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Rationality

Core TagLast edit: 9 Feb 2024 1:57 UTC by jimrandomh

Rationality is the art of thinking in ways that result in accurate beliefs and good decisions. It is the primary topic of LessWrong.

Rationality is not only about avoiding the vices of self-deception and obfuscation (the failure to communicate clearly), but also about the virtue of curiosity, seeing the world more clearly than before, and achieving things previously unreachable to you. The study of rationality on LessWrong includes a theoretical understanding of ideal cognitive algorithms, as well as building a practice that uses these idealized algorithms to inform heuristics, habits, and techniques, to successfully reason and make decisions in the real world.

Topics covered in rationality include (but are not limited to): normative and theoretical explorations of ideal reasoning; the capabilities and limitations of our brain, mind and psychology; applied advice such as introspection techniques and how to achieve truth collaboratively; practical techniques and methodologies for figuring out what’s true ranging from rough quantitative modeling to full research guides.

Note that content about how the world is can be found under World Modeling, and practical advice about how to change the world is categorized under World Optimization or Practical.


Theory /​ Concepts

Anticipated Experiences
Aumann’s Agreement Theorem
Bayes Theorem
Bounded Rationality
Conservation of Expected
Contrarianism
Decision Theory
Epistemology
Game Theory
Gears-Level
Hansonian Pre-Rationality
Law-Thinking
Map and Territory
Newcomb’s Problem
Occam’s razor
Robust Agents
Solomonoff Induction
Truth, Semantics, & Meaning
Utility Functions

Applied Topics

Alief
Betting
Cached Thoughts
Calibration
Dark Arts
Empiricism
Epistemic Modesty
Forecasting & Prediction
Group Rationality
Identity
Inside/​Outside View
Introspection
Intuition
Practice & Philosophy of Science
Scholarship & Learning
Taking Ideas Seriously
Value of Information

Failure Modes

Affect Heuristic
Bucket Errors
Compartmentalization
Confirmation Bias
Fallacies
Goodhart’s Law
Groupthink
Heuristics and Biases
Mind Projection Fallacy
Motivated Reasoning
Pica
Pitfalls of Rationality
Rationalization
Self-Deception
Sunk-Cost Fallacy

Communication

Common Knowledge
Conversation
Decoupling vs Contextualizing
Disagreement
Distillation & Pedagogy
Double-Crux
Good Explanations (Advice)
Ideological Turing Tests
Inferential Distance
Information Cascades
Memetic Immune System
Philosophy of Language
Steelmanning

Techniques

Double-Crux
Focusing
Goal Factoring
Internal Double Crux
Hamming Questions
Noticing
Techniques
Trigger Action Planning/​Patterns

Models of the Mind

Consciousness
Dual Process Theory (System 1 & 2)
General Intelligence
Subagents
Predictive Processing
Perceptual Control Theory
Zombies

Other

Center for Applied Rationality
Curiosity
Rationality Quotes
Updated Beliefs (examples of)

This list is not comprehensive! The tagging system is new. Many needed tags have not been created and/​or added to the above list.


What we’re calling “rationality”

A good heuristic is that rationality is about cognitive algorithms. Rather than being a synonym for true or optimal, the term rational should be reserved for describing whether or not a cognitive algorithm results in true beliefs and optimal actions.

This is distinct from practical advice, such as how to improve relationships or implement productivity systems, which should not be considered “rationality” per se. Some have pushed against labeling self-help as “rational dating”, etc. for reasons along these lines [1, 2], and they are probably correct.

In accordance with this, LessWrong classifies most self-help type advice under the World Optimization tag and not the Rationality tag.

Similarly, most object-level material about how the world is, e.g. math, biology, history, etc. is tagged under World Modeling tag, with exceptions for neuroscience and probability theory, etc., which have concrete consequences for how one ought to think.

Heuristics and Biases

Early material on LessWrong frequently describes rationality with reference to heuristics and biases [1, 2]. Indeed, LessWrong grew out of the blog Overcoming Bias and even Rationality: A-Z opens with a discussion of biases [1] with the opening chapter titled Predictably Wrong. The idea is that human mind has been shown to systematically make certain errors of reasoning, like confirmation bias. Rationality then consists of overcoming these biases.

Apart from the issue of the replication crises which discredited many examples of bias that were commonly referenced on LessWrong, e.g. priming, the “overcoming biases” frame of rationality is too limited. Rationality requires the development of many positive skills, not just removing negative biases to reveal underlying perfect reasoning. These are skills such as how to update the correct amount in response to evidence, how to resolve disagreements with others, how to introspect, and many more.

Instrumental vs Epistemic Rationality

Classically, on LessWrong, a distinction has been made between instrumental rationality and epistemic rationality, however, these terms may be misleading – it’s not as though epistemic rationality can be traded off for gains in instrumental rationality. Only apparently, and to think one should do this is a trap.

Instrumental rationality is defined as being concerned with achieving goals. More specifically, instrumental rationality is the art of choosing and implementing actions that steer the future toward outcomes ranked higher in one’s preferences. Said preferences are not limited to ‘selfish’ preferences or unshared values; they include anything one cares about.

Epistemic rationality is defined as the part of rationality which involves achieving accurate beliefs about the world. It involves updating on receiving new evidence, mitigating cognitive biases, and examining why you believe what you believe. It can be seen as a form of instrumental rationality in which knowledge and truth are goals in themselves, whereas in other forms of instrumental rationality, knowledge and truth are only potential aids to achieving goals. Someone practicing instrumental rationality might even find falsehood useful.

The Art and Science of Rationality

In a field like biology, we can draw a distinction between the science of biology, which involves various theories and empirical data about biological life, and the art of being a biologist, which is the specific way that a biologist thinks and plays with ideas and interacts to the world around them. Similarly, rationality is both a science and an art. There’s study of the iron-clad laws of reasoning and mechanics of the human mind, but there’s also the general training to be the kind of person who reasons well.

Rationalist

The term rationalist as a description of people is used in a couple of ways. It can refer to someone who endeavors to think better and implement as much rationality as they can. Many prefer the term aspiring rationalist to convey that the identifier is a claim to the goal of being more rational rather than a claim of having attained it already.

Perhaps more commonly, rationalist is used to refer culturally to someone associated with various rationalist communities separate from their efforts to improve their rationality.

Twelve Virtues of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jan 2006 8:00 UTC
203 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Real­ity-Re­veal­ing and Real­ity-Mask­ing Puzzles

AnnaSalamon16 Jan 2020 16:15 UTC
251 points
61 comments13 min readLW link1 review

Hu­mans are not au­to­mat­i­cally strategic

AnnaSalamon8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC
433 points
275 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity: Ap­pre­ci­at­ing Cog­ni­tive Algorithms

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Oct 2012 9:59 UTC
79 points
136 comments5 min readLW link

What Do We Mean By “Ra­tion­al­ity”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC
282 points
14 comments6 min readLW link

The Bot­tom Line

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Sep 2007 17:47 UTC
142 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Babble

alkjash10 Jan 2018 21:56 UTC
167 points
31 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

[Question] What are the open prob­lems in Hu­man Ra­tion­al­ity?

Raemon13 Jan 2019 4:46 UTC
94 points
93 comments1 min readLW link3 reviews

Eight Short Stud­ies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC
696 points
244 comments10 min readLW link

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

AnnaSalamon20 Dec 2016 18:39 UTC
210 points
56 comments7 min readLW link

The Apol­o­gist and the Revolutionary

Scott Alexander11 Mar 2009 21:39 UTC
243 points
100 comments5 min readLW link

Lo­cal Val­idity as a Key to San­ity and Civilization

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Apr 2018 4:25 UTC
158 points
65 comments13 min readLW link5 reviews

A Sketch of Good Communication

Ben Pace31 Mar 2018 22:48 UTC
159 points
35 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Trapped Pri­ors As A Ba­sic Prob­lem Of Rationality

Scott Alexander12 Mar 2021 20:02 UTC
134 points
32 comments14 min readLW link3 reviews

Prob­a­bil­ity is in the Mind

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Mar 2008 4:08 UTC
118 points
194 comments6 min readLW link

Toolbox-think­ing and Law-thinking

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 May 2018 21:28 UTC
138 points
48 comments12 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity is Sys­tem­atized Winning

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Apr 2009 14:41 UTC
85 points
265 comments3 min readLW link

Un­bounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, & Futurism

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Nov 2007 7:45 UTC
64 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

The Mar­tial Art of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Nov 2006 20:00 UTC
214 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

The non­cen­tral fal­lacy—the worst ar­gu­ment in the world?

Scott Alexander27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC
365 points
1,758 comments7 min readLW link

A rev­olu­tion in philos­o­phy: the rise of con­cep­tual engineering

Suspended Reason2 Jun 2020 18:30 UTC
128 points
50 comments21 min readLW link

Hid­ing Complexity

Rafael Harth20 Nov 2020 16:35 UTC
29 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Creat­ing a truly formidable Art

Valentine14 Oct 2021 4:39 UTC
116 points
59 comments23 min readLW link1 review

Diseased think­ing: dis­solv­ing ques­tions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC
477 points
356 comments9 min readLW link

Rea­son as memetic im­mune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC
427 points
182 comments5 min readLW link

The Cog­ni­tive Science of Rationality

lukeprog12 Sep 2011 20:48 UTC
135 points
111 comments15 min readLW link

Com­ment on “En­doge­nous Epistemic Fac­tion­al­iza­tion”

Zack_M_Davis20 May 2020 18:04 UTC
145 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Cardinality

jimrandomh27 Apr 2021 22:27 UTC
52 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How to eval­u­ate (50%) predictions

Rafael Harth10 Apr 2020 17:12 UTC
122 points
50 comments9 min readLW link

Hero Licensing

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Nov 2017 21:13 UTC
215 points
83 comments52 min readLW link

On Platitudes

Ouroborus22 Apr 2020 5:55 UTC
28 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(ouroborusdotblog.wordpress.com)

Strat­egy is the De­con­fu­sion of Action

ryan_b2 Jan 2019 20:56 UTC
69 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Intuition

Rafael Harth20 Dec 2020 21:49 UTC
26 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

[Question] Col­lider bias as a cog­ni­tive blindspot?

TurnTrout30 Dec 2020 2:39 UTC
54 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Your Strength as a Rationalist

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Aug 2007 0:21 UTC
196 points
121 comments2 min readLW link

Precognition

jasoncrawford14 Jun 2021 0:38 UTC
219 points
35 comments2 min readLW link1 review
(jasoncrawford.org)

[Question] Why didn’t we find katas for ra­tio­nal­ity?

ChristianKl14 Sep 2021 16:43 UTC
9 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Real Reality

ship_shlap5 Feb 2022 4:13 UTC
22 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Com­ment re­ply: my low-qual­ity thoughts on why CFAR didn’t get farther with a “real/​effi­ca­cious art of ra­tio­nal­ity”

AnnaSalamon9 Jun 2022 2:12 UTC
239 points
59 comments17 min readLW link

Prob­lem re­lax­ation as a tactic

TurnTrout22 Apr 2020 23:44 UTC
115 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

Deal­ing with Cu­ri­os­ity-Stoppers

adamShimi30 Jul 2020 22:05 UTC
49 points
6 comments10 min readLW link

Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Trust in Mind

Gordon Seidoh Worley11 Aug 2020 20:23 UTC
25 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

On Creativity—The joys of 5 minute timers

Neel Nanda18 Aug 2020 6:26 UTC
12 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Math That Clicks: Look for Two-Way Correspondences

TurnTrout2 Oct 2020 1:22 UTC
35 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

The Treach­er­ous Path to Rationality

Jacob Falkovich9 Oct 2020 15:34 UTC
192 points
116 comments11 min readLW link1 review

[Question] What could one do with truly un­limited com­pu­ta­tional power?

Yitz11 Nov 2020 10:03 UTC
30 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Defend­ing the non-cen­tral fallacy

Matthew Barnett9 Mar 2021 21:42 UTC
120 points
39 comments6 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ism be­fore the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC
529 points
82 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

The Sand­wich Argument

Chris_Leong9 Apr 2020 3:58 UTC
26 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

In­for­ma­tion cascades

Johnicholas6 Mar 2009 4:08 UTC
59 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

The Archety­pal Ra­tional and Post-Rational

Ouroborus15 Apr 2020 9:40 UTC
21 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(ouroborusdotblog.wordpress.com)

Gen­er­al­iz­ing From One Example

Scott Alexander28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC
410 points
416 comments6 min readLW link

Preface

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
628 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 16: Ham­ming Questions

Mark Xu20 Apr 2020 14:51 UTC
14 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What are good defense mechanisms against dan­ger­ous bul­let bit­ing?

Mati_Roy21 Apr 2020 20:51 UTC
16 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Notic­ing the Taste of Lotus

Valentine27 Apr 2018 20:05 UTC
180 points
80 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selec­tive Re­port­ing and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists

Zack_M_Davis24 Sep 2019 4:12 UTC
259 points
40 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

My ex­pe­rience with the “ra­tio­nal­ist un­canny valley”

Thomas Kwa23 Apr 2020 20:27 UTC
65 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 20: OODA Loop

Mark Xu24 Apr 2020 18:11 UTC
24 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity vs. Taleb’s Antifragilism

Mellivora2 May 2020 14:07 UTC
17 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Stud­ies On Slack

Scott Alexander13 May 2020 5:00 UTC
145 points
34 comments24 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

The Mechanis­tic and Nor­ma­tive Struc­ture of Agency

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 May 2020 16:03 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(philpapers.org)

Rad­i­cal Prob­a­bil­ism [Tran­script]

26 Jun 2020 22:14 UTC
46 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Ne­go­ti­at­ing With Yourself

orthonormal26 Jun 2020 23:55 UTC
24 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

The alle­gory of the hospital

Sunny from QAD2 Jul 2020 21:46 UTC
5 points
20 comments2 min readLW link
(questionsanddaylight.com)

Models of Value of Learning

johnswentworth7 Jul 2020 19:08 UTC
24 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Null-box­ing New­comb’s Problem

Yitz13 Jul 2020 16:32 UTC
33 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Fooled by Randomness

Sherrinford13 Jul 2020 21:02 UTC
33 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Al­gorith­mic In­tent: A Han­so­nian Gen­er­al­ized Anti-Zom­bie Principle

Zack_M_Davis14 Jul 2020 6:03 UTC
50 points
17 comments12 min readLW link

More Right

Adam Zerner22 Jul 2020 3:36 UTC
22 points
29 comments4 min readLW link

Be­come a per­son who Ac­tu­ally Does Things

Neel Nanda25 Jul 2020 9:29 UTC
53 points
17 comments3 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

What cog­ni­tive bi­ases feel like from the inside

chaosmage3 Jan 2020 14:24 UTC
237 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

Let Your Mind Be Not Fixed

Gordon Seidoh Worley31 Jul 2020 17:54 UTC
46 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Unify­ing the Si­mu­lacra Definitions

Zvi3 Aug 2020 12:10 UTC
82 points
31 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Maybe Ly­ing Can’t Ex­ist?!

Zack_M_Davis23 Aug 2020 0:36 UTC
45 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Mean­ingful Rest

Neel Nanda29 Aug 2020 15:50 UTC
58 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Stop press­ing the Try Harder button

Neel Nanda5 Sep 2020 9:10 UTC
45 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Map and Territory

Gordon Seidoh Worley12 Sep 2020 0:45 UTC
15 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Just This Is It

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 Sep 2020 22:31 UTC
34 points
6 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Los­ing the for­est for the trees with grid drawings

Adam Zerner24 Sep 2020 21:13 UTC
19 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] Fermi Challenge: Trains and Air Cargo

Ben Pace5 Oct 2020 21:51 UTC
23 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Foun­da­tions of Govern­ment Policy

FCCC10 Oct 2020 17:05 UTC
2 points
0 comments17 min readLW link

Mes­sage Length

Zack_M_Davis20 Oct 2020 5:52 UTC
131 points
25 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good ex­am­ples of fake be­liefs?

Adam Zerner14 Nov 2020 7:40 UTC
18 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Map and Ter­ri­tory: Sum­mary and Thoughts

Adam Zerner5 Dec 2020 8:21 UTC
15 points
4 comments26 min readLW link

Travers­ing a Cog­ni­tion Space

Rafael Harth7 Dec 2020 18:32 UTC
16 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

On Reflection

Neel Nanda14 Dec 2020 16:14 UTC
26 points
2 comments13 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

The First Sam­ple Gives the Most Information

Mark Xu24 Dec 2020 20:39 UTC
119 points
14 comments1 min readLW link1 review
(markxu.com)

TAPs for Tutoring

Mark Xu24 Dec 2020 20:46 UTC
27 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Great minds might not think alike

Eric Neyman26 Dec 2020 19:51 UTC
288 points
44 comments11 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Cog­ni­tive mis­takes I’ve made about COVID-19

DanielFilan27 Dec 2020 0:50 UTC
45 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

Vac­ci­na­tion with the EMH

DirectedEvolution29 Dec 2020 3:05 UTC
17 points
17 comments8 min readLW link

You are Dis­so­ci­at­ing (prob­a­bly)

Gordon Seidoh Worley4 Jan 2021 14:37 UTC
32 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Science in a High-Di­men­sional World

johnswentworth8 Jan 2021 17:52 UTC
261 points
52 comments7 min readLW link1 review

The Prob­lem of the Criterion

Gordon Seidoh Worley21 Jan 2021 15:05 UTC
49 points
38 comments10 min readLW link

On clinging

Joe Carlsmith24 Jan 2021 23:25 UTC
47 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

Less Wrong Poetry Corner: Coven­try Pat­more’s “Magna Est Ver­i­tas”

Zack_M_Davis30 Jan 2021 5:16 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Me­dia Bias

lsusr22 Feb 2021 21:14 UTC
34 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Strong Ev­i­dence is Common

Mark Xu13 Mar 2021 22:04 UTC
222 points
48 comments1 min readLW link4 reviews
(markxu.com)

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Re­quires Com­mon In­ter­ests or Differ­en­tial Sig­nal Costs

Zack_M_Davis26 Mar 2021 6:41 UTC
39 points
10 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Forc­ing your­self to keep your iden­tity small is self-harm

Gordon Seidoh Worley3 Apr 2021 14:03 UTC
33 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

“Tak­ing your en­vi­ron­ment as ob­ject” vs “Be­ing sub­ject to your en­vi­ron­ment”

Ben Pace11 Apr 2021 22:47 UTC
80 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

An Ex­er­cise in Ra­tional Co­op­er­a­tion and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion: Let’s Play Hanabi

ejacob14 Apr 2021 8:36 UTC
14 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

A cog­ni­tive al­gorithm for “free will.”

DirectedEvolution14 Jul 2021 21:33 UTC
22 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Power vs Precision

abramdemski16 Aug 2021 18:34 UTC
48 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

18 pos­si­ble mean­ings of “I Like Red”

ozziegooen23 Aug 2021 23:25 UTC
29 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Death by a Sin­gle Cut

lsusr29 Aug 2021 3:58 UTC
11 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

[Cross­post] On Hreha On Be­hav­ioral Economics

Scott Alexander31 Aug 2021 18:14 UTC
105 points
6 comments22 min readLW link

Blood Is Thicker Than Water 🐬

Zack_M_Davis28 Sep 2021 3:21 UTC
34 points
26 comments13 min readLW link

Self-In­tegrity and the Drown­ing Child

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC
298 points
84 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Tran­script: “You Should Read HPMOR”

TurnTrout2 Nov 2021 18:20 UTC
115 points
12 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Flinches

ship_shlap3 Jan 2022 23:51 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Epistemic Legibility

Elizabeth9 Feb 2022 18:10 UTC
282 points
28 comments20 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

In­tro to Nat­u­ral­ism: Orientation

13 Feb 2022 7:52 UTC
158 points
19 comments7 min readLW link

Monks of Magnitude

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien18 Feb 2022 7:48 UTC
103 points
49 comments5 min readLW link

[David Chap­man] Re­sist­ing or em­brac­ing meta-rationality

Gordon Seidoh Worley27 Feb 2022 21:46 UTC
25 points
39 comments1 min readLW link
(metarationality.com)

We’re already in AI takeoff

Valentine8 Mar 2022 23:09 UTC
125 points
115 comments7 min readLW link

Anec­dotes Can Be Strong Ev­i­dence and Bayes The­o­rem Proves It

FCCC13 Mar 2022 4:06 UTC
16 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Even more cu­rated con­ver­sa­tions with brilli­ant rationalists

spencerg21 Mar 2022 23:49 UTC
58 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo

lsusr24 Apr 2022 0:53 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

I Think There­fore Some­one Is Or Was?

UtilityMonster24 Apr 2022 17:09 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

How to be skep­ti­cal about med­i­ta­tion/​Buddhism

Viliam1 May 2022 10:30 UTC
69 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

Public be­liefs vs. Pri­vate beliefs

Eli Tyre1 Jun 2022 21:33 UTC
134 points
26 comments5 min readLW link

Stay­ing Split: Sa­ba­tini and So­cial Justice

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien8 Jun 2022 8:32 UTC
149 points
28 comments21 min readLW link

[Link] New SEP ar­ti­cle on Bayesian Epistemology

Aryeh Englander13 Jun 2022 15:03 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cog­ni­tive Dis­so­nance on Cog­ni­tive Capability

niederman6 Jul 2022 22:53 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(maxniederman.com)

[Question] Why are some prob­lems Su­per Hard?

Gabriel Alfour24 Aug 2022 17:58 UTC
40 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

Truth seek­ing is mo­ti­vated cognition

Gordon Seidoh Worley7 Oct 2022 19:19 UTC
6 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

What should a telic sci­ence look like?

mrcbarbier7 Jan 2023 16:13 UTC
9 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

Re­ply to Dun­can Sa­bien on Strawmanning

Zack_M_Davis3 Feb 2023 17:57 UTC
30 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

The Proper Use of Humility

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Dec 2006 19:55 UTC
154 points
54 comments5 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ists Are Less Cre­d­u­lous But Bet­ter At Tak­ing Ideas Seriously

Scott Alexander21 Jan 2014 2:18 UTC
100 points
287 comments3 min readLW link

Lonely Dissent

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Dec 2007 4:23 UTC
115 points
86 comments4 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 19: Ham­ming Ques­tions for Pot­ted Plants

Mark Xu23 Apr 2020 16:00 UTC
45 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Some­thing to Protect

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Jan 2008 17:52 UTC
164 points
78 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Why is my (our?) rea­son­ing pro­cess noisy?

emanuele ascani25 Apr 2020 12:19 UTC
9 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Post/​meta-skep­ti­cism I

Ouroborus26 Apr 2020 0:18 UTC
8 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(ouroborusdotblog.wordpress.com)

Train­ing Regime Day 24: Re­solve Cy­cles 2

Mark Xu28 Apr 2020 19:00 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

A Fable of Science and Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Dec 2006 4:50 UTC
277 points
103 comments5 min readLW link

Be­ing the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC
336 points
55 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

Nega­tive Feed­back and Simulacra

Elizabeth29 Apr 2020 2:00 UTC
148 points
24 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

What’s a Bias?

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Nov 2006 1:50 UTC
145 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Why Truth?

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Nov 2006 1:49 UTC
137 points
57 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How to learn from a stronger ra­tio­nal­ist in daily life?

Thomas Kwa20 May 2020 4:55 UTC
16 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Reflec­tive Complaints

Raemon21 May 2020 21:11 UTC
35 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Bak­ing is Not a Ritual

Sisi Cheng25 May 2020 18:08 UTC
117 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Too busy to think about life

Academian22 Apr 2010 15:14 UTC
137 points
62 comments3 min readLW link

Fo­cus: you are al­lowed to be bad at ac­com­plish­ing your goals

adamShimi3 Jun 2020 21:04 UTC
19 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

The Skill of Notic­ing Emotions

Neel Nanda4 Jun 2020 17:48 UTC
77 points
6 comments17 min readLW link

Every­day Les­sons from High-Di­men­sional Optimization

johnswentworth6 Jun 2020 20:57 UTC
152 points
37 comments6 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy in the Dark­est Timeline: Ba­sics of the Evolu­tion of Meaning

Zack_M_Davis7 Jun 2020 7:52 UTC
118 points
17 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] By what met­ric do you judge a refer­ence class?

B Jacobs15 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Where to Start Re­search?

Elizabeth16 Jun 2020 18:10 UTC
68 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Bi­ases: An Introduction

Rob Bensinger11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
212 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC
354 points
261 comments4 min readLW link

Born as the sev­enth month dies …

Rudi C10 Jul 2020 15:07 UTC
6 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Hu­man Evil and Mud­dled Thinking

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Sep 2007 23:43 UTC
100 points
143 comments3 min readLW link

Reli­gion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Aug 2007 3:21 UTC
275 points
330 comments4 min readLW link

But There’s Still A Chance, Right?

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Jan 2008 1:56 UTC
96 points
59 comments2 min readLW link

Chains, Bot­tle­necks and Optimization

curi21 Jul 2020 2:07 UTC
14 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

Bot­tle­neck Examples

curi23 Jul 2020 18:23 UTC
11 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

What it means to optimise

Neel Nanda25 Jul 2020 9:40 UTC
5 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

How to learn from conversations

Neel Nanda25 Jul 2020 9:36 UTC
16 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Tak­ing the first step

Neel Nanda25 Jul 2020 9:33 UTC
10 points
0 comments16 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Why You Might Want a New Way to Vi­su­al­ize Biases

dtm27 Jul 2020 17:30 UTC
18 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Reread­ing At­las Shrugged

Vaniver28 Jul 2020 18:54 UTC
150 points
28 comments13 min readLW link1 review

En­forc­ing Type Distinction

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)31 Jul 2020 11:39 UTC
25 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Tear­ing down the Ch­ester­ton’s Fence principle

DirectedEvolution2 Aug 2020 4:56 UTC
34 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Proper pos­ture for men­tal arts

Valentine31 Aug 2015 2:29 UTC
59 points
42 comments8 min readLW link

Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Don’t Know Mind

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Aug 2020 4:33 UTC
25 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

How to Ig­nore Your Emo­tions (while also think­ing you’re awe­some at emo­tions)

Hazard31 Jul 2019 13:34 UTC
276 points
72 comments4 min readLW link4 reviews

The Law of Least Effort Con­tributes to the Con­junc­tion Fallacy

curi9 Aug 2020 19:38 UTC
7 points
53 comments3 min readLW link

Fan­tasy-For­bid­ding Ex­pert Opinion

yamabiko10 Aug 2020 0:01 UTC
18 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

“Good judge­ment” and its components

owencb24 Aug 2020 10:32 UTC
27 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Math­e­mat­i­cal In­con­sis­tency in Solomonoff In­duc­tion?

curi25 Aug 2020 17:09 UTC
7 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­cus­ing a Failure to Adjust

Ronny Fernandez26 Aug 2020 13:51 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

“On Bul­lshit” and “On Truth,” by Harry Frankfurt

Callmesalticidae28 Aug 2020 0:44 UTC
20 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

An­thropic Rea­son­ing and Per­spec­tive-Based Ar­gu­ments

dadadarren1 Sep 2020 12:36 UTC
19 points
59 comments2 min readLW link

How To Fermi Model

9 Sep 2020 5:13 UTC
86 points
9 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

Les­lie’s Firing Squad Can’t Save The Fine-Tun­ing Argument

dadadarren9 Sep 2020 15:21 UTC
9 points
6 comments4 min readLW link
(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)

‘Ugh fields’, or why you can’t even bear to think about that task (Rob Wiblin)

habryka11 Sep 2020 20:31 UTC
23 points
17 comments2 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Com­par­a­tive ad­van­tage and when to blow up your island

dynomight12 Sep 2020 6:20 UTC
140 points
40 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

[Question] Ra­tion­al­ity for Kids?

goose00016 Sep 2020 22:58 UTC
49 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing how to learn

Neel Nanda30 Sep 2020 16:50 UTC
35 points
0 comments15 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Thoughts on ADHD

romeostevensit7 Oct 2020 20:46 UTC
74 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

How to reach 80% of your goals. Ex­actly 80%.

