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Survey Results
Scott Alexander
May 12, 2009, 10:09 PM
62
points
212
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Rationality in the Media: Don’t (New Yorker, May 2009)
May 12, 2009, 1:32 PM
7
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Willpower Hax #487: Execute by Default
Eliezer Yudkowsky
May 12, 2009, 6:46 AM
84
points
59
comments
1
min read
LW
link
No One Knows Stuff
talisman
May 12, 2009, 5:11 AM
9
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Just making sure posts can be written
wmoore
May 12, 2009, 1:11 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
You Are A Brain
Liron
May 9, 2009, 9:53 PM
131
points
64
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Step Back
Andy_McKenzie
May 9, 2009, 6:07 PM
18
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How Not to be Stupid: Brewing a Nice Cup of Utilitea
Psy-Kosh
May 9, 2009, 8:14 AM
2
points
17
comments
6
min read
LW
link
A Request for Open Problems
MrHen
May 8, 2009, 1:33 PM
28
points
103
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Framing Consciousness
cousin_it
May 8, 2009, 10:27 AM
−3
points
45
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Replaying History
Gordon Seidoh Worley
May 8, 2009, 5:35 AM
7
points
19
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Epistemic vs. Instrumental Rationality: Case of the Leaky Agent
Wei Dai
May 7, 2009, 11:09 PM
18
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The First Koan: Drinking the Hot Iron Ball
Annoyance
May 7, 2009, 5:41 PM
0
points
57
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Rationality is winning—or is it?
taw
May 7, 2009, 2:51 PM
−8
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On the Fence? Major in CS
talisman
May 7, 2009, 4:26 AM
20
points
54
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Beware Trivial Inconveniences
Scott Alexander
May 6, 2009, 10:04 PM
284
points
107
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Hardened Problems Make Brittle Models
cousin_it
May 6, 2009, 6:31 PM
58
points
40
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Wiki.lesswrong.com Is Live
Eliezer Yudkowsky
May 6, 2009, 5:17 AM
11
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
No Universal Probability Space
Gordon Seidoh Worley
May 6, 2009, 2:58 AM
2
points
43
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Consider Representative Data Sets
Vladimir_Nesov
May 6, 2009, 1:49 AM
12
points
15
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Introduction Thread: May 2009
MBlume
May 5, 2009, 8:39 PM
5
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Off Topic Thread: May 2009
MBlume
May 5, 2009, 8:36 PM
2
points
72
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to use “philosophical majoritarianism”
jimmy
May 5, 2009, 6:49 AM
13
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
How David Beats Goliath
JulianMorrison
May 5, 2009, 1:25 AM
25
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Special Status Needs Special Support
Eliezer Yudkowsky
May 4, 2009, 10:59 PM
30
points
75
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Bead Jar Guesses
Alicorn
May 4, 2009, 6:59 PM
22
points
134
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Without models
Richard_Kennaway
May 4, 2009, 11:31 AM
23
points
55
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Allais Hack—Transform Your Decisions!
MBlume
May 3, 2009, 10:37 PM
22
points
19
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Essay-Question Poll: Dietary Choices
Alicorn
May 3, 2009, 3:27 PM
17
points
244
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Return of the Survey
Scott Alexander
May 3, 2009, 2:10 AM
16
points
61
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What I Tell You Three Times Is True
Scott Alexander
May 2, 2009, 11:47 PM
60
points
32
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The mind-killer
Paul Crowley
May 2, 2009, 4:49 PM
29
points
160
comments
2
min read
LW
link
TED Talks for Less Wrong
Cyan
May 2, 2009, 3:32 AM
15
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Second London Rationalist Meeting upcoming—Sunday 14:00
taw
May 2, 2009, 12:17 AM
3
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread: May 2009
steven0461
May 1, 2009, 4:16 PM
7
points
210
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Conventions and Confusing Continuity Conundrums
Psy-Kosh
May 1, 2009, 1:41 AM
5
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationalist Role in the Information Age
byrnema
Apr 30, 2009, 6:24 PM
7
points
19
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Rationalistic Losing
MrHen
Apr 30, 2009, 12:48 PM
7
points
17
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Test
wmoore
Apr 30, 2009, 5:12 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How Not to be Stupid: Adorable Maybes
Psy-Kosh
Apr 29, 2009, 7:15 PM
1
point
55
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Fiction of interest
dclayh
29 Apr 2009 18:47 UTC
14
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Fire and Motion
rwallace
29 Apr 2009 16:06 UTC
7
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Fighting Akrasia: Incentivising Action
Gordon Seidoh Worley
29 Apr 2009 13:48 UTC
12
points
58
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How to come up with verbal probabilities
jimmy
29 Apr 2009 8:35 UTC
27
points
20
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Wednesday depends on us.
byrnema
29 Apr 2009 3:47 UTC
2
points
43
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Generalizing From One Example
Scott Alexander
28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC
438
points
423
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Re-formalizing PD
cousin_it
28 Apr 2009 12:10 UTC
32
points
63
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What is control theory, and why do you need to know about it?
Richard_Kennaway
28 Apr 2009 9:25 UTC
58
points
48
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Epistemic vs. Instrumental Rationality: Approximations
Peter_de_Blanc
28 Apr 2009 3:12 UTC
30
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How Not to be Stupid: Know What You Want, What You Really Really Want
Psy-Kosh
28 Apr 2009 1:11 UTC
2
points
39
comments
4
min read
LW
link
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