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Emotions

TagLast edit: 16 Oct 2024 15:20 UTC by lesswronguser123

Contrary to the stereotype, rationality doesn’t mean denying emotion. When emotion is appropriate to the reality of the situation, it should be embraced; only when emotion isn’t appropriate should it be suppressed.

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See also

How to Ig­nore Your Emo­tions (while also think­ing you’re awe­some at emo­tions)

Hazard31 Jul 2019 13:34 UTC
359 points
77 comments4 min readLW link4 reviews

Four fac­tors that mod­er­ate the in­ten­sity of emotions

Ruby24 Nov 2018 20:40 UTC
62 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

Neu­ral An­neal­ing: Toward a Neu­ral The­ory of Every­thing (cross­post)

Michael Edward Johnson29 Nov 2019 17:31 UTC
86 points
29 comments40 min readLW link3 reviews

Three ways CFAR has changed my view of rationality

Julia_Galef10 Sep 2013 18:24 UTC
172 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

Men­tal Mountains

Scott Alexander27 Nov 2019 5:30 UTC
150 points
14 comments15 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

Be­ing at peace with Doom

Johannes C. Mayer9 Apr 2023 14:53 UTC
24 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Book sum­mary: Un­lock­ing the Emo­tional Brain

Kaj_Sotala8 Oct 2019 19:11 UTC
326 points
48 comments21 min readLW link3 reviews

I learn bet­ter when I frame learn­ing as Vengeance for losses in­curred through ig­no­rance, and you might too

chaosmage15 Oct 2022 12:41 UTC
81 points
9 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Limer­ence Messes Up Your Ra­tion­al­ity Real Bad, Yo

Raemon1 Jul 2022 16:53 UTC
125 points
42 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

Ureshiku Naritai

Alicorn8 Apr 2010 20:08 UTC
233 points
157 comments6 min readLW link

Build­ing up to an In­ter­nal Fam­ily Sys­tems model

Kaj_Sotala26 Jan 2019 12:25 UTC
281 points
86 comments28 min readLW link2 reviews

Anger

lsusr18 Apr 2021 16:14 UTC
35 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Re­solv­ing in­ter­nal con­flicts re­quires listen­ing to what parts want

Richard_Ngo19 May 2023 0:04 UTC
61 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Self-sac­ri­fice is a scarce resource

mingyuan28 Jun 2020 5:08 UTC
129 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Lonelinesses

Jacob Falkovich31 May 2019 13:55 UTC
53 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Ugh fields

Roko12 Apr 2010 17:06 UTC
401 points
81 comments3 min readLW link

Emo­tions = Re­ward Functions

jpyykko20 Jan 2022 18:46 UTC
16 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Feel­ing Rational

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Apr 2007 4:48 UTC
296 points
86 comments3 min readLW link

Avoid mis­in­ter­pret­ing your emotions

Kaj_Sotala14 Feb 2012 23:51 UTC
92 points
31 comments7 min readLW link

Don’t feel bad about not know­ing ba­sic things

Adam Zerner24 May 2021 1:49 UTC
89 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

My “2.9 trauma limit”

Raemon1 Jul 2023 19:32 UTC
192 points
31 comments7 min readLW link

The art of griev­ing well

Valentine15 Dec 2015 19:55 UTC
106 points
23 comments9 min readLW link

“She Wanted It”

sarahconstantin11 Nov 2018 22:00 UTC
120 points
21 comments7 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

How feel­ing more se­cure feels differ­ent than I expected

Kaj_Sotala17 Sep 2021 9:20 UTC
83 points
15 comments3 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

In­side View, Out­side View… And Op­pos­ing View

chaosmage20 Dec 2023 12:35 UTC
21 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Notes on Awe

David Gross4 Mar 2024 20:23 UTC
20 points
1 comment33 min readLW link

Manag­ing Emo­tional Po­ten­tial Energy

adamShimi10 Jul 2024 18:20 UTC
23 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

Bound­less Emotion

GG1016 Jul 2024 16:36 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

What is it like to be psy­cholog­i­cally healthy? Pod­cast ft. DaystarEld

5 Oct 2024 19:14 UTC
31 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(chrislakin.blog)

What are Emo­tions?

