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
195 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Ab­sur­dity Heuris­tic, Ab­sur­dity Bias

Eliezer YudkowskySep 5, 2007, 3:20 AM
59 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
120 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
200 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
141 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

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