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About three and a half years ago, polutropon ran an akrasia tactics review, following the one orthonormal ran three and a half years prior t

Expectation is often used to refer to two totally distinct things: entitlement and anticipation. My basic opinion is that entitlement is a r

Naming things! Naming things is hard. It's been claimed that it's one of the hardest parts of computer science. Now, this might sound surpri

Eight months ago, I announced that the Less Wrong Study Hall, a virtual coworking space where people do pomodoros together, has moved to Com

When you think of "ultimatums", what comes to mind? Manipulativeness, maybe? Ultimatums are typically considered a negotiation tactic, and

School taught me to write banal garbage because people would thumbs-up it anyway. That approach has been interfering with me trying to actua

It’s all too easy to let a false understanding of something replace your actual understanding. Sometimes this is an oversimplification, but

I realize this question is contrived, but I figure it might provoke some fun discussion, so here goes: If you could push a button and have

As part of a philosophy course I'm currently taking called Intelligence in Machines, Humans, and Other Animals, I have to write a <3000w ess

(If you're familiar with the backstory of the LWSH, you can skip to paragraph 5. If you just want the link to the chat, click here: LWSH on