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How to Be­come a 1000 Year Old Vampire

[deleted]Oct 2, 2013, 5:07 AM
145 points
129 comments8 min readLW link

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

ChrisHallquistOct 10, 2013, 2:10 AM
142 points
181 comments17 min readLW link

Men­tal Con­text for Model Theory

So8resOct 30, 2013, 6:35 AM
118 points
47 comments8 min readLW link

How habits work and how you may con­trol them

Kaj_SotalaOct 12, 2013, 12:17 PM
99 points
76 comments13 min readLW link

Bayesi­anism for Humans

ChrisHallquistOct 29, 2013, 11:54 PM
91 points
37 comments3 min readLW link

What Can We Learn About Hu­man Psy­chol­ogy from Chris­tian Apolo­get­ics?

ChrisHallquistOct 21, 2013, 10:02 PM
66 points
162 comments8 min readLW link

Only You Can Prevent Your Mind From Get­ting Killed By Politics

ChrisHallquistOct 26, 2013, 1:59 PM
61 points
144 comments5 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tion Trains Metacognition

LoganStrohlOct 20, 2013, 12:47 AM
59 points
62 comments8 min readLW link

How to Learn from Experts

SatvikBeriOct 4, 2013, 5:02 PM
57 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Does Goal Set­ting Work?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Oct 16, 2013, 8:54 PM
57 points
22 comments11 min readLW link

Sys­tem­atic Lucky Breaks

SatvikBeriOct 3, 2013, 1:46 AM
54 points
64 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] Low-Hang­ing Poop

GLaDOSOct 16, 2013, 8:51 PM
46 points
38 comments2 min readLW link

Trust­ing Ex­pert Consensus

ChrisHallquistOct 16, 2013, 8:22 PM
41 points
81 comments17 min readLW link

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

bramflakesOct 12, 2013, 4:43 PM
39 points
36 comments13 min readLW link

On the im­por­tance of tak­ing limits: In­finite Spheres of Utility

asperaOct 12, 2013, 9:18 PM
35 points
59 comments8 min readLW link

What should nor­mal peo­ple do?

seezOct 25, 2013, 2:28 AM
32 points
94 comments2 min readLW link

In­tel­lec­tual energy

NancyLebovitzOct 26, 2013, 1:06 PM
31 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

A Mug­gle Stud­ies course

polymathwannabeOct 2, 2013, 2:42 AM
28 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

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

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 16, 2013, 10:31 AM
27 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

PSA: Very im­por­tant policy change at Cry­on­ics Institute

Scott GarrabrantOct 3, 2013, 5:47 AM
26 points
99 comments1 min readLW link

How do you say no?

LoganStrohlOct 4, 2013, 3:44 AM
25 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Is it im­moral to have chil­dren?

jefftkOct 22, 2013, 12:13 PM
25 points
320 comments3 min readLW link

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

ChrisHallquistOct 28, 2013, 2:25 AM
25 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Trou­ble at the lab

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

[Link] You and Your Research

katydeeOct 20, 2013, 12:05 AM
24 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Crush Your Uncertainty

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

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

ChrisHallquistOct 29, 2013, 11:04 PM
23 points
231 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity, com­pet­i­tive­ness and akrasia

cousin_itOct 2, 2013, 1:45 PM
23 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

Why officers vs. en­listed?

JoshuaFoxOct 30, 2013, 8:14 PM
23 points
144 comments3 min readLW link

The self­ish rea­son to write some­thing for Ada Lovelace Day

sixes_and_sevensOct 10, 2013, 10:28 PM
22 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

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

Nick_BecksteadOct 23, 2013, 11:43 AM
20 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Sup­ple­ment­ing mem­ory with ex­pe­rience sampling

jefftkOct 28, 2013, 11:52 AM
20 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Gane­sal­ingam and Gow­ers on au­to­mated the­o­rem-proving

VipulNaikOct 5, 2013, 12:04 AM
19 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion To Rationality

kerspoonOct 20, 2013, 2:43 AM
18 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

Link dump: Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity in­sti­tute tech­ni­cal reports

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 25, 2013, 4:07 PM
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Megameetup on De­cem­ber 13-15th, NYC

RaemonOct 5, 2013, 9:56 PM
18 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Teach­ing ra­tio­nal­ity to kids?

chaosmageOct 16, 2013, 12:38 PM
17 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

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

[deleted]Oct 16, 2013, 11:17 PM
16 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk II

fowlertmOct 20, 2013, 12:25 AM
16 points
10 comments9 min readLW link

The best 15 words

apopheniaOct 3, 2013, 9:08 AM
16 points
386 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence fic­tion—“Un­der­stand”, by Ted Chiang

D_AlexOct 7, 2013, 3:03 AM
15 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Oc­to­ber Monthly Brag­ging Thread

linkhyrule5Oct 4, 2013, 7:06 AM
14 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Schel­ling Point Strat­egy Training

sixes_and_sevensOct 4, 2013, 3:41 PM
14 points
56 comments2 min readLW link

Bet­ter Ra­tion­al­ity Through Lu­cid Dreaming

katydeeOct 18, 2013, 8:48 PM
14 points
49 comments2 min readLW link

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

James_MillerOct 9, 2013, 7:19 PM
14 points
189 comments1 min readLW link

Does the simu­la­tion ar­gu­ment even need simu­la­tions?

lmmOct 11, 2013, 9:16 PM
13 points
102 comments4 min readLW link

Un­der the eyes of your betters

VoltairinaOct 6, 2013, 7:25 PM
13 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

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

jimrandomhOct 15, 2013, 4:02 AM
12 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Oc­to­ber 2013

A1987dMOct 5, 2013, 9:02 PM
12 points
315 comments1 min readLW link

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

ChrisHallquistOct 17, 2013, 8:36 PM
12 points
184 comments2 min readLW link