How to Be Happy

lukeprog17 Mar 2011 7:22 UTC
223 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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Less Wrong Ra­tion­al­ity and Main­stream Philosophy

lukeprog20 Mar 2011 20:28 UTC
161 points
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Philos­o­phy: A Diseased Discipline

lukeprog28 Mar 2011 19:31 UTC
146 points
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How I Lost 100 Pounds Us­ing TDT

Zvi14 Mar 2011 15:50 UTC
127 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity Boot Camp

Jasen22 Mar 2011 8:37 UTC
96 points
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How SIAI could pub­lish in main­stream cog­ni­tive sci­ence journals

lukeprog9 Mar 2011 21:17 UTC
88 points
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Be­ing a teacher

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 14 Mar 2011 20:03 UTC
80 points
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AGI and Friendly AI in the dom­i­nant AI textbook

lukeprog11 Mar 2011 4:12 UTC
73 points
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Costs and Benefits of Scholarship

lukeprog22 Mar 2011 2:19 UTC
70 points
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A Ra­tion­al­ist’s Ac­count of Ob­jec­tifi­ca­tion?

lukeprog19 Mar 2011 23:10 UTC
65 points
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Bring Back the Se­quences?

Alexandros7 Mar 2011 7:21 UTC
62 points
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Sim­ple em­bod­ied cog­ni­tion hacks

curiousepic23 Mar 2011 13:24 UTC
59 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity, Sin­gu­lar­ity, Method, and the Mainstream

Mitchell_Porter22 Mar 2011 12:06 UTC
52 points
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The Friendly AI Game

bentarm15 Mar 2011 16:45 UTC
50 points
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The Neu­ro­science of Pleasure

lukeprog27 Mar 2011 23:57 UTC
50 points
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Crime and punishment

PhilGoetz24 Mar 2011 21:53 UTC
50 points
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Men­tal Metadata

Alicorn30 Mar 2011 3:07 UTC
47 points
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Plant Seeds of Rationality

lukeprog10 Mar 2011 17:51 UTC
45 points
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Ver­ify­ing Ra­tion­al­ity via Ra­tion­alPoker.com

Louie25 Mar 2011 16:32 UTC
45 points
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Are You a Par­a­lyzed Subor­di­nate Mon­key?

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Mar 2011 21:12 UTC
45 points
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Sin­gu­lar­ity goes main­stream (in philos­o­phy)

lukeprog21 Mar 2011 3:18 UTC
43 points
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Ra­tional Read­ing: Thoughts On Pri­ori­tiz­ing Books

patrissimo27 Mar 2011 19:54 UTC
43 points
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Con­stantly ask what you’re cur­rently do­ing that is irrational

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Mar 2011 8:21 UTC
42 points
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Move mee­tups to the side­bar?

Johnicholas13 Mar 2011 16:35 UTC
41 points
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Towards an Al­gorithm for (Hu­man) Self-Modification

moridinamael29 Mar 2011 23:40 UTC
37 points
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The Limits of Curiosity

Elizabeth10 Mar 2011 15:20 UTC
37 points
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Preschool­ers learn­ing to guess the teacher’s pass­word [link]

Unnamed18 Mar 2011 4:13 UTC
34 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity Outreach: A Parable

[deleted]17 Mar 2011 13:10 UTC
34 points
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LessWrong search traf­fic doubles

Louie25 Mar 2011 22:01 UTC
34 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Towards a Bay Area Less Wrong Community

LucasSloan18 Mar 2011 5:35 UTC
32 points
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Sublimity vs. Youtube

Alicorn18 Mar 2011 5:33 UTC
31 points
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Hong Kong LW meetup

Isaac2 Mar 2011 9:53 UTC
31 points
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What are you work­ing on?

jsalvatier4 Mar 2011 1:33 UTC
30 points
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The Heilmeier Questions

[deleted]22 Mar 2011 19:51 UTC
29 points
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Effec­tive Ra­tion­al­ity Outreach

paulfchristiano19 Mar 2011 0:16 UTC
29 points
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Mak­ing Rea­son­ing Ob­vi­ously Lo­cally Correct

JGWeissman12 Mar 2011 19:41 UTC
28 points
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Pos­i­tive Thinking

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 7 Mar 2011 1:03 UTC
28 points
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[Video] AI Box Ex­per­i­ment on BBC’s “Look Around You”

ata10 Mar 2011 6:36 UTC
27 points
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Col­lapsi­ble ar­ti­cle sec­tions?

lukeprog28 Mar 2011 0:55 UTC
27 points
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Life hacks from the dark side

ata29 Mar 2011 3:22 UTC
27 points
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Free Will as Un­solv­abil­ity by Rivals

Pavitra28 Mar 2011 3:28 UTC
25 points
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Folk the­o­ries can be use­ful even when they’re en­tirely wrong

taw23 Mar 2011 16:04 UTC
25 points
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How best to show dy­ing is bad

Zvi8 Mar 2011 15:18 UTC
25 points
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Real-world New­comb-like Prob­lems

SilasBarta25 Mar 2011 20:44 UTC
25 points
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En­joy­ing food more: a case study in third options

MBlume16 Mar 2011 6:23 UTC
25 points
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The null model of science

Johnicholas26 Mar 2011 13:53 UTC
25 points
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Link: Paul Gra­ham on in­tel­li­gence vs determination

Vladimir_Golovin24 Mar 2011 8:18 UTC
24 points
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What is wrong with math­e­mat­ics ed­u­ca­tion?

Perplexed20 Mar 2011 2:40 UTC
24 points
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HP:MoR Au­dio Book Pilot

Eneasz29 Mar 2011 6:05 UTC
24 points
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