$100 for the best ar­ti­cle on effi­cient char­ity—dead­line Wed­nes­day 1st December

RokoNov 24, 2010, 10:31 PM
17 points
57 comments2 min readLW link

Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute at Oxford hiring postdocs

CarlShulmanNov 24, 2010, 9:40 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Startups

AlexandrosNov 24, 2010, 9:13 PM
10 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

2005 short story loosely about P-zombies

AiredaleNov 24, 2010, 6:12 PM
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity and Politics

CarlShulmanNov 24, 2010, 5:02 PM
28 points
31 comments5 min readLW link

The Cult Of Reason

Raw_PowerNov 24, 2010, 3:24 PM
3 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Do IQ tests mea­sure g?

NancyLebovitzNov 24, 2010, 1:19 PM
28 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Why abor­tion looks more okay to us than kil­ling babies

cousin_itNov 24, 2010, 10:08 AM
25 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

De­pres­sion and Rationality

InquilineKeaNov 24, 2010, 8:03 AM
6 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

By us­ing Cost Ba­sis Work­ing Cap­i­tal as the number

meidangNov 24, 2010, 7:28 AM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

In­her­ited Im­prob­a­bil­ities: Trans­fer­ring the Bur­den of Proof

komponistoNov 24, 2010, 3:40 AM
46 points
58 comments8 min readLW link

Com­pat­i­bil­ism in action

rwallaceNov 23, 2010, 5:58 PM
−5 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

New com­ments on the re­cent psi study

gimpfNov 23, 2010, 3:52 PM
20 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Fic­tion: Tas­ma­nian Devil ch. 1

fictionaNov 23, 2010, 3:49 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity is Not an At­trac­tive Tribe

AlexandrosNov 23, 2010, 2:08 PM
16 points
107 comments4 min readLW link

Ad­vanced neurotypicallity

NancyLebovitzNov 22, 2010, 11:34 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity in Fan­tasy Worlds

lucidfoxNov 22, 2010, 9:37 PM
8 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Voli­tive Rationality

NihilCredoNov 22, 2010, 7:26 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Psy­chopa­thy and the Wa­son Selec­tion Task

[deleted]Nov 22, 2010, 2:00 PM
26 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Does cog­ni­tive ther­apy en­courage bias?

fortyeridaniaNov 22, 2010, 11:31 AM
16 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Does cog­ni­tive ther­apy en­courage bias?

fortyeridaniaNov 22, 2010, 11:11 AM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Does cog­ni­tive ther­apy en­courage bias?

fortyeridaniaNov 22, 2010, 9:52 AM
4 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

The Self-Re­in­forc­ing Binary

lucidfoxNov 22, 2010, 9:01 AM
−5 points
28 comments5 min readLW link

Risk is not em­piri­cally cor­re­lated with return

jsalvatierNov 22, 2010, 5:31 AM
11 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

Can cry­opro­tec­tant tox­i­c­ity be crowd-sourced?

lsparrishNov 21, 2010, 5:46 PM
1 point
10 comments2 min readLW link

Com­pe­ti­tion to write the best stand-alone ar­ti­cle on effi­cient charity

RokoNov 21, 2010, 4:57 PM
16 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

Agents of No Mo­ral Value: Con­strained Cog­ni­tion?

Vladimir_NesovNov 21, 2010, 4:41 PM
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The true pris­oner’s dilemma with skewed pay­off matrix

JoniiNov 20, 2010, 8:37 PM
3 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

Pseu­dolike­li­hood as a source of cog­ni­tive bias

Peter_de_BlancNov 20, 2010, 8:06 PM
11 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

What I’ve learned from Less Wrong

LouieNov 20, 2010, 12:47 PM
113 points
235 comments3 min readLW link

Games Peo­ple Play

Douglas_KnightNov 20, 2010, 4:41 AM
13 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity and be­ing child-free

InquilineKeaNov 20, 2010, 2:12 AM
15 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

Com­mon Sense Athe­ism sum­ma­riz­ing the Sequences

AlexandrosNov 19, 2010, 12:55 PM
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Help with (pseudo-)ra­tio­nal film characters

funkycoderNov 19, 2010, 11:26 AM
−11 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Fic­tion: “Chicken Lit­tle” by Cory Doctorow

NancyLebovitzNov 19, 2010, 11:13 AM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ad­vice for a Bud­ding Rationalist

atuckerNov 19, 2010, 3:10 AM
11 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Yes, a blog.

AcademianNov 19, 2010, 1:53 AM
152 points
108 comments4 min readLW link

Goals for which Less Wrong does (and doesn’t) help

AnnaSalamonNov 18, 2010, 10:37 PM
87 points
105 comments4 min readLW link

The Benefits of Two Reli­gious Educations

HonoreDBNov 18, 2010, 9:42 PM
10 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Another ra­tio­nal­ist pro­tag­o­nist takes on “magic”

[deleted]Nov 18, 2010, 8:25 PM
17 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

“Tar­get au­di­ence” size for the Less Wrong sequences

LouieNov 18, 2010, 12:21 PM
18 points
88 comments6 min readLW link

Weird char­ac­ters in the Sequences

Paul CrowleyNov 18, 2010, 8:27 AM
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

IQ Scores Fail to Pre­dict Aca­demic Perfor­mance in Chil­dren With Autism

InquilineKeaNov 18, 2010, 3:34 AM
9 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Di­plo­macy, Game 2, Game Over

RandalyNov 18, 2010, 3:19 AM
12 points
87 comments1 min readLW link

Sus­pended An­i­ma­tion Inc. ac­cused of incompetence

CronoDASNov 18, 2010, 12:20 AM
50 points
139 comments1 min readLW link

Im­perfect Levers

blogospheroidNov 17, 2010, 7:12 PM
5 points
36 comments4 min readLW link

How would you spend 30 mil­lion dol­lars?

MariaKonovalenkoNov 17, 2010, 2:28 PM
0 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

‘Space-Time Cloak’ to Con­ceal Events

KevinNov 17, 2010, 2:23 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Rolf Nel­son: How to de­ter a rogue AI by us­ing your first-mover ad­van­tage

KevinNov 17, 2010, 2:02 PM
14 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Zero Bias

AlexandrosNov 17, 2010, 12:16 PM
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link