Social & Cultural Dynamics

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Notes on Courtesy

David Gross16 Dec 2020 4:08 UTC

11 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Violent Unraveling: Suicidal Majoritarianism

mako yass29 Jul 2021 9:29 UTC

6 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Sasha Chapin on bad social norms in rationality/EA

Kaj_Sotala17 Nov 2021 9:43 UTC

50 points

22 comments5 min readLW link

(sashachapin.substack.com)

Notes on Teaching in Prison

jsd19 Apr 2023 1:53 UTC

274 points

13 comments12 min readLW link

Economic Class

lsusr2 Mar 2021 1:58 UTC

27 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

A Crisper Explanation of Simulacrum Levels

Thane Ruthenis23 Dec 2023 22:13 UTC

89 points

13 comments13 min readLW link

Why Are Women Hot?

Jacob Falkovich18 Dec 2022 23:20 UTC

17 points

19 comments11 min readLW link

Social behavior curves, equilibria, and radicalism

Eric Neyman5 Jun 2021 1:39 UTC

186 points

18 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Anti-social Punishment

Martin Sustrik27 Sep 2018 7:08 UTC

309 points

66 comments6 min readLW link 3 reviews

[Question] Silly Online Rules

Gunnar_Zarncke8 Jun 2022 20:40 UTC

8 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Two Prosocial Rejection Norms

Emrik28 Apr 2022 20:53 UTC

53 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

We’re already in AI takeoff

Valentine8 Mar 2022 23:09 UTC

144 points

118 comments7 min readLW link

Frame Control

Aella27 Nov 2021 22:59 UTC

329 points

283 comments23 min readLW link 2 reviews

The Virtue of Silence

Scott Alexander14 Jun 2013 19:00 UTC

127 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

social lemon markets

bhauth25 Apr 2024 2:18 UTC

22 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Self-consciousness wants to make everything about itself

jessicata3 Jul 2019 1:44 UTC

44 points

70 comments6 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC

369 points

367 comments8 min readLW link

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)

Duncan Sabien: “In Defense of Punch Bug”

Davis_Kingsley3 May 2018 8:26 UTC

30 points

187 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

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

Reneging Prosocially

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)30 Nov 2021 19:01 UTC

172 points

15 comments17 min readLW link 1 review

Something Unfathomable: Unaligned Humanity and how we’re racing against death with death

Yuli_Ban27 Feb 2023 11:37 UTC

13 points

14 comments19 min readLW link

Here’s the exit.

Valentine21 Nov 2022 18:07 UTC

97 points

178 comments10 min readLW link 5 reviews

Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Mar 2009 8:37 UTC

292 points

211 comments9 min readLW link

Professing and Cheering

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Aug 2007 7:20 UTC

114 points

45 comments2 min readLW link

Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

Scott Alexander7 Jun 2014 16:44 UTC

19 points

3 comments22 min readLW link

Politics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC

288 points

46 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Unwitting cult leaders

Kaj_Sotala11 Feb 2021 11:10 UTC

119 points

9 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(kajsotala.fi)

Book review: WEIRDest People

PeterMcCluskey30 Nov 2020 3:33 UTC

101 points

57 comments9 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

The Seeker’s Game – Vignettes from the Bay

Yulia9 Jul 2023 19:32 UTC

137 points

19 comments16 min readLW link

Long Now, and Culture vs Artifacts

Raemon3 Feb 2020 21:49 UTC

26 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Feminism and Femininity

NathanBarnard18 May 2022 22:53 UTC

4 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

Ideoculture

elv11 Dec 2023 10:29 UTC

8 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Civility Is Never Neutral

ozymandias22 Nov 2017 16:54 UTC

57 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

[Valence series] 4. Valence & Social Status (deprecated)

Steven Byrnes15 Dec 2023 14:24 UTC

35 points

19 comments11 min readLW link

my theory of the industrial revolution

bhauth28 Feb 2024 21:07 UTC

23 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Fact Checking and Retaliation Against Sources

jefftk4 Jan 2024 0:41 UTC

7 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Social status part 1/2: negotiations over object-level preferences

Steven Byrnes5 Mar 2024 16:29 UTC

115 points

15 comments21 min readLW link

Social status part 2/2: everything else

Steven Byrnes5 Mar 2024 16:29 UTC

61 points

2 comments23 min readLW link

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

Nathan Young6 Dec 2024 11:22 UTC

34 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

(nathanpmyoung.substack.com)

Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots (survey of Replika users in Nature)

Kaj_Sotala23 Jan 2024 14:05 UTC

45 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.nature.com)

Palworld development blog post

bhauth28 Jan 2024 5:56 UTC

81 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(note.com)

story-based decision-making

bhauth7 Feb 2024 2:35 UTC

89 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How do high-trust societies form?

