Hazard

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You Are Here: Historical Context for Unprecedented Times

Hazard28 Jan 2026 20:13 UTC

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Money Can’t Buy the Smile on a Child’s Face As They Look at A Beautiful Sunset… but it also can’t buy a malaria free world: my current understanding of how Effective Altruism has failed

Hazard20 Jan 2026 23:28 UTC

70 points

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Parasitic Language Games: maintaining ambiguity to hide conflict while burning the commons

Hazard12 Mar 2023 5:25 UTC

116 points

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Causal vs Predictive Models, and the Causal Taboo

Hazard18 Oct 2021 15:05 UTC

22 points

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Predictive Categories Make Bad Causal Variables

Hazard18 Oct 2021 15:02 UTC

28 points

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When Arguing Definitions is Arguing Decisions

Hazard25 Jul 2021 16:45 UTC

28 points

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[Question] What does flow feel like for “mental activities”?

Hazard5 Feb 2021 14:33 UTC

9 points

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How to Absorb a Shared Success Script (while also thinking you’re living without one)

Hazard31 Jan 2021 20:17 UTC

62 points

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How webs of meaning grow and change

Hazard14 Aug 2020 13:58 UTC

14 points

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Gödel’s Legacy: A game without end

Hazard28 Jun 2020 18:50 UTC

45 points

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Neural Basis for Global Workspace Theory

Hazard22 Jun 2020 4:19 UTC

31 points

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Research snap-shot: question about Global Workspace Theory

Hazard15 Jun 2020 21:00 UTC

21 points

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The “hard” problem of consciousness is the least interesting problem of consciousness

Hazard8 Jun 2020 19:00 UTC

15 points

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Legibility: Notes on “Man as a Rationalist Animal”

Hazard8 Jun 2020 2:18 UTC

13 points

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Consciousness as Metaphor: What Jaynes Has to Offer

Hazard7 Jun 2020 18:41 UTC

15 points

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[Question] Finding a quote: “proof by contradiction is the closest math comes to irony”

Hazard26 Dec 2019 17:40 UTC

8 points

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ToL: Methods and Success

Hazard10 Dec 2019 21:17 UTC

8 points

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ToL: This ONE WEIRD Trick to make you a GENIUS at Topology!

Hazard10 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC

10 points

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ToL: The Topological Connection

Hazard10 Dec 2019 20:29 UTC

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ToL: Introduction

Hazard10 Dec 2019 20:19 UTC

12 points

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