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- Follow me on TikTok
- Legibility
- Weirdness Points
- You can just wear a suit
- Osaka
- [NSFW] The Fuzzy Handcuffs of Liberation
- Export Surplusses
- Test of the Bene Gesserit
- Proselytizing
- How accurate was my "Altered Traits" book review?
- Moral Hazard in Democratic Voting
- The News is Never Neglected
- EA-adjacent
- Escape from Alderaan I
- Re: Taste
- Let's explore REDnote
- Stream Entry
- How we know Physics is Wrong
- Living with Rats in College
- what "physically impossible" means
- Effective Evil's AI Misalignment Plan
- math ⊕ science ≠ ∅
- First Strike and Second Strike [video version]
- [Letter] Chinese Quickstart
- I finally got ChatGPT to sound like me
- Interdictor Ship
- Decision Theory in Space
- You're a Space Wizard, Luke
- Let's Talk Heresy
- Hot Seat
- Reverse-Engineering My Best Posts
- Paris Hilton's Ghostwritten Memoir
- Awakening
- The Pearly Gates
- Луна Лавгуд и Комната Тайн, Часть 1
- Is there software to practice reading expressions?
- Just Sitting is Painfully Hard
- We Found the Perfect Tunnel for Street Art
- Back to Basics: Truth is Unitary
- Many people lack basic scientific knowledge
- "Should we"
- Cultural Appropriation is (usually) Good
- throwing gold into the ocean
- flowing like water; hard like stone
- What is a mental illness?
- Lsusr's Rationality Dojo
- Indistinguishable from Mind Reading
- Is high-frequency trading ethical?
- Universal Love applies to Everyone
- Marie Kondo
- I folded my laundry
- The Art of Happiness
- The Dark Arts
- What is the next level of rationality?
- Embedded Agents are Quines
- A Socratic dialogue with my student
- Leadership: a Socratic Dialogue
- Attempting to explain fiat money in under 1 hour
- [Bias] Restricting freedom is more harmful than it seems
- What's your favorite black joke?
- Aspies are heretics
- Getting Offended is Intolerant
- Two Jews; three opinions
- Petrov Day [Spoiler Warning]
- Futures contracts create (risk-adjusted) value
- Wealth is not zero-sum
- Debt Forgiveness: A Case Study in Persuasion
- Newcomb Variant
- When Omnipotence is Not Enough
- Stoicism and grace under pressure
- Insight Meditation
- [Review] Two People Smoking Behind the Supermarket
- Moral Hazard in Voter Choice
- Rhetorical Aikido
- Tim Ferris 2: 17 Questions
- Tim Ferris 1: The Low-Information Diet
- Transhuman Political Correctness
- Heaven & Hell
- [Prediction] Humanity will survive the next hundred years
- The Caplan-Yudkowsky End-of-the-World Bet Scheme Doesn't Actually Work
- Self-Reference Breaks the Orthogonality Thesis
- Beyond Reinforcement Learning: Predictive Processing and Checksums
- Path-Dependence in ChatGPT's Political Outputs
- Mlyyrczo
- Predictive Processing, Heterosexuality and Delusions of Grandeur
- MrBeast's Squid Game Tricked Me
- Always know where your abstractions break
- Science and Math
- [Book Review] "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Teacup Test
- What are you for?
- Seattle Robot Cult
- How do you get a job as a software developer?
- To Your Eternity
- Feelings Occur Before Explanations
- Checksum Sensor Alignment
- The Alignment Problem
- Deontological Evil
- Enlightenment
- Dagger of Detect Evil
- To what extent have ideas and scientific discoveries gotten harder to find?
- The Mountain Troll
- The Burden of Worldbuilding
- Silliness
- Here's a List of Some of My Ideas for Blog Posts
- Glass Puppet
- Seattle Robot Cult
- Squires
- Being Correct xor Appearing Correct
- The Gospel of Martin Luther
- Letter to my Squire
- [Review] The Lifechanging Magic of Tidying up.
