Recom­mended Ra­tion­al­ist Reading

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 1, 2007, 6:36 PM
20 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Rationalization

Eliezer YudkowskySep 30, 2007, 7:29 PM
126 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

What Ev­i­dence Filtered Ev­i­dence?

Eliezer YudkowskySep 29, 2007, 11:10 PM
123 points
43 comments4 min readLW link

Is out­do­ing mon­keys while imag­in­ing free will the only way you can feel like a man?

KatjaGraceSep 29, 2007, 12:34 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Bot­tom Line

Eliezer YudkowskySep 28, 2007, 5:47 PM
210 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

How to Con­vince Me That 2 + 2 = 3

Eliezer YudkowskySep 27, 2007, 11:00 PM
156 points
410 comments3 min readLW link

9/​26 is Petrov Day

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

Oc­cam’s Razor

Eliezer YudkowskySep 26, 2007, 6:36 AM
136 points
55 comments5 min readLW link

Ein­stein’s Arrogance

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

How Much Ev­i­dence Does It Take?

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

The Lens That Sees Its Flaws

Eliezer YudkowskySep 23, 2007, 12:10 AM
389 points
48 comments3 min readLW link

What is Ev­i­dence?

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

Bur­den­some Details

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

Con­junc­tion Con­tro­versy (Or, How They Nail It Down)

Eliezer YudkowskySep 20, 2007, 2:41 AM
62 points
25 comments8 min readLW link

Con­junc­tion Fallacy

Eliezer YudkowskySep 19, 2007, 1:54 AM
56 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

Kah­ne­man’s Plan­ning Anecdote

Eliezer YudkowskySep 17, 2007, 4:39 PM
38 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Plan­ning Fallacy

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

Why I’m Blooking

Eliezer YudkowskySep 15, 2007, 5:49 PM
49 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Dou­ble­think (Choos­ing to be Bi­ased)

Eliezer YudkowskySep 14, 2007, 8:05 PM
103 points
169 comments4 min readLW link

Hu­man Evil and Mud­dled Thinking

Eliezer YudkowskySep 13, 2007, 11:43 PM
147 points
144 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity and the English Language

Eliezer YudkowskySep 12, 2007, 10:55 PM
144 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

Ap­plause Lights

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

We Don’t Really Want Your Participation

Eliezer YudkowskySep 10, 2007, 7:53 PM
64 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Rad­i­cal Honesty

Eliezer YudkowskySep 10, 2007, 6:09 AM
43 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

The Crack­pot Offer

Eliezer YudkowskySep 8, 2007, 2:32 PM
120 points
73 comments3 min readLW link

An­chor­ing and Adjustment

Eliezer YudkowskySep 7, 2007, 9:33 PM
84 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Why is the Fu­ture So Ab­surd?

Eliezer YudkowskySep 7, 2007, 8:42 AM
52 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

So much for the fac­tual pub­lic de­bate that democ­ra­cies com­pletely fail to be built on

KatjaGraceSep 6, 2007, 3:07 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Availability

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

Ab­sur­dity Heuris­tic, Ab­sur­dity Bias

Eliezer YudkowskySep 5, 2007, 3:20 AM
58 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Mar­kets are a kind of elec­tro­chem­i­cal cell

KatjaGraceSep 4, 2007, 4:49 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

“Science” as Cu­ri­os­ity-Stopper

Eliezer YudkowskySep 3, 2007, 8:04 PM
164 points
61 comments3 min readLW link

Who needs democ­racy, free speech and all that rub­bish when you can pre­scribe the val­ues of your cit­i­zens?

KatjaGraceSep 3, 2007, 2:58 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plain/​Wor­ship/​Ig­nore?

Eliezer YudkowskySep 2, 2007, 8:01 PM
119 points
88 comments2 min readLW link

Stranger Than History

Eliezer YudkowskySep 1, 2007, 6:57 PM
138 points
335 comments1 min readLW link

Mak­ing His­tory Available

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

Failing to Learn from History

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 30, 2007, 8:22 PM
119 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

My Wild and Reck­less Youth

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 30, 2007, 1:52 AM
117 points
53 comments3 min readLW link

Say Not “Com­plex­ity”

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 29, 2007, 4:22 AM
120 points
53 comments3 min readLW link

Pos­i­tive Bias: Look Into the Dark

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 28, 2007, 3:55 AM
163 points
59 comments3 min readLW link

The Fu­til­ity of Emergence

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 26, 2007, 10:10 PM
122 points
142 comments3 min readLW link

Mys­te­ri­ous An­swers to Mys­te­ri­ous Questions

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

Se­man­tic Stopsigns

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 24, 2007, 7:29 PM
160 points
111 comments3 min readLW link

Fake Causality

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 23, 2007, 6:12 PM
140 points
88 comments4 min readLW link

Science as Attire

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

Guess­ing the Teacher’s Password

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

Fake Explanations

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

Is Molec­u­lar Nan­otech­nol­ogy “Scien­tific”?

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 20, 2007, 4:11 AM
40 points
49 comments2 min readLW link

Scien­tific Ev­i­dence, Le­gal Ev­i­dence, Ra­tional Evidence

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 19, 2007, 5:36 AM
136 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Hind­sight De­val­ues Science

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