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That Alien Message

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 May 2008 5:55 UTC

359 points

174 comments10 min readLW link

The Fallacy of Gray

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Jan 2008 6:24 UTC

272 points

81 comments5 min readLW link

Mundane Magic

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Oct 2008 16:00 UTC

266 points

97 comments3 min readLW link

Use the Try Harder, Luke

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2008 10:52 UTC

262 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

How An Algorithm Feels From Inside

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Feb 2008 2:35 UTC

252 points

83 comments4 min readLW link

Taboo Your Words

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Feb 2008 22:53 UTC

243 points

130 comments3 min readLW link

Beyond the Reach of God

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Oct 2008 15:42 UTC

225 points

280 comments11 min readLW link

The Parable of the Dagger

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Feb 2008 20:53 UTC

219 points

104 comments1 min readLW link

The True Prisoner’s Dilemma

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Sep 2008 21:34 UTC

217 points

117 comments4 min readLW link

37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Mar 2008 5:09 UTC

216 points

77 comments9 min readLW link

Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Aug 2008 1:00 UTC

210 points

110 comments4 min readLW link

Trying to Try

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Oct 2008 8:58 UTC

208 points

58 comments3 min readLW link

Something to Protect

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Jan 2008 17:52 UTC

205 points

81 comments6 min readLW link

Leave a Line of Retreat

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Feb 2008 23:57 UTC

191 points

75 comments4 min readLW link

Ends Don’t Justify Means (Among Humans)

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Oct 2008 21:00 UTC

190 points

97 comments4 min readLW link

You Only Live Twice

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2008 19:14 UTC

187 points

182 comments6 min readLW link

Disguised Queries

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Feb 2008 0:05 UTC

171 points

108 comments5 min readLW link

Crisis of Faith

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Oct 2008 22:08 UTC

168 points

249 comments9 min readLW link

If You Demand Magic, Magic Won’t Help

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Mar 2008 18:10 UTC

167 points

132 comments4 min readLW link

The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Feb 2008 0:48 UTC

167 points

72 comments9 min readLW link

Zombies: The Movie

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Apr 2008 5:53 UTC

167 points

82 comments3 min readLW link

Joy in the Merely Real

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Mar 2008 6:18 UTC

146 points

43 comments2 min readLW link

Is That Your True Rejection?

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Dec 2008 14:26 UTC

145 points

100 comments3 min readLW link

Newcomb’s Problem and Regret of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Jan 2008 19:36 UTC

144 points

616 comments10 min readLW link

The Cluster Structure of Thingspace

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Feb 2008 0:07 UTC

140 points

31 comments4 min readLW link

Thou Art Physics

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Jun 2008 6:37 UTC

139 points

88 comments3 min readLW link

The Gift We Give To Tomorrow

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Jul 2008 6:07 UTC

138 points

99 comments8 min readLW link

Dissolving the Question

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Mar 2008 3:17 UTC

135 points

122 comments5 min readLW link

Competent Elites

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Sep 2008 0:07 UTC

131 points

112 comments8 min readLW link

The Simple Truth

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jan 2008 20:00 UTC

130 points

15 comments22 min readLW link

Probability is in the Mind

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Mar 2008 4:08 UTC

129 points

195 comments6 min readLW link

Righting a Wrong Question

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Mar 2008 13:00 UTC

124 points

111 comments3 min readLW link

Make an Extraordinary Effort

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Oct 2008 15:15 UTC

123 points

48 comments5 min readLW link

Initiation Ceremony

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Mar 2008 20:40 UTC

122 points

99 comments3 min readLW link

The Level Above Mine

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Sep 2008 9:18 UTC

119 points

357 comments4 min readLW link

Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Jul 2008 10:16 UTC

119 points

81 comments10 min readLW link

2-Place and 1-Place Words

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Jun 2008 7:39 UTC

118 points

38 comments5 min readLW link

Dark Side Epistemology

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Oct 2008 23:55 UTC

112 points

154 comments5 min readLW link

Zombies! Zombies?

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Apr 2008 9:55 UTC

111 points

156 comments22 min readLW link

Reductionism

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2008 6:26 UTC

111 points

161 comments4 min readLW link

Disputing Definitions

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Feb 2008 0:15 UTC

110 points

46 comments5 min readLW link

Einstein’s Superpowers

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 May 2008 6:40 UTC

109 points

91 comments5 min readLW link

No Safe Defense, Not Even Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 May 2008 5:19 UTC

108 points

71 comments6 min readLW link

But There’s Still A Chance, Right?

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Jan 2008 1:56 UTC

104 points

59 comments2 min readLW link

Belief in Intelligence

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Oct 2008 15:00 UTC

103 points

38 comments3 min readLW link

Explaining vs. Explaining Away

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Mar 2008 1:59 UTC

103 points

101 comments4 min readLW link

Shut up and do the impossible!

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Oct 2008 21:24 UTC

102 points

165 comments12 min readLW link

Beautiful Probability

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Jan 2008 7:19 UTC

102 points

123 comments6 min readLW link

The Ritual

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Oct 2008 23:52 UTC

101 points

21 comments5 min readLW link

Lawful Uncertainty

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Nov 2008 21:06 UTC

101 points

57 comments4 min readLW link