Myles H15 Nov 2024 4:20 UTC
4 points
13 comments8 min readLW link

Good­hart’s Law in­side the hu­man mind

Kaj_Sotala17 Apr 2023 13:48 UTC
117 points
13 comments16 min readLW link

Re­in­force­ment Via Giv­ing Peo­ple Cookies

Screwtape15 Nov 2023 4:34 UTC
66 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

Us­ing hu­mil­ity to coun­ter­act shame

Vika15 Apr 2016 18:32 UTC
21 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Nav­i­gat­ing emo­tions in an un­cer­tain & con­fus­ing world

Akash20 Nov 2023 18:16 UTC
42 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tive cod­ing & depression

Steven Byrnes3 Jan 2020 2:38 UTC
27 points
9 comments7 min readLW link

The Great Annealing

Jacob Falkovich30 Mar 2020 1:08 UTC
79 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Heal­ing vs. ex­er­cise analo­gies for emo­tional work

Kaj_Sotala27 Jan 2020 19:10 UTC
48 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

18-month fol­low-up on my self-con­cept work

Kaj_Sotala18 Dec 2018 17:40 UTC
62 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Ten­ta­tively con­sid­er­ing emo­tional sto­ries (IFS and “get­ting into Self”)

Kaj_Sotala30 Nov 2018 7:40 UTC
40 points
31 comments4 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

On in­se­cu­rity as a friend

Kaj_Sotala9 Oct 2018 18:30 UTC
42 points
17 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Book re­view: The Up­side of Your Dark Side: Why Be­ing Your Whole Self–Not Just Your “Good” Self–Drives Suc­cess and Fulfillment

Kaj_Sotala4 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC
10 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Are Deon­tolog­i­cal Mo­ral Judg­ments Ra­tion­al­iza­tions?

lukeprog16 Aug 2011 16:40 UTC
52 points
170 comments11 min readLW link

Anx­iety and Rationality

[deleted]19 Jan 2016 18:30 UTC
51 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

The Skill of Notic­ing Emotions

Neel Nanda4 Jun 2020 17:48 UTC
78 points
6 comments17 min readLW link

Subagents, trauma and rationality

Kaj_Sotala14 Aug 2019 13:14 UTC
111 points
4 comments19 min readLW link

Your in­tu­itions are not magic

Kaj_Sotala10 Jun 2010 0:11 UTC
163 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 23 Jan 2012 23:50 UTC
253 points
240 comments10 min readLW link

How I [Kaj] found & fixed the root prob­lem be­hind my de­pres­sion and anx­iety af­ter 20+ years

Kaj_Sotala26 Jul 2017 12:56 UTC
23 points
21 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

You can be wrong about what you like, and you of­ten are

Adam Zerner17 Dec 2018 23:49 UTC
30 points
21 comments4 min readLW link

Most peo­ple should prob­a­bly feel safe most of the time

Kaj_Sotala9 May 2023 9:35 UTC
95 points
28 comments10 min readLW link

Emo­tional reg­u­la­tion, Part I: a prob­lem summary

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 5 Mar 2012 23:10 UTC
17 points
38 comments5 min readLW link

Emo­tional reg­u­la­tion Part II: re­search summary

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 19 Mar 2012 21:51 UTC
35 points
40 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] How should one feel morally about us­ing chat­bots?

