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The Best Text­books on Every Subject

lukeprogJan 16, 2011, 8:30 AM
774 points
417 comments7 min readLW link

Work­ing hurts less than pro­cras­ti­nat­ing, we fear the twinge of starting

Eliezer YudkowskyJan 2, 2011, 12:15 AM
365 points
162 comments3 min readLW link

The Ne­glected Virtue of Scholarship

lukeprogJan 5, 2011, 7:22 AM
331 points
155 comments3 min readLW link

The Blue-Min­i­miz­ing Robot

Scott AlexanderJul 4, 2011, 10:26 PM
330 points
160 comments4 min readLW link

How to Beat Procrastination

lukeprogFeb 5, 2011, 6:49 PM
276 points
162 comments15 min readLW link

Learned Blankness

AnnaSalamonApr 18, 2011, 6:55 PM
261 points
188 comments5 min readLW link

The 5-Se­cond Level

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 7, 2011, 4:51 AM
244 points
328 comments8 min readLW link

Schol­ar­ship: How to Do It Efficiently

lukeprogMay 9, 2011, 10:05 PM
240 points
147 comments5 min readLW link

How to Be Happy

lukeprogMar 17, 2011, 7:22 AM
236 points
207 comments17 min readLW link

Scien­tific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge

lukeprogJan 20, 2011, 8:44 PM
234 points
502 comments10 min readLW link

The curse of identity

Kaj_SotalaNov 17, 2011, 7:28 PM
219 points
303 comments6 min readLW link

A Crash Course in the Neu­ro­science of Hu­man Motivation

lukeprogAug 19, 2011, 9:15 PM
204 points
93 comments38 min readLW link

Pro­ce­du­ral Knowl­edge Gaps

AlicornFeb 8, 2011, 3:17 AM
197 points
1,495 comments1 min readLW link

Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Suc­cess­ful Ra­tion­al­ist Chapter

CosmosMar 17, 2011, 8:12 PM
189 points
172 comments11 min readLW link

Levels of Action

alyssavanceApr 14, 2011, 12:18 AM
187 points
47 comments9 min readLW link

SIAI—An Examination

BrandonReinhartMay 2, 2011, 7:08 AM
182 points
208 comments13 min readLW link

Build Small Skills in the Right Order

lukeprogApr 17, 2011, 11:01 PM
170 points
220 comments5 min readLW link

Ra­tional Home Buying

Scott AlexanderAug 27, 2011, 12:15 AM
169 points
138 comments7 min readLW link

Less Wrong Ra­tion­al­ity and Main­stream Philosophy

lukeprogMar 20, 2011, 8:28 PM
165 points
334 comments5 min readLW link

Ap­prov­ing re­in­forces low-effort behaviors

Scott AlexanderJul 17, 2011, 8:43 PM
164 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

Your in­ner Google

PhilGoetzSep 16, 2011, 6:56 AM
163 points
70 comments1 min readLW link

Pri­soner’s Dilemma Tour­na­ment Results

praseSep 6, 2011, 12:46 AM
151 points
171 comments11 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy: A Diseased Discipline

lukeprogMar 28, 2011, 7:31 PM
150 points
447 comments7 min readLW link

Epis­tle to the New York Less Wrongians

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 20, 2011, 9:13 PM
149 points
275 comments10 min readLW link

Just an­other day in utopia

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 25, 2011, 9:37 AM
147 points
118 comments13 min readLW link

Ri­tual Re­port: NYC Less Wrong Sols­tice Celebration

RaemonDec 20, 2011, 8:37 PM
143 points
180 comments11 min readLW link

Make your train­ing useful

AnnaSalamonFeb 12, 2011, 2:14 AM
141 points
46 comments5 min readLW link

The Cog­ni­tive Science of Rationality

lukeprogSep 12, 2011, 8:48 PM
139 points
111 comments15 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing Fuzzies And Utilons: The Altru­ism Chip Jar

orthonormalJan 1, 2011, 6:53 PM
139 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

Value of In­for­ma­tion: Four Examples

VaniverNov 22, 2011, 11:02 PM
137 points
58 comments10 min readLW link

How I Lost 100 Pounds Us­ing TDT

ZviMar 14, 2011, 3:50 PM
136 points
242 comments4 min readLW link

Se­crets of the eliminati

Scott AlexanderJul 20, 2011, 10:15 AM
135 points
256 comments3 min readLW link

[link] Back to the trees

[deleted]Nov 4, 2011, 10:06 PM
132 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

The Bias You Didn’t Expect

PsychohistorianApr 14, 2011, 4:20 PM
132 points
91 comments2 min readLW link

The benefits of mad­ness: A pos­i­tive ac­count of arationality

SkatcheApr 22, 2011, 7:43 PM
131 points
122 comments14 min readLW link

On the un­pop­u­lar­ity of cry­on­ics: life sucks, but at least then you die

gwernJul 29, 2011, 9:06 PM
127 points
472 comments7 min readLW link

Reflec­tions on ra­tio­nal­ity a year out

[deleted]Mar 31, 2011, 1:35 AM
125 points
108 comments4 min readLW link

Why We Can’t Take Ex­pected Value Es­ti­mates Liter­ally (Even When They’re Un­bi­ased)

HoldenKarnofskyAug 18, 2011, 11:34 PM
125 points
253 comments17 min readLW link

2011 Sur­vey Results

Scott AlexanderDec 5, 2011, 10:49 AM
123 points
513 comments8 min readLW link

A Ra­tion­al­ist’s Tale

lukeprogSep 28, 2011, 1:17 AM
123 points
308 comments6 min readLW link

Polyhacking

AlicornAug 28, 2011, 8:35 AM
121 points
603 comments8 min readLW link

Ac­tion and habit

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Jun 2, 2011, 2:59 PM
118 points
105 comments4 min readLW link

Back to the Ba­sics of Rationality

lukeprogJan 11, 2011, 7:05 AM
116 points
48 comments3 min readLW link

The Power of Agency

lukeprogMay 7, 2011, 1:38 AM
114 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

Tech­niques for prob­a­bil­ity estimates

Scott AlexanderJan 4, 2011, 11:38 PM
113 points
60 comments7 min readLW link

Tran­scrip­tion of Eliezer’s Jan­uary 2010 video Q&A

curiousepicNov 14, 2011, 5:02 PM
112 points
9 comments56 min readLW link

Fol­low-up on ESP study: “We don’t pub­lish repli­ca­tions”

CarlShulmanJul 12, 2011, 8:48 PM
112 points
50 comments2 min readLW link

The limits of introspection

Scott AlexanderJul 16, 2011, 9:00 PM
111 points
43 comments6 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing aver­sion and habit strength

AcademianMay 27, 2011, 1:05 AM
111 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Branches of ra­tio­nal­ity

AnnaSalamonJan 12, 2011, 3:24 AM
108 points
66 comments5 min readLW link