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Escaping Your Past
Z_M_Davis
Apr 22, 2009, 9:15 PM
28
points
51
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Proposal: Use the Wiki for Concepts
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 22, 2009, 5:21 AM
40
points
67
comments
3
min read
LW
link
LessWrong Boo Vote (Stochastic Downvoting)
Vladimir_Nesov
Apr 22, 2009, 1:18 AM
4
points
44
comments
1
min read
LW
link
UC Santa Barbara Rationalists Unite—Saturday, 6PM
MBlume
Apr 22, 2009, 12:23 AM
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 21, 2009, 2:44 AM
254
points
324
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Masochism vs. Self-defeat
Psychohistorian
Apr 20, 2009, 9:20 PM
2
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Sin of Underconfidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 20, 2009, 6:30 AM
107
points
187
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Evangelical Rationality
CannibalSmith
Apr 20, 2009, 4:51 AM
44
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The ideas you’re not ready to post
JulianMorrison
Apr 19, 2009, 9:23 PM
29
points
264
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Spreading the word?
Paul Crowley
Apr 19, 2009, 7:25 PM
7
points
46
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The True Epistemic Prisoner’s Dilemma
MBlume
Apr 19, 2009, 8:57 AM
25
points
72
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Weekly Wiki Workshop and suggested articles
badger
Apr 19, 2009, 1:13 AM
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Great Books of Failure
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 19, 2009, 12:59 AM
32
points
53
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Atheist or Agnostic?
byrnema
Apr 18, 2009, 9:25 PM
7
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How a pathological procrastinor can lose weight [Anti-akrasia]
dreeves
Apr 18, 2009, 8:05 PM
34
points
31
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The Epistemic Prisoner’s Dilemma
MBlume
Apr 18, 2009, 5:36 AM
121
points
46
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Rationality Quotes—April 2009
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 18, 2009, 1:26 AM
17
points
144
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Just for fun—let’s play a game.
CronoDAS
Apr 17, 2009, 11:13 PM
12
points
69
comments
1
min read
LW
link
My main problem with utilitarianism
taw
Apr 17, 2009, 8:26 PM
−1
points
84
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Two-Tier Rationalism
Alicorn
Apr 17, 2009, 7:44 PM
48
points
26
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Anti-rationality quotes
PhilGoetz
Apr 17, 2009, 5:55 PM
12
points
53
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Chomsky on reason and science
PhilGoetz
Apr 17, 2009, 5:52 PM
9
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
While we’re on the subject of meta-ethics...
CronoDAS
Apr 17, 2009, 8:01 AM
7
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Trouble With “Good”
Scott Alexander
Apr 17, 2009, 2:07 AM
100
points
137
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Art of Critical Decision Making
PhilGoetz
Apr 17, 2009, 1:54 AM
−2
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
My Way
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 17, 2009, 1:25 AM
48
points
126
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Test Post
wmoore
Apr 17, 2009, 12:49 AM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Practical rationality questionnaire
AnnaSalamon
Apr 16, 2009, 11:21 PM
22
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Instrumental Rationality is a Chimera
Tom_Talbot
Apr 16, 2009, 11:15 PM
12
points
36
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Welcome to Less Wrong!
MBlume
Apr 16, 2009, 9:06 AM
58
points
2,000
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Of Gender and Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 16, 2009, 12:56 AM
63
points
360
comments
5
min read
LW
link
I Changed My Mind Today—Canned Laughter
pre
Apr 15, 2009, 11:59 PM
15
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Mechanics without wrenches
PhilGoetz
Apr 15, 2009, 8:09 PM
36
points
78
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Actions and Words: Akrasia and the Fruit of Self-Knowledge
Annoyance
Apr 15, 2009, 3:27 PM
10
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Bayesians vs. Barbarians
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 14, 2009, 11:45 PM
106
points
277
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Tell it to someone who doesn’t care
PhilGoetz
Apr 14, 2009, 6:15 PM
25
points
34
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Collective Apathy and the Internet
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 14, 2009, 12:02 AM
53
points
34
comments
2
min read
LW
link
GroupThink, Theism … and the Wiki
byrnema
Apr 13, 2009, 5:28 PM
−2
points
62
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Declare your signaling and hidden agendas
Kaj_Sotala
Apr 13, 2009, 12:01 PM
25
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Persuasiveness vs Soundness
Patrick
Apr 13, 2009, 8:43 AM
1
point
19
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Bystander Apathy
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13 Apr 2009 1:26 UTC
49
points
20
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Marketing rationalism
PhilGoetz
12 Apr 2009 21:41 UTC
16
points
65
comments
1
min read
LW
link
It’s okay to be (at least a little) irrational
Kaj_Sotala
12 Apr 2009 21:06 UTC
61
points
59
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Sunk Cost Fallacy
Z_M_Davis
12 Apr 2009 17:30 UTC
40
points
44
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Awful Austrians
Swimmy
12 Apr 2009 6:06 UTC
38
points
95
comments
5
min read
LW
link
How Much Thought
jimrandomh
12 Apr 2009 4:56 UTC
49
points
26
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Less Wrong IRC meetup, going soon
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Apr 2009 18:53 UTC
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Maybe theism is wrong
infotropism
11 Apr 2009 16:53 UTC
−7
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Twelve Virtues booklet printing?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Apr 2009 14:40 UTC
8
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Too much feedback can be a bad thing
Kaj_Sotala
11 Apr 2009 14:05 UTC
11
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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