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Eliezer’s Sequences and Mainstream Academia
lukeprog
Sep 15, 2012, 12:32 AM
245
points
148
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Less Wrong Polls in Comments
jimrandomh
Sep 19, 2012, 4:19 PM
125
points
311
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Friendship is Optimal: A My Little Pony fanfic about an optimization process
iceman
Sep 8, 2012, 6:16 AM
116
points
152
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Causality: a chapter by chapter review
Vaniver
Sep 26, 2012, 4:55 PM
103
points
20
comments
12
min read
LW
link
New study on choice blindness in moral positions
nerfhammer
Sep 20, 2012, 6:14 PM
101
points
152
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Random LW-parodying Statement Generator
Armok_GoB
Sep 11, 2012, 7:57 PM
100
points
221
comments
1
min read
LW
link
From First Principles
[deleted]
Sep 27, 2012, 7:04 PM
79
points
46
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Under-acknowledged Value Differences
Wei Dai
Sep 12, 2012, 10:02 PM
70
points
68
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Yudkowsky Ambition Scale
loup-vaillant
Sep 12, 2012, 3:08 PM
64
points
61
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Poll] Less Wrong and Mainstream Philosophy: How Different are We?
Jayson_Virissimo
Sep 26, 2012, 12:25 PM
55
points
629
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dragon Ball’s Hyperbolic Time Chamber
gwern
Sep 2, 2012, 11:49 PM
50
points
65
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Debugging the Quantum Physics Sequence
Mitchell_Porter
Sep 5, 2012, 3:55 PM
43
points
130
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A Critique of Leverage Research’s Connection Theory
Peter Wildeford
Sep 20, 2012, 4:28 AM
43
points
31
comments
6
min read
LW
link
How about testing our ideas?
[deleted]
Sep 14, 2012, 10:28 AM
42
points
113
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Interested in learning Linux? Need hosting? Free shells!
JohnWittle
Sep 9, 2012, 5:35 AM
41
points
37
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Decision Theories, Part 3.75: Hang On, I Think This Works After All
orthonormal
Sep 6, 2012, 4:23 PM
39
points
45
comments
6
min read
LW
link
A Less Mysterious Mindfulness Exercise
[deleted]
Sep 18, 2012, 11:33 PM
36
points
64
comments
7
min read
LW
link
High School Lecture—Report
Xece
Sep 23, 2012, 2:06 AM
34
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to tell apart science from pseudo-science in a field you don’t know ?
kilobug
Sep 2, 2012, 10:25 AM
34
points
71
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Principals, agents, negotiation, and precommitments
gwillen
Sep 21, 2012, 3:41 AM
33
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Scientists make monkeys smarter using brain implants [link]
Dreaded_Anomaly
Sep 15, 2012, 6:48 PM
32
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meta: What do you think of a karma vote checklist?
NancyLebovitz
Sep 1, 2012, 9:02 AM
31
points
59
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Fallacies of reification—the placebo effect
Morendil
Sep 13, 2012, 7:03 AM
31
points
55
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How to deal with someone in a LessWrong meeting being creepy
Douglas_Reay
Sep 9, 2012, 4:41 AM
31
points
776
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Nozick’s proposed rules for extrapolating your preferences
lukeprog
Sep 29, 2012, 11:14 PM
30
points
2
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Call for Anonymous Narratives by LW Women and Question Proposals (AMA)
daenerys
Sep 9, 2012, 8:39 AM
30
points
374
comments
3
min read
LW
link
MIT Challenge complete
komponisto
Sep 29, 2012, 3:54 PM
30
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why humans are sometimes less rational than animals
lukeprog
Sep 25, 2012, 9:57 PM
30
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Personal information management
John_Maxwell
Sep 11, 2012, 11:40 AM
27
points
31
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[link] Betting on bad futures
fortyeridania
Sep 22, 2012, 3:50 PM
27
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How To Actually Change Your Mind eBook (In Order)
Elec0
Sep 3, 2012, 9:53 PM
27
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
EY “Politics is the Mind Killer” sighting at Washington Examiner and Reason.com
buybuydandavis
Sep 27, 2012, 7:48 PM
25
points
61
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Chief Probability Officer
lukeprog
Sep 9, 2012, 11:45 PM
23
points
19
comments
2
min read
LW
link
No Anthropic Evidence
Vladimir_Nesov
Sep 23, 2012, 10:33 AM
21
points
34
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Experimental psychology on word confusion
lukeprog
Sep 14, 2012, 5:44 AM
21
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Petrov Day Image
Eneasz
Sep 25, 2012, 10:41 PM
21
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What’s your “rationalist arguing” origin story?
Manfred
Sep 3, 2012, 6:51 AM
21
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Cleaning up the “Worst Argument” essay
Scott Alexander
Sep 6, 2012, 12:09 AM
20
points
57
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Meetup report: How harmful is cannabis, and will you change your habits?
Nisan
Sep 9, 2012, 4:50 AM
19
points
39
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Preventing discussion from being watered down by an “endless September” user influx.
Epiphany
Sep 2, 2012, 3:46 AM
19
points
102
comments
19
min read
LW
link
Link: Toward Non-Stupid, Non-Blank-Slatey Polyandry
Cosmos
Sep 6, 2012, 9:06 PM
19
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Bayesian Agent
royf
Sep 18, 2012, 3:23 AM
19
points
19
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Finally Ending My Cryo-Crastination
DataPacRat
Sep 24, 2012, 6:15 PM
19
points
44
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Counterfactual Reprogramming Decision Theory
lukeprog
Sep 10, 2012, 1:35 AM
18
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Motivational Versus Metabolic Effects of Carbohydrates on Self-Control
NancyLebovitz
Sep 16, 2012, 4:57 AM
18
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[study] Ego depletion might disappear with age
[deleted]
Sep 15, 2012, 1:32 PM
17
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Meteorologists are Epistemically Rational
NoSignalNoNoise
Sep 13, 2012, 4:59 AM
16
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Integrated Method for Policy Making Using Argument Modelling and Computer Assisted Text Analysis
staticIP
Sep 8, 2012, 4:13 PM
15
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Kaj Sotala’s Posts
lukeprog
Sep 10, 2012, 9:58 PM
15
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The REAL SIA doomsday
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 7, 2012, 11:11 AM
14
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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