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Generalizing From One Example

Scott Alexander28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC

360 points

413 comments6 min readLW link

Reason as memetic immune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC

351 points

177 comments5 min readLW link

Dying Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC

288 points

88 comments2 min readLW link

What Do We Mean By “Rationality”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC

237 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

The Least Convenient Possible World

Scott Alexander14 Mar 2009 2:11 UTC

228 points

200 comments5 min readLW link

Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Mar 2009 8:37 UTC

214 points

205 comments9 min readLW link

The Apologist and the Revolutionary

Scott Alexander11 Mar 2009 21:39 UTC

211 points

100 comments5 min readLW link

Extreme Rationality: It’s Not That Great

Scott Alexander9 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC

202 points

279 comments8 min readLW link

Cached Selves

AnnaSalamon22 Mar 2009 19:34 UTC

198 points

81 comments7 min readLW link

Raising the Sanity Waterline

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Mar 2009 4:28 UTC

184 points

228 comments3 min readLW link

Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC

170 points

316 comments5 min readLW link

Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts

steven046122 Mar 2009 20:17 UTC

169 points

296 comments1 min readLW link

Beware Trivial Inconveniences

Scott Alexander6 May 2009 22:04 UTC

165 points

115 comments4 min readLW link

A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies

Scott Alexander13 May 2009 22:51 UTC

163 points

288 comments7 min readLW link

Money: The Unit of Caring

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Mar 2009 12:35 UTC

161 points

132 comments4 min readLW link

Talking Snakes: A Cautionary Tale

Scott Alexander13 Mar 2009 1:41 UTC

154 points

232 comments3 min readLW link

Doing your good deed for the day

Scott Alexander27 Oct 2009 0:45 UTC

150 points

57 comments3 min readLW link

Rational Me or We?

RobinHanson17 Mar 2009 13:39 UTC

148 points

156 comments1 min readLW link

Final Words

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Apr 2009 21:12 UTC

144 points

58 comments9 min readLW link

Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Apr 2009 9:51 UTC

137 points

89 comments4 min readLW link

How to Not Lose an Argument

Scott Alexander19 Mar 2009 1:07 UTC

137 points

416 comments6 min readLW link

Beware of Other-Optimizing

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Apr 2009 1:58 UTC

133 points

119 comments5 min readLW link

You Are A Brain

Liron9 May 2009 21:53 UTC

130 points

79 comments1 min readLW link

When Truth Isn’t Enough

Scott Alexander22 Mar 2009 20:23 UTC

127 points

58 comments3 min readLW link

Defense Against The Dark Arts: Case Study #1

Scott Alexander28 Mar 2009 2:31 UTC

127 points

54 comments6 min readLW link

The Nature of Offense

Wei_Dai23 Jul 2009 11:15 UTC

125 points

179 comments3 min readLW link

Thomas C. Schelling’s “Strategy of Conflict”

cousin_it28 Jul 2009 16:08 UTC

125 points

154 comments2 min readLW link

Don’t Revere The Bearer Of Good Info

CarlShulman21 Mar 2009 23:22 UTC

120 points

72 comments3 min readLW link

Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jul 2009 2:19 UTC

117 points

179 comments4 min readLW link

The Hero With A Thousand Chances

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Jul 2009 4:25 UTC

116 points

169 comments9 min readLW link

Experiential Pica

Alicorn16 Aug 2009 21:23 UTC

112 points

113 comments3 min readLW link

Shut Up And Guess

Scott Alexander21 Jul 2009 4:04 UTC

112 points

109 comments5 min readLW link

The Sword of Good

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Sep 2009 0:53 UTC

107 points

300 comments2 min readLW link

Value is Fragile

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Jan 2009 8:46 UTC

106 points

96 comments6 min readLW link

Simultaneously Right and Wrong

Scott Alexander7 Mar 2009 22:55 UTC

105 points

62 comments3 min readLW link

A Sense That More Is Possible

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2009 1:15 UTC

104 points

218 comments4 min readLW link

That other kind of status

Scott Alexander29 Dec 2009 2:45 UTC

101 points

112 comments4 min readLW link

The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Jul 2009 2:27 UTC

101 points

601 comments2 min readLW link

Tolerate Tolerance

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Mar 2009 7:34 UTC

98 points

93 comments2 min readLW link

The Trouble With “Good”

Scott Alexander17 Apr 2009 2:07 UTC

96 points

137 comments6 min readLW link

No, Really, I’ve Deceived Myself

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Mar 2009 23:29 UTC

95 points

84 comments2 min readLW link

Pretending to be Wise

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Feb 2009 22:30 UTC

92 points

77 comments4 min readLW link

Epistemic Viciousness

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2009 23:33 UTC

91 points

93 comments3 min readLW link

The Power of Positivist Thinking

Scott Alexander21 Mar 2009 20:55 UTC

89 points

56 comments9 min readLW link

The Mystery of the Haunted Rationalist

Scott Alexander8 Mar 2009 20:39 UTC

89 points

68 comments3 min readLW link

Of Exclusionary Speech and Gender Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jul 2009 7:22 UTC

87 points

669 comments5 min readLW link

Failed Utopia #4-2

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jan 2009 11:04 UTC

86 points

261 comments10 min readLW link

Support That Sounds Like Dissent

jimrandomh20 Mar 2009 22:28 UTC

85 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

A Master-Slave Model of Human Preferences

Wei_Dai29 Dec 2009 1:02 UTC

85 points

94 comments3 min readLW link

Let them eat cake: Interpersonal Problems vs Tasks

HughRistik7 Oct 2009 16:35 UTC

84 points

575 comments4 min readLW link