Thomas C. Schel­ling’s “Strat­egy of Con­flict”

cousin_it28 Jul 2009 16:08 UTC
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Athe­ism = Un­the­ism + Antitheism

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jul 2009 2:19 UTC
136 points
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The Na­ture of Offense

Wei Dai23 Jul 2009 11:15 UTC
135 points
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The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Jul 2009 2:27 UTC
129 points
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Shut Up And Guess

Scott Alexander21 Jul 2009 4:04 UTC
124 points
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Of Ex­clu­sion­ary Speech and Gen­der Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jul 2009 7:22 UTC
90 points
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Miss­ing the Trees for the Forest

Scott Alexander22 Jul 2009 3:23 UTC
85 points
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Out­side Anal­y­sis and Blind Spots

orthonormal21 Jul 2009 1:00 UTC
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Sayeth the Girl

Alicorn19 Jul 2009 22:24 UTC
75 points
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Fair Divi­sion of Black-Hole Ne­gen­tropy: an In­tro­duc­tion to Co­op­er­a­tive Game Theory

Wei Dai16 Jul 2009 4:17 UTC
59 points
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Time­less De­ci­sion The­ory: Prob­lems I Can’t Solve

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Jul 2009 0:02 UTC
56 points
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Ab­solute de­nial for atheists

taw16 Jul 2009 15:41 UTC
51 points
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Not Tech­ni­cally Lying

Psychohistorian4 Jul 2009 18:40 UTC
50 points
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Bayesian Utility: Rep­re­sent­ing Prefer­ence by Prob­a­bil­ity Measures

Vladimir_Nesov27 Jul 2009 14:28 UTC
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Cel­e­brate Triv­ial Impetuses

Alicorn24 Jul 2009 22:36 UTC
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Bayesian Flame

cousin_it26 Jul 2009 16:49 UTC
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Me­dia bias

PhilGoetz5 Jul 2009 16:54 UTC
39 points
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Recom­mended read­ing for new rationalists

XFrequentist9 Jul 2009 19:47 UTC
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De­cid­ing on our ra­tio­nal­ity focus

Kaj_Sotala22 Jul 2009 6:27 UTC
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It’s all in your head-land

colinmarshall22 Jul 2009 19:41 UTC
34 points
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The Pop­u­lariza­tion Bias

Wei Dai17 Jul 2009 15:43 UTC
30 points
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An­drewH’s ob­ser­va­tion and op­por­tu­nity costs

Scott Alexander23 Jul 2009 11:36 UTC
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Causes of disagreements

JustinShovelain16 Jul 2009 21:51 UTC
27 points
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Zwicky’s Trifecta of Illusions

thomblake17 Jul 2009 16:59 UTC
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The en­emy within

Roko5 Jul 2009 15:08 UTC
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Link: In­ter­view with Vladimir Vapnik

Daniel_Burfoot25 Jul 2009 13:36 UTC
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An in­ter­est­ing speed dat­ing study

CronoDAS7 Jul 2009 7:09 UTC
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Are You Anosog­nosic?

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Jul 2009 4:35 UTC
20 points
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For­mal­ized math: dream vs reality

cousin_it9 Jul 2009 20:51 UTC
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Creat­ing The Sim­ple Math of Everything

Matt_Simpson20 Jul 2009 22:45 UTC
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Causal­ity does not im­ply correlation

Richard_Kennaway8 Jul 2009 0:52 UTC
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The Se­cond Best

Wei Dai26 Jul 2009 22:58 UTC
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Ar­ti­cle upvoting

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Jul 2009 17:03 UTC
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Our so­ciety lacks good self-preser­va­tion mechanisms

Roko12 Jul 2009 9:26 UTC
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Be­ing saner about gen­der and rationality

Roko20 Jul 2009 7:17 UTC
17 points
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Chom­sky, Sports Talk Ra­dio, Me­dia Bias, and Me

David_J_Balan21 Jul 2009 0:57 UTC
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The Trol­ley Prob­lem in pop­u­lar cul­ture: Torch­wood Series 3

botogol27 Jul 2009 22:46 UTC
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Joint Distri­bu­tions and the Slow Spread of Good Ideas

David_J_Balan20 Jul 2009 23:31 UTC
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Avoid­ing Failure: Fal­lacy Finding

Patrick3 Jul 2009 17:59 UTC
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The Dangers of Par­tial Knowl­edge of the Way: Failing in School

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Jul 2009 15:16 UTC
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Freaky Fairness

cousin_it25 Jul 2009 8:14 UTC
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The Obe­sity Myth

Matt_Simpson30 Jul 2009 0:12 UTC
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Fair­ness and Geometry

cousin_it22 Jul 2009 10:44 UTC
13 points
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Book Re­view: Complications

Annoyance1 Jul 2009 18:39 UTC
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Har­ness­ing Your Biases

swestrup2 Jul 2009 20:45 UTC
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An Akra­sia Anecdote

Matt_Simpson20 Jul 2009 3:10 UTC
12 points
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Good Qual­ity Heuristics

CannibalSmith14 Jul 2009 9:53 UTC
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An ob­ser­va­tion on cryocrastination

AndrewH22 Jul 2009 20:41 UTC
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How likely is a failure of nu­clear de­ter­rence?

Roko15 Jul 2009 0:01 UTC
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Re­vis­it­ing tor­ture vs. dust specks

cousin_it8 Jul 2009 11:04 UTC
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