Bart Bussmann10 Oct 2020 17:33 UTC
32 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

On Slack—Hav­ing room to be excited

Neel Nanda10 Oct 2020 19:02 UTC
18 points
8 comments13 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Launch­ing Fore­cast, a com­mu­nity for crowd­sourced pre­dic­tions from Facebook

Rebecca Kossnick20 Oct 2020 6:20 UTC
110 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Can we prime peo­ple to take risk?

tonyoconnor7 Nov 2020 17:17 UTC
5 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Simp­son’s para­dox and the tyranny of strata

dynomight19 Nov 2020 17:46 UTC
27 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(dyno-might.github.io)

My in­tel­lec­tual influences

Richard_Ngo22 Nov 2020 18:00 UTC
92 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Learn­ing from counterfactuals

Gyrodiot25 Nov 2020 23:07 UTC
11 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

In Ad­di­tion to Rage­bait and Doomscrolling

mike_hawke3 Dec 2020 18:26 UTC
73 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

The In­com­pre­hen­si­bil­ity Bluff

SocratesDissatisfied6 Dec 2020 18:26 UTC
41 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

Pseu­do­ran­dom­ness con­test, Round 2

Eric Neyman20 Dec 2020 8:35 UTC
19 points
6 comments4 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

[Question] How to prac­tice ra­tio­nal­ity?

warrenjordan23 Dec 2020 23:15 UTC
5 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

The Perver­sity of High Standards

SocratesDissatisfied27 Dec 2020 14:37 UTC
19 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

A Model of On­tolog­i­cal Development

Gordon Seidoh Worley31 Dec 2020 1:55 UTC
25 points
6 comments24 min readLW link

Are we all mis­al­igned?

Mateusz Mazurkiewicz3 Jan 2021 2:42 UTC
11 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Out-of-body rea­son­ing (OOBR)

Jon Zero9 Jan 2021 16:10 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Fit­ting­ness: Ra­tional suc­cess in con­cept formation

Polytopos10 Jan 2021 15:58 UTC
6 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

Pseu­do­ran­dom­ness con­test: prizes, re­sults, and analysis

Eric Neyman15 Jan 2021 6:24 UTC
147 points
22 comments20 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Ra­tion­al­ity and Geoguessr

Cullen17 Jan 2021 1:34 UTC
13 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Every­thing Okay

Zvi23 Jan 2021 14:50 UTC
60 points
14 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to Ab­sorb a Shared Suc­cess Script (while also think­ing you’re liv­ing with­out one)

Hazard31 Jan 2021 20:17 UTC
59 points
6 comments16 min readLW link

Learn­ing Nor­ma­tivity: Language

Bunthut5 Feb 2021 22:26 UTC
14 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] The Crux of Un­der­stand­ing Writ­ten Text—Text read­ing and inference

JohnCheese20 Feb 2021 22:20 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

When you already know the an­swer—Us­ing your In­ner Simulator

Neel Nanda23 Feb 2021 17:58 UTC
38 points
4 comments11 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

The In­ner Work­ings of Resourcefulness

Nora_Ammann25 Feb 2021 9:15 UTC
22 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Good brain­teasers for chil­dren?

ejacob2 Mar 2021 6:44 UTC
12 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Log­i­cal Fallacies

Aaron Bergman8 Mar 2021 3:04 UTC
14 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

[Lec­ture Club] Awak­en­ing from the Mean­ing Crisis

Vaniver8 Mar 2021 15:22 UTC
69 points
186 comments2 min readLW link

Mary and the Black And White Me­mory Implant

sxae23 Mar 2021 16:48 UTC
−2 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

Magic Shoes

onur24 Mar 2021 21:14 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Many meth­ods of causal in­fer­ence try to iden­tify a “safe” sub­set of variation

tailcalled30 Mar 2021 14:36 UTC
13 points
6 comments9 min readLW link

Bel­l­man’s Curse on Advice

nibnalin19 Apr 2021 2:30 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Maps of Maps, and Empty Expectations

Nora_Ammann3 May 2021 9:59 UTC
35 points
5 comments14 min readLW link

[Linkpost] If You Can Be Bad, You Can Also Be Good

MaxG4 May 2021 6:26 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

[Question] Is it true that most stud­ies in Kah­ne­man’s ‘Think­ing fast and slow’ are not repli­ca­ble and the book is largely not sup­ported by ev­i­dence?

Davy Jones30 Jun 2021 7:14 UTC
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Should VS Would and New­comb’s Paradox

dadadarren3 Jul 2021 23:45 UTC
5 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

How to Sleep Better

Marius Hobbhahn16 Jul 2021 0:00 UTC
46 points
49 comments15 min readLW link

Im­por­tance of Ideas and Peo­ple We Disagree With

Olitness29 Jul 2021 11:50 UTC
−1 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(olitness.wordpress.com)

Shame: Authen­tic & Ap­plied/​Man­u­fac­tured Shame

Phoenix Eliot18 Aug 2021 21:37 UTC
8 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Is LessWrong dead with­out Cox’s the­o­rem?

Haziq Muhammad4 Sep 2021 5:45 UTC
−2 points
88 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pla­na­tions as Hard to Vary Assertions

Alexander24 Sep 2021 11:33 UTC
17 points
24 comments8 min readLW link

Oc­cam’s Ra­zor and the Univer­sal Prior

Peter Chatain3 Oct 2021 3:23 UTC
22 points
5 comments21 min readLW link

Book Re­view: All I Want To Know Is Where I’m Go­ing To Die So I’ll Never Go There

Anmoljain13 Oct 2021 3:46 UTC
2 points
2 comments46 min readLW link

Recom­mend­ing Un­der­stand, a Game about Discern­ing the Rules

MondSemmel28 Oct 2021 14:53 UTC
88 points
41 comments4 min readLW link

The Ra­tion­al­ists of the 1950s (and be­fore) also called them­selves “Ra­tion­al­ists”

Owain_Evans28 Nov 2021 20:17 UTC
182 points
29 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Notes on Rationality

David Gross16 Jan 2022 19:05 UTC
16 points
1 comment14 min readLW link

There is a line in the sand, just not where you think it is

Wuschel Schulz22 Jan 2022 10:33 UTC
46 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Words are Im­pre­cise Telepathy

LightStar24 Jan 2022 1:45 UTC
11 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Trans­fer­ring cre­dence with­out trans­fer­ring ev­i­dence?

Kaarel4 Feb 2022 8:11 UTC
11 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Knowing

LoganStrohl13 Feb 2022 7:53 UTC
83 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

Non-Fun­gible Costs

hawkebia18 Feb 2022 17:15 UTC
13 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Your Fu­ture Self’s Cre­dences Should Be Un­pre­dictable to You

David Udell11 Mar 2022 23:33 UTC
6 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Learned Blank­ness and Ex­pec­ta­tions of Solubility

brook18 Mar 2022 12:42 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Know of any ran­domised tri­als teach­ing de­bi­as­ing in schools? Want to help re­view them, or would that re­view help your work?

MNoetel20 Mar 2022 4:52 UTC
29 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

140 Cog­ni­tive Bi­ases You Should Know

André Ferretti9 Apr 2022 17:15 UTC
7 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic Slipperiness

Raemon11 Apr 2022 1:48 UTC
55 points
18 comments7 min readLW link

The Pla­ton­ist’s Dilemma: A Remix on the Pri­soner’s.

James Camacho12 Apr 2022 3:49 UTC
5 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Slack gives you space to no­tice/​re­flect on sub­tle things

Raemon24 Apr 2022 2:30 UTC
143 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Say­ing no to the Appleman

Johannes C. Mayer29 Apr 2022 10:39 UTC
45 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Maybe I 100% Know Some­thing. But I Prob­a­bly Won’t Be Able To 100% Ex­plain It

UtilityMonster1 May 2022 17:13 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Dath Ilani Rule of Law

David Udell10 May 2022 6:17 UTC
15 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

The “Adults in the Room”

David Udell17 May 2022 4:03 UTC
35 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

A pos­si­ble check against mo­ti­vated rea­son­ing us­ing elicit.org

david reinstein18 May 2022 20:52 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

King David’s %: Estab­lish­ing a new sym­bol for Bayesian prob­a­bil­ity.

Paul Logan26 Jun 2022 19:47 UTC
−11 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(laulpogan.substack.com)

Units of Exchange

CFAR!Duncan28 Jun 2022 16:53 UTC
88 points
28 comments11 min readLW link

When is it ap­pro­pri­ate to use statis­ti­cal mod­els and prob­a­bil­ities for de­ci­sion mak­ing ?

Younes Kamel5 Jul 2022 12:34 UTC
10 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(youneskamel.substack.com)

[Question] What are the sim­plest ques­tions in ap­plied ra­tio­nal­ity where you don’t know the an­swer to?

ChristianKl20 Jul 2022 9:53 UTC
24 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Em­brac­ing the Op­po­si­tion’s Point

Yulia21 Aug 2022 9:51 UTC
21 points
14 comments5 min readLW link
(yuliaverse.substack.com)

Quan­tified In­tu­itions: An epistemics train­ing web­site in­clud­ing a new EA-themed cal­ibra­tion app

20 Sep 2022 22:25 UTC
28 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Contin­gency is not arbitrary

Gordon Seidoh Worley12 Oct 2022 4:35 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Mnestics

Jarred Filmer23 Oct 2022 0:30 UTC
110 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Here’s the exit.

Valentine21 Nov 2022 18:07 UTC
73 points
146 comments10 min readLW link

Geo­met­ric Ex­plo­ra­tion, Arith­metic Exploitation

Scott Garrabrant24 Nov 2022 15:36 UTC
74 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Con­se­quen­tial­ists: One-Way Pat­tern Traps

David Udell16 Jan 2023 20:48 UTC
47 points
3 comments14 min readLW link

Noth­ing New: Pro­duc­tive Reframing

adamShimi7 Jan 2023 18:43 UTC
44 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Reifi­ca­tion bias

9 Jan 2023 12:22 UTC
24 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Con­fus­ing the ideal for the necessary

adamShimi16 Jan 2023 17:29 UTC
78 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

As­sign­ing Praise and Blame: De­cou­pling Episte­mol­ogy and De­ci­sion Theory

27 Jan 2023 18:16 UTC
53 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Aiming for Con­ver­gence Is Like Dis­cour­ag­ing Betting

Zack_M_Davis1 Feb 2023 0:03 UTC
47 points
17 comments11 min readLW link

You Don’t Ex­ist, Duncan

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien2 Feb 2023 8:37 UTC
200 points
80 comments9 min readLW link

Fuck­ing God­damn Ba­sics of Ra­tion­al­ist Discourse

LoganStrohl4 Feb 2023 1:47 UTC
235 points
92 comments1 min readLW link

Ele­ments of Ra­tion­al­ist Discourse

Rob Bensinger12 Feb 2023 7:58 UTC
98 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Self-priming

Connor_Flexman7 Apr 2020 0:54 UTC
25 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Be­ing right isn’t enough. Con­fi­dence is very im­por­tant.

mako yass7 Apr 2020 1:10 UTC
12 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread: Language

Chris_Leong8 Apr 2020 14:57 UTC
7 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

The Ori­gin of Con­scious­ness Read­ing Com­pan­ion, Part 1

Jacob Falkovich6 Apr 2020 22:07 UTC
21 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

The Lens That Sees Its Flaws

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Sep 2007 0:10 UTC
209 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

An Ortho­dox Case Against Utility Functions

abramdemski7 Apr 2020 19:18 UTC
131 points
53 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

The One Mis­take Rule

Zvi10 Apr 2020 14:50 UTC
43 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Assess­ing Kurzweil: the results

Stuart_Armstrong16 Jan 2013 16:51 UTC
90 points
64 comments2 min readLW link

What We Owe to Ourselves

eapache11 Apr 2020 1:34 UTC
21 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

Cu­ri­os­ity: A Greedy Feeling

DirectedEvolution11 Apr 2020 4:38 UTC
39 points
7 comments10 min readLW link

Law school taught me nothing

ketchupduck11 Apr 2020 14:30 UTC
22 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Nar­ra­tive Direc­tion and Rebellion

eapache13 Apr 2020 1:07 UTC
8 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Mind Pro­jec­tion Fallacy

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2008 0:29 UTC
69 points
92 comments2 min readLW link

Catchy Fal­lacy Name Fal­lacy (and Sup­port­ing Disagree­ment)

JGWeissman21 May 2009 6:01 UTC
32 points
57 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Un­der­stand­ing in­for­ma­tion cascades

13 Mar 2019 10:55 UTC
50 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

Simp­son’s Paradox

bentarm12 Jan 2011 23:01 UTC
97 points
58 comments4 min readLW link

One Hun­dred Billion Chil­dren’s Sky

Slimepriestess14 Apr 2020 16:33 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

[Question] Pop­u­lar pa­pers to be scru­ti­nized?

alyosha_the_pot14 Apr 2020 19:50 UTC
13 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Prob­a­bil­is­tic Blue-Eyed Islanders

johnswentworth15 Apr 2020 17:55 UTC
26 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Know­ing About Bi­ases Can Hurt People

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Apr 2007 18:01 UTC
182 points
83 comments2 min readLW link

Confabulation

lsusr8 Dec 2019 10:18 UTC
58 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Brief Re­sponse to Sus­pended Rea­son on Par­allels Between Skyrms on Sig­nal­ing and Yud­kowsky on Lan­guage and Evidence

Zack_M_Davis16 Apr 2020 3:44 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

My at­tempt to ex­plain Look­ing, in­sight med­i­ta­tion, and en­light­en­ment in non-mys­te­ri­ous terms

Kaj_Sotala8 Mar 2018 7:37 UTC
189 points
133 comments17 min readLW link2 reviews

Schel­ling fences on slip­pery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC
516 points
247 comments6 min readLW link

Nam­ing the Nameless

sarahconstantin22 Mar 2018 0:35 UTC
100 points
43 comments13 min readLW link3 reviews

Eval­u­at­ing Pre­dic­tions in Hindsight

Zvi16 Apr 2020 17:20 UTC
54 points
9 comments27 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Doors and Corners

Slimepriestess16 Apr 2020 18:32 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Ex­pect­ing Short In­fer­en­tial Distances

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Oct 2007 23:42 UTC
289 points
106 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How much mo­ti­va­tion do you de­rive from cu­ri­os­ity alone in your work/​re­search?

NaiveTortoise17 Apr 2020 14:04 UTC
25 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

What is Ra­tion­al­ity?

Roko1 Apr 2010 20:14 UTC
21 points
22 comments5 min readLW link

What is miss­ing from ra­tio­nal­ity?

Roko27 Apr 2010 12:32 UTC
27 points
274 comments2 min readLW link

Is there a ra­tio­nal­ist skill tree yet?

fowlertm30 Jan 2015 16:02 UTC
22 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What con­fi­dence in­ter­val should one re­port?

Jsevillamol20 Apr 2020 10:31 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ing the Ra­tion­al­ist Move­ment to the Uninitiated

Mellivora19 Apr 2020 20:53 UTC
5 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

In­tu­itions on Univer­sal Be­hav­ior of In­for­ma­tion at a Distance

johnswentworth20 Apr 2020 21:44 UTC
21 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 17: Deflinch­ing and Lines of Retreat

Mark Xu21 Apr 2020 17:45 UTC
23 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The In­tel­li­gent So­cial Web

Valentine22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC
196 points
115 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews

The Costly Co­or­di­na­tion Mechanism of Com­mon Knowledge

Ben Pace15 Mar 2018 20:20 UTC
183 points
30 comments19 min readLW link2 reviews

Sun­set at Noon

Raemon21 Nov 2017 2:05 UTC
180 points
25 comments17 min readLW link

Belief as Attire

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Aug 2007 17:13 UTC
106 points
104 comments2 min readLW link

Pro­fess­ing and Cheering

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Aug 2007 7:20 UTC
93 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Act of Charity

jessicata17 Nov 2018 5:19 UTC
179 points
49 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Train­ing Regime Day 18: Nega­tive Vi­su­al­iza­tion

Mark Xu22 Apr 2020 16:06 UTC
9 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Sum­mary of “The Straw Vul­can”

alexvermeer26 Dec 2011 16:29 UTC
49 points
27 comments6 min readLW link

Al­gorithms of De­cep­tion!

Zack_M_Davis19 Oct 2019 18:04 UTC
23 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Do you trust the re­search on hand­writ­ing vs. typ­ing for notes?

NaiveTortoise23 Apr 2020 20:49 UTC
25 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­pres­sive Vocabulary

Alicorn24 May 2018 6:59 UTC
137 points
72 comments5 min readLW link1 review

A Case Study of Mo­ti­vated Continuation

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Oct 2007 1:27 UTC
35 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

SotW: Avoid Mo­ti­vated Cognition

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 May 2012 15:57 UTC
33 points
83 comments10 min readLW link

Mo­ti­vated skep­ti­cism: it’s harder to avoid than I’d think

Klao9 Oct 2011 18:35 UTC
27 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Im­mod­esty, De­ceit and Mo­ti­vated Reasoning

whpearson29 Oct 2017 10:34 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Ide­ol­ogy, Mo­ti­vated Rea­son­ing, and Cog­ni­tive Reflec­tion: An Ex­per­i­men­tal Study

[deleted]2 Dec 2012 14:43 UTC
24 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

LINK: Study demon­strates poli­ti­cally mo­ti­vated innumeracy

Alejandro14 Sep 2013 18:14 UTC
24 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

So­cial Im­pact, Effec­tive Altru­ism, and Mo­ti­vated Cognition

JonahS8 Jun 2013 2:31 UTC
16 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Iden­tities are [Sub­con­scious] Strategies

Ruby15 Oct 2017 18:10 UTC
31 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

A Pro­cess for Deal­ing with Mo­ti­vated Reasoning

Vaughn Papenhausen3 Sep 2018 3:34 UTC
15 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Book Re­view: The Elephant in the Brain

Zvi31 Dec 2017 17:30 UTC
50 points
9 comments31 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Is That Your True Re­jec­tion?

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Dec 2008 14:26 UTC
128 points
100 comments3 min readLW link

A Crash Course in the Neu­ro­science of Hu­man Motivation

lukeprog19 Aug 2011 21:15 UTC
196 points
93 comments38 min readLW link

Would Your Real Prefer­ences Please Stand Up?

Scott Alexander8 Aug 2009 22:57 UTC
80 points
132 comments4 min readLW link

To what de­gree do we have goals?

Scott Alexander15 Jul 2011 23:11 UTC
74 points
52 comments7 min readLW link

Con­crete Take­aways Post-CFAR

lifelonglearner24 Feb 2017 18:31 UTC
20 points
6 comments11 min readLW link

The Ritual

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Oct 2008 23:52 UTC
88 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

Prac­ti­cal Ad­vice Backed By Deep Theories

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Apr 2009 18:52 UTC
62 points
114 comments4 min readLW link

Value of In­for­ma­tion: 8 examples

gwern18 May 2012 23:45 UTC
78 points
44 comments7 min readLW link

5-sec­ond level case study: Value of information

Kaj_Sotala22 Nov 2011 13:44 UTC
36 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Referenc­ing the Unreferencable

Chris_Leong4 Apr 2020 10:42 UTC
16 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 21: Ex­e­cut­ing Intentions

Mark Xu25 Apr 2020 22:16 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

It’s Not About The Nail

eapache26 Apr 2020 23:50 UTC
30 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 22: Mur­phyjitsu 2

Mark Xu26 Apr 2020 20:18 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 23: TAPs 2

Mark Xu27 Apr 2020 17:37 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Mak­ing His­tory Available

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Aug 2007 19:52 UTC
138 points
83 comments3 min readLW link

Failing to Learn from History

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Aug 2007 20:22 UTC
79 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

On Build­ing The­o­ries of History

Samo Burja23 Feb 2018 23:40 UTC
29 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

An In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Bayes’s Theorem

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jan 2003 20:00 UTC
52 points
8 comments25 min readLW link

What Ev­i­dence Filtered Ev­i­dence?

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Sep 2007 23:10 UTC
101 points
43 comments4 min readLW link

Think­ing About Filtered Ev­i­dence Is (Very!) Hard

abramdemski19 Mar 2020 23:20 UTC
85 points
29 comments14 min readLW link

Yes Re­quires the Pos­si­bil­ity of No

Scott Garrabrant17 May 2019 22:39 UTC
196 points
52 comments2 min readLW link2 reviews

Su­per­stim­uli and the Col­lapse of Western Civilization

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2007 18:10 UTC
115 points
89 comments4 min readLW link

Don’t Believe You’ll Self-Deceive

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Mar 2009 8:03 UTC
30 points
70 comments2 min readLW link

Dou­ble­think (Choos­ing to be Bi­ased)

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Sep 2007 20:05 UTC
73 points
169 comments4 min readLW link

No, Really, I’ve De­ceived Myself

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Mar 2009 23:29 UTC
113 points
89 comments2 min readLW link

Belief in Self-Deception

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Mar 2009 15:20 UTC
86 points
112 comments4 min readLW link

Moore’s Paradox

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Mar 2009 2:27 UTC
71 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

Self-de­cep­tion: Hypocrisy or Akra­sia?

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Mar 2007 17:03 UTC
61 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Inad­e­quacy and Modesty

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Oct 2017 21:51 UTC
124 points
82 comments18 min readLW link

Si­mu­lacra and Subjectivity

Benquo5 Mar 2020 16:25 UTC
95 points
33 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Ex­cerpts from a larger dis­cus­sion about simulacra

Benquo10 Apr 2019 21:27 UTC
52 points
40 comments6 min readLW link5 reviews
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Mark Eichen­laub: How to de­velop sci­en­tific intuition

Kaj_Sotala23 Oct 2018 13:30 UTC
76 points
6 comments8 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Mo­ti­vat­ing Ab­strac­tion-First De­ci­sion Theory

johnswentworth29 Apr 2020 17:47 UTC
42 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

I do not like math

lsusr29 Apr 2020 11:27 UTC
34 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 25: Re­cur­sive Self-Im­prove­ment

Mark Xu29 Apr 2020 18:22 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Modesty Argument

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Dec 2006 21:42 UTC
53 points
40 comments10 min readLW link

“I don’t know.”

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Dec 2006 18:27 UTC
58 points
23 comments6 min readLW link

Against strong bayesianism

Richard_Ngo30 Apr 2020 10:48 UTC
57 points
65 comments6 min readLW link

Failure By Affec­tive Analogy

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Nov 2008 7:14 UTC
25 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

The Affect Heuris­tic, Sen­ti­ment, and Art

[deleted]13 Sep 2010 23:05 UTC
83 points
58 comments3 min readLW link

Affec­tive Death Spirals

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Dec 2007 16:44 UTC
85 points
46 comments2 min readLW link

The Affect Heuristic

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Nov 2007 7:58 UTC
66 points
70 comments3 min readLW link

The Halo Effect

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Nov 2007 0:58 UTC
59 points
58 comments3 min readLW link

The Trou­ble With “Good”

Scott Alexander17 Apr 2009 2:07 UTC
97 points
137 comments6 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­ized Effi­cient Mar­kets and Academia

johnswentworth30 Apr 2020 21:59 UTC
52 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

The Em­bar­rass­ing Prob­lem of Pre­ma­ture Exploitation

Richard Meadows30 Apr 2020 20:33 UTC
40 points
7 comments7 min readLW link
(thedeepdish.org)

Mak­ing your ex­plicit rea­son­ing trust­wor­thy

AnnaSalamon29 Oct 2010 0:00 UTC
119 points
95 comments6 min readLW link

Adap­ta­tion-Ex­e­cuters, not Fit­ness-Maximizers

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Nov 2007 6:39 UTC
125 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tion: the screen-and-watcher model of the hu­man mind, and how to use it

femtogrammar1 May 2020 22:36 UTC
32 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] How do you whit­tle path-de­pen­dent (prob­a­bil­is­tic) ques­tions?

Mary Chernyshenko2 May 2020 8:53 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Nega­tive Feed­back and Simulacra

Zvi3 May 2020 17:00 UTC
47 points
7 comments29 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What is a “Good” Pre­dic­tion?

eapache3 May 2020 16:51 UTC
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Con­sis­tent Glo­ma­riza­tion should be feasible

Stuart_Armstrong4 May 2020 10:06 UTC
16 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Named Distri­bu­tions as Artifacts

George3d64 May 2020 8:54 UTC
22 points
9 comments15 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

New­comb’s Prob­lem and Re­gret of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Jan 2008 19:36 UTC
134 points
614 comments10 min readLW link

New­comblike prob­lems are the norm

So8res24 Sep 2014 18:41 UTC
83 points
111 comments8 min readLW link

Con­fu­sion about New­comb is con­fu­sion about counterfactuals

AnnaSalamon25 Aug 2009 20:01 UTC
54 points
42 comments2 min readLW link

The Rob­bers Cave Experiment

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Dec 2007 6:18 UTC
55 points
66 comments3 min readLW link

Con­struc­tive Definitions

Chris_Leong4 May 2020 23:50 UTC
15 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

The ways of knowing

aelwood5 May 2020 20:35 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(pursuingreality.com)

A non-mys­ti­cal ex­pla­na­tion of “no-self” (three char­ac­ter­is­tics se­ries)

Kaj_Sotala8 May 2020 10:37 UTC
99 points
64 comments20 min readLW link1 review

How to take smart notes (Ahrens, 2017)

Yuxi_Liu23 Jul 2019 15:34 UTC
69 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Com­part­men­tal­iza­tion in epistemic and in­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity

AnnaSalamon17 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC
116 points
123 comments6 min readLW link

Utility need not be bounded

Richard_Kennaway14 May 2020 18:10 UTC
30 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to avoid Schel­ling points?

cwg1g1614 May 2020 19:37 UTC
29 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

“It’s Okay”, In­struc­tions, Fo­cus­ing, Ex­pe­rienc­ing and Frames

Ouroborus15 May 2020 0:49 UTC
16 points
6 comments7 min readLW link
(ouroborusdotblog.wordpress.com)

Crav­ing, suffer­ing, and pre­dic­tive pro­cess­ing (three char­ac­ter­is­tics se­ries)

Kaj_Sotala15 May 2020 13:21 UTC
75 points
48 comments19 min readLW link

Con­jec­ture Workshop

johnswentworth15 May 2020 22:41 UTC
34 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Why you should min­i­max in two-player zero-sum games

Nisan17 May 2020 20:48 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ex­tract­ing Value from Inad­e­quate Equilibria

eapache18 May 2020 17:25 UTC
49 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to con­vince Y that X has com­mit­ted a mur­der with >0.999999 prob­a­bil­ity?

Colin Tang19 May 2020 22:55 UTC
1 point
34 comments1 min readLW link

Con­flict vs. mis­take in non-zero-sum games

Nisan5 Apr 2020 22:22 UTC
162 points
40 comments2 min readLW link1 review

[Question] What are ob­jects that have made your life bet­ter?

Mark Xu21 May 2020 20:59 UTC
28 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

Mazes Se­quence Summary

Zvi23 May 2020 16:40 UTC
78 points
2 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An Overview of For­mal Episte­mol­ogy (links)

lukeprog6 Jan 2011 19:57 UTC
63 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the best tools for record­ing pre­dic­tions?

Raemon24 May 2020 19:15 UTC
14 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Why Ra­tion­al­ists Shouldn’t be In­ter­ested in To­pos Theory

jollybard25 May 2020 5:35 UTC
73 points
14 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What is a de­ci­sion the­ory as a math­e­mat­i­cal ob­ject?

Erik Jenner25 May 2020 13:44 UTC
26 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

A tax­on­omy of Cruxes

Eli Tyre27 May 2020 17:25 UTC
42 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Trust-Build­ing: The New Ra­tion­al­ity Project

DirectedEvolution28 May 2020 22:53 UTC
39 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: May 2020.

NunoSempere31 May 2020 12:35 UTC
9 points
1 comment20 min readLW link

How ra­tio­nal is the path of least re­sis­tance?

TruetoThis1 Jun 2020 1:34 UTC
3 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Over­cor­rect­ing As De­liber­ate Practice

lifelonglearner1 Jun 2020 6:26 UTC
28 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Feed­back is cen­tral to agency

Alex Flint1 Jun 2020 12:56 UTC
28 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

You See The Ter­ri­tory or Noth­ing at All

calebo1 Jun 2020 15:24 UTC
7 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Sta­tus-Reg­u­lat­ing Emotions

lsusr3 Jun 2020 22:32 UTC
40 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

A His­tory Of Univer­sal­ist Greed

namespace4 Jun 2020 0:22 UTC
55 points
0 comments29 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

[Question] Effec­tive chil­dren education

kotrfa3 Jun 2020 20:35 UTC
48 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Vi­sual Bab­ble and Prune

DirectedEvolution4 Jun 2020 18:49 UTC
46 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Die­tary De­bates among the Fruit Gnomes

Sherrinford3 Jun 2020 14:09 UTC
26 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Introduction

eapache4 Jun 2020 1:03 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The Stopped Clock Problem

eapache4 Jun 2020 12:07 UTC
29 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Ba­sic Mindsets

ExCeph6 Jun 2020 0:44 UTC
2 points
5 comments13 min readLW link

Self-help, hard and soft

technicalities7 Jun 2020 15:39 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Prag­ma­tism and Completeness

Gordon Seidoh Worley12 Jun 2020 16:34 UTC
13 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Why do all out at­tacks ac­tu­ally work?

lc12 Jun 2020 20:33 UTC
43 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Down with Solomonoff In­duc­tion, up with the Pre­sump­tu­ous Philosopher

Charlie Steiner12 Jun 2020 9:44 UTC
13 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

How alienated should you be?

