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  • @lesswrong Why are some explanations bad? #Rationality #Cognition #Philosophy

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    Oct 14, 2026
  • @lesswrong PPA 11: The Basic Model #Rationality #DecisionMaking #AI

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    Oct 14, 2026
  • @lesswrong PPA 10: Deriving the PPA #Rationality #AI #Philosophy

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    Oct 14, 2026
  • @lesswrong PPA 9: Putting it All Together #Rationality #DecisionMaking #AI

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    Oct 14, 2026
  • @lesswrong PPA 7: Temporal Consistency and Texas Sharpshooting #Rationality #DecisionMaking #AI

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    Oct 14, 2026
  • @lesswrong PPA 6: Indexical Models Don't Have Diversity Biases #Rationality #AI #Philosophy

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    Oct 14, 2026
  • @lesswrong PPA 5: Improper Priors and the Infinite SIA #Rationality #AI #Philosophy

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    Oct 14, 2026
  • @lesswrong PPA 4: Parametric Modeling and Types of Uncertainty #Rationality #AI #Philosophy

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    Oct 14, 2026
  • @lesswrong PPA 3: A Brief Defense of Indexical Reasoning #Rationality #Philosophy #Reasoning

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    Oct 14, 2026
  • @lesswrong Agent memory the human can still audit: primary sources, epistemic status markers, and user sign-off #AI #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Oct 14, 2026
  • @lesswrong (Why) we're launching the next cohort of Generator #AI #Community #Rationality

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    Oct 14, 2026
  • @lesswrong (Why) we're launching the next cohort of Generator #AI #Community #Rationality

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    Oct 14, 2026
  • @lesswrong South Korea, ACX Meetups Everywhere Fall 2026 #Community #Events #Rationality

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    Oct 14, 2026
  • @lesswrong Too Many Yellow Flags #Rationality #DecisionMaking #AI

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    Oct 14, 2026
  • @lesswrong Roko Mijic talks AI Risk on The Peter McCormack Show #AI #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Oct 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong Thoughts on alignment science vs. engineering #AI #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Oct 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong A Spine within the Swarm #AI #Philosophy #Rationality

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    Oct 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong LLMs Knowingly Hide Their Mistakes #AI #MachineLearning #Rationality

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    Oct 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong Today I Killed; Tomorrow I Will Kill Again #Rationality #DecisionMaking #Philosophy

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    Oct 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong Feierabend #Philosophy #Rationality #AI

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    Oct 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong AI Horizons Forum (Dec 12-13, SF) #AI #Rationality #Community

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    Oct 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong Below the Frontier: The Battle for Good-Enough AI #AI #Rationality #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Merging Everybody Into Hell #Philosophy #AI #Rationality

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  • @lesswrong Book Review: The Receipt Horizon by Joel Borgen #BookReview #Rationality #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong When are safe Pareto improvements individually rational? #Rationality #Economics #GameTheory

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  • @lesswrong Agreement not to defect (alone) can mitigate loss of control risks #AI #Rationality #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong AIs can clearly read books #AI #Rationality #Cognition

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  • @lesswrong A Pairing Strategy That Almost Works #Rationality #DecisionMaking #Strategy

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  • @lesswrong Good Evals Are Hard: An ImpossibleBench Audit #AI #Rationality #Science

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    Oct 12, 2026
  • @lesswrong 'Employee-like' ≠ Employee-level #Rationality #AI #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Vibe signaling externalities and the people-to-places pipeline #Rationality #Philosophy #SocialScience

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  • @lesswrong Do you have any ideas? #Rationality #AI #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Labs' current alignment plans seem terrible #AI #Rationality #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong The Expensive-Loop Problem #Rationality #AI #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Base Models Can Detect Hidden Intentions that Prompted Classifiers Miss #AI #MachineLearning #Rationality

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  • @lesswrong Santiago - ACX Meetups Everywhere Fall 2026 #Community #Events #Rationality

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  • @lesswrong Porto Alegre - ACX Meetups Everywhere Fall 2026 #Community #Meetup #Rationality

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  • @lesswrong Montevideo - ACX Meetups Everywhere Fall 2026 #Community #Rationality #Meetups

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  • @lesswrong Florianópolis - ACX Meetups Everywhere Fall 2026 #Community #Meetups #Rationality

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  • @lesswrong Chapecó - ACX Meetups Everywhere Fall 2026 #Community #Meetup #Rationality

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