The Best Text­books on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC
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Work­ing hurts less than pro­cras­ti­nat­ing, we fear the twinge of starting

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Jan 2011 0:15 UTC
334 points
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The Blue-Min­i­miz­ing Robot

Scott Alexander4 Jul 2011 22:26 UTC
322 points
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The Ne­glected Virtue of Scholarship

lukeprog5 Jan 2011 7:22 UTC
321 points
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How to Beat Procrastination

lukeprog5 Feb 2011 18:49 UTC
261 points
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Learned Blankness

AnnaSalamon18 Apr 2011 18:55 UTC
237 points
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Schol­ar­ship: How to Do It Efficiently

lukeprog9 May 2011 22:05 UTC
231 points
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The 5-Se­cond Level

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 May 2011 4:51 UTC
229 points
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Scien­tific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge

lukeprog20 Jan 2011 20:44 UTC
228 points
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How to Be Happy

lukeprog17 Mar 2011 7:22 UTC
223 points
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The curse of identity

Kaj_Sotala17 Nov 2011 19:28 UTC
203 points
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A Crash Course in the Neu­ro­science of Hu­man Motivation

lukeprog19 Aug 2011 21:15 UTC
200 points
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Pro­ce­du­ral Knowl­edge Gaps

Alicorn8 Feb 2011 3:17 UTC
190 points
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Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Suc­cess­ful Ra­tion­al­ist Chapter

Cosmos17 Mar 2011 20:12 UTC
187 points
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SIAI—An Examination

BrandonReinhart2 May 2011 7:08 UTC
183 points
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Levels of Action

alyssavance14 Apr 2011 0:18 UTC
179 points
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Build Small Skills in the Right Order

lukeprog17 Apr 2011 23:01 UTC
166 points
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Ra­tional Home Buying

Scott Alexander27 Aug 2011 0:15 UTC
165 points
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Your in­ner Google

PhilGoetz16 Sep 2011 6:56 UTC
161 points
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Less Wrong Ra­tion­al­ity and Main­stream Philosophy

lukeprog20 Mar 2011 20:28 UTC
161 points
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Ap­prov­ing re­in­forces low-effort behaviors

Scott Alexander17 Jul 2011 20:43 UTC
160 points
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Pri­soner’s Dilemma Tour­na­ment Results

prase6 Sep 2011 0:46 UTC
152 points
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Epis­tle to the New York Less Wrongians

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Apr 2011 21:13 UTC
150 points
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Philos­o­phy: A Diseased Discipline

lukeprog28 Mar 2011 19:31 UTC
146 points
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Just an­other day in utopia

Stuart_Armstrong25 Dec 2011 9:37 UTC
142 points
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Ri­tual Re­port: NYC Less Wrong Sols­tice Celebration

Raemon20 Dec 2011 20:37 UTC
142 points
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Op­ti­miz­ing Fuzzies And Utilons: The Altru­ism Chip Jar

orthonormal1 Jan 2011 18:53 UTC
138 points
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The Cog­ni­tive Science of Rationality

lukeprog12 Sep 2011 20:48 UTC
136 points
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Value of In­for­ma­tion: Four Examples

Vaniver22 Nov 2011 23:02 UTC
136 points
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Make your train­ing useful

AnnaSalamon12 Feb 2011 2:14 UTC
134 points
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Se­crets of the eliminati

Scott Alexander20 Jul 2011 10:15 UTC
133 points
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The benefits of mad­ness: A pos­i­tive ac­count of arationality

Skatche22 Apr 2011 19:43 UTC
132 points
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[link] Back to the trees

[deleted]4 Nov 2011 22:06 UTC
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The Bias You Didn’t Expect

Psychohistorian14 Apr 2011 16:20 UTC
131 points
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On the un­pop­u­lar­ity of cry­on­ics: life sucks, but at least then you die

gwern29 Jul 2011 21:06 UTC
127 points
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How I Lost 100 Pounds Us­ing TDT

Zvi14 Mar 2011 15:50 UTC
127 points
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Reflec­tions on ra­tio­nal­ity a year out

[deleted]31 Mar 2011 1:35 UTC
127 points
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Why We Can’t Take Ex­pected Value Es­ti­mates Liter­ally (Even When They’re Un­bi­ased)

HoldenKarnofsky18 Aug 2011 23:34 UTC
123 points
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A Ra­tion­al­ist’s Tale

lukeprog28 Sep 2011 1:17 UTC
123 points
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2011 Sur­vey Results

Scott Alexander5 Dec 2011 10:49 UTC
123 points
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Polyhacking

Alicorn28 Aug 2011 8:35 UTC
123 points
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Ac­tion and habit

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 2 Jun 2011 14:59 UTC
118 points
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Back to the Ba­sics of Rationality

lukeprog11 Jan 2011 7:05 UTC
117 points
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Tran­scrip­tion of Eliezer’s Jan­uary 2010 video Q&A

curiousepic14 Nov 2011 17:02 UTC
112 points
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Mea­sur­ing aver­sion and habit strength

Academian27 May 2011 1:05 UTC
111 points
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Fol­low-up on ESP study: “We don’t pub­lish repli­ca­tions”

CarlShulman12 Jul 2011 20:48 UTC
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The Power of Agency

lukeprog7 May 2011 1:38 UTC
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Branches of ra­tio­nal­ity

AnnaSalamon12 Jan 2011 3:24 UTC
107 points
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Tech­niques for prob­a­bil­ity estimates

Scott Alexander4 Jan 2011 23:38 UTC
106 points
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The limits of introspection

Scott Alexander16 Jul 2011 21:00 UTC
106 points
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