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Eight Short Studies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC

634 points

244 comments10 min readLW link

Making Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC

552 points

247 comments6 min readLW link

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC

545 points

390 comments7 min readLW link

Preface

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC

539 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC

495 points

80 comments10 min readLW link

What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like

lc5 Apr 2022 0:19 UTC

494 points

122 comments6 min readLW link

Schelling fences on slippery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC

481 points

205 comments6 min readLW link

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC

424 points

355 comments9 min readLW link

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC

408 points

80 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Counter-theses on Sleep

Natália Mendonça21 Mar 2022 23:21 UTC

386 points

131 comments15 min readLW link

Reason as memetic immune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC

385 points

180 comments5 min readLW link

Generalizing From One Example

Scott Alexander28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC

380 points

415 comments6 min readLW link

It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World

gwern9 Mar 2022 16:35 UTC

366 points

123 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

100 Tips for a Better Life

Ideopunk22 Dec 2020 14:30 UTC

364 points

127 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners

jefftk3 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC

353 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Humans are not automatically strategic

AnnaSalamon8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC

349 points

274 comments4 min readLW link

Anti-Aging: State of the Art

JackH31 Dec 2020 19:07 UTC

339 points

174 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

The noncentral fallacy—the worst argument in the world?

Scott Alexander27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC

331 points

1,756 comments7 min readLW link

Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)

HoldenKarnofsky11 May 2012 4:31 UTC

326 points

1,287 comments29 min readLW link

Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions

Rob Bensinger and Eliezer Yudkowsky

11 Nov 2021 3:01 UTC

325 points

256 comments34 min readLW link

What 2026 looks like

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC

322 points

64 comments16 min readLW link

How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor

johnswentworth28 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC

317 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

Reflections on six months of fatherhood

jasoncrawford31 Jan 2022 5:28 UTC

316 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

(jasoncrawford.org)

What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do

Swimmer9631 May 2022 23:51 UTC

316 points

266 comments9 min readLW link

Dying Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC

313 points

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Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC

313 points

364 comments8 min readLW link

Ugh fields

Roko12 Apr 2010 17:06 UTC

312 points

80 comments3 min readLW link

To listen well, get curious

benkuhn13 Dec 2020 0:20 UTC

310 points

39 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(www.benkuhn.net)

MIRI announces new “Death With Dignity” strategy

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Apr 2022 0:43 UTC

309 points

505 comments18 min readLW link

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

eukaryote3 May 2021 3:47 UTC

304 points

50 comments7 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Taboo “Outside View”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jun 2021 9:36 UTC

300 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship

lukeprog5 Jan 2011 7:22 UTC

295 points

156 comments3 min readLW link

The Blue-Minimizing Robot

Scott Alexander4 Jul 2011 22:26 UTC

295 points

162 comments4 min readLW link

How To Get Into Independent Research On Alignment/Agency

johnswentworth19 Nov 2021 0:00 UTC

294 points

31 comments13 min readLW link

Accounting For College Costs

johnswentworth1 Apr 2022 17:28 UTC

294 points

36 comments7 min readLW link

Lies Told To Children

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Apr 2022 11:25 UTC

291 points

91 comments7 min readLW link

Feature Selection

Zack_M_Davis1 Nov 2021 0:22 UTC

289 points

22 comments16 min readLW link

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

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Jan 2011 0:15 UTC

288 points

157 comments3 min readLW link

Leaky Delegation: You are not a Commodity

Darmani25 Jan 2021 2:04 UTC

283 points

33 comments15 min readLW link

That Alien Message

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 May 2008 5:55 UTC

282 points

173 comments10 min readLW link

What failure looks like

paulfchristiano17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC

282 points

49 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

Welcome to LessWrong!

Ruby, habryka, Ben Pace and Raemon

14 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC

281 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

LessWrong is providing feedback and proofreading on drafts as a service

Ruby7 Sep 2021 1:33 UTC

281 points

51 comments3 min readLW link

Being the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC

280 points

54 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

Epistemic Legibility

Elizabeth9 Feb 2022 18:10 UTC

280 points

28 comments20 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

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

Zvi28 Oct 2021 14:40 UTC

278 points

40 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC

276 points

259 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)

Industrial literacy

jasoncrawford30 Sep 2020 16:39 UTC

275 points

128 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

The Parable of Predict-O-Matic

abramdemski15 Oct 2019 0:49 UTC

274 points

41 comments14 min readLW link 2 reviews