Index of Yvain’s (Excellent) Articles

[lukeprog]

Yvain is one of Less Wrong’s best and most prolific writers. I suspect many Less Wrongers haven’t read his posts. Here’s an index of Yvain’s articles (not including meta posts, ranked by upvotes (like on my post index):

• Generalizing from One Example (176)

• Diseased Thinking: Dissolving Questions about Disease (154)

• Eight Short Studies on Excuses (137)

• Confidence Levels Inside and Outside an Argument (97)

• The Least Convenient Possible World (96)

• Intellectual Hipsters and Metacontrarianism (94)

• The Apologist and the Revolutionary (92)

• Are Wireheads Happy? (89)

• Doing Your Good Deed for the Day (85)

• Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others… (78)

• Defense Against the Dark Arts: Case Study #1 (72)

• How to Not Lose an Argument (71)

• A Parable of Obsolete Ideologies (71)

• Extreme Rationality: It’s Not That Great (70)

• Shut Up and Guess (64)

• Simultaneously Right and Wrong (62)

• Beware Trivial Inconveniences (61)

• The Trouble with ‘Good’ (60)

• That Other Kind of Status (57)

• Never Leave Your Room (54)

• Guilt: Another Gift Nobody Wants (52)

• Missing the Trees for the Forest (50)

• Techniques for Probability Estimates (50)

• The Mystery of the Haunted Rationalist (50)

• Offense Versus Harm Minimization (49)

• The Power of Positivist Thinking (46)

• When Truth Isn’t Enough (44)

• Book Review: The Root of Thought (41)

• Conflicts Between Mental Subagents: Expanding Wei Dai’s Master-Slave Model (40)

• Diplomacy as a Game Theory Laboratory (39)

• Typical Mind and Politics (39)

• The Skeptic’s Trilemma (37)

• The ‘Spot the Fakes’ Test (36)

• Blue- and Yellow-Tinted Choices (36)

• Applied Picoeconomics (36)

• Antagonizing Opioid Receptors for (Prevention of) Fun and Profit (34)

• What I Tell You Three Times is True (33)

• Where’s Your Sense of Mystery? (30)

• Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up? (30)

• Crowley on Religious Experience (29)

• Solutions to Political Problems as Counterfactuals (28)

• Why Real Men Wear Pink (28)

• Rationalist Poetry Fans, Unite! (27)

• Why Support the Underdog? (27)

• The Zombie Preacher of Somerset (24)

• Are You a Solar Deity? (24)

• The Implicit Association Test (23)

• More Thought on Assertions (22)

• Fight Biases, or Route Around Them? (22)

• Bogus Pipeline, Bona Fide Pipeline (19)

• Help, Help, I’m Being Oppressed! (19)

• It’s Not Like Anything to Be a Bat (12)

• Framing Effects in Anthropology (1)

[Scott Alexander]

Wow, thank you for the nice words.

I feel a predictable desire to reciprocate, but cataloging your output is starting to look like a Herculean task :)

Also, I can think of at least five of those posts that I no longer endorse and think are embarrassingly wrong, but I think it’s more interesting if I don’t say which ones.

[jsalvatier]

But less useful..., please do say which ones; at least an edit at the bottom.

[DPiepgrass]

Yes, and also be specific about what you don’t endorse and why.

[lukeprog]

I feel a predictable desire to reciprocate...

Don’t. I already keep this exact same list for my own posts here.

[DPiepgrass]

Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress. Or so it tells me.

[Armok_GoB]

once the sequence reruns are done we should probably continue with these.

[Dr_Manhattan]

This really seems like a feature request in disguise.

[gwern]

Well, in theory you could use http://​​lesswrong.com/​​user/​​Yvain/​​submitted/​​ but that shows a lot of context and doesn’t sort by anything except date. It also mixes Discussion, Meetup, and Articles.

[MixedNuts]

This really seems like it’s answering its own request.

[Dr_Manhattan]

This was manual work, and trivially implemented by extending existing feature mentioned by gwern http://​​lesswrong.com/​​lw/​​6ga/​​index_of_yvains_excellent_articles/​​4fxa

[magfrump]

The Apologist and the Revolutionary is one of my favorite things I have ever read.