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Back to Search“The Best Reference Works for Every Subject” by Parker Conley
Introduction
The Best Textbooks on Every Subject is the Schelling point for the best textbooks on every subject. My The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
“‘Flaky breakthroughs’ pervade coaching — and no one tracks them” by Chipmonk
Has someone you know ever had a “breakthrough” from coaching, meditation, or psychedelics — only to later have it fade?
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For example, man…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
“The Value Proposition of Romantic Relationships” by johnswentworth
What's the main value proposition of romantic relationships?
Now, look, I know that when people drop that kind of question, they’re often about to p…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
“It’s hard to make scheming evals look realistic” by Igor Ivanov, dan_moken
Abstract
Claude 3.7 Sonnet easily detects when it's being evaluated for scheming. Surface‑level edits to evaluation scenarios, such as lengthening t…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
[Linkpost] “Social Anxiety Isn’t About Being Liked” by Chipmonk
This is a link post. There's this popular idea that socially anxious folks are just dying to be liked. It seems logical, right? Why else would someon…
9 months ago
“Truth or Dare” by Duncan Sabien (Inactive)
Author's note: This is my apparently-annual "I'll put a post on LessWrong in honor of LessOnline" post. These days, my writing goes on my Substack.…
9 months ago
“Meditations on Doge” by Martin Sustrik
Lessons from shutting down institutions in Eastern Europe.
This is a cross post from: https://250bpm.substack.com/p/meditations-on-doge
Imagine …
9 months ago
[Linkpost] “If you’re not sure how to sort a list or grid—seriate it!” by gwern
This is a link post. "Getting Things in Order: An Introduction to the R Package seriation":
Seriation [or "ordination"), i.e., finding a suitable lin…
9 months ago
“What We Learned from Briefing 70+ Lawmakers on the Threat from AI” by leticiagarcia
Between late 2024 and mid-May 2025, I briefed over 70 cross-party UK parliamentarians. Just over one-third were MPs, a similar share were members of…
9 months ago
“Winning the power to lose” by KatjaGrace
Have the Accelerationists won?
Last November Kevin Roose announced that those in favor of going fast on AI had now won against those favoring cautio…
9 months, 1 week ago