Your in­ner Google

PhilGoetz16 Sep 2011 6:56 UTC
161 points
70 comments1 min readLW link

Pri­soner’s Dilemma Tour­na­ment Results

prase6 Sep 2011 0:46 UTC
152 points
171 comments11 min readLW link

The Cog­ni­tive Science of Rationality

lukeprog12 Sep 2011 20:48 UTC
136 points
111 comments15 min readLW link

A Ra­tion­al­ist’s Tale

lukeprog28 Sep 2011 1:17 UTC
123 points
308 comments6 min readLW link

The Op­ti­mizer’s Curse and How to Beat It

lukeprog16 Sep 2011 2:46 UTC
97 points
84 comments3 min readLW link

Free Tu­tor­ing in Math/​Programming

Patrick29 Sep 2011 13:45 UTC
93 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Hack­ing on LessWrong Just Got Easier

atucker4 Sep 2011 6:59 UTC
87 points
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Con­cepts Don’t Work That Way

lukeprog28 Sep 2011 2:01 UTC
85 points
92 comments8 min readLW link

Con­se­quen­tial­ism Need Not Be Nearsighted

orthonormal2 Sep 2011 7:37 UTC
83 points
119 comments5 min readLW link

Free re­search help, edit­ing and ar­ti­cle down­loads for LessWrong

jsalvatier6 Sep 2011 21:13 UTC
75 points
441 comments1 min readLW link

What Direct In­struc­tion is

[deleted]4 Sep 2011 23:03 UTC
69 points
81 comments4 min readLW link

Is Ra­tion­al­ity Teach­able?

lukeprog1 Sep 2011 11:59 UTC
66 points
27 comments5 min readLW link

Hard prob­lem? Hack away at the edges.

lukeprog26 Sep 2011 10:03 UTC
66 points
30 comments3 min readLW link

Knowl­edge is Worth Pay­ing For

lukeprog21 Sep 2011 18:09 UTC
61 points
109 comments4 min readLW link

The Ram­blings of an Old Man Suc­cumb­ing to Dementia

[deleted]16 Sep 2011 3:33 UTC
47 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

My Great­est Achievement

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 12 Sep 2011 19:26 UTC
47 points
28 comments7 min readLW link

Stanis­lav Petrov Day

gwern26 Sep 2011 14:49 UTC
46 points
167 comments1 min readLW link

Is That Your True Re­jec­tion? by Eliezer Yud­kowsky @ Cato Unbound

XiXiDu7 Sep 2011 18:27 UTC
44 points
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Ra­tion­al­ist sites worth archiv­ing?

gwern11 Sep 2011 15:24 UTC
42 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

Jour­nal ar­ti­cle about poli­tics and mindkilling

CronoDAS7 Sep 2011 7:46 UTC
41 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

SIAI vs. FHI achieve­ments, 2008-2010

Kaj_Sotala25 Sep 2011 11:42 UTC
40 points
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Re­view: Michel Thomas French (Direct In­struc­tion)

[deleted]22 Sep 2011 8:34 UTC
40 points
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Quixey—startup ap­ply­ing LW-style ra­tio­nal­ity—hiring engineers

Liron28 Sep 2011 4:50 UTC
39 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tional Communication

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 10 Sep 2011 2:30 UTC
37 points
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Tool ideology

PhilGoetz9 Sep 2011 22:37 UTC
36 points
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[Link] Dilbert au­thor tries to try

MileyCyrus12 Sep 2011 16:24 UTC
35 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Fixed-Length Selec­tive Iter­a­tive Pri­soner’s Dilemma Mechanics

Andreas_Giger13 Sep 2011 3:24 UTC
34 points
14 comments15 min readLW link

I hate TL;DR

MarkusRamikin20 Sep 2011 9:23 UTC
33 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Ter­ror­ists tar­get AI researchers

RobertLumley15 Sep 2011 14:22 UTC
32 points
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Statis­ti­cal er­ror in half of neu­ro­science papers

Paul Crowley9 Sep 2011 23:07 UTC
31 points
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LessWrong and Ra­tion­al­ity ebooks via Amazon

anonym11 Sep 2011 16:08 UTC
30 points
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Pro­posal: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread With At­tri­bu­tions in rot13

lessdazed2 Sep 2011 13:38 UTC
30 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Wanted: backup plans for “seed AI turns out to be easy”

Wei Dai28 Sep 2011 21:54 UTC
29 points
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You’ll be who you care about

Stuart_Armstrong20 Sep 2011 17:52 UTC
29 points
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[Story] Rejection

atucker9 Sep 2011 4:39 UTC
28 points
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How to in­cen­tivize peo­ple do­ing use­ful stuff on Less Wrong

lukeprog27 Sep 2011 1:26 UTC
27 points
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[Ques­tion] What’s your Ele­va­tor Pitch For Ra­tion­al­ity?

atucker6 Sep 2011 21:43 UTC
26 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science, Ar­row’s Im­pos­si­bil­ity The­o­rem, and Co­her­ent Ex­trap­o­lated Volition

lukeprog25 Sep 2011 11:15 UTC
26 points
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The Car­bo­hy­drate Hy­poth­e­sis of Obe­sity: A Crit­i­cal Examination

Vaniver5 Sep 2011 2:39 UTC
26 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing ra­tio­nal­ist blog aggregator

nerfhammer29 Sep 2011 19:34 UTC
26 points
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Use­ful Things Vol­un­teers Can Do Right Now

lukeprog24 Sep 2011 23:33 UTC
25 points
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[Link] “How to seem good at ev­ery­thing: Stop do­ing stupid shit”

kpreid4 Sep 2011 17:37 UTC
25 points
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[Link] The Typ­i­cal Mind Fal­lacy, Illustrated

pjeby2 Sep 2011 17:22 UTC
25 points
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How Likely Is Cry­on­ics To Work?

jefftk25 Sep 2011 23:38 UTC
25 points
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Timeline of ma­jor Eliezer Yud­kowsky publications

lukeprog18 Sep 2011 15:53 UTC
25 points
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De­ci­sion Fa­tigue, Ra­tion­al­ity, and Akra­sia.

Alexandros19 Sep 2011 15:37 UTC
25 points
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Re­v­ersed stu­pidity some­times pro­vides use­ful information

Scott Alexander28 Sep 2011 10:28 UTC
25 points
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The be­gin­nings of a test for Ra­tion­al­ity Quotient

lukeprog7 Sep 2011 8:45 UTC
24 points
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Cry­onic sus­pen­sion where?

lavalamp27 Sep 2011 23:32 UTC
24 points
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Case Study: Read­ing Edge’s fi­nan­cial filings

gwern6 Sep 2011 3:46 UTC
24 points
13 comments7 min readLW link