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A Vot­ing Puz­zle, Some Poli­ti­cal Science, and a Nerd Failure Mode

ChrisHallquist10 Oct 2013 2:10 UTC
141 points
181 comments17 min readLW link

How to Be­come a 1000 Year Old Vampire

[deleted]2 Oct 2013 5:07 UTC
139 points
127 comments8 min readLW link

Men­tal Con­text for Model Theory

So8res30 Oct 2013 6:35 UTC
113 points
47 comments8 min readLW link

How habits work and how you may con­trol them

Kaj_Sotala12 Oct 2013 12:17 UTC
97 points
76 comments13 min readLW link

Bayesi­anism for Humans

ChrisHallquist29 Oct 2013 23:54 UTC
91 points
37 comments3 min readLW link

What Can We Learn About Hu­man Psy­chol­ogy from Chris­tian Apolo­get­ics?

ChrisHallquist21 Oct 2013 22:02 UTC
66 points
162 comments8 min readLW link

Only You Can Prevent Your Mind From Get­ting Killed By Politics

ChrisHallquist26 Oct 2013 13:59 UTC
61 points
144 comments5 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tion Trains Metacognition

LoganStrohl20 Oct 2013 0:47 UTC
57 points
62 comments8 min readLW link

How to Learn from Experts

SatvikBeri4 Oct 2013 17:02 UTC
55 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Does Goal Set­ting Work?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 16 Oct 2013 20:54 UTC
54 points
22 comments11 min readLW link

Sys­tem­atic Lucky Breaks

SatvikBeri3 Oct 2013 1:46 UTC
54 points
64 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] Low-Hang­ing Poop

GLaDOS16 Oct 2013 20:51 UTC
46 points
38 comments2 min readLW link

Trust­ing Ex­pert Consensus

ChrisHallquist16 Oct 2013 20:22 UTC
41 points
81 comments17 min readLW link

In­ter­est­ing cri­tique of Bri­tish ed­u­ca­tion by out­go­ing ad­vi­sor (warn­ing: some poli­tics)

bramflakes12 Oct 2013 16:43 UTC
39 points
36 comments13 min readLW link

On the im­por­tance of tak­ing limits: In­finite Spheres of Utility

aspera12 Oct 2013 21:18 UTC
35 points
58 comments8 min readLW link

What should nor­mal peo­ple do?

seez25 Oct 2013 2:28 UTC
33 points
94 comments2 min readLW link

In­tel­lec­tual energy

NancyLebovitz26 Oct 2013 13:06 UTC
31 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

A Mug­gle Stud­ies course

polymathwannabe2 Oct 2013 2:42 UTC
28 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Re­search in­ter­ests I don’t cur­rently have time to de­velop alone

Stuart_Armstrong16 Oct 2013 10:31 UTC
27 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

PSA: Very im­por­tant policy change at Cry­on­ics Institute

Scott Garrabrant3 Oct 2013 5:47 UTC
26 points
99 comments1 min readLW link

Is it im­moral to have chil­dren?

jefftk22 Oct 2013 12:13 UTC
25 points
320 comments3 min readLW link

Is it worth your time to read a lot of self help and how to books?

ChrisHallquist28 Oct 2013 2:25 UTC
25 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Trou­ble at the lab

[deleted]21 Oct 2013 8:51 UTC
25 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Crush Your Uncertainty

[deleted]3 Oct 2013 5:48 UTC
24 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

How do you say no?

LoganStrohl4 Oct 2013 3:44 UTC
24 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] You and Your Research

katydee20 Oct 2013 0:05 UTC
24 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Why officers vs. en­listed?

JoshuaFox30 Oct 2013 20:14 UTC
23 points
144 comments3 min readLW link

Why didn’t peo­ple (ap­par­ently?) un­der­stand the metaethics se­quence?

ChrisHallquist29 Oct 2013 23:04 UTC
23 points
231 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity, com­pet­i­tive­ness and akrasia

cousin_it2 Oct 2013 13:45 UTC
23 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

The self­ish rea­son to write some­thing for Ada Lovelace Day

sixes_and_sevens10 Oct 2013 22:28 UTC
22 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Sup­ple­ment­ing mem­ory with ex­pe­rience sampling

jefftk28 Oct 2013 11:52 UTC
20 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Re­view of stud­ies says you can de­crease mo­ti­vated cog­ni­tion through self-affirmation

Nick_Beckstead23 Oct 2013 11:43 UTC
20 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Gane­sal­ingam and Gow­ers on au­to­mated the­o­rem-proving

VipulNaik5 Oct 2013 0:04 UTC
19 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Megameetup on De­cem­ber 13-15th, NYC

Raemon5 Oct 2013 21:56 UTC
18 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion To Rationality

kerspoon20 Oct 2013 2:43 UTC
18 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

Link dump: Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity in­sti­tute tech­ni­cal reports

Stuart_Armstrong25 Oct 2013 16:07 UTC
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Teach­ing ra­tio­nal­ity to kids?

chaosmage16 Oct 2013 12:38 UTC
17 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk II

fowlertm20 Oct 2013 0:25 UTC
16 points
10 comments9 min readLW link

The best 15 words

apophenia3 Oct 2013 9:08 UTC
16 points
386 comments1 min readLW link

How to Beat Pro­cras­ti­na­tion (to some de­gree) (if you’re iden­ti­cal to me)

[deleted]16 Oct 2013 23:17 UTC
16 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence fic­tion—“Un­der­stand”, by Ted Chiang

D_Alex7 Oct 2013 3:03 UTC
15 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Ad­vice for a smart 8-year-old bored with school

James_Miller9 Oct 2013 19:19 UTC
14 points
189 comments1 min readLW link

Schel­ling Point Strat­egy Training

sixes_and_sevens4 Oct 2013 15:41 UTC
14 points
56 comments2 min readLW link

Bet­ter Ra­tion­al­ity Through Lu­cid Dreaming

katydee18 Oct 2013 20:48 UTC
14 points
49 comments2 min readLW link

Oc­to­ber Monthly Brag­ging Thread

linkhyrule54 Oct 2013 7:06 UTC
14 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Un­der the eyes of your betters

Voltairina6 Oct 2013 19:25 UTC
13 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Does the simu­la­tion ar­gu­ment even need simu­la­tions?

lmm11 Oct 2013 21:16 UTC
13 points
102 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Oc­to­ber 2013

A1987dM5 Oct 2013 21:02 UTC
12 points
315 comments1 min readLW link

Cam­bridge Meetup: Talk by Eliezer Yud­kowsky: Re­cur­sion in ra­tio­nal agents

jimrandomh15 Oct 2013 4:02 UTC
12 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Look­ing for opinions of peo­ple like Nick Bostrom or An­ders Sand­berg on cur­rent cryo techniques

ChrisHallquist17 Oct 2013 20:36 UTC
12 points
184 comments2 min readLW link