Adam Zerner11 May 2023 1:01 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

How I ap­ply (so-called) Non-Violent Communication

Kaj_Sotala15 May 2023 9:56 UTC
84 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

Con­flicts be­tween emo­tional schemas of­ten in­volve in­ter­nal coercion

Richard_Ngo17 May 2023 10:02 UTC
40 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Co­er­cion is an adap­ta­tion to scarcity; trust is an adap­ta­tion to abundance

Richard_Ngo23 May 2023 18:14 UTC
90 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Re­sist the Happy Death Spiral

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Dec 2007 1:15 UTC
90 points
46 comments6 min readLW link

Affec­tive Death Spirals

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Dec 2007 16:44 UTC
105 points
46 comments2 min readLW link

Sta­tus Reg­u­la­tion and Anx­ious Underconfidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Nov 2017 19:35 UTC
83 points
18 comments21 min readLW link

Self-con­scious­ness wants to make ev­ery­thing about itself

jessicata3 Jul 2019 1:44 UTC
44 points
70 comments6 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Joy in Discovery

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Mar 2008 1:19 UTC
83 points
48 comments4 min readLW link

Let­ting Others Be Vulnerable

lifelonglearner19 Nov 2018 2:59 UTC
33 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Don’t waste your time med­i­tat­ing on med­i­ta­tion re­treats!

EternallyBlissful1 Jun 2023 16:56 UTC
23 points
7 comments11 min readLW link

Leave an Emo­tional Line of Retreat

Johannes C. Mayer8 Jun 2023 18:36 UTC
23 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Strate­gies for deal­ing with emo­tional nihilism

[deleted]10 Oct 2010 13:31 UTC
39 points
175 comments4 min readLW link

Prac­ti­cal Guidelines for Me­mory Reconsolidation

Matt Goldenberg13 Nov 2019 19:54 UTC
34 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Lisa Feld­man Bar­rett ver­sus Paul Ek­man on fa­cial ex­pres­sions & ba­sic emotions

Steven Byrnes19 Jul 2023 14:26 UTC
30 points
15 comments15 min readLW link

Things are al­lowed to be good and bad at the same time

Kaj_Sotala17 Oct 2020 8:00 UTC
52 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Me­mory re­con­soli­da­tion for self-affection

Kaj_Sotala27 Oct 2020 10:10 UTC
52 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

On be­ing downvoted

Adam Zerner17 Sep 2023 1:59 UTC
27 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

You should just smile at strangers a lot

chaosmage25 Sep 2023 20:12 UTC
13 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

A work­shop on Life Influences

Elo10 Jan 2021 11:23 UTC
8 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Homeo­static Bruce

matejsuchy8 Apr 2021 19:13 UTC
13 points
8 comments10 min readLW link
(matejsuchy.substack.com)

Prepar­ing for ambition

Adam Zerner19 Jul 2021 6:13 UTC
19 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

A Primer on the Sym­me­try The­ory of Valence

Michael Edward Johnson6 Sep 2021 11:39 UTC
22 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Emo­tion­ally Con­fronting a Prob­a­bly-Doomed World: Against Mo­ti­va­tion Via Dig­nity Points

TurnTrout10 Apr 2022 18:45 UTC
153 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

Notes on Love

David Gross13 Jul 2022 23:35 UTC
18 points
3 comments29 min readLW link

The biolog­i­cal func­tion of love for non-kin is to gain the trust of peo­ple we can­not deceive

chaosmage7 Nov 2022 20:26 UTC
43 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Rus­sell Con­ju­ga­tions list & vot­ing thread

Daniel Kokotajlo20 Feb 2023 6:39 UTC
22 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

Feel­ings are Good, Actually

Gordon Seidoh Worley21 Feb 2023 2:38 UTC
18 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Here, have a calm­ness video

Kaj_Sotala16 Mar 2023 10:00 UTC
111 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Notes on Empathy

David Gross3 May 2022 4:06 UTC
27 points
2 comments56 min readLW link

Ac­tive vs Pas­sive Distraction

squidious14 Feb 2018 22:14 UTC
26 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

In­stead of “I’m anx­ious,” try “I feel threat­ened”

