Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences)

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 28, 2007, 10:59 PM
521 points
269 comments4 min readLW link

The Lens That Sees Its Flaws

Eliezer YudkowskySep 23, 2007, 12:10 AM
412 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­pect­ing Short In­fer­en­tial Distances

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 22, 2007, 11:42 PM
396 points
106 comments3 min readLW link

Ap­plause Lights

Eliezer YudkowskySep 11, 2007, 6:31 PM
384 points
99 comments2 min readLW link

Reli­gion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 4, 2007, 3:21 AM
357 points
333 comments4 min readLW link

Scope Insensitivity

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 14, 2007, 2:53 AM
353 points
71 comments2 min readLW link

Tsuyoku Nar­i­tai! (I Want To Be­come Stronger)

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 27, 2007, 5:49 PM
341 points
82 comments3 min readLW link

Feel­ing Rational

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 26, 2007, 4:48 AM
316 points
87 comments3 min readLW link

Poli­tics is the Mind-Killer

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 18, 2007, 9:23 PM
310 points
243 comments2 min readLW link

Guess­ing the Teacher’s Password

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 22, 2007, 3:40 AM
305 points
100 comments4 min readLW link

Your Strength as a Rationalist

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 11, 2007, 12:21 AM
301 points
123 comments2 min readLW link

Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Evidence

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 13, 2007, 3:55 PM
296 points
82 comments2 min readLW link

9/​26 is Petrov Day

Eliezer YudkowskySep 26, 2007, 4:14 PM
277 points
64 comments2 min readLW link

Policy De­bates Should Not Ap­pear One-Sided

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 3, 2007, 6:53 PM
277 points
187 comments4 min readLW link

The Im­por­tance of Say­ing “Oops”

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 5, 2007, 3:17 AM
276 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Bur­den­some Details

Eliezer YudkowskySep 20, 2007, 11:46 PM
266 points
46 comments4 min readLW link

Hind­sight De­val­ues Science

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 17, 2007, 7:39 PM
252 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Thou Art Godshatter

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 13, 2007, 7:38 PM
246 points
83 comments5 min readLW link

Mys­te­ri­ous An­swers to Mys­te­ri­ous Questions

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 25, 2007, 10:27 PM
244 points
160 comments4 min readLW link

Know­ing About Bi­ases Can Hurt People

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 4, 2007, 6:01 PM
230 points
82 comments2 min readLW link

An Alien God

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 2, 2007, 6:57 AM
227 points
162 comments8 min readLW link

Are Your Ene­mies In­nately Evil?

Eliezer YudkowskyJun 26, 2007, 9:13 PM
227 points
148 comments3 min readLW link

Cached Thoughts

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 11, 2007, 11:46 PM
226 points
94 comments3 min readLW link

Belief in Belief

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 29, 2007, 5:49 PM
225 points
178 comments5 min readLW link

The Bot­tom Line

Eliezer YudkowskySep 28, 2007, 5:47 PM
211 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

Univer­sal Fire

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 27, 2007, 9:15 PM
210 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

What is Ev­i­dence?

Eliezer YudkowskySep 22, 2007, 6:43 AM
205 points
62 comments3 min readLW link

Mak­ing His­tory Available

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 31, 2007, 7:52 PM
203 points
87 comments3 min readLW link

Availability

Eliezer YudkowskySep 6, 2007, 6:55 AM
201 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Plan­ning Fallacy

Eliezer YudkowskySep 17, 2007, 7:06 AM
201 points
44 comments3 min readLW link

You Can Face Reality

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 9, 2007, 1:46 AM
197 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Truly Part Of You

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 21, 2007, 2:18 AM
195 points
61 comments4 min readLW link

Re­v­ersed Stu­pidity Is Not Intelligence

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 12, 2007, 10:14 PM
191 points
121 comments3 min readLW link

Ein­stein’s Arrogance

Eliezer YudkowskySep 25, 2007, 1:29 AM
191 points
90 comments3 min readLW link

Avoid­ing Your Belief’s Real Weak Points

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 5, 2007, 1:59 AM
191 points
214 comments4 min readLW link

The Med­i­ta­tion on Curiosity

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 6, 2007, 12:26 AM
191 points
102 comments4 min readLW link

Lost Purposes

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 25, 2007, 9:01 AM
188 points
79 comments6 min readLW link

Origi­nal Seeing

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 14, 2007, 4:38 AM
187 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Fake Explanations

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 20, 2007, 9:13 PM
183 points
97 comments2 min readLW link

Eva­po­ra­tive Cool­ing of Group Beliefs

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 7, 2007, 11:08 PM
180 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

Illu­sion of Trans­parency: Why No One Un­der­stands You

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 20, 2007, 11:49 PM
180 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

The Hid­den Com­plex­ity of Wishes

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 24, 2007, 12:12 AM
180 points
199 comments8 min readLW link

Ab­sence of Ev­i­dence Is Ev­i­dence of Absence

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 12, 2007, 8:34 PM
178 points
119 comments3 min readLW link

How Much Ev­i­dence Does It Take?

Eliezer YudkowskySep 24, 2007, 4:06 AM
177 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

Lonely Dissent

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 28, 2007, 4:23 AM
175 points
91 comments4 min readLW link

Two More Things to Un­learn from School

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 12, 2007, 5:45 PM
175 points
157 comments2 min readLW link

Science as Attire

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 23, 2007, 5:10 AM
173 points
88 comments2 min readLW link

Hug the Query

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 14, 2007, 7:51 PM
171 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Adap­ta­tion-Ex­e­cuters, not Fit­ness-Maximizers

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 11, 2007, 6:39 AM
169 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

The Third Alternative

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 6, 2007, 11:47 PM
168 points
86 comments3 min readLW link