Politics

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Politics is the Mind-Killer

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Feb 2007 21:23 UTC

289 points

243 comments2 min readLW link

Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists

Zack_M_Davis24 Sep 2019 4:12 UTC

299 points

40 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

[Question] Have epistemic conditions always been this bad?

Wei Dai25 Jan 2020 4:42 UTC

210 points

106 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

A Fable of Science and Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Dec 2006 4:50 UTC

346 points

100 comments5 min readLW link

Politics is hard mode

Rob Bensinger21 Jul 2014 22:14 UTC

59 points

109 comments6 min readLW link

Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Mar 2007 18:53 UTC

264 points

187 comments4 min readLW link

In Defense of Politics

ChristianKl10 Apr 2020 19:26 UTC

16 points

23 comments7 min readLW link

I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 8:22 UTC

100 points

4 comments28 min readLW link

The Gemini Incident Continues

Zvi27 Feb 2024 16:00 UTC

45 points

6 comments48 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Gemini Incident

Zvi22 Feb 2024 21:00 UTC

80 points

19 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Agreeing With Stalin in Ways That Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles

Zack_M_Davis2 Mar 2024 22:05 UTC

26 points

22 comments58 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (I.)

Martin Sustrik19 Jul 2020 1:11 UTC

172 points

39 comments24 min readLW link 2 reviews

Free Speech and Triskaidekaphobic Calculators: A Reply to Hubinger on the Relevance of Public Online Discussion to Existential Risk

Zack_M_Davis21 Dec 2019 0:49 UTC

76 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

Speaking Truth to Power Is a Schelling Point

Zack_M_Davis30 Dec 2019 6:12 UTC

52 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Book Review—The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution

Zack_M_Davis21 Jan 2020 6:28 UTC

27 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

Curtis Yarvin on A Theory of Pervasive Error

Zack_M_Davis26 Nov 2019 7:27 UTC

21 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(americanmind.org)

Thiel on AI & Racing with China

Ben Pace20 Aug 2024 3:19 UTC

54 points

10 comments12 min readLW link

Choice Writings of Dominic Cummings

Connor_Flexman13 Oct 2021 2:41 UTC

121 points

75 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Democracy Is in Danger, but Not for the Reasons You Think

ExCeph6 Nov 2022 21:15 UTC

−7 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

The 2nd Demographic Transition

Maxwell Tabarrok6 Apr 2024 14:10 UTC

68 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

On the 2nd CWT with Jonathan Haidt

Zvi5 Apr 2024 17:30 UTC

27 points

3 comments33 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Universal Love Integration Test: Hitler

Raemon10 Jan 2024 23:55 UTC

76 points

65 comments9 min readLW link

Underrated Proverbs

Arjun Panickssery13 Jun 2024 12:30 UTC

10 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Building Blocks of Politics: An Overview of Selectorate Theory

Yoav Ravid12 Oct 2021 11:27 UTC

86 points

26 comments49 min readLW link 1 review

Ukraine and the Crimea Question

ChristianKl28 Oct 2022 12:26 UTC

−2 points

153 comments11 min readLW link

Russia has Invaded Ukraine

lsusr24 Feb 2022 7:52 UTC

173 points

268 comments3 min readLW link

Understand how other people think: a theory of worldviews.

spencerg3 May 2023 3:57 UTC

2 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Jun 2007 21:13 UTC

208 points

148 comments3 min readLW link

Avoid Unnecessarily Political Examples

Raemon11 Jan 2021 5:41 UTC

106 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

Against Active Shooter Drills

Zvi16 Jun 2022 13:40 UTC

91 points

30 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Should CA, TX, OK, and LA merge into a giant swing state, just for elections?

Thomas Kwa6 Nov 2024 23:01 UTC

115 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

Why Balsa Research is Worthwhile

Zvi10 Oct 2022 13:50 UTC

87 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Probability that the President would win election against a random adult citizen?

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Jun 2022 20:38 UTC

15 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

On the Latest TikTok Bill

Zvi13 Mar 2024 18:50 UTC

58 points

7 comments29 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Blue or Green on Regulation?

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Mar 2007 18:04 UTC

89 points

40 comments4 min readLW link

On Cooking With Gas

Zvi13 Jan 2023 14:20 UTC

38 points

60 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Politics and Awful Art

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Dec 2007 3:46 UTC

37 points

49 comments3 min readLW link

What’s Not Our Problem

Jacob Falkovich9 Mar 2023 20:07 UTC

22 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

I’m Voting For Ranked Choice, But I Don’t Like It

jefftk20 Sep 2020 18:40 UTC

32 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Something about the Pinker Cancellation seems Suspicious

Virgil Kurkjian8 Jul 2020 18:08 UTC

9 points

34 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How to prevent authoritarian revolts?

lc20 Mar 2022 10:01 UTC

21 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies

Scott Alexander13 May 2009 22:51 UTC

185 points

288 comments7 min readLW link

Political Lottery in Switzerland

Martin Sustrik8 Oct 2020 5:03 UTC

29 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Utopianism

Mateusz Mazurkiewicz4 Jan 2021 18:40 UTC

1 point

1 comment2 min readLW link

Against Student Debt Cancellation From All Sides of the Political Compass

Maxwell Tabarrok13 May 2024 14:55 UTC

44 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Both-Sidesism—When Fair & Balanced Goes Wrong

James Stephen Brown2 Nov 2024 3:04 UTC

3 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

Checking public figures on whether they “answered the question” quick analysis from Harris/Trump debate, and a proposal

david reinstein11 Sep 2024 20:25 UTC

7 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (III.)

Martin Sustrik11 Aug 2020 5:09 UTC

72 points

8 comments22 min readLW link

Announcing Balsa Research

Zvi25 Sep 2022 22:50 UTC

235 points

64 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

Tristan Williams30 Oct 2023 11:15 UTC

171 points

39 comments1 min readLW link

(www.whitehouse.gov)

The U.S. is becoming less stable

lc18 Aug 2023 21:13 UTC

146 points

68 comments2 min readLW link

The Forces of Blandness and the Disagreeable Majority

sarahconstantin28 Apr 2019 19:44 UTC

132 points

27 comments3 min readLW link 2 reviews

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Politics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC

288 points

46 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Musical Outgroups

eapache19 Jul 2020 22:55 UTC

9 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

In favour of a sovereign state of Gaza

Yair Halberstadt19 Nov 2023 16:08 UTC

8 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

The Ideology Is Not The Movement

Scott Alexander5 Apr 2016 1:52 UTC

40 points

3 comments24 min readLW link

Political topics attract participants inclined to use the norms of mainstream political debate, risking a tipping point to lower quality discussion

emr26 Mar 2015 0:14 UTC

67 points

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Limits of Bodily Autonomy

jefftk27 Jun 2022 19:50 UTC

28 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

Seven lessons I didn’t learn from election day

Eric Neyman14 Nov 2024 18:39 UTC

97 points

33 comments13 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Prediction: The Defense Department Will Blame Trump for the Slow Response on Jan. 7, 2021

Tim Liptrot11 Jan 2021 1:02 UTC

2 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

In Defense of Twitter’s Decision to Ban Trump

ragintumbleweed11 Jan 2021 18:08 UTC

4 points

21 comments5 min readLW link

The new ruling philosophy regarding AI

Mitchell_Porter11 Nov 2024 13:28 UTC

29 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Moral basis for regulating social platforms

solus23 Jan 2021 20:39 UTC

0 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

literally Hitler

David Gross14 Nov 2024 3:20 UTC

−13 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Making a conservative case for alignment

Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, phgubbins and AE Studio

15 Nov 2024 18:55 UTC

201 points

68 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] “New EA cause area: voting”; or, “what’s wrong with this calculation?”

