Diseased think­ing: dis­solv­ing ques­tions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC
509 points
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The Psy­cholog­i­cal Diver­sity of Mankind

Kaj_Sotala9 May 2010 5:53 UTC
143 points
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Ab­nor­mal Cryonics

Will_Newsome26 May 2010 7:43 UTC
79 points
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Blue- and Yel­low-Tinted Choices

Scott Alexander13 May 2010 22:35 UTC
74 points
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On En­joy­ing Disagree­able Company

Alicorn26 May 2010 1:47 UTC
67 points
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The Tragedy of the So­cial Episte­mol­ogy Commons

Roko21 May 2010 12:42 UTC
62 points
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Is Google Paper­clip­ping the Web? The Per­ils of Op­ti­miza­tion by Proxy in So­cial Systems

Alexandros10 May 2010 13:25 UTC
56 points
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What is Wei Dai’s Up­date­less De­ci­sion The­ory?

AlephNeil19 May 2010 10:16 UTC
52 points
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An­tag­o­niz­ing Opi­oid Re­cep­tors for (Preven­tion of) Fun and Profit

Scott Alexander5 May 2010 14:40 UTC
49 points
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Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread

Unnamed27 May 2010 0:10 UTC
44 points
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Tak­ing the awk­ward­ness out of a Prenup—A Game The­o­retic solution

VijayKrishnan22 May 2010 0:45 UTC
41 points
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To sig­nal effec­tively, use a non-hu­man, non-stop­pable enforcer

Clippy22 May 2010 22:03 UTC
39 points
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But Some­body Would Have Noticed

Alicorn4 May 2010 18:56 UTC
38 points
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Be a Visit­ing Fel­low at the Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

AnnaSalamon19 May 2010 8:00 UTC
38 points
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Shock Level 5: Big Wor­lds and Mo­dal Realism

Roko25 May 2010 23:19 UTC
37 points
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Q&A with Harpend­ing and Cochran

MBlume10 May 2010 23:01 UTC
34 points
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The So­cial Co­pro­ces­sor Model

Roko14 May 2010 17:10 UTC
32 points
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Study: En­courag­ing Obe­di­ence Con­sid­ered Harmful

MBlume14 May 2010 18:11 UTC
31 points
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This is your brain on ambiguity

Morendil28 May 2010 15:47 UTC
28 points
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Hu­man val­ues differ as much as val­ues can differ

PhilGoetz3 May 2010 19:35 UTC
27 points
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Do you have High-Func­tion­ing Asperger’s Syn­drome?

Roko10 May 2010 23:55 UTC
26 points
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What is bunk?

[deleted]8 May 2010 18:06 UTC
26 points
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LessWrong down­time 2010-05-11, and other re­cent out­ages and instability

matt22 May 2010 1:33 UTC
25 points
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Phys­i­cal­ism: con­scious­ness as the last sense

Academian19 May 2010 16:31 UTC
25 points
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30th Soar workshop

Johnicholas23 May 2010 13:33 UTC
24 points
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Beyond Op­ti­miza­tion by Proxy

Alexandros27 May 2010 13:16 UTC
24 points
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Backchain­ing causes wish­ful thinking

PhilGoetz19 May 2010 19:01 UTC
23 points
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Asperg­ers Poll Re­sults: LW is nerdier than the Math Olympiad?

Roko13 May 2010 14:24 UTC
19 points
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Com­post­ing fruitless debates

Academian29 May 2010 16:59 UTC
18 points
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Chicago Meetup

Airedale20 May 2010 20:42 UTC
17 points
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Beauty quips, “I’d shut up and mul­ti­ply!”

neq17 May 2010 14:34 UTC
15 points
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Up­dat­ing, part 1: When can you change your mind? The bi­nary model

PhilGoetz13 May 2010 17:55 UTC
14 points
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The Math of When to Self-Improve

John_Maxwell15 May 2010 20:35 UTC
14 points
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Link: Strong Inference

Daniel_Burfoot23 May 2010 2:49 UTC
14 points
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Blame Theory

cousin_it19 May 2010 21:49 UTC
13 points
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Devel­op­ment of Com­pres­sion Rate Method

Daniel_Burfoot20 May 2010 17:11 UTC
12 points
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Con­di­tion­ing on Observers

Joanna Morningstar11 May 2010 5:15 UTC
12 points
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Asperg­ers Sur­vey Re-results

Roko29 May 2010 16:58 UTC
11 points
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Mul­ti­ple Choice

Alicorn17 May 2010 22:26 UTC
11 points
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LessWrong meetup, Lon­don UK, 2010-06-06 16:00

Paul Crowley23 May 2010 13:46 UTC
10 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity quotes: May 2010

ata1 May 2010 5:48 UTC
8 points
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The Cameron Todd Willing­ham test

Kevin5 May 2010 0:11 UTC
7 points
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Open Thread: May 2010, Part 2

Kevin20 May 2010 19:30 UTC
6 points
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Open Thread: May 2010

Jack1 May 2010 5:29 UTC
4 points
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Bay Area Less­wrong Meet up Sun­day May 16

LucasSloan14 May 2010 5:37 UTC
4 points
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Sig­nifi­cance of Com­pres­sion Rate Method

Daniel_Burfoot30 May 2010 3:50 UTC
4 points
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Cam­bridge Less Wrong meetup this Sun­day, May 16

jimrandomh14 May 2010 4:34 UTC
3 points
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Another way to look at consciousness

JanetK20 May 2010 13:58 UTC
2 points
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Pre­face to a Pro­posal for a New Mode of Inquiry

Daniel_Burfoot17 May 2010 2:11 UTC
2 points
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Ex­plana­tory nor­mal­ity fallacy

KatjaGrace16 May 2010 3:26 UTC
1 point
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