Ex­am­ple de­ci­sion the­ory prob­lem: “Agent simu­lates pre­dic­tor”

cousin_itMay 19, 2011, 3:16 PM
45 points
76 comments2 min readLW link

Draw­ing Less Wrong: An Introduction

RaemonNov 13, 2011, 10:39 PM
45 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

Re­cent up­dates to gw­ern.net (2011)

gwernNov 26, 2011, 1:58 AM
45 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] A gen­tle video in­tro­duc­tion to game the­ory

[deleted]Dec 13, 2011, 8:52 AM
45 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics costs: given es­ti­mates are low

gwernNov 14, 2011, 5:07 PM
45 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Some Thoughts on Sin­gu­lar­ity Strategies

Wei DaiJul 13, 2011, 2:41 AM
45 points
30 comments3 min readLW link

Up­com­ing meet-ups: Buenos Aires, Min­neapo­lis, Ot­tawa, Ed­in­burgh, Cam­bridge, Lon­don, DC

AnnaSalamonMay 13, 2011, 8:49 PM
44 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

How to la­bel thoughts nonverbally

eugmanDec 15, 2011, 6:23 PM
44 points
28 comments5 min readLW link

An akra­sia case study

[deleted]Dec 10, 2011, 8:46 PM
44 points
29 comments3 min readLW link

[POLL] LessWrong group on YourMo­rals.org

InquilineKeaNov 29, 2011, 1:22 AM
44 points
82 comments1 min readLW link

A Study of Scar­let: The Con­scious Men­tal Graph

orthonormalMay 27, 2011, 8:13 PM
44 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

Se­quence Ex­er­cise: first 3 posts from “A Hu­man’s Guide to Words”

Normal_AnomalyApr 16, 2011, 5:21 PM
44 points
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Episte­mol­ogy and the Psy­chol­ogy of Hu­man Judgment

badgerMay 28, 2011, 5:15 AM
44 points
9 comments11 min readLW link

In­tu­ition and Un­con­scious Learning

lukeprogMay 6, 2011, 6:47 PM
44 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

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

XiXiDuSep 7, 2011, 6:27 PM
44 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity Drugs

lukeprogOct 1, 2011, 11:20 AM
43 points
122 comments5 min readLW link

Why we need bet­ter sci­ence, ex­am­ple #6,281

lukeprogDec 10, 2011, 11:25 PM
43 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tional Read­ing: Thoughts On Pri­ori­tiz­ing Books

patrissimoMar 27, 2011, 7:54 PM
43 points
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Less Wrong men­tor­ing thread

John_MaxwellDec 29, 2011, 12:10 AM
43 points
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Sin­gu­lar­ity goes main­stream (in philos­o­phy)

lukeprogMar 21, 2011, 3:18 AM
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Judg­ment Un­der Uncer­tainty sum­maries, Part 1: Representativeness

TesseractAug 15, 2011, 12:05 AM
42 points
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But But­ter Goes Ran­cid In The Freezer

JenniferRMMay 9, 2011, 6:01 AM
42 points
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What data gen­er­ated that thought?

Kaj_SotalaApr 26, 2011, 12:54 PM
42 points
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11 Less Wrong Ar­ti­cles I Prob­a­bly Will Never Have Time to Write

lukeprogOct 23, 2011, 2:44 AM
42 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

Re­view of Kah­ne­man, ‘Think­ing, Fast and Slow’ (2011)

lukeprogOct 28, 2011, 1:59 AM
42 points
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Ra­tion­al­ist sites worth archiv­ing?

gwernSep 11, 2011, 3:24 PM
42 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

Coloniza­tion mod­els: a pro­gram­ming tu­to­rial (Part 1/​2)

snarlesMay 16, 2011, 11:33 PM
42 points
6 comments15 min readLW link

Short fic about uFAI

[deleted]Jan 2, 2011, 2:13 PM
42 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion Anal­y­sis Sequence

VaniverDec 21, 2011, 12:12 AM
42 points
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Magic Tricks Re­vealed: Test Your Rationality

Peter WildefordAug 13, 2011, 5:23 AM
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De­ci­sion The­ory Para­dox: PD with Three Im­plies Chaos?

orthonormalAug 27, 2011, 7:22 PM
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Con­stantly ask what you’re cur­rently do­ing that is irrational

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 25, 2011, 8:21 AM
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On self-deception

irrationalOct 5, 2011, 6:46 PM
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Jour­nal ar­ti­cle about poli­tics and mindkilling

CronoDASSep 7, 2011, 7:46 AM
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De­sign­ing Ra­tion­al­ist Projects

calcsamMay 12, 2011, 3:38 AM
41 points
81 comments4 min readLW link

Open Problems

lukeprogJul 5, 2011, 7:25 AM
41 points
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Philoso­phers and seek­ing answers

Scott AlexanderFeb 4, 2011, 10:51 PM
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Out­line of pos­si­ble Sin­gu­lar­ity sce­nar­ios (that are not com­pletely dis­as­trous)

Wei DaiJul 6, 2011, 9:17 PM
41 points
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Pro­posal: all Ama­zon hy­per­links get Less Wrong’s Ama­zon As­so­ci­ates refer­ral code

lukeprogJan 26, 2011, 4:17 PM
41 points
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[Funny] Even Clippy can be blamed on the use of non-Bayesian methods

lukeprogOct 2, 2011, 7:40 AM
41 points
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Move mee­tups to the side­bar?

JohnicholasMar 13, 2011, 4:35 PM
41 points
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How is your mind differ­ent from ev­ery­one else’s?

Kaj_SotalaDec 5, 2011, 8:38 AM
40 points
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[deleted]Aug 30, 2011, 3:56 AM
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Things That Shouldn’t Need Point­ing Out

AlicornApr 21, 2011, 1:13 AM
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[LINK] Be­ing proven wrong is like win­ning the lot­tery

UnnamedOct 29, 2011, 10:40 PM
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Time Magaz­ine has an ar­ti­cle about the Sin­gu­lar­ity...

RaemonFeb 11, 2011, 2:20 AM
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Knox and Sol­lecito freed

komponistoOct 3, 2011, 8:24 PM
40 points
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Prac­ti­cal debiasing

crazy88Nov 20, 2011, 9:45 AM
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[LINK] Get paid to train your rationality

XFrequentistAug 3, 2011, 3:01 PM
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Do Hu­mans Want Things?

lukeprogAug 4, 2011, 5:00 AM
40 points
53 comments5 min readLW link