Optimization Process26 Feb 2021 16:50 UTC

18 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Typical Mind and Politics

Scott Alexander12 Jun 2009 12:28 UTC

60 points

133 comments6 min readLW link

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission pushes Manhattan Project-style AI initiative

Phib19 Nov 2024 18:42 UTC

56 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Impact of delaying vaccinations on the total number of deaths

qbolec11 Mar 2021 23:49 UTC

5 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What changes should happen in the HHS?

ChristianKl20 Nov 2024 11:04 UTC

0 points

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The consequentialist case for social conservatism, or “Against Cultural Superstimuli”

Sophronius14 Apr 2021 21:50 UTC

28 points

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Rising rents and appropriate responses

dominicq18 Apr 2021 14:05 UTC

10 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

A Crisper Explanation of Simulacrum Levels

Thane Ruthenis23 Dec 2023 22:13 UTC

89 points

13 comments13 min readLW link

Transitive Tolerance Means Intolerance

orthonormal14 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC

39 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Literacy Rates Haven’t Fallen By 20% Since the Department of Education Was Created

Maxwell Tabarrok22 Nov 2024 20:53 UTC

44 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

[Question] Anatomy of a full school climate strike

tcelferact22 Aug 2021 15:17 UTC

0 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

A Small Vacation

DanB29 Aug 2021 19:55 UTC

44 points

21 comments8 min readLW link

I read “White Fragility” so you don’t have to (but maybe you should)

David Gross6 Sep 2021 22:31 UTC

40 points

103 comments7 min readLW link

[linkpost] Political Capital Flow Management and the Importance of Yutting

mike_hawke10 Sep 2021 7:27 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(everythingstudies.com)

Does Diverse News Decrease Polarization?

jsteinhardt11 Sep 2021 2:30 UTC

11 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Advice for Activists from the History of Environmentalism

Jeffrey Heninger16 May 2024 18:40 UTC

100 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Andrew Yang on “The Priests of the Decline”

Timothy Johnson4 Oct 2021 19:24 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.andrewyang.com)

Theory: The Political Incentives for Progressive Policy Promote Policy Failure

BDay6 Oct 2021 12:10 UTC

−2 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

A car journey with conservative evangelicals—Understanding some British political-religious beliefs

Nathan Young6 Dec 2024 11:22 UTC

35 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

(nathanpmyoung.substack.com)

Book Review: Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

TheRealSlimHippo13 Oct 2021 16:22 UTC

28 points

3 comments17 min readLW link

Reflections on Arguing about Politics

Pontor13 Apr 2020 17:33 UTC

11 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

The American System and Misleading Labels

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Jan 2008 7:38 UTC

41 points

30 comments7 min readLW link

Book Review: ‘Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House’

TranscendetalIdealist20 Oct 2021 0:42 UTC

10 points

0 comments15 min readLW link

Book review: Lost Connections by Johann Hari

maia20 Oct 2021 2:40 UTC

38 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

Frankfurt Declaration on the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

Jan24 Oct 2021 9:54 UTC

9 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

Everything Studies on Cynical Theories

DanielFilan27 Oct 2021 1:31 UTC

25 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(everythingstudies.com)

Yann LeCun: We only design machines that minimize costs [therefore they are safe]

tailcalled15 Jun 2024 17:25 UTC

19 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them

Zack_M_Davis30 Dec 2023 17:40 UTC

45 points

192 comments87 min readLW link 1 review

(unremediatedgender.space)

An AI Race With China Can Be Better Than Not Racing

niplav2 Jul 2024 17:57 UTC

69 points

33 comments11 min readLW link

Campaign for AI Safety: Please join me

Nik Samoylov1 Apr 2023 9:32 UTC

18 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Rigorous political science?

abramdemski12 Mar 2021 15:30 UTC

23 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Eight political demands that I hope we can agree on

ChristianKl1 May 2018 16:59 UTC

4 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

The Schumer Report on AI (RTFB)

Zvi24 May 2024 15:10 UTC

34 points

3 comments36 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Given the Restrict Act, Don’t Ban TikTok

Zvi4 Apr 2023 14:40 UTC

97 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Childhood Roundup #2

Zvi11 Apr 2023 13:50 UTC

31 points

4 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AI Risk US Presidential Candidate

Simon Berens11 Apr 2023 19:31 UTC

5 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Reality Testing

Ben Turtel13 Jul 2024 15:20 UTC

−2 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

(bturtel.substack.com)

[Question] Uncontroversially good legislation

braces10 Jan 2022 2:26 UTC

32 points

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[Question] Is state a (semi-) rational agent?

Birke10 Jan 2022 19:53 UTC

2 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Political Office for Beginners?

Asgård12 Jan 2022 17:27 UTC

36 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Land Ho!

Zvi20 Jan 2022 13:30 UTC

120 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

There is a line in the sand, just not where you think it is

Wuschel Schulz22 Jan 2022 10:33 UTC

46 points

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[Question] How would you go about testing a political theory like Neofeudalism?

FinalFormal22 Feb 2022 17:09 UTC

3 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

On Bounded Distrust

Zvi3 Feb 2022 14:50 UTC

135 points

19 comments56 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Urgency of Normal: An Exercise in Bounded Distrust

Zvi3 Feb 2022 18:10 UTC

46 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Convoy

Zvi4 Feb 2022 21:40 UTC

28 points

18 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Manifesto: The Land is our Birthright (inspired by the Lars Doucet Georgism book review)

talelore15 Feb 2022 23:50 UTC

−21 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Convoy Continued

Zvi16 Feb 2022 14:40 UTC

28 points

15 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book review: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Richard_Ngo14 Feb 2022 7:50 UTC

34 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Convoy Crackdown

Zvi21 Feb 2022 22:10 UTC

92 points

21 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

PSA: if you are in Russia, probably move out ASAP

yagudin3 Mar 2022 20:01 UTC

90 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

Ukraine Post #2: Options

Zvi10 Mar 2022 16:10 UTC

84 points

55 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why a No-Fly-Zone would be the biggest gift to Putin, and why Zelenskyy keeps asking for it [Linkpost and commentary]

Dojan17 Mar 2022 3:13 UTC

48 points

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The Dawn of Everything: a review

David Hugh-Jones21 Mar 2022 12:53 UTC

32 points

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(wyclif.substack.com)

Albert Hirschman on liberalism and nationalism

David Hugh-Jones23 Mar 2022 10:08 UTC

6 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

Using Prediction Markets to Guide Government Policy

lsusr1 Apr 2022 10:21 UTC

38 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Dr Fauci as Machiavellian Boddhisattva

Benquo4 Apr 2022 20:38 UTC

35 points

39 comments5 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Judge Overturns Transportation Mask Mandate

Zvi20 Apr 2022 13:50 UTC

38 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Catalogue of POLITICO Reports and Other Cited Articles on Effective Altruism and AI Safety Connections in Washington, DC

Evan_Gaensbauer21 Jan 2024 2:15 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

The New Right appears to be on the rise for better or worse

Chris_Leong23 Apr 2022 19:36 UTC

6 points

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Repeal the Foreign Dredge Act of 1906

Zvi5 May 2022 15:20 UTC

159 points

16 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How would public media outlets need to be governed to cover all political views?

