UTC

101 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

A Motorcycle (and Calibration?) Accident

boggler18 Mar 2018 22:21 UTC

25 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Quantified Health Prize results announced

Zvi19 Feb 2012 8:10 UTC

68 points

65 comments3 min readLW link

The Importance of Research

falenas1084 Apr 2011 22:08 UTC

31 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

We Don’t Just Let People Die—So What Next?

James Stephen Brown3 Aug 2024 1:04 UTC

11 points

8 comments10 min readLW link

Hope to live or fear to die?

Knight Lee27 Nov 2024 10:42 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A Step-by-step Guide to Finding a (Good!) Therapist

squidious18 Jul 2018 1:50 UTC

46 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

(opalsandbonobos.blogspot.com)

The Dumbification of our smart screens

Itay Dreyfus4 Jul 2024 6:32 UTC

18 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(productidentity.co)

My recommendations for gratitude exercises

MaxCarpendale5 Aug 2019 19:04 UTC

40 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

How to Be Happy

lukeprog17 Mar 2011 7:22 UTC

238 points

207 comments17 min readLW link

My simple hack for increased alertness and improved cognitive functioning: very bright light

chaosmage18 Jan 2013 13:43 UTC

96 points

130 comments2 min readLW link

Types of subjective welfare

MichaelStJules2 Feb 2024 9:56 UTC

10 points

3 comments18 min readLW link

On the nature of anxiety

mr_fahrenheit22 Feb 2021 23:56 UTC

0 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Experientialist Theories of Well-Being

andzuck19 Feb 2021 22:04 UTC

18 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Two Ways To Reduce Unhappiness That Comes From Distorted Views of Reality

Anne Hsu8 Jun 2023 17:43 UTC

3 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Gradations of moral weight

MichaelStJules29 Feb 2024 23:08 UTC

1 point

0 comments10 min readLW link

The glorious energy boost I’ve gotten by abstaining from coffee

Sameerishere7 May 2022 20:21 UTC

31 points

28 comments3 min readLW link

Be more effective by learning important practical knowledge using flashcards

Stenemo12 Oct 2022 18:05 UTC

5 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

How To Have Things Correctly

Alicorn17 Oct 2012 6:10 UTC

100 points

219 comments6 min readLW link

My Effortless Weightloss Story: A Quick Runthrough

CuoreDiVetro30 Sep 2023 23:02 UTC

124 points

78 comments9 min readLW link

Sequence overview: Welfare and moral weights

MichaelStJules15 Aug 2024 4:22 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Steampunk Aesthetic

Raemon8 Mar 2018 9:06 UTC

73 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Apr 2009 20:30 UTC

49 points

232 comments5 min readLW link

Experimenting with Android Digital Wellbeing

Yair Halberstadt21 Oct 2021 5:43 UTC

8 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Being Productive With Chronic Health Conditions

lynettebye5 Nov 2020 0:22 UTC

98 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Spend Money on Ergonomics

Kevin23 Dec 2011 6:40 UTC

82 points

212 comments5 min readLW link

How to avoid dying in a car crash

[deleted]17 Mar 2012 19:44 UTC

125 points

295 comments7 min readLW link

The National Dashboard and Human Progress

maxa15 Apr 2021 19:21 UTC

6 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

(max2c.com)

[Personal Experiment] One Year without Junk Media: Six-Month Update

lsusr18 Jun 2020 16:34 UTC

69 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Impending AGI doesn’t make everything else unimportant

Igor Ivanov4 Sep 2023 12:34 UTC

29 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

Fireplace Delusions [LINK]

mas3 Feb 2012 4:13 UTC

48 points

67 comments1 min readLW link

How to use bright light to improve your life.

Nat Martin18 Nov 2024 19:32 UTC

40 points

10 comments10 min readLW link

Rational Toothpaste: A Case Study

badger31 May 2012 0:31 UTC

129 points

60 comments6 min readLW link

Caring less

eukaryote13 Mar 2018 22:53 UTC

74 points

24 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

Lumenators for very lazy British people

shakeelh2 Dec 2022 0:18 UTC

16 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Recommendations for Recent Posts/Sequences on Instrumental Rationality?

Benjamin Hendricks26 Jan 2025 0:41 UTC

13 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Effective altruism in the garden of ends

Tyler Alterman14 Sep 2022 22:02 UTC

24 points

1 comment27 min readLW link

[Personal Experiment] One Year without Junk Media

lsusr14 Dec 2019 8:26 UTC

45 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Proposal for a Form of Conditional Supplemental Income (CSI) in a Post-Work World

sweenesm31 Jan 2025 1:00 UTC

7 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Happiness

complicated.world30 Mar 2024 2:18 UTC

−2 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(complicated.world)

From GDP to GHI: Why the AI Era Demands Virtuism

VirtueCraft23 Jun 2025 21:34 UTC

1 point

0 comments12 min readLW link

How to Build a Lumenator

Raemon12 Aug 2018 5:11 UTC

83 points

27 comments2 min readLW link

Knowledge Base 4: General applications

iwis16 Oct 2023 12:26 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Books Worthy of Integration

Roven Skyfal20 Feb 2022 8:03 UTC

15 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

How I Lost 100 Pounds Using TDT

Zvi14 Mar 2011 15:50 UTC

136 points

242 comments4 min readLW link

Akrasia and Shangri-La

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Apr 2009 20:53 UTC

53 points

97 comments2 min readLW link

Rational Health Optimization

jacob_cannell18 Sep 2010 19:47 UTC

23 points

78 comments8 min readLW link

Conscious Proprioception.

leggi4 Oct 2019 4:33 UTC

20 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

Fair Collective Efficient Altruism

Jobst Heitzig25 Nov 2022 9:38 UTC

2 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Solution to the two envelopes problem for moral weights

MichaelStJules19 Feb 2024 0:15 UTC

9 points

1 comment27 min readLW link

On akrasia: starting at the bottom

seecrow1 Aug 2022 4:08 UTC

37 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

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