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The correct response to uncertainty is not half-speed

AnnaSalamon15 Jan 2016 22:55 UTC

275 points

46 comments3 min readLW link

Fact Posts: How and Why

sarahconstantin2 Dec 2016 18:55 UTC

265 points

34 comments3 min readLW link

“Flinching away from truth” is often about protecting the epistemology

AnnaSalamon20 Dec 2016 18:39 UTC

233 points

58 comments7 min readLW link

On the importance of Less Wrong, or another single conversational locus

AnnaSalamon27 Nov 2016 17:13 UTC

176 points

365 comments4 min readLW link

Superintelligence FAQ

Scott Alexander20 Sep 2016 19:00 UTC

137 points

39 comments27 min readLW link

Require contributions in advance

Viliam8 Feb 2016 12:55 UTC

96 points

27 comments7 min readLW link

Zombies Redacted

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Jul 2016 20:16 UTC

94 points

173 comments16 min readLW link

[moderator action] The_Lion and The_Lion2 are banned

Viliam_Bur30 Jan 2016 2:09 UTC

90 points

41 comments1 min readLW link

What is up with carbon dioxide and cognition? An offer

paulfchristiano23 Apr 2016 17:47 UTC

84 points

48 comments2 min readLW link

Turning the Technical Crank

Error5 Apr 2016 5:36 UTC

74 points

134 comments6 min readLW link

Epistemic Effort

Raemon29 Nov 2016 16:08 UTC

72 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

Making intentions concrete—Trigger-Action Planning

Kaj_Sotala1 Dec 2016 20:34 UTC

71 points

31 comments4 min readLW link

The Brain Preservation Foundation’s Small Mammalian Brain Prize won

gwern9 Feb 2016 21:02 UTC

71 points

42 comments4 min readLW link

Upcoming LW Changes

Vaniver3 Feb 2016 5:34 UTC

71 points

106 comments3 min readLW link

Is Caviar a Risk Factor For Being a Millionaire?

Anders_H9 Dec 2016 16:27 UTC

67 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

How does personality vary across US cities?

JonahS20 Dec 2016 8:00 UTC

66 points

16 comments6 min readLW link

The Sally-Anne fallacy

philh11 Apr 2016 13:06 UTC

66 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Be secretly wrong

Benquo10 Dec 2016 7:06 UTC

66 points

46 comments3 min readLW link

Further discussion of CFAR’s focus on AI safety, and the good things folks wanted from “cause neutrality”

AnnaSalamon12 Dec 2016 19:39 UTC

65 points

38 comments5 min readLW link

Unofficial Canon on Applied Rationality

ScottL15 Feb 2016 13:03 UTC

65 points

32 comments23 min readLW link

A Second Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

tanagrabeast1 May 2016 22:14 UTC

64 points

30 comments21 min readLW link

Buying happiness

gjm16 Jun 2016 17:08 UTC

62 points

34 comments4 min readLW link

Why CFAR’s Mission?

AnnaSalamon2 Jan 2016 23:23 UTC

59 points

56 comments9 min readLW link

A Return to Discussion

sarahconstantin27 Nov 2016 13:59 UTC

58 points

32 comments6 min readLW link

Sleepwalk bias, self-defeating predictions and existential risk

Stefan_Schubert22 Apr 2016 18:31 UTC

56 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

The Pyramid And The Garden

Scott Alexander5 Nov 2016 6:03 UTC

56 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

Hedge drift and advanced motte-and-bailey

Stefan_Schubert1 May 2016 14:45 UTC

54 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Do you want to be like Kuro5hin? Because this is how you get to be like Kuro5hin.

Dentin26 Aug 2016 15:32 UTC

54 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

CFAR’s new focus, and AI Safety

AnnaSalamon3 Dec 2016 18:09 UTC

51 points

88 comments3 min readLW link

Anxiety and Rationality

[deleted]19 Jan 2016 18:30 UTC

51 points

31 comments4 min readLW link

The Moral Of The Story

Scott Alexander18 Oct 2016 2:22 UTC

50 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

2016 LessWrong Diaspora Survey Results

namespace14 May 2016 17:38 UTC

48 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

Prediction-based medicine (PBM)

ChristianKl29 Dec 2016 22:49 UTC

46 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

If we can’t lie to others, we will lie to ourselves

paulfchristiano26 Nov 2016 22:29 UTC

45 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

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Lesswrong 2016 Survey

Elo30 Mar 2016 18:17 UTC

45 points

273 comments3 min readLW link

2016 LessWrong Diaspora Survey Analysis: Part Two (LessWrong Use, Successorship, Diaspora)

namespace10 Jun 2016 19:40 UTC

44 points

12 comments10 min readLW link

Linkposts now live!

Vaniver28 Sep 2016 15:13 UTC

44 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

The Web Browser is Not Your Client (But You Don’t Need To Know That)

Error22 Apr 2016 0:12 UTC

44 points

47 comments7 min readLW link

A Medical Mystery: Thyroid Hormones, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia

johnlawrenceaspden14 Feb 2016 13:14 UTC

43 points

166 comments23 min readLW link

A toy model of the treacherous turn

Stuart_Armstrong8 Jan 2016 12:58 UTC

43 points

13 comments6 min readLW link

Recent updates to gwern.net (2015-2016)

gwern26 Aug 2016 19:22 UTC

42 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

How I use Anki to learn mathematics

Arthur Milchior7 Dec 2016 22:29 UTC

41 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

A Rationalist Guide to OkCupid

Jacob Falkovich3 Feb 2016 20:50 UTC

41 points

66 comments1 min readLW link

The Ideology Is Not The Movement

Scott Alexander5 Apr 2016 1:52 UTC

40 points

3 comments24 min readLW link

How The West Was Won

Scott Alexander26 Jul 2016 3:05 UTC

40 points

10 comments17 min readLW link

Positivity Thread :)

Viliam8 Apr 2016 21:34 UTC

40 points

66 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on the Safety in Artificial Intelligence conference

UmamiSalami1 Jul 2016 0:36 UTC

40 points

15 comments13 min readLW link

Diaspora roundup thread, 15th June 2016

philh15 Jun 2016 9:36 UTC

39 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Google Deepmind and FHI collaborate to present research at UAI 2016

Stuart_Armstrong9 Jun 2016 18:08 UTC

39 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

To contribute to AI safety, consider doing AI research

Vika16 Jan 2016 20:42 UTC

39 points

39 comments2 min readLW link