An In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Solomonoff Induction

Alex_Altair11 Jul 2012 8:05 UTC
157 points
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Game The­ory As A Dark Art

Scott Alexander24 Jul 2012 3:27 UTC
155 points
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Nega­tive and Pos­i­tive Selection

alyssavance6 Jul 2012 1:34 UTC
147 points
263 comments3 min readLW link

What Is Sig­nal­ing, Really?

Scott Alexander12 Jul 2012 17:43 UTC
138 points
173 comments6 min readLW link

Neu­ro­science ba­sics for LessWrongians

ChrisHallquist26 Jul 2012 5:10 UTC
129 points
102 comments13 min readLW link

The Mere Cable Chan­nel Ad­di­tion Paradox

Ghatanathoah26 Jul 2012 7:20 UTC
99 points
147 comments12 min readLW link

In­ter­lude for Be­hav­ioral Economics

Scott Alexander6 Jul 2012 20:12 UTC
90 points
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A Mar­riage Cer­e­mony for Aspiring Rationalists

lukeprog23 Jul 2012 19:33 UTC
82 points
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Re­ply to Holden on The Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

lukeprog10 Jul 2012 23:20 UTC
70 points
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Work on Se­cu­rity In­stead of Friendli­ness?

Wei Dai21 Jul 2012 18:28 UTC
69 points
107 comments2 min readLW link

Real World Solu­tions to Pri­son­ers’ Dilemmas

Scott Alexander3 Jul 2012 3:25 UTC
69 points
88 comments7 min readLW link

Notes on the Psy­chol­ogy of Power

gwern27 Jul 2012 19:22 UTC
61 points
49 comments40 min readLW link

AI co­op­er­a­tion is already stud­ied in academia as “pro­gram equil­ibrium”

cousin_it30 Jul 2012 15:22 UTC
60 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Im­perfect Vot­ing Systems

Scott Alexander20 Jul 2012 0:07 UTC
59 points
90 comments6 min readLW link

Bar­gain­ing and Auctions

Scott Alexander15 Jul 2012 17:01 UTC
54 points
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Where to In­ter­vene in a Hu­man?

lukeprog3 Jul 2012 6:31 UTC
53 points
72 comments2 min readLW link

Magic play­ers: “How do I lose?”

Manfred15 Jul 2012 8:58 UTC
53 points
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Kurzweil’s pre­dic­tions: good ac­cu­racy, poor self-calibration

Stuart_Armstrong11 Jul 2012 9:55 UTC
50 points
39 comments9 min readLW link

Should you try to do good work on LW?

cousin_it5 Jul 2012 12:36 UTC
49 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­ploit­ing the Typ­i­cal Mind Fal­lacy for more ac­cu­rate ques­tion­ing?

Xachariah17 Jul 2012 0:46 UTC
47 points
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Re­vis­it­ing SI’s 2011 strate­gic plan: How are we do­ing?

lukeprog16 Jul 2012 9:10 UTC
46 points
20 comments7 min readLW link

CFAR web­site launched

lukeprog3 Jul 2012 15:01 UTC
45 points
77 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­ti­cle about LW: Faith, Hope, and Sin­gu­lar­ity: En­ter­ing the Ma­trix with New York’s Fu­tur­ist Set

Malo25 Jul 2012 19:28 UTC
44 points
155 comments1 min readLW link

Berkeley visit report

EvelynM14 Jul 2012 19:02 UTC
43 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity Games & Apps Brainstorming

lukeprog9 Jul 2012 3:04 UTC
42 points
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[Re­tracted] Simp­son’s para­dox strikes again: there is no great stag­na­tion?

CarlShulman30 Jul 2012 17:55 UTC
41 points
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To Learn Crit­i­cal Think­ing, Study Crit­i­cal Thinking

gwern7 Jul 2012 23:50 UTC
40 points
16 comments11 min readLW link

What Is Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy?

alyssavance12 Jul 2012 0:17 UTC
40 points
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Use­ful maxims

Paul Crowley11 Jul 2012 11:56 UTC
38 points
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Hope Function

gwern1 Jul 2012 15:40 UTC
38 points
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New “Best” com­ment sort­ing system

matt2 Jul 2012 11:08 UTC
35 points
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Why could you be op­ti­mistic that the Sin­gu­lar­ity is Near?

gwern14 Jul 2012 23:33 UTC
34 points
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Wis­dom of the Crowd: not always so wise

tgb1 Jul 2012 20:55 UTC
33 points
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Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing: A Non-Stan­dard In­tro­duc­tion (Part 1)

royf29 Jul 2012 0:13 UTC
33 points
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Ad­vice On Get­ting A Soft­ware Job

alyssavance9 Jul 2012 18:52 UTC
33 points
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In Defense of Tone Arguments

OrphanWilde19 Jul 2012 19:48 UTC
32 points
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What have you re­cently tried, and failed at?

Emile5 Jul 2012 9:52 UTC
32 points
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Wel­come to Less Wrong! (July 2012)

Paul Crowley18 Jul 2012 17:24 UTC
31 points
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Less Wrong Product & Ser­vice Recommendations

lukeprog2 Jul 2012 13:18 UTC
30 points
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[Link] Why the kids don’t know no algebra

GLaDOS4 Jul 2012 10:29 UTC
30 points
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On the Care and Feed­ing of Young Ra­tion­al­ists—Re­vis­ited[Draft] [Re­quest for Feed­back]

MBlume5 Jul 2012 19:12 UTC
30 points
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HP:MOR and the Ra­dio Fallacy

RichardChappell21 Jul 2012 19:55 UTC
27 points
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[Paper] Si­mu­la­tion of a com­plete cell

Richard_Kennaway24 Jul 2012 15:04 UTC
27 points
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Take Part in CFAR Ra­tion­al­ity Surveys

Unnamed18 Jul 2012 23:57 UTC
26 points
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Steam Greenlight

BrandonReinhart10 Jul 2012 5:11 UTC
24 points
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New York Less Wrong: Ex­pan­sion Plans

alyssavance1 Jul 2012 1:20 UTC
23 points
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Learn Power Search­ing with Google

[deleted]2 Jul 2012 19:09 UTC
23 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity and Cancer

SwingDancerMike11 Jul 2012 6:48 UTC
22 points
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Tips for Start­ing Group Houses

ShannonFriedman16 Jul 2012 21:03 UTC
20 points
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Is Poli­tics the Mind­kil­ler? An In­con­clu­sive Test

OrphanWilde27 Jul 2012 17:45 UTC
19 points
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