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Be­ware Triv­ial Inconveniences

Scott Alexander6 May 2009 22:04 UTC
251 points
107 comments4 min readLW link

A Parable On Ob­so­lete Ideologies

Scott Alexander13 May 2009 22:51 UTC
184 points
288 comments7 min readLW link

You Are A Brain

Liron9 May 2009 21:53 UTC
131 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

Willpower Hax #487: Ex­e­cute by Default

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 May 2009 6:46 UTC
77 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Sur­vey Results

Scott Alexander12 May 2009 22:09 UTC
61 points
212 comments7 min readLW link

What I Tell You Three Times Is True

Scott Alexander2 May 2009 23:47 UTC
58 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

Har­dened Prob­lems Make Brit­tle Models

cousin_it6 May 2009 18:31 UTC
58 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Image vs. Im­pact: Can pub­lic com­mit­ment be coun­ter­pro­duc­tive for achieve­ment?

patrissimo28 May 2009 23:18 UTC
54 points
48 comments3 min readLW link

This Failing Earth

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 May 2009 16:09 UTC
50 points
166 comments5 min readLW link

Sat­u­ra­tion, Distil­la­tion, Im­pro­vi­sa­tion: A Story About Pro­ce­du­ral Knowl­edge And Cookies

Alicorn24 May 2009 2:38 UTC
46 points
29 comments4 min readLW link

“What Is Wrong With Our Thoughts”

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 May 2009 7:24 UTC
41 points
109 comments1 min readLW link

Eric Drexler on Learn­ing About Everything

Vladimir_Nesov27 May 2009 12:57 UTC
37 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Do Fan­doms Need Awful­ness?

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 May 2009 6:03 UTC
35 points
157 comments3 min readLW link

Bad rea­sons for a ra­tio­nal­ist to lose

matt18 May 2009 22:57 UTC
34 points
83 comments3 min readLW link

Tak­ing Oc­cam Seriously

steven046129 May 2009 17:31 UTC
32 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

Catchy Fal­lacy Name Fal­lacy (and Sup­port­ing Disagree­ment)

JGWeissman21 May 2009 6:01 UTC
32 points
57 comments2 min readLW link

Least Sig­nal­ing Ac­tivi­ties?

RobinHanson22 May 2009 2:46 UTC
31 points
103 comments1 min readLW link

Pos­i­tive Bias Test (C++ pro­gram)

MBlume19 May 2009 21:32 UTC
30 points
79 comments4 min readLW link

Spe­cial Sta­tus Needs Spe­cial Support

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 May 2009 22:59 UTC
30 points
75 comments2 min readLW link

The mind-killer

Paul Crowley2 May 2009 16:49 UTC
29 points
160 comments2 min readLW link

Want­ing to Want

Alicorn16 May 2009 3:08 UTC
29 points
199 comments2 min readLW link

A Re­quest for Open Problems

MrHen8 May 2009 13:33 UTC
28 points
103 comments1 min readLW link

Out­ward Change Drives In­ward Change

cousin_it15 May 2009 12:45 UTC
26 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

Share Your Anti-Akra­sia Tricks

Vladimir_Golovin15 May 2009 19:06 UTC
25 points
121 comments1 min readLW link

How David Beats Goliath

JulianMorrison5 May 2009 1:25 UTC
25 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Link: The Case for Work­ing With Your Hands

Daniel_Burfoot28 May 2009 14:16 UTC
25 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Allais Hack—Trans­form Your De­ci­sions!

MBlume3 May 2009 22:37 UTC
22 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Dissent­ing Views

byrnema26 May 2009 18:55 UTC
22 points
212 comments2 min readLW link

Bead Jar Guesses

Alicorn4 May 2009 18:59 UTC
22 points
134 comments2 min readLW link

Reli­gion, Mys­tery, and Warm, Soft Fuzzies

Psychohistorian14 May 2009 23:41 UTC
21 points
125 comments3 min readLW link

Without models

Richard_Kennaway4 May 2009 11:31 UTC
21 points
55 comments7 min readLW link

“Open-Mind­ed­ness”—the video

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 May 2009 6:17 UTC
21 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

On the Fence? Ma­jor in CS

talisman7 May 2009 4:26 UTC
20 points
54 comments2 min readLW link

Step Back

Andy_McKenzie9 May 2009 18:07 UTC
18 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic vs. In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity: Case of the Leaky Agent

Wei Dai7 May 2009 23:09 UTC
18 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

The Wire ver­sus Evolu­tion­ary Psychology

MrShaggy25 May 2009 5:21 UTC
18 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Chang­ing ac­cepted pub­lic opinion and Skynet

Roko22 May 2009 11:05 UTC
17 points
71 comments2 min readLW link

Es­say-Ques­tion Poll: Die­tary Choices

Alicorn3 May 2009 15:27 UTC
17 points
244 comments1 min readLW link

Re­turn of the Survey

Scott Alexander3 May 2009 2:10 UTC
16 points
61 comments1 min readLW link

A so­cial norm against un­jus­tified opinions?

Kaj_Sotala29 May 2009 11:25 UTC
16 points
161 comments1 min readLW link

TED Talks for Less Wrong

Cyan2 May 2009 3:32 UTC
15 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

How to use “philo­soph­i­cal ma­jori­tar­i­anism”

jimmy5 May 2009 6:49 UTC
13 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Con­sider Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Data Sets

Vladimir_Nesov6 May 2009 1:49 UTC
12 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

Wiki.less­wrong.com Is Live

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 May 2009 5:17 UTC
11 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

In­hi­bi­tion and the Mind

Annoyance21 May 2009 17:34 UTC
10 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

No One Knows Stuff

talisman12 May 2009 5:11 UTC
9 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Chee­rios: An “Un­tested New Drug”

MBlume15 May 2009 2:26 UTC
9 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity quotes—May 2009

Kaj_Sotala19 May 2009 19:30 UTC
9 points
101 comments1 min readLW link

The Onion Goes In­side The Bi­ased Mind

patrissimo30 May 2009 17:33 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Re­play­ing History

Gordon Seidoh Worley8 May 2009 5:35 UTC
7 points
19 comments2 min readLW link