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Death Spirals

Aug 24, 2017 by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Leveling up in rationality means encountering a lot of interesting and powerful new ideas. In many cases, it also means making friends who you can bounce ideas off of and finding communities that encourage you to better yourself. This sequence discusses some important hazards that can afflict groups united around common interests and amazing shiny ideas, which will need to be overcome if we’re to get the full benefits out of rationalist communities.

79The Affect Heuristic
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89Evaluability (And Cheap Holiday Shopping)
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84Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, & Futurism
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81The Halo Effect
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125Superhero Bias
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115Affective Death Spirals
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95Resist the Happy Death Spiral
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119Uncritical Supercriticality
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179Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs
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132When None Dare Urge Restraint
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127Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult
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133Two Cult Koans
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69Asch's Conformity Experiment
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64On Expressing Your Concerns
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174Lonely Dissent
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106Cultish Countercultishness
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