Schel­ling fences on slip­pery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC
563 points
250 comments6 min readLW link

How to avoid dy­ing in a car crash

[deleted]17 Mar 2012 19:44 UTC
120 points
294 comments7 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­o­ries: A Less Wrong Primer

orthonormal13 Mar 2012 23:31 UTC
109 points
174 comments9 min readLW link

New cog­ni­tive bias ar­ti­cles on wikipe­dia (up­date)

nerfhammer9 Mar 2012 20:13 UTC
108 points
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Fal­la­cies as weak Bayesian evidence

Kaj_Sotala18 Mar 2012 3:53 UTC
87 points
42 comments10 min readLW link

I Was Not Al­most Wrong But I Was Al­most Right: Close-Call Coun­ter­fac­tu­als and Bias

Kaj_Sotala8 Mar 2012 5:39 UTC
86 points
40 comments9 min readLW link

Bi­ased Pandemic

freyley13 Mar 2012 23:32 UTC
82 points
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The Stable State is Broken

Bakkot12 Mar 2012 18:31 UTC
80 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

So­cial sta­tus hacks from The Im­prov Wiki

lsparrish21 Mar 2012 2:56 UTC
72 points
46 comments6 min readLW link

How to Fix Science

lukeprog7 Mar 2012 2:51 UTC
70 points
144 comments5 min readLW link

Com­mon mis­takes peo­ple make when think­ing about de­ci­sion theory

cousin_it27 Mar 2012 20:03 UTC
67 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

Us­ing de­grees of free­dom to change the past for fun and profit

CarlShulman7 Mar 2012 2:51 UTC
64 points
23 comments9 min readLW link

SotW: Check Consequentialism

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Mar 2012 1:35 UTC
58 points
309 comments7 min readLW link

Main sec­tion vs. dis­cus­sion section

ShardPhoenix6 Mar 2012 5:37 UTC
57 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Is com­mu­nity-col­lab­o­ra­tive ar­ti­cle pro­duc­tion pos­si­ble?

lukeprog21 Mar 2012 20:10 UTC
57 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

AI Risk and Op­por­tu­nity: Hu­man­ity’s Efforts So Far

lukeprog21 Mar 2012 2:49 UTC
56 points
49 comments23 min readLW link

What if the front page…

matt14 Mar 2012 6:47 UTC
53 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Causal di­a­grams and soft­ware engineering

Morendil7 Mar 2012 18:23 UTC
53 points
29 comments5 min readLW link

How would you take over Rome?

Scott Alexander14 Mar 2012 16:24 UTC
48 points
202 comments1 min readLW link

A Prob­lem About Bar­gain­ing and Log­i­cal Uncertainty

Wei Dai21 Mar 2012 21:03 UTC
47 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­am­ine your assumptions

Douglas_Reay30 Mar 2012 11:28 UTC
47 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

6 Tips for Pro­duc­tive Arguments

John_Maxwell18 Mar 2012 21:02 UTC
44 points
122 comments5 min readLW link

Do­ing “Noth­ing”

Voltairina29 Mar 2012 23:17 UTC
42 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Muehlhauser-Go­ertzel Dialogue, Part 1

lukeprog16 Mar 2012 17:12 UTC
42 points
161 comments33 min readLW link

Cult im­pres­sions of Less Wrong/​Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

John_Maxwell15 Mar 2012 0:41 UTC
39 points
247 comments2 min readLW link

Mini­camps on Ra­tion­al­ity and Awe­some­ness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28

AnnaSalamon29 Mar 2012 20:48 UTC
38 points
238 comments6 min readLW link

The In­sti­tute For Pro­pa­ganda Anal­y­sis, A Pre­cur­sor and a Warning

[deleted]29 Mar 2012 18:23 UTC
37 points
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De­ci­sion The­o­ries: A Semi-For­mal Anal­y­sis, Part I

orthonormal24 Mar 2012 16:01 UTC
36 points
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Emo­tional reg­u­la­tion Part II: re­search summary

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 19 Mar 2012 21:51 UTC
35 points
40 comments10 min readLW link

Slow­ing Moore’s Law: Why You Might Want To and How You Would Do It

gwern10 Mar 2012 4:22 UTC
34 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

Modest Superintelligences

Wei Dai22 Mar 2012 0:29 UTC
34 points
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Brain Preservation

jefftk28 Mar 2012 12:56 UTC
33 points
108 comments3 min readLW link

An ex­am­ple of self-fulfilling spu­ri­ous proofs in UDT

cousin_it25 Mar 2012 11:47 UTC
33 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] Judea Pearl wins 2011 Tur­ing Award

[deleted]15 Mar 2012 16:32 UTC
32 points
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Non­mind­kil­ling open questions

Scott Alexander23 Mar 2012 16:23 UTC
32 points
113 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Failed repli­ca­tions of the “el­derly walk­ing” prim­ing effect

Morendil13 Mar 2012 7:55 UTC
31 points
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Set­ting up LW mee­tups in un­likely places: Pos­i­tive Data Point

[deleted]30 Mar 2012 21:19 UTC
30 points
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Pre­dictabil­ity of De­ci­sions and the Di­ag­o­nal Method

Vladimir_Nesov9 Mar 2012 23:53 UTC
30 points
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Heuris­tics and Bi­ases in Charity

Kaj_Sotala2 Mar 2012 15:20 UTC
30 points
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[Draft] How to Run a Suc­cess­ful Less Wrong Meetup

Kaj_Sotala29 Mar 2012 18:50 UTC
29 points
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What epistemic hy­giene norms should there be?

Kaj_Sotala21 Mar 2012 19:26 UTC
29 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup Tac­tics Open Thread

[deleted]5 Mar 2012 19:28 UTC
28 points
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The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute has started pub­lish­ing monthly progress reports

John_Maxwell5 Mar 2012 8:19 UTC
28 points
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The Best Com­ments Ever

Grognor18 Mar 2012 13:02 UTC
27 points
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Sim­ple but im­por­tant ideas

John_Maxwell21 Mar 2012 6:59 UTC
27 points
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Please ad­vise the Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute with your do­main-spe­cific ex­per­tise!

lukeprog15 Mar 2012 20:13 UTC
26 points
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Con­junc­tion fal­lacy and prob­a­bil­is­tic risk as­sess­ment.

Dmytry8 Mar 2012 15:07 UTC
26 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

A tax­on­omy of Or­a­cle AIs

lukeprog8 Mar 2012 23:14 UTC
25 points
53 comments4 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tals of kick­ing an­thropic butt

Manfred26 Mar 2012 6:43 UTC
25 points
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Posts I re­pent of

Will_Newsome20 Mar 2012 5:29 UTC
25 points
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