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Out to Get You
Zvi
Sep 23, 2017, 10:50 AM
134
points
14
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor
Scott Alexander
Sep 2, 2017, 7:50 PM
126
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup
Scott Alexander
Sep 2, 2017, 8:22 AM
107
points
5
comments
28
min read
LW
link
Sabbath hard and go home
Benquo
Sep 27, 2017, 7:49 AM
100
points
15
comments
5
min read
LW
link
LW 2.0 Strategic Overview
habryka
Sep 15, 2017, 3:00 AM
85
points
296
comments
23
min read
LW
link
If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing With Made-Up Statistics
Scott Alexander
Sep 3, 2017, 8:56 PM
78
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
Against Individual IQ Worries
Scott Alexander
Sep 28, 2017, 5:12 PM
73
points
8
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Nobody does the thing that they are supposedly doing
Kaj_Sotala
Sep 23, 2017, 10:40 AM
62
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(kajsotala.fi)
The Anthropic Principle: Five Short Examples
Optimization Process
Sep 26, 2017, 10:35 PM
61
points
13
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Notes From an Apocalypse
Toggle
Sep 22, 2017, 5:10 AM
59
points
24
comments
14
min read
LW
link
My IRB Nightmare
Scott Alexander
Sep 28, 2017, 4:47 PM
59
points
1
comment
19
min read
LW
link
Common vs Expert Jargon
Raemon
Sep 21, 2017, 3:05 AM
56
points
17
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Why I am not a Quaker (even though it often seems as though I should be)
Benquo
Sep 26, 2017, 7:00 AM
49
points
18
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Against EA PR
ozymandias
Sep 21, 2017, 1:23 AM
48
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Against Facebook: The Stalking
Zvi
Sep 16, 2017, 12:41 PM
42
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Intellectual Progress Inside and Outside Academia
Ben Pace
Sep 2, 2017, 11:08 PM
40
points
5
comments
14
min read
LW
link
LW 2.0 Open Beta starts 9/20
Vaniver
Sep 15, 2017, 2:57 AM
39
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LW 2.0 Open Beta Live
Vaniver
Sep 21, 2017, 1:15 AM
35
points
37
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Moderator’s Dilemma: The Risks of Partial Intervention
Chris_Leong
Sep 29, 2017, 1:47 AM
33
points
17
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Beta—First Impressions
Chris_Leong
Sep 21, 2017, 1:56 AM
32
points
104
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Learning To Love Scientific Consensus
Scott Alexander
Sep 2, 2017, 8:44 AM
31
points
1
comment
19
min read
LW
link
2017 LessWrong Survey
namespace
Sep 13, 2017, 6:26 AM
29
points
75
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Online discussion is better than pre-publication peer review
Wei Dai
Sep 5, 2017, 1:25 PM
28
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Translating CFAR to Therapy
squidious
Sep 26, 2017, 7:00 AM
27
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
(www.blogger.com)
Frontpage Posting and Commenting Guidelines
Ben Pace
Sep 26, 2017, 6:24 AM
24
points
25
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Wikipedia pageviews: still in decline
VipulNaik
Sep 26, 2017, 11:03 PM
24
points
20
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Motivating a Semantics of Logical Counterfactuals
Sam_A_Barnett
Sep 22, 2017, 1:10 AM
22
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Outside View isn’t magic
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 27, 2017, 2:33 PM
21
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Voting Weight Discussion
Raemon
Sep 22, 2017, 10:48 PM
20
points
73
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Speed & Performance is our current top priority
habryka
Sep 27, 2017, 11:36 PM
20
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Rational Feed
sapphire
Sep 9, 2017, 7:48 PM
20
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
Why Attitudes Matter
ozymandias
Sep 21, 2017, 3:07 PM
19
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Musings on Double Crux (and “Productive Disagreement”)
Raemon
Sep 28, 2017, 5:26 AM
19
points
72
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Blind Goaltenders: Unproductive Disagreements
PDV
Sep 28, 2017, 4:19 PM
19
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Case Of The Suffocating Woman
Scott Alexander
Sep 2, 2017, 7:42 PM
18
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
Naturalized induction – a challenge for evidential and causal decision theory
Caspar Oesterheld
Sep 22, 2017, 8:15 AM
15
points
15
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Stanislav Petrov has died (2017-05-19)
fortyeridania
Sep 18, 2017, 3:13 AM
14
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.rt.com)
New business opportunities due to self-driving cars
chaosmage
Sep 6, 2017, 8:07 PM
13
points
68
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Great Filter isn’t magic either
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 27, 2017, 5:04 PM
13
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
David C Denkenberger on Food Production after a Sun Obscuring Disaster
JenniferRM
Sep 17, 2017, 9:06 PM
13
points
26
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Outside View isn’t magic
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 27, 2017, 2:37 PM
12
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Epistemic Spot Check: Exercise for Mood and Anxiety (Michael W. Otto, Jasper A.J. Smits)
Elizabeth
Sep 9, 2017, 11:50 PM
12
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
Rational Feed
sapphire
Sep 17, 2017, 10:03 PM
12
points
4
comments
8
min read
LW
link
LW 2.0 Site Update: 09/21/17
Ben Pace
Sep 22, 2017, 7:43 AM
12
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Publication of “Anthropic Decision Theory”
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 20, 2017, 3:41 PM
12
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Heuristics for textbook selection
John_Maxwell
Sep 6, 2017, 4:17 AM
12
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LW 2.0 Site Update: 09/22/17
habryka
23 Sep 2017 10:10 UTC
11
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Deontologist Envy
ozymandias
23 Sep 2017 20:21 UTC
10
points
16
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Five Hindrances to Doing the Thing
moridinamael
25 Sep 2017 17:04 UTC
10
points
4
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Stupid Questions—September 2017
ChristianKl
27 Sep 2017 9:51 UTC
9
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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