Vaniver14 Jun 2020 15:55 UTC
35 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Causal­ity Adds Up to Normality

johnswentworth15 Jun 2020 17:19 UTC
12 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

High-School Alge­bra for Data Structures

johnswentworth17 Jun 2020 18:09 UTC
21 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Me­mory is not about the past

simbyotic17 Jun 2020 16:43 UTC
1 point
14 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] What is meant by Si­mul­cra Levels?

Chris_Leong17 Jun 2020 2:20 UTC
21 points
17 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Types of Knowledge

Elizabeth20 Jun 2020 17:20 UTC
24 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

The af­fect heuris­tic and study­ing autocracies

Tim Liptrot21 Jun 2020 4:07 UTC
13 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing our hu­mans on the wrong dataset

George3d621 Jun 2020 17:17 UTC
4 points
5 comments8 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

Neu­ral Ba­sis for Global Workspace Theory

Hazard22 Jun 2020 4:19 UTC
31 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion = Com­pres­sion [Tran­script]

22 Jun 2020 23:54 UTC
68 points
13 comments8 min readLW link

Lo­cal­ity of goals

adamShimi22 Jun 2020 21:56 UTC
16 points
8 comments6 min readLW link

Bet­ting with Manda­tory Post-Mortem

abramdemski24 Jun 2020 20:04 UTC
91 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Miss­ing dog reasoning

26 Jun 2020 21:30 UTC
27 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Public Po­si­tions and Pri­vate Guts

26 Jun 2020 23:00 UTC
22 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Map Er­rors: The Good, The Bad, and The Territory

orthonormal27 Jun 2020 5:22 UTC
26 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Don’t Make Your Prob­lems Hide

orthonormal27 Jun 2020 20:24 UTC
57 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Op­ti­mized Pro­pa­ganda with Bayesian Net­works: Com­ment on “Ar­tic­u­lat­ing Lay The­o­ries Through Graph­i­cal Models”

Zack_M_Davis29 Jun 2020 2:45 UTC
101 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Gödel’s Le­gacy: A game with­out end

Hazard28 Jun 2020 18:50 UTC
40 points
10 comments12 min readLW link

Ab­strac­tions on In­con­sis­tent Data

eapache29 Jun 2020 0:30 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Thoughts as open tabs

ryan wong29 Jun 2020 12:13 UTC
15 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Si­tu­at­ing LessWrong in con­tem­po­rary philos­o­phy: An in­ter­view with Jon Livengood

Suspended Reason1 Jul 2020 0:37 UTC
117 points
21 comments19 min readLW link

Noise on the Channel

abramdemski2 Jul 2020 1:58 UTC
31 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

Sunk Cost Fallacy

Z_M_Davis12 Apr 2009 17:30 UTC
39 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Clas­sify­ing games like the Pri­soner’s Dilemma

philh4 Jul 2020 17:10 UTC
100 points
28 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(reasonableapproximation.net)

[Question] Repli­cated cog­ni­tive bias list?

moderock4 Jul 2020 4:15 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing the prior

paulfchristiano5 Jul 2020 21:00 UTC
79 points
29 comments8 min readLW link
(ai-alignment.com)

Bet­ter pri­ors as a safety problem

paulfchristiano5 Jul 2020 21:20 UTC
64 points
7 comments5 min readLW link
(ai-alignment.com)

[Question] (an­swered: yes) Has any­one writ­ten up a con­sid­er­a­tion of Downs’s “Para­dox of Vot­ing” from the per­spec­tive of MIRI-ish de­ci­sion the­o­ries (UDT, FDT, or even just EDT)?

Jameson Quinn6 Jul 2020 18:26 UTC
10 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

The Echo Fallacy

Mati_Roy5 Jul 2020 23:00 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Us­ing hu­mil­ity to coun­ter­act shame

Vika15 Apr 2016 18:32 UTC
21 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Break­ing Ques­tions Down

Elizabeth7 Jul 2020 18:10 UTC
31 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Scope Insensitivity

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 May 2007 2:53 UTC
237 points
63 comments2 min readLW link

What’s Your Cog­ni­tive Al­gorithm?

Raemon18 Jun 2020 22:16 UTC
71 points
23 comments13 min readLW link

Poli­tics is the Mind-Killer

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Feb 2007 21:23 UTC
232 points
240 comments2 min readLW link

Nash Equil­ibria and Schel­ling Points

Scott Alexander29 Jun 2012 2:06 UTC
115 points
82 comments7 min readLW link

Value of In­for­ma­tion: Four Examples

Vaniver22 Nov 2011 23:02 UTC
125 points
62 comments10 min readLW link

Dark Side Epistemology

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Oct 2008 23:55 UTC
91 points
152 comments5 min readLW link

Anti-episte­mol­ogy: an explanation

Basil Marte8 Jul 2020 16:34 UTC
3 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Rais­ing the San­ity Waterline

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Mar 2009 4:28 UTC
217 points
231 comments3 min readLW link

A Sense That More Is Possible

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2009 1:15 UTC
135 points
218 comments4 min readLW link

Go Forth and Create the Art!

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Apr 2009 1:37 UTC
78 points
114 comments5 min readLW link

In Fa­vor of Nice­ness, Com­mu­nity, and Civilization

Scott Alexander23 Feb 2014 22:24 UTC
77 points
9 comments20 min readLW link

The Craft and the Community

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Apr 2009 17:52 UTC
45 points
9 comments12 min readLW link

The ethic of hand-wash­ing and com­mu­nity epistemic practice

5 Mar 2009 4:28 UTC
53 points
47 comments3 min readLW link

Sur­vival in the im­moral maze of college

DirectedEvolution8 Jul 2020 21:27 UTC
38 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

What does it mean to ap­ply de­ci­sion the­ory?

abramdemski8 Jul 2020 20:31 UTC
51 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

LW is to ra­tio­nal­ity as AIXI is to intelligence

XiXiDu6 Mar 2011 20:24 UTC
3 points
46 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Habits I Learned at the CFAR Workshop

elharo10 Mar 2013 14:15 UTC
59 points
27 comments7 min readLW link

CFAR Work­shop Re­view: Fe­bru­ary 2017

lifelonglearner28 Feb 2017 3:15 UTC
12 points
16 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How far along are you on the Less­wrong Path?

AiresJL9 Jul 2020 21:41 UTC
10 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Avoid mis­in­ter­pret­ing your emotions

Kaj_Sotala14 Feb 2012 23:51 UTC
91 points
32 comments7 min readLW link

Was a ter­mi­nal de­gree nec­es­sary for in­vent­ing Boyle’s desider­ata?

DirectedEvolution10 Jul 2020 4:47 UTC
35 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Con­fir­ma­tion Bias As Mis­fire Of Nor­mal Bayesian Reasoning

Scott Alexander13 Feb 2020 7:20 UTC
43 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Car­diol­o­gists and Chi­nese Robbers

Scott Alexander16 Sep 2015 19:00 UTC
118 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

Be­ware The Man Of One Study

Scott Alexander12 Dec 2014 9:04 UTC
58 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

The Dilemma: Science or Bayes?

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 May 2008 8:16 UTC
51 points
188 comments5 min readLW link

No Safe Defense, Not Even Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 May 2008 5:19 UTC
100 points
67 comments6 min readLW link

Prov­ing Too Much

Scott Alexander14 Apr 2013 0:05 UTC
83 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Scien­tific Ev­i­dence, Le­gal Ev­i­dence, Ra­tional Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Aug 2007 5:36 UTC
104 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Was a PhD nec­es­sary to solve out­stand­ing math prob­lems?

DirectedEvolution10 Jul 2020 18:43 UTC
22 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Hier­ar­chy of Evidence

B Jacobs11 Jul 2020 12:54 UTC
7 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

The Tragedy of the Anticommons

Kaj_Sotala15 Mar 2009 17:32 UTC
43 points
47 comments5 min readLW link

SciAm ar­ti­cle about ra­tio­nal­ity cor­re­spond­ing only weakly with IQ

DavidPlumpton27 Dec 2014 20:56 UTC
10 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

What In­tel­li­gence Tests Miss: The psy­chol­ogy of ra­tio­nal thought

Kaj_Sotala11 Jul 2010 23:01 UTC
51 points
55 comments9 min readLW link

Book re­view: My Hid­den Chimp

Bucky4 Mar 2019 9:55 UTC
28 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Three ways CFAR has changed my view of rationality

Julia_Galef10 Sep 2013 18:24 UTC
167 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

The Bat and Ball Prob­lem Revisited

drossbucket13 Dec 2018 7:16 UTC
68 points
27 comments15 min readLW link2 reviews

How You Make Judg­ments: The Elephant and its Rider

lukeprog15 Apr 2011 1:02 UTC
61 points
19 comments13 min readLW link

Your Evolved Intuitions

lukeprog5 May 2011 16:21 UTC
21 points
106 comments10 min readLW link

16 types of use­ful predictions

Julia_Galef10 Apr 2015 3:31 UTC
162 points
55 comments8 min readLW link

The Least Con­ve­nient Pos­si­ble World

Scott Alexander14 Mar 2009 2:11 UTC
274 points
205 comments5 min readLW link

Science eats its young

George3d612 Jul 2020 12:32 UTC
14 points
13 comments10 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

School Has It Backwards

proshowersinger12 Jul 2020 19:24 UTC
30 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

What counts as defec­tion?

TurnTrout12 Jul 2020 22:03 UTC
81 points
21 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Up­date more slowly!

Davidmanheim13 Jul 2020 7:10 UTC
51 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

The Third Alternative

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 May 2007 23:47 UTC
127 points
85 comments3 min readLW link

Bur­den­some Details

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Sep 2007 23:46 UTC
186 points
34 comments4 min readLW link

Feel­ing Rational

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Apr 2007 4:48 UTC
249 points
83 comments3 min readLW link

Belief in Belief

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Jul 2007 17:49 UTC
162 points
176 comments5 min readLW link

Dou­ble Crux — A Strat­egy for Mu­tual Understanding

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien2 Jan 2017 4:37 UTC
168 points
108 comments12 min readLW link

Ap­plause Lights

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Sep 2007 18:31 UTC
273 points
97 comments2 min readLW link

The Mys­tery of the Haunted Rationalist

Scott Alexander8 Mar 2009 20:39 UTC
99 points
70 comments3 min readLW link

Anx­iety and Rationality

[deleted]19 Jan 2016 18:30 UTC
50 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

Pre­tend­ing to be Wise

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Feb 2009 22:30 UTC
124 points
78 comments4 min readLW link

Roll for Sanity

eapache13 Jul 2020 16:39 UTC
16 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Be­ing a Ro­bust Agent

Raemon18 Oct 2018 7:00 UTC
130 points
32 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] How to per­suade peo­ple/​groups out of sunk cost fal­lacy?

vernamcipher13 Jul 2020 22:51 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Yes, Virginia, You Can Be 99.99% (Or More!) Cer­tain That 53 Is Prime

ChrisHallquist7 Nov 2013 7:45 UTC
83 points
70 comments6 min readLW link

Cal­ibra­tion Prac­tice: Retro­d­ic­tions on Metaculus

Raemon14 Jul 2020 18:35 UTC
32 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Limits of Cur­rent US Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets (Pre­dic­tIt Case Study)

aphyer14 Jul 2020 7:24 UTC
188 points
49 comments7 min readLW link

Dremeling

Czynski14 Jul 2020 19:23 UTC
35 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

The Gold­bach con­jec­ture is prob­a­bly cor­rect; so was Fer­mat’s last theorem

Stuart_Armstrong14 Jul 2020 19:30 UTC
73 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Mazes and Duality

14 Jul 2020 19:54 UTC
62 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

“Other peo­ple are wrong” vs “I am right”

Buck22 Feb 2019 20:01 UTC
229 points
19 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews

Un­rol­ling so­cial metacog­ni­tion: Three lev­els of meta are not enough.

Academian25 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC
174 points
44 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Will As Thou Wilt

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Jul 2008 10:37 UTC
6 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

The Library of Scott Alexandria

Rob Bensinger14 Sep 2015 1:38 UTC
112 points
33 comments7 min readLW link

The Cat­e­gories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories

Scott Alexander21 Nov 2014 14:34 UTC
78 points
9 comments18 min readLW link

A His­tory of Bayes’ Theorem

lukeprog29 Aug 2011 7:04 UTC
75 points
91 comments15 min readLW link

Your in­tu­itions are not magic

Kaj_Sotala10 Jun 2010 0:11 UTC
160 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

On Overconfidence

Scott Alexander21 Aug 2015 2:21 UTC
51 points
5 comments14 min readLW link

Does Think­ing Hard Hurt Your Brain?

Raemon29 Apr 2018 18:56 UTC
18 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tional Me or We?

RobinHanson17 Mar 2009 13:39 UTC
162 points
157 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity: Abridged

Quaerendo6 Jan 2018 0:20 UTC
94 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

At­tempted Telekinesis

AnnaSalamon7 Feb 2015 18:53 UTC
152 points
28 comments10 min readLW link

Diver­gence causes iso­lated de­mands for rigor

George3d615 Jul 2020 18:59 UTC
14 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

Fake Explanations

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Aug 2007 21:13 UTC
138 points
89 comments2 min readLW link

Two More Things to Un­learn from School

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jul 2007 17:45 UTC
138 points
157 comments2 min readLW link

In­cre­men­tal Progress and the Valley

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Apr 2009 16:42 UTC
85 points
114 comments5 min readLW link

An­thro­po­mor­phiz­ing Humans

johnswentworth17 Jul 2020 17:49 UTC
44 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Tel­ling more ra­tio­nal stories

DirectedEvolution17 Jul 2020 17:47 UTC
24 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Plans are Re­cur­sive & Why This is Important

Ruby10 Mar 2019 1:58 UTC
63 points
11 comments11 min readLW link

“Science” as Cu­ri­os­ity-Stopper

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Sep 2007 20:04 UTC
112 points
61 comments3 min readLW link

Crit­i­cism of some pop­u­lar LW articles

DirectedEvolution19 Jul 2020 1:16 UTC
71 points
19 comments6 min readLW link

In­tu­itive differ­ences: when to agree to disagree

Kaj_Sotala29 Sep 2009 7:56 UTC
35 points
36 comments4 min readLW link

Praise of some pop­u­lar LW articles

DirectedEvolution20 Jul 2020 0:32 UTC
40 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Use re­silience, in­stead of im­pre­ci­sion, to com­mu­ni­cate uncertainty

habryka20 Jul 2020 5:08 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Cached Thoughts

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Oct 2007 23:46 UTC
158 points
94 comments3 min readLW link

Ineffi­cient doesn’t mean in­differ­ent, but it might mean wimpy.

DirectedEvolution20 Jul 2020 18:27 UTC
14 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Com­pe­ti­tion: Am­plify Ro­hin’s Pre­dic­tion on AGI re­searchers & Safety Concerns

stuhlmueller21 Jul 2020 20:06 UTC
82 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

The Ba­sic Dou­ble Crux pattern

Eli Tyre22 Jul 2020 6:41 UTC
61 points
21 comments4 min readLW link

Key De­ci­sion Anal­y­sis—a fun­da­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity technique

Eli Tyre12 Jan 2020 5:59 UTC
43 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing ar­bi­trary ex­pres­sions with a lin­ear num­ber of queries to a Log­i­cal In­duc­tion Or­a­cle (Car­toon Guide)

Donald Hobson23 Jul 2020 21:37 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Ag­gre­gat­ing forecasts

Jsevillamol23 Jul 2020 18:04 UTC
17 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

An Old Way to Vi­su­al­ize Biases

Zachary Robertson24 Jul 2020 0:10 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mean­ing is Quasi-Idempotent

Chris_Leong24 Jul 2020 4:08 UTC
5 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Com­ment Replies for Chains, Bot­tle­necks and Optimization

curi24 Jul 2020 18:51 UTC
1 point
2 comments3 min readLW link

No Ul­ti­mate Goal and a Small Ex­is­ten­tial Crisis

Logan Riggs24 Jul 2020 18:39 UTC
12 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Subagents, trauma and rationality

Kaj_Sotala14 Aug 2019 13:14 UTC
97 points
4 comments19 min readLW link

Schools Pro­lifer­at­ing Without Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Mar 2009 6:43 UTC
57 points
60 comments3 min readLW link

The Log­i­cal Fal­lacy of Gen­er­al­iza­tion from Fic­tional Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Oct 2007 3:57 UTC
105 points
61 comments6 min readLW link

How I do research

TurnTrout19 Nov 2019 20:31 UTC
60 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Prune

alkjash12 Jan 2018 22:50 UTC
61 points
10 comments4 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Gears-Level Models are Cap­i­tal Investments

johnswentworth22 Nov 2019 22:41 UTC
144 points
30 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Ba­sic Con­ver­sa­tional Co­or­di­na­tion: Micro-co­or­di­na­tion of In­ten­tion

Eli Tyre27 Jul 2020 22:41 UTC
40 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Check­list of Ra­tion­al­ity Habits

AnnaSalamon7 Nov 2012 21:19 UTC
189 points
189 comments11 min readLW link

Model Com­bi­na­tion and Adjustment

lukeprog17 Jul 2013 20:31 UTC
101 points
41 comments5 min readLW link

The Out­side View’s Domain

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jun 2008 3:17 UTC
27 points
14 comments10 min readLW link

Real­ism about rationality

Richard_Ngo16 Sep 2018 10:46 UTC
182 points
145 comments4 min readLW link3 reviews
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Of Two Minds

Valentine17 May 2018 4:34 UTC
91 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Learned Blankness

AnnaSalamon18 Apr 2011 18:55 UTC
222 points
188 comments5 min readLW link

Con­fi­dence lev­els in­side and out­side an argument

Scott Alexander16 Dec 2010 3:06 UTC
225 points
193 comments6 min readLW link

Beau­tiful Probability

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Jan 2008 7:19 UTC
88 points
123 comments6 min readLW link

Univer­sal Fire

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Apr 2007 21:15 UTC
169 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

Is Real­ity Ugly?

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jan 2008 22:26 UTC
66 points
43 comments5 min readLW link

Out­side the Laboratory

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jan 2007 3:46 UTC
128 points
351 comments7 min readLW link

Per­pet­ual Mo­tion Beliefs

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Feb 2008 20:22 UTC
64 points
44 comments3 min readLW link

What is Bayesi­anism?

Kaj_Sotala26 Feb 2010 7:43 UTC
111 points
217 comments4 min readLW link

How to Con­vince Me That 2 + 2 = 3

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Sep 2007 23:00 UTC
129 points
407 comments3 min readLW link

Re­v­ersed Stu­pidity Is Not Intelligence

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2007 22:14 UTC
144 points
118 comments3 min readLW link

Truly Part Of You

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Nov 2007 2:18 UTC
153 points
59 comments4 min readLW link

Thou Art Physics

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Jun 2008 6:37 UTC
119 points
88 comments3 min readLW link

“You can’t pos­si­bly suc­ceed with­out [My Pet Is­sue]”

Raemon19 Dec 2019 1:12 UTC
50 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Fire­wal­ling the Op­ti­mal from the Rational

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Oct 2012 8:01 UTC
163 points
338 comments5 min readLW link

Reflec­tions on ra­tio­nal­ity a year out

[deleted]31 Mar 2011 1:35 UTC
124 points
108 comments4 min readLW link

Public Po­si­tions and Pri­vate Guts

Vaniver11 Oct 2018 19:38 UTC
83 points
13 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] What makes peo­ple in­tel­lec­tu­ally ac­tive?

abramdemski29 Dec 2018 22:29 UTC
102 points
65 comments1 min readLW link

Ac­tion and habit

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 2 Jun 2011 14:59 UTC
116 points
106 comments4 min readLW link

A Per­sonal Ra­tion­al­ity Wishlist

DanielFilan27 Aug 2019 3:40 UTC
53 points
54 comments4 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

Is Ra­tion­al­ist Self-Im­prove­ment Real?

Jacob Falkovich9 Dec 2019 17:11 UTC
228 points
74 comments11 min readLW link3 reviews

In­fer­ence & Empiricism

SatvikBeri20 Mar 2018 15:47 UTC
38 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Think Like Reality

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 May 2007 6:36 UTC
99 points
67 comments2 min readLW link

Skill: The Map is Not the Territory

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Oct 2012 9:59 UTC
97 points
181 comments5 min readLW link

Astray with the Truth: Logic and Math

StephenR16 Aug 2014 15:40 UTC
4 points
21 comments8 min readLW link

Do Suffi­ciently Ad­vanced Agents Use Logic?

abramdemski13 Sep 2019 19:53 UTC
41 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

On Say­ing the Obvious

Grognor2 Feb 2012 5:13 UTC
147 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

Im­prove­ment Without Superstition

Zachary Jacobi16 Dec 2017 20:01 UTC
38 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

Ex­clud­ing the Supernatural

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Sep 2008 0:12 UTC
72 points
148 comments7 min readLW link

“What Is Wrong With Our Thoughts”

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 May 2009 7:24 UTC
41 points
109 comments1 min readLW link

On Pro­cras­ti­na­tion—The art of shap­ing your fu­ture actions

Neel Nanda1 Aug 2020 10:22 UTC
11 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Science like a chef

Adam Zerner8 Feb 2018 21:23 UTC
32 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

High-pre­ci­sion claims may be re­futed with­out be­ing re­placed with other high-pre­ci­sion claims

jessicata30 Jan 2020 23:08 UTC
55 points
30 comments3 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Are you the rider or the elephant?

Qiaochu_Yuan21 Feb 2018 7:25 UTC
38 points
67 comments1 min readLW link

Prin­ci­ples Be­hind Bottlenecks

curi1 Aug 2020 22:48 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readLW link

When Gears Go Wrong

Matt Goldenberg2 Aug 2020 6:21 UTC
28 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Sus­pi­ciously bal­anced evidence

gjm12 Feb 2020 17:04 UTC
50 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

What Cost for Ir­ra­tional­ity?

Kaj_Sotala1 Jul 2010 18:25 UTC
93 points
119 comments7 min readLW link

Ham­mer­time Day 4: Design

alkjash1 Feb 2018 19:00 UTC
31 points
11 comments4 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Ham­mer­time Day 3: TAPs

alkjash1 Feb 2018 4:10 UTC
17 points
24 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Ham­mer­time Day 2: Yoda Timers

alkjash31 Jan 2018 5:10 UTC
46 points
28 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Ham­mer­time Day 5: Com­fort Zone Expansion

alkjash2 Feb 2018 18:00 UTC
21 points
35 comments6 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

You Can Face Reality

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Aug 2007 1:46 UTC
121 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

Self-skep­ti­cism: the first prin­ci­ple of rationality

aaronsw6 Aug 2012 0:51 UTC
50 points
106 comments2 min readLW link

Phys­i­cal and Men­tal Behavior

Scott Alexander10 Jul 2011 20:20 UTC
85 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

I trans­lated ‘Twelve Virtues of Ra­tion­al­ity’ into He­brew.

Yoav Ravid1 Jun 2019 18:52 UTC
26 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal vs. Epistemic—A Bardic Perspective

MBlume25 Apr 2009 7:41 UTC
86 points
189 comments3 min readLW link

Mak­ing Ra­tion­al­ity Gen­eral-Interest

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 24 Jul 2013 22:02 UTC
45 points
117 comments4 min readLW link

Some Claims Are Just Too Extraordinary

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Jan 2007 7:14 UTC
36 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Tune Your Cog­ni­tive Strategies

SquirrelInHell15 Feb 2018 17:54 UTC
24 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(bewelltuned.com)

Ten­sions in Truth­seek­ing

Raemon2 Oct 2017 0:54 UTC
36 points
42 comments7 min readLW link

Tsuyoku Nar­i­tai! (I Want To Be­come Stronger)

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Mar 2007 17:49 UTC
262 points
82 comments3 min readLW link

We tend to for­get com­pli­cated things

Rafael Harth20 Oct 2019 20:05 UTC
48 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

A Devel­op­men­tal Frame­work for Rationality

lifelonglearner13 Mar 2018 1:36 UTC
22 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Can So­cial Dy­nam­ics Ex­plain Con­junc­tion Fal­lacy Ex­per­i­men­tal Re­sults?

curi5 Aug 2020 8:50 UTC
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing Two-Level Vi­sual Mnemonic Compression

armatures6 Aug 2020 23:58 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Asch Con­for­mity Could Ex­plain the Con­junc­tion Fallacy

curi6 Aug 2020 21:46 UTC
7 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Pro­cras­ti­na­tion Para­doxes: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

scasper6 Aug 2020 19:47 UTC
18 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

[Question] How much is known about the “in­fer­ence rules” of log­i­cal in­duc­tion?

Eigil Rischel8 Aug 2020 10:45 UTC
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

The Foun­da­tional Toolbox for Life: Introduction

ExCeph22 Jun 2019 6:11 UTC
23 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Where Philos­o­phy Meets Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Apr 2008 21:21 UTC
49 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

Many Wor­lds, One Best Guess

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 May 2008 8:32 UTC
46 points
79 comments13 min readLW link

Re­sist the Happy Death Spiral

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Dec 2007 1:15 UTC
75 points
39 comments6 min readLW link

Draw­ing Less Wrong: Overview of Skills, and Rele­vance to Rationality

Raemon19 Nov 2011 5:05 UTC
17 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Towards a For­mal­i­sa­tion of Log­i­cal Counterfactuals

Bunthut8 Aug 2020 22:14 UTC
6 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

So­cial Interfaces

thoughtfulmadison9 Aug 2020 18:13 UTC
14 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity Space & Au­mann Agreement

Wei Dai10 Dec 2009 21:57 UTC
52 points
76 comments5 min readLW link

Au­mann Agree­ment Game

abramdemski9 Oct 2015 17:14 UTC
32 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Au­mann Agree­ment by Combat

roryokane5 Apr 2019 5:15 UTC
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(sigbovik.org)

Au­mann vot­ing; or, How to vote when you’re ignorant

PhilGoetz2 Apr 2009 18:54 UTC
12 points
38 comments2 min readLW link

An ex­pla­na­tion of Au­mann’s agree­ment theorem

Tyrrell_McAllister7 Jul 2011 6:22 UTC
13 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Sta­tus Reg­u­la­tion and Anx­ious Underconfidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Nov 2017 19:35 UTC
73 points
17 comments21 min readLW link

The Joys of Con­ju­gate Priors

TCB21 May 2011 2:41 UTC
63 points
24 comments5 min readLW link

Some ra­tio­nal­ity tweets

Peter_de_Blanc30 Dec 2010 7:14 UTC
63 points
81 comments2 min readLW link

Nav­i­gat­ing dis­agree­ment: How to keep your eye on the ev­i­dence

AnnaSalamon24 Apr 2010 22:47 UTC
47 points
73 comments6 min readLW link

If It’s Worth Do­ing, It’s Worth Do­ing With Made-Up Statistics

Scott Alexander3 Sep 2017 20:56 UTC
58 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Se­cure Your Beliefs

lukeprog12 Feb 2011 16:53 UTC
59 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

This Ter­ri­tory Does Not Exist

ike13 Aug 2020 0:30 UTC
7 points
199 comments7 min readLW link

Hand vs. Fingers

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Mar 2008 0:36 UTC
63 points
95 comments3 min readLW link

De­bi­as­ing as Non-Self-Destruction

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Apr 2007 20:20 UTC
45 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

“In­duc­tive Bias”

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Apr 2007 19:52 UTC
37 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

How webs of mean­ing grow and change

Hazard14 Aug 2020 13:58 UTC
13 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

misc raw re­sponses to a tract of Crit­i­cal Rationalism

mako yass14 Aug 2020 11:53 UTC
21 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­plicit and tacit rationality

lukeprog9 Apr 2013 23:33 UTC
60 points
77 comments4 min readLW link

Self-Anchoring

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Oct 2007 6:11 UTC
41 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

False Laughter

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Dec 2007 6:03 UTC
41 points
66 comments3 min readLW link

To Lead, You Must Stand Up

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Dec 2007 6:38 UTC
43 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

What are the Best Ham­mers in the Ra­tion­al­ist Com­mu­nity?

Bound_up24 Jan 2018 14:43 UTC
18 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Why Does Power Cor­rupt?

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Oct 2008 0:23 UTC
56 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

Self-Similar­ity Experiment

Dawn Drescher15 Aug 2020 13:19 UTC
12 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Seven habits to­wards highly effec­tive minds

Richard_Ngo5 Sep 2019 23:10 UTC
38 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Are these cog­ni­tive bi­ases, bi­ases?