Shankar Sivarajan9 Feb 2024 1:11 UTC

22 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Shaming with and without naming

KatjaGrace23 Feb 2024 7:30 UTC

15 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Balancing Games

jefftk24 Feb 2024 14:40 UTC

61 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Failures in Kindness

silentbob26 Mar 2024 21:30 UTC

409 points

60 comments9 min readLW link

Fundamental Uncertainty: Chapter 8 - When does fundamental uncertainty matter?

Gordon Seidoh Worley26 Apr 2024 18:10 UTC

11 points

2 comments32 min readLW link

The two-tiered society

Roman Leventov13 May 2024 7:53 UTC

5 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

[Valence series] 4. Valence & Liking / Admiring

Steven Byrnes10 Jun 2024 14:19 UTC

46 points

12 comments14 min readLW link

Chronic perfectionism through the eyes of school reports

Stuart Johnson19 Jun 2024 17:46 UTC

13 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

LK-99 in retrospect

bhauth7 Jul 2024 2:06 UTC

72 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Podcast discussing Hanson’s Cultural Drift Argument

vaishnav92 and regan.arntz.gray

20 Oct 2024 17:58 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(moralmayhem.substack.com)

Motte-and-Bailey: a Short Explanation

Lorec23 Oct 2024 22:29 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed

Zvi11 Nov 2024 14:30 UTC

240 points

28 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Current Attitudes Toward AI Provide Little Data Relevant to Attitudes Toward AGI

Seth Herd12 Nov 2024 18:23 UTC

16 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Social events with plausible deniability

Chipmonk18 Nov 2024 18:25 UTC

25 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

(chrislakin.blog)

Meme or Die: Modern Societies are Dependent on Emotionally Rich Memes to Rapidly Evolve

monkymind30 Mar 2023 8:59 UTC

11 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

The Toxoplasma of AGI Doom and Capabilities?

Robert_AIZI24 Apr 2023 18:11 UTC

72 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Romance, misunderstanding, social stances, and the human LLM

Kaj_Sotala27 Apr 2023 12:59 UTC

69 points

32 comments16 min readLW link

The Perils of Professionalism

Screwtape7 Nov 2023 0:07 UTC

41 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

The Intelligent Social Web

Valentine22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC

230 points

112 comments12 min readLW link 2 reviews

I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 8:22 UTC

100 points

4 comments28 min readLW link

Society Is Fixed, Biology Is Mutable

Scott Alexander11 Sep 2014 0:27 UTC

45 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

How The West Was Won

Scott Alexander26 Jul 2016 3:05 UTC

39 points

10 comments17 min readLW link

In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization

Scott Alexander23 Feb 2014 22:24 UTC

84 points

9 comments20 min readLW link

Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons

Scott Alexander24 Mar 2017 4:33 UTC

66 points

5 comments19 min readLW link

The Ideology Is Not The Movement

Scott Alexander5 Apr 2016 1:52 UTC

39 points

3 comments24 min readLW link

Meditations On Moloch

Scott Alexander30 Jul 2014 4:00 UTC

187 points

10 comments47 min readLW link

Book Review: Secular Cycles

Scott Alexander13 Aug 2019 4:10 UTC

62 points

10 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

(slatestarcodex.com)

Different Worlds

Scott Alexander3 Oct 2017 4:10 UTC

73 points

16 comments14 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Ethnic Tension And Meaningless Arguments

Scott Alexander5 Nov 2014 3:38 UTC

89 points

8 comments22 min readLW link

All Debates Are Bravery Debates

Scott Alexander9 Jun 2013 19:00 UTC

110 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Against accusing people of motte and bailey

Kaj_Sotala3 Jun 2018 21:31 UTC

42 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Outside Analysis and Blind Spots

orthonormal21 Jul 2009 1:00 UTC

82 points

34 comments5 min readLW link

Predicting Future Morality

ESRogs6 May 2018 7:17 UTC

13 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies

Scott Alexander13 May 2009 22:51 UTC

185 points

288 comments7 min readLW link

Book Review: Ages Of Discord

Scott Alexander3 Sep 2019 6:30 UTC

36 points

1 comment21 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Book Review: Why Honor Matters