ChristianKl12 May 2022 12:55 UTC

13 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 5/19/22: The Law of Five

Zvi19 May 2022 12:20 UTC

53 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is there any way someone could post about public policy relating to abortion access (or another sensitive subject) on LessWrong without getting super downvoted?

Evan_Gaensbauer28 Jun 2022 5:45 UTC

18 points

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[Question] What’s the information value of government hearings?

Kenny18 Jun 2022 17:13 UTC

6 points

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Parliaments without the Parties

Yair Halberstadt19 Jun 2022 14:06 UTC

18 points

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Why is so much political commentary misleading?

contrarianbrit28 Jun 2022 17:10 UTC

−2 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(thomasprosser.substack.com)

[Question] How to Navigate Evaluating Politicized Research?

Davis_Kingsley1 Jul 2022 5:59 UTC

11 points

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Culture wars in riddle format

Malmesbury17 Jul 2022 14:51 UTC

7 points

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Why are politicians polarized?

ErnestScribbler21 Jul 2022 8:17 UTC

15 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

Letter from leading Soviet Academicians to party and government leaders of the Soviet Union regarding signs of decline and structural problems of the economic-political system (1970)

M. Y. Zuo1 Aug 2022 22:35 UTC

20 points

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Covid 8/18/22: CDC Admits Mistakes

Zvi18 Aug 2022 14:30 UTC

46 points

9 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Should the US House of Representatives adopt rank choice voting for leadership positions?

jmh25 Oct 2023 11:16 UTC

16 points

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[Review] The Problem of Political Authority by Michael Huemer

Arjun Panickssery25 Aug 2022 5:18 UTC

35 points

22 comments12 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Grand Theft Education

Zvi31 Aug 2022 11:50 UTC

66 points

18 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Biden should be applauded for appointing Renee Wegrzyn for ARPA-H

ChristianKl18 Sep 2022 19:57 UTC

34 points

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Easy fixing Voting

Charbel-Raphaël2 Oct 2022 17:03 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Yet Another Critique of “Luxury Beliefs”

ymeskhout18 Jul 2024 18:37 UTC

6 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

(www.ymeskhout.com)

Why I think there’s a one-in-six chance of an imminent global nuclear war

Max Tegmark8 Oct 2022 6:26 UTC

164 points

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Weekly Non-Covid News #1 (10/13/22)

Zvi13 Oct 2022 15:40 UTC

52 points

16 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Only Fools Avoid Hindsight Bias

Kevin Dorst20 Jul 2024 13:42 UTC

−11 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(kevindorst.substack.com)

Podcast: The Left and Effective Altruism with Habiba Islam

garrison27 Oct 2022 17:41 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Quickly refactoring the U.S. Constitution

lc30 Oct 2022 7:17 UTC

7 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Housing and Transit Thoughts #1

Zvi2 Nov 2022 12:10 UTC

35 points

5 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Could a Supreme Court suit work to solve NEPA problems?

ChristianKl3 Nov 2022 21:10 UTC

15 points

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What’s the Deal with Elon Musk and Twitter?

Zvi7 Nov 2022 13:50 UTC

60 points

13 comments31 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Blues, Greens and abortion

Snowyowl5 Mar 2011 19:15 UTC

17 points

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Weekly Roundup #5

Zvi11 Nov 2022 16:20 UTC

33 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Where’s the economic incentive for wokism coming from?

Valentine8 Dec 2022 23:28 UTC

12 points

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The Dictatorship Problem

alyssavance11 Jun 2023 2:45 UTC

34 points

145 comments11 min readLW link

The Two-Party Swindle

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jan 2008 8:38 UTC

74 points

68 comments8 min readLW link

Gaming Democracy

Froolow30 Jul 2014 9:45 UTC

14 points

27 comments6 min readLW link

I’m Writing a Book About Liberalism

Yoav Ravid19 Dec 2024 0:13 UTC

15 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] World superpowers, particularly the United States, still maintain large conventional militaries despite nuclear deterrence. Why?

niederman28 Dec 2022 5:38 UTC

9 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(maxniederman.com)

The Twitter Files: Covid Edition

Zvi30 Dec 2022 13:30 UTC

32 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Childhood Roundup #1

Zvi6 Jan 2023 13:00 UTC

84 points

27 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to Bounded Distrust

Zvi9 Jan 2023 13:10 UTC

120 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Civility Is Never Neutral

ozymandias22 Nov 2017 16:54 UTC

57 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Wokism, rethinking priorities and the Bostrom case

Arturo Macias14 Jan 2023 2:27 UTC

−31 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

A general comment on discussions of genetic group differences

anonymous810114 Jan 2023 2:11 UTC

70 points

46 comments3 min readLW link

Path-Dependence in ChatGPT’s Political Outputs

lsusr4 Feb 2023 2:02 UTC

28 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Housing and Transit Roundup #3

Zvi3 Feb 2023 15:10 UTC

21 points

6 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Conflict Theory of Bounded Distrust

Zack_M_Davis12 Feb 2023 5:30 UTC

108 points

30 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Politics is the Fun-Killer

Adam Zerner25 Feb 2023 23:29 UTC

28 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How does the ever-increasing use of AI in the military for the direct purpose of murdering people affect your p(doom)?

Justausername6 Apr 2024 6:31 UTC

19 points

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What should we do about network-effect monopolies?

benkuhn6 Mar 2023 0:50 UTC

31 points

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(www.benkuhn.net)

Acolytes, reformers, and atheists

lc10 Mar 2023 0:48 UTC

9 points

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A progress policy agenda

jasoncrawford19 Dec 2024 18:42 UTC

30 points

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(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

Testing ChatGPT 3.5 for political biases using roleplaying prompts

twkaiser18 Mar 2023 11:42 UTC

−2 points

2 comments19 min readLW link

(hackernoon.com)

SRE’s review of Democracy

Martin Sustrik3 Aug 2024 7:20 UTC

48 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

Notes on Social Responsibility

David Gross19 Mar 2022 14:44 UTC

17 points

4 comments19 min readLW link

Book Review: How Minds Change

bc4026bd4aaa5b7fe25 May 2023 17:55 UTC

310 points

52 comments15 min readLW link

Using game theory to elect a centrist in the 2024 US Presidential Election

Ebenezer Dukakis5 Apr 2024 0:46 UTC

−3 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

The EA case for Trump

Judd Rosenblatt3 Aug 2024 1:00 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.secondbest.ca)

The Case Against Libertarianism

Zero Contradictions3 Aug 2024 5:05 UTC

−3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(zerocontradictions.net)

We Don’t Just Let People Die—So What Next?

