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Introduction The Best Textbooks on Every Subject is the Schelling point for the best textbooks on e
Has someone you know ever had a “breakthrough” from coaching, meditation, or psychedelics — only to
What's the main value proposition of romantic relationships? Now, look, I know that when peopl
Abstract Claude 3.7 Sonnet easily detects when it's being evaluated for scheming. Surface‑leve
This is a link post. There's this popular idea that socially anxious folks are just dying to be
Author's note: This is my apparently-annual "I'll put a post on LessWrong in honor
Lessons from shutting down institutions in Eastern Europe. This is a cross post from: https://250b
This is a link post. "Getting Things in Order: An Introduction to the R Package seriation"
Between late 2024 and mid-May 2025, I briefed over 70 cross-party UK parliamentarians. Just over on
Have the Accelerationists won? Last November Kevin Roose announced that those in favor of going fas
This is a link post. Google Deepmind has announced Gemini Diffusion. Though buried under a host of o
I’m reading George Eliot's Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879)—so far a snoozer compared t
Epistemic status: thing people have told me that seems right. Also primarily relevant to US audienc
"If you kiss your child, or your wife, say that you only kiss things which are human, and thus
The other day I discussed how high monitoring costs can explain the emergence of “aristocratic” sys
Eliezer and I wrote a book. It's titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Unlike a lot of ot
It was a cold and cloudy San Francisco Sunday. My wife and I were having lunch with friends at a Ko
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For months, I had the feeling: something is wrong. Some core part of myself had gone missing. I had
(Disclaimer: Post written in a personal capacity. These are personal hot takes and do not in any wa