ryan_b25 Jun 2018 20:53 UTC

33 points

9 comments12 min readLW link

Book review: The Complacent Class

Richard_Ngo13 Oct 2018 19:20 UTC

20 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Teachers vs. Tutors

[deleted]26 Oct 2010 16:59 UTC

18 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Applause Lights

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Sep 2007 18:31 UTC

345 points

99 comments2 min readLW link

Dunbar’s Function

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Dec 2008 2:26 UTC

68 points

65 comments6 min readLW link

The Nature of Offense

Wei Dai23 Jul 2009 11:15 UTC

135 points

179 comments3 min readLW link

Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2007 3:04 UTC

124 points

41 comments3 min readLW link

Alignment Research Field Guide

abramdemski8 Mar 2019 19:57 UTC

268 points

9 comments17 min readLW link 2 reviews

Of Two Minds

Valentine17 May 2018 4:34 UTC

94 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

How to Seem (and Be) Deep

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Oct 2007 18:13 UTC

116 points

122 comments4 min readLW link

Why Would A Certain Hoax Story Be Reported For So Long?

Servant24 Mar 2011 17:11 UTC

12 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

28 social psychology studies from Experiments With People (Frey & Gregg, 2017)

Yuxi_Liu16 Jun 2019 2:23 UTC

12 points

1 comment26 min readLW link

Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Jun 2007 21:13 UTC

208 points

148 comments3 min readLW link

Study on what makes people approve or condemn mind upload technology; references LW

Kaj_Sotala10 Jul 2018 17:14 UTC

22 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.nature.com)

Approval Extraction Advertised as Production

Benquo15 Dec 2019 14:51 UTC

82 points

39 comments19 min readLW link 3 reviews

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Epistemic Tenure

Scott Garrabrant18 Feb 2019 22:56 UTC

89 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

A Self-Respect Feedback Loop

ialdabaoth11 May 2018 23:09 UTC

39 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

The Relationship Between Hierarchy and Wealth

sarahconstantin23 Jan 2019 2:00 UTC

59 points

8 comments12 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

The Case for Privacy Optimism

bmgarfinkel10 Mar 2020 20:30 UTC

43 points

1 comment32 min readLW link

(benmgarfinkel.wordpress.com)

T-Shaped Organizations

Vaniver16 Dec 2019 23:48 UTC

49 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Levels of communication

Kaj_Sotala23 Mar 2010 21:32 UTC

63 points

73 comments3 min readLW link

Market norms and Social norms

TruetoThis6 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Dec 2007 23:08 UTC

173 points

50 comments3 min readLW link

Asch’s Conformity Experiment

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Dec 2007 7:03 UTC

68 points

67 comments4 min readLW link

Lonely Dissent

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Dec 2007 4:23 UTC

162 points

91 comments4 min readLW link

Status Regulation and Anxious Underconfidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Nov 2017 19:35 UTC

83 points

18 comments21 min readLW link

Notes on Brainwashing & ‘Cults’

gwern13 Sep 2013 20:49 UTC

79 points

106 comments16 min readLW link

Honors Fuel Achievement

Samo Burja10 Jun 2019 16:10 UTC

38 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Social Technology

Samo Burja2 Mar 2018 19:54 UTC

13 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

Mob and Bailey

Screwtape25 May 2023 22:14 UTC

78 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What are some “Communities and Cultures Different From Our Own?”

Raemon12 May 2019 22:03 UTC

29 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The Asshole Filter

DragonGod7 Oct 2017 16:51 UTC

39 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(siderea.livejournal.com)

The Alignment-Competence Trade-Off, Part 1: Coalition Size and Signaling Costs

Gentzel15 Jan 2020 23:10 UTC

30 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Culture, interpretive labor, and tidying one’s room

Benquo26 Jul 2018 20:59 UTC

25 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Conflict, the Rules of Engagement, and Professionalism

habryka5 Sep 2020 5:04 UTC

47 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Social Capital Paradoxes

abramdemski10 Sep 2020 18:44 UTC

69 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

Charisma is a Force Multiplier

Davis_Kingsley11 Oct 2020 10:21 UTC

39 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Everything I Know About Elite America I Learned From ‘Fresh Prince’ and ‘West Wing’

Wei Dai11 Oct 2020 18:07 UTC

44 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nytimes.com)

Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)

alkjash26 Oct 2020 20:25 UTC

294 points

69 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

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

Roko5 Apr 2009 20:22 UTC

31 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

What is the optimal frontier for due diligence?

RobertM and Ruby

8 Sep 2023 18:20 UTC

41 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Socratic Grilling

SilasBarta12 Nov 2020 21:16 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Debugging the student

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 7:07 UTC

46 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

We desperately need to talk more about human challenge trials.

