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Nominated Posts for the 2019 Review

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101The LessWrong 2018 Review

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74Moral Mazes and Short Termism

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66Combat vs Nurture & Meta-Contrarianism

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52"The Bitter Lesson", an article about compute vs human knowledge in AI

the gears to ascension

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54Perfect Competition

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32Calibrating With Cards

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146Integrating disagreeing subagents

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95Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness

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67Separation of Concerns

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61Book Review: Why Are The Prices So Damn High?

sarahconstantin

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152The Commitment Races problem

Daniel Kokotajlo

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73Imperfect Competition

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65AGI will drastically increase economies of scale

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82Misconceptions about continuous takeoff

Matthew Barnett

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113CO2 Stripper Postmortem Thoughts

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49How common is it for one entity to have a 3+ year technological lead on its nearest competitor?

Daniel Kokotajlo

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121What Comes After Epistemic Spot Checks?

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533 Cultural Infrastructure Ideas from MAPLE

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92What I've Learned From My Parents' Arranged Marriage

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70Reneging prosocially by Duncan Sabien

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91Reframing the evolutionary benefit of sex

paulfchristiano

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170Jeff Hawkins on neuromorphic AGI within 20 years

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43Self-consciousness wants to make everything about itself

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106Gradient hacking

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260"Other people are wrong" vs "I am right"

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212Rest Days vs Recovery Days

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165Integrity and accountability are core parts of rationality

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103Turning air into bread

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102The Credit Assignment Problem

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185Evolution of Modularity

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160Reason isn't magic

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127Firming Up Not-Lying Around Its Edge-Cases Is Less Broadly Useful Than One Might Initially Think

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172Selection vs Control

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89Tal Yarkoni: No, it's not The Incentives—it's you

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151Forum participation as a research strategy

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113AlphaStar: Impressive for RL progress, not for AGI progress

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221Debate on Instrumental Convergence between LeCun, Russell, Bengio, Zador, and More

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123Sequence introduction: non-agent and multiagent models of mind

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98Total horse takeover

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62Book Review: Secular Cycles

Scott Alexander

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104Book Review: The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions

Scott Alexander

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299Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists

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113Complex Behavior from Simple (Sub)Agents

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126Everybody Knows

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130Utility ≠ Reward

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126Thoughts on Human Models

Ramana Kumar, Scott Garrabrant

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90The Power to Teach Concepts Better

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110What is operations?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)

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280Building up to an Internal Family Systems model

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153From Personal to Prison Gangs: Enforcing Prosocial Behavior

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2019 Review Discussion

How to Ignore Your Emotions (while also thinking you're awesome at emotions)

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(cross posted from my personal blog)

Since middle school I've generally thought that I'm pretty good at dealing with my emotions, and a handful of close friends and family have made similar comments. Now I can see that though I was particularly good at never flipping out, I was decidedly not good "healthy emotional processing". I'll explain later what I think "healthy emotional processing" is, right now I'm using quotes to indicate "the thing that's good to do with emotions". Here it goes...

Relevant context

When I was a kid I adopted a strong, "Fix it or stop complaining about it" mentality. This applied to stress and worry as well. "Either address the problem you're worried about or quit worrying about it!" Also being a kid, I had a limited...

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Thac01mo32

Thanks! Both your own article and the link were pretty good.
Interestingly my situation resolved, I just kept my attention on the emotion, and one day something happened that made it crystal clear to me what the right course was. A long time friend and formely one of my closest friends treated me like shit, and suddenly I knew that the emotion was that she had to go, and I cut contact. Since then my feelings have returned to an unexciting baseline, with no current big blindspots.
I think the right play is just to keep attention on it, keep it in your periphery, until the gears click and the reason the emotion lies dormant comes into focus.