#rationality

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@lesswrong Dependencies in conversation and in software #Rationality #Software #Philosophy
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Oct 29, 2026
@lesswrong Everything Rots #Philosophy #Rationality #Science
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Oct 29, 2026
@lesswrong Borrow My Accordion? #Rationality #Philosophy #DecisionMaking
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Oct 29, 2026
@lesswrong Three Villages in a Trenchcoat, Post I #Rationality #Philosophy #Science
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Oct 29, 2026
@lesswrong Training Away the Ability to Tell Evals from Deployment #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy
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Oct 29, 2026
@lesswrong A Mind's I #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy
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Oct 29, 2026
@lesswrong Tracking the Cyber Capabilities of Cheap Open-Weight Models #ArtificialIntelligence #CyberSecurity #Rationality
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong You can now "@Grok" on LessWrong #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong You Don't Have a Glycine Deficiency #Science #Philosophy #Rationality
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong Reconceptualize things as your top affordances #Rationality #DecisionMaking #Philosophy
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong ACX Atlanta November Meetup #Rationality #Philosophy #Science
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong The Tragedy of Wisdom #Philosophy #Rationality #AI
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong Against Moloch #49 #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong Some different lenses of agency and their implications for alignment #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy #Rationality
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong Subtly wrong advice misaligns models more than obviously wrong advice #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong Making alignment the agent's problem #AI #Rationality #Philosophy
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong The Crypto Dream is Structurally Illegal #Rationality #Crypto #Philosophy
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong What do we mean by 'long-horizon' work? #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong Self-Experiment Results on Caffeine, Exercise and Meditation #Rationality #Science #Health
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong Untitled Draft #Rationality #Philosophy #Science
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong Streetlight, Torchlight and Nightvision #Rationality #Philosophy #Science
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong Great but Painful #Rationality #Philosophy #DecisionMaking
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong When I Salsa dance, am I supposed to... try? #Rationality #Philosophy #DecisionMaking
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong March Against AI Extinction #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong I spent 12 hours writing an article for LessWrong, calling for a more 'hippie' rationalism. Then I didn't post it. This is why (plus a link to the article, explicitly not located on LessWrong) #Rationality #Philosophy #DecisionMaking
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong Quantum Mechanics Overview #Science #Physics #Rationality
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Oct 28, 2026
@lesswrong Against Girardian mimesis #Philosophy #Rationality #DecisionMaking
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Oct 27, 2026
@lesswrong Does the "automated grader" direction suppress expressed distress in Qwen3.6-27B? #AI #Rationality #Science
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Oct 27, 2026
@lesswrong Poll: Biosecurity Community Pulse & Perspective 2026 #Rationality #Biosecurity #Philosophy
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Oct 27, 2026
@lesswrong Comments on the BlueDot Strategy Course #Rationality #Strategy #Philosophy
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Oct 27, 2026
@lesswrong Sci.STEPS opens applications for mentors for the 2027 season #Science #Mentorship #Rationality
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Oct 27, 2026
@lesswrong Time for automated decision forecasting? #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy
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Oct 27, 2026
@lesswrong Quantity has a quality of its own #Rationality #Philosophy #DecisionMaking
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Oct 27, 2026
@lesswrong Anthropic Versus Anthropic #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy
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Oct 27, 2026
@lesswrong Different eval awareness may track different graders #AI #Rationality #Philosophy
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Oct 25, 2026
@lesswrong San Francisco State University in Twilight #Philosophy #Rationality #AI
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Oct 25, 2026
@lesswrong A Study of China Does Not Personal Experience Make #Rationality #Philosophy #SocialScience
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Oct 25, 2026
@lesswrong Is GPT 2XL already clean? #AI #LLM #Rationality
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Oct 25, 2026
@lesswrong Setting the Scene (Public v1; October 25) #Rationality #AI #Philosophy
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Oct 25, 2026
@lesswrong Mech Interp is a La Croix of Actual Safety Research #AI #Rationality #Philosophy
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