Holly_Elmore28 Jun 2019 5:24 UTC
56 points
19 comments2 min readLW link
(mhollyelmoreblog.wordpress.com)

On say­ing “Thank you” in­stead of “I’m Sorry”

Michael Cohn8 Jul 2024 3:13 UTC
130 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

A Cau­tion­ary Note on Un­lock­ing the Emo­tional Brain

eapache8 Feb 2020 17:21 UTC
54 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial Angst Factory

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Jul 2008 6:55 UTC
77 points
100 comments4 min readLW link

Pos­i­tive Thinking

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 7 Mar 2011 1:03 UTC
28 points
283 comments5 min readLW link

My recom­men­da­tions for grat­i­tude exercises

MaxCarpendale5 Aug 2019 19:04 UTC
40 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

I’m scared.

Mass_Driver23 Dec 2010 9:05 UTC
56 points
81 comments1 min readLW link

The Best Text­books on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC
746 points
411 comments7 min readLW link

Im­pos­tor syn­drome: how to cure it with spread­sheets and med­i­ta­tion

KatWoods9 Feb 2023 21:04 UTC
30 points
2 comments19 min readLW link

Im­ple­ment­ing the Se­cond Virtue: Feel the Emo­tions Which Fit the Facts

LukeOnline9 May 2021 5:47 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Diffus­ing “I can’t be that stupid”

Hazard24 Mar 2018 14:49 UTC
23 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What’s up with self-es­teem?

abramdemski25 Jun 2019 3:38 UTC
39 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Good­hart’s Law and Emotions

Zero Contradictions7 Jul 2024 8:32 UTC
1 point
5 comments1 min readLW link
(expandingrationality.substack.com)

It’s okay to be (at least a lit­tle) irrational

Kaj_Sotala12 Apr 2009 21:06 UTC
61 points
59 comments2 min readLW link

Fake Reductionism

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Mar 2008 22:49 UTC
93 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

Kiss­ing Scars

Logan Riggs9 May 2019 16:00 UTC
39 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the most com­mon so­cial in­se­cu­ri­ties?

Chipmonk16 Jan 2024 17:24 UTC
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Re­plac­ing Guilt audiobook

gianlucatruda25 Jun 2021 13:38 UTC
65 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Why I Believe LLMs Do Not Have Hu­man-like Emotions

OneManyNone22 May 2023 15:46 UTC
13 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Feel­ing (in­stru­men­tally) Rational

Morphism16 May 2024 18:56 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Magic is Dead, Give me Attention

Hazard10 Jul 2019 20:15 UTC
40 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Sto­icism: Cau­tion­ary Advice

VivaLaPanda14 Nov 2018 23:18 UTC
40 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Mor­pholog­i­cal in­tel­li­gence, su­per­hu­man em­pa­thy, and eth­i­cal arbitration

Roman Leventov13 Feb 2023 10:25 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Be­ware Triv­ial Fears

Stabilizer4 Feb 2014 5:40 UTC
63 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

Shame: Authen­tic & Ap­plied/​Man­u­fac­tured Shame

Phoenix Eliot18 Aug 2021 21:37 UTC
9 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

On Frus­tra­tion and Regret

silentbob27 Feb 2024 12:19 UTC
8 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Emo­tional microscope

pchvykov20 Sep 2021 21:37 UTC
3 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Ten­ta­tive Anger

Adam Zerner27 Nov 2021 4:38 UTC
18 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Strate­gies and tools for get­ting through a break up

lululu18 May 2015 18:01 UTC
62 points
45 comments11 min readLW link

“Me­mento Mori”, Said The Confessor

namespace2 Feb 2020 3:37 UTC
34 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Self-ad­ministered EMDR with­out a ther­a­pist is very use­ful for a lot of things!