Kaj_Sotala23 Dec 2009 17:27 UTC
46 points
24 comments6 min readLW link

Bind Your­self to Reality

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Mar 2008 5:09 UTC
56 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

My Child­hood Death Spiral

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Sep 2008 3:42 UTC
61 points
106 comments4 min readLW link

My Nat­u­ral­is­tic Awakening

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Sep 2008 6:58 UTC
58 points
47 comments5 min readLW link

The ABC’s of Luminosity

Alicorn18 Mar 2010 21:47 UTC
47 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

Lights, Cam­era, Ac­tion!

Alicorn20 Mar 2010 5:29 UTC
42 points
58 comments3 min readLW link

The Spotlight

Alicorn24 Mar 2010 23:43 UTC
46 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

High­lights and Shadows

Alicorn28 Mar 2010 20:56 UTC
25 points
45 comments2 min readLW link

Lampshading

Alicorn6 Apr 2010 20:03 UTC
21 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Aliveness

Ziz18 Jan 2018 5:00 UTC
16 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(sinceriously.fyi)

How some al­gorithms feel from inside

cousin_it17 May 2011 11:26 UTC
48 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Are You a Par­a­lyzed Subor­di­nate Mon­key?

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Mar 2011 21:12 UTC
43 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

False Majorities

JamesAndrix3 Feb 2010 18:43 UTC
42 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t es­ti­mate your cre­ative in­tel­li­gence by your crit­i­cal intelligence

PhilGoetz5 Feb 2015 2:41 UTC
72 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Mul­ti­tudi­nous out­side views

Davidmanheim18 Aug 2020 6:21 UTC
55 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Learn­ing hu­man prefer­ences: op­ti­mistic and pes­simistic scenarios

Stuart_Armstrong18 Aug 2020 13:05 UTC
27 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

On Be­ing Okay with the Truth

lukeprog2 May 2011 0:17 UTC
50 points
73 comments2 min readLW link

De­ci­sion-the­o­retic prob­lems and The­o­ries; An (In­com­plete) com­par­a­tive list

somervta11 Jul 2018 2:59 UTC
36 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Zero-Knowl­edge Cooperation

bryjnar25 Oct 2017 5:35 UTC
16 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Doubt, Science, and Mag­i­cal Crea­tures—a Child’s Perspective

Benquo28 Dec 2013 15:26 UTC
58 points
54 comments2 min readLW link

Pic­ture Frames, Win­dow Frames and Frameworks

Raemon3 Nov 2019 22:09 UTC
33 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Pretense

TurnTrout29 Jul 2018 0:35 UTC
30 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

On Defin­ing your Terms

Chris_Leong19 Aug 2020 3:30 UTC
13 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Is your un­cer­tainty re­solv­able?

Raemon21 Jun 2019 7:32 UTC
30 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

A parable in the style of In­visi­ble Cities

Daniel Kokotajlo16 Dec 2019 15:55 UTC
42 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why should I care about ra­tio­nal­ity?

TurnTrout8 Dec 2018 3:49 UTC
24 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] In­stru­men­tal Oc­cam?

abramdemski31 Jan 2020 19:27 UTC
30 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

A List of Nuances

abramdemski10 Nov 2014 5:02 UTC
63 points
24 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What are the com­po­nents of in­tel­lec­tual hon­esty?

abramdemski15 Jan 2019 20:00 UTC
30 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Nar­row your an­swer space

Vaniver28 Dec 2010 11:38 UTC
33 points
111 comments8 min readLW link

Think­ing well

Vaniver1 Apr 2015 22:03 UTC
45 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­pla­na­tion vs Rationalization

abramdemski22 Feb 2018 23:46 UTC
16 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Si­mul­ta­neous Over­con­fi­dence and Underconfidence

abramdemski3 Jun 2015 21:04 UTC
36 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Sub­tle Forms of Con­fir­ma­tion Bias

abramdemski3 Jul 2017 23:00 UTC
18 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

The 12 Se­cond Rule (i.e. think be­fore an­swer­ing) and other Epistemic Norms

Raemon5 Sep 2016 23:08 UTC
35 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Very Short In­tro­duc­tion to Bayesian Model Com­par­i­son

johnswentworth16 Jul 2019 19:48 UTC
30 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­ac­tive Bayes The­o­rem Visualization

Allen Kim3 Mar 2018 4:00 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(allenkim67.github.io)

[Question] Should we write more about so­cial life?

DirectedEvolution19 Aug 2020 20:07 UTC
13 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

My Kind of Reflection

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Jul 2008 7:21 UTC
52 points
23 comments4 min readLW link

Lawful Creativity

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Nov 2008 19:54 UTC
55 points
35 comments7 min readLW link

Your Most Valuable Skill

Alicorn27 Sep 2009 17:01 UTC
32 points
97 comments2 min readLW link

On the Care and Feed­ing of Young Rationalists

MBlume13 Mar 2009 23:48 UTC
30 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

In What Ways Have You Be­come Stronger?

Vladimir_Nesov15 Mar 2009 20:44 UTC
28 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Tak­ing Oc­cam Seriously

steven046129 May 2009 17:31 UTC
32 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

No Li­cense To Be Human

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Aug 2008 23:18 UTC
43 points
54 comments8 min readLW link

Kin­naird’s truels

Johnicholas5 Mar 2009 16:50 UTC
28 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­ten­u­at­ing Circumstances

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Apr 2009 22:57 UTC
47 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

High­lights from the Black­mail De­bate (Robin Han­son vs Zvi Mow­show­itz)

Ben Pace20 Aug 2020 0:49 UTC
48 points
39 comments9 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Tough­ness Tests

RobinHanson6 Apr 2009 1:12 UTC
28 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

The Bayesian Tyrant

abramdemski20 Aug 2020 0:08 UTC
132 points
20 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Where to In­ter­vene in a Hu­man?

lukeprog3 Jul 2012 6:31 UTC
53 points
72 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] What should a rea­son­able per­son be­lieve about the Sin­gu­lar­ity?

Kaj_Sotala13 Jan 2011 9:32 UTC
38 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What does the word “col­lab­o­ra­tive” mean in the phrase “col­lab­o­ra­tive truth­seek­ing”?

Zack_M_Davis26 Jun 2019 5:26 UTC
25 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

[META] ‘Ra­tional’ vs ‘Op­ti­mized’

TheOtherDave4 Jan 2012 18:58 UTC
44 points
69 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t teach peo­ple how to reach the top of a hill

PhilGoetz4 Mar 2014 21:38 UTC
48 points
37 comments6 min readLW link

Strong stances

KatjaGrace15 Oct 2019 0:40 UTC
27 points
9 comments9 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Slava!

[deleted]3 Oct 2010 2:47 UTC
40 points
105 comments4 min readLW link

The Ba­co­nian Method (Novum Or­ganum Book 1: 93-107)

Francis Bacon10 Oct 2019 18:54 UTC
28 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

When is ra­tio­nal­ity use­ful?

Richard_Ngo24 Apr 2019 22:40 UTC
28 points
26 comments3 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Is there a prac­ti­tioner’s guide for ra­tio­nal­ity?

cedric13 Aug 2018 5:39 UTC
24 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

“Fol­low your dreams” as a case study in in­cor­rect thinking

cousin_it20 Aug 2014 13:18 UTC
43 points
53 comments2 min readLW link

It’s all in your head-land

colinmarshall22 Jul 2009 19:41 UTC
34 points
68 comments12 min readLW link

Río Grande: judg­ment calls

KatjaGrace27 Jan 2019 3:50 UTC
25 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(worldlypositions.tumblr.com)

Causes of disagreements

JustinShovelain16 Jul 2009 21:51 UTC
27 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

Rad­i­cal Probabilism

abramdemski18 Aug 2020 21:14 UTC
159 points
47 comments35 min readLW link1 review

nos­talge­braist: Re­cur­sive Good­hart’s Law

Kaj_Sotala26 Aug 2020 11:07 UTC
53 points
27 comments1 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Zib­bal­done With It All

Randomini28 Aug 2020 11:37 UTC
24 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Why is Bayesi­anism im­por­tant for ra­tio­nal­ity?

Chris_Leong1 Sep 2020 4:24 UTC
37 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If there were an in­ter­ac­tive soft­ware teach­ing Yud­kowskian ra­tio­nal­ity, what con­cepts would you want to see it teach?

MikkW2 Sep 2020 5:37 UTC
25 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Mul­ti­vari­ate es­ti­ma­tion & the Squig­gly language

ozziegooen5 Sep 2020 4:35 UTC
44 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Why would code/​English or low-ab­strac­tion/​high-ab­strac­tion sim­plic­ity or brevity cor­re­spond?

curi4 Sep 2020 19:46 UTC
2 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

The Four Chil­dren of the Seder as the Si­mu­lacra Levels

Zvi7 Sep 2020 15:00 UTC
81 points
17 comments16 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Refer­ence Classes

Chris_Leong7 Sep 2020 12:52 UTC
10 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Up­dates Thread

Adam Zerner9 Sep 2020 4:34 UTC
56 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Cap­tur­ing Ideas

abramdemski9 Sep 2020 21:20 UTC
71 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

Tak­ing Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam by efim

efim10 Sep 2020 10:18 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Re­sist epistemic (and emo­tional) learned hel­pless­ness!

DirectedEvolution10 Sep 2020 2:58 UTC
7 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Choose sim­plic­ity and struc­ture.

DirectedEvolution10 Sep 2020 21:45 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

What’s Wrong with So­cial Science and How to Fix It: Reflec­tions After Read­ing 2578 Papers

habryka12 Sep 2020 1:46 UTC
104 points
22 comments2 min readLW link
(fantasticanachronism.com)

Ra­tion­al­ity and playfulness

DirectedEvolution12 Sep 2020 5:14 UTC
42 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

Notes on good judge­ment and how to de­velop it (80,000 Hours)

habryka12 Sep 2020 17:51 UTC
15 points
16 comments2 min readLW link
(80000hours.org)

Gems from the Wiki: Acausal Trade

13 Sep 2020 0:23 UTC
42 points
8 comments7 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] Egan’s The­o­rem?

johnswentworth13 Sep 2020 17:47 UTC
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Me­moriz­ing a Deck of Cards

Tofly16 Sep 2020 1:31 UTC
27 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Ap­ply­ing the Coun­ter­fac­tual Pri­soner’s Dilemma to Log­i­cal Uncertainty

Chris_Leong16 Sep 2020 10:34 UTC
9 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Mak­ing the Monte Hall prob­lem weirder but obvious

dynomight17 Sep 2020 12:10 UTC
15 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(dyno-might.github.io)

Gems from the Wiki: Do The Math, Then Burn The Math and Go With Your Gut

17 Sep 2020 22:41 UTC
53 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Tak­ing So­cial Initiative

Neel Nanda19 Sep 2020 15:31 UTC
19 points
1 comment13 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Empti­ness and Form

lsusr22 Sep 2020 4:20 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Haters Gonna Hate Fallacy

Kaj_Sotala22 Sep 2020 12:20 UTC
47 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Com­par­a­tive Ad­van­tage is Not About Trade

johnswentworth22 Sep 2020 18:43 UTC
85 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

This is Why Your Hard Work Sits on the Shelf — and Here’s What to Do About It

Ian David Moss11 Mar 2019 1:09 UTC
2 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(medium.com)

[Question] David Deutsch on Univer­sal Ex­plain­ers and AI

alanf24 Sep 2020 7:50 UTC
3 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] Where did you get that idea in the first place? | Meaningness

Kenny25 Sep 2020 15:38 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Up close and per­sonal with the world

dominicq25 Sep 2020 6:52 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

About a lo­cal vari­a­tion of Rock-Paper-Scis­sors and how it self-negated its own prob­le­matic dynamic

KyriakosCH25 Sep 2020 9:27 UTC
8 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Not all com­mu­ni­ca­tion is ma­nipu­la­tion: Chap­er­ones don’t ma­nipu­late proteins

ChristianKl27 Sep 2020 16:45 UTC
35 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What are good ra­tio­nal­ity ex­er­cises?

Ben Pace27 Sep 2020 21:25 UTC
54 points
25 comments1 min readLW link1 review

[Question] What De­ci­sion The­ory is Im­plied By Pre­dic­tive Pro­cess­ing?

johnswentworth28 Sep 2020 17:20 UTC
55 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are ex­am­ples of Ra­tion­al­ist fable-like sto­ries?

Mati_Roy28 Sep 2020 16:52 UTC
19 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

“Win First” vs “Chill First”

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)28 Sep 2020 6:48 UTC
92 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Macro-Procrastination

Neel Nanda28 Sep 2020 16:07 UTC
8 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Seek Up­side Risk

Neel Nanda29 Sep 2020 16:47 UTC
17 points
6 comments9 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

[Question] is scope in­sen­si­tivity re­ally a brain er­ror?

Kaarlo Tuomi28 Sep 2020 18:37 UTC
4 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

“Zero Sum” is a mis­nomer.

abramdemski30 Sep 2020 18:25 UTC
105 points
35 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of send­ing some­thing to the moon

jacobjacob1 Oct 2020 4:20 UTC
76 points
97 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Words and Implications

johnswentworth1 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC
60 points
25 comments8 min readLW link

Your Stan­dards are Too High

Neel Nanda1 Oct 2020 17:03 UTC
23 points
2 comments14 min readLW link
(neelnanda.io)

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Septem­ber 2020.

NunoSempere1 Oct 2020 11:00 UTC
21 points
3 comments11 min readLW link

Linkpost: Choice Ex­plains Pos­i­tivity and Con­fir­ma­tion Bias

Gunnar_Zarncke1 Oct 2020 21:46 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Op­tion Paral­y­sis—The Thing You Ac­tu­ally Do

Neel Nanda3 Oct 2020 11:50 UTC
10 points
10 comments6 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Public trans­mit metta

Kaj_Sotala4 Oct 2020 11:40 UTC
28 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Fish­bowl re­al­ity

Elo4 Oct 2020 2:16 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Do­mains of truth

mxln5 Oct 2020 19:46 UTC
1 point
1 comment5 min readLW link

Large Effects Can’t Prove Small Causes

Bucky6 Oct 2020 17:34 UTC
23 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Not Even Evidence

Dach6 Oct 2020 1:20 UTC
5 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

Les­sons on Value of In­for­ma­tion From Civ

johnswentworth7 Oct 2020 18:18 UTC
52 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Re­view and Sum­mary of ‘Mo­ral Uncer­tainty’

fin7 Oct 2020 17:52 UTC
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

Ra­tion­al­ity Cardinality

jimrandomh3 Oct 2015 15:54 UTC
28 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways to es­cape a locked room

jacobjacob8 Oct 2020 5:13 UTC
30 points
81 comments3 min readLW link

Sor­ti­tion Model of Mo­ral Uncertainty

B Jacobs8 Oct 2020 17:44 UTC
9 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Up­side de­cay—why some peo­ple never get lucky

brianlui8 Oct 2020 8:45 UTC
37 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

The Dar­win Game

lsusr9 Oct 2020 10:19 UTC
90 points
136 comments3 min readLW link

Does cog­ni­tive ther­apy en­courage bias?

fortyeridania22 Nov 2010 11:31 UTC
16 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity train­ing: aca­demic and clini­cal perspectives

whales19 Feb 2014 7:09 UTC
29 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Rule of Equal and Op­po­site Ad­vice & Slack

tinyanon10 Oct 2020 21:22 UTC
40 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Charisma is a Force Multiplier

Davis_Kingsley11 Oct 2020 10:21 UTC
34 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

A full ex­pla­na­tion to New­comb’s para­dox.

solomon alon12 Oct 2020 16:48 UTC
−6 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Msg Len

Zack_M_Davis12 Oct 2020 3:35 UTC
60 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Sun Room

Jarred Filmer12 Oct 2020 21:08 UTC
18 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What should ex­pe­rienced ra­tio­nal­ists know?

sapphire13 Oct 2020 17:32 UTC
88 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Knowl­edge, ma­nipu­la­tion, and free will

Stuart_Armstrong13 Oct 2020 17:47 UTC
32 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of hid­ing Ein­stein’s pen for fifty years

jacobjacob15 Oct 2020 7:23 UTC
31 points
44 comments3 min readLW link

Bab­ble & Prune Thoughts

abramdemski15 Oct 2020 13:46 UTC
80 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Eval­u­at­ing ex­per­tise: a clear box model

JustinShovelain15 Oct 2020 14:18 UTC
36 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Moloch games

Chris van Merwijk16 Oct 2020 15:19 UTC
79 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Things are al­lowed to be good and bad at the same time

Kaj_Sotala17 Oct 2020 8:00 UTC
51 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Bet­ting Thread

Amandango20 Oct 2020 2:17 UTC
33 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Re­tain flex­i­bil­ity with habits?

vroomerify18 Oct 2020 22:58 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Prob­lems In­volv­ing Ab­strac­tion?

johnswentworth20 Oct 2020 16:49 UTC
30 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

My case for start­ing blogging

Neel Nanda22 Oct 2020 17:43 UTC
36 points
2 comments16 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

“Lit­tle glimpses of em­pa­thy” as the foun­da­tion for so­cial emotions

Steven Byrnes22 Oct 2020 11:02 UTC
31 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Learn­ing is (Asymp­tot­i­cally) Com­pu­ta­tion­ally Ineffi­cient, Choose Your Ex­po­nents Wisely

shminux22 Oct 2020 5:30 UTC
14 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

The Trou­ble With Babbles

DirectedEvolution22 Oct 2020 21:31 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pla­na­tions: Ig­no­rance vs. Con­fu­sion

Charlie Steiner16 Jan 2018 10:44 UTC
7 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Bab­ble and Prune : 5 new ideas

Teja Prabhu23 Oct 2020 23:42 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Hu­mans are stun­ningly ra­tio­nal and stun­ningly irrational

Stuart_Armstrong23 Oct 2020 14:13 UTC
21 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Pow­er­less Mo­ral Evaluation

SocratesDissatisfied23 Oct 2020 10:44 UTC
5 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Just For Fun

proshowersinger23 Oct 2020 21:35 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

How to Cat­alyze Co­op­er­a­tion in Me­dia Sharing

Zachary Robertson24 Oct 2020 16:14 UTC
5 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Me­mory re­con­soli­da­tion for self-affection

Kaj_Sotala27 Oct 2020 10:10 UTC
45 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways to stop torture

seed27 Oct 2020 19:38 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Honesty

David Gross28 Oct 2020 0:54 UTC
43 points
6 comments18 min readLW link

Des­per­a­tion ham­ster wheels

Nicole Ross28 Oct 2020 2:32 UTC
95 points
5 comments6 min readLW link
(www.cuttingmangoes.com)

[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 con­se­quences of in­tel­li­gent ant colonies

jacobjacob29 Oct 2020 7:21 UTC
23 points
48 comments4 min readLW link

Aim to ex­plain, not persuade

lsusr31 Oct 2020 16:35 UTC
26 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Tak­ing Ideas Se­ri­ously is Hard

neilkakkar31 Oct 2020 13:47 UTC
14 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(neilkakkar.com)

[Question] What is the right phrase for “the­o­ret­i­cal ev­i­dence”?

Adam Zerner1 Nov 2020 20:43 UTC
24 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

Sur­face Thoughts Suck

Dach2 Nov 2020 13:24 UTC
4 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t read news

Eli_4 Nov 2020 18:14 UTC
27 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Piety

David Gross4 Nov 2020 1:35 UTC
7 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

[Question] Bab­ble Challenge: 50 thoughts on sta­ble, co­op­er­a­tive institutions

jacobjacob5 Nov 2020 6:38 UTC
29 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Ob­serve, bab­ble, and prune

DirectedEvolution6 Nov 2020 21:45 UTC
8 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Why philos­o­phy of sci­ence?

Richard_Ngo7 Nov 2020 11:10 UTC
53 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Carte­sian Frames Definitions

Rob Bensinger8 Nov 2020 12:44 UTC
25 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Costs and benefits of metaphysics

George3d69 Nov 2020 14:31 UTC
11 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

Notes on Temperance

David Gross9 Nov 2020 2:33 UTC
14 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Time Travel Mar­kets for In­tel­lec­tual Accounting

abramdemski9 Nov 2020 16:58 UTC
38 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity vs Likelihood

abramdemski10 Nov 2020 21:28 UTC
105 points
10 comments12 min readLW link

Learn­ing Nor­ma­tivity: A Re­search Agenda

abramdemski11 Nov 2020 21:59 UTC
76 points
18 comments19 min readLW link

So­cratic Grilling

SilasBarta12 Nov 2020 21:16 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Dar­win Game—Rounds 3 to 9

lsusr14 Nov 2020 2:26 UTC
24 points
6 comments10 min readLW link

Notes on Wisdom

David Gross14 Nov 2020 2:37 UTC
5 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Spe­cial­ized La­bor and Coun­ter­fac­tual Compensation

philh14 Nov 2020 18:13 UTC
18 points
2 comments19 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Sig­nal­ling & Si­mu­lacra Level 3

abramdemski14 Nov 2020 19:24 UTC
60 points
29 comments5 min readLW link

Early Thoughts on On­tol­ogy/​Ground­ing Problems

johnswentworth14 Nov 2020 23:19 UTC
32 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Anatomy of a Gear

johnswentworth16 Nov 2020 16:34 UTC
76 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

Range and Fore­cast­ing Accuracy

niplav27 May 2022 18:47 UTC
48 points
19 comments40 min readLW link1 review

Ex­tor­tion beats brinks­man­ship, but the au­di­ence matters

Stuart_Armstrong16 Nov 2020 21:13 UTC
27 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Solomonoff In­duc­tion and Sleep­ing Beauty

ike17 Nov 2020 2:28 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Dar­win Game—Rounds 10 to 20

lsusr17 Nov 2020 1:14 UTC
26 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

On the Shoulders of Giants

meanderingmoose17 Nov 2020 18:10 UTC
1 point
5 comments6 min readLW link

Writ­ing to think

Adam Zerner17 Nov 2020 7:54 UTC
60 points
24 comments5 min readLW link

Notes on Honor

David Gross17 Nov 2020 5:25 UTC
20 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Thoughts on Vot­ing Methods

abramdemski17 Nov 2020 20:23 UTC
61 points
24 comments5 min readLW link

The Poin­t­ers Prob­lem: Hu­man Values Are A Func­tion Of Hu­mans’ La­tent Variables

johnswentworth18 Nov 2020 17:47 UTC
108 points
44 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- Introduction

lsusr18 Nov 2020 8:23 UTC
48 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Normativity

abramdemski18 Nov 2020 16:52 UTC
46 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

2020 Elec­tion: Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets ver­sus Pol­ling/​Model­ing Assess­ment and Postmortem

Zvi18 Nov 2020 23:00 UTC
71 points
17 comments20 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- War

lsusr19 Nov 2020 3:06 UTC
41 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Prudence

David Gross19 Nov 2020 16:14 UTC
13 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

[Question] Why is there a “clogged drain­pipe” effect in idea gen­er­a­tion?

jacobjacob20 Nov 2020 19:08 UTC
24 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Epistemic Progress

ozziegooen20 Nov 2020 19:58 UTC
59 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

The Dar­win Game—Rounds 21-500

lsusr21 Nov 2020 0:58 UTC
27 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

The cen­tral limit the­o­rem in terms of convolutions

Maxwell Peterson21 Nov 2020 4:09 UTC
36 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Skil­lful Means

Gordon Seidoh Worley21 Nov 2020 2:38 UTC
18 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] (Pseudo) Math­e­mat­i­cal Real­ism Bad?

Logan Zoellner22 Nov 2020 18:21 UTC
0 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Ways to run mul­ti­ple form-in­com­pat­i­ble men­tal­ities?

Self_Optimization22 Nov 2020 17:57 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Ambition

David Gross22 Nov 2020 19:53 UTC
19 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Mark Man­son and Ev­i­dence-Based Per­sonal Development

Chris_Leong23 Nov 2020 5:13 UTC
31 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing How to Learn (And 20+ Stud­ies)

maxa23 Nov 2020 0:29 UTC
24 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

The Mu­tant Game—Rounds 11 to 30

lsusr23 Nov 2020 9:20 UTC
5 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Squig­gle: An Overview

ozziegooen24 Nov 2020 3:00 UTC
59 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC
445 points
83 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Evad­ing Mind Control

lsusr25 Nov 2020 5:01 UTC
59 points
21 comments6 min readLW link

Pain is the unit of Effort

lsusr25 Nov 2020 8:30 UTC
73 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

Suc­cess Buys Freedom

lsusr25 Nov 2020 13:53 UTC
55 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Notes on Benevolence

David Gross26 Nov 2020 2:43 UTC
25 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

The Ex­ploita­bil­ity/​Ex­plain­abil­ity Frontier

ike26 Nov 2020 0:59 UTC
24 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Squig­gle: Tech­ni­cal Overview

ozziegooen25 Nov 2020 20:51 UTC
18 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 1

lsusr26 Nov 2020 3:02 UTC
146 points
30 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Nash Score for Vot­ing Techniques

abramdemski26 Nov 2020 19:29 UTC
20 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

De­con­struct­ing 321 Voting

abramdemski26 Nov 2020 3:35 UTC
40 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Ma­tryoshka Fara­day Box

lsusr26 Nov 2020 9:42 UTC
45 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Notes on Good Temper

David Gross27 Nov 2020 16:21 UTC
32 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Fi­nal Ver­sion Perfected: An Un­derused Ex­e­cu­tion Algorithm

willbradshaw27 Nov 2020 10:43 UTC
84 points
33 comments7 min readLW link

Over­com­ing Para­dox of Choice Through Ran­dom Selection

vernamcipher28 Nov 2020 4:27 UTC
13 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Prize: In­ter­est­ing Ex­am­ples of Evaluations

28 Nov 2020 21:11 UTC
43 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Humility

David Gross29 Nov 2020 19:50 UTC
18 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Pre­face to the Se­quence on Fac­tored Cognition

Rafael Harth30 Nov 2020 18:49 UTC
35 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Ideal­ized Fac­tored Cognition

Rafael Harth30 Nov 2020 18:49 UTC
34 points
6 comments11 min readLW link

Be­fore ra­tio­nal­ity- a snapshot

jospus32129 Nov 2020 21:07 UTC
3 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Book re­view: WEIRDest People

PeterMcCluskey30 Nov 2020 3:33 UTC
97 points
54 comments9 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

The Mu­tant Game—Rounds 91 to 247

lsusr30 Nov 2020 9:25 UTC
20 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 2

lsusr30 Nov 2020 8:12 UTC
90 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Non-Book Re­view: Pat­terns of Conflict

johnswentworth30 Nov 2020 21:05 UTC
38 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Novem­ber 2020

NunoSempere1 Dec 2020 17:00 UTC
29 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 3

lsusr1 Dec 2020 12:43 UTC
128 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

My Fear Heuristic

lsusr1 Dec 2020 8:00 UTC
102 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Sincer­ity and such

David Gross1 Dec 2020 5:09 UTC
9 points
2 comments12 min readLW link

Fol­low Up: Pre­dic­tions as a Sub­sti­tute For Reviews

Elizabeth2 Dec 2020 19:40 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Notes on Simplicity

David Gross2 Dec 2020 23:14 UTC
10 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

12 Rules for Life

lsusr3 Dec 2020 6:09 UTC
9 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Notes on Integrity

David Gross3 Dec 2020 23:42 UTC
18 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 4

lsusr3 Dec 2020 23:42 UTC
87 points
21 comments4 min readLW link

Real-Life Ex­am­ples of Pre­dic­tion Sys­tems In­terfer­ing with the Real World (Pre­dict-O-Matic Prob­lems)

NunoSempere3 Dec 2020 22:00 UTC
122 points
29 comments9 min readLW link

The Hard Prob­lem of Magic

enaumov4 Dec 2020 18:51 UTC
0 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 5

lsusr5 Dec 2020 1:23 UTC
107 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing is a responsibility

DirectedEvolution5 Dec 2020 0:40 UTC
23 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Care

David Gross5 Dec 2020 16:33 UTC
8 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Su­per­vised learn­ing in the brain, part 4: com­pres­sion /​ filtering

Steven Byrnes5 Dec 2020 17:06 UTC
12 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

D&D.Sci

abstractapplic5 Dec 2020 23:26 UTC
41 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Values Form a Shift­ing Land­scape (and why you might care)

VojtaKovarik5 Dec 2020 23:56 UTC
28 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Cul­tural accumulation

KatjaGrace6 Dec 2020 6:20 UTC
91 points
53 comments3 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Min­i­mal Maps, Semi-De­ci­sions, and Neu­ral Representations

Zachary Robertson6 Dec 2020 15:15 UTC
30 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Notes on Fairness

David Gross7 Dec 2020 18:52 UTC
20 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Num­ber-guess­ing pro­to­col?

abramdemski7 Dec 2020 15:07 UTC
19 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

White Sphere Hypothesis

James S. Eriee8 Dec 2020 5:56 UTC
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

How long does it take to be­come Gaus­sian?

