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Gen­er­al­iz­ing From One Example

Scott Alexander28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC
350 points
412 comments6 min readLW link

Rea­son as memetic im­mune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC
340 points
177 comments5 min readLW link

Dy­ing Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC
275 points
88 comments2 min readLW link

What Do We Mean By “Ra­tion­al­ity”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC
229 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

The Least Con­ve­nient Pos­si­ble World

Scott Alexander14 Mar 2009 2:11 UTC
225 points
200 comments5 min readLW link

Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Mar 2009 8:37 UTC
210 points
204 comments9 min readLW link

The Apol­o­gist and the Revolutionary

Scott Alexander11 Mar 2009 21:39 UTC
208 points
100 comments5 min readLW link

Cached Selves

AnnaSalamon22 Mar 2009 19:34 UTC
197 points
81 comments7 min readLW link

Ex­treme Ra­tion­al­ity: It’s Not That Great

Scott Alexander9 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC
195 points
277 comments8 min readLW link

Rais­ing the San­ity Waterline

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Mar 2009 4:28 UTC
178 points
228 comments3 min readLW link

Eliezer Yud­kowsky Facts

steven046122 Mar 2009 20:17 UTC
169 points
296 comments1 min readLW link

Well-Kept Gar­dens Die By Pacifism

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC
169 points
316 comments5 min readLW link

Be­ware Triv­ial Inconveniences

Scott Alexander6 May 2009 22:04 UTC
161 points
115 comments4 min readLW link

A Parable On Ob­so­lete Ideologies

Scott Alexander13 May 2009 22:51 UTC
158 points
286 comments7 min readLW link

Money: The Unit of Caring

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Mar 2009 12:35 UTC
149 points
132 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tional Me or We?

RobinHanson17 Mar 2009 13:39 UTC
147 points
156 comments1 min readLW link

Do­ing your good deed for the day

Scott Alexander27 Oct 2009 0:45 UTC
146 points
57 comments3 min readLW link

Talk­ing Snakes: A Cau­tion­ary Tale

Scott Alexander13 Mar 2009 1:41 UTC
145 points
230 comments3 min readLW link

Fi­nal Words

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Apr 2009 21:12 UTC
139 points
58 comments9 min readLW link

How to Not Lose an Argument

Scott Alexander19 Mar 2009 1:07 UTC
134 points
416 comments6 min readLW link

Be­ware of Other-Optimizing

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Apr 2009 1:58 UTC
131 points
119 comments5 min readLW link

You Are A Brain

Liron9 May 2009 21:53 UTC
130 points
79 comments1 min readLW link

Pur­chase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Apr 2009 9:51 UTC
129 points
89 comments4 min readLW link

When Truth Isn’t Enough

Scott Alexander22 Mar 2009 20:23 UTC
124 points
58 comments3 min readLW link

Defense Against The Dark Arts: Case Study #1

Scott Alexander28 Mar 2009 2:31 UTC
124 points
54 comments6 min readLW link

The Na­ture of Offense

Wei_Dai23 Jul 2009 11:15 UTC
123 points
179 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t Re­vere The Bearer Of Good Info

CarlShulman21 Mar 2009 23:22 UTC
119 points
72 comments3 min readLW link

Athe­ism = Un­the­ism + Antitheism

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jul 2009 2:19 UTC
115 points
179 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­pe­ri­en­tial Pica

Alicorn16 Aug 2009 21:23 UTC
111 points
113 comments3 min readLW link

Thomas C. Schel­ling’s “Strat­egy of Con­flict”

cousin_it28 Jul 2009 16:08 UTC
110 points
154 comments2 min readLW link

Shut Up And Guess

Scott Alexander21 Jul 2009 4:04 UTC
110 points
109 comments5 min readLW link

The Hero With A Thou­sand Chances

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Jul 2009 4:25 UTC
109 points
168 comments9 min readLW link

Si­mul­ta­neously Right and Wrong

Scott Alexander7 Mar 2009 22:55 UTC
105 points
62 comments3 min readLW link

The Sword of Good

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Sep 2009 0:53 UTC
105 points
300 comments2 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

That other kind of status

Scott Alexander29 Dec 2009 2:45 UTC
100 points
112 comments4 min readLW link

A Sense That More Is Possible

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2009 1:15 UTC
99 points
218 comments4 min readLW link

Value is Fragile

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Jan 2009 8:46 UTC
96 points
96 comments6 min readLW link

Tol­er­ate Tolerance

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Mar 2009 7:34 UTC
94 points
93 comments2 min readLW link

The Trou­ble With “Good”

Scott Alexander17 Apr 2009 2:07 UTC
92 points
137 comments6 min readLW link

No, Really, I’ve De­ceived Myself

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Mar 2009 23:29 UTC
92 points
83 comments2 min readLW link

Epistemic Viciousness

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2009 23:33 UTC
90 points
93 comments3 min readLW link

The Power of Pos­i­tivist Thinking

Scott Alexander21 Mar 2009 20:55 UTC
88 points
56 comments9 min readLW link

Of Ex­clu­sion­ary Speech and Gen­der Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jul 2009 7:22 UTC
87 points
669 comments5 min readLW link

The Mys­tery of the Haunted Rationalist

Scott Alexander8 Mar 2009 20:39 UTC
87 points
68 comments3 min readLW link

Pre­tend­ing to be Wise

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Feb 2009 22:30 UTC
87 points
77 comments4 min readLW link

Sup­port That Sounds Like Dissent

jimrandomh20 Mar 2009 22:28 UTC
85 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Let them eat cake: In­ter­per­sonal Prob­lems vs Tasks

HughRistik7 Oct 2009 16:35 UTC
84 points
575 comments4 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal vs. Epistemic—A Bardic Perspective

MBlume25 Apr 2009 7:41 UTC
83 points
189 comments3 min readLW link

A Master-Slave Model of Hu­man Preferences

Wei_Dai29 Dec 2009 1:02 UTC
83 points
93 comments3 min readLW link