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Eight Short Studies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC

552 points

237 comments10 min readLW link

Making Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC

519 points

246 comments6 min readLW link

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC

484 points

377 comments7 min readLW link

Preface

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC

474 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC

472 points

79 comments10 min readLW link

Schelling fences on slippery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC

439 points

204 comments6 min readLW link

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC

393 points

355 comments9 min readLW link

Generalizing From One Example

Scott Alexander28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC

364 points

413 comments6 min readLW link

Reason as memetic immune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC

357 points

179 comments5 min readLW link

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC

337 points

71 comments5 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners

jefftk3 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC

330 points

28 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)

HoldenKarnofsky11 May 2012 4:31 UTC

325 points

1,287 comments29 min readLW link

Humans are not automatically strategic

AnnaSalamon8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC

315 points

274 comments4 min readLW link

Anti-Aging: State of the Art

JackH31 Dec 2020 19:07 UTC

296 points

162 comments11 min readLW link

The noncentral fallacy—the worst argument in the world?

Scott Alexander27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC

293 points

1,756 comments7 min readLW link

Dying Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC

291 points

88 comments2 min readLW link

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

eukaryote3 May 2021 3:47 UTC

289 points

50 comments7 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC

285 points

360 comments8 min readLW link

Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

Zvi24 Dec 2020 15:10 UTC

280 points

142 comments31 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Taboo “Outside View”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jun 2021 9:36 UTC

280 points

23 comments8 min readLW link

The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship

lukeprog5 Jan 2011 7:22 UTC

277 points

155 comments3 min readLW link

The Blue-Minimizing Robot

Scott Alexander4 Jul 2011 22:26 UTC

276 points

162 comments4 min readLW link

100 Tips for a Better Life

Ideopunk22 Dec 2020 14:30 UTC

275 points

117 comments9 min readLW link

To listen well, get curious

benkuhn13 Dec 2020 0:20 UTC

265 points

37 comments4 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor

johnswentworth28 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC

262 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Ugh fields

Roko12 Apr 2010 17:06 UTC

261 points

75 comments3 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

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

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Jan 2011 0:15 UTC

260 points

155 comments3 min readLW link

Leaky Delegation: You are not a Commodity

Darmani25 Jan 2021 2:04 UTC

258 points

33 comments15 min readLW link

LessWrong is providing feedback and proofreading on drafts as a service

Ruby7 Sep 2021 1:33 UTC

257 points

37 comments3 min readLW link

What failure looks like

paulfchristiano17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC

256 points

48 comments8 min readLW link 2 nominations 2 reviews

The Parable of Predict-O-Matic

abramdemski15 Oct 2019 0:49 UTC

255 points

41 comments14 min readLW link 5 nominations 4 reviews

Great minds might not think alike

UnexpectedValues26 Dec 2020 19:51 UTC

254 points

43 comments11 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Industrial literacy

jasoncrawford30 Sep 2020 16:39 UTC

253 points

127 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Why the tails come apart

Thrasymachus1 Aug 2014 22:41 UTC

242 points

101 comments7 min readLW link

What Do We Mean By “Rationality”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC

240 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Being the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC

240 points

47 comments3 min readLW link 3 nominations 3 reviews

Reality-Revealing and Reality-Masking Puzzles

AnnaSalamon16 Jan 2020 16:15 UTC

240 points

57 comments13 min readLW link

Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC

239 points

258 comments4 min readLW link

Are we in an AI overhang?

Andy Jones27 Jul 2020 12:48 UTC

239 points

99 comments4 min readLW link

That Alien Message

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 May 2008 5:55 UTC

238 points

171 comments10 min readLW link

Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)

alkjash26 Oct 2020 20:25 UTC

238 points

64 comments9 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Politics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC

238 points

45 comments11 min readLW link

Your Dog is Even Smarter Than You Think

StyleOfDog1 May 2021 5:16 UTC

236 points

102 comments9 min readLW link

DeepMind: Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play

Daniel Kokotajlo27 Jul 2021 14:19 UTC

236 points

51 comments2 min readLW link

(deepmind.com)

What 2026 looks like (Daniel’s Median Future)

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC

236 points

55 comments16 min readLW link

Welcome to LessWrong!

Ruby, habryka, Ben Pace and Raemon

14 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC

235 points

33 comments4 min readLW link

RadVac Commercial Antibody Test Results

johnswentworth26 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC

234 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

Embedded Interactive Predictions on LessWrong

Amandango20 Nov 2020 18:35 UTC

233 points

82 comments2 min readLW link

A Fable of Science and Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Dec 2006 4:50 UTC

231 points

102 comments5 min readLW link