James Stephen Brown3 Aug 2024 1:04 UTC

11 points

8 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Plans / prepping for possible political violence from upcoming US election?

anon0331 Aug 2020 18:18 UTC

18 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Should Sports Betting Be Banned?

Maxwell Tabarrok21 Sep 2024 14:13 UTC

18 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

How Often Does Taking Away Options Help?

niplav21 Sep 2024 21:52 UTC

20 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Naming the Nameless

sarahconstantin22 Mar 2018 0:35 UTC

125 points

43 comments13 min readLW link 3 reviews

[Question] What Caused the Puzzling Decline in Activism Against Policy Violence Towards Black People?

ChristianKl19 Jul 2023 14:40 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Escalation Outside the System

jefftk8 Sep 2020 18:20 UTC

25 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning

Zack_M_Davis15 Jul 2023 17:57 UTC

8 points

118 comments75 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons

Scott Alexander24 Mar 2017 4:33 UTC

66 points

5 comments19 min readLW link

Why libertarians are advocating for regulation on AI

RobertM14 Jun 2023 20:59 UTC

35 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

Consider Joining the UK Foundation Model Taskforce

Zvi10 Jul 2023 13:50 UTC

105 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Californians, tell your reps to vote yes on SB 1047!

Holly_Elmore12 Aug 2024 19:50 UTC

40 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Outside Analysis and Blind Spots

orthonormal21 Jul 2009 1:00 UTC

82 points

34 comments5 min readLW link

(Some) politicians might be more rational than they appear.

orthonormal4 Oct 2010 4:05 UTC

22 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Does My Vote Matter?

orthonormal5 Nov 2012 1:23 UTC

23 points

77 comments6 min readLW link

Morality and International Humanitarian Law

David_J_Balan30 Nov 2009 3:27 UTC

3 points

101 comments2 min readLW link

Book Review: Ages Of Discord

Scott Alexander3 Sep 2019 6:30 UTC

36 points

1 comment21 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

[Question] How much to worry about the US election unrest?

NoSignalNoNoise12 Oct 2020 3:39 UTC

23 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Bet On Biden

sapphire17 Oct 2020 22:03 UTC

42 points

89 comments2 min readLW link

PredictIt: Presidential Market is Increasingly Wrong

Zvi18 Oct 2020 22:40 UTC

37 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book review: The Complacent Class

Richard_Ngo13 Oct 2018 19:20 UTC

20 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Changing the size of Congress

jefftk22 Oct 2020 20:50 UTC

4 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Book review: 23 things they don’t tell you about capitalism

Richard_Ngo18 Oct 2018 23:05 UTC

21 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Why Huntington-Hill?

jefftk25 Oct 2020 0:50 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Link] “Will He Go?” book review (Scott Aaronson)

ioannes12 Jun 2020 22:16 UTC

15 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

How to give effectively to US Dems

Hauke Hillebrandt24 Sep 2024 14:38 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.slowboring.com)

Eugenics And Reproduction Licenses FAQs: For the Common Good

Zero Contradictions13 Aug 2024 16:34 UTC

−8 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

(zerocontradictions.net)

Playing Politics

sarahconstantin5 Dec 2018 0:30 UTC

97 points

45 comments12 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Scoring 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Predictions

Zack_M_Davis8 Nov 2020 2:28 UTC

38 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(zackmdavis.net)

Supporting the underdog is explained by Hanson’s Near/Far distinction

Roko5 Apr 2009 20:22 UTC

31 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

Brute Force Manufactured Consensus is Hiding the Crime of the Century

Roko3 Feb 2024 20:36 UTC

216 points

156 comments9 min readLW link

The 9/11 Meta-Truther Conspiracy Theory

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Dec 2009 18:59 UTC

100 points

182 comments4 min readLW link

Competitive Universal Basic Services?

Gentzel9 Nov 2020 3:20 UTC

13 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Is it justifiable for non-experts to have strong opinions about Gaza?

Yair Halberstadt and Adam Zerner

8 Jan 2024 17:31 UTC

23 points

12 comments30 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Silver Bulletin: For most people, politics is about fitting in

Gunnar_Zarncke1 May 2024 18:12 UTC

18 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.natesilver.net)

[Link] Digital Democracy Is Within Reach

Alexei11 Nov 2020 22:12 UTC

20 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(your-undivided-attention.simplecast.com)

[Question] Have any parties in the current European Parliamentary Election made public statements on AI?

MondSemmel10 May 2024 10:22 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

US Presidential Election: Tractability, Importance, and Urgency

kuhanj29 May 2024 23:52 UTC

42 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Protest against Meta’s irreversible proliferation (Sept 29, San Francisco)

Holly_Elmore19 Sep 2023 23:40 UTC

54 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

When None Dare Urge Restraint

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Dec 2007 23:09 UTC

119 points

123 comments2 min readLW link

Ward 5: Jack Perenick and Naima Sait

jefftk21 Sep 2023 13:00 UTC

24 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Mysterious Trump Buyers on Polymarket

Annapurna18 Oct 2024 13:26 UTC

52 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(jorgevelez.substack.com)

“X distracts from Y” as a thinly-disguised fight over group status / politics

Steven Byrnes25 Sep 2023 15:18 UTC

108 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

Can the House Legislate?

jefftk5 Oct 2023 13:40 UTC

26 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Could randomly choosing people to serve as representatives lead to better government?

John Huang21 Oct 2024 17:10 UTC

75 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

It’s not economically inefficient for a UBI to reduce recipient’s employment

paulfchristiano22 Nov 2020 16:40 UTC

93 points

60 comments4 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Why our politicians aren’t Median

Yair Halberstadt3 Nov 2024 14:03 UTC

60 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

I’m a Former Israeli Officer. AMA

Yovel Rom10 Oct 2023 8:33 UTC

78 points

70 comments1 min readLW link

Ways that China is surpassing the US

Wei Dai4 Nov 2019 9:45 UTC

59 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

(palladiummag.com)

Containment Thread on the Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda

Zack_M_Davis10 Dec 2020 8:30 UTC

29 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Meme Talking Points

ymeskhout6 Nov 2024 15:27 UTC

31 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Scissors Statements for President?

AnnaSalamon6 Nov 2024 10:38 UTC

116 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

Will we witness the compassion of a nation?

kithpendragon10 Jan 2021 11:10 UTC

−9 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

The Irresistible Attraction of Designing Your Own Utopia

David Udell1 Apr 2022 1:34 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Summary: “Internet Search tips” by Gwern Branwen

Pablo Repetto8 Apr 2022 2:02 UTC

12 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

The real reason Futarchists are doomed

lc1 Apr 2022 18:37 UTC

26 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

The Fetishization of Dystopia

john yardsale22 Apr 2022 16:39 UTC

−8 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Rationalism in an Age of Egregores

David Udell1 Jun 2022 7:29 UTC

14 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Florida Elections

Double13 Aug 2022 20:10 UTC

−3 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

The Domain of Politics

CarlJ21 Jul 2013 18:30 UTC

−2 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

The Village and the River Monsters… Or: Less Fighting, More Brainstorming

ExCeph3 Oct 2022 23:01 UTC

7 points

29 comments8 min readLW link

(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

[Question] Rough Sketch for Product to Enhance Citizen Participation in Politics

Fer32dwt34r3dfsz20 Oct 2022 20:04 UTC

13 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: Churchill and Orwell

Sammy Martin9 Oct 2021 19:01 UTC

47 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

The Puce Tribe

mike_hawke28 Feb 2021 21:11 UTC

9 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

An easier(?) end to the electoral college

ejacob19 Dec 2022 2:09 UTC

2 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Housing and Transportation Roundup #2

