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
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The Ne­glected Virtue of Scholarship

lukeprog5 Jan 2011 7:22 UTC
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Scien­tific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge

lukeprog20 Jan 2011 20:44 UTC
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Op­ti­miz­ing Fuzzies And Utilons: The Altru­ism Chip Jar

orthonormal1 Jan 2011 18:53 UTC
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Back to the Ba­sics of Rationality

lukeprog11 Jan 2011 7:05 UTC
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Branches of ra­tio­nal­ity

AnnaSalamon12 Jan 2011 3:24 UTC
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Tech­niques for prob­a­bil­ity estimates

Scott Alexander4 Jan 2011 23:38 UTC
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Simp­son’s Paradox

bentarm12 Jan 2011 23:01 UTC
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Statis­ti­cal Pre­dic­tion Rules Out-Perform Ex­pert Hu­man Judgments

lukeprog18 Jan 2011 3:19 UTC
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My story /​ own­ing one’s reasons

jwhendy7 Jan 2011 0:17 UTC
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Meta: A 5 karma re­quire­ment to post in discussion

Jack20 Jan 2011 6:22 UTC
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Hugo Awards—HP:MoR

Eneasz21 Jan 2011 19:06 UTC
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PhilGoetz8 Jan 2011 17:51 UTC
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An Overview of For­mal Episte­mol­ogy (links)

lukeprog6 Jan 2011 19:57 UTC
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David Chalmers’ “The Sin­gu­lar­ity: A Philo­soph­i­cal Anal­y­sis”

lukeprog29 Jan 2011 2:52 UTC
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6502 simu­lated—mind up­load­ing for microprocessors

humpolec8 Jan 2011 18:03 UTC
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What is Eliezer Yud­kowsky’s meta-eth­i­cal the­ory?

lukeprog29 Jan 2011 19:58 UTC
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Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Database for A Hu­man’s Guide to Words

divia10 Jan 2011 0:21 UTC
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My mother is now in cryostasis

turchin8 Jan 2011 20:27 UTC
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Ra­tional Repentance

Mass_Driver14 Jan 2011 9:37 UTC
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Short fic about uFAI

[deleted]2 Jan 2011 14:13 UTC
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Pro­posal: all Ama­zon hy­per­links get Less Wrong’s Ama­zon As­so­ci­ates refer­ral code

lukeprog26 Jan 2011 16:17 UTC
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Note on Ter­minol­ogy: “Ra­tion­al­ity”, not “Ra­tion­al­ism”

Vladimir_Nesov14 Jan 2011 21:21 UTC
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[LINK] What should a rea­son­able per­son be­lieve about the Sin­gu­lar­ity?

Kaj_Sotala13 Jan 2011 9:32 UTC
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Ra­tion­al­ist Clue

Mass_Driver8 Jan 2011 8:21 UTC
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In­trap­er­sonal negotiation

datadataeverywhere23 Jan 2011 23:02 UTC
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2011 In­trade fee changes, or, In­trade con­sid­ered no longer use­ful for LessWrongers

gwern2 Jan 2011 17:46 UTC
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A poem for LessWrong

RolfAndreassen28 Jan 2011 20:40 UTC
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Link: “Top 10 Mis­takes in Be­hav­ior Change”

cousin_it17 Jan 2011 17:46 UTC
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NPR show All Things Con­sid­ered on the Sin­gu­lar­ity and SIAI

arundelo11 Jan 2011 22:58 UTC
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Be­ing your own censor

[deleted]8 Jan 2011 19:05 UTC
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Is Less Wrong dis­cour­ag­ing less nerdy peo­ple from par­ti­ci­pat­ing?

JoshuaZ24 Jan 2011 2:24 UTC
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The Orange Head Joke

Anatoly_Vorobey25 Jan 2011 20:33 UTC
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Choose To Be Happy

DanArmak1 Jan 2011 22:50 UTC
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Freaky unfairness

benelliott12 Jan 2011 10:08 UTC
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A LessWrong “ra­tio­nal­ity work­book” idea

jwhendy9 Jan 2011 17:52 UTC
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Pro­posal: Anti-Akra­sia Alliance

DanArmak1 Jan 2011 21:52 UTC
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Anki deck for bi­ases and fallacies

phob12 Jan 2011 15:34 UTC
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Why do some kinds of work not feel like work?

Wei Dai8 Jan 2011 1:28 UTC
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Prob­lem Solv­ing via Polya

[deleted]8 Jan 2011 0:30 UTC
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How to Grow a Mind (video)

[deleted]23 Jan 2011 20:02 UTC
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Omega can be re­placed by amnesia

Bongo26 Jan 2011 12:31 UTC
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Meta: Test

XiXiDu26 Jan 2011 11:35 UTC
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Hyper­links and Less Wrong

Raemon23 Jan 2011 4:05 UTC
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Knowl­edge doesn’t just hap­pen

NancyLebovitz23 Jan 2011 13:07 UTC
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Aguirre, Teg­mark, Layzer “Cos­molog­i­cal in­ter­pre­ta­tion of quan­tum me­chan­ics”

cousin_it11 Jan 2011 6:29 UTC
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A cau­tion­ary note about “Bayesi­anism”

PhilGoetz10 Jan 2011 1:40 UTC
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Steve Jobs’ med­i­cal leave, riches and longevity

sfb20 Jan 2011 1:06 UTC
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Kick­ing Akra­sia: Now or Never

[deleted]1 Jan 2011 1:19 UTC
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