Scott Alexander

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Toward A Bayesian Theory Of Willpower

Scott Alexander26 Mar 2021 2:33 UTC

91 points

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Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality

Scott Alexander12 Mar 2021 20:02 UTC

109 points

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Studies On Slack

Scott Alexander13 May 2020 5:00 UTC

126 points

27 comments24 min readLW link

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Confirmation Bias As Misfire Of Normal Bayesian Reasoning

Scott Alexander13 Feb 2020 7:20 UTC

41 points

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Map Of Effective Altruism

Scott Alexander3 Feb 2020 6:20 UTC

16 points

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Book Review: Human Compatible

Scott Alexander31 Jan 2020 5:20 UTC

75 points

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Assortative Mating And Autism

Scott Alexander28 Jan 2020 18:20 UTC

45 points

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SSC Meetups Everywhere Retrospective

Scott Alexander28 Nov 2019 19:10 UTC

32 points

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Mental Mountains

Scott Alexander27 Nov 2019 5:30 UTC

108 points

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Autism And Intelligence: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott Alexander14 Nov 2019 5:30 UTC

65 points

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Building Intuitions On Non-Empirical Arguments In Science

Scott Alexander7 Nov 2019 6:50 UTC

53 points

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Book Review: Ages Of Discord

Scott Alexander3 Sep 2019 6:30 UTC

33 points

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Book Review: Secular Cycles

Scott Alexander13 Aug 2019 4:10 UTC

60 points

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Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success

Scott Alexander5 Jun 2019 6:50 UTC

145 points

19 comments25 min readLW link 3 nominations 2 reviews

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1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled

Scott Alexander23 Apr 2019 1:30 UTC

93 points

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Rule Thinkers In, Not Out

Scott Alexander27 Feb 2019 2:40 UTC

142 points

59 comments4 min readLW link 3 nominations 4 reviews

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Book Review: The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions

Scott Alexander9 Jan 2019 7:10 UTC

95 points

30 comments19 min readLW link 2 nominations 1 review

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Bay Area SSC Meetup (special guest Steve Hsu)

Scott Alexander3 Jan 2019 3:02 UTC

27 points

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Is Science Slowing Down?

Scott Alexander27 Nov 2018 3:30 UTC

114 points

77 comments9 min readLW link

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Cognitive Enhancers: Mechanisms And Tradeoffs

Scott Alexander23 Oct 2018 18:40 UTC

41 points

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