Zvi27 Dec 2022 13:10 UTC

25 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Against the paradox of tolerance

pchvykov10 Jan 2023 0:12 UTC

1 point

11 comments3 min readLW link

No Room for Political Philosophy

Arturo Macias21 Feb 2023 16:11 UTC

0 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Forecasts on Moore v Harper from Samotsvety

gregjustice5 Mar 2023 0:47 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(samotsvety.org)

Defunding My Mistake

ymeskhout4 Sep 2023 14:43 UTC

171 points

41 comments6 min readLW link

[untitled post]

DrJuanDempere13 Dec 2023 13:30 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Contra Scott on Abolishing the FDA

Maxwell Tabarrok15 Dec 2023 14:00 UTC

46 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

(maximumprogress.substack.com)

Climate Change And Global Warming

Zero Contradictions25 Sep 2024 19:13 UTC

−7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(zerocontradictions.net)

Power Law Policy

Ben Turtel23 May 2024 5:28 UTC

4 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

(bturtel.substack.com)

AI safety advocates should consider providing gentle pushback following the events at OpenAI

civilsociety22 Dec 2023 18:55 UTC

16 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t Endorse the Idea of Market Failure

Maxwell Tabarrok1 Mar 2024 14:04 UTC

14 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Defense Against The Dark Arts: An Introduction

Lyrongolem25 Dec 2023 6:36 UTC

24 points

36 comments20 min readLW link

AI Risk and the US Presidential Candidates

Zane6 Jan 2024 20:18 UTC

41 points

22 comments6 min readLW link

If Ukraine fails, the world will reap fatal consequences

Danylo Zhyrko5 Mar 2024 19:42 UTC

−17 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Party for biomedical rejuvenation research: European parliament elections

Iakov Dudinsky21 Jan 2024 0:35 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Political Biases in LLMs: Literature Review & Current Uses of AI in Elections

Yashvardhan Sharma, Robayet Hossain and Ariana Gamarra

7 Mar 2024 19:17 UTC

6 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

If you are also the worst at politics

lemonhope26 May 2024 20:07 UTC

32 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

AI, Intellectual Property, and the Techno-Optimist Revolution

Justin-Diamond31 Jan 2024 18:30 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.researchgate.net)

Conspiracy Investigation Done Right

ymeskhout19 Feb 2024 0:09 UTC

21 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

We Need Major, But Not Radical, FDA Reform

Maxwell Tabarrok24 Feb 2024 16:54 UTC

42 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Rawls’s Veil of Ignorance Doesn’t Make Any Sense

Arjun Panickssery24 Feb 2024 13:18 UTC

10 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Politics are not serious by default

Neil 28 Mar 2024 23:36 UTC

19 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Congressional Insider Trading

Maxwell Tabarrok30 Aug 2024 13:32 UTC

57 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Masculinity—A Case For Courage

James Stephen Brown4 Jun 2024 0:04 UTC

23 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

Centrists are (probably) less biased

Kevin Dorst7 Apr 2024 6:40 UTC

1 point

2 comments5 min readLW link

(kevindorst.substack.com)

(Rational) Decision-Making In Wartime

Danylo Zhyrko10 Apr 2024 18:08 UTC

15 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

AI Regulation is Unsafe

Maxwell Tabarrok22 Apr 2024 16:37 UTC

40 points

41 comments4 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Data-driven donations to help Democrats win federal elections: an update

Michael Cohn2 Sep 2024 16:32 UTC

−1 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(perplexedguide.net)

Two easy things that maybe Just Work to improve AI discourse

jacobjacob8 Jun 2024 15:51 UTC

190 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

Environmentalism in the United States Is Unusually Partisan

Jeffrey Heninger13 May 2024 21:23 UTC

85 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

A Positive Double Standard—Self-Help Principles Work For Individuals Not Populations

James Stephen Brown22 May 2024 21:37 UTC

8 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

A Narrative History of Environmentalism’s Partisanship

Jeffrey Heninger14 May 2024 16:51 UTC

31 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Was Partisanship Good for the Environmental Movement?

Jeffrey Heninger15 May 2024 17:30 UTC

24 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Ninety-five theses on AI

hamandcheese16 May 2024 17:51 UTC

21 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Blueprint for a Brighter Future

Alex Beyman2 Jul 2024 6:15 UTC

−1 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Why not parliamentarianism? [book by Tiago Ribeiro dos Santos]

Arturo Macias8 Jul 2024 14:57 UTC

2 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Forever Leaders

Justice Howard14 Sep 2024 20:55 UTC

6 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Donating to help Democrats win in the 2024 elections: research, decision support, and recommendations

Michael Cohn14 Jul 2024 22:57 UTC

−1 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Don’t Associate AI Safety With Activism

Eneasz18 Dec 2024 8:01 UTC

14 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(deathisbad.substack.com)

Agency in Politics

Martin Sustrik17 Jul 2024 5:30 UTC

35 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

End Single Family Zoning by Overturning Euclid V Ambler

Maxwell Tabarrok26 Jul 2024 14:08 UTC

32 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Rats, Back a Candidate

Blake28 Jul 2024 3:19 UTC

−40 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Unlocking Solutions—By Understanding Coordination Problems

James Stephen Brown27 Jul 2024 4:52 UTC

54 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

Thoughts On Democracy

Zero Contradictions4 Aug 2024 6:02 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(zerocontradictions.net)

Fact-Based AI and The Dangers of False Truths in AI Development

CLBrogan5 Aug 2024 3:17 UTC

1 point

0 comments5 min readLW link

(1drv.ms)

Georgism Crash Course

Zero Contradictions29 Jun 2024 6:18 UTC

9 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(zerocontradictions.net)

The Compute Conundrum: AI Governance in a Shifting Geopolitical Era

octavo28 Sep 2024 1:05 UTC

−3 points

1 comment17 min readLW link

[Question] Any Trump Supporters Want to Dialogue?

k6428 Sep 2024 19:41 UTC

14 points

80 comments1 min readLW link

2024 Election Forecasting Contest

mike207315 Oct 2024 20:43 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.mikesblog.net)

Palisade is hiring: Exec Assistant, Content Lead, Ops Lead, and Policy Lead

Charlie Rogers-Smith9 Oct 2024 0:04 UTC

11 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Contagious Beliefs—Simulating Political Alignment

James Stephen Brown13 Oct 2024 0:27 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

Rashomon—A newsbetting site

ideasthete15 Oct 2024 18:15 UTC

23 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Methodology: Contagious Beliefs

James Stephen Brown19 Oct 2024 3:58 UTC

3 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

The Manufactured Crisis: How Society Is Willingly Tying Its Own Noose

PROPHET22 Nov 2024 17:45 UTC

−2 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Aligning AI Safety Projects with a Republican Administration

