Ben Pace(Ben)

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I’m an admin of this site; I work full-time on trying to help people on LessWrong refine the art of human rationality. (Longer bio.)

I generally feel more hopeful about a situation when I understand it better.

Sharing Information About Nonlinear

Ben Pace7 Sep 2023 6:51 UTC

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12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature’s laws

Ben Pace19 Feb 2022 23:39 UTC

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Replacing Karma with Good Heart Tokens (Worth $1!)

Ben Pace and habryka

1 Apr 2022 9:31 UTC

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Debate on Instrumental Convergence between LeCun, Russell, Bengio, Zador, and More

Ben Pace4 Oct 2019 4:08 UTC

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[Question] Coronavirus: Justified Practical Advice Thread

Ben Pace and Elizabeth

28 Feb 2020 6:43 UTC

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The Costly Coordination Mechanism of Common Knowledge

Ben Pace15 Mar 2018 20:20 UTC

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The LessWrong 2018 Book is Available for Pre-order

Ben Pace and jacobjacob

1 Dec 2020 8:00 UTC

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A Sketch of Good Communication

Ben Pace31 Mar 2018 22:48 UTC

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A report about LessWrong karma volatility from a different universe

Ben Pace1 Apr 2023 21:48 UTC

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Book Launch: The Engines of Cognition

Ben Pace21 Dec 2021 7:24 UTC

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I’m from a parallel Earth with much higher coordination: AMA

Ben Pace and Eliezer Yudkowsky

5 Apr 2021 22:09 UTC

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Vote on Interesting Disagreements

Ben Pace7 Nov 2023 21:35 UTC

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Announcing Dialogues

Ben Pace7 Oct 2023 2:57 UTC

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A Key Power of the President is to Coordinate the Execution of Existing Concrete Plans

Ben Pace16 Jul 2019 5:06 UTC

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LessWrong Has Agree/Disagree Voting On All New Comment Threads

Ben Pace24 Jun 2022 0:43 UTC

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Announcing the LessWrong Curated Podcast

Ben Pace and Solenoid_Entity

22 Jun 2022 22:16 UTC

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Honoring Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2019

Ben Pace26 Sep 2019 9:10 UTC

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2018 Review: Voting Results!

Ben Pace24 Jan 2020 2:00 UTC

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Why We Launched LessWrong.SubStack

Ben Pace1 Apr 2021 6:34 UTC

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DontDoxScottAlexander.com—A Petition

Ben Pace, jacobjacob and Rob Bensinger

25 Jun 2020 5:44 UTC

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