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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (harmful.cat-v.org) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2011 | 120 points by vimes656 | original thread | |
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Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child (spotthedrowningchild.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2015 | 1215 points by omegaworks | original thread | |
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2018 | 699 points by rgun | original thread | |
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Accountability sinks (aworkinglibrary.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2024 | 517 points by l0b0 | original thread | |
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Presumption of stupidity (aaronkharris.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2015 | 510 points by garry | original thread | |
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What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance (perell.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2019 | 438 points by tosh | original thread | |
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2025 | 386 points by lis | original thread | |
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Isaac Asimov Mulls “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959) (technologyreview.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2014 | 269 points by Dnguyen | original thread | |
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Thought Leaders and Chicken Sexers (ideolalia.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2020 | 256 points by michael_fine | original thread | |
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Epistemic legibility: being easy to argue with is a virtue (acesounderglass.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2022 | 242 points by shrikant | original thread | |
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The Clock in the Mountain (kk.org) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2011 | 217 points by michael_nielsen | original thread | |
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Scissor Statements: Sort by Controversial (slatestarcodex.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2019 | 217 points by paulsutter | original thread | |
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The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad? (economist.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2022 | 185 points by sohkamyung | original thread | |
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The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics (blog.jaibot.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2015 | 137 points by ggreer | original thread | |
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Amish Hackers (2009) (kk.org) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2022 | 129 points by harryvederci | original thread | |
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The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970) (jofreeman.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2023 | 3 points by mooreds | original thread | |
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The Techno-Optimist Manifesto (a16z.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2023 | 2 points by packym | original thread | |
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