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The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

lukeprog

16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC

244 points

342 comments7 min readLW link

The Blue-Minimizing Robot

Scott Alexander

4 Jul 2011 22:26 UTC

192 points

160 comments4 min readLW link

The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship

lukeprog

5 Jan 2011 7:22 UTC

190 points

153 comments3 min readLW link

How to Beat Procrastination

lukeprog

5 Feb 2011 18:49 UTC

168 points

154 comments15 min readLW link

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

Eliezer Yudkowsky

2 Jan 2011 0:15 UTC

149 points

142 comments3 min readLW link

Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Successful Rationalist Chapter

Cosmos

17 Mar 2011 20:12 UTC

146 points

173 comments11 min readLW link

SIAI—An Examination

BrandonReinhart

2 May 2011 7:08 UTC

143 points

207 comments13 min readLW link

Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge

lukeprog

20 Jan 2011 20:44 UTC

142 points

501 comments10 min readLW link

How to Be Happy

lukeprog

17 Mar 2011 7:22 UTC

140 points

204 comments17 min readLW link

Learned Blankness

AnnaSalamon

18 Apr 2011 18:55 UTC

140 points

187 comments5 min readLW link

A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation

lukeprog

19 Aug 2011 21:15 UTC

132 points

91 comments38 min readLW link

Procedural Knowledge Gaps

Alicorn

8 Feb 2011 3:17 UTC

129 points

1,478 comments1 min readLW link

The curse of identity

Kaj_Sotala

17 Nov 2011 19:28 UTC

129 points

305 comments6 min readLW link

Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy

lukeprog

20 Mar 2011 20:28 UTC

121 points

340 comments5 min readLW link

Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently

lukeprog

9 May 2011 22:05 UTC

119 points

142 comments5 min readLW link

The 5-Second Level

Eliezer Yudkowsky

7 May 2011 4:51 UTC

119 points

323 comments8 min readLW link

Levels of Action

alyssavance

14 Apr 2011 0:18 UTC

115 points

47 comments9 min readLW link

Rational Home Buying

Scott Alexander

27 Aug 2011 0:15 UTC

108 points

138 comments7 min readLW link

The benefits of madness: A positive account of arationality

Skatche

22 Apr 2011 19:43 UTC

102 points

122 comments14 min readLW link

Your inner Google

PhilGoetz

16 Sep 2011 6:56 UTC

101 points

70 comments1 min readLW link

Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament Results

prase

6 Sep 2011 0:46 UTC

101 points

171 comments11 min readLW link

Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians

Eliezer Yudkowsky

20 Apr 2011 21:13 UTC

101 points

275 comments10 min readLW link

Ritual Report: NYC Less Wrong Solstice Celebration

Raemon

20 Dec 2011 20:37 UTC

100 points

179 comments11 min readLW link

Optimizing Fuzzies And Utilons: The Altruism Chip Jar

orthonormal

1 Jan 2011 18:53 UTC

99 points

49 comments3 min readLW link

Secrets of the eliminati

Scott Alexander

20 Jul 2011 10:15 UTC

99 points

256 comments3 min readLW link

Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline

lukeprog

28 Mar 2011 19:31 UTC

97 points

438 comments7 min readLW link

Approving reinforces low-effort behaviors

Scott Alexander

17 Jul 2011 20:43 UTC

95 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

2011 Survey Results

Scott Alexander

5 Dec 2011 10:49 UTC

94 points

516 comments8 min readLW link

Build Small Skills in the Right Order

lukeprog

17 Apr 2011 23:01 UTC

94 points

219 comments5 min readLW link

How I Lost 100 Pounds Using TDT

Zvi

14 Mar 2011 15:50 UTC

94 points

242 comments4 min readLW link

Make your training useful

AnnaSalamon

12 Feb 2011 2:14 UTC

93 points

48 comments5 min readLW link

Reflections on rationality a year out

SarahC

31 Mar 2011 1:35 UTC

93 points

108 comments4 min readLW link

The Bias You Didn’t Expect

Psychohistorian

14 Apr 2011 16:20 UTC

92 points

92 comments2 min readLW link

Action and habit

Swimmer963

2 Jun 2011 14:59 UTC

91 points

106 comments4 min readLW link

The Cognitive Science of Rationality

lukeprog

12 Sep 2011 20:48 UTC

90 points

106 comments15 min readLW link

[link] Back to the trees

Konkvistador

4 Nov 2011 22:06 UTC

85 points

46 comments2 min readLW link

Just another day in utopia

Stuart_Armstrong

25 Dec 2011 9:37 UTC

84 points

116 comments13 min readLW link

Measuring aversion and habit strength

Academian

27 May 2011 1:05 UTC

83 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

A Rationalist’s Tale

lukeprog

28 Sep 2011 1:17 UTC

82 points

308 comments6 min readLW link

Back to the Basics of Rationality

lukeprog

11 Jan 2011 7:05 UTC

82 points

49 comments3 min readLW link

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

HoldenKarnofsky

18 Aug 2011 23:34 UTC

77 points

252 comments17 min readLW link

Polyhacking

Alicorn

28 Aug 2011 8:35 UTC

77 points

603 comments8 min readLW link

2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey

Scott Alexander

1 Nov 2011 18:28 UTC

77 points

699 comments1 min readLW link

Value of Information: Four Examples

Vaniver

22 Nov 2011 23:02 UTC

77 points

60 comments10 min readLW link

Ability to react

Swimmer963

18 Feb 2011 19:19 UTC

76 points

99 comments4 min readLW link

96 Bad Links in the Sequences [fixed]

Louie

27 Apr 2011 19:01 UTC

76 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

How to understand people better

pwno

14 Oct 2011 19:53 UTC

76 points

164 comments5 min readLW link

Branches of rationality

AnnaSalamon

12 Jan 2011 3:24 UTC

75 points

66 comments5 min readLW link

Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields

Vladimir_M

15 Feb 2011 9:17 UTC

74 points

278 comments9 min readLW link

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

gwern

29 Jul 2011 21:06 UTC

74 points

468 comments7 min readLW link