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Eight Short Studies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC

595 points

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Making Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC

529 points

247 comments6 min readLW link

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC

519 points

383 comments7 min readLW link

Preface

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC

508 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC

477 points

79 comments10 min readLW link

Schelling fences on slippery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC

457 points

204 comments6 min readLW link

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC

407 points

355 comments9 min readLW link

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC

372 points

76 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Generalizing From One Example

Scott Alexander28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC

369 points

414 comments6 min readLW link

Reason as memetic immune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC

369 points

179 comments5 min readLW link

Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners

jefftk3 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC

340 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Humans are not automatically strategic

AnnaSalamon8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC

328 points

274 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)

HoldenKarnofsky11 May 2012 4:31 UTC

325 points

1,287 comments29 min readLW link

Anti-Aging: State of the Art

JackH31 Dec 2020 19:07 UTC

323 points

166 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions

Rob Bensinger and Eliezer Yudkowsky

11 Nov 2021 3:01 UTC

320 points

254 comments34 min readLW link

The noncentral fallacy—the worst argument in the world?

Scott Alexander27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC

316 points

1,756 comments7 min readLW link

100 Tips for a Better Life

Ideopunk22 Dec 2020 14:30 UTC

316 points

120 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC

299 points

362 comments8 min readLW link

Dying Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC

298 points

91 comments2 min readLW link

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

eukaryote3 May 2021 3:47 UTC

293 points

50 comments7 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Taboo “Outside View”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jun 2021 9:36 UTC

290 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship

lukeprog5 Jan 2011 7:22 UTC

289 points

156 comments3 min readLW link

How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor

johnswentworth28 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC

289 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

What 2026 looks like

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC

284 points

56 comments16 min readLW link

To listen well, get curious

benkuhn13 Dec 2020 0:20 UTC

280 points

38 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(www.benkuhn.net)

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

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Jan 2011 0:15 UTC

279 points

157 comments3 min readLW link

Feature Selection

Zack_M_Davis1 Nov 2021 0:22 UTC

277 points

22 comments16 min readLW link

The Blue-Minimizing Robot

Scott Alexander4 Jul 2011 22:26 UTC

276 points

162 comments4 min readLW link

Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

Zvi24 Dec 2020 15:10 UTC

276 points

147 comments31 min readLW link 2 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Leaky Delegation: You are not a Commodity

Darmani25 Jan 2021 2:04 UTC

275 points

33 comments15 min readLW link

How To Get Into Independent Research On Alignment/Agency

johnswentworth19 Nov 2021 0:00 UTC

273 points

29 comments13 min readLW link

Ugh fields

Roko12 Apr 2010 17:06 UTC

272 points

76 comments3 min readLW link

An Unexpected Victory: Container Stacking at the Port of Long Beach

Zvi28 Oct 2021 14:40 UTC

271 points

40 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Parable of Predict-O-Matic

abramdemski15 Oct 2019 0:49 UTC

267 points

41 comments14 min readLW link 2 reviews

What failure looks like

paulfchristiano17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC

265 points

49 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

Being the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC

264 points

53 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

Self-Integrity and the Drowning Child

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC

264 points

73 comments5 min readLW link

Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation

kalla72411 Apr 2012 0:48 UTC

263 points

99 comments7 min readLW link

Industrial literacy

jasoncrawford30 Sep 2020 16:39 UTC

263 points

127 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

LessWrong is providing feedback and proofreading on drafts as a service

Ruby7 Sep 2021 1:33 UTC

263 points

44 comments3 min readLW link

Great minds might not think alike

UnexpectedValues26 Dec 2020 19:51 UTC

261 points

43 comments11 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Omicron Variant Post #1: We’re F***ed, It’s Never Over

Zvi26 Nov 2021 19:00 UTC

261 points

95 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC

257 points

258 comments4 min readLW link

Welcome to LessWrong!

Ruby, habryka, Ben Pace and Raemon

14 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC

257 points

38 comments4 min readLW link

“PR” is corrosive; “reputation” is not.

AnnaSalamon14 Feb 2021 3:32 UTC

254 points

89 comments2 min readLW link

Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)

alkjash26 Oct 2020 20:25 UTC

249 points

65 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

That Alien Message

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 May 2008 5:55 UTC

247 points

172 comments10 min readLW link

What Do We Mean By “Rationality”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC

247 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Why the tails come apart

Thrasymachus1 Aug 2014 22:41 UTC

246 points

101 comments7 min readLW link

The Least Convenient Possible World

Scott Alexander14 Mar 2009 2:11 UTC

245 points

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