Maxwell Peterson8 Dec 2020 7:23 UTC
135 points
40 comments4 min readLW link

Sig­nal­ing importance

Mati_Roy8 Dec 2020 9:14 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 6

lsusr9 Dec 2020 8:14 UTC
87 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Know-how

David Gross9 Dec 2020 17:21 UTC
10 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

[Question] Coun­ter­ing Self-De­cep­tion: When De­cou­pling, When De­con­tex­tu­al­iz­ing?

a gently pricked vein10 Dec 2020 15:28 UTC
2 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Un­ex­plored modes of language

KatjaGrace10 Dec 2020 7:00 UTC
28 points
20 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Men­tal Blin­ders from Work­ing Within Systems

abramdemski10 Dec 2020 19:09 UTC
53 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 7

lsusr11 Dec 2020 5:54 UTC
65 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

The Good Life Quantified

Jacob Falkovich11 Dec 2020 17:52 UTC
38 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Notes on Chastity

David Gross11 Dec 2020 22:01 UTC
25 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

The Flynn Effect Clarified

PeterMcCluskey12 Dec 2020 5:18 UTC
34 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

D&D.Sci Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplic12 Dec 2020 15:00 UTC
40 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Pseu­do­ran­dom­ness con­test, Round 1

Eric Neyman13 Dec 2020 3:42 UTC
28 points
21 comments3 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

[Question] Writ­ing tools for taboo­ing?

abramdemski13 Dec 2020 19:50 UTC
15 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What con­fu­sions do peo­ple have about simu­lacrum lev­els?

johnswentworth14 Dec 2020 20:20 UTC
28 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Hermione Granger and New­comb’s Paradox

lsusr14 Dec 2020 5:27 UTC
48 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

De­ci­sion-Mak­ing and Accountability

Ian David Moss14 Dec 2020 21:30 UTC
11 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Less Ba­sic In­framea­sure Theory

Diffractor16 Dec 2020 3:52 UTC
22 points
1 comment61 min readLW link

Notes on Courtesy

David Gross16 Dec 2020 4:08 UTC
10 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Bad reductionism

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 8:21 UTC
12 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Two Explorations

alkjash16 Dec 2020 21:27 UTC
63 points
8 comments9 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

How to Compliment

less_penguiny16 Dec 2020 8:25 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­cen­tiviz­ing fore­cast­ing via so­cial media

16 Dec 2020 12:15 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Hard work is irritating

Oldmanrahul17 Dec 2020 1:04 UTC
12 points
6 comments3 min readLW link
(oldmanrahul.com)

It turns out that group meet­ings are mostly a ter­rible way to make decisions

Ian David Moss17 Dec 2020 3:30 UTC
60 points
14 comments5 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Notes on Dignity

David Gross17 Dec 2020 15:46 UTC
9 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 8

lsusr17 Dec 2020 22:29 UTC
64 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

No, Newspeak Won’t Make You Stupid

MikkW18 Dec 2020 0:56 UTC
21 points
39 comments7 min readLW link

Notes on Duty

David Gross18 Dec 2020 18:54 UTC
17 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity the­ory im­plies Oc­cam’s razor

Maxwell Peterson18 Dec 2020 7:48 UTC
8 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Gaug­ing the con­scious ex­pe­rience of LessWrong

Vermillion20 Dec 2020 11:34 UTC
32 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 9

lsusr20 Dec 2020 9:22 UTC
88 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

In­ter­ac­tive ex­plo­ra­tion of LessWrong and other large col­lec­tions of documents

20 Dec 2020 19:06 UTC
49 points
9 comments10 min readLW link

Grat­i­tude: Data and Anecdata

Dan Weinand20 Dec 2020 20:24 UTC
10 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Sec­u­lar Sols­tice 2020

jefftk20 Dec 2020 23:20 UTC
81 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

On Robin Han­son’s “So­cial Proof, but of What?”

Zvi20 Dec 2020 22:20 UTC
32 points
7 comments27 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

New Eliezer Yud­kowsky in­ter­view on We Want MoR, the HPMOR Podcast

moridinamael21 Dec 2020 17:21 UTC
41 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Fitness

David Gross21 Dec 2020 16:51 UTC
15 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Bab­ble Challenge: Not-So-Fu­ture Co­or­di­na­tion Tech

abramdemski21 Dec 2020 16:48 UTC
28 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Us­ing spaced rep­e­ti­tion to make the most out of blog posts and books

tchauvin21 Dec 2020 2:47 UTC
10 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

The Best Vi­su­al­iza­tions on Every Subject

ryan_b21 Dec 2020 22:51 UTC
58 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Con­scious­ness of abstraction

Richard_Kennaway21 Dec 2020 21:35 UTC
20 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

par­ent­ing rules

Dave Orr21 Dec 2020 19:48 UTC
144 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

Con­fi­dence In­ter­vals seen as pixel stripes

qbolec21 Dec 2020 11:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments16 min readLW link

Whole­hearted choices and “moral­ity as taxes”

Joe Carlsmith23 Dec 2020 2:21 UTC
36 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Notes on Pa­tience & Forbearance

David Gross23 Dec 2020 16:31 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

My fa­vorite es­says of life advice

benkuhn23 Dec 2020 23:00 UTC
79 points
17 comments7 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- Plan­ning Attacks

lsusr23 Dec 2020 21:52 UTC
36 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 10

lsusr24 Dec 2020 8:33 UTC
57 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

The med­i­cal test para­dox: Can re­design­ing Bayes rule help?

habryka24 Dec 2020 22:08 UTC
34 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Episte­mol­ogy Vol­ume of “A Map That Reflects the Ter­ri­tory” Set—My Per­sonal Commentary

hamnox24 Dec 2020 21:34 UTC
20 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

[Question] What are in­tu­itive ways for pre­sent­ing cer­tainty/​con­fi­dence in con­tin­u­ous vari­able in­fer­ences (i.e. nu­mer­i­cal pre­dic­tions)?

George3d625 Dec 2020 0:55 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Moder­a­tion, Balance, & Harmony

David Gross25 Dec 2020 2:44 UTC
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Martin Selig­man’s “Authen­tic Hap­piness”

David Gross27 Dec 2020 5:06 UTC
10 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

[Question] How to re­li­ably sig­nal in­ter­nal ex­pe­rience?

df fd27 Dec 2020 11:18 UTC
9 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 11

lsusr27 Dec 2020 9:03 UTC
48 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Dis­solv­ing the Prob­lem of Induction

Liron27 Dec 2020 17:58 UTC
39 points
32 comments7 min readLW link

Agency Vol­ume of “A Map That Reflects the Ter­ri­tory” Set—My Per­sonal Commentary

hamnox27 Dec 2020 23:35 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Re­view: LessWrong Best of 2018 – Epistemology

Jacob Falkovich28 Dec 2020 4:32 UTC
47 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

I don’t want to listen, be­cause I will be­lieve you

George3d628 Dec 2020 14:58 UTC
10 points
6 comments16 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

Choos­ing the right ask for a context

ChristianKl28 Dec 2020 14:58 UTC
14 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Un­in­formed Ele­va­tion of Trust

shminux28 Dec 2020 8:18 UTC
21 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

In­finite possibilities

KatjaGrace28 Dec 2020 10:10 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Mea­sur­ing up to in­cred­ible potential

KatjaGrace29 Dec 2020 7:50 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Notes on notes on virtues

David Gross30 Dec 2020 17:47 UTC
62 points
5 comments11 min readLW link

And You Take Me the Way I Am

Zack_M_Davis31 Dec 2020 5:45 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(zackmdavis.net)

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 12

lsusr31 Dec 2020 20:02 UTC
62 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Em­piri­cism in NLP : Test Oper­ate Text Exit (TOTE)

ChristianKl1 Jan 2021 16:09 UTC
10 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 13

lsusr1 Jan 2021 8:01 UTC
74 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

Re­view: The Div­ing Bell and the Butterfly

KatjaGrace2 Jan 2021 1:30 UTC
32 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Men­tal sub­agent im­pli­ca­tions for AI Safety

moridinamael3 Jan 2021 18:59 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t Use Your Fa­vorite Weapon

Aaron Bergman3 Jan 2021 4:01 UTC
33 points
7 comments6 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

On Mean­ing and Machines

meanderingmoose5 Jan 2021 15:51 UTC
6 points
2 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Ways to be more agenty?

NicholasKross5 Jan 2021 8:06 UTC
23 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

The Poin­t­ers Prob­lem: Clar­ifi­ca­tions/​Variations

abramdemski5 Jan 2021 17:29 UTC
51 points
14 comments18 min readLW link

Ge­nius is (mostly) comparative

Amir Bolous5 Jan 2021 20:57 UTC
2 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

The Cow­pox of Doubt

Scott Alexander16 Apr 2014 1:04 UTC
49 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Lin­guis­tic Freedom

Chris_Leong6 Jan 2021 7:23 UTC
10 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Grokking illusionism

Joe Carlsmith6 Jan 2021 5:50 UTC
41 points
49 comments9 min readLW link

Thoughts on per­sonal identity

Joe Carlsmith8 Jan 2021 4:19 UTC
16 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Con­di­tion-directedness

KatjaGrace8 Jan 2021 10:30 UTC
21 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Con­ver­sa­tion, event loops, and er­ror handling

Adam Zerner8 Jan 2021 8:05 UTC
18 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] In­for­ma­tion on time-com­plex­ity prior?

Garrett Baker8 Jan 2021 6:09 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Un­nat­u­ral Cat­e­gories Are Op­ti­mized for Deception

Zack_M_Davis8 Jan 2021 20:54 UTC
80 points
22 comments33 min readLW link1 review

A work­shop on Life Influences

Elo10 Jan 2021 11:23 UTC
8 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Overconfidence

lsusr10 Jan 2021 10:36 UTC
25 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Dist­in­guish­ing goals from chores

Amir Bolous10 Jan 2021 7:45 UTC
5 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Avoid Un­nec­es­sar­ily Poli­ti­cal Examples

Raemon11 Jan 2021 5:41 UTC
105 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

“If” is in the map

Chris_Leong13 Jan 2021 3:09 UTC
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Gratitude

David Gross13 Jan 2021 20:37 UTC
11 points
0 comments16 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion on the choice of concepts

KatjaGrace14 Jan 2021 4:00 UTC
41 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Alie­na­tion and meta-ethics (or: is it pos­si­ble you should max­i­mize he­lium?)

Joe Carlsmith15 Jan 2021 7:07 UTC
13 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tive thinking

KatjaGrace16 Jan 2021 2:30 UTC
24 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

[Question] Is it the case that when hu­mans ap­prox­i­mate back­ward in­duc­tion they vi­o­late the markov prop­erty?

Quinn16 Jan 2021 16:22 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­cerpt from Ar­bital Solomonoff in­duc­tion dialogue

Richard_Ngo17 Jan 2021 3:49 UTC
36 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(arbital.com)

D&D.Sci II Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplic17 Jan 2021 16:58 UTC
33 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How do I im­prove at be­ing strate­gic?

Conor17 Jan 2021 1:36 UTC
11 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Short sum­mary of mAIry’s room

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jan 2021 18:11 UTC
26 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Con­vic­tion ⚖️ Skepticism

lsusr19 Jan 2021 8:04 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Pray­ing to God

lsusr19 Jan 2021 10:25 UTC
6 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Rec­og­niz­ing Numbers

johnswentworth20 Jan 2021 19:50 UTC
25 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Notes on Op­ti­mism, Hope, and Trust

David Gross20 Jan 2021 23:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments17 min readLW link

A few thought on the in­ner ring

KatjaGrace21 Jan 2021 3:40 UTC
70 points
23 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Would most peo­ple benefit from be­ing less co­er­cive to them­selves?

Matt Goldenberg21 Jan 2021 14:24 UTC
24 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

A ghost

Joe Carlsmith21 Jan 2021 7:14 UTC
16 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Ex­er­cise: Ta­boo “Should”

johnswentworth22 Jan 2021 21:02 UTC
95 points
28 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews

Bayesian Charity

Wes F22 Jan 2021 14:49 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

On the na­ture of pur­pose

Nora_Ammann22 Jan 2021 8:30 UTC
28 points
15 comments9 min readLW link

Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- The Army’s Form

lsusr23 Jan 2021 6:47 UTC
27 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Les­sons I’ve Learned from Self-Teaching

TurnTrout23 Jan 2021 19:00 UTC
291 points
72 comments9 min readLW link1 review

Con­fir­ma­tion Bias in Action

Jacob Falkovich24 Jan 2021 17:38 UTC
36 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

What is a VNM sta­ble set, re­ally?

Nisan25 Jan 2021 5:43 UTC
14 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Reve­la­tion and mathematics

George3d625 Jan 2021 12:26 UTC
5 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

A per­spec­tive on co­vari­ate ad­just­ment and con­found­ing in ran­dom­ized ex­per­i­ments.

Darren25 Jan 2021 20:22 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Forgiveness

David Gross26 Jan 2021 2:05 UTC
11 points
4 comments24 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the big deal about Bayes’ The­o­rem?

AVoropaev26 Jan 2021 6:08 UTC
21 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Build Your Num­ber Sense

DirectedEvolution27 Jan 2021 21:01 UTC
21 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Op­ti­mal play in hu­man-judged De­bate usu­ally won’t an­swer your question

Joe_Collman27 Jan 2021 7:34 UTC
33 points
12 comments12 min readLW link

Ex­tract­ing Money from Causal De­ci­sion Theorists

Caspar Oesterheld28 Jan 2021 17:58 UTC
24 points
31 comments1 min readLW link
(doi.org)

[Question] Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Sys­tems for In­tu­itions?

A Ray28 Jan 2021 17:23 UTC
19 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Round­about Strategy

NicholasKross28 Jan 2021 0:44 UTC
6 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Dumb Di­chotomies in Ethics, Part 1: In­ten­tions vs Consequences

Aaron Bergman29 Jan 2021 3:49 UTC
24 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Limit­ing Causal­ity by Com­plex­ity Class

Bunthut30 Jan 2021 12:18 UTC
18 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Judg­ment and Righ­teous Anger

David Gross30 Jan 2021 19:31 UTC
12 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Catch­ing the Spark

LoganStrohl30 Jan 2021 23:23 UTC
106 points
21 comments36 min readLW link1 review

[Question] For those who ad­vo­cate Anki

jmh31 Jan 2021 0:01 UTC
20 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Re­search­ing and Rea­son­ing About Bardiya

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)31 Jan 2021 0:24 UTC
19 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The 10,000-Hour Rule is a myth

lynettebye1 Feb 2021 4:47 UTC
52 points
25 comments6 min readLW link

Smug­gled frames

Artyom Kazak1 Feb 2021 1:22 UTC
64 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Jan­uary 2021

NunoSempere1 Feb 2021 23:07 UTC
20 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Feed­back for learning

KatjaGrace1 Feb 2021 9:40 UTC
20 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Believ­ing in things you can­not see

Joe Carlsmith1 Feb 2021 7:26 UTC
17 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Self-Crit­i­cism Can Be Wrong And Harmful

DirectedEvolution1 Feb 2021 1:07 UTC
12 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Pri­soner’s Dilem­mas : Altru­ism :: Bat­tles of the Sexes : Convention

michaelcohen1 Feb 2021 10:39 UTC
11 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Deep­mind has made a gen­eral in­duc­tor (“Mak­ing sense of sen­sory in­put”)

mako yass2 Feb 2021 2:54 UTC
49 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

[Question] Has any­body used quan­tifi­ca­tion over util­ity func­tions to define “how good a model is”?

Eigil Rischel2 Feb 2021 15:14 UTC
5 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Bayesian in­fer­ence on 1st or­der logic

Daniel Abolafia3 Feb 2021 1:03 UTC
11 points
6 comments18 min readLW link

Reflec­tions on the cry­on­ics sequence

mingyuan3 Feb 2021 1:17 UTC
98 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Late-talk­ing kids and “Ein­stein syn­drome”

Steven Byrnes3 Feb 2021 15:16 UTC
30 points
27 comments6 min readLW link

A Gen­tle In­tro­duc­tion on How to Use Anki to Im­prove Your Memory

simbyotic4 Feb 2021 9:59 UTC
18 points
2 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] Any layper­son-ac­cessible refer­ence posts on how to op­er­a­tional­ize be­liefs ?

Optimization Process5 Feb 2021 7:26 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Net­work­ing and Ex­pert Con­sult­ing As Ra­tion­al­ity Bottlenecks

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2021 5:41 UTC
33 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What does flow feel like for “men­tal ac­tivi­ties”?

Hazard5 Feb 2021 14:33 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Three Sto­ries about not Think­ing too Hard

ejacob5 Feb 2021 19:51 UTC
23 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(eidan.substack.com)

The Fear Experiments

Tim Lyons5 Feb 2021 22:57 UTC
10 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Mak­ing Ex­per­tise Leg­ible: Be­ing right should make you re­spected, not the other way around

ejacob7 Feb 2021 23:15 UTC
6 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(eidan.substack.com)

Book re­view: Sleight of Mind (Matt Cook)

Bob Baker7 Feb 2021 21:44 UTC
4 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Schel­ling’s “Strat­egy of Con­flict” (1960)

MichaelA10 Feb 2021 2:48 UTC
22 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

The art of car­ing what peo­ple think

KatjaGrace12 Feb 2021 5:40 UTC
43 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Con­tact with reality

Joe Carlsmith15 Feb 2021 4:53 UTC
25 points
3 comments21 min readLW link

Notes on Amiability

David Gross15 Feb 2021 19:34 UTC
15 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­ised mod­els as a category

Stuart_Armstrong16 Feb 2021 16:08 UTC
24 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

The feel­ing of break­ing an Over­ton window

AnnaSalamon17 Feb 2021 5:31 UTC
125 points
29 comments1 min readLW link1 review

How Strong is Our Con­nec­tion to Truth?

anorangicc17 Feb 2021 0:10 UTC
1 point
5 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing sweetness

KatjaGrace17 Feb 2021 7:00 UTC
16 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Utility Max­i­miza­tion = De­scrip­tion Length Minimization

johnswentworth18 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC
189 points
41 comments5 min readLW link

Short­cuts With Chained Probabilities

jefftk18 Feb 2021 2:00 UTC
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Fore­cast­ing Prize Results

19 Feb 2021 19:07 UTC
37 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

On the Na­ture of Reputation

Martin Sustrik20 Feb 2021 12:50 UTC
17 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

En­tan­gled with Real­ity: The Shoelace Example

lukeprog25 Jun 2011 4:50 UTC
25 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How to build com­mon knowl­edge of ra­tio­nal­ity and hon­esty?

MikkW21 Feb 2021 6:07 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Prin­ci­ples of Agile Rationalism

DirectedEvolution21 Feb 2021 1:47 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Two types of deference

Joe Carlsmith22 Feb 2021 3:32 UTC
4 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Min­i­mal Map Constraints

Zachary Robertson21 Feb 2021 17:49 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Ar­gu­men­ta­tive prison cells

Malmesbury21 Feb 2021 17:40 UTC
3 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

The slopes to com­mon sense

George3d622 Feb 2021 19:22 UTC
47 points
19 comments8 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

The Com­pre­hen­sion Curve

DirectedEvolution22 Feb 2021 22:51 UTC
32 points
9 comments10 min readLW link

Over­com­ing Helplessness

Neel Nanda22 Feb 2021 15:03 UTC
16 points
1 comment10 min readLW link
(neelnanda.io)

Yes, words can cause harm

kithpendragon24 Feb 2021 0:18 UTC
−4 points
54 comments4 min readLW link

Coin­ci­dences are Improbable

Mark Xu24 Feb 2021 9:14 UTC
29 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(markxu.com)

Com­pro­mis­ing with Compulsion

matejsuchy25 Feb 2021 16:43 UTC
4 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Never Go Full Kelly

SimonM25 Feb 2021 12:53 UTC
44 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

My Thoughts on the Ap­per­cep­tion Engine

J Bostock25 Feb 2021 19:43 UTC
5 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] Can you be 100% con­fi­dent in your moral be­liefs?

MaxG27 Feb 2021 0:23 UTC
3 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

“If You’re Not a Holy Mad­man, You’re Not Try­ing”

abramdemski28 Feb 2021 18:56 UTC
95 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Sub­jec­tivism and moral authority

Joe Carlsmith1 Mar 2021 9:02 UTC
21 points
4 comments14 min readLW link

We should not raise awareness

lsusr1 Mar 2021 8:46 UTC
34 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Links for Feb 2021

ike1 Mar 2021 5:13 UTC
6 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(misinfounderload.substack.com)

The Flex­i­bil­ity of Ab­stract Concepts

lsusr2 Mar 2021 6:43 UTC
44 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Does any­one else some­times “run out of gas” when try­ing to think?

Sunny from QAD3 Feb 2021 12:57 UTC
7 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

How To Think About Over­pa­ram­e­ter­ized Models

johnswentworth3 Mar 2021 22:29 UTC
64 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Seven Years of Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Soft­ware in the Classroom

tanagrabeast4 Mar 2021 2:42 UTC
252 points
38 comments34 min readLW link1 review

A Semitech­ni­cal In­tro­duc­tory Dialogue on Solomonoff Induction

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Mar 2021 17:27 UTC
128 points
34 comments54 min readLW link

A non-log­a­r­ith­mic ar­gu­ment for Kelly

Bunthut4 Mar 2021 16:21 UTC
23 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Con­nect­ing the good reg­u­la­tor the­o­rem with se­man­tics and sym­bol grounding

Stuart_Armstrong4 Mar 2021 14:35 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Notic­ing and Over­com­ing Bias

Neel Nanda6 Mar 2021 21:06 UTC
14 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

D&D.Sci III: Mancer Matchups

abstractapplic5 Mar 2021 19:07 UTC
19 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

The three ex­ist­ing ways of ex­plain­ing the three char­ac­ter­is­tics of existence

Kaj_Sotala7 Mar 2021 18:20 UTC
40 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

See­ing Sta­tus Quo Bias

Liron8 Mar 2021 0:24 UTC
27 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

How I Meditate

Gordon Seidoh Worley8 Mar 2021 3:34 UTC
17 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

If you’ve learned from the best, you’re do­ing it wrong

George3d68 Mar 2021 13:14 UTC
36 points
17 comments6 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

Are dogs bad?

qbolec11 Mar 2021 8:11 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Re­s­olu­tions to the Challenge of Re­solv­ing Forecasts

Davidmanheim11 Mar 2021 19:08 UTC
57 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Learn and prac­tice us­ing Oc­cam’s Ra­zor with exercises

icompetetowin11 Mar 2021 20:29 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(newsletter.decisionschool.org)

“Beliefs” vs. “No­tions”

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)12 Mar 2021 16:04 UTC
12 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

How I come up with ideas

lsusr12 Mar 2021 9:01 UTC
38 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

On Chang­ing Minds That Aren’t Mine, and The In­stinct to Sur­ren­der.

Anomal313 Mar 2021 16:08 UTC
14 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

In­ter­nal Dou­ble Crux: Video Games

supposedlyfun14 Mar 2021 11:45 UTC
15 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

The non-cen­tral fal­lacy and Law

ThomasMore14 Mar 2021 15:09 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link

What’s So Bad About Ad-Hoc Math­e­mat­i­cal Defi­ni­tions?

johnswentworth15 Mar 2021 21:51 UTC
169 points
57 comments7 min readLW link

In­ter­mit­tent Distil­la­tions #1

Mark Xu17 Mar 2021 5:15 UTC
25 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

“Ob­jec­tive vs So­cial Real­ity” vs “Si­mu­lacra 1/​3″

Raemon17 Mar 2021 22:15 UTC
27 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Product orientation

DirectedEvolution18 Mar 2021 0:41 UTC
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Acetyl­choline = Learn­ing rate (aka plas­tic­ity)

Steven Byrnes18 Mar 2021 13:57 UTC
33 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Bab­ble Challenge: 50 Ways to Over­come Im­pos­tor Syndrome

Tim Liptrot19 Mar 2021 18:21 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

“Med­i­ta­tion for skep­tics” – a re­view of two books, and some thoughts

Sherrinford20 Mar 2021 23:35 UTC
16 points
4 comments12 min readLW link

Un­nec­es­sary Bore­dom Bias

Mathisco20 Mar 2021 19:29 UTC
8 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

A Ret­ro­spec­tive Look at the Guild of Ser­vants: Alpha Phase

moridinamael22 Mar 2021 20:34 UTC
75 points
8 comments11 min readLW link

Thirty-three ran­domly se­lected bioethics papers

Rob Bensinger22 Mar 2021 21:38 UTC
111 points
45 comments50 min readLW link

“In­fra-Bayesi­anism with Vanessa Kosoy” – Watch/​Dis­cuss Party

Ben Pace22 Mar 2021 23:44 UTC
27 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

Prefer­ences and bi­ases, the in­for­ma­tion argument

Stuart_Armstrong23 Mar 2021 12:44 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Why 1-box­ing doesn’t im­ply back­wards causation

Chris_Leong25 Mar 2021 2:32 UTC
7 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Cu­ri­os­ity needs courage

Amir Bolous25 Mar 2021 3:38 UTC
24 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Use your ra­tio­nal­ity or it’s useless

XxX25 Mar 2021 21:23 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Toward A Bayesian The­ory Of Willpower

Scott Alexander26 Mar 2021 2:33 UTC
100 points
28 comments6 min readLW link

Learn and prac­tice us­ing Han­lon’s Ra­zor with ex­er­cises.

icompetetowin26 Mar 2021 14:20 UTC
−7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(newsletter.decisionschool.org)

Co­her­ence ar­gu­ments im­ply a force for goal-di­rected behavior

KatjaGrace26 Mar 2021 16:10 UTC
89 points
28 comments11 min readLW link1 review
(aiimpacts.org)

The Point of Easy Progress

silentbob28 Mar 2021 16:38 UTC
59 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Agree­ing to Disagree: to­wards a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing of agreeableness

Aaron Bergman29 Mar 2021 3:14 UTC
5 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Sys­tem­atiz­ing Epistemics: Prin­ci­ples for Re­solv­ing Forecasts

Davidmanheim29 Mar 2021 20:46 UTC
33 points
8 comments11 min readLW link

Gold­fish Reading

DirectedEvolution31 Mar 2021 1:04 UTC
19 points
8 comments12 min readLW link

What Do We Know About The Con­scious­ness, Any­way?

SurvivalBias31 Mar 2021 23:30 UTC
12 points
49 comments24 min readLW link

[Question] What is the se­man­tics of as­sign­ing prob­a­bil­ities to fu­ture events?

Michal1 Apr 2021 0:29 UTC
12 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

April drafts

AI Impacts1 Apr 2021 18:10 UTC
49 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

Notes from “Don’t Shoot the Dog”

juliawise2 Apr 2021 16:34 UTC
219 points
11 comments12 min readLW link1 review

On In­for­ma­tion Pre­sented by Authorities

adaminoue2 Apr 2021 15:40 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.inoue.today)

Affordances

abramdemski2 Apr 2021 20:53 UTC
56 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] In plain English—in what ways are Bayes’ Rule and Pop­pe­rian falsifi­ca­tion­ism con­flict­ing episte­molo­gies?

Sandro P.2 Apr 2021 21:21 UTC
2 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

City of Lights

Alicorn31 Mar 2010 23:30 UTC
44 points
43 comments4 min readLW link

Mo­ral Golems

Erich_Grunewald3 Apr 2021 10:12 UTC
8 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Pur­pose and Pragmatism

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Nov 2007 6:51 UTC
25 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Reflec­tive Bayesianism

abramdemski6 Apr 2021 19:48 UTC
58 points
27 comments13 min readLW link

Don’t Sell Your Soul

Jacob Falkovich6 Apr 2021 19:02 UTC
61 points
46 comments9 min readLW link

Cu­ri­ous In­quiry and Ri­gor­ous Training

DirectedEvolution6 Apr 2021 22:38 UTC
19 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Which coun­ter­fac­tu­als should an AI fol­low?