DirectedEvolution19 Dec 2020 10:00 UTC

29 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Overconfidence is Deceit

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)17 Feb 2021 10:45 UTC

78 points

29 comments11 min readLW link

[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Vaniver8 Mar 2021 15:22 UTC

72 points

207 comments2 min readLW link

[Book Review] Destiny Disrupted

lsusr21 Mar 2021 7:09 UTC

58 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

Gossip

Yoav Ravid21 Mar 2021 13:36 UTC

12 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

Politics is the Mind-Killer

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Feb 2007 21:23 UTC

289 points

242 comments2 min readLW link

Academia as Company Hierarchy

Virgil Kurkjian9 May 2021 17:29 UTC

72 points

40 comments18 min readLW link

Book Review: Order Without Law

philh10 Jul 2021 21:50 UTC

64 points

5 comments49 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Book review: The Explanation of Ideology

PeterMcCluskey20 Jul 2021 3:42 UTC

43 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

What can we learn from traditional societies?

mukashi5 Oct 2021 0:24 UTC

18 points

11 comments11 min readLW link

The end of Victorian culture, part I: structural forces

David Hugh-Jones9 Dec 2021 19:25 UTC

24 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

The end of Victorian culture, part II: people and history

David Hugh-Jones18 Dec 2021 18:55 UTC

9 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

Causality and determinism in social science—An investigation using Pearl’s causal ladder

tailcalled3 Jan 2022 17:51 UTC

12 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

[Book Review]: The Bonobo and the Atheist by Frans De Waal

J Bostock5 Jan 2022 22:29 UTC

17 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Experimenting with microsolidarity crews

Jarred Filmer6 Feb 2022 11:41 UTC

50 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

What The Foucault

adamShimi19 Feb 2022 22:48 UTC

39 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

The Dawn of Everything: a review

David Hugh-Jones21 Mar 2022 12:53 UTC

32 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

Giving calibrated time estimates can have social costs

Alex_Altair3 Apr 2022 21:23 UTC

99 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

Notes on the Autobiography of Malcolm X

Benquo6 Apr 2022 19:34 UTC

11 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The Amish

PeterMcCluskey12 Apr 2022 2:54 UTC

49 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Narrative Syncing

AnnaSalamon1 May 2022 1:48 UTC

118 points

48 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Benign Boundary Violations

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)26 May 2022 6:48 UTC

203 points

84 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

On The Spectrum, On The Guest List: (ii) LAVO

party girl27 May 2022 16:45 UTC

18 points

3 comments18 min readLW link

(onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com)

An inquiry into the thoughts of twenty-five people in India

KatjaGrace28 May 2022 8:30 UTC

21 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Eternal youth as eternal suffering

Shmi4 Jun 2022 1:48 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Staying Split: Sabatini and Social Justice

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)8 Jun 2022 8:32 UTC

152 points

28 comments21 min readLW link

On The Spectrum, On The Guest List: (v) The Fleur Room

party girl10 Jun 2022 14:50 UTC

8 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

(onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com)

Wyclif’s Dust: the missing chapter

David Hugh-Jones22 Jul 2022 18:27 UTC

9 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

Open Bands: Leading Rhythm

jefftk26 Oct 2022 14:30 UTC

10 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Social Recession: By the Numbers

antonomon29 Oct 2022 18:45 UTC

165 points

29 comments8 min readLW link

(novum.substack.com)

Mastodon Linking Norms

jefftk10 Nov 2022 15:10 UTC

9 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Systems of Survival

Vaniver9 Dec 2022 5:13 UTC

63 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] When to mention irrelevant accusations?

philh14 Jan 2023 21:58 UTC

20 points

50 comments1 min readLW link

Robin Hanson on “Explaining the Sacred”

Raemon6 Feb 2023 0:50 UTC

13 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(www.overcomingbias.com)

Why is Everyone So Boring? By Robin Hanson

trevor6 Feb 2023 4:17 UTC

56 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.overcomingbias.com)

