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

Hind­sight bias

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 16, 2007, 9:58 PM
74 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

One Ar­gu­ment Against An Army

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 15, 2007, 6:39 PM
109 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

Up­date Your­self Incrementally

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 14, 2007, 2:56 PM
116 points
29 comments3 min readLW link

Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Evidence

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

Ab­sence of Ev­i­dence Is Ev­i­dence of Absence

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

I Defy the Data!

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 11, 2007, 9:33 PM
104 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Your Strength as a Rationalist

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

The Apoca­lypse Bet

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 9, 2007, 5:23 PM
50 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

You Can Face Reality

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

The Virtue of Narrowness

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 7, 2007, 5:57 PM
136 points
66 comments4 min readLW link

The Proper Use of Doubt

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 6, 2007, 8:29 PM
91 points
35 comments3 min readLW link

Fo­cus Your Uncertainty

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 5, 2007, 8:49 PM
120 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

The Im­por­tance of Say­ing “Oops”

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 5, 2007, 3:17 AM
271 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Reli­gion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable

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

God is irrelevant

KatjaGraceAug 3, 2007, 10:57 AM
1 point
1 comment2 min readLW link

Belief as Attire

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 2, 2007, 5:13 PM
140 points
105 comments2 min readLW link

Pro­fess­ing and Cheering

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 2, 2007, 7:20 AM
124 points
45 comments2 min readLW link

Bayesian Judo

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 31, 2007, 5:53 AM
90 points
110 comments1 min readLW link

Belief in Belief

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

Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences)

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 28, 2007, 10:59 PM
508 points
268 comments4 min readLW link

Free will isn’t a con­cept (un­less you mean de­ter­minism)

KatjaGraceJul 15, 2007, 1:51 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Two More Things to Un­learn from School

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

Open Thread

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 1, 2007, 7:38 PM
5 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Are Your Ene­mies In­nately Evil?

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

Cor­re­spon­dence Bias

Eliezer YudkowskyJun 25, 2007, 12:58 AM
105 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

Risk-Free Bonds Aren’t

Eliezer YudkowskyJun 22, 2007, 10:30 PM
23 points
40 comments2 min readLW link

One Life Against the World

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 18, 2007, 10:06 PM
124 points
84 comments3 min readLW link

Scope Insensitivity

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

Third Alter­na­tives for After­life-ism

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 8, 2007, 7:41 AM
35 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

The Third Alternative

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

Be­ware the Unsurprised

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 3, 2007, 10:45 PM
41 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Think Like Reality

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 2, 2007, 6:36 AM
132 points
69 comments2 min readLW link

Univer­sal Law

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 29, 2007, 6:41 AM
113 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

Univer­sal Fire

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

Feel­ing Rational

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

Con­soli­dated Na­ture of Mo­ral­ity Thread

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 15, 2007, 11:00 PM
14 points
69 comments3 min readLW link

Your Ra­tion­al­ity is My Business

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 15, 2007, 7:31 AM
161 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

New Im­proved Lottery

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 13, 2007, 11:42 PM
127 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

Lot­ter­ies: A Waste of Hope

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 13, 2007, 5:36 AM
98 points
73 comments2 min readLW link

Pri­ors as Math­e­mat­i­cal Objects

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 12, 2007, 3:24 AM
53 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

Marginally Zero-Sum Efforts

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 11, 2007, 5:22 AM
32 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Fu­tur­is­tic Pre­dic­tions as Con­sum­able Goods

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 10, 2007, 12:18 AM
35 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Suggested Posts

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 9, 2007, 2:32 AM
5 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

“In­duc­tive Bias”

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 8, 2007, 7:52 PM
39 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

De­bi­as­ing as Non-Self-Destruction

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 7, 2007, 8:20 PM
46 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Know­ing About Bi­ases Can Hurt People

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