- Rationality Dojo
- Re: So You Want to Be a Dharma Teacher
- Ineffective Altruism
- All I Know is that I Know Nothing
- Bayeswatch 6.5: Therapy
- Bayeswatch 9.5: Rest & Relaxation
- A Word to the Wise is Sufficient because the Wise Know So Many Words
- The Jordan Peterson vs Sam Harris Debate
- The Case for Frequentism: Why Bayesian Probability is Fundamentally Unsound and What Science Does Instead
- Anti-Corruption Market
- Moses and the Class Struggle
- [NSFW Review] Interspecies Reviewers
- Using Prediction Markets to Guide Government Policy
- Titanic II
- The Easy Way to Learn Japanese
- Treating Autism with Improv Comedy
- Romance Protagonists
- Male and Female Love Interests
- It's not WWIII if 5/6 of humanity remains neutral
- Accelerated [Honors] Calculus
- [Letter] Russians are Welcome in America
- Ukraine Situation Report 2022/03/04
- The Geometric Series of 1/(d+1) is a Fraction in Base-d
- Ukraine Situation Report 2022/03/01
- Russia has Invaded Ukraine
- There is more to life than saving the world
- MacGuffins
- Chaos and Stability
- Your Enemies Can Use Your Prediction Markets Against You
- To Change the World
- Bet on Rare Undesirable Outcomes when Seeding a Prediction Market
- Prediction Markets are for Outcomes Beyond Our Control
- Marginal Cases Don't Matter
- My First Insight Cycle
- Parkinson's Law
- Corollary to the Pareto Principle
- Prices in a Post-Scarcity Society
- Confabulating Work
- [Letter] It's the edge cases that bite you
- We're the Good Guys
- We Write Numbers Backward
- [Letter] Mundane Problems Have Mundane Solutions
- Don't Look Up
- [Review] The Matrix Resurrections
- The Machine that Broke My Heart
- Why did Europe conquer the world?
- Ten Minutes with Sam Altman
- Merry Christmas
- Prerequisite Skills
- Physics Erotica
- [Book Review] "The Most Powerful Idea in the World" by William Rosen
- Six Specializations Makes You World-Class
- Business Writing Example #2
- Business Writing Example #1
- Falsifying Ethical Values
- Perishable Knowledge
- Blog Respectably
- Leverage
- In One Word
- Changing my mind about exercise
- Extrinsic and Intrinsic Moral Frameworks
- Are big brains for processing sensory input?
- Instinctual Goodness
- YouTube Removes Dislikes
- I ❤️ MrBeast
- Do not bother explaining why others are wrong
- Coordinating the Unequal Treaties
- First Strike and Second Strike
- [Book Review] "Sorceror's Apprentice" by Tahir Shah
- Re: Attempted Gears Analysis of AGI Intervention Discussion With Eliezer
- Education on My Homeworld
- [Book Review] "The Bell Curve" by Charles Murray
- Effective Evil
- We Live in a Post-Scarcity Society
- Tell the Truth
- Start with a Title
- [TL;DR] "Training for the New Alpinism" by Steve House and Scott Johnston
- Leadership
- Postmodern Warfare
- Maitreya
- How I Think About Money
- [Prediction] We are in an Algorithmic Overhang, Part 2
- Would we have invented GPUs just to run ANNs?
- Write Surprisingly About Reality
- Is nuking women and children cheaper than firebombing them?
- Bayeswatch 13: Spaceship
- The Extrapolation Problem
- Bayeswatch 12: The Singularity War
- Bayeswatch 11: Parabellum
- Character-Driven Conflict in "Firefly"
- Noragami
- Cheap food causes cooperative ethics
- 2021 Darwin Game - Everywhere Else
- 2021 Darwin Game - River
- 2021 Darwin Game - Human Garbage Dump
- 2021 Darwin Game - Benthic
- 2021 Darwin Game - Ocean
- 2021 Darwin Game - Desert
- 2021 Darwin Game - Tundra
- 2021 Darwin Game - Contestants
- Interview with Skynet
- [Prediction] We are in an Algorithmic Overhang
- Bayeswatch 10: Spyware
- [Book Review] "Houdini on Magic" by Harry Houdini
- [Book Review] "The Vital Question" by Nick Lane
- The Trolley Problem
- Where's my magic sword?
- This War of Mine
- The 2021 Less Wrong Darwin Game
- [Book Review] Altered Traits
- [Summary] "Introduction to Electrodynamics" by David Griffiths - Part 1
- [Book Review] "The Alignment Problem" by Brian Christian
- Updating Science Fiction Tropes
- Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation
- I wanted to interview Eliezer Yudkowsky but he's busy so I simulated him instead
- GPT-Augmented Blogging
- Bayeswatch 9: Zombies
- Bayeswatch 8: Antimatter
- Pleasure and Pain are Long-Tailed
- Bayeswatch 7: Wildfire
- Three Principles to Writing Original Nonfiction
- Kids Learn by Copying
- [Review] Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
- [Sponsored] Job Hunting in the Modern Economy
- World War Zero
- We Live in an Era of Unprecedented World Peace
- Humanity is Winning the Fight Against Infectious Disease
- Training My Friend to Cook
- Death by a Single Cut
- Altruism Under Extreme Uncertainty
- Autoregressive Propaganda
- Technical Predictions Related to AI Safety
- Purple Lipstick
- Sunzi's《Methods of War》- Potential
- Minimizing Effort
- Sympathetic, Capable, Proactive
- [Letter] You Cannot Buy Self-Reliance
- Re: Competent Elites
- The Commitment Form
- Propose Things
- The Dark Night of the Soul
- How to Contact Me
- Bikepacking to Anacortes