EternallyBlissful25 May 2023 17:54 UTC
49 points
12 comments11 min readLW link

How to Pro­mote More Pro­duc­tive Dialogue Out­side of LessWrong

sweenesm15 Jan 2024 14:16 UTC
16 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

How I in­ter­nal­ized my achieve­ments to bet­ter deal with nega­tive feelings

Raymond Koopmanschap27 Feb 2024 15:10 UTC
42 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

EU Max­i­miz­ing in a Gloomy World

David Udell27 Apr 2022 0:28 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing to Learn and Nav­i­gat­ing Moods

calebo21 Jul 2019 15:53 UTC
22 points
13 comments11 min readLW link

The “Adults in the Room”

David Udell17 May 2022 4:03 UTC
50 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Don’t Get Offended

katydee7 Mar 2013 2:11 UTC
41 points
584 comments2 min readLW link

Chap­ter 2: Your Wendy

SashaWu4 Mar 2024 3:22 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

De­sire is the di­rec­tion, ra­tio­nal­ity is the magnitude

So8res5 Apr 2015 17:27 UTC
35 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Ac­knowl­edg­ing Ra­tion­al­ist Angst

Hazard6 Nov 2017 5:26 UTC
10 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Emo­tions are not beliefs

Chris_Leong7 Aug 2019 6:27 UTC
25 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Effec­tively Han­dling Disagree­ments—In­tro­duc­ing a New Workshop

Camille Berger 15 Apr 2024 16:33 UTC
37 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

The Power to Be Emo­tion­ally Mature

Liron16 Sep 2019 2:41 UTC
34 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

“And that’s okay”: ac­cept­ing and own­ing reality

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 27 Jul 2014 19:13 UTC
39 points
21 comments7 min readLW link

On Emo­tional Re­spon­si­bil­ity & Abuse

devas24 Apr 2018 12:50 UTC
10 points
8 comments3 min readLW link
(landofwindandskyscrapers.tumblr.com)

AGI will know: Hu­mans are not Rational

HumaneAutomation20 Mar 2023 18:46 UTC
0 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion: So­cially Awk­ward Pen­guin as a tool for un­rav­el­ing so­cial enigmas

Raw_Power17 Jun 2011 0:52 UTC
31 points
102 comments1 min readLW link

Why Truth?

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Nov 2006 1:49 UTC
168 points
61 comments3 min readLW link

A Word is Worth 1,000 Pictures

Kully1 Aug 2022 4:08 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Co­her­ence Ther­apy with LLMs—quick demo

Chipmonk14 Aug 2023 3:34 UTC
19 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Ac­cep­tance and Com­mit­ment Ther­apy (ACT) 101

Evie Cottrell25 Sep 2022 7:25 UTC
7 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

The Com­edy of Behaviorism

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Aug 2008 20:42 UTC
32 points
57 comments6 min readLW link

The Post-Vir­tual-Real­ity Sadness

morganism16 Nov 2016 8:17 UTC
13 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Pu­tanu­monit—Dis­card­ing em­pa­thy to save the world

Jacob Falkovich6 Oct 2016 7:03 UTC
14 points
38 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

How to Con­trol an LLM’s Be­hav­ior (why my P(DOOM) went down)

RogerDearnaley28 Nov 2023 19:56 UTC
64 points
30 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] 3-P Group op­ti­mal for dis­cus­sion?

AiresJL13 Jul 2020 22:23 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Great Em­pa­thy and Great Re­sponse Ability

positivesum13 Nov 2023 23:04 UTC
16 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(tryingtruly.substack.com)

No­body Is Perfect, Every­thing Is Commensurable

Scott Alexander19 Dec 2014 5:00 UTC
42 points
4 comments11 min readLW link

“Self-pre­tend­ing” is not as use­ful as we think

pwno25 Apr 2009 23:01 UTC
4 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

How to re­spond to the re­cent con­dem­na­tions of the ra­tio­nal­ist community

Christopher King4 Apr 2023 1:42 UTC
−2 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

De­con­fus­ing Regret

Alex Hollow15 Sep 2023 11:52 UTC
40 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