High Status Eschews Quantification of Performance

niplav19 Mar 2023 22:14 UTC

126 points

36 comments5 min readLW link

Notes on Social Responsibility

David Gross19 Mar 2022 14:44 UTC

17 points

4 comments19 min readLW link

Notes on Judgment and Righteous Anger

David Gross30 Jan 2021 19:31 UTC

13 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Antimemes

lsusr26 Nov 2019 5:58 UTC

54 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

The Law of Least Effort Contributes to the Conjunction Fallacy

curi9 Aug 2020 19:38 UTC

7 points

53 comments3 min readLW link

Asymmetric Weapons Aren’t Always on Your Side

Davis_Kingsley8 Jun 2019 8:47 UTC

37 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

The Tragedy of the Social Epistemology Commons

Roko21 May 2010 12:42 UTC

66 points

91 comments4 min readLW link

Social Dynamics

curi10 Aug 2020 19:29 UTC

10 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

We’ll Always Have Crazy

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)15 Dec 2021 2:55 UTC

36 points

22 comments13 min readLW link

Species as Canonical Referents of Super-Organisms

Yudhister Kumar18 Oct 2024 7:49 UTC

9 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(www.yudhister.me)

Terrorism is not about Terror

gwern24 Mar 2009 17:08 UTC

49 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Crime and punishment

PhilGoetz24 Mar 2011 21:53 UTC

50 points

192 comments2 min readLW link

Converging toward a Million Worlds

Joe Kwon24 Dec 2021 21:33 UTC

11 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

minimum viable action

Sindhu Prasad12 Mar 2024 16:06 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Values Weren’t Complex, Once.

Davidmanheim25 Nov 2018 9:17 UTC

36 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Could we solve this email mess if we all moved to paid emails?

jacobjacob11 Aug 2019 16:31 UTC

29 points

50 comments4 min readLW link

Finance Followups

Jacob Falkovich17 Jan 2019 17:54 UTC

26 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Outrage Bonding

Jonathan Moregård9 Aug 2024 13:46 UTC

63 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

(honestliving.substack.com)

Book Review: The Righteous Mind

Tornus20 Jan 2022 21:42 UTC

7 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war continued by other means

Eneasz21 Oct 2014 19:39 UTC

39 points

48 comments4 min readLW link

The Temptation to Bubble

gressettd23 Sep 2015 23:34 UTC

34 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

The Intrinsic Interplay of Human Values and Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Optimization Challenge

Joe Kwon5 Jun 2023 20:41 UTC

2 points

1 comment18 min readLW link

Clickbait might not be destroying our general Intelligence

Donald Hobson19 Nov 2018 0:13 UTC

25 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

The State of Affairs

Jacob Falkovich3 May 2019 16:18 UTC

33 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Feeling Old: Leaving your 20s in the 2020s

squidious22 Nov 2022 22:50 UTC

37 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(opalsandbonobos.blogspot.com)

Model, Care, Execution

Ricki Heicklen and AvitalM

26 Jun 2023 4:05 UTC

111 points

10 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

(bayesshammai.substack.com)

Fight Zero-Sum Bias

multifoliaterose18 Jul 2010 5:57 UTC

28 points

164 comments2 min readLW link

You’re Entitled to Everyone’s Opinion

satt20 Sep 2014 15:39 UTC

33 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

Why do people ____?

magfrump4 May 2012 4:20 UTC

36 points

255 comments1 min readLW link

Seeding a productive culture: a working hypothesis

Benquo18 Oct 2017 9:10 UTC

11 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Good arguments against “cultural appropriation”

Tyrrell_McAllister18 Dec 2018 17:23 UTC

24 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Masculinity—A Case For Courage

James Stephen Brown4 Jun 2024 0:04 UTC

23 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

Book Review: The Complacent Class

Zvi16 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC

10 points

3 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Changes in Reality

eapache7 Sep 2020 16:18 UTC

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Rats, Back a Candidate

Blake28 Jul 2024 3:19 UTC

−40 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Indignation in response to the 1890 census

jasoncrawford8 Sep 2020 20:14 UTC

26 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Rationalism and social rationalism

philosophybear10 Mar 2023 23:20 UTC

17 points

5 comments10 min readLW link

(philosophybear.substack.com)

Against boots theory

philh14 Sep 2020 13:20 UTC

44 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.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)

AI romantic partners will harm society if they go unregulated

Roman Leventov1 Aug 2023 9:32 UTC

25 points

76 comments13 min readLW link

Shared reality: a key driver of human behavior

kdbscott24 Dec 2022 19:35 UTC

126 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Increased Scam Quality/Quantity (Hypothesis in need of data)?

Beeblebrox9 Jan 2023 22:57 UTC

9 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Simulate the CEO

robotelvis12 Aug 2023 0:09 UTC

23 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

(messyprogress.substack.com)

Malice, Stupidity, or Egalité Irréfléchie?

