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The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
lukeprog
16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC
259
points
347
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Blue-Minimizing Robot
Scott Alexander
4 Jul 2011 22:26 UTC
194
points
161
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship
lukeprog
5 Jan 2011 7:22 UTC
192
points
153
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How to Beat Procrastination
lukeprog
5 Feb 2011 18:49 UTC
172
points
154
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting
Eliezer Yudkowsky
2 Jan 2011 0:15 UTC
154
points
142
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Successful Rationalist Chapter
Cosmos
17 Mar 2011 20:12 UTC
147
points
173
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge
lukeprog
20 Jan 2011 20:44 UTC
144
points
501
comments
10
min read
LW
link
SIAI—An Examination
BrandonReinhart
2 May 2011 7:08 UTC
143
points
207
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Learned Blankness
AnnaSalamon
18 Apr 2011 18:55 UTC
141
points
187
comments
5
min read
LW
link
How to Be Happy
lukeprog
17 Mar 2011 7:22 UTC
139
points
204
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently
lukeprog
9 May 2011 22:05 UTC
134
points
146
comments
5
min read
LW
link
A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation
lukeprog
19 Aug 2011 21:15 UTC
133
points
91
comments
38
min read
LW
link
The curse of identity
Kaj_Sotala
17 Nov 2011 19:28 UTC
130
points
305
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Procedural Knowledge Gaps
Alicorn
8 Feb 2011 3:17 UTC
129
points
1,478
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy
lukeprog
20 Mar 2011 20:28 UTC
126
points
340
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The 5-Second Level
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7 May 2011 4:51 UTC
121
points
323
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Levels of Action
alyssavance
14 Apr 2011 0:18 UTC
116
points
47
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Rational Home Buying
Scott Alexander
27 Aug 2011 0:15 UTC
112
points
138
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline
lukeprog
28 Mar 2011 19:31 UTC
108
points
439
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Apr 2011 21:13 UTC
105
points
275
comments
10
min read
LW
link
The benefits of madness: A positive account of arationality
Skatche
22 Apr 2011 19:43 UTC
105
points
122
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Optimizing Fuzzies And Utilons: The Altruism Chip Jar
orthonormal
1 Jan 2011 18:53 UTC
102
points
49
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Ritual Report: NYC Less Wrong Solstice Celebration
Raemon
20 Dec 2011 20:37 UTC
102
points
179
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Your inner Google
PhilGoetz
16 Sep 2011 6:56 UTC
101
points
70
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Secrets of the eliminati
Scott Alexander
20 Jul 2011 10:15 UTC
101
points
256
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament Results
prase
6 Sep 2011 0:46 UTC
101
points
171
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Build Small Skills in the Right Order
lukeprog
17 Apr 2011 23:01 UTC
97
points
219
comments
5
min read
LW
link
How I Lost 100 Pounds Using TDT
Zvi
14 Mar 2011 15:50 UTC
97
points
242
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Approving reinforces low-effort behaviors
Scott Alexander
17 Jul 2011 20:43 UTC
96
points
25
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Make your training useful
AnnaSalamon
12 Feb 2011 2:14 UTC
95
points
48
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The Bias You Didn’t Expect
Psychohistorian
14 Apr 2011 16:20 UTC
95
points
92
comments
2
min read
LW
link
2011 Survey Results
Scott Alexander
5 Dec 2011 10:49 UTC
94
points
516
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Reflections on rationality a year out
[deleted]
31 Mar 2011 1:35 UTC
94
points
108
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Action and habit
Swimmer963
2 Jun 2011 14:59 UTC
91
points
106
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Cognitive Science of Rationality
lukeprog
12 Sep 2011 20:48 UTC
90
points
106
comments
15
min read
LW
link
[link] Back to the trees
[deleted]
4 Nov 2011 22:06 UTC
87
points
47
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How to understand people better
pwno
14 Oct 2011 19:53 UTC
86
points
164
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Just another day in utopia
Stuart_Armstrong
25 Dec 2011 9:37 UTC
86
points
116
comments
13
min read
LW
link
A Rationalist’s Tale
lukeprog
28 Sep 2011 1:17 UTC
84
points
308
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Measuring aversion and habit strength
Academian
27 May 2011 1:05 UTC
83
points
15
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Why We Can’t Take Expected Value Estimates Literally (Even When They’re Unbiased)
HoldenKarnofsky
18 Aug 2011 23:34 UTC
83
points
252
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Back to the Basics of Rationality
lukeprog
11 Jan 2011 7:05 UTC
83
points
49
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Branches of rationality
AnnaSalamon
12 Jan 2011 3:24 UTC
79
points
66
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Value of Information: Four Examples
Vaniver
22 Nov 2011 23:02 UTC
78
points
60
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Polyhacking
Alicorn
28 Aug 2011 8:35 UTC
77
points
603
comments
8
min read
LW
link
2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey
Scott Alexander
1 Nov 2011 18:28 UTC
77
points
699
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On the unpopularity of cryonics: life sucks, but at least then you die
gwern
29 Jul 2011 21:06 UTC
77
points
468
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Ability to react
Swimmer963
18 Feb 2011 19:19 UTC
77
points
99
comments
4
min read
LW
link
96 Bad Links in the Sequences [fixed]
Louie
27 Apr 2011 19:01 UTC
76
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Follow-up on ESP study: “We don’t publish replications”
CarlShulman
12 Jul 2011 20:48 UTC
74
points
50
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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