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Articles I consider useful

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Internal21
6
Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting
5
Your best future self
5
Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences
5
Singularity Mindset
5
Slack
5
Skill - The Map is Not the Territory
5
The limits of introspection
5
Sorting Out Sticky Brains
5
Experiential Pica
4
Sapient Algorithms
4
The Skill of Noticing Emotions
4
"Just Suffer Until It Passes"
4
Proper posture for mental arts
4
Attempted Telekinesis
4
Flashes of Nondecisionmaking
4
Dark Arts of Rationality
4
How habits work and how you may control them
4
The Cognitive Costs to Doing Things
4
The Good News of Situationist Psychology
4
Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality
4
Generalizing From One Example
Multiagent18
6
A non-mystical explanation of insight meditation and the three characteristics of existence - introduction and preamble
6
The two-layer model of human values, and problems with synthesizing preferences
6
Player vs. Character - A Two-Level Model of Ethics
5
On the construction of the self
5
Subagents, neural Turing machines, thought selection, and blindspots
5
Subagents, akrasia, and coherence in humans
5
Sunset at Noon
5
Consistently Inconsistent
5
Why You're Stuck in a Narrative
4
Goodhart's Law inside the human mind
4
My current take on Internal Family Systems "parts"
4
Integrating disagreeing subagents
4
Sequence introduction - non-agent and multiagent models of mind
4
Be a new homunculus
4
Productivity through self-loyalty
4
Simulate and Defer To More Rational Selves
4
Inferring Our Desires
4
Is That Your True Rejection?
Decision Theory22
6
Slack matters more than any outcome
6
Become a person who Actually Does Things
5
The hostile telepaths problem
5
Kelly Bet on Everything
5
TDT for Humans
5
Magic Brain Juice
5
Choices Are Really Bad
5
Make your training useful
5
Cached Selves
4
On Slack - Having room to be excited
4
On Option Paralysis - The Thing You Actually Do
4
The illusion of doing nothing
4
Being a Robust Agent
4
The Solitaire Principle - Game Theory for One
4
Out to Get You
4
Newcomblike problems are the norm
4
The 5-Second Level
4
Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People
4
"Nahh, that wouldn't work"
4
A "Failure to Evaluate Return-on-Time" Fallacy
4
Beware Trivial Inconveniences
4
Fake Justification

Disclaimer: Stuff posted here isn't meant to present the full representation of LW or the rationalist community.
Since I don't have much experience with topics that affect the external world like AI alignment, EA, and societal problems, I focus on the self-help slice of rat content.