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Generalizing From One Example
Scott Alexander
28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC
274
points
412
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Reason as memetic immune disorder
PhilGoetz
19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC
228
points
173
comments
5
min read
LW
link
What Do We Mean By “Rationality”?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC
185
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Dying Outside
HalFinney
5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC
183
points
88
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Least Convenient Possible World
Scott Alexander
14 Mar 2009 2:11 UTC
180
points
199
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Cached Selves
AnnaSalamon
22 Mar 2009 19:34 UTC
179
points
79
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Apologist and the Revolutionary
Scott Alexander
11 Mar 2009 21:39 UTC
166
points
96
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Extreme Rationality: It’s Not That Great
Scott Alexander
9 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC
155
points
275
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Mar 2009 8:37 UTC
150
points
200
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts
steven0461
22 Mar 2009 20:17 UTC
137
points
291
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies
Scott Alexander
13 May 2009 22:51 UTC
132
points
285
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Raising the Sanity Waterline
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12 Mar 2009 4:28 UTC
124
points
228
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Rational Me or We?
RobinHanson
17 Mar 2009 13:39 UTC
121
points
156
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Talking Snakes: A Cautionary Tale
Scott Alexander
13 Mar 2009 1:41 UTC
118
points
229
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Doing your good deed for the day
Scott Alexander
27 Oct 2009 0:45 UTC
118
points
55
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
21 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC
117
points
315
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Defense Against The Dark Arts: Case Study #1
Scott Alexander
28 Mar 2009 2:31 UTC
113
points
53
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Beware Trivial Inconveniences
Scott Alexander
6 May 2009 22:04 UTC
112
points
111
comments
4
min read
LW
link
How to Not Lose an Argument
Scott Alexander
19 Mar 2009 1:07 UTC
111
points
414
comments
6
min read
LW
link
You Are A Brain
Liron
9 May 2009 21:53 UTC
110
points
78
comments
1
min read
LW
link
When Truth Isn’t Enough
Scott Alexander
22 Mar 2009 20:23 UTC
107
points
57
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Money: The Unit of Caring
Eliezer Yudkowsky
31 Mar 2009 12:35 UTC
106
points
130
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Beware of Other-Optimizing
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10 Apr 2009 1:58 UTC
97
points
118
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Simultaneously Right and Wrong
Scott Alexander
7 Mar 2009 22:55 UTC
94
points
62
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Sword of Good
Eliezer Yudkowsky
3 Sep 2009 0:53 UTC
92
points
300
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Final Words
Eliezer Yudkowsky
27 Apr 2009 21:12 UTC
92
points
57
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Don’t Revere The Bearer Of Good Info
CarlShulman
21 Mar 2009 23:22 UTC
91
points
72
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Nature of Offense
Wei_Dai
23 Jul 2009 11:15 UTC
89
points
179
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
1 Jul 2009 2:19 UTC
89
points
179
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Thomas C. Schelling’s “Strategy of Conflict”
cousin_it
28 Jul 2009 16:08 UTC
88
points
154
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
Eliezer Yudkowsky
1 Apr 2009 9:51 UTC
86
points
86
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15 Jul 2009 2:27 UTC
84
points
595
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Experiential Pica
Alicorn
16 Aug 2009 21:23 UTC
83
points
113
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Trouble With “Good”
Scott Alexander
17 Apr 2009 2:07 UTC
83
points
137
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Shut Up And Guess
Scott Alexander
21 Jul 2009 4:04 UTC
79
points
109
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The Power of Positivist Thinking
Scott Alexander
21 Mar 2009 20:55 UTC
76
points
55
comments
9
min read
LW
link
That other kind of status
Scott Alexander
29 Dec 2009 2:45 UTC
76
points
112
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Mystery of the Haunted Rationalist
Scott Alexander
8 Mar 2009 20:39 UTC
72
points
68
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Never Leave Your Room
Scott Alexander
18 Mar 2009 0:30 UTC
71
points
65
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Let them eat cake: Interpersonal Problems vs Tasks
HughRistik
7 Oct 2009 16:35 UTC
70
points
575
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Hero With A Thousand Chances
Eliezer Yudkowsky
31 Jul 2009 4:25 UTC
70
points
167
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Missing the Trees for the Forest
Scott Alexander
22 Jul 2009 3:23 UTC
68
points
159
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Outside Analysis and Blind Spots
orthonormal
21 Jul 2009 1:00 UTC
68
points
34
comments
5
min read
LW
link
A Sense That More Is Possible
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13 Mar 2009 1:15 UTC
67
points
217
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Of Exclusionary Speech and Gender Politics
Eliezer Yudkowsky
21 Jul 2009 7:22 UTC
67
points
669
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Instrumental vs. Epistemic—A Bardic Perspective
MBlume
25 Apr 2009 7:41 UTC
66
points
186
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
29 Sep 2009 0:40 UTC
65
points
131
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Support That Sounds Like Dissent
jimrandomh
20 Mar 2009 22:28 UTC
65
points
35
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Parapsychology: the control group for science
AllanCrossman
5 Dec 2009 22:50 UTC
64
points
188
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Epistemic Viciousness
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13 Mar 2009 23:33 UTC
63
points
92
comments
3
min read
LW
link
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