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Don’t judge a skill by its specialists

AcademianSep 26, 2010, 8:56 PM
78 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

What Money Can­not Buy

johnswentworthFeb 1, 2020, 8:11 PM
348 points
53 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Epistemic Spot Check: The Role of De­liber­ate Prac­tice in the Ac­qui­si­tion of Ex­pert Performance

ElizabethJun 25, 2019, 11:00 PM
81 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Hero Licensing

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 21, 2017, 9:13 PM
241 points
83 comments52 min readLW link

Author­i­ties and Amateurs

jefftkMar 25, 2020, 3:40 AM
146 points
30 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(www.jefftk.com)

How to Learn from Experts

SatvikBeriOct 4, 2013, 5:02 PM
57 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Eval­u­at­ing ex­per­tise: a clear box model

JustinShovelainOct 15, 2020, 2:18 PM
36 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

When Money Is Abun­dant, Knowl­edge Is The Real Wealth

johnswentworthNov 3, 2020, 5:34 PM
343 points
61 comments5 min readLW link3 reviews

What Are You Track­ing In Your Head?

johnswentworthJun 28, 2022, 7:30 PM
287 points
83 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Do­minic Cum­mings: “we’re hiring data sci­en­tists, pro­ject man­agers, policy ex­perts, as­sorted weirdos”

ESRogsJan 3, 2020, 12:33 AM
80 points
57 comments4 min readLW link
(dominiccummings.com)

Ju­lia Galef and Matt Ygle­sias on bioethics and “ethics ex­per­tise”

Rob BensingerMar 30, 2021, 3:06 AM
45 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Don’t feel bad about not know­ing ba­sic things

Adam ZernerMay 24, 2021, 1:49 AM
90 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

Against Con­flat­ing Ex­per­tise: Dist­in­guish­ing AI Devel­op­ment from AI Im­pli­ca­tion Analysis

RatiosMay 31, 2023, 9:50 AM
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion-based-Medicine in­stead of E̵v̵i̵d̵e̵n̵c̵e̵ ̵b̵a̵s̵e̵d̵ ̵M̵e̵d̵i̵c̵i̵n̵e̵ Author­ity-based-Medicine

ChristianKlJul 30, 2021, 10:42 AM
11 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Could you have stopped Ch­er­nobyl?

Carlos RamirezAug 27, 2021, 1:48 AM
29 points
17 comments8 min readLW link

Mun­dane, sharp, crazy

NyeogmiFeb 28, 2022, 8:02 PM
14 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Re: So You Want to Be a Dharma Teacher

lsusrApr 23, 2022, 10:31 PM
30 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(hardcorezen.info)

Book Re­view: Talent

ZviJun 3, 2022, 8:10 PM
70 points
19 comments79 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Epistemic mod­esty and how I think about AI risk

Aryeh EnglanderJun 27, 2022, 6:47 PM
22 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

On In­ves­ti­gat­ing Con­spir­acy Theories

ZviFeb 20, 2023, 12:50 PM
116 points
38 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How Emer­gency Medicine Solves the Align­ment Problem

StrivingForLegibilityDec 26, 2023, 5:24 AM
41 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

How defer­en­tial should we be to the fore­casts of sub­ject mat­ter ex­perts?

VipulNaikJul 14, 2014, 11:41 PM
22 points
5 comments10 min readLW link

You don’t know how bad most things are nor pre­cisely how they’re bad.

Solenoid_EntityAug 4, 2024, 2:12 PM
324 points
49 comments5 min readLW link

Fight the Power

Jacob FalkovichJun 22, 2020, 2:19 AM
23 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Com­pe­tent Elites

Eliezer YudkowskySep 27, 2008, 12:07 AM
133 points
112 comments8 min readLW link

Trust the (lo­cal) expert

rkApr 9, 2018, 10:22 AM
14 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

Lay­ers of Ex­per­tise and the Curse of Curiosity

GyrodiotFeb 12, 2019, 11:41 PM
19 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Ex­per­tise Exchange

ChristianKlMar 14, 2018, 6:04 PM
21 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Moloch’s Toolbox (1/​2)

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 4, 2017, 9:46 PM
154 points
70 comments33 min readLW link

The Epistemic Author­ity of Deep Learn­ing Pioneers

Dylan BowmanAug 29, 2023, 6:14 PM
8 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

List of civil­i­sa­tional inadequacy

ChristianKlNov 23, 2017, 1:56 PM
36 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Ten Com­mand­ments for Aspiring Superforecasters

Evan_GaensbauerApr 25, 2018, 4:55 AM
29 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Who are the Ex­perts on Cry­on­ics?

