Ex­ploit­ing the Typ­i­cal Mind Fal­lacy for more ac­cu­rate ques­tion­ing?

XachariahJul 17, 2012, 12:46 AM
47 points
73 comments1 min readLW link

Off to Alice Springs

Psy-KoshMay 16, 2012, 7:32 PM
47 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Cake, or death!

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 25, 2012, 10:33 AM
47 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

On count­ing and addition

Anatoly_VorobeyNov 9, 2012, 3:26 AM
47 points
23 comments4 min readLW link

Share Your Check­lists!

lukeprogMay 26, 2012, 4:12 AM
46 points
64 comments2 min readLW link

Mar­ket­place Trans­ac­tions Open Thread

John_MaxwellJun 2, 2012, 4:31 AM
46 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Re­vis­it­ing SI’s 2011 strate­gic plan: How are we do­ing?

lukeprogJul 16, 2012, 9:10 AM
46 points
20 comments7 min readLW link

Open Prob­lems Re­lated to Solomonoff Induction

Wei DaiJun 6, 2012, 12:26 AM
46 points
104 comments2 min readLW link

The Noddy problem

ApprenticeJan 12, 2012, 10:18 PM
45 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Q&A with ex­perts on risks from AI #1

XiXiDuJan 8, 2012, 11:46 AM
45 points
67 comments9 min readLW link

[Link] Offense 101

Alejandro1Oct 24, 2012, 9:28 PM
45 points
84 comments1 min readLW link

Solv­ing the two en­velopes problem

rstarkovAug 9, 2012, 1:42 PM
45 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

CFAR web­site launched

lukeprogJul 3, 2012, 3:01 PM
45 points
77 comments1 min readLW link

The Per­son­al­ity of (great/​cre­ative) Scien­tists: Open and Conscientious

gwernJan 28, 2012, 8:01 PM
45 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

What Cu­ri­os­ity Looks Like

lukeprogJan 6, 2012, 9:28 PM
45 points
286 comments2 min readLW link

Berkeley visit report

EvelynMJul 14, 2012, 7:02 PM
44 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

The Evil AI Over­lord List

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 20, 2012, 5:02 PM
44 points
80 comments1 min readLW link

[META] ‘Ra­tional’ vs ‘Op­ti­mized’

TheOtherDaveJan 4, 2012, 6:58 PM
44 points
69 comments1 min readLW link

Fac­tions, in­equal­ity, and so­cial justice

John_MaxwellDec 3, 2012, 7:37 PM
44 points
173 comments6 min readLW link

Con­spir­acy The­o­ries as Agency Fictions

[deleted]Jun 9, 2012, 3:15 PM
44 points
117 comments4 min readLW link

6 Tips for Pro­duc­tive Arguments

John_MaxwellMar 18, 2012, 9:02 PM
44 points
122 comments5 min readLW link

Why Aca­demic Papers Are A Ter­rible Dis­cus­sion Forum

alyssavanceJun 20, 2012, 6:15 PM
44 points
53 comments6 min readLW link

What I Learned About Meetup Organization

[deleted]Oct 6, 2012, 2:11 AM
44 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Hack­ing Less Wrong made easy: Va­grant edition

MorendilJan 30, 2012, 6:51 PM
44 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Nov 16-18: Ra­tion­al­ity for Entrepreneurs

AnnaSalamonNov 8, 2012, 6:15 PM
44 points
58 comments6 min readLW link

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

MaloJul 25, 2012, 7:28 PM
44 points
155 comments1 min readLW link

Is­sue 301 shipped: Show par­ent com­ments on /​comments

mattAug 3, 2012, 6:14 AM
43 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Univer­sal agents and util­ity functions

AnjaNov 14, 2012, 4:05 AM
43 points
38 comments6 min readLW link

[Link] The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.

[deleted]Dec 2, 2012, 12:50 PM
43 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

What’s wrong with psy­chol­ogy, any­way?

Anatoly_VorobeyApr 28, 2012, 11:36 PM
43 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Crowd­sourc­ing the availa­bil­ity heuristic

kalla724Apr 25, 2012, 6:20 AM
43 points
40 comments7 min readLW link

Our Phyg Is Not Ex­clu­sive Enough

[deleted]Apr 14, 2012, 9:08 PM
43 points
518 comments3 min readLW link

The Fabric of Real Things

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 12, 2012, 2:11 AM
43 points
308 comments4 min readLW link

New cen­sor­ship: against hy­po­thet­i­cal vi­o­lence against iden­ti­fi­able people

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 23, 2012, 9:00 PM
43 points
448 comments1 min readLW link

A Cri­tique of Lev­er­age Re­search’s Con­nec­tion Theory

Peter WildefordSep 20, 2012, 4:28 AM
43 points
31 comments6 min readLW link

Satire of Jour­nal of Per­son­al­ity and So­cial Psy­chol­ogy’s pub­li­ca­tion bias

CarlShulmanJun 5, 2012, 12:08 AM
43 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

List of Prob­lems That Mo­ti­vated UDT

Wei DaiJun 6, 2012, 12:26 AM
43 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Do­ing “Noth­ing”

VoltairinaMar 29, 2012, 11:17 PM
42 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Muehlhauser-Go­ertzel Dialogue, Part 1

lukeprogMar 16, 2012, 5:12 PM
42 points
161 comments33 min readLW link

How about test­ing our ideas?

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

A sum­mary of the Han­son-Yud­kowsky FOOM debate

Kaj_SotalaNov 15, 2012, 7:25 AM
42 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Short story by Yvain

CronoDASAug 31, 2012, 4:33 AM
42 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Psychopathy

gwernDec 19, 2012, 4:02 AM
42 points
100 comments35 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Games & Apps Brainstorming

lukeprogJul 9, 2012, 3:04 AM
42 points
59 comments2 min readLW link

Com­puter Science and Pro­gram­ming: Links and Resources

XiXiDuMay 29, 2012, 1:17 PM
42 points
43 comments14 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy Needs to Trust Your Ra­tion­al­ity Even Though It Shouldn’t

lukeprogNov 29, 2012, 9:00 PM
42 points
169 comments4 min readLW link

[Re­tracted] Simp­son’s para­dox strikes again: there is no great stag­na­tion?

CarlShulmanJul 30, 2012, 5:55 PM
41 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

[link]Mass repli­ca­tion of Psy­chol­ogy ar­ti­cles planed.

beoShafferApr 18, 2012, 4:13 PM
41 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

An­a­lyz­ing FF.net re­views of ‘Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity’

gwernNov 3, 2012, 11:47 PM
41 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­ested in learn­ing Linux? Need host­ing? Free shells!

JohnWittleSep 9, 2012, 5:35 AM
41 points
37 comments1 min readLW link