Tell Culture

LoganStrohl18 Jan 2014 20:13 UTC
264 points
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Dark Arts of Rationality

So8res19 Jan 2014 2:47 UTC
253 points
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On sav­ing the world

So8res30 Jan 2014 20:00 UTC
226 points
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The me­chan­ics of my re­cent productivity

So8res9 Jan 2014 2:30 UTC
199 points
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Dangers of steel­man­ning /​ prin­ci­ple of charity

gothgirl42066616 Jan 2014 6:35 UTC
148 points
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2013 Sur­vey Results

Scott Alexander19 Jan 2014 2:51 UTC
112 points
560 comments19 min readLW link

Hand­shakes, Hi, and What’s New: What’s Go­ing On With Small Talk?

Benquo2 Jan 2014 22:08 UTC
106 points
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Ra­tion­al­ists Are Less Cre­d­u­lous But Bet­ter At Tak­ing Ideas Seriously

Scott Alexander21 Jan 2014 2:18 UTC
103 points
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Dereg­u­lat­ing Dis­trac­tion, Mov­ing Towards the Goal, and Level Hopping

So8res12 Jan 2014 3:21 UTC
101 points
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Ha­bit­ual Productivity

So8res9 Jan 2014 6:44 UTC
87 points
35 comments6 min readLW link

Try more things.

whales12 Jan 2014 1:25 UTC
85 points
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Even Odds

Scott Garrabrant12 Jan 2014 7:24 UTC
75 points
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Dr. Jub­jub pre­dicts a crisis

Apprentice10 Jan 2014 15:52 UTC
74 points
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Re­sults from MIRI’s De­cem­ber workshop

Benya15 Jan 2014 22:29 UTC
73 points
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Fas­cists and Rakes

philh5 Jan 2014 0:41 UTC
58 points
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De­ci­sion Auc­tions aka “How to fairly as­sign chores, or de­cide who gets the last cookie”

daenerys21 Jan 2014 21:13 UTC
56 points
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Book Re­view: How Learn­ing Works

whales19 Jan 2014 20:45 UTC
55 points
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[link] Why Self-Con­trol Seems (but may not be) Limited

Kaj_Sotala20 Jan 2014 16:55 UTC
55 points
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I Will Pay $500 To Any­one Who Can Con­vince Me To Can­cel My Cry­on­ics Subscription

ChrisHallquist11 Jan 2014 10:39 UTC
54 points
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Hu­mans can drive cars

Apprentice30 Jan 2014 11:55 UTC
53 points
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Soft Pa­ter­nal­ism in Parenting

Gunnar_Zarncke4 Jan 2014 15:52 UTC
53 points
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Liter­a­ture-re­view on cog­ni­tive effects of modafinil (my bach­e­lor the­sis)

David Althaus8 Jan 2014 19:23 UTC
53 points
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AALWA: Ask any LessWronger anything

Will_Newsome12 Jan 2014 2:18 UTC
53 points
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Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end in Berlin

blob24 Jan 2014 17:55 UTC
50 points
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A big Sin­gu­lar­ity-themed Hol­ly­wood movie out in April offers many op­por­tu­ni­ties to talk about AI risk

chaosmage7 Jan 2014 17:48 UTC
49 points
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LessWrong Help Desk—free pa­per down­loads and more (2014)

jsalvatier16 Jan 2014 5:51 UTC
47 points
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Things I Wish They’d Taught Me When I Was Younger: Why Money Is Awesome

ChrisHallquist16 Jan 2014 7:27 UTC
47 points
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What should su­per­ra­tional play­ers do in asym­met­ric games?

badger24 Jan 2014 7:42 UTC
46 points
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Log­i­cal and In­dex­i­cal Uncertainty

Scott Garrabrant29 Jan 2014 21:49 UTC
46 points
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Flashes of Nondecisionmaking

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)27 Jan 2014 14:30 UTC
44 points
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Pro­duc­tivity tool: race!

wwa16 Jan 2014 21:53 UTC
43 points
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Why I haven’t signed up for cryonics

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 12 Jan 2014 5:16 UTC
43 points
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Pro­duc­tivity as a func­tion of abil­ity in the­o­ret­i­cal fields

Stefan_Schubert26 Jan 2014 13:16 UTC
41 points
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[LINK] Why I’m not on the Ra­tion­al­ist Masterlist

Apprentice6 Jan 2014 0:16 UTC
40 points
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One Year of Pomodoros

alexvermeer1 Jan 2014 21:27 UTC
34 points
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An­thropic Atheism

[deleted]13 Jan 2014 5:00 UTC
34 points
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Plan while your ugh field is down

XFrequentist23 Jan 2014 17:42 UTC
33 points
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Two Dark Side Statis­tics Papers

Scott Alexander2 Jan 2014 5:51 UTC
33 points
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Google may be try­ing to take over the world

[deleted]27 Jan 2014 9:33 UTC
33 points
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Mul­ti­verse-Wide Prefer­ence Utilitarianism

Brian_Tomasik30 Jan 2014 18:08 UTC
32 points
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Mar­ijuana: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott Alexander5 Jan 2014 20:41 UTC
31 points
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[LINK] How Long Does Habit For­ma­tion Take?

Antisuji4 Jan 2014 1:33 UTC
30 points
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Find a study partner

Mati_Roy24 Jan 2014 2:27 UTC
29 points
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Another Cri­tique of Effec­tive Altruism

jsteinhardt5 Jan 2014 9:51 UTC
28 points
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In­tro­duc­ing .impact

Peter Wildeford5 Jan 2014 15:35 UTC
27 points
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Tricky Bets and Truth-Track­ing Fields

lukeprog29 Jan 2014 8:52 UTC
26 points
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Deal­ing with a Ma­jor Per­sonal Crisis

Gunnar_Zarncke20 Jan 2014 1:36 UTC
26 points
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Cri­tiquing Gary Taubes, Fi­nal: The Truth About Diets and Weight Loss

ChrisHallquist4 Jan 2014 5:16 UTC
25 points
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New (pro­posal for) monthly thread: Meetup Reports

bartimaeus12 Jan 2014 15:50 UTC
25 points
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Vol­un­teer­ing pro­gram­mer hours /​ dis­cussing how to im­prove LessWrong’s soft­ware

ChrisHallquist26 Jan 2014 22:47 UTC
25 points
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