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The Lens That Sees Its Flaws
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 23, 2007, 12:10 AM
392
points
48
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Applause Lights
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 11, 2007, 6:31 PM
380
points
99
comments
2
min read
LW
link
9/26 is Petrov Day
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 26, 2007, 4:14 PM
277
points
64
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Burdensome Details
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 20, 2007, 11:46 PM
259
points
46
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Bottom Line
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 28, 2007, 5:47 PM
210
points
16
comments
4
min read
LW
link
What is Evidence?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 22, 2007, 6:43 AM
199
points
62
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Availability
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 6, 2007, 6:55 AM
196
points
23
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Planning Fallacy
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 17, 2007, 7:06 AM
196
points
44
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Einstein’s Arrogance
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 25, 2007, 1:29 AM
184
points
90
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How Much Evidence Does It Take?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 24, 2007, 4:06 AM
169
points
33
comments
4
min read
LW
link
“Science” as Curiosity-Stopper
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 3, 2007, 8:04 PM
164
points
61
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 27, 2007, 11:00 PM
156
points
410
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Human Evil and Muddled Thinking
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 13, 2007, 11:43 PM
150
points
144
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Rationality and the English Language
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 12, 2007, 10:55 PM
145
points
33
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Stranger Than History
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 1, 2007, 6:57 PM
138
points
335
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Occam’s Razor
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 26, 2007, 6:36 AM
137
points
55
comments
5
min read
LW
link
What Evidence Filtered Evidence?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 29, 2007, 11:10 PM
124
points
43
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Explain/Worship/Ignore?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 2, 2007, 8:01 PM
120
points
88
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Crackpot Offer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 8, 2007, 2:32 PM
120
points
73
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 14, 2007, 8:05 PM
103
points
169
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Anchoring and Adjustment
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 7, 2007, 9:33 PM
84
points
22
comments
2
min read
LW
link
We Don’t Really Want Your Participation
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 10, 2007, 7:53 PM
64
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Conjunction Controversy (Or, How They Nail It Down)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 20, 2007, 2:41 AM
62
points
25
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Absurdity Heuristic, Absurdity Bias
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 5, 2007, 3:20 AM
59
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Conjunction Fallacy
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 19, 2007, 1:54 AM
56
points
46
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Why is the Future So Absurd?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 7, 2007, 8:42 AM
52
points
17
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Why I’m Blooking
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 15, 2007, 5:49 PM
49
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Radical Honesty
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 10, 2007, 6:09 AM
43
points
37
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Kahneman’s Planning Anecdote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 17, 2007, 4:39 PM
38
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Markets are a kind of electrochemical cell
KatjaGrace
Sep 4, 2007, 4:49 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is outdoing monkeys while imagining free will the only way you can feel like a man?
KatjaGrace
Sep 29, 2007, 12:34 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Who needs democracy, free speech and all that rubbish when you can prescribe the values of your citizens?
KatjaGrace
Sep 3, 2007, 2:58 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
So much for the factual public debate that democracies completely fail to be built on
KatjaGrace
Sep 6, 2007, 3:07 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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