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Thomas C. Schel­ling’s “Strat­egy of Con­flict”

cousin_itJul 28, 2009, 4:08 PM
153 points
154 comments2 min readLW link

Athe­ism = Un­the­ism + Antitheism

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 1, 2009, 2:19 AM
138 points
187 comments4 min readLW link

The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 15, 2009, 2:27 AM
137 points
616 comments2 min readLW link

The Na­ture of Offense

Wei DaiJul 23, 2009, 11:15 AM
136 points
179 comments3 min readLW link

Shut Up And Guess

Scott AlexanderJul 21, 2009, 4:04 AM
125 points
110 comments5 min readLW link

Of Ex­clu­sion­ary Speech and Gen­der Politics

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 21, 2009, 7:22 AM
92 points
669 comments5 min readLW link

Miss­ing the Trees for the Forest

Scott AlexanderJul 22, 2009, 3:23 AM
88 points
159 comments7 min readLW link

Out­side Anal­y­sis and Blind Spots

orthonormalJul 21, 2009, 1:00 AM
83 points
34 comments5 min readLW link

Sayeth the Girl

AlicornJul 19, 2009, 10:24 PM
76 points
504 comments3 min readLW link

Fair Divi­sion of Black-Hole Ne­gen­tropy: an In­tro­duc­tion to Co­op­er­a­tive Game Theory

Wei DaiJul 16, 2009, 4:17 AM
62 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

Time­less De­ci­sion The­ory: Prob­lems I Can’t Solve

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 20, 2009, 12:02 AM
57 points
156 comments6 min readLW link

Ab­solute de­nial for atheists

tawJul 16, 2009, 3:41 PM
52 points
606 comments1 min readLW link

Not Tech­ni­cally Lying

PsychohistorianJul 4, 2009, 6:40 PM
50 points
86 comments4 min readLW link

Bayesian Utility: Rep­re­sent­ing Prefer­ence by Prob­a­bil­ity Measures

Vladimir_NesovJul 27, 2009, 2:28 PM
50 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

Cel­e­brate Triv­ial Impetuses

AlicornJul 24, 2009, 10:36 PM
48 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian Flame

cousin_itJul 26, 2009, 4:49 PM
41 points
163 comments4 min readLW link

De­cid­ing on our ra­tio­nal­ity focus

Kaj_SotalaJul 22, 2009, 6:27 AM
39 points
51 comments2 min readLW link

Recom­mended read­ing for new rationalists

XFrequentistJul 9, 2009, 7:47 PM
39 points
168 comments1 min readLW link

Me­dia bias

PhilGoetzJul 5, 2009, 4:54 PM
39 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

It’s all in your head-land

colinmarshallJul 22, 2009, 7:41 PM
34 points
68 comments12 min readLW link

Causes of disagreements

JustinShovelainJul 16, 2009, 9:51 PM
32 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

The Pop­u­lariza­tion Bias

Wei DaiJul 17, 2009, 3:43 PM
30 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

An­drewH’s ob­ser­va­tion and op­por­tu­nity costs

Scott AlexanderJul 23, 2009, 11:36 AM
29 points
61 comments2 min readLW link

Zwicky’s Trifecta of Illusions

thomblakeJul 17, 2009, 4:59 PM
23 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Link: In­ter­view with Vladimir Vapnik

Daniel_BurfootJul 25, 2009, 1:36 PM
22 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

The en­emy within

RokoJul 5, 2009, 3:08 PM
22 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

The Se­cond Best

Wei DaiJul 26, 2009, 10:58 PM
21 points
59 comments2 min readLW link

Are You Anosog­nosic?

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 19, 2009, 4:35 AM
20 points
67 comments1 min readLW link

An in­ter­est­ing speed dat­ing study

CronoDASJul 7, 2009, 7:09 AM
20 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

For­mal­ized math: dream vs reality

cousin_itJul 9, 2009, 8:51 PM
19 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Creat­ing The Sim­ple Math of Everything

Matt_SimpsonJul 20, 2009, 10:45 PM
18 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

Ar­ti­cle upvoting

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 19, 2009, 5:03 PM
18 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Causal­ity does not im­ply correlation

Richard_KennawayJul 8, 2009, 12:52 AM
18 points
58 comments4 min readLW link

Our so­ciety lacks good self-preser­va­tion mechanisms

RokoJul 12, 2009, 9:26 AM
17 points
135 comments3 min readLW link

Be­ing saner about gen­der and rationality

RokoJul 20, 2009, 7:17 AM
17 points
98 comments2 min readLW link

Chom­sky, Sports Talk Ra­dio, Me­dia Bias, and Me

David_J_BalanJul 21, 2009, 12:57 AM
17 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Joint Distri­bu­tions and the Slow Spread of Good Ideas

David_J_BalanJul 20, 2009, 11:31 PM
16 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

The Trol­ley Prob­lem in pop­u­lar cul­ture: Torch­wood Series 3

botogolJul 27, 2009, 10:46 PM
16 points
87 comments3 min readLW link

The Obe­sity Myth

Matt_SimpsonJul 30, 2009, 12:12 AM
14 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

Fair­ness and Geometry

cousin_itJul 22, 2009, 10:44 AM
14 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Freaky Fairness

cousin_itJul 25, 2009, 8:14 AM
14 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

Avoid­ing Failure: Fal­lacy Finding

PatrickJul 3, 2009, 5:59 PM
14 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

The Dangers of Par­tial Knowl­edge of the Way: Failing in School

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJul 6, 2009, 3:16 PM
14 points
38 comments5 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Complications

AnnoyanceJul 1, 2009, 6:39 PM
13 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Har­ness­ing Your Biases

swestrupJul 2, 2009, 8:45 PM
13 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

An ob­ser­va­tion on cryocrastination

AndrewHJul 22, 2009, 8:41 PM
12 points
47 comments3 min readLW link

An Akra­sia Anecdote

Matt_SimpsonJul 20, 2009, 3:10 AM
12 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Good Qual­ity Heuristics

CannibalSmithJul 14, 2009, 9:53 AM
12 points
113 comments1 min readLW link

Re­vis­it­ing tor­ture vs. dust specks

cousin_itJul 8, 2009, 11:04 AM
10 points
66 comments2 min readLW link

Five Stages of Idolatry

[deleted]Jul 25, 2009, 6:16 PM
10 points
16 comments3 min readLW link