Stuart_Armstrong7 Apr 2021 16:47 UTC
19 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

The Ja­panese Quiz: a Thought Ex­per­i­ment of Statis­ti­cal Epistemology

DanB8 Apr 2021 17:37 UTC
11 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

In­sights from “All of Statis­tics”: Statis­ti­cal Inference

Rafael Harth8 Apr 2021 17:49 UTC
7 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

In­sights from “All of Statis­tics”: Probability

Rafael Harth8 Apr 2021 17:48 UTC
7 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

Air Qual­ity and Cognition

chw8 Apr 2021 21:42 UTC
28 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

My Cur­rent Take on Counterfactuals

abramdemski9 Apr 2021 17:51 UTC
53 points
58 comments25 min readLW link

Some­times, it can take a while to no­tice confusion

masasin10 Apr 2021 3:24 UTC
27 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Forc­ing Your­self is Self Harm, or Don’t Good­hart Yourself

Gordon Seidoh Worley10 Apr 2021 15:19 UTC
29 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

How to learn soft skills

AnnaSalamon7 Feb 2015 5:22 UTC
122 points
29 comments7 min readLW link

[LINK] Luck, Skill, and Im­prov­ing at Games

Davis_Kingsley11 Apr 2021 14:35 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(towernumbernine.com)

Bayes’ the­o­rem, plau­si­ble de­ni­a­bil­ity, and smiley faces

Adam Zerner11 Apr 2021 20:41 UTC
24 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

In­ter­mit­tent Distil­la­tions #2

Mark Xu14 Apr 2021 6:47 UTC
32 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

Against “Con­text-Free In­tegrity”

Ben Pace14 Apr 2021 8:20 UTC
62 points
29 comments5 min readLW link

Com­put­ing Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tions: Lin­ear Approximation

johnswentworth15 Apr 2021 17:47 UTC
40 points
22 comments7 min readLW link

Prophetic Hazard

onur16 Apr 2021 10:09 UTC
−1 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Vari­a­tional Char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of Expectation

Zachary Robertson16 Apr 2021 0:12 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Most Analo­gies Are Wrong

J Bostock16 Apr 2021 19:53 UTC
8 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

The Scout Mind­set—read-along

weft16 Apr 2021 19:43 UTC
42 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Net­works of Meaning

Erich_Grunewald17 Apr 2021 7:30 UTC
21 points
1 comment10 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

D&D.Sci April 2021 Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplic19 Apr 2021 13:26 UTC
39 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

How can we in­crease the fre­quency of rare in­sights?

MichaelDickens19 Apr 2021 22:54 UTC
19 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Types of generalism

Nora_Ammann20 Apr 2021 8:22 UTC
24 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

What books are for: a re­sponse to “Why books don’t work.”

Aaron Bergman21 Apr 2021 23:18 UTC
35 points
16 comments6 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Have an idea for an in­ter­ac­tive learn­ing mod­ule? Con­sider ap­ply­ing for a Clear­erThink­ing.org micro grant!

spencerg22 Apr 2021 18:13 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity the­ory and log­i­cal in­duc­tion as lenses

Alex Flint23 Apr 2021 2:41 UTC
43 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

Iden­tity in What You Are Not

Gordon Seidoh Worley24 Apr 2021 20:11 UTC
9 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Scott Alexan­der 2021 Pre­dic­tions: Buy/​Sell/​Hold

Zvi27 Apr 2021 0:40 UTC
42 points
39 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What top­ics are on Dath Ilan’s civics exam?

jimrandomh27 Apr 2021 0:59 UTC
47 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

Face­book is Si­mu­lacra Level 3, An­dreessen is Level 4

Ben Pace28 Apr 2021 17:38 UTC
50 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Why “is ev­i­dence for” is a sym­met­ric relation

alex_hhr29 Apr 2021 21:26 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(raginrayguns.tumblr.com)

Mind­ful­ness as debugging

pchvykov30 Apr 2021 16:59 UTC
19 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Your Dog is Even Smarter Than You Think

StyleOfDog1 May 2021 5:16 UTC
247 points
107 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews

Fol­low-up to Ju­lia Wise on “Don’t Shoot The Dog”

Alex Flint1 May 2021 19:07 UTC
19 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Con­sis­ten­cies as (meta-)preferences

Stuart_Armstrong3 May 2021 15:10 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

My Jour­ney to the Dark Side

Slimepriestess6 May 2021 0:27 UTC
15 points
60 comments17 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

An­throp­ics: differ­ent prob­a­bil­ities, differ­ent questions

Stuart_Armstrong6 May 2021 13:14 UTC
24 points
10 comments15 min readLW link

D&D.Sci May 2021: Mon­ster Car­cass Auction

abstractapplic7 May 2021 19:33 UTC
24 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Oc­cam’s Guillotine

Slimepriestess7 May 2021 16:30 UTC
5 points
9 comments9 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Mi­graine hal­lu­ci­na­tions, phe­nomenol­ogy, and cognition

Richard_Kennaway8 May 2021 15:56 UTC
36 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Im­ple­ment­ing the Se­cond Virtue: Feel the Emo­tions Which Fit the Facts

LukeOnline9 May 2021 5:47 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What is the strongest ar­gu­ment you know for an­tire­al­ism?

Michele Campolo12 May 2021 10:53 UTC
7 points
58 comments1 min readLW link

The case for hypocrisy

Aaron Bergman13 May 2021 3:36 UTC
37 points
12 comments5 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Con­cern­ing not get­ting lost

Alex Flint14 May 2021 19:38 UTC
50 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Re­search Mo­ti­va­tions and “The Divi­sion of Cog­ni­tive La­bor”

Aidan_Kierans16 May 2021 0:00 UTC
4 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How to de­ter­mine the value of op­tion­al­ity?

sphericaltree17 May 2021 2:19 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

De­liber­ately Vague Lan­guage is Bullshit

lsusr14 May 2021 9:17 UTC
36 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Does but­terfly af­fect?

pchvykov14 May 2021 4:20 UTC
14 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Zvi’s Law of No Evidence

lsusr14 May 2021 7:27 UTC
17 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

How to com­pute the prob­a­bil­ity you are flip­ping a trick coin

lsusr15 May 2021 0:02 UTC
18 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The Pur­pose of Purpose

Gordon Seidoh Worley15 May 2021 21:00 UTC
17 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

A.D&D.Sci May 2021: In­ter­di­men­sional Mon­ster Car­cass Auction

abstractapplic17 May 2021 15:54 UTC
27 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How re­fined is your art of note-tak­ing?

DirectedEvolution19 May 2021 22:12 UTC
22 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Time & Memory

abramdemski20 May 2021 15:16 UTC
23 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 5: Hivemind

lsusr21 May 2021 7:35 UTC
44 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view of 5 Ap­plied Bayesian Statis­tics Books

Jan Christian Refsgaard21 May 2021 10:23 UTC
62 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Burmese Days #4 Tar­geted costs

Tim Liptrot23 May 2021 20:54 UTC
13 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Don’t feel bad about not know­ing ba­sic things

Adam Zerner24 May 2021 1:49 UTC
86 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

A.D&D.Sci May 2021 Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplic24 May 2021 16:25 UTC
18 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Ques­tions are tools to help an­swer­ers op­ti­mize utility

ozziegooen24 May 2021 19:30 UTC
31 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Prob­lems fac­ing a cor­re­spon­dence the­ory of knowledge

Alex Flint24 May 2021 16:02 UTC
27 points
23 comments6 min readLW link

Ab­strac­tion Talk

johnswentworth25 May 2021 16:45 UTC
38 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Knowl­edge is not just map/​ter­ri­tory resemblance

Alex Flint25 May 2021 17:58 UTC
28 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

The Prac­tice & Virtue of Discernment

ozziegooen26 May 2021 0:34 UTC
41 points
11 comments11 min readLW link

The Ho­muncu­lus Problem

abramdemski27 May 2021 20:25 UTC
41 points
38 comments5 min readLW link

Two Defi­ni­tions of Generalization

ozziegooen29 May 2021 4:20 UTC
33 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

The San­ity Water­line Bul­ges at the Middle

matejsuchy29 May 2021 3:15 UTC
−7 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(matejsuchy.substack.com)

Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Con­tin­u­ous Practice

Gordon Seidoh Worley31 May 2021 18:42 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Strength, not courage, is the sec­ond com­po­nent of goodness

Srdjan Miletic1 Jun 2021 3:32 UTC
4 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Can you im­prove your in­tel­li­gence with these types of ex­er­cises?

icompetetowin1 Jun 2021 21:13 UTC
2 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Selec­tion Has A Qual­ity Ceiling

johnswentworth2 Jun 2021 18:25 UTC
142 points
18 comments4 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Sum­maries of un­cer­tain priors

skybrian3 Jun 2021 2:43 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

April 2021 Gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern3 Jun 2021 15:13 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Ra­tion­al­ists should meet In­te­gral Theory

Elo4 Jun 2021 5:14 UTC
4 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

Search-in-Ter­ri­tory vs Search-in-Map

johnswentworth5 Jun 2021 23:22 UTC
70 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

An­thropic Para­doxes and Self Refer­ence

dadadarren6 Jun 2021 2:52 UTC
6 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Bad names make you open the box

Adam Zerner9 Jun 2021 3:19 UTC
88 points
51 comments10 min readLW link1 review

Knowl­edge is not just mu­tual information

Alex Flint10 Jun 2021 1:01 UTC
27 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Re­ply to Nate Soares on Dolphins

Zack_M_Davis10 Jun 2021 4:53 UTC
46 points
49 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How do you keep track of your own learn­ing?

DirectedEvolution10 Jun 2021 20:25 UTC
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

“Ne­c­es­sary Claims”: A tech­nique to struc­ture com­plex decisions

fgrosseholz@yahoo.com10 Jun 2021 5:16 UTC
7 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

In­ter­nal Memo from Bleggs Universal

kithpendragon12 Jun 2021 16:44 UTC
24 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Five Sugges­tions For Ra­tion­al­ity Re­search and Devel­op­ment

LoganStrohl14 Jun 2021 1:09 UTC
64 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Look­ing Deeper at Deconfusion

adamShimi13 Jun 2021 21:29 UTC
58 points
13 comments15 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ments with a ran­dom clock

Malmesbury13 Jun 2021 17:08 UTC
58 points
12 comments7 min readLW link
(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

Dooms­day, Sam­pling As­sump­tions, and Bayes

Yair Halberstadt14 Jun 2021 12:41 UTC
6 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

Vari­ables Don’t Rep­re­sent The Phys­i­cal World (And That’s OK)

johnswentworth16 Jun 2021 19:05 UTC
41 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

The Ap­pren­tice Thread

Zvi17 Jun 2021 13:10 UTC
137 points
59 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ta­boo “Out­side View”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jun 2021 9:36 UTC
324 points
33 comments8 min readLW link3 reviews

[Question] Thoughts on a “Se­quences In­spired” PhD Topic

goose00017 Jun 2021 20:36 UTC
7 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Are bread crusts healthier?

Yair Halberstadt18 Jun 2021 15:12 UTC
13 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Non-poi­sonous cake: an­thropic up­dates are normal

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jun 2021 14:51 UTC
27 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Con­di­tional offers and low pri­ors: the prob­lem with 1-box­ing New­comb’s dilemma

Andrew Vlahos18 Jun 2021 21:50 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Knowl­edge is not just pre­cip­i­ta­tion of action

Alex Flint18 Jun 2021 23:26 UTC
21 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam: Pledges, Ac­ti­va­tion En­ergy and Eval­u­at­ing Productivity

Towards_Keeperhood20 Jun 2021 23:59 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Self-Responsibility

hath21 Jun 2021 16:17 UTC
25 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

D&D.Sci(-Fi) June 2021: The Duel with Earwax

abstractapplic22 Jun 2021 11:48 UTC
21 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

In­ter­nal In­for­ma­tion Cascades

JenniferRM25 Jun 2021 16:35 UTC
42 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Re­plac­ing Guilt audiobook

gianlucatruda25 Jun 2021 13:38 UTC
65 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Cliffnotes to Craft of Re­search parts I, II, and III

Quinn26 Jun 2021 14:00 UTC
7 points
1 comment17 min readLW link

The Un­ex­pected Hang­ing Paradox

Chris_Leong27 Jun 2021 6:17 UTC
16 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

In­ten­tion­ally Mak­ing Close Friends

Neel Nanda27 Jun 2021 23:06 UTC
258 points
29 comments18 min readLW link1 review
(www.neelnanda.io)

Epony­mous Laws Part 2: Laws of Pro­gram­ming and Soft­ware Development

rogersbacon28 Jun 2021 12:46 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Opinionated Uncertainty

DirectedEvolution29 Jun 2021 0:11 UTC
10 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

D&D.Sci(-Fi) June 2021 Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplic29 Jun 2021 21:02 UTC
25 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a “co­her­ent de­ci­sions im­ply con­sis­tent util­ities”-style ar­gu­ment for non-lex­i­co­graphic prefer­ences?

Tetraspace29 Jun 2021 19:14 UTC
4 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Do in­co­her­ent en­tities have stronger rea­son to be­come more co­her­ent than less?

KatjaGrace30 Jun 2021 5:50 UTC
46 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Si­mu­lacrum Levels of Trust

alkexr30 Jun 2021 10:14 UTC
21 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Con­fu­sions re: Higher-Level Game Theory

Diffractor2 Jul 2021 3:15 UTC
38 points
5 comments9 min readLW link

Notes on Kindness

David Gross3 Jul 2021 21:47 UTC
17 points
1 comment17 min readLW link

Are co­in­ci­dences clues about missed dis­asters? It de­pends on your an­swer to the Sleep­ing Beauty Prob­lem.

Harlan5 Jul 2021 19:12 UTC
32 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

A sim­ple ex­am­ple of con­di­tional or­thog­o­nal­ity in finite fac­tored sets

DanielFilan6 Jul 2021 0:36 UTC
43 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

[Question] Ra­tion­al­ity Yel­low Belt Test Ques­tions?

moridinamael6 Jul 2021 18:15 UTC
19 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Po­ten­tial Bot­tle­necks to Tak­ing Over The World

johnswentworth6 Jul 2021 19:34 UTC
138 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

Relentlessness

Alicorn6 Jul 2021 20:27 UTC
91 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Con­se­quences of Bayesian Episte­mol­ogy?

Benjamin Hendricks6 Jul 2021 20:05 UTC
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Chess and cheap ways to check day to day var­i­ance in cognition

KPier7 Jul 2021 0:08 UTC
55 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence with­out Consciousness

Andrew Vlahos7 Jul 2021 5:27 UTC
13 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Agency and the un­re­li­able au­tonomous car

Alex Flint7 Jul 2021 14:58 UTC
29 points
24 comments10 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing My Free On­line Course “Origi­nal See­ing With a Fo­cus On Life”

LoganStrohl8 Jul 2021 1:26 UTC
28 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Prac­ti­cal an­throp­ics summary

Stuart_Armstrong8 Jul 2021 15:10 UTC
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

An­throp­ics and Fermi: grabby, visi­ble, zoo-keep­ing, and early aliens

Stuart_Armstrong8 Jul 2021 15:07 UTC
14 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

The SIA pop­u­la­tion up­date can be sur­pris­ingly small

Stuart_Armstrong8 Jul 2021 10:45 UTC
47 points
11 comments10 min readLW link

The news at­ten­tion span

damiensnyder9 Jul 2021 1:44 UTC
13 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.damiensnyder.com)

Finite Fac­tored Sets: Con­di­tional Orthogonality

Scott Garrabrant9 Jul 2021 6:01 UTC
27 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Re­search Fa­cil­i­ta­tion Invitation

LoganStrohl10 Jul 2021 1:04 UTC
53 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

The ac­cu­mu­la­tion of knowl­edge: liter­a­ture review

Alex Flint10 Jul 2021 18:36 UTC
29 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

And the Dark­ness Answered

Slimepriestess11 Jul 2021 5:54 UTC
11 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

The in­escapa­bil­ity of knowledge

Alex Flint11 Jul 2021 22:59 UTC
28 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Ideal Col­lege Ed­u­ca­tion for an Aspiring Ra­tion­al­ist?

Collisteru13 Jul 2021 1:39 UTC
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Ex­plo­ra­tive Ques­tions to­wards Ar­gu­men­ta­tion + GitHub

cod3d13 Jul 2021 6:01 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­iz­ing Koop­man-Pit­man-Darmois

johnswentworth15 Jul 2021 22:33 UTC
55 points
9 comments11 min readLW link

La­fayette: empty traf­fic signals

KatjaGrace16 Jul 2021 4:30 UTC
19 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

When be­liefs be­come iden­tities, truth-seek­ing be­comes hard

Writer16 Jul 2021 9:02 UTC
7 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

“If and Only If” Should Be Spel­led “Ifeff”

jimrandomh16 Jul 2021 22:03 UTC
24 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

The Moun­taineer’s Fallacy

Alex Power17 Jul 2021 23:45 UTC
29 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Work­ing With Monsters

johnswentworth20 Jul 2021 15:23 UTC
208 points
55 comments5 min readLW link1 review

The Utility Func­tion of a Prepper

Alex Hollow21 Jul 2021 2:26 UTC
4 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

Ran­dom­ized Zet­telkas­ten Test

Josephine21 Jul 2021 17:21 UTC
32 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Jay­ne­sian in­ter­pre­ta­tion—How does “es­ti­mat­ing prob­a­bil­ities” make sense?

Haziq Muhammad21 Jul 2021 21:36 UTC
4 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

The Walk­ing Dead

Logan Zoellner22 Jul 2021 16:19 UTC
22 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Handi­cap­ping com­pet­i­tive games

DanielFilan22 Jul 2021 3:00 UTC
13 points
19 comments4 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

De­ci­sion Duels

Josephine23 Jul 2021 9:22 UTC
11 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Hyper­games 101

Josephine23 Jul 2021 13:19 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

When Ar­gu­ing Defi­ni­tions is Ar­gu­ing Decisions

Hazard25 Jul 2021 16:45 UTC
28 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Aca­demic Ra­tion­al­ity Research

ChristianKl25 Jul 2021 13:59 UTC
63 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Can I teach my­self sci­en­tific cre­ativity?

DirectedEvolution25 Jul 2021 20:15 UTC
13 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Black ravens and red herrings

Matthew Barnett27 Jul 2021 17:46 UTC
50 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Ev­i­dence that adds up

TekhneMakre29 Jul 2021 3:27 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Refer­en­tial Information

Jack R1 Aug 2021 21:07 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Myth of the Myth of the Lone Genius

rogersbacon2 Aug 2021 20:55 UTC
53 points
25 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What psy­chol­ogy stud­ies are most im­por­tant to the ra­tio­nal­ist wor­ld­view?

cogitoprime4 Aug 2021 3:53 UTC
16 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion-Mak­ing Train­ing for Soft­ware Engineering

Alex Hollow4 Aug 2021 10:36 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

When Most VNM-Co­her­ent Prefer­ence Order­ings Have Con­ver­gent In­stru­men­tal Incentives

TurnTrout9 Aug 2021 17:22 UTC
52 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What was my mis­take eval­u­at­ing risk in this situ­a­tion?

Andrew Vlahos3 Aug 2021 2:54 UTC
33 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Train­ing Bet­ter Ra­tion­al­ists?

Davis_Kingsley5 Aug 2021 11:13 UTC
42 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- Potential

lsusr5 Aug 2021 5:29 UTC
26 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Traps of For­mal­iza­tion in Deconfusion

adamShimi5 Aug 2021 22:40 UTC
24 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

The Fu­ture: Where are the Colors and the Sports?

rogersbacon8 Aug 2021 18:55 UTC
82 points
38 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Fram­ing Practicum: Stable Equilibrium

johnswentworth9 Aug 2021 17:28 UTC
56 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

Book Re­view: The Begin­ning of Infinity

Sam Enright9 Aug 2021 21:53 UTC
34 points
16 comments32 min readLW link

Fermi Fingers

Optimization Process9 Aug 2021 19:56 UTC
27 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Im­pli­ca­ture Conflation

abramdemski9 Aug 2021 19:48 UTC
52 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Out­line of Galef’s “Scout Mind­set”

Rob Bensinger10 Aug 2021 0:16 UTC
157 points
17 comments14 min readLW link

A Qual­i­ta­tive and In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Ex­pected Value

Adam Zerner10 Aug 2021 3:31 UTC
11 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

The two-headed bacterium

Malmesbury10 Aug 2021 15:28 UTC
65 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

Don’t walk through the fire! Walk through the fire!

Icarus Gallagher11 Aug 2021 19:38 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Fram­ing Practicum: Bistability

johnswentworth12 Aug 2021 4:51 UTC
35 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Er­ra­tum for “From AI to Zom­bies”

Just Learning12 Aug 2021 4:39 UTC
12 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

A re­view of “Agents and De­vices”

adamShimi13 Aug 2021 8:42 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Fudg­ing Work and Rationalization

J Bostock13 Aug 2021 19:51 UTC
9 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Ab­sent-Minded Driver and Self-Lo­cat­ing Probabilities

dadadarren14 Aug 2021 0:09 UTC
12 points
16 comments4 min readLW link
(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)

D&D.Sci Au­gust 2021: The Or­a­cle and the Monk

abstractapplic13 Aug 2021 22:36 UTC
26 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Stay­ing Grounded

johnswentworth14 Aug 2021 17:43 UTC
62 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Strat­egy vs. PR-nar­ra­tive

TekhneMakre15 Aug 2021 22:40 UTC
11 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

An Ap­pren­tice Ex­per­i­ment in Python Pro­gram­ming, Part 3

16 Aug 2021 4:42 UTC
14 points
11 comments22 min readLW link

Grav­ity Turn

alkjash16 Aug 2021 19:20 UTC
209 points
21 comments5 min readLW link1 review
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

[Question] Fram­ing Practicum: Dy­namic Equilibrium

johnswentworth16 Aug 2021 18:52 UTC
23 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Equanimity

Gordon Seidoh Worley16 Aug 2021 16:51 UTC
30 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Why must plau­si­bil­ities be rep­re­sented us­ing real num­bers?

Haziq Muhammad16 Aug 2021 16:31 UTC
10 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on Mo­ral Philosophy

Chris_Leong17 Aug 2021 12:57 UTC
17 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

Finite Fac­tored Sets: Polyno­mi­als and Probability

Scott Garrabrant17 Aug 2021 21:53 UTC
21 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Fac­tors of men­tal and phys­i­cal abil­ities—a statis­ti­cal analysis

dynomight17 Aug 2021 20:42 UTC
48 points
25 comments8 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

[Question] Fram­ing Practicum: Timescale Separation

johnswentworth19 Aug 2021 18:27 UTC
30 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

The Val­idity of Self-Lo­cat­ing Probabilities

dadadarren21 Aug 2021 2:53 UTC
8 points
42 comments2 min readLW link

A tax­on­omy of co­or­di­na­tion problems

damiensnyder22 Aug 2021 23:10 UTC
29 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Gen­er­a­tor Sys­tems: Coin­ci­dent Constraints

J Bostock23 Aug 2021 20:37 UTC
38 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Au­gust 2021 Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplic23 Aug 2021 22:49 UTC
25 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

In­for­ma­tion Assets

ozziegooen24 Aug 2021 4:32 UTC
42 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Fram­ing Practicum: Turnover Time

johnswentworth24 Aug 2021 16:29 UTC
22 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

The Val­idity of Self-Lo­cat­ing Prob­a­bil­ities (Pt. 2)

dadadarren25 Aug 2021 1:53 UTC
6 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Learn­ing can be deciding

Jaime Ruiz25 Aug 2021 16:22 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI/​OP ex­change about de­ci­sion theory

Rob Bensinger25 Aug 2021 22:44 UTC
48 points
7 comments10 min readLW link

Pair De­bug­ging and ap­plied rationality

null26 Aug 2021 11:37 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

A brief re­view of The Scout Mindset

Adam Zerner26 Aug 2021 20:47 UTC
14 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.goodreads.com)

Can you con­trol the past?

Joe Carlsmith27 Aug 2021 19:39 UTC
158 points
94 comments47 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Fram­ing Practicum: Incentive

aysajan27 Aug 2021 19:22 UTC
37 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Rea­sons for be­ing rational

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 1 Jul 2011 15:28 UTC
78 points
183 comments3 min readLW link

Be­ware of small world puzzles

mukashi30 Aug 2021 6:00 UTC
57 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

An­ti­dotes to Num­ber Numbness

Collisteru30 Aug 2021 20:17 UTC
12 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Im­prov­ing ra­tio­nal­ity /​ scout mind­set on a de­bate group

Aryeh Englander4 Sep 2021 17:02 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Hope and False Hope

TekhneMakre4 Sep 2021 9:46 UTC
4 points
60 comments6 min readLW link

The Co­or­di­na­tion Fron­tier: Se­quence Intro

Raemon4 Sep 2021 22:11 UTC
158 points
22 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Acausal Trade and the Ul­ti­ma­tum Game

Yair Halberstadt5 Sep 2021 5:36 UTC
14 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why there are no on­line CFAR work­shops?

Just Learning5 Sep 2021 15:02 UTC
22 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Path­fin­der: Re­turn of the Gray Swan Eval­u­a­tion & Ruleset

aphyer9 Sep 2021 14:03 UTC
37 points
13 comments14 min readLW link

Soldiers, Scouts, and Al­ba­trosses.

Jan12 Sep 2021 10:36 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

[Linkpost] Par­tial Deriva­tives and Par­tial Narratives

mike_hawke13 Sep 2021 21:02 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

A Fight is a Faster Tax on Bullshit

Ray Doraisamy17 Sep 2021 16:26 UTC
2 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

“Ra­tional Agents Win”

Isaac King23 Sep 2021 7:59 UTC
8 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

100 Years Of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

jdp27 Sep 2021 0:31 UTC
72 points
12 comments33 min readLW link
(www.wrestlinggnon.com)

Be­ware Su­perfi­cial Plausibility

Celer28 Sep 2021 3:58 UTC
32 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Selec­tion The­o­rems: A Pro­gram For Un­der­stand­ing Agents

johnswentworth28 Sep 2021 5:03 UTC
118 points
27 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

D&D.Sci 4th Edi­tion: League of Defen­ders of the Storm

aphyer28 Sep 2021 23:19 UTC
41 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

A re­view of Steven Pinker’s new book on rationality

Matthew Barnett29 Sep 2021 1:29 UTC
138 points
43 comments6 min readLW link

The Mind Is A Shaky Con­trol System

DirectedEvolution29 Sep 2021 20:49 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Why We Should Always Distrust Our Certainties

Ted Reynolds2 Oct 2021 6:05 UTC
0 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Blink: The Power of Think­ing Without Think­ing (book re­view)

Andrew Vlahos3 Oct 2021 23:21 UTC
17 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

Trust and The Small World Fallacy

DPiepgrass4 Oct 2021 0:38 UTC
26 points
14 comments14 min readLW link

To ev­ery peo­ple ac­cord­ing to their language

Yair Halberstadt4 Oct 2021 18:42 UTC
32 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

[ACX Linkpost] Too Good to Check: A Play in Three Acts

mike_hawke5 Oct 2021 5:04 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

State Pro­jec­tion Bias

nomiddlename5 Oct 2021 6:28 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci 4th Edi­tion: League of Defen­ders of the Storm Eval­u­a­tion & Ruleset

aphyer5 Oct 2021 17:30 UTC
37 points
17 comments7 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Desert

lsusr6 Oct 2021 0:24 UTC
37 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Ocean

lsusr6 Oct 2021 1:59 UTC
27 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Benthic

lsusr6 Oct 2021 4:39 UTC
25 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

No Really, There Are No Rules!

J Bostock7 Oct 2021 22:08 UTC
43 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Per­cep­tual dex­ter­ity: a case study

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien7 Oct 2021 22:25 UTC
65 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

Shoulder Ad­vi­sors 101

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien9 Oct 2021 5:30 UTC
184 points
130 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

Cup-Stack­ing Skills (or, Reflex­ive In­vol­un­tary Men­tal Mo­tions)

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien11 Oct 2021 7:16 UTC
112 points
38 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

my new short­sight reminder

mike_hawke11 Oct 2021 20:06 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[linkpost] Fan­ta­sia for Two Voices

mike_hawke13 Oct 2021 2:55 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

Is an­chor­ing a re­li­able cog­ni­tive bias?

justindomke14 Oct 2021 15:15 UTC
22 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(justindomke.wordpress.com)

In­ter­pret­ing Di­ag­nos­tic Tests

Tornus15 Oct 2021 2:58 UTC
6 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence, epistemics, and san­ity, in three short parts

ozziegooen15 Oct 2021 4:01 UTC
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabri­cated Options

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien17 Oct 2021 2:47 UTC
270 points
131 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] Ra­tion­al­ism for New EAs

Zach Stein-Perlman18 Oct 2021 16:00 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Some of the best ra­tio­nal­ity essays

Jack R19 Oct 2021 22:57 UTC
25 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

NATO: Cog­ni­tive War­fare Project

ChristianKl21 Oct 2021 9:57 UTC
20 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.innovationhub-act.org)

What’s Stop­ping You?