Deric Cheng21 Nov 2024 22:12 UTC

29 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

The Polite Coup

Charlie Sanders4 Dec 2024 14:03 UTC

3 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.dailymicrofiction.com)

Some recommendations for aligning the decision to go to war with the public interest, from The Spoils of War

Eli Tyre27 Dec 2020 1:04 UTC

21 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

An overview of forecasting for politics, conflict, and political violence

VipulNaik24 Jun 2014 22:10 UTC

10 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

The Politics of Age (the Young vs. the Old)

Martin Sustrik24 Mar 2019 6:40 UTC

16 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

Don’t take bad options away from people

Dumbledore's Army26 Mar 2023 20:12 UTC

44 points

100 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How Politics interacts with AI ?

qbolec26 Mar 2023 9:53 UTC

−18 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

The AI governance gaps in developing countries

ntran17 Jun 2023 2:50 UTC

20 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

AGI deployment as an act of aggression

dr_s5 Apr 2023 6:39 UTC

27 points

29 comments13 min readLW link

Outrage and Statistics into Policy

jefftk10 Apr 2023 14:00 UTC

39 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

Kyle J. Lucchese16 Apr 2023 6:57 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Announcing #AISummitTalks featuring Professor Stuart Russell and many others

otto.barten24 Oct 2023 10:11 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Beyond the Data: Why aid to poor doesn’t work

Lyrongolem25 Oct 2023 5:03 UTC

2 points

31 comments12 min readLW link

A Book Review

Zack_M_Davis28 Apr 2020 17:43 UTC

15 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

UK Government publishes “Frontier AI: capabilities and risks” Discussion Paper

A.H.26 Oct 2023 13:55 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.gov.uk)

Negative Feedback and Simulacra

Elizabeth29 Apr 2020 2:00 UTC

152 points

24 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

What is democracy for?

Johnstone7 Nov 2023 18:17 UTC

−5 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

Is fake news bullshit or lying?

HarperSachs26 May 2020 16:55 UTC

22 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Should Advanced Placement High School classes discuss Israel-Palestine? If so, how? If not, why? Who should make this decision?

Gesild Muka15 Nov 2023 4:50 UTC

−1 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[META] Building a rationalist communication system to avoid censorship

Donald Hobson23 Jun 2020 14:12 UTC

36 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Scott Alexander is wrong about slurs

[deactivated]21 Nov 2023 8:43 UTC

−27 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

How “Pinky Promise” diplomacy once stopped a war in the Middle East

positivesum22 Nov 2023 12:03 UTC

15 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(tryingtruly.substack.com)

3. Uploading

RogerDearnaley23 Nov 2023 7:39 UTC

21 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

Cis fragility

[deactivated]30 Nov 2023 4:14 UTC

−51 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Preserving our heritage: Building a movement and a knowledge ark for current and future generations

rnk829 Nov 2023 19:20 UTC

0 points

5 comments12 min readLW link

Improving local governance in fragile states—practical lessons from the field

Tim Liptrot29 Jul 2020 1:54 UTC

16 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Billionaire Economics

Virgil Kurkjian28 Jul 2020 3:01 UTC

22 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

The Bias You Didn’t Expect

Psychohistorian14 Apr 2011 16:20 UTC

132 points

91 comments2 min readLW link

The Jordan Peterson Mask

Jacob Falkovich3 Mar 2018 19:49 UTC

60 points

154 comments12 min readLW link

Lost Purposes

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Nov 2007 9:01 UTC

184 points

79 comments6 min readLW link

Your Rationality is My Business

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Apr 2007 7:31 UTC

155 points

28 comments3 min readLW link

The Power to Demolish Bad Arguments

Liron2 Sep 2019 12:57 UTC

100 points

84 comments11 min readLW link 6 reviews

Mandatory Obsessions

Jacob Falkovich14 Nov 2018 18:19 UTC

77 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

Covid 7/30: Whack a Mole

Zvi30 Jul 2020 15:50 UTC

39 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Of Exclusionary Speech and Gender Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jul 2009 7:22 UTC

90 points

669 comments5 min readLW link

Helen Toner on China, CSET, and AI

Rob Bensinger21 Apr 2019 4:10 UTC

68 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

(rationallyspeakingpodcast.org)

First(?) Rationalist elected to state government

Eneasz7 Nov 2014 2:30 UTC

107 points

54 comments1 min readLW link

Mod Notice about Election Discussion

Vaniver29 Jan 2020 1:35 UTC

61 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Against Premature Abstraction of Political Issues

Wei Dai18 Dec 2019 20:19 UTC

93 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

Socialist Democratic-Republic GAME: 12 Amendments to the Constitutions of the Free World

monkymind1 May 2023 13:13 UTC

−34 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Does the US nuclear policy still target cities?

Jeffrey Ladish2 Oct 2019 0:18 UTC

61 points

7 comments10 min readLW link

A Rational Argument

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2007 18:35 UTC

99 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

Cheerios: An “Untested New Drug”

MBlume15 May 2009 2:26 UTC

9 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Missing the Trees for the Forest

Scott Alexander22 Jul 2009 3:23 UTC

87 points

159 comments7 min readLW link

Why I am not a Quaker (even though it often seems as though I should be)

Benquo26 Sep 2017 7:00 UTC

48 points

18 comments16 min readLW link

Stop Voting For Nincompoops

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Jan 2008 18:00 UTC

76 points

92 comments8 min readLW link

The risk of an American Civil War is remote

Samo Burja23 Jul 2018 18:00 UTC

38 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(medium.com)

“Politics is the mind-killer” is the mind-killer

thomblake26 Jan 2012 15:55 UTC

58 points

99 comments1 min readLW link

Catalonia and the Overton Window

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2017 20:23 UTC

30 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

UBI for President

Jacob Falkovich18 Oct 2018 15:09 UTC

45 points

14 comments10 min readLW link

The Skewed and the Screwed: When Mating Meets Politics

Jacob Falkovich29 Jan 2020 15:50 UTC

62 points

6 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

When None Dare Urge Restraint, pt. 2

Jay_Schweikert30 May 2012 15:28 UTC

84 points

92 comments3 min readLW link

Regulate or Compete? The China Factor in U.S. AI Policy (NAIR #2)

charles_m5 May 2023 17:43 UTC

2 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(navigatingairisks.substack.com)

What Botswana Can Teach Us About Political Stability

Samo Burja9 May 2019 18:30 UTC

40 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (II.)

Martin Sustrik22 Jul 2020 13:50 UTC

90 points

24 comments12 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

Only You Can Prevent Your Mind From Getting Killed By Politics

ChrisHallquist26 Oct 2013 13:59 UTC

61 points

144 comments5 min readLW link

Strategic High Skill Immigration

Gentzel6 Dec 2017 1:15 UTC

32 points

8 comments21 min readLW link

On memetic weapons

ioannes1 Sep 2018 3:25 UTC

42 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

Book Review: Narconomics

ketchupduck3 May 2020 1:19 UTC

77 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Under-acknowledged Value Differences

Wei Dai12 Sep 2012 22:02 UTC

70 points

68 comments1 min readLW link

My paper was signalling the whole time—Robin Hanson wins again

Tim Liptrot4 Aug 2020 21:13 UTC

49 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Simple Rules of Law

Zvi19 May 2019 0:10 UTC

57 points

24 comments28 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Russian x-risks newsletter spring 2020

avturchin4 Jun 2020 14:27 UTC

16 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on the Psychology of Power

gwern27 Jul 2012 19:22 UTC

61 points

49 comments40 min readLW link

The Signal and the Corrective

MalcolmOcean11 Feb 2018 0:28 UTC

21 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(everythingstudies.com)

Exploring Two-Level Visual Mnemonic Compression

armatures6 Aug 2020 23:58 UTC

11 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Why no total winner?

