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Scott Alexander

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Eight Short Stud­ies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC
791 points
250 comments10 min readLW link

Schel­ling fences on slip­pery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC
568 points
250 comments6 min readLW link

Diseased think­ing: dis­solv­ing ques­tions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC
515 points
357 comments9 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­iz­ing From One Example

Scott Alexander28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC
430 points
422 comments6 min readLW link

The non­cen­tral fal­lacy—the worst ar­gu­ment in the world?

Scott Alexander27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC
407 points
1,768 comments7 min readLW link

In­tel­lec­tual Hip­sters and Meta-Contrarianism

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

The Blue-Min­i­miz­ing Robot

Scott Alexander4 Jul 2011 22:26 UTC
322 points
161 comments4 min readLW link

The Least Con­ve­nient Pos­si­ble World

Scott Alexander14 Mar 2009 2:11 UTC
294 points
203 comments5 min readLW link

The Apol­o­gist and the Revolutionary

Scott Alexander11 Mar 2009 21:39 UTC
250 points
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Be­ware Triv­ial Inconveniences

Scott Alexander6 May 2009 22:04 UTC
245 points
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Ex­treme Ra­tion­al­ity: It’s Not That Great

Scott Alexander9 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC
242 points
281 comments8 min readLW link

Con­fi­dence lev­els in­side and out­side an argument

Scott Alexander16 Dec 2010 3:06 UTC
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192 comments6 min readLW link

Rule Thinkers In, Not Out

Scott Alexander27 Feb 2019 2:40 UTC
221 points
67 comments4 min readLW link4 reviews
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…And I Show You How Deep The Rab­bit Hole Goes

Scott Alexander3 Jun 2015 1:47 UTC
220 points
15 comments21 min readLW link

Effi­cient Char­ity: Do Unto Others...

Scott Alexander24 Dec 2010 21:26 UTC
205 points
322 comments6 min readLW link

Talk­ing Snakes: A Cau­tion­ary Tale

Scott Alexander13 Mar 2009 1:41 UTC
185 points
232 comments3 min readLW link

A Parable On Ob­so­lete Ideologies

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

Are wire­heads happy?

Scott Alexander1 Jan 2010 16:41 UTC
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109 comments5 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tions On Moloch

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

Alexan­der and Yud­kowsky on AGI goals

Scott Alexander and Eliezer Yudkowsky
24 Jan 2023 21:09 UTC
174 points
52 comments26 min readLW link