The Per­sonal Im­pli­ca­tions of AGI Realism

xizneb20 Oct 2024 16:43 UTC
7 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Sig­nal­ing Guilt

Krieger8 Oct 2022 20:40 UTC
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Fam­ily and Society

Zero Contradictions28 Jul 2024 7:05 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Let’s talk about Im­pos­tor syn­drome in AI safety

Igor Ivanov22 Sep 2023 13:51 UTC
29 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Learn­ing from counterfactuals

Gyrodiot25 Nov 2020 23:07 UTC
11 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Why You Might Want a New Way to Vi­su­al­ize Biases

dtm27 Jul 2020 17:30 UTC
18 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Pay-on-re­sults per­sonal growth: first success

Chipmonk14 Sep 2024 3:39 UTC
62 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(chrislakin.blog)

Choose To Be Happy

DanArmak1 Jan 2011 22:50 UTC
29 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

Fight­ing the al­lure of de­pres­sive realism

aaq10 Feb 2019 16:46 UTC
19 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Paper Trauma

Qiaochu_Yuan31 Jan 2018 22:05 UTC
74 points
63 comments1 min readLW link

Misery Pits

Alicorn10 Mar 2018 23:50 UTC
47 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Is Rhetoric Worth Learn­ing?

sarahconstantin6 Apr 2018 22:03 UTC
66 points
56 comments2 min readLW link

Car­ing less

eukaryote13 Mar 2018 22:53 UTC
72 points
24 comments4 min readLW link3 reviews

If You De­mand Magic, Magic Won’t Help

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Mar 2008 18:10 UTC
183 points
133 comments4 min readLW link

The Power of Reinforcement

lukeprog21 Jun 2012 13:42 UTC
172 points
474 comments4 min readLW link

The Curse Of The Counterfactual

pjeby1 Nov 2019 18:34 UTC
137 points
34 comments19 min readLW link1 review

Joy in the Merely Real

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Mar 2008 6:18 UTC
171 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

The prob­lem with too many ra­tio­nal memes

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 19 Jan 2012 0:56 UTC
121 points
342 comments3 min readLW link

The scourge of per­verse-mindedness

simplicio21 Mar 2010 7:08 UTC
131 points
255 comments5 min readLW link

Shut Up and Divide?

Wei Dai9 Feb 2010 20:09 UTC
114 points
276 comments1 min readLW link

How To Have Things Correctly

Alicorn17 Oct 2012 6:10 UTC
101 points
219 comments6 min readLW link

Be­ware So­cial Cop­ing Strategies

Lulie5 Feb 2018 4:48 UTC
51 points
24 comments7 min readLW link

Wron­gol­ogy 101

sarahconstantin25 Apr 2018 0:00 UTC
32 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Guilt: Another Gift No­body Wants

Scott Alexander31 Mar 2011 0:27 UTC
102 points
103 comments8 min readLW link

Cal­ibrate your self-assessments

Scott Alexander9 Oct 2011 23:26 UTC
102 points
122 comments6 min readLW link

Have you felt ex­iert yet?

Stuart_Armstrong5 Jan 2018 17:03 UTC
28 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

A Suite of Prag­matic Con­sid­er­a­tions in Fa­vor of Niceness

Alicorn5 Jan 2010 21:32 UTC
114 points
198 comments3 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing aver­sion and habit strength

Academian27 May 2011 1:05 UTC
111 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Spock’s Dirty Lit­tle Secret

pjeby25 Mar 2009 19:07 UTC
60 points
71 comments7 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ing vs. Ex­plain­ing Away

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Mar 2008 1:59 UTC
109 points
101 comments4 min readLW link

New Im­proved Lottery

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Apr 2007 23:42 UTC
120 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

Why startup founders have mood swings (and why they may have uses)

AnnaSalamon9 Dec 2015 18:59 UTC
99 points
20 comments5 min readLW link