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The Wonder of Evolution
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Nov 2, 2007, 8:49 PM
102
points
85
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Some half-serious, half-formed thoughts on existing and so on
KatjaGrace
Nov 2, 2007, 11:20 AM
1
point
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
An Alien God
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Nov 2, 2007, 6:57 AM
226
points
162
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Fake Justification
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Nov 1, 2007, 3:57 AM
128
points
59
comments
3
min read
LW
link
A Terrifying Halloween Costume
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Nov 1, 2007, 2:54 AM
11
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Case Study of Motivated Continuation
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 31, 2007, 1:27 AM
35
points
36
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Torture vs. Dust Specks
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 30, 2007, 2:50 AM
84
points
630
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 28, 2007, 11:10 PM
94
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Bay Area Bayesians Unite!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 28, 2007, 12:07 AM
2
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 26, 2007, 9:50 PM
76
points
515
comments
3
min read
LW
link
No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 25, 2007, 11:47 PM
94
points
107
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Double Illusion of Transparency
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 24, 2007, 11:06 PM
123
points
33
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 24, 2007, 1:13 AM
102
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Expecting Short Inferential Distances
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 22, 2007, 11:42 PM
392
points
106
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Self-Anchoring
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 22, 2007, 6:11 AM
48
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 20, 2007, 11:49 PM
178
points
52
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Pascal’s Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 19, 2007, 11:37 PM
112
points
354
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Congratulations to Paris Hilton
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 19, 2007, 12:31 AM
3
points
97
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Can’t Say No” Spending
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 18, 2007, 2:08 AM
32
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Hold Off On Proposing Solutions
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 17, 2007, 3:16 AM
135
points
52
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 16, 2007, 3:57 AM
132
points
62
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Meaning That Immortality Gives to Life
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 15, 2007, 3:02 AM
71
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
How to Seem (and Be) Deep
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 14, 2007, 6:13 PM
120
points
122
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Original Seeing
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 14, 2007, 4:38 AM
183
points
29
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The “Outside the Box” Box
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 12, 2007, 10:50 PM
94
points
51
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Cached Thoughts
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 11, 2007, 11:46 PM
223
points
94
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Do We Believe Everything We’re Told?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 10, 2007, 11:52 PM
107
points
41
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Priming and Contamination
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 10, 2007, 2:23 AM
67
points
27
comments
3
min read
LW
link
A Priori
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 8, 2007, 9:02 PM
87
points
133
comments
4
min read
LW
link
No One Can Exempt You From Rationality’s Laws
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 7, 2007, 5:24 PM
133
points
53
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Singlethink
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 6, 2007, 7:24 PM
113
points
32
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Meditation on Curiosity
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 6, 2007, 12:26 AM
186
points
101
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Avoiding Your Belief’s Real Weak Points
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 5, 2007, 1:59 AM
187
points
214
comments
4
min read
LW
link
We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 3, 2007, 6:14 PM
113
points
120
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Probability is the oil of rationalisation
KatjaGrace
Oct 3, 2007, 2:28 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Rational Argument
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 2, 2007, 6:35 PM
103
points
41
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Recommended Rationalist Reading
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 1, 2007, 6:36 PM
20
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationalization
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 30, 2007, 7:29 PM
126
points
29
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What Evidence Filtered Evidence?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 29, 2007, 11:10 PM
123
points
43
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Is outdoing monkeys while imagining free will the only way you can feel like a man?
KatjaGrace
29 Sep 2007 0:34 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Bottom Line
Eliezer Yudkowsky
28 Sep 2007 17:47 UTC
210
points
16
comments
4
min read
LW
link
How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3
Eliezer Yudkowsky
27 Sep 2007 23:00 UTC
156
points
410
comments
3
min read
LW
link
9/26 is Petrov Day
Eliezer Yudkowsky
26 Sep 2007 16:14 UTC
277
points
64
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Occam’s Razor
Eliezer Yudkowsky
26 Sep 2007 6:36 UTC
136
points
55
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Einstein’s Arrogance
Eliezer Yudkowsky
25 Sep 2007 1:29 UTC
184
points
90
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How Much Evidence Does It Take?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
24 Sep 2007 4:06 UTC
168
points
33
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Lens That Sees Its Flaws
Eliezer Yudkowsky
23 Sep 2007 0:10 UTC
389
points
48
comments
3
min read
LW
link
What is Evidence?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
22 Sep 2007 6:43 UTC
199
points
62
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Burdensome Details
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Sep 2007 23:46 UTC
256
points
46
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Conjunction Controversy (Or, How They Nail It Down)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Sep 2007 2:41 UTC
62
points
25
comments
8
min read
LW
link
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