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That Alien Message

Eliezer Yudkowsky

22 May 2008 5:55 UTC

133 points

164 comments10 min readLW link

The Fallacy of Gray

Eliezer Yudkowsky

7 Jan 2008 6:24 UTC

124 points

78 comments5 min readLW link

Mundane Magic

Eliezer Yudkowsky

31 Oct 2008 16:00 UTC

116 points

94 comments3 min readLW link

How An Algorithm Feels From Inside

Eliezer Yudkowsky

11 Feb 2008 2:35 UTC

111 points

79 comments4 min readLW link

Beyond the Reach of God

Eliezer Yudkowsky

4 Oct 2008 15:42 UTC

104 points

277 comments11 min readLW link

37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong

Eliezer Yudkowsky

6 Mar 2008 5:09 UTC

94 points

78 comments9 min readLW link

You Only Live Twice

Eliezer Yudkowsky

12 Dec 2008 19:14 UTC

94 points

177 comments6 min readLW link

Taboo Your Words

Eliezer Yudkowsky

15 Feb 2008 22:53 UTC

90 points

129 comments3 min readLW link

Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps

Eliezer Yudkowsky

10 Aug 2008 1:00 UTC

85 points

102 comments4 min readLW link

Disguised Queries

Eliezer Yudkowsky

9 Feb 2008 0:05 UTC

82 points

105 comments5 min readLW link

Newcomb’s Problem and Regret of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky

31 Jan 2008 19:36 UTC

81 points

603 comments10 min readLW link

Something to Protect

Eliezer Yudkowsky

30 Jan 2008 17:52 UTC

81 points

76 comments6 min readLW link

Use the Try Harder, Luke

Eliezer Yudkowsky

2 Oct 2008 10:52 UTC

80 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

Joy in the Merely Real

Eliezer Yudkowsky

20 Mar 2008 6:18 UTC

78 points

42 comments2 min readLW link

Zombies: The Movie

Eliezer Yudkowsky

20 Apr 2008 5:53 UTC

76 points

77 comments3 min readLW link

Righting a Wrong Question

Eliezer Yudkowsky

9 Mar 2008 13:00 UTC

75 points

111 comments3 min readLW link

Probability is in the Mind

Eliezer Yudkowsky

12 Mar 2008 4:08 UTC

74 points

191 comments6 min readLW link

The Parable of the Dagger

Eliezer Yudkowsky

1 Feb 2008 20:53 UTC

73 points

101 comments1 min readLW link

The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition

Eliezer Yudkowsky

27 Feb 2008 0:48 UTC

71 points

65 comments9 min readLW link

If You Demand Magic, Magic Won’t Help

Eliezer Yudkowsky

22 Mar 2008 18:10 UTC

70 points

113 comments4 min readLW link

Leave a Line of Retreat

Eliezer Yudkowsky

25 Feb 2008 23:57 UTC

69 points

72 comments4 min readLW link

The True Prisoner’s Dilemma

Eliezer Yudkowsky

3 Sep 2008 21:34 UTC

68 points

113 comments4 min readLW link

Crisis of Faith

Eliezer Yudkowsky

10 Oct 2008 22:08 UTC

67 points

248 comments9 min readLW link

The Cluster Structure of Thingspace

Eliezer Yudkowsky

8 Feb 2008 0:07 UTC

61 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

Is That Your True Rejection?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

6 Dec 2008 14:26 UTC

59 points

99 comments3 min readLW link

The Gift We Give To Tomorrow

Eliezer Yudkowsky

17 Jul 2008 6:07 UTC

59 points

99 comments8 min readLW link

Thou Art Physics

Eliezer Yudkowsky

6 Jun 2008 6:37 UTC

58 points

88 comments3 min readLW link

Dissolving the Question

Eliezer Yudkowsky

8 Mar 2008 3:17 UTC

58 points

109 comments5 min readLW link

The Beauty of Settled Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky

24 Mar 2008 5:30 UTC

58 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

Reductionism

Eliezer Yudkowsky

16 Mar 2008 6:26 UTC

58 points

156 comments4 min readLW link

Competent Elites

Eliezer Yudkowsky

27 Sep 2008 0:07 UTC

57 points

106 comments8 min readLW link

Trying to Try

Eliezer Yudkowsky

1 Oct 2008 8:58 UTC

57 points

56 comments3 min readLW link

If Many-Worlds Had Come First

Eliezer Yudkowsky

10 May 2008 7:43 UTC

57 points

181 comments9 min readLW link

Explaining vs. Explaining Away

Eliezer Yudkowsky

17 Mar 2008 1:59 UTC

57 points

100 comments4 min readLW link

Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom

Eliezer Yudkowsky

8 Jul 2008 10:16 UTC

55 points

74 comments10 min readLW link

Ends Don’t Justify Means (Among Humans)

Eliezer Yudkowsky

14 Oct 2008 21:00 UTC

55 points

89 comments4 min readLW link

Chaotic Inversion

Eliezer Yudkowsky

29 Nov 2008 10:57 UTC

55 points

66 comments1 min readLW link

Zombies! Zombies?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

4 Apr 2008 9:55 UTC

54 points

149 comments22 min readLW link

Initiation Ceremony

Eliezer Yudkowsky

28 Mar 2008 20:40 UTC

54 points

95 comments4 min readLW link

The Level Above Mine

Eliezer Yudkowsky

26 Sep 2008 9:18 UTC

54 points

391 comments4 min readLW link

Disputing Definitions

Eliezer Yudkowsky

12 Feb 2008 0:15 UTC

54 points

45 comments5 min readLW link

Arguing “By Definition”

Eliezer Yudkowsky

20 Feb 2008 23:37 UTC

53 points

39 comments4 min readLW link

But There’s Still A Chance, Right?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

6 Jan 2008 1:56 UTC

53 points

52 comments2 min readLW link

Absolute Authority

Eliezer Yudkowsky

8 Jan 2008 3:33 UTC

51 points

73 comments7 min readLW link

Words as Hidden Inferences

Eliezer Yudkowsky

3 Feb 2008 23:36 UTC

50 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

2-Place and 1-Place Words

Eliezer Yudkowsky

27 Jun 2008 7:39 UTC

50 points

36 comments5 min readLW link

Existential Angst Factory

Eliezer Yudkowsky

19 Jul 2008 6:55 UTC

49 points

101 comments4 min readLW link

Beautiful Probability

Eliezer Yudkowsky

14 Jan 2008 7:19 UTC

49 points

112 comments6 min readLW link

Entropy, and Short Codes

Eliezer Yudkowsky

23 Feb 2008 3:16 UTC

49 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

Dark Side Epistemology

Eliezer Yudkowsky

17 Oct 2008 23:55 UTC

46 points

114 comments5 min readLW link