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Eight Short Stud­ies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC
794 points
250 comments10 min readLW link

Hu­mans are not au­to­mat­i­cally strategic

AnnaSalamon8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC
520 points
277 comments4 min readLW link

Diseased think­ing: dis­solv­ing ques­tions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC
516 points
357 comments9 min readLW link

Ugh fields

Roko12 Apr 2010 17:06 UTC
374 points
80 comments3 min readLW link

In­tel­lec­tual Hip­sters and Meta-Contrarianism

Scott Alexander13 Sep 2010 21:36 UTC
358 points
367 comments8 min readLW link

Con­fi­dence lev­els in­side and out­side an argument

Scott Alexander16 Dec 2010 3:06 UTC
232 points
192 comments6 min readLW link

Ureshiku Naritai

Alicorn8 Apr 2010 20:08 UTC
219 points
157 comments6 min readLW link

Effi­cient Char­ity: Do Unto Others...

Scott Alexander24 Dec 2010 21:26 UTC
205 points
322 comments6 min readLW link

Are wire­heads happy?

Scott Alexander1 Jan 2010 16:41 UTC
180 points
109 comments5 min readLW link

Bayes’ The­o­rem Illus­trated (My Way)

komponisto3 Jun 2010 4:40 UTC
171 points
195 comments9 min readLW link

The AI in a box boxes you

Stuart_Armstrong2 Feb 2010 10:10 UTC
168 points
389 comments1 min readLW link

Your in­tu­itions are not magic

Kaj_Sotala10 Jun 2010 0:11 UTC
163 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

Refer­ences & Re­sources for LessWrong

XiXiDu10 Oct 2010 14:54 UTC
162 points
104 comments20 min readLW link

Self-Im­prove­ment or Shiny Dis­trac­tion: Why Less Wrong is anti-In­stru­men­tal Rationality

patrissimo14 Sep 2010 16:17 UTC
155 points
261 comments16 min readLW link

Self-fulfilling correlations

PhilGoetz26 Aug 2010 21:07 UTC
151 points
50 comments3 min readLW link

Even if you have a nail, not all ham­mers are the same

PhilGoetz29 Mar 2010 18:09 UTC
150 points
126 comments6 min readLW link

Too busy to think about life

Academian22 Apr 2010 15:14 UTC
147 points
62 comments3 min readLW link

Break your habits: be more empirical

Academian2 Oct 2010 21:04 UTC
145 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Yes, a blog.

Academian19 Nov 2010 1:53 UTC
144 points
108 comments4 min readLW link

The Psy­cholog­i­cal Diver­sity of Mankind

Kaj_Sotala9 May 2010 5:53 UTC
143 points
162 comments7 min readLW link

Seven Shiny Stories

Alicorn1 Jun 2010 0:43 UTC
141 points
34 comments7 min readLW link

Memetic Hazards in Videogames

jimrandomh10 Sep 2010 2:22 UTC
136 points
164 comments3 min readLW link

If a tree falls on Sleep­ing Beauty...

ata12 Nov 2010 1:14 UTC
136 points
28 comments8 min readLW link

Undis­crim­i­nat­ing Skepticism

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2010 23:23 UTC
136 points
1,361 comments9 min readLW link

Some­thing’s Wrong

[deleted]5 Sep 2010 18:08 UTC
133 points
164 comments2 min readLW link

Ask and Guess

[deleted]1 Dec 2010 17:54 UTC
128 points
66 comments2 min readLW link

Have no heroes, and no villains

PhilGoetz7 Nov 2010 21:15 UTC
127 points
73 comments1 min readLW link

The scourge of per­verse-mindedness

simplicio21 Mar 2010 7:08 UTC
122 points
255 comments5 min readLW link

Com­part­men­tal­iza­tion in epistemic and in­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity

AnnaSalamon17 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC
120 points
123 comments6 min readLW link

Defect­ing by Ac­ci­dent—A Flaw Com­mon to An­a­lyt­i­cal People

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)1 Dec 2010 8:25 UTC
119 points
432 comments15 min readLW link

Mak­ing your ex­plicit rea­son­ing trust­wor­thy

AnnaSalamon29 Oct 2010 0:00 UTC
119 points
95 comments6 min readLW link

The Im­por­tance of Good­hart’s Law

blogospheroid13 Mar 2010 8:19 UTC
116 points
123 comments3 min readLW link

What is Bayesi­anism?

Kaj_Sotala26 Feb 2010 7:43 UTC
115 points
217 comments4 min readLW link

A sur­vey of anti-cry­on­ics writ­ing

Paul Crowley7 Feb 2010 23:26 UTC
115 points
326 comments7 min readLW link

Shut Up and Divide?

Wei Dai9 Feb 2010 20:09 UTC
113 points
276 comments1 min readLW link

A Suite of Prag­matic Con­sid­er­a­tions in Fa­vor of Niceness

Alicorn5 Jan 2010 21:32 UTC
111 points
198 comments3 min readLW link

What I’ve learned from Less Wrong

Louie20 Nov 2010 12:47 UTC
111 points
235 comments3 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Rudeness

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Jan 2010 6:48 UTC
107 points
206 comments4 min readLW link

Epistemic Luck

Alicorn8 Feb 2010 0:02 UTC
107 points
133 comments3 min readLW link

How to Save the World

Louie1 Dec 2010 17:17 UTC
103 points
135 comments7 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing your understanding

SilasBarta22 Mar 2010 22:33 UTC
102 points
80 comments3 min readLW link

The math­e­mat­i­cal uni­verse: the map that is the territory

ata26 Mar 2010 9:26 UTC
102 points
124 comments11 min readLW link

Dark Arts 101: Us­ing presuppositions

PhilGoetz27 Dec 2010 17:16 UTC
101 points
87 comments1 min readLW link

Nor­mal Cryonics

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Jan 2010 19:08 UTC
99 points
964 comments4 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing The Akra­sia Hypothesis

pjeby26 Feb 2010 20:45 UTC
99 points
70 comments9 min readLW link

Tips and Tricks for An­swer­ing Hard Questions

Wei Dai17 Jan 2010 23:56 UTC
97 points
54 comments2 min readLW link

Defeat­ing Ugh Fields In Practice

Psychohistorian19 Jun 2010 19:37 UTC
95 points
95 comments2 min readLW link

“Nahh, that wouldn’t work”

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)28 Nov 2010 21:32 UTC
95 points
50 comments2 min readLW link

What Cost for Ir­ra­tional­ity?

Kaj_Sotala1 Jul 2010 18:25 UTC
94 points
119 comments7 min readLW link

“Out­side View!” as Con­ver­sa­tion-Halter

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Feb 2010 5:53 UTC
93 points
103 comments7 min readLW link