Eliezer’s Se­quences and Main­stream Academia

lukeprog15 Sep 2012 0:32 UTC
236 points
148 comments4 min readLW link

Less Wrong Polls in Comments

jimrandomh19 Sep 2012 16:19 UTC
125 points
311 comments1 min readLW link

Friend­ship is Op­ti­mal: A My Lit­tle Pony fan­fic about an op­ti­miza­tion process

iceman8 Sep 2012 6:16 UTC
109 points
152 comments1 min readLW link

Causal­ity: a chap­ter by chap­ter review

Vaniver26 Sep 2012 16:55 UTC
103 points
20 comments12 min readLW link

New study on choice blind­ness in moral positions

nerfhammer20 Sep 2012 18:14 UTC
101 points
152 comments1 min readLW link

Ran­dom LW-par­o­dy­ing State­ment Generator

Armok_GoB11 Sep 2012 19:57 UTC
95 points
221 comments1 min readLW link

From First Principles

[deleted]27 Sep 2012 19:04 UTC
79 points
46 comments5 min readLW link

Un­der-ac­knowl­edged Value Differences

Wei Dai12 Sep 2012 22:02 UTC
70 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

The Yud­kowsky Am­bi­tion Scale

loup-vaillant12 Sep 2012 15:08 UTC
64 points
61 comments1 min readLW link

[Poll] Less Wrong and Main­stream Philos­o­phy: How Differ­ent are We?

Jayson_Virissimo26 Sep 2012 12:25 UTC
55 points
629 comments1 min readLW link

Dragon Ball’s Hyper­bolic Time Chamber

gwern2 Sep 2012 23:49 UTC
50 points
65 comments1 min readLW link

A Cri­tique of Lev­er­age Re­search’s Con­nec­tion Theory

Peter Wildeford20 Sep 2012 4:28 UTC
43 points
31 comments6 min readLW link

De­bug­ging the Quan­tum Physics Se­quence

Mitchell_Porter5 Sep 2012 15:55 UTC
43 points
130 comments2 min readLW link

How about test­ing our ideas?

[deleted]14 Sep 2012 10:28 UTC
42 points
113 comments3 min readLW link

In­ter­ested in learn­ing Linux? Need host­ing? Free shells!

JohnWittle9 Sep 2012 5:35 UTC
41 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­o­ries, Part 3.75: Hang On, I Think This Works After All

orthonormal6 Sep 2012 16:23 UTC
39 points
45 comments6 min readLW link

A Less Mys­te­ri­ous Mind­ful­ness Exercise

[deleted]18 Sep 2012 23:33 UTC
36 points
64 comments7 min readLW link

How to tell apart sci­ence from pseudo-sci­ence in a field you don’t know ?

kilobug2 Sep 2012 10:25 UTC
34 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

Prin­ci­pals, agents, ne­go­ti­a­tion, and precommitments

gwillen21 Sep 2012 3:41 UTC
33 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Scien­tists make mon­keys smarter us­ing brain im­plants [link]

Dreaded_Anomaly15 Sep 2012 18:48 UTC
32 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

High School Lec­ture—Report

Xece23 Sep 2012 2:06 UTC
31 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

How to deal with some­one in a LessWrong meet­ing be­ing creepy

Douglas_Reay9 Sep 2012 4:41 UTC
31 points
776 comments2 min readLW link

Fal­la­cies of reifi­ca­tion—the placebo effect

Morendil13 Sep 2012 7:03 UTC
31 points
55 comments2 min readLW link

Meta: What do you think of a karma vote check­list?

NancyLebovitz1 Sep 2012 9:02 UTC
31 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

MIT Challenge complete

komponisto29 Sep 2012 15:54 UTC
30 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Noz­ick’s pro­posed rules for ex­trap­o­lat­ing your preferences

lukeprog29 Sep 2012 23:14 UTC
30 points
2 comments15 min readLW link

Call for Anony­mous Nar­ra­tives by LW Women and Ques­tion Pro­pos­als (AMA)

daenerys9 Sep 2012 8:39 UTC
30 points
374 comments3 min readLW link

Why hu­mans are some­times less ra­tio­nal than animals

lukeprog25 Sep 2012 21:57 UTC
30 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

How To Ac­tu­ally Change Your Mind eBook (In Order)

Elec03 Sep 2012 21:53 UTC
27 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Per­sonal in­for­ma­tion management

John_Maxwell11 Sep 2012 11:40 UTC
27 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

[link] Bet­ting on bad futures

fortyeridania22 Sep 2012 15:50 UTC
27 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

EY “Poli­tics is the Mind Killer” sight­ing at Wash­ing­ton Ex­am­iner and Rea­son.com

buybuydandavis27 Sep 2012 19:48 UTC
25 points
61 comments1 min readLW link

Chief Prob­a­bil­ity Officer

lukeprog9 Sep 2012 23:45 UTC
23 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

No An­thropic Evidence

Vladimir_Nesov23 Sep 2012 10:33 UTC
21 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­men­tal psy­chol­ogy on word confusion

lukeprog14 Sep 2012 5:44 UTC
21 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

What’s your “ra­tio­nal­ist ar­gu­ing” ori­gin story?

Manfred3 Sep 2012 6:51 UTC
21 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Petrov Day Image

Eneasz25 Sep 2012 22:41 UTC
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Clean­ing up the “Worst Ar­gu­ment” essay

Scott Alexander6 Sep 2012 0:09 UTC
20 points
57 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup re­port: How harm­ful is cannabis, and will you change your habits?

Nisan9 Sep 2012 4:50 UTC
19 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Fi­nally End­ing My Cryo-Crastination

DataPacRat24 Sep 2012 18:15 UTC
19 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Prevent­ing dis­cus­sion from be­ing wa­tered down by an “end­less Septem­ber” user in­flux.

Epiphany2 Sep 2012 3:46 UTC
19 points
102 comments19 min readLW link

The Bayesian Agent

royf18 Sep 2012 3:23 UTC
19 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Link: Toward Non-Stupid, Non-Blank-Slatey Polyandry

Cosmos6 Sep 2012 21:06 UTC
19 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tual Re­pro­gram­ming De­ci­sion Theory

lukeprog10 Sep 2012 1:35 UTC
18 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Mo­ti­va­tional Ver­sus Metabolic Effects of Car­bo­hy­drates on Self-Control

NancyLebovitz16 Sep 2012 4:57 UTC
18 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[study] Ego de­ple­tion might dis­ap­pear with age

[deleted]15 Sep 2012 13:32 UTC
17 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Me­te­o­rol­o­gists are Epistem­i­cally Rational

NoSignalNoNoise13 Sep 2012 4:59 UTC
16 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Kaj So­tala’s Posts

lukeprog10 Sep 2012 21:58 UTC
15 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

In­te­grated Method for Policy Mak­ing Us­ing Ar­gu­ment Model­ling and Com­puter As­sisted Text Analysis

staticIP8 Sep 2012 16:13 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The REAL SIA doomsday

Stuart_Armstrong7 Sep 2012 11:11 UTC
14 points
11 comments1 min readLW link