Paul Crowley15 Oct 2017 22:01 UTC

36 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Voting is like donating thousands of dollars to charity

Academian5 Nov 2012 1:02 UTC

41 points

206 comments5 min readLW link

Beware Trivial Fears

Stabilizer4 Feb 2014 5:40 UTC

63 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

Solutions to Political Problems As Counterfactuals

Scott Alexander25 Sep 2009 17:21 UTC

46 points

36 comments6 min readLW link

Additional arguments for NIMBY

Zvi11 Oct 2018 20:40 UTC

32 points

10 comments13 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Competition for Power

Samo Burja4 Apr 2018 17:10 UTC

17 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Rishi Sunak mentions “existential threats” in talk with OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic CEOs

Arjun Panickssery, Baldassare Castiglione and Cleo Nardo

24 May 2023 21:06 UTC

34 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.gov.uk)

Asymmetric Weapons Aren’t Always on Your Side

Davis_Kingsley8 Jun 2019 8:47 UTC

37 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

The Cybersecurity Dilemma in a Nutshell

Gentzel12 Dec 2019 3:20 UTC

35 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Sex, Lies, and Dexamethasone

Jacob Falkovich20 Feb 2018 19:56 UTC

15 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

Mitt Romney’s $10,000 bet

MileyCyrus12 Dec 2011 2:14 UTC

50 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: The Captured Economy

Zvi11 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC

14 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

80,000 Hours: EA and Highly Political Causes

The_Jaded_One26 Jan 2017 21:44 UTC

45 points

25 comments7 min readLW link

The File Drawer Effect and Conformity Bias (Election Edition)

Salemicus8 May 2015 16:51 UTC

48 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Mechanics without wrenches

PhilGoetz15 Apr 2009 20:09 UTC

36 points

78 comments3 min readLW link

Help, help, I’m being oppressed!

Scott Alexander7 Apr 2009 23:22 UTC

43 points

145 comments5 min readLW link

Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled

Benquo2 Nov 2017 9:10 UTC

14 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

[Question] Why is the mail so much better than the DMV?

Logan Zoellner29 Dec 2019 18:55 UTC

30 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Politics as Charity

CarlShulman23 Sep 2010 5:33 UTC

37 points

165 comments8 min readLW link

Status for status sake is a fact of political life

Tim Liptrot18 Aug 2020 22:06 UTC

10 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

What the Haters Hate

Jacob Falkovich1 Oct 2018 20:29 UTC

29 points

36 comments8 min readLW link

Some Thoughts on Conditional Forecasts – Lessons from the 2020 Election

Javier5 Jun 2023 11:58 UTC

14 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Trusting Expert Consensus

ChrisHallquist16 Oct 2013 20:22 UTC

41 points

81 comments17 min readLW link

Journal article about politics and mindkilling

CronoDAS7 Sep 2011 7:46 UTC

41 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.

[deleted]2 Dec 2012 12:50 UTC

43 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

Analyzing Blackmail Being Illegal (Hanson and Mowshowitz related)

curi20 Aug 2020 18:56 UTC

0 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Counterfactual Coalitions

Larks16 Feb 2012 21:42 UTC

30 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Is That Your True Rejection? by Eliezer Yudkowsky @ Cato Unbound

XiXiDu7 Sep 2011 18:27 UTC

44 points

83 comments1 min readLW link

Planned Power Outages

jefftk12 Oct 2019 14:10 UTC

27 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Manufacturing prejudice

PhilGoetz3 Apr 2011 17:26 UTC

37 points

73 comments1 min readLW link

Has “politics is the mind-killer” been a mind-killer?

SonnieBailey17 Mar 2019 3:05 UTC

31 points

26 comments3 min readLW link

A Proposal for Defeating Moloch in the Prison Industrial Complex

lululu2 Jun 2015 22:03 UTC

33 points

77 comments4 min readLW link

Transforming Democracy: A Unique Funding Opportunity for US Federal Approval Voting

Aaron Hamlin28 Jun 2023 22:07 UTC

25 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Factions, inequality, and social justice

John_Maxwell3 Dec 2012 19:37 UTC

44 points

173 comments6 min readLW link

Divergence on Evidence Due to Differing Priors—A Political Case Study

Davidmanheim16 Sep 2019 11:01 UTC

27 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Hierarchy and wings

Benquo6 May 2019 18:39 UTC

25 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

You’re Entitled to Everyone’s Opinion

satt20 Sep 2014 15:39 UTC

33 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Why don’t countries, like companies, more often merge?

Vishrut Arya22 Aug 2020 23:56 UTC

15 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Belief in religion considered harmful?

[deleted]17 Dec 2011 22:38 UTC

33 points

54 comments7 min readLW link

Yudkowsky vs Trump: the nuclear showdown.

MrMind11 Nov 2016 11:30 UTC

27 points

162 comments2 min readLW link

A Parable of Elites and Takeoffs

gwern30 Jun 2014 23:04 UTC

39 points

98 comments5 min readLW link

The cone of freedom (or, freedom might only be instrumentally valuable)

dkl924 Jul 2023 15:38 UTC

−10 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

Paper digestion: “May We Have Your Attention Please? Human-Rights NGOs and the Problem of Global Communication”

Klara Helene Nielsen20 Jul 2023 17:08 UTC

4 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(journals.sagepub.com)

Partial Transcript of Recent Senate Hearing Discussing AI X-Risk

Daniel_Eth27 Jul 2023 9:16 UTC

55 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

SSA vs. SIA: how future population may provide evidence for or against the foundations of political liberalism

j30 Jul 2023 20:18 UTC

−6 points

10 comments55 min readLW link

The Sinews of Sudan’s Latest War

Tim Liptrot4 Aug 2023 18:17 UTC

43 points

12 comments12 min readLW link

Rationality of demonstrating & voting

bfinn7 Nov 2018 0:09 UTC

24 points

21 comments8 min readLW link

Anyone know of empirically driven lobbying efforts?

palladias27 Aug 2012 22:02 UTC

37 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

In Defense of Tone Arguments

OrphanWilde19 Jul 2012 19:48 UTC

32 points

175 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is libertarianism unsustainable? Why?

Vishrut Arya10 Oct 2020 2:09 UTC

2 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Election Preparation

jefftk15 Oct 2020 20:30 UTC

18 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Which headlines and narratives are mostly clickbait?

