When Truth Isn’t Enough

Scott AlexanderMar 22, 2009, 8:23 PM
135 points
59 comments3 min readLW link

Eliezer Yud­kowsky Facts

steven0461Mar 22, 2009, 8:17 PM
245 points
324 comments1 min readLW link

Cached Selves

AnnaSalamonMar 22, 2009, 7:34 PM
218 points
81 comments7 min readLW link

You’re Cal­ling *Who* A Cult Leader?

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 22, 2009, 6:57 AM
60 points
121 comments5 min readLW link

Don’t Re­vere The Bearer Of Good Info

CarlShulmanMar 21, 2009, 11:22 PM
126 points
72 comments3 min readLW link

The Power of Pos­i­tivist Thinking

Scott AlexanderMar 21, 2009, 8:55 PM
95 points
57 comments9 min readLW link

In­di­vi­d­ual Ra­tion­al­ity Is a Mat­ter of Life and Death

patrissimoMar 21, 2009, 7:22 PM
26 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Mind Con­trol and Me

PatrickMar 21, 2009, 5:31 PM
12 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Tol­er­ate Tolerance

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 21, 2009, 7:34 AM
149 points
87 comments2 min readLW link

Sup­port That Sounds Like Dissent

jimrandomhMar 20, 2009, 10:28 PM
87 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Just a re­minder: Scien­tists are, tech­ni­cally, peo­ple.

PhilGoetzMar 20, 2009, 8:33 PM
8 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 20, 2009, 8:37 AM
295 points
211 comments9 min readLW link

Precom­mit­ting to pay­ing Omega.

topynateMar 20, 2009, 4:33 AM
5 points
33 comments7 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Poetry Fans, Unite!

Scott AlexanderMar 20, 2009, 1:58 AM
38 points
35 comments12 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Fiction

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 19, 2009, 8:22 AM
46 points
193 comments2 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tual Mugging

Vladimir_NesovMar 19, 2009, 6:08 AM
83 points
296 comments2 min readLW link

How to Not Lose an Argument

Scott AlexanderMar 19, 2009, 1:07 AM
164 points
416 comments6 min readLW link

Lit­tle Johny Bayesian

DarmaniMar 18, 2009, 9:30 PM
16 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

A cor­pus of our com­mu­nity’s knowledge

infotropismMar 18, 2009, 8:18 PM
8 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Sto­ry­books: A Challenge

MBlumeMar 18, 2009, 2:25 AM
39 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Never Leave Your Room

Scott AlexanderMar 18, 2009, 12:30 AM
83 points
65 comments3 min readLW link

The Pas­cal’s Wager Fal­lacy Fallacy

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 18, 2009, 12:30 AM
45 points
128 comments3 min readLW link

Tarski State­ments as Ra­tion­al­ist Exercise

Vladimir_NesovMar 17, 2009, 7:47 PM
12 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Dead Aid

PhilGoetzMar 17, 2009, 2:51 PM
2 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tional Me or We?

RobinHansonMar 17, 2009, 1:39 PM
164 points
156 comments1 min readLW link

On Ju­ve­nile Fiction

MBlumeMar 17, 2009, 8:53 AM
31 points
135 comments1 min readLW link

The “Spot the Fakes” Test

Scott AlexanderMar 17, 2009, 12:52 AM
65 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Com­ments for “Ra­tion­al­ity”

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 16, 2009, 10:34 PM
2 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

What Do We Mean By “Ra­tion­al­ity”?

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 16, 2009, 10:33 PM
395 points
19 comments6 min readLW link

Science vs. art

PhilGoetzMar 16, 2009, 3:48 PM
7 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Ta­boo “ra­tio­nal­ity,” please.

MBlumeMar 15, 2009, 10:44 PM
28 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

In What Ways Have You Be­come Stronger?

Vladimir_NesovMar 15, 2009, 8:44 PM
32 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Are You a So­lar De­ity?

Scott AlexanderMar 15, 2009, 7:30 PM
53 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

The Tragedy of the Anticommons

Kaj_SotalaMar 15, 2009, 5:32 PM
43 points
47 comments5 min readLW link

3 Levels of Ra­tion­al­ity Verification

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 15, 2009, 5:19 PM
86 points
246 comments3 min readLW link

Storm by Tim Minchin

Vladimir_NesovMar 15, 2009, 2:48 PM
17 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Really Ex­treme Altruism

CronoDASMar 15, 2009, 6:51 AM
17 points
98 comments1 min readLW link

Schools Pro­lifer­at­ing Without Evidence

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 15, 2009, 6:43 AM
67 points
58 comments3 min readLW link

The Skep­tic’s Trilemma

Scott AlexanderMar 15, 2009, 12:12 AM
86 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

Soul­less morality

PhilGoetzMar 14, 2009, 9:48 PM
27 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

Closet sur­vey #1

[deleted]Mar 14, 2009, 7:51 AM
72 points
670 comments1 min readLW link

The Least Con­ve­nient Pos­si­ble World

Scott AlexanderMar 14, 2009, 2:11 AM
304 points
204 comments5 min readLW link

On the Care and Feed­ing of Young Rationalists

MBlumeMar 13, 2009, 11:48 PM
32 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Epistemic Viciousness

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 13, 2009, 11:33 PM
107 points
93 comments3 min readLW link

Is Santa Real?

thomblakeMar 13, 2009, 8:45 PM
20 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

Dialec­ti­cal Bootstrapping

JohnicholasMar 13, 2009, 5:10 PM
22 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Real­ity vs Vir­tual Reality

cleonidMar 13, 2009, 3:17 PM
−12 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Boxxy and Reagan

[deleted]Mar 13, 2009, 6:36 AM
−5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Talk­ing Snakes: A Cau­tion­ary Tale

Scott AlexanderMar 13, 2009, 1:41 AM
190 points
235 comments3 min readLW link

A Sense That More Is Possible

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 13, 2009, 1:15 AM
172 points
220 comments4 min readLW link