Neel Nanda21 Oct 2021 16:20 UTC
39 points
2 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(www.neelnanda.io)

Sto­icism vs the Meth­ods of Rationality

Space L Clottey21 Oct 2021 18:07 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Notic­ing the Value of Notic­ing Confusion

Space L Clottey21 Oct 2021 18:04 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Grad­ing scheme from Valen­tine Smith

Just Learning23 Oct 2021 19:29 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

De­liber­ate Play

jsteinhardt24 Oct 2021 2:50 UTC
87 points
4 comments5 min readLW link1 review
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Leadership

lsusr29 Oct 2021 7:29 UTC
30 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Good­hart’s Imperius

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien29 Oct 2021 20:19 UTC
76 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Why the Prob­lem of the Cri­te­rion Matters

Gordon Seidoh Worley30 Oct 2021 20:44 UTC
24 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Nate Soares on the Ul­ti­mate New­comb’s Problem

Rob Bensinger31 Oct 2021 19:42 UTC
56 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do I keep my­self/​S1 hon­est?

Randomized, Controlled31 Oct 2021 22:39 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

De­po­si­tions and Rationality

Pablo Repetto4 Nov 2021 0:10 UTC
22 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Sum­mary of the se­quences /​ Les­son plans for rationality

Space L Clottey5 Nov 2021 17:22 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Disagree­ables and Asses­sors: Two In­tel­lec­tual Archetypes

ozziegooen5 Nov 2021 9:05 UTC
45 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] How does one learn to cre­ate mod­els?

Conor5 Nov 2021 2:57 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Dun­geon­crawl­ing: The Crown of Command

aphyer7 Nov 2021 18:39 UTC
33 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

Steel­man soli­taire: how to take play­ing devil’s ad­vo­cate to the next level

KatWoods8 Nov 2021 20:49 UTC
56 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ments in par­allel vs ar­gu­ments in series

Sunny from QAD9 Nov 2021 8:31 UTC
11 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Us­ing blin­ders to help you see things for what they are

Adam Zerner11 Nov 2021 7:07 UTC
13 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

In­ves­ti­gat­ing Fabrication

LoganStrohl12 Nov 2021 6:06 UTC
71 points
6 comments15 min readLW link

A Defense of Func­tional De­ci­sion Theory

Heighn12 Nov 2021 20:59 UTC
23 points
223 comments10 min readLW link

Aver­age prob­a­bil­ities, not log odds

AlexMennen12 Nov 2021 21:39 UTC
20 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Worst Com­mon­sense Con­cepts?

abramdemski15 Nov 2021 18:22 UTC
71 points
32 comments3 min readLW link

Dan Luu on Per­sis­tent Bad De­ci­sion Mak­ing (but maybe it’s no­ble?)

Elizabeth15 Nov 2021 20:05 UTC
17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(danluu.com)

The Greedy Doc­tor Problem

Jan16 Nov 2021 22:06 UTC
6 points
10 comments12 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

The Em­peror’s New Clothes: a story of mo­ti­vated stupidity

David Hugh-Jones20 Nov 2021 13:24 UTC
10 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

Com­pe­tence/​Confidence

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien20 Nov 2021 8:59 UTC
58 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Split and Commit

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien21 Nov 2021 6:27 UTC
159 points
33 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Even if you’re right, you’re wrong

DanielFilan22 Nov 2021 5:40 UTC
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

The Meta-Puzzle

DanielFilan22 Nov 2021 5:30 UTC
23 points
27 comments3 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

A Bayesian Ag­gre­ga­tion Paradox

Jsevillamol22 Nov 2021 10:39 UTC
73 points
22 comments7 min readLW link

In­te­grat­ing Three Models of (Hu­man) Cognition

jbkjr23 Nov 2021 1:06 UTC
29 points
4 comments32 min readLW link

Seek­ing Truth Too Hard Can Keep You from Winning

Gordon Seidoh Worley30 Nov 2021 2:16 UTC
27 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Base Rates and Refer­ence Classes

jsteinhardt24 Nov 2021 22:30 UTC
19 points
7 comments5 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Why do you need the story?

George3d624 Nov 2021 20:26 UTC
50 points
11 comments5 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

You are way more fal­lible than you think

shminux25 Nov 2021 5:52 UTC
4 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Find­ing the Cen­tral Limit The­o­rem in Bayes’ rule

Maxwell Peterson27 Nov 2021 5:48 UTC
21 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Com­ment on “De­cep­tion as Co­op­er­a­tion”

Zack_M_Davis27 Nov 2021 4:04 UTC
23 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Reneg­ing Prosocially

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien30 Nov 2021 19:01 UTC
159 points
15 comments17 min readLW link1 review

Rely­ing on Fu­ture Creativity

J Bostock30 Nov 2021 20:12 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Com­mon Prob­a­bil­ity Distributions

jsteinhardt2 Dec 2021 1:50 UTC
44 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Agents as P₂B Chain Reactions

Daniel Kokotajlo4 Dec 2021 21:35 UTC
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Agency: What it is and why it matters

Daniel Kokotajlo4 Dec 2021 21:32 UTC
25 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­plicit model visualizations

Dorian Stern vukotic5 Dec 2021 18:37 UTC
12 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

Leav­ing Orbit

Rob Bensinger6 Dec 2021 21:48 UTC
50 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

What makes for a good “ar­gu­ment”? (Re­quest for thoughts and com­ments)

Simon DeDeo8 Dec 2021 2:16 UTC
13 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Cat Couplings

mike_hawke9 Dec 2021 1:41 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

LessWrong dis­cussed in New Ideas in Psy­chol­ogy ar­ti­cle

rogersbacon9 Dec 2021 21:01 UTC
76 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Non­ver­bal thinkers: how do you ex­pe­rience your in­ner critic?

Phoenix Eliot11 Dec 2021 0:40 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Anal­y­sis of Bird Box (2018)

TekhneMakre13 Dec 2021 17:30 UTC
11 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

What Ca­plan’s “Miss­ing Mood” Heuris­tic Is Really For

DirectedEvolution16 Dec 2021 19:47 UTC
32 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Five Miss­ing Moods

mike_hawke16 Dec 2021 1:25 UTC
14 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Lau­rie An­der­son talks

Dagon18 Dec 2021 20:47 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Be­ware us­ing words off the prob­a­bil­ity dis­tri­bu­tion that gen­er­ated them.

Donald Hobson19 Dec 2021 16:52 UTC
38 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Buck­ets & Bayes

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien20 Dec 2021 5:54 UTC
34 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

Bayesian Dharani, Great Dharani for Con­serv­ing Evidence

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 Dec 2021 16:32 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Work­ing through D&D.Sci, prob­lem 1 (solu­tion)

Pablo Repetto21 Dec 2021 17:42 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(pabloernesto.github.io)

Ran­dom facts can come back to bite you

tailcalled22 Dec 2021 17:33 UTC
58 points
7 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Miss­ing Men­tal Models

silentbob29 Dec 2021 14:08 UTC
8 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Believ­ing in magic pyra­mids shows that you think differently

tomdekan7 Jan 2022 11:06 UTC
1 point
12 comments2 min readLW link

Train­ing Ra­tion­al­ity through Deckbuilders

vitaliya8 Jan 2022 6:00 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Let’s Stop Pre­tend­ing to Be Origi­nal Thinkers

vernamcipher8 Jan 2022 20:14 UTC
21 points
7 comments17 min readLW link

A coun­ter­ar­gu­ment that isn’t

dominicq9 Jan 2022 9:50 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Cal­ibra­tion proverbs

Malmesbury11 Jan 2022 5:11 UTC
75 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity and con­strained max­i­miza­tion, part 2

Joe Carlsmith12 Jan 2022 1:42 UTC
12 points
0 comments29 min readLW link

Paper claims: “Ra­tion­al­ity” fla­vored words rose since 1850, be­gan de­clin­ing ~1980

Raemon12 Jan 2022 23:11 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(phys.org)

2020 Re­view Article

Vaniver14 Jan 2022 4:58 UTC
74 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Choos­ing bat­tles (on the In­ter­net)

PatrickDFarley20 Jan 2022 15:38 UTC
24 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

What’s Up With Con­fus­ingly Per­va­sive Con­se­quen­tial­ism?

Raemon20 Jan 2022 19:22 UTC
169 points
88 comments4 min readLW link

List of Prob­a­bil­ity Cal­ibra­tion Exercises

Isaac King23 Jan 2022 2:12 UTC
59 points
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CICO is a weird refer­ence class

Chad Nauseam23 Jan 2022 7:00 UTC
42 points
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[Question] Rank­ing Cul­tures by Rationality

Gadersd27 Jan 2022 2:25 UTC
1 point
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Map of the Map

LightStar29 Jan 2022 10:03 UTC
7 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

I Am a Di­men­sional Trav­el­ler from a World of Highly Sen­si­tive Rationalists

LightStar30 Jan 2022 13:00 UTC
31 points
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[Question] Is it ra­tio­nal to mod­ify one’s util­ity func­tion?

k644 Feb 2022 23:37 UTC
5 points
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Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Prelude

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Feb 2022 2:26 UTC
14 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Every­one’s mired in the deep­est con­fu­sion, some of the time?

M. Y. Zuo9 Feb 2022 2:53 UTC
1 point
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Observation

LoganStrohl19 Feb 2022 18:47 UTC
60 points
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In­ter­lude: On Realness

LoganStrohl17 Feb 2022 19:02 UTC
48 points
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The Territory

LoganStrohl15 Feb 2022 18:56 UTC
96 points
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The metaphor you want is “color blind­ness,” not “blind spot.”

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien14 Feb 2022 0:28 UTC
119 points
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Some limi­ta­tions of re­duc­tion­ism about epistemology

Richard_Ngo14 Feb 2022 8:50 UTC
18 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Paper is True

Zvi14 Feb 2022 14:10 UTC
35 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ep­silon is not a prob­a­bil­ity, it’s a cop-out

shminux15 Feb 2022 2:48 UTC
22 points
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Ob­ser­va­tions about writ­ing and com­ment­ing on the internet

dynomight15 Feb 2022 0:02 UTC
83 points
10 comments11 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

The Three Lit­tle Pig­gies of Rationality

Sam Enright15 Feb 2022 20:36 UTC
13 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Twit­ter thread on postrationalists

Eli Tyre17 Feb 2022 9:02 UTC
132 points
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An anal­ogy as the mid­wife of thermodynamics

adamShimi16 Feb 2022 21:34 UTC
29 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

Why you are psy­cholog­i­cally screwed up

R Bruns18 Feb 2022 17:07 UTC
40 points
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What The Foucault

adamShimi19 Feb 2022 22:48 UTC
37 points
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[Question] Gen­er­al­iza­tion of the Solomonoff In­duc­tion to Ac­cu­racy—Is it pos­si­ble? Would it be use­ful?

PeterL20 Feb 2022 19:29 UTC
2 points
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Re­ward Good Bets That Had Bad Outcomes

Neel Nanda22 Feb 2022 0:25 UTC
44 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

How I Formed My Own Views About AI Safety

Neel Nanda27 Feb 2022 18:50 UTC
64 points
6 comments13 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Defen­sive­ness as hys­ter­i­cal invisibility

TekhneMakre27 Feb 2022 15:28 UTC
6 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Seek Mis­takes in the Space Between Math and Reality

aphyer1 Mar 2022 5:58 UTC
29 points
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Un­der­stand­ing Eliezer’s “Any Fact Would Move Me in the Same Direc­tion”

lhc3 Mar 2022 4:30 UTC
7 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

You’d Want The Right Answer

ship_shlap4 Mar 2022 2:33 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

You can tell a draw­ing from a painting

alkexr7 Mar 2022 11:45 UTC
77 points
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Effects are cor­re­lated, policy out­comes are not, and multi-fac­tor ex­pla­na­tions are hard

Thomas Kehrenberg9 Mar 2022 15:30 UTC
15 points
2 comments14 min readLW link
(tm.kehrenberg.net)

Against Think­ing About The Unactionable

George3d69 Mar 2022 11:55 UTC
20 points
2 comments8 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

On con­tin­u­ous de­ci­sion boundaries

eeegnu11 Mar 2022 3:36 UTC
2 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Deep Dives: My Ad­vice for Pur­su­ing Work in Re­search

scasper11 Mar 2022 17:56 UTC
21 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ments are good for helping peo­ple rea­son about things

AprilSR11 Mar 2022 23:02 UTC
28 points
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Shot­gun Book Re­views: Against Method, The Knowl­edge Ma­chine and Un­der­stand­ing Nature

adamShimi14 Mar 2022 8:13 UTC
28 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­is­tic Negotiation

Robert Kennedy15 Mar 2022 14:39 UTC
19 points
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Do small stud­ies add up?

one_forward15 Mar 2022 22:00 UTC
14 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

I read Ein­stein’s bi­og­ra­phy. Here are 15 quotes that re­veal his philos­o­phy on life.

dmabery15 Mar 2022 18:14 UTC
−7 points
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Luna Love­g­ood and the Fidelius Curse—Part 11

lsusr17 Mar 2022 0:19 UTC
22 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

On ex­pected util­ity, part 1: Skyscrap­ers and madmen

Joe Carlsmith16 Mar 2022 21:58 UTC
22 points
15 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] For­mal epistemiol­ogy for ex­tract­ing truth from news sources

Enigma17 Mar 2022 2:06 UTC
18 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

On ex­pected util­ity, part 2: Why it can be OK to pre­dictably lose

Joe Carlsmith18 Mar 2022 8:38 UTC
11 points
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Cold Takes reader sur­vey—let me know what you want more and less of!

HoldenKarnofsky18 Mar 2022 19:20 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

On Defect­ing On Yourself

David Udell18 Mar 2022 2:21 UTC
34 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

[Linkpost] 7 Swedish Words to Import

mike_hawke19 Mar 2022 2:36 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

Ret­ro­spec­tive: Con­text and Communication

The Guild of the Rose19 Mar 2022 14:45 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(guildoftherose.org)

Ra­tion­al­ists Should Learn Lock Picking

brook19 Mar 2022 18:00 UTC
21 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

On ex­pected util­ity, part 3: VNM, sep­a­ra­bil­ity, and more

Joe Carlsmith22 Mar 2022 3:05 UTC
8 points
5 comments28 min readLW link

Why will an AGI be ra­tio­nal?

azsantosk21 Mar 2022 21:54 UTC
4 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Fidelius Curse—Part 12

lsusr23 Mar 2022 10:03 UTC
20 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Re­search on how pat­tern-find­ing con­tributes to mem­o­riza­tion?

DirectedEvolution23 Mar 2022 21:42 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

On ex­pected util­ity, part 4: Dutch books, Cox, and Com­plete Class

Joe Carlsmith24 Mar 2022 7:51 UTC
8 points
2 comments19 min readLW link

Con­tex­tual Self

ACrackedPot25 Mar 2022 15:39 UTC
2 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Magic, tricks, and high-di­men­sional con­figu­ra­tion spaces

pchvykov26 Mar 2022 19:14 UTC
7 points
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You must on av­er­age be im­prov­ing to not guaran­tee failure.

eeegnu26 Mar 2022 5:28 UTC
3 points
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Agency and Coherence

David Udell26 Mar 2022 19:25 UTC
23 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

New­comb’s prob­lem is just a stan­dard time con­sis­tency problem

basil.halperin31 Mar 2022 17:32 UTC
12 points
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The Halt­ing Prob­lem and the Im­pos­si­ble Photocopier

J Bostock31 Mar 2022 18:19 UTC
35 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Re­plac­ing Karma with Good Heart To­kens (Worth $1!)

1 Apr 2022 9:31 UTC
215 points
190 comments4 min readLW link

Moses and the Class Struggle

lsusr1 Apr 2022 11:55 UTC
195 points
25 comments5 min readLW link

Us­ing pre­dic­tion mar­kets to gen­er­ate LessWrong posts

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2022 16:33 UTC
82 points
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Blatant Plot Hole in HPMoR [Spoilers]

AprilSR1 Apr 2022 16:01 UTC
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Calcu­lus of New­comb’s Problem

Heighn1 Apr 2022 14:41 UTC
3 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

The Calcu­lus of Nash Equilibria

Heighn1 Apr 2022 14:40 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Bayesian Conspiracy

lsusr1 Apr 2022 23:28 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What words should be shorter in the ra­tio­nal dic­tio­nary?

brook2 Apr 2022 16:46 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Prac­ti­cal use of the Beta dis­tri­bu­tion for data analysis

Maxwell Peterson3 Apr 2022 7:34 UTC
9 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Avoid­ing Mo­ral Fads?

Davis_Kingsley3 Apr 2022 9:15 UTC
7 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

The case for us­ing the term ‘steel­man­ning’ in­stead of ‘prin­ci­ple of char­ity’

ChristianKl2 Jun 2022 19:24 UTC
25 points
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Coun­ter­biases & Shift­ing The Default

ReluctantRaccoon4 Apr 2022 1:05 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

My Su­per­power: OODA Loops

Gordon Seidoh Worley4 Apr 2022 1:51 UTC
19 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Creative non­fic­tion train­ing exercises

dynomight4 Apr 2022 16:17 UTC
9 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

Greyed Out Options

ozymandias4 Apr 2022 20:43 UTC
106 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Down By 30

Adam Zerner5 Apr 2022 3:29 UTC
15 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

You get one story detail

Gordon Seidoh Worley5 Apr 2022 4:38 UTC
35 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

I was asked about how to re­solve strong emo­tional fear con­cerns around the basilisk and this is my in­struc­tions as to how to do that.

Elo5 Apr 2022 6:14 UTC
18 points
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Prompt Your Brain

En Kepeig5 Apr 2022 18:42 UTC
35 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Nick At­tains Aligntenment

rank-biserial6 Apr 2022 4:24 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ac­cel­er­at­ing per­sonal growth: a mashup of models

null6 Apr 2022 12:10 UTC
6 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Find­ing Use­ful Things

Johannes C. Mayer7 Apr 2022 5:57 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Con­vinc­ing Your Brain That Hu­man­ity is Evil is Easy

Johannes C. Mayer7 Apr 2022 21:39 UTC
13 points
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Good Heart Week Is Over!

Ben Pace8 Apr 2022 6:43 UTC
55 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Use­ful Vices for Wicked Problems

HoldenKarnofsky12 Apr 2022 19:30 UTC
40 points
0 comments17 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

[Question] What is the most sig­nifi­cant way you have changed your mind in the last year?

ChristianKl14 Apr 2022 12:23 UTC
29 points
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Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 2 - Why do words have mean­ing?

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Apr 2022 20:54 UTC
11 points
6 comments11 min readLW link

A very quick anal­ogy re­gard­ing “opinions”

Magnus20 Apr 2022 2:28 UTC
15 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] When is pos­i­tive self-talk not worth it due to self-delu­sion?

Jack R21 Apr 2022 3:11 UTC
13 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

All I Know is that I Know Nothing

lsusr22 Apr 2022 15:33 UTC
49 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Re: So You Want to Be a Dharma Teacher

lsusr23 Apr 2022 22:31 UTC
30 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(hardcorezen.info)

Why pes­simism sounds smart

jasoncrawford25 Apr 2022 20:10 UTC
74 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Gospel of Martin Luther

lsusr28 Apr 2022 4:29 UTC
0 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Facts Matter

mrdlm28 Apr 2022 21:19 UTC
19 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Sal­vage Epistemology

jimrandomh30 Apr 2022 2:10 UTC
98 points
119 comments1 min readLW link

Nar­ra­tive Syncing

AnnaSalamon1 May 2022 1:48 UTC
117 points
46 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Does the “ugh field” phe­nomenon some­times oc­cur strongly enough to af­fect im­me­di­ate sen­sory pro­cess­ing?

Rana Dexsin3 May 2022 13:42 UTC
7 points
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[Question] Why hu­mans don’t learn to not rec­og­nize dan­ger?

Joachim Bartosik3 May 2022 12:53 UTC
4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

An easy win for hard decisions

Alex Lawsen 5 May 2022 7:47 UTC
25 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Mo­ral Illusions

Martin Sustrik6 May 2022 4:00 UTC
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Up­grad­ing Imag­i­na­tion: The Promise Of DALL-E 2 As A Tool For Thought

Tharin6 May 2022 18:12 UTC
10 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(echoesandchimes.com)

In­no­va­tion, Stag­na­tion, and Para­trooper Operations

Davis_Kingsley6 May 2022 20:59 UTC
52 points
3 comments16 min readLW link

Pro­jec­tLawful.com: Eliezer’s lat­est story, past 1M words

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 May 2022 6:18 UTC
193 points
102 comments1 min readLW link

Deferring

owencb12 May 2022 23:56 UTC
18 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Defi­ni­tion Prac­tice: Ap­plied Rationality

ChristianKl15 May 2022 20:44 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] New Stan­ford En­cy­clo­pe­dia of Philos­o­phy ar­ti­cle, “Nor­ma­tive The­o­ries of Ra­tional Choice: Ri­vals to Ex­pected Utility”

Aryeh Englander16 May 2022 19:33 UTC
10 points
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Fram­ing Practicum: Dy­namic Programming

aysajan18 May 2022 18:16 UTC
8 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Pod­cast: Spencer Green­berg talks to me about deal­ing with our group­struck­ness and boundedness

KatjaGrace20 May 2022 4:20 UTC
28 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

PSA: The Se­quences don’t need to be read in sequence

kave23 May 2022 2:53 UTC
85 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Science-in­formed normativity

Richard_Ngo25 May 2022 18:30 UTC
32 points
2 comments9 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

In­fra-Bayesi­anism Distil­la­tion: Real­iz­abil­ity and De­ci­sion Theory

Thomas Larsen26 May 2022 21:57 UTC
31 points
9 comments18 min readLW link

De­liber­ate Grieving

Raemon30 May 2022 20:49 UTC
155 points
15 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Bayesian Per­sua­sion?

Karthik Tadepalli28 May 2022 17:52 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Distributed Decisions

johnswentworth29 May 2022 2:43 UTC
65 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Find­ing the Right Problem

tobot29 May 2022 17:52 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The hor­ror of what must, yet can­not, be true

Kaj_Sotala2 Jun 2022 10:20 UTC
50 points
17 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

A short con­cep­tual ex­plainer of Im­manuel Kant’s Cri­tique of Pure Reason

jessicata3 Jun 2022 1:06 UTC
56 points
12 comments16 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Ra­tion­al­ity camps in Oxford for 16-20 yo: Ap­ply by June 12th

Anna Gajdova3 Jun 2022 15:22 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Turn­ing Some In­con­sis­tent Prefer­ences into Con­sis­tent Ones

niplav18 Jul 2022 18:40 UTC
19 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

Un­typ­i­cal SIA

avturchin8 Jun 2022 14:23 UTC
5 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Web­site For Yoda Timers

Adam Zerner9 Jun 2022 16:28 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Moun­tain Troll

lsusr11 Jun 2022 9:14 UTC
67 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

How To: A Work­shop (or any­thing)

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien12 Jun 2022 8:00 UTC
52 points
12 comments37 min readLW link

Break­ing Down Goal-Directed Behaviour

Oliver Sourbut16 Jun 2022 18:45 UTC
10 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

In defense of flailing, with fore­word by Bill Burr

lc17 Jun 2022 16:40 UTC
88 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Get­ting stuck in lo­cal minima

louis03019519 Jun 2022 8:50 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(brain.louis030195.com)

Steam

abramdemski20 Jun 2022 17:38 UTC
61 points
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Dag­ger of De­tect Evil

lsusr21 Jun 2022 6:23 UTC
35 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

What I mean by the phrase “tak­ing ideas se­ri­ously”

Luise21 Jun 2022 19:42 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

What I mean by the phrase “get­ting in­ti­mate with re­al­ity”

Luise21 Jun 2022 19:42 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Se­cu­rity Mind­set: Les­sons from 20+ years of Soft­ware Se­cu­rity Failures Rele­vant to AGI Alignment

elspood21 Jun 2022 23:55 UTC
331 points
40 comments7 min readLW link

Make learn­ing a reality

Dalton Mabery22 Jun 2022 15:58 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

How to Vi­su­al­ize Bayesianism

David Udell22 Jun 2022 13:57 UTC
9 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Air Con­di­tioner Test Re­sults & Discussion

johnswentworth22 Jun 2022 22:26 UTC
80 points
38 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Do you con­sider your cur­rent, non-su­per­hu­man self al­igned with “hu­man­ity” already?

Rana Dexsin25 Jun 2022 4:15 UTC
10 points
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Do You Care Whether There Are “Suc­cess­ful” Ra­tion­al­ists?

UtilityMonster26 Jun 2022 18:53 UTC
12 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

A Quick On­tol­ogy of Agreement

ravedon26 Jun 2022 17:39 UTC
5 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Epistemic mod­esty and how I think about AI risk

Aryeh Englander27 Jun 2022 18:47 UTC
22 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Con­test: An Alien Message

DaemonicSigil27 Jun 2022 5:54 UTC
94 points
100 comments1 min readLW link

CFAR Hand­book: Introduction

CFAR!Duncan28 Jun 2022 16:53 UTC
103 points
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What Are You Track­ing In Your Head?

johnswentworth28 Jun 2022 19:30 UTC
233 points
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Why is so much poli­ti­cal com­men­tary mis­lead­ing?

contrarianbrit28 Jun 2022 17:10 UTC
−2 points
5 comments6 min readLW link
(thomasprosser.substack.com)

Challenge: A Much More Alien Message

kman28 Jun 2022 21:50 UTC
24 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Liter­a­ture on How to Max­i­mize Preferences

josh28 Jun 2022 22:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Look­ing back on my al­ign­ment PhD

TurnTrout1 Jul 2022 3:19 UTC
290 points
60 comments11 min readLW link

Limits to Legibility

Jan_Kulveit29 Jun 2022 17:42 UTC
115 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

A sum­mary of ev­ery Re­plac­ing Guilt post

Akash30 Jun 2022 0:46 UTC
30 points
3 comments10 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Cul­ti­vat­ing And De­stroy­ing Agency

hath30 Jun 2022 3:59 UTC
88 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

Me­tacog­ni­tion in the Rat

Jacob Falkovich30 Jun 2022 20:53 UTC
19 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

On viewquakes

Dalton Mabery30 Jun 2022 20:08 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to Nav­i­gate Eval­u­at­ing Poli­ti­cized Re­search?

Davis_Kingsley1 Jul 2022 5:59 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Link] On the para­dox of tol­er­ance in re­la­tion to fas­cism and on­line con­tent mod­er­a­tion – Un­sta­ble Ontology

Kenny1 Jul 2022 16:43 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Limer­ence Messes Up Your Ra­tion­al­ity Real Bad, Yo

Raemon1 Jul 2022 16:53 UTC
95 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

Five views of Bayes’ Theorem

Adam Scherlis2 Jul 2022 2:25 UTC
38 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Trig­ger-Ac­tion Planning

CFAR!Duncan3 Jul 2022 1:42 UTC
75 points
11 comments13 min readLW link

Post hoc jus­tifi­ca­tions as Com­pres­sion Algorithm

Johannes C. Mayer3 Jul 2022 5:02 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion the­ory and dy­namic inconsistency

paulfchristiano3 Jul 2022 22:20 UTC
70 points
33 comments10 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

ITT-pass­ing and ci­vil­ity are good; “char­ity” is bad; steel­man­ning is niche

Rob Bensinger5 Jul 2022 0:15 UTC
144 points
35 comments6 min readLW link

Goal Factoring

CFAR!Duncan5 Jul 2022 7:10 UTC
65 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

As­sorted thoughts about ab­strac­tion

Adam Zerner5 Jul 2022 6:40 UTC
16 points
9 comments7 min readLW link

Out­line: The Rec­tify­ing of Maps

hamnox5 Jul 2022 5:14 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

A Pat­tern Lan­guage For Rationality

Vaniver5 Jul 2022 19:08 UTC
73 points
12 comments15 min readLW link

Car­ry­ing the Torch: A Re­sponse to Anna Sala­mon by the Guild of the Rose

moridinamael6 Jul 2022 14:20 UTC
126 points
16 comments6 min readLW link

Pre­dict­ing Parental Emo­tional Changes?

jefftk6 Jul 2022 13:50 UTC
38 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Prin­ci­ples for Align­ment/​Agency Projects

johnswentworth7 Jul 2022 2:07 UTC
120 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

User re­search as a barom­e­ter of soft­ware design

Adam Zerner8 Jul 2022 6:02 UTC
31 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Taste & Shaping

CFAR!Duncan10 Jul 2022 5:50 UTC
60 points
1 comment16 min readLW link

Im­manuel Kant and the De­ci­sion The­ory App Store

Daniel Kokotajlo10 Jul 2022 16:04 UTC
88 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

Systemization

CFAR!Duncan11 Jul 2022 18:39 UTC
39 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

Straw-Steelmanning

Chris van Merwijk13 Jul 2022 5:48 UTC
29 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Mak­ing de­ci­sions us­ing mul­ti­ple worldviews

Richard_Ngo13 Jul 2022 19:15 UTC
49 points
10 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Any tips for elic­it­ing one’s own la­tent knowl­edge?