Pontor25 Oct 2020 1:19 UTC

5 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Posting on Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jan 2008 7:25 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Politics is work and work needs breaks

KatjaGrace4 Nov 2019 17:10 UTC

19 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.com)

Dominic Cummings: how the Brexit referendum was won

The_Jaded_One12 Jan 2017 21:26 UTC

30 points

69 comments1 min readLW link

(blogs.spectator.co.uk)

A Genius for Destruction

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Aug 2008 19:25 UTC

25 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Today’s Inspirational Tale

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Nov 2008 16:15 UTC

17 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Rationalist Politicians

Bound_up21 Dec 2017 23:29 UTC

9 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable

Scott Alexander19 Dec 2014 5:00 UTC

42 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

Occupy Wall Street: Predictions, Speculations

byrnema19 Oct 2011 0:44 UTC

−8 points

43 comments1 min readLW link

Two reasons to expect a peaceful change of power in the US

Tim Liptrot8 Nov 2020 17:13 UTC

11 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Are the social sciences challenging because of fundamental difficulties or because of imposed ones?

ozziegooen10 Nov 2020 4:56 UTC

56 points

12 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What is to be done? (About the profit motive)

Connor Barber8 Sep 2023 19:27 UTC

1 point

21 comments1 min readLW link

Tell it to someone who doesn’t care

PhilGoetz14 Apr 2009 18:15 UTC

25 points

34 comments3 min readLW link

“Did you lock it?”

ymeskhout14 Sep 2023 21:10 UTC

33 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

(ymeskhout.substack.com)

Polarization is Not (Standard) Bayesian

Kevin Dorst16 Sep 2023 16:31 UTC

11 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

(kevindorst.substack.com)

The Proxy Political Party

antidefault19 Sep 2023 17:47 UTC

−2 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(antidefault.net)

Careless talk on US-China AI competition? (and criticism of CAIS coverage)

Oliver Sourbut20 Sep 2023 12:46 UTC

9 points

2 comments10 min readLW link 2 reviews

(www.oliversourbut.net)

The mind-killer

Paul Crowley2 May 2009 16:49 UTC

29 points

160 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Please steelman the accusations of election fraud

Tim Liptrot10 Nov 2020 4:39 UTC

2 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Did anybody calculate the Briers score for per-state election forecasts?

ChristianKl10 Nov 2020 17:51 UTC

11 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Would You Slap Your Father? Article Linkage and Discussion

Annoyance2 Jun 2009 18:49 UTC

2 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Less wrong economic policy

Gordon Seidoh Worley9 Jun 2009 20:11 UTC

7 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

Representative democracy awesomeness hypothesis

taw18 Jun 2009 3:02 UTC

4 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Probability and Politics

CarlShulman24 Nov 2010 17:02 UTC

28 points

31 comments5 min readLW link

The Overkill Conspiracy Hypothesis

ymeskhout20 Oct 2023 16:51 UTC

26 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Rationalists from the UK—what are your thoughts on Dominic Cummings?

Davis_Kingsley21 Nov 2020 10:00 UTC

11 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Genocide isn’t Decolonization

robotelvis20 Oct 2023 4:14 UTC

33 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

(messyprogress.substack.com)

What is going on in the world?

KatjaGrace17 Jan 2021 11:30 UTC

90 points

48 comments3 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Making Expertise Legible: Being right should make you respected, not the other way around

ejacob7 Feb 2021 23:15 UTC

6 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

(eidan.substack.com)

Don’t encourage prisoners dilemmas

Yair Halberstadt16 Feb 2021 6:33 UTC

8 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Chaotic era: avoid or survive?

Valentin202622 Feb 2021 1:34 UTC

3 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Germs and Politics

Savio Coelho1 Mar 2021 21:57 UTC

1 point

1 comment10 min readLW link

On Changing Minds That Aren’t Mine, and The Instinct to Surrender.

Anomal313 Mar 2021 16:08 UTC

14 points

13 comments6 min readLW link

A New Center? [Politics] [Wishful Thinking]

abramdemski12 Apr 2021 15:19 UTC

62 points

36 comments3 min readLW link

Election results in Central Europe match some pre-WW1 borders

ForensicOceanography24 Apr 2021 6:24 UTC

19 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

[ACX Linkpost] A Modest Proposal for Republicans

mike_hawke30 Apr 2021 18:43 UTC

9 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

Improving parliamentary information processing

victorsintnicolaas26 Jun 2021 16:11 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Interview with Olle Häggström: Reason, COVID-19 and Academic Freedom in Sweden

Erich_Grunewald21 Aug 2021 15:08 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

AI Prediction Services and Risks of War

isaduan3 Oct 2021 10:26 UTC

3 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

Possible Worlds after Prediction Take-off

isaduan3 Oct 2021 10:26 UTC

5 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Dominic Cummings : Regime Change #2: A plea to Silicon Valley

ChristianKl2 Oct 2021 19:35 UTC

68 points

73 comments1 min readLW link

(dominiccummings.substack.com)

The World According to Dominic Cummings

Chris_Leong14 Apr 2020 5:05 UTC

69 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

9/11 as mindkiller

NancyLebovitz12 Sep 2011 17:44 UTC

23 points

112 comments1 min readLW link

On Walmart, And Who Bears Responsibility For the Poor

ChrisHallquist27 Nov 2013 5:08 UTC

23 points

512 comments3 min readLW link

[Book Review] “The Bell Curve” by Charles Murray

lsusr2 Nov 2021 5:49 UTC

94 points

134 comments23 min readLW link

An Unexpected Victory: Container Stacking at the Port of Long Beach

Zvi28 Oct 2021 14:40 UTC

300 points

41 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Paths Forward: Scaling the Sharing of Information and Solutions

Zvi2 Nov 2021 23:50 UTC

64 points

20 comments21 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 8/12: The Worst Is Over

Zvi12 Aug 2021 13:30 UTC

79 points

66 comments26 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 8/5: Much Ado About Nothing

Zvi5 Aug 2021 14:00 UTC

63 points

34 comments31 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 7/22: Error Correction

Zvi22 Jul 2021 14:20 UTC

66 points

45 comments21 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 7/8: Delta Takes Over

Zvi8 Jul 2021 13:00 UTC

72 points

16 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 6/10: Somebody Else’s Problem

Zvi10 Jun 2021 13:10 UTC

57 points

26 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 11/4: The After Times

Zvi4 Nov 2021 15:20 UTC

51 points

33 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Voting Puzzle, Some Political Science, and a Nerd Failure Mode

ChrisHallquist10 Oct 2013 2:10 UTC

142 points

181 comments17 min readLW link

A tale from Communist China

Wei Dai18 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC

281 points

65 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] What are the limitations on politically motivated relocation?

Asgård4 Dec 2021 15:16 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

Zvi24 Dec 2020 15:10 UTC

276 points

135 comments31 min readLW link 2 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Hedging the Possibility of Russia invading Ukraine

Annapurna23 Dec 2021 1:13 UTC

27 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

COVID Skepticism Isn’t About Science

jaspax29 Dec 2021 17:53 UTC

128 points

76 comments7 min readLW link

Omicron: My Current Model

Zvi28 Dec 2021 17:10 UTC

253 points

72 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why do people avoid vaccination?

KatjaGrace10 Feb 2022 21:10 UTC

53 points

58 comments6 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Review: Václav Havel’s “The Power of the Powerless”

David Gross21 Feb 2022 2:18 UTC

43 points

1 comment26 min readLW link

A Primer on God, Liberalism and the End of History

Mahdi Complex26 Mar 2022 20:07 UTC

33 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

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