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)13 Jun 2011 20:57 UTC

32 points

62 comments2 min readLW link

An African Folktale

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Feb 2009 1:00 UTC

28 points

62 comments3 min readLW link

Against the paradox of tolerance

pchvykov10 Jan 2023 0:12 UTC

1 point

11 comments3 min readLW link

Burdens

Scott Alexander16 Aug 2014 19:00 UTC

41 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

Report on Analyzing Connotation Frames in Evolving Wikipedia Biographies

Maira30 Aug 2023 22:02 UTC

1 point

0 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] Social interventions gone wrong

[deleted]20 Aug 2012 9:24 UTC

34 points

77 comments7 min readLW link

Is cognitive load a factor in community decline?

ryan_b7 Dec 2018 15:45 UTC

18 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

The Hidden Origins of Ideas

cleonid28 Mar 2009 2:27 UTC

5 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Framing Effects in Anthropology

Scott Alexander29 Mar 2009 22:05 UTC

10 points

15 comments8 min readLW link

The Brooklyn Society For Ethical Culture

MBlume3 Apr 2009 8:06 UTC

19 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

AI Girlfriends Won’t Matter Much

Maxwell Tabarrok23 Dec 2023 15:58 UTC

42 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

(maximumprogress.substack.com)

Clueless World vs. Loser World

michael_vassar27 Oct 2017 0:03 UTC

12 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

GroupThink, Theism … and the Wiki

byrnema13 Apr 2009 17:28 UTC

−2 points

62 comments2 min readLW link

Approval-Seeking ⇒ Playful Evaluation

Jonathan Moregård28 Aug 2024 21:03 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(honestliving.substack.com)

[Question] What do “attractor dynamics” refer to in the context of social structures?

JavierCC20 Mar 2023 1:39 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Stop trying to have “interesting” friends

eq19 Apr 2023 23:39 UTC

41 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

Cooperation is for Winners

Jacob Falkovich15 Feb 2019 14:58 UTC

21 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Is Kiryas Joel an Unhappy Place?

gwern23 Apr 2011 0:08 UTC

28 points

188 comments3 min readLW link

Apocalypse, corrupted

Stuart_Armstrong26 Jun 2019 13:46 UTC

20 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Dissenting Views

byrnema26 May 2009 18:55 UTC

22 points

212 comments2 min readLW link

A social norm against unjustified opinions?

Kaj_Sotala29 May 2009 11:25 UTC

16 points

161 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a definitive intro to punishing non-punishers?

pjeby31 Oct 2019 20:20 UTC

25 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Do the ‘unlucky’ systematically underestimate high-variance strategies?

MBlume12 Oct 2009 22:27 UTC

25 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

The Laws of Magic

Annoyance15 Jun 2009 19:13 UTC

20 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

Meaning wars

Elo14 Dec 2017 23:17 UTC

11 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

How does generalized accessibility compare to targeted accessibility?

ErioirE17 Jul 2024 17:07 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

In favor of accelerating problems you’re trying to solve

Christopher King11 Apr 2023 18:15 UTC

2 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

“Model UN Solutions”

Arjun Panickssery8 Dec 2023 23:06 UTC

36 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

How to Compliment

less_penguiny16 Dec 2020 8:25 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

On insecurity as a friend

Kaj_Sotala9 Oct 2018 18:30 UTC

42 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Scott Alexander is wrong about slurs

[deactivated]21 Nov 2023 8:43 UTC

−27 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

Will people be motivated to learn difficult disciplines and skills without economic incentive?

Roman Leventov20 Mar 2023 9:26 UTC

18 points

33 comments5 min readLW link

Mini thoughts on mintheism

CraigMichael11 Jan 2021 5:14 UTC

14 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Ten Modes of Culture War Discourse

jchan31 Jan 2024 13:58 UTC

54 points

15 comments15 min readLW link

Matt Levine on “Fraud is no fun without friends.”

Raemon19 Jan 2021 18:23 UTC

120 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bloomberg.com)

A few thought on the inner ring

KatjaGrace21 Jan 2021 3:40 UTC

90 points

23 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Camaraderie at scale: in search of shared identity

eq24 Apr 2023 16:46 UTC

8 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Avoid large group discussions in your social events

RomanHauksson15 Feb 2023 21:05 UTC

36 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Germs and Politics

Savio Coelho1 Mar 2021 21:57 UTC

1 point

1 comment10 min readLW link

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

Michael Cohn8 Jul 2024 3:13 UTC

132 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

The average North Korean mathematician

Malmesbury7 Mar 2021 17:28 UTC

66 points

19 comments8 min readLW link

(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

Deception Strategies

Thoth Hermes20 Apr 2023 15:59 UTC

−7 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(thothhermes.substack.com)

