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Eight Short Studies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC

536 points

237 comments10 min readLW link

Making Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC

517 points

246 comments6 min readLW link

Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC

457 points

79 comments10 min readLW link

Preface

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC

456 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC

445 points

376 comments7 min readLW link

Schelling fences on slippery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC

431 points

204 comments6 min readLW link

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC

389 points

353 comments9 min readLW link

Generalizing From One Example

Scott Alexander28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC

360 points

413 comments6 min readLW link

Reason as memetic immune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC

351 points

177 comments5 min readLW link

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC

326 points

70 comments5 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners

jefftk3 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC

326 points

28 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)

HoldenKarnofsky11 May 2012 4:31 UTC

324 points

1,287 comments29 min readLW link

Humans are not automatically strategic

AnnaSalamon8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC

310 points

274 comments4 min readLW link

Anti-Aging: State of the Art

JackH31 Dec 2020 19:07 UTC

292 points

162 comments11 min readLW link

The noncentral fallacy—the worst argument in the world?

Scott Alexander27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC

289 points

1,755 comments7 min readLW link

Dying Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC

287 points

88 comments2 min readLW link

There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

eukaryote3 May 2021 3:47 UTC

287 points

50 comments7 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

Zvi24 Dec 2020 15:10 UTC

284 points

139 comments31 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Taboo “Outside View”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jun 2021 9:36 UTC

280 points

23 comments8 min readLW link

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC

274 points

360 comments8 min readLW link

The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship

lukeprog5 Jan 2011 7:22 UTC

274 points

155 comments3 min readLW link

The Blue-Minimizing Robot

Scott Alexander4 Jul 2011 22:26 UTC

273 points

162 comments4 min readLW link

100 Tips for a Better Life

Ideopunk22 Dec 2020 14:30 UTC

264 points

116 comments9 min readLW link

Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation

kalla72411 Apr 2012 0:48 UTC

261 points

99 comments7 min readLW link

To listen well, get curious

benkuhn13 Dec 2020 0:20 UTC

261 points

37 comments4 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Ugh fields

Roko12 Apr 2010 17:06 UTC

254 points

75 comments3 min readLW link

Great minds might not think alike

UnexpectedValues26 Dec 2020 19:51 UTC

253 points

43 comments11 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Leaky Delegation: You are not a Commodity

Darmani25 Jan 2021 2:04 UTC

253 points

32 comments15 min readLW link

The Parable of Predict-O-Matic

abramdemski15 Oct 2019 0:49 UTC

252 points

41 comments14 min readLW link 5 nominations 4 reviews

Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Jan 2011 0:15 UTC

251 points

147 comments3 min readLW link

Industrial literacy

jasoncrawford30 Sep 2020 16:39 UTC

251 points

127 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

What failure looks like

paulfchristiano17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC

245 points

48 comments8 min readLW link 2 nominations 2 reviews

Why the tails come apart

Thrasymachus1 Aug 2014 22:41 UTC

242 points

101 comments7 min readLW link

Reality-Revealing and Reality-Masking Puzzles

AnnaSalamon16 Jan 2020 16:15 UTC

239 points

57 comments13 min readLW link

Are we in an AI overhang?

Andy Jones27 Jul 2020 12:48 UTC

238 points

94 comments4 min readLW link

Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)

alkjash26 Oct 2020 20:25 UTC

237 points

64 comments9 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

What Do We Mean By “Rationality”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC

236 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC

235 points

256 comments4 min readLW link

Politics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC

235 points

45 comments11 min readLW link

Your Dog is Even Smarter Than You Think

StyleOfDog1 May 2021 5:16 UTC

235 points

99 comments9 min readLW link

Embedded Interactive Predictions on LessWrong

Amandango20 Nov 2020 18:35 UTC

232 points

82 comments2 min readLW link

RadVac Commercial Antibody Test Results

johnswentworth26 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC

230 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

A Fable of Science and Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Dec 2006 4:50 UTC

229 points

102 comments5 min readLW link

The Least Convenient Possible World

Scott Alexander14 Mar 2009 2:11 UTC

228 points

200 comments5 min readLW link

Welcome to LessWrong!

Ruby, habryka, Ben Pace and Raemon

14 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC

228 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

Seven Years of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeast4 Mar 2021 2:42 UTC

228 points

37 comments34 min readLW link

Expecting Short Inferential Distances

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Oct 2007 23:42 UTC

226 points

106 comments3 min readLW link

Anti-social Punishment

Martin Sustrik27 Sep 2018 7:08 UTC

226 points

64 comments6 min readLW link

Book summary: Unlocking the Emotional Brain

Kaj_Sotala8 Oct 2019 19:11 UTC

225 points

32 comments21 min readLW link 2 nominations 3 reviews

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

Zack_M_Davis24 Sep 2019 4:12 UTC

224 points

37 comments8 min readLW link 2 nominations 2 reviews