Mati_RoyMay 27, 2023, 7:24 PM
30 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(biostasis.substack.com)

Ra­tion­al­ism and so­cial rationalism

philosophybearMar 10, 2023, 11:20 PM
17 points
5 comments10 min readLW link
(philosophybear.substack.com)

[Link/​cross­post] [US] NTIA: AI Ac­countabil­ity Policy Re­quest for Comment

Kyle J. LuccheseApr 16, 2023, 6:57 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Li­tany of a Bright Dilettante

ShmiApr 18, 2013, 5:06 AM
89 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

Teach­ing the Unteachable

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 3, 2009, 11:14 PM
55 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

Is there a Con­nec­tion Between Great­ness in Math and Philos­o­phy?

Scott GarrabrantMar 3, 2018, 11:25 PM
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Hu­man perfor­mance, psy­chom­e­try, and base­ball statistics

Craig_HeldrethOct 15, 2010, 1:13 PM
33 points
21 comments6 min readLW link

Un­teach­able Excellence

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 2, 2009, 3:33 PM
48 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

Above-Aver­age AI Scientists

Eliezer YudkowskySep 28, 2008, 11:04 AM
69 points
96 comments8 min readLW link

The mas­ter skill of match­ing map and territory

Rafael HarthMar 27, 2018, 12:06 PM
14 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pert trap: What is it? (Part 1 of 3) – how hind­sight, hi­er­ar­chy, and con­fir­ma­tion bi­ases break con­duc­tivity and ac­cu­racy of knowledge

Paweł SysiakJun 9, 2023, 11:00 PM
6 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Will the world’s elites nav­i­gate the cre­ation of AI just fine?

lukeprogMay 31, 2013, 6:49 PM
36 points
266 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­pert trap: Why is it hap­pen­ing? (Part 2 of 3) – how hind­sight, hi­er­ar­chy, and con­fir­ma­tion bi­ases break con­duc­tivity and ac­cu­racy of knowledge

Paweł SysiakJun 9, 2023, 11:00 PM
3 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Trust­ing Ex­pert Consensus

ChrisHallquistOct 16, 2013, 8:22 PM
41 points
81 comments17 min readLW link

The Prob­lem of “Win-More”

katydeeMar 26, 2014, 6:32 PM
40 points
58 comments1 min readLW link

The Paucity of Elites Online

JonahSMay 31, 2013, 1:35 AM
40 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

Aca­demic Cliques

ChrisHallquistNov 8, 2013, 4:27 AM
35 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pert trap – Ways out (Part 3 of 3)

Paweł SysiakJul 22, 2023, 1:06 PM
4 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Great Math­e­mat­i­ci­ans on Math Com­pe­ti­tions and “Ge­nius”

multifoliateroseOct 11, 2010, 11:50 AM
33 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

Cause Aware­ness as a Fac­tor against Cause Neutrality

DarmaniAug 13, 2018, 8:00 PM
39 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

en­ergy land­scapes of experts

bhauthOct 2, 2023, 2:08 PM
45 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

Near and far skills

cousin_itOct 19, 2009, 1:16 PM
23 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

The 10,000-Hour Rule is a myth

lynettebyeFeb 1, 2021, 4:47 AM
52 points
25 comments6 min readLW link

Why I Am Not in Charge

ZviFeb 7, 2021, 6:20 PM
145 points
23 comments25 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Link] Thick and thin

[deleted]Jun 6, 2012, 12:08 PM
39 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Pro­duc­tivity as a func­tion of abil­ity in the­o­ret­i­cal fields

Stefan_SchubertJan 26, 2014, 1:16 PM
45 points
34 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Re­sources to find/​reg­ister the ra­tio­nal­ists that spe­cial­ize in a given topic?

tailcalledSep 29, 2022, 5:20 PM
25 points
8 comments1 min readLW link