Debunking the myth of safe AI

henophilia15 Dec 2024 17:44 UTC

−9 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(henophilia.substack.com)

Open, Free, Safe: Choose Two

jaspax20 Mar 2021 16:42 UTC

108 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

The Fourth Arena 2: New beings in time

Bill Benzon5 Jun 2022 13:30 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

Arrogance and People Pleasing

Jonathan Moregård6 Feb 2024 18:43 UTC

26 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(honestliving.substack.com)

Election results in Central Europe match some pre-WW1 borders

ForensicOceanography24 Apr 2021 6:24 UTC

19 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Quantum Darwinism, social constructs, and the scientific method

pchvykov7 Feb 2024 7:04 UTC

6 points

12 comments9 min readLW link

Unattributed Good

Filip Dousek4 Jun 2021 20:47 UTC

10 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Key Questions for Digital Minds

Jacy Reese Anthis22 Mar 2023 17:13 UTC

22 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

What can we learn from orcas?

Jonasb10 Jun 2024 18:01 UTC

1 point

0 comments8 min readLW link

(www.denominations.io)

The Cult Deficit: Analysis and Speculation

rogersbacon13 Jun 2021 5:33 UTC

18 points

11 comments13 min readLW link

Covid vaccine safety: how correct are these allegations?

DPiepgrass13 Jun 2021 3:08 UTC

45 points

93 comments19 min readLW link

The homework assignment incentives, and why it’s now so extreme

Andrew Vlahos22 Jun 2021 4:19 UTC

22 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

The Malthusian Trap: An Extremely Short Introduction

Davis Kedrosky19 Jun 2022 15:25 UTC

5 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(daviskedrosky.substack.com)

My unbundling of morality

Rudi C30 Dec 2020 15:19 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

In-group loyalty is social cement

David Hugh-Jones6 Jul 2021 9:57 UTC

19 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

How to Become a World Historical Figure (Péladan’s Dream)

rogersbacon7 Jul 2022 22:39 UTC

21 points

3 comments30 min readLW link

(www.secretorum.life)

Is social theory our doom?

pchvykov15 Jul 2021 3:31 UTC

6 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

The burden of knowing

arisAlexis28 Feb 2023 18:40 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

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

Affordance Widths

ialdabaoth10 May 2018 23:37 UTC

67 points

53 comments4 min readLW link 6 reviews

Procedural Knowledge Gaps

Alicorn8 Feb 2011 3:17 UTC

197 points

1,495 comments1 min readLW link

Living in an Inadequate World

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Nov 2017 21:23 UTC

93 points

47 comments20 min readLW link

Melting Gold, and Organizational Capacity

Raemon11 Dec 2017 19:16 UTC

73 points

23 comments5 min readLW link

The Typical Sex Life Fallacy

ozymandias7 Oct 2017 21:48 UTC

41 points

30 comments5 min readLW link

Mildly against COVID risk budgets

Optimization Process16 Aug 2021 5:53 UTC

54 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Norms of Membership for Voluntary Groups

sarahconstantin11 Dec 2018 22:10 UTC

192 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Misery Pits

Alicorn10 Mar 2018 23:50 UTC

47 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Degrees of Freedom

sarahconstantin2 Apr 2019 21:10 UTC

103 points

31 comments11 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Meditations on Momentum

Richard Meadows14 Dec 2018 10:53 UTC

107 points

32 comments10 min readLW link

On hiding the source of knowledge

jessicata26 Jan 2020 2:48 UTC

115 points

40 comments3 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

Tolerate Tolerance

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Mar 2009 7:34 UTC

146 points

87 comments2 min readLW link

Mandatory Obsessions

Jacob Falkovich14 Nov 2018 18:19 UTC

77 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

Everybody Knows

Zvi2 Jul 2019 12:20 UTC

137 points

21 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Beware Social Coping Strategies

Lulie5 Feb 2018 4:48 UTC

51 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

Preschool: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know

Zvi20 Nov 2018 19:30 UTC

65 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Effective Networking as Sending Hard to Fake Signals

vaishnav9212 Dec 2024 20:32 UTC

22 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(www.optimaloutliers.com)

Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil: A Report on the Beguilings of Evil

David Gross20 Sep 2021 15:19 UTC

58 points

31 comments4 min readLW link

The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

Vaniver23 Nov 2019 22:12 UTC

63 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.paulgraham.com)

In My Culture

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)7 Mar 2019 7:22 UTC

68 points

59 comments24 min readLW link 2 reviews

(medium.com)

Making yourself small

Helen8 Mar 2018 14:26 UTC

129 points

54 comments11 min readLW link

The “Outside the Box” Box

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Oct 2007 22:50 UTC

94 points

51 comments2 min readLW link

Why Real Men Wear Pink

Scott Alexander6 Aug 2009 7:39 UTC

99 points

155 comments3 min readLW link

Does Age Bring Wisdom?

