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Each December since 2018, the LessWrong community comes together to look at the best posts from the previous year, and reflect on which of them have stood the test of time. We hold 2-month-long annual review process. At the end, the thousands of posts from a given year are narrowed down into approximately 50 posts. Those posts are collected in these Best Of LessWrong sequences. If you'd like to get a sense of what intellectual work LessWrong has done in the past few years, this is a good place to start. This first book is about epistemology, the study of how we come to know the world. A healthy epistemology is not only about avoiding sins like self-deception and obfuscation. It is also about living out virtues like curiosity and empiricism, and taking active steps to dissolve confusion and see the world more clearly over time. We do not understand how many parts of reality work. We also have many motives to not look directly at it or... A mind must be created already in motion. There i

x Books — LessWrong Books of LessWrong A Map That Reflects the Territory (2018) Epistemology Agency Coordination Curiosity Alignment The Engines of Cognition (2019) Trust Modularity Incentives Failure The Carving of Reality (2020) Reality & Reason Coordination & Constraint Alignment & Agency Takeoff & Takeover A Moderate Update to your Priors (2021) A Moderate Update to your Organic Priors A Moderate Update to your Artificial Priors Books of LessWrong Each December since 2018, the LessWrong community comes together to look at the best posts from the previous year , and reflect on which of them

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