- MeetUp is like Facebook
- Four Components of Audacity
- Happiness Ruins My Writing
- Bayeswatch 6: Mechwarrior
- [Book Review] Blueprint for Revolution
- [Prediction] What war between the USA and China would look like in 2050
- Entropy-Based Calibration will Solve the Overfitting Problem
- Ratchet Programming
- Historical Validation Misses Black Swans
- The Entropy of a Dataset Obeys the Triangle Inequality
- Bayeswatch 5: Hivemind
- Re: Fierce Nerds
- Bayeswatch 4: Mousetrap
- How to compute the probability you are flipping a trick coin
- Deliberately Vague Language is Bullshit
- Zvi's Law of No Evidence
- Hypothesis Space Entropy
- The Nuclear Energy Alignment Problem
- Why quantitative finance is so hard
- Bayeswatch 3: A Study in Scarlet
- Martingales
- Bayeswatch 2: Puppy Muffins
- Bayeswatch 1: Jewish Space Laser
- [Letter] Advice for High School #2
- [Letter] Advice for High School #1
- Anger
- Place-Based Programming - Part 2 - Functions
- Hell is wasted on the evil
- Training the YouTube Algorithm
- Place-Based Programming - Part 1 - Places
- I Trained a Neural Network to Play Helltaker
- Vim
- Predictive Coding has been Unified with Backpropagation
- [Book Review] Destiny Disrupted
- [Book Review] Ancillary Justice
- Conversation Exchange Statistics
- Clubhouse
- Blue is Arbitrary
- How I come up with ideas
- [Prediction] The Consequences of Radical Reform
- Contrarian Writing Advice
- The Flexibility of Abstract Concepts
- Economic Class
- We should not raise awareness
- Media Bias
- Science Fiction
- The Kelly Criterion in 3D
- Race and Nationality
- The Median is Less than the Average
- This is my 100ᵗʰ post on Less Wrong
- The Economics of Media
- Sunzi's《Methods of War》- The Army's Form
- Help your rivals when they are numerous
- Reflections on "Psycho-Pass"
- [Book Review] The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
- Wuwei
- The Future of Biological Warfare
- Deconditioning Aversion to Dislike
- Overconfidence
- Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 13
- Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 12
- Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 11
- Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 10
- Sunzi's《Methods of War》- Planning Attacks
- Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 9
- Haters
- Decentralization
- Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 8
- Hermione Granger and Newcomb's Paradox
- Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 7
- Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 6
- Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 5
- The Darwin Game - Conclusion
- Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 4
- Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 3
- My Fear Heuristic
- The Mutant Game - Rounds 91 to 247
- Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 2
- The Mutant Game - Rounds 31 to 90
- Matryoshka Faraday Box
- Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 1
- Success Buys Freedom
- Evading Mind Control
- Transparent Technologies
- Manifesto of the Silent Minority
- The Mutant Game - Rounds 11 to 30
- The Darwin Game - Rounds 21-500
- Sunzi's《Methods of War》- War
- Sunzi's《Methods of War》- Introduction
- The Darwin Game - Rounds 10 to 20
- The Darwin Game - Rounds 3 to 9
- The Darwin Game - Rounds 1 to 2
- The Born Rule is Time-Symmetric
- Aim to explain, not persuade
- The Darwin Game - Round 1
- On the Dangers of Time Travel
- The Darwin Game - Rounds 0 to 10
- Quantum Gravity
- Developing Business Mindset
- Alpha α and Beta β
- The Darwin Game
- How to Price a Futures Contract
- Business Mindset
- Communicate Authentically
- Emptiness and Form
- Negativity
- Speak in the Positive
- Mysticism
- Feeds and Archives
- News Makes You Stupid
- [Letter] Willpower and Akrasia
- Intuitive Noether Current
- 7 Months Without Junk Media
- ████████ ██████ ███████████
- List of Unusual Beliefs
- Intuitive Lagrangian Mechanics
- Life at Three Tails of the Bell Curve
- Life at Three Tails of the Bell Curve
- News ⊂ Advertising
- [Personal Experiment] One Year without Junk Media: Six-Month Update
- Intuitive Lagrangian Mechanics
- Status-Regulating Emotions
- lsusr's Shortform
- Orthogonality
- Small Data
- I do not like math
- I Do Not Like Math
- The Inefficient Market Hypothesis
- The History of Color in Chinese
- The History of Color in Chinese
- 3 Interview-like Algorithm Questions for Programmers
- 4 Kinds of Learning
- How do you do hyperparameter searches in ML?
- [Personal Experiment] Training YouTube's Algorithm
- [Personal Experiment] One Year without Junk Media
- Confabulation
- Symbiotic Conflicts
- Antimemes
- [Personal Experiment] Counterbalancing Risk-Aversion
- Indescribable
- Self-Keeping Secrets
- The Technique Taboo
- Prospecting for Conceptual Holes
- Mediums Overpower Messages
- Invisible Choices, Made by Default
- Invisible Choices, Made by Default
- Mediums Overpower Messages
- Integrating the Lindy Effect
- Zeno walks into a bar