Scott Alexander8 Nov 2017 7:20 UTC

37 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Isolating Content can Create Affordances

Davis_Kingsley23 Aug 2018 8:28 UTC

49 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

On the construction of beacons

Benquo16 Oct 2017 9:10 UTC

21 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Helpless Individuals

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Mar 2009 11:10 UTC

88 points

244 comments3 min readLW link

Why people want to die

PhilGoetz24 Aug 2015 20:13 UTC

93 points

174 comments2 min readLW link

Sacred Cash

Zvi3 Mar 2018 13:20 UTC

29 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ethics and rationality of suicide

anonymous2592 May 2011 1:38 UTC

68 points

205 comments2 min readLW link

Expected (Social) Value

algrthms7 Aug 2022 8:16 UTC

5 points

2 comments3 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

Sapiens

Vaniver8 Apr 2015 2:56 UTC

70 points

12 comments13 min readLW link

[Link] Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

daenerys14 Jun 2012 3:41 UTC

66 points

46 comments1 min readLW link

Noisy Poll Results And Reptilian Muslim Climatologists from Mars

Scott Alexander12 Apr 2013 10:49 UTC

44 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

“Cheat to Win”: Engineering Positive Social Feedback

sarahconstantin5 Feb 2018 23:16 UTC

189 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

Offense versus harm minimization

Scott Alexander16 Apr 2011 1:06 UTC

87 points

429 comments9 min readLW link

Rules of variety

KatjaGrace8 Dec 2017 17:10 UTC

32 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Dark Forest Theories

Raemon12 May 2023 20:21 UTC

139 points

49 comments2 min readLW link

Alignment via prosocial brain algorithms

Cameron Berg12 Sep 2022 13:48 UTC

45 points

30 comments6 min readLW link

Self-Keeping Secrets

lsusr10 Nov 2019 7:59 UTC

72 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

The Social Impact of Trolley Problems

atomantic8 May 2024 3:09 UTC

5 points

3 comments14 min readLW link

Kevin Simler’s “Going Critical”

habryka16 May 2019 4:36 UTC

56 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.meltingasphalt.com)

Permissions in Governance

sarahconstantin2 Aug 2019 19:50 UTC

53 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

What’s In A Name?

Scott Alexander29 Jun 2009 12:54 UTC

53 points

138 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Can Social Dynamics Explain Conjunction Fallacy Experimental Results?

curi5 Aug 2020 8:50 UTC

8 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Special Status Needs Special Support

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 May 2009 22:59 UTC

30 points

75 comments2 min readLW link

The Competence Myth

Davis_Kingsley30 Jun 2019 18:55 UTC

48 points

31 comments2 min readLW link

Categories of Sacredness

Zvi27 Feb 2018 2:00 UTC

26 points

35 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Blame games

Benquo6 May 2019 2:38 UTC

46 points

13 comments8 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The Inner Ring by C. S. Lewis

Saul Munn24 Apr 2024 22:48 UTC

69 points

6 comments13 min readLW link

(www.lewissociety.org)

Asch Conformity Could Explain the Conjunction Fallacy

curi6 Aug 2020 21:46 UTC

7 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

The Threat of Cryonics

lsparrish3 Aug 2010 19:57 UTC

43 points

216 comments4 min readLW link

The Signal and the Corrective

MalcolmOcean11 Feb 2018 0:28 UTC

21 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(everythingstudies.com)

Disability Culture Meets the Transhumanist Condition

Rubix28 Oct 2011 19:02 UTC

39 points

150 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What is a reasonable outside view for the fate of social movements?

jacobjacob4 Jan 2019 0:21 UTC

33 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Being Normal by Brian Caplan

Gunnar_Zarncke27 Nov 2021 22:19 UTC

38 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Childhood and Education Roundup #5

Zvi17 Apr 2024 13:00 UTC

36 points

4 comments25 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Raising the Sanity Waterline

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Mar 2009 4:28 UTC

239 points

233 comments3 min readLW link

Good Citizenship Is Out Of Date

Ben_LandauTaylor10 Sep 2018 0:15 UTC

44 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

(benlandautaylor.com)

The Technique Taboo

lsusr30 Oct 2019 11:22 UTC

55 points

43 comments1 min readLW link

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