MSRayne13 Jul 2022 21:12 UTC
16 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

In­ward and out­ward steelmanning

Q Home14 Jul 2022 23:32 UTC
11 points
5 comments18 min readLW link

Re­view of The Eng­ines of Cognition

William Gasarch15 Jul 2022 14:13 UTC
13 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

Com­fort Zone Exploration

CFAR!Duncan15 Jul 2022 21:18 UTC
48 points
1 comment12 min readLW link

Re­solve Cycles

CFAR!Duncan16 Jul 2022 23:17 UTC
117 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

Risk Man­age­ment from a Clim­bers Perspective

Annapurna16 Jul 2022 21:14 UTC
5 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(jorgevelez.substack.com)

What should you change in re­sponse to an “emer­gency”? And AI risk

AnnaSalamon18 Jul 2022 1:11 UTC
304 points
60 comments6 min readLW link

Don’t take the or­ga­ni­za­tional chart literally

lc21 Jul 2022 0:56 UTC
44 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

In­ter­nal Dou­ble Crux

CFAR!Duncan22 Jul 2022 4:34 UTC
69 points
17 comments12 min readLW link

What’s next for in­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity?

Andrew_Critch23 Jul 2022 22:55 UTC
62 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Cu­rat­ing “The Epistemic Se­quences” (list v.0.1)

Andrew_Critch23 Jul 2022 22:17 UTC
65 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

Dou­ble Crux

CFAR!Duncan24 Jul 2022 6:34 UTC
40 points
8 comments11 min readLW link

Eaves­drop­ping on Aliens: A Data De­cod­ing Challenge

anonymousaisafety24 Jul 2022 4:35 UTC
44 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Gather­ing In­for­ma­tion you won’t use di­rectly is of­ten useful

Johannes C. Mayer24 Jul 2022 21:21 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Open­ing Ses­sion Tips & Advice

CFAR!Duncan25 Jul 2022 3:57 UTC
70 points
2 comments14 min readLW link

Unify­ing Bar­gain­ing No­tions (1/​2)

Diffractor25 Jul 2022 0:28 UTC
189 points
38 comments16 min readLW link

«Boundaries», Part 1: a key miss­ing con­cept from util­ity theory

Andrew_Critch26 Jul 2022 23:03 UTC
151 points
26 comments7 min readLW link

Focusing

CFAR!Duncan29 Jul 2022 19:15 UTC
91 points
23 comments14 min readLW link

Bucket Errors

CFAR!Duncan29 Jul 2022 18:50 UTC
39 points
7 comments11 min readLW link

Writ­ing this post as ra­tio­nal­ity case study

Ben Amitay30 Jul 2022 16:31 UTC
11 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Con­ser­vatism is a ra­tio­nal re­sponse to epistemic uncertainty

contrarianbrit31 Jul 2022 18:04 UTC
2 points
11 comments9 min readLW link
(thomasprosser.substack.com)

Don’t be a Maxi

Cole Killian31 Jul 2022 23:59 UTC
15 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(colekillian.com)

A Word is Worth 1,000 Pictures

Kully1 Aug 2022 4:08 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is there any writ­ing about prompt en­g­ineer­ing for hu­mans?

Alex Hollow1 Aug 2022 12:52 UTC
18 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Po­laris, Five-Se­cond Ver­sions, and Thought Lengths

CFAR!Duncan1 Aug 2022 7:14 UTC
43 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

Turbocharging

CFAR!Duncan2 Aug 2022 0:01 UTC
46 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

(Sum­mary) Se­quence High­lights—Think­ing Bet­ter on Purpose

qazzquimby2 Aug 2022 17:45 UTC
33 points
3 comments11 min readLW link

Think­ing with­out pri­ors?

Q Home2 Aug 2022 9:17 UTC
7 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Againstness

CFAR!Duncan2 Aug 2022 19:29 UTC
43 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Some doubts about Non Su­per­in­tel­li­gent AIs

aditya malik3 Aug 2022 19:55 UTC
0 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Sur­vey: What (de)mo­ti­vates you about AI risk?

Daniel_Friedrich3 Aug 2022 19:17 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forms.gle)

So­cratic Duck­ing, OODA Loops, Frame-by-Frame Debugging

CFAR!Duncan4 Aug 2022 17:44 UTC
21 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

The Fal­ling Drill

Screwtape5 Aug 2022 0:08 UTC
45 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Cam­bist Booking

Screwtape4 Aug 2022 22:40 UTC
14 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Cal­ibra­tion Trivia

Screwtape4 Aug 2022 22:31 UTC
10 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

«Boundaries», Part 2: trends in EA’s han­dling of boundaries

Andrew_Critch6 Aug 2022 0:42 UTC
77 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

My ad­vice on find­ing your own path

A Ray6 Aug 2022 4:57 UTC
35 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Do meta-memes and meta-an­timemes ex­ist? e.g. ‘The map is not the ter­ri­tory’ is also a map

M. Y. Zuo7 Aug 2022 1:17 UTC
4 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

[AMA] An­nounc­ing Open Phil’s Univer­sity Group Or­ga­nizer and Cen­tury Fel­low­ships [x-post]

6 Aug 2022 21:48 UTC
14 points
0 comments13 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Dissent Collusion

Screwtape10 Aug 2022 2:43 UTC
14 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­posal: Con­sider not us­ing dis­tance-di­rec­tion-di­men­sion words in ab­stract discussions

moridinamael9 Aug 2022 20:44 UTC
45 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Pen­du­lums, Policy-Level De­ci­sion­mak­ing, Sav­ing State

CFAR!Duncan11 Aug 2022 16:47 UTC
25 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing Past­cast­ing: A tool for fore­cast­ing practice

Sage Future11 Aug 2022 17:38 UTC
86 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Seek­ing PCK (Ped­a­gog­i­cal Con­tent Knowl­edge)

CFAR!Duncan12 Aug 2022 4:15 UTC
41 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Dis­solve: The Petty Crimes of Blaise Pascal

JohnBuridan12 Aug 2022 20:04 UTC
17 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Ap­pendix: Jar­gon Dictionary

CFAR!Duncan13 Aug 2022 8:09 UTC
29 points
5 comments21 min readLW link

Ap­pendix: Ham­ming Questions

CFAR!Duncan13 Aug 2022 8:07 UTC
31 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Are there prac­ti­cal ex­er­cises for de­vel­op­ing the Scout mind­set?

ChristianKl15 Aug 2022 17:23 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Deal­ing With Delusions

adrusi14 Aug 2022 21:11 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Novelty Gen­er­a­tion—The Art of Good Ideas

Shoshannah Tekofsky20 Aug 2022 0:36 UTC
13 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

Vague con­cepts, fam­ily re­sem­blance and cluster prop­er­ties

Q Home20 Aug 2022 10:21 UTC
18 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

No One-Size-Fit-All Epistemic Strategy

adamShimi20 Aug 2022 12:56 UTC
23 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] If you know you are un­likely to change your mind, should you be lazier when re­search­ing?

Double21 Aug 2022 17:16 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

Please (re)ex­plain your per­sonal jargon

Nathan Helm-Burger22 Aug 2022 14:30 UTC
19 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] AI Box Ex­per­i­ment: Are peo­ple still in­ter­ested?

Double31 Aug 2022 3:04 UTC
31 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Nate Soares’ Life Advice

CatGoddess23 Aug 2022 2:46 UTC
133 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

Vari­a­tional Bayesian methods

Ege Erdil25 Aug 2022 20:49 UTC
49 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

Dou­ble Crux In A Box

Screwtape26 Aug 2022 3:24 UTC
25 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 4 - Why don’t we do what we think we should?

Gordon Seidoh Worley29 Aug 2022 19:25 UTC
14 points
4 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] A bayesian up­dat­ing on ex­pert opinions

amarai30 Aug 2022 11:56 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Book re­view: Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be

Ruhul1 Sep 2022 18:21 UTC
1 point
2 comments10 min readLW link

Ap­pendix: How to run a suc­cess­ful Ham­ming circle

CFAR!Duncan2 Sep 2022 0:22 UTC
31 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

The shard the­ory of hu­man values

4 Sep 2022 4:28 UTC
214 points
58 comments24 min readLW link

Bugs or Fea­tures?

qbolec3 Sep 2022 7:04 UTC
69 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

An un­offi­cial “High­lights from the Se­quences” tier list

Akash5 Sep 2022 14:07 UTC
29 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

[Ex­plo­ra­tory] Be­com­ing more Agentic

Johannes C. Mayer6 Sep 2022 0:45 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

What are you for?

lsusr6 Sep 2022 3:32 UTC
38 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing and avoid­ing value drift

TurnTrout9 Sep 2022 4:16 UTC
40 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

90% of any­thing should be bad (& the pre­ci­sion-re­call trade­off)

cartografie8 Sep 2022 1:20 UTC
33 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Se­quences/​Eliezer es­says be­yond those in AI to Zom­bies?

Domenic8 Sep 2022 5:05 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Resolve

David Gross9 Sep 2022 16:42 UTC
8 points
1 comment31 min readLW link

Ideas of the Gaps

Q Home13 Sep 2022 10:55 UTC
1 point
0 comments12 min readLW link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism in the gar­den of ends

Tyler Alterman14 Sep 2022 22:02 UTC
15 points
1 comment27 min readLW link

See­ing the Schema

vitaliya14 Sep 2022 20:45 UTC
23 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

There is no royal road to alignment

Eleni Angelou18 Sep 2022 3:33 UTC
4 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Many ther­apy schools work with in­ner mul­ti­plic­ity (not just IFS)

17 Sep 2022 10:27 UTC
50 points
15 comments18 min readLW link

Some notes on solv­ing hard problems

Joe Rocca19 Sep 2022 12:58 UTC
46 points
8 comments29 min readLW link

Twit­ter Polls: Ev­i­dence is Evidence

Zvi20 Sep 2022 12:30 UTC
34 points
8 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is the game de­sign/​art maxim more gen­er­al­iz­able to crit­i­cism/​praise it­self?

Noosphere8922 Sep 2022 13:19 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Fake qual­ities of mind

Kaj_Sotala22 Sep 2022 16:40 UTC
54 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

How to use DMT with­out go­ing in­sane: On nav­i­gat­ing epistemic un­cer­tainty in the DMT memeplex

cube_flipper23 Sep 2022 16:32 UTC
3 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(smoothbrains.net)

There are no rules

unoptimal23 Sep 2022 20:47 UTC
33 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

“Agency” needs nuance

Evie Cottrell25 Sep 2022 7:40 UTC
23 points
1 comment14 min readLW link

Ac­cep­tance and Com­mit­ment Ther­apy (ACT) 101

Evie Cottrell25 Sep 2022 7:25 UTC
4 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Be­com­ing Black Boxish

vitaliya25 Sep 2022 23:35 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to learn: Strug­gle VS Lookup-Table?

NicholasKross25 Sep 2022 21:58 UTC
11 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

ex­is­ten­tial self-determination

Tamsin Leake27 Sep 2022 16:08 UTC
14 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(carado.moe)

The Onion Test for Per­sonal and In­sti­tu­tional Honesty

27 Sep 2022 15:26 UTC
125 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Re­sources to find/​reg­ister the ra­tio­nal­ists that spe­cial­ize in a given topic?

tailcalled29 Sep 2022 17:20 UTC
25 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Builder/​Breaker for Deconfusion

abramdemski29 Sep 2022 17:36 UTC
70 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

About Q Home

Q Home28 Sep 2022 4:56 UTC
10 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Bruce Wayne and the Cost of Inaction

30 Sep 2022 0:19 UTC
73 points
5 comments21 min readLW link

How To Ob­serve Ab­stract Objects

LoganStrohl30 Sep 2022 2:11 UTC
52 points
6 comments21 min readLW link

Truth-Seek­ing: Rea­son vs. Intuition

sakraf30 Sep 2022 12:12 UTC
4 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

If it seems in­tu­itive, you’re not build­ing intuition

myutin30 Sep 2022 7:46 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Clar­ify­ing Your Principles

Raemon1 Oct 2022 21:20 UTC
58 points
10 comments9 min readLW link

What makes a prob­a­bil­ity ques­tion “well-defined”? (Part I)

Noah Topper2 Oct 2022 21:05 UTC
14 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(naivebayes.substack.com)

The cor­rect re­sponse to un­cer­tainty is *not* half-speed

AnnaSalamon15 Jan 2016 22:55 UTC
209 points
44 comments3 min readLW link

Looping

Jarred Filmer5 Oct 2022 1:47 UTC
48 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

The “you-can-just” alarm

Emrik8 Oct 2022 10:43 UTC
63 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Good Bets and In­ter­nal Resources

Raymond D8 Oct 2022 11:37 UTC
7 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

A com­mon failure for foxes

Rob Bensinger14 Oct 2022 22:50 UTC
47 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

I learn bet­ter when I frame learn­ing as Vengeance for losses in­curred through ig­no­rance, and you might too

chaosmage15 Oct 2022 12:41 UTC
70 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Plans Are Pre­dic­tions, Not Op­ti­miza­tion Targets

johnswentworth20 Oct 2022 21:17 UTC
82 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

Two Guts

chanamessinger21 Oct 2022 10:01 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

When ap­par­ently pos­i­tive ev­i­dence can be nega­tive evidence

cata20 Oct 2022 21:47 UTC
19 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Moorean Statements

David Udell22 Oct 2022 0:50 UTC
10 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Wis­dom Can­not Be Unzipped

Sable22 Oct 2022 0:28 UTC
63 points
16 comments7 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

How to get past Haidt’s elephant and listen

Astynax23 Oct 2022 16:06 UTC
13 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Maps and Blueprint; the Two Sides of the Align­ment Equation

Nora_Ammann25 Oct 2022 16:29 UTC
21 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

[Question] Quan­tum Suicide and Au­mann’s Agree­ment Theorem

Isaac King27 Oct 2022 1:32 UTC
13 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Les­sons from ‘Famine, Affluence, and Mo­ral­ity’ and its re­flec­tion on to­day.

Mayank Modi27 Oct 2022 17:20 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

His­tori­cism in the math-ad­ja­cent sciences

mrcbarbier27 Oct 2022 14:38 UTC
3 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Am I se­cretly ex­cited for AI get­ting weird?

porby29 Oct 2022 22:16 UTC
103 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Gan­dalf or Saru­man? A Soldier in Scout’s Clothing

DirectedEvolution31 Oct 2022 2:40 UTC
40 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Brain as hard­ware, meme­plexes as soft­ware, lan­guage as the op­er­at­ing system

Severin T. Seehrich13 Nov 2022 15:30 UTC
12 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Se­quence Reread: Fake Beliefs [plus se­quence spotlight meta]

Raemon2 Nov 2022 0:09 UTC
27 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Cross-Void Optimization

pneumynym4 Nov 2022 17:47 UTC
1 point
1 comment8 min readLW link

[Question] Is there any dis­cus­sion on avoid­ing be­ing Dutch-booked or oth­er­wise taken ad­van­tage of one’s bounded ra­tio­nal­ity by re­fus­ing to en­gage?

shminux7 Nov 2022 2:36 UTC
38 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Distil­la­tion Ex­per­i­ment: Chunk-Knitting

DirectedEvolution7 Nov 2022 19:56 UTC
9 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

[Question] Ideas for tiny re­search pro­jects re­lated to ra­tio­nal­ity?

Frej7 Nov 2022 18:45 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Desider­ata for an Ad­ver­sar­ial Prior

shminux9 Nov 2022 23:45 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ad­ver­sar­ial Pri­ors: Not Pay­ing Peo­ple to Lie to You

eva_10 Nov 2022 2:29 UTC
22 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

di­v­ine carrot

Alok Singh10 Nov 2022 20:50 UTC
18 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(alok.github.io)

Mo­ral con­ta­gion heuristic

Mvolz14 Nov 2022 21:17 UTC
14 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

In­ter­nal com­mu­ni­ca­tion framework

15 Nov 2022 12:41 UTC
36 points
14 comments12 min readLW link

Mir­a­cles and why not to be­lieve them

mruwnik16 Nov 2022 12:07 UTC
4 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Devel­oper ex­pe­rience for the motivation

Adam Zerner16 Nov 2022 7:12 UTC
49 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

The two con­cep­tions of Ac­tive In­fer­ence: an in­tel­li­gence ar­chi­tec­ture and a the­ory of agency

Roman Leventov16 Nov 2022 9:30 UTC
15 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

The Echo Principle

Jonathan Moregård16 Nov 2022 20:09 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(honestliving.substack.com)

Utili­tar­i­anism Meets Egalitarianism

Scott Garrabrant21 Nov 2022 19:00 UTC
90 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Tyranny of the Epistemic Majority

Scott Garrabrant22 Nov 2022 17:19 UTC
126 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

Against “Clas­sic Style”

Cleo Nardo23 Nov 2022 22:10 UTC
62 points
29 comments4 min readLW link

The Geo­met­ric Expectation

Scott Garrabrant23 Nov 2022 18:05 UTC
120 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

The Least Con­tro­ver­sial Ap­pli­ca­tion of Geo­met­ric Rationality

Scott Garrabrant25 Nov 2022 16:50 UTC
47 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

Re­spect­ing your Lo­cal Preferences

Scott Garrabrant26 Nov 2022 19:04 UTC
53 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

The First Filter

26 Nov 2022 19:37 UTC
56 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Science and Math

lsusr27 Nov 2022 4:05 UTC
18 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Always know where your ab­strac­tions break

lsusr27 Nov 2022 6:32 UTC
74 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Geo­met­ric Ra­tion­al­ity is Not VNM Rational

Scott Garrabrant27 Nov 2022 19:36 UTC
111 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Bi­ases are en­g­ines of cognition

30 Nov 2022 16:47 UTC
42 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Be less scared of overconfidence

benkuhn30 Nov 2022 15:20 UTC
152 points
22 comments9 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

MrBeast’s Squid Game Tricked Me

lsusr3 Dec 2022 5:50 UTC
69 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

A Ten­ta­tive Timeline of The Near Fu­ture (2022-2025) for Self-Accountability

Yitz5 Dec 2022 5:33 UTC
26 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Free Will is [REDACTED]

lsusr6 Dec 2022 8:14 UTC
−4 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

The nov­elty quotient

River Lewis7 Dec 2022 17:16 UTC
3 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(heytraveler.substack.com)

Re­search Ham­ming Questions

johnswentworth22 Mar 2022 0:16 UTC
73 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Set­ting the Zero Point

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien9 Dec 2022 6:06 UTC
78 points
39 comments20 min readLW link

Reflect­ing on the 2022 Guild of the Rose Workshops

moridinamael10 Dec 2022 21:21 UTC
22 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

Psy­cholog­i­cal Di­sor­ders and Problems

12 Dec 2022 18:15 UTC
36 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Log-odds are bet­ter than Probabilities

Robert_AIZI12 Dec 2022 20:10 UTC
19 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(aizi.substack.com)

Proof as mere strong evidence

adamShimi14 Dec 2022 8:56 UTC
28 points
16 comments2 min readLW link
(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

[Question] What’s the best time-effi­cient al­ter­na­tive to the Se­quences?

trevor16 Dec 2022 20:17 UTC
6 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Es­cape the Echo Cham­ber (2018)

CronoDAS17 Dec 2022 6:14 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(aeon.co)

Over­con­fi­dence bubbles

kaputmi18 Dec 2022 2:07 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Sazen

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien21 Dec 2022 7:54 UTC
221 points
73 comments12 min readLW link

Lo­cal Memes Against Geo­met­ric Rationality

Scott Garrabrant21 Dec 2022 3:53 UTC
71 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Star­ing into the abyss as a core life skill

benkuhn22 Dec 2022 15:30 UTC
270 points
14 comments12 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

[Question] If you fac­tor out next to­ken pre­dic­tion, what are the re­main­ing salient fea­tures of hu­man cog­ni­tion?

shminux24 Dec 2022 0:38 UTC
8 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why is “Ar­gu­ment Map­ping” Not More Com­mon in EA/​Ra­tion­al­ity (And What Ob­jec­tions Should I Ad­dress in a Post on the Topic?)

HarrisonDurland23 Dec 2022 21:58 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Band­wagon effect: Bias in Eval­u­at­ing AGI X-Risks

28 Dec 2022 7:54 UTC
−1 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the best way to ap­proach Ex­pected Value calcu­la­tions when pay­offs are highly skewed?

jmh28 Dec 2022 14:42 UTC
8 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 5 - How do we know what we know?

Gordon Seidoh Worley28 Dec 2022 1:28 UTC
10 points
2 comments12 min readLW link

More ways to spot abysses

KatjaGrace30 Dec 2022 6:30 UTC
20 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

10 Years of LessWrong

JohnBuridan30 Dec 2022 17:15 UTC
70 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­treme risk neu­tral­ity isn’t always wrong

Grant Demaree31 Dec 2022 4:05 UTC
28 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

Two Is­sues with Play­ing Chicken with the Universe

Chris_Leong31 Dec 2022 6:47 UTC
4 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

The Feel­ing of Idea Scarcity

johnswentworth31 Dec 2022 17:34 UTC
211 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

0 and 1 aren’t probabilities

Alok Singh1 Jan 2023 0:09 UTC
2 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(en.wikipedia.org)

woke offline, anti-woke online

Yair Halberstadt1 Jan 2023 8:24 UTC
13 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Slack mat­ters more than any outcome

Valentine31 Dec 2022 20:11 UTC
111 points
52 comments19 min readLW link

Op­por­tu­nity Cost Blackmail

adamShimi2 Jan 2023 13:48 UTC
70 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Knottiness

abramdemski2 Jan 2023 22:13 UTC
42 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Talk­ing to God

abramdemski3 Jan 2023 20:14 UTC
28 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Con­tra Com­mon Knowledge

abramdemski4 Jan 2023 22:50 UTC
22 points
27 comments16 min readLW link

When you plan ac­cord­ing to your AI timelines, should you put more weight on the me­dian fu­ture, or the me­dian fu­ture | even­tual AI al­ign­ment suc­cess? ⚖️

Jeffrey Ladish5 Jan 2023 1:21 UTC
24 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Ask­ing for a name for a symp­tom of rationalization

metachirality7 Jan 2023 18:34 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Our kind as op­tion­al­ity-op­ti­miz­ing or­a­cles

Logan Kieller9 Jan 2023 16:34 UTC
4 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Dangers of deference

TsviBT8 Jan 2023 14:36 UTC
44 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Ev­i­dence un­der Ad­ver­sar­ial Conditions

PeterMcCluskey9 Jan 2023 16:21 UTC
57 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

The spe­cial na­ture of spe­cial relativity

adamShimi9 Jan 2023 17:30 UTC
36 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

A Thor­ough In­tro­duc­tion to Abstraction

RohanS13 Jan 2023 0:30 UTC
8 points
1 comment18 min readLW link

[Question] What is a dis­agree­ment you have around AI safety?

tailcalled12 Jan 2023 16:58 UTC
16 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Burn­ing Up­time: When your Sand­box of Em­pa­thy is Leaky and also an Hourglass

Cedar13 Jan 2023 5:18 UTC
9 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Ac­tions and Flows

Alok Singh13 Jan 2023 3:20 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(alok.github.io)

Pod­cast with Divia Eden on op­er­ant conditioning

DanielFilan15 Jan 2023 2:44 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(podcasts.google.com)

Core Con­cept Conversations

Adam Zerner15 Jan 2023 7:17 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The fable of the seer

Logan Kieller15 Jan 2023 17:03 UTC
4 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Group-level Con­se­quences of Psy­cholog­i­cal Problems

19 Jan 2023 9:27 UTC
27 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Maybe you can learn ex­otic ex­pe­riences via an­a­lyt­i­cal thought

Q Home20 Jan 2023 1:50 UTC
2 points
6 comments15 min readLW link

Solv­ing For Meta-Ethics By In­duc­ing From The Self

TheAspiringHumanist20 Jan 2023 7:21 UTC
1 point
1 comment9 min readLW link

Lost in In­no­va­tion: The Case of Phlogiston

adamShimi20 Jan 2023 12:19 UTC
15 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Book Re­view: Spiritual En­light­en­ment: The Damnedest Thing

Cole Killian21 Jan 2023 2:38 UTC
5 points
19 comments10 min readLW link
(colekillian.com)

[Question] Why are we so illog­i­cal?

Program Den21 Jan 2023 8:28 UTC
−25 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Rock, Paper and Scis­sors: A Game The­ory View

Edward P. Könings21 Jan 2023 21:00 UTC
18 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(edwardknings.substack.com)

Round­ing Some­one Off

David Udell24 Jan 2023 0:03 UTC
23 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Sapir-Whorf for Rationalists

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien25 Jan 2023 7:58 UTC
135 points
43 comments19 min readLW link

No Fire in the Equations

Carlos Ramirez28 Jan 2023 21:16 UTC
−16 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Jor­dan Peter­son: Guru/​Villain

Bryan Frances3 Feb 2023 9:02 UTC
−17 points
6 comments9 min readLW link

Say­ing things be­cause they sound good

Adam Zerner31 Jan 2023 0:17 UTC
23 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Directed Babbling

Yudhister Kumar1 Feb 2023 9:10 UTC
14 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Fo­cus on the places where you feel shocked ev­ery­one’s drop­ping the ball

So8res2 Feb 2023 0:27 UTC
330 points
53 comments4 min readLW link

What fact that you know is true but most peo­ple aren’t ready to ac­cept it?

lorepieri3 Feb 2023 0:06 UTC
45 points
188 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the ax­ioms of ra­tio­nal­ity?

Yoav Ravid25 Dec 2018 6:47 UTC
2 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Here’s Why I’m He­si­tant To Re­spond In More Depth

DirectedEvolution6 Feb 2023 18:36 UTC
48 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity-re­lated things I don’t know as of 2023

Adam Zerner11 Feb 2023 6:04 UTC
56 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

Threat­en­ing to do the im­pos­si­ble: A solu­tion to spu­ri­ous coun­ter­fac­tu­als for func­tional de­ci­sion the­ory via proof theory

Christopher King11 Feb 2023 7:57 UTC
5 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Top YouTube chan­nel Ver­i­ta­sium re­leases video on Sleep­ing Beauty Problem

Alex_Altair11 Feb 2023 20:36 UTC
22 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Ham­mers and Nails

alkjash23 Jan 2018 1:19 UTC
82 points
34 comments4 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

How An Al­gorithm Feels From Inside

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Feb 2008 2:35 UTC
233 points
83 comments4 min readLW link

Up­dated Hier­ar­chy of Disagreement

B Jacobs28 May 2020 15:57 UTC
14 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Goal-di­rect­ed­ness is be­hav­ioral, not structural

adamShimi8 Jun 2020 23:05 UTC
6 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Coron­avirus as a test-run for X-risks

Sammy Martin13 Jun 2020 21:00 UTC
71 points
10 comments18 min readLW link

God and Moses have a chat

Yitz17 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC
19 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

In­no­va­tion and Dependence

smaslennikov19 Jun 2020 19:39 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(smaslennikov.com)

Be­ware Iso­lated De­mands For Rigor

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 19:50 UTC
101 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Science Doesn’t Trust Your Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 May 2008 2:13 UTC
57 points
137 comments3 min readLW link

A re­ply to Agnes Callard

Vaniver28 Jun 2020 3:25 UTC
90 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

Counterspells

Virgil Kurkjian27 Apr 2019 23:37 UTC
98 points
24 comments10 min readLW link

A New Way to Vi­su­al­ize Biases

dtm22 Jul 2020 17:57 UTC
6 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

The Curse of Cur­sory Idealism

Noah Blaff28 Jul 2020 19:56 UTC
9 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

The Con­ceited Folly of Certainty

Noah Blaff28 Jul 2020 19:56 UTC
7 points
3 comments20 min readLW link

Del­e­gate a Forecast

Amandango28 Jul 2020 17:43 UTC
44 points
25 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Great ra­tio­nal­ity posts in the OB archives

lukeprog23 Feb 2013 23:33 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Great ra­tio­nal­ity posts by LWers not posted to LW

lukeprog16 Feb 2013 0:31 UTC
40 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

The 5-Se­cond Level

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 May 2011 4:51 UTC
216 points
328 comments8 min readLW link

Mys­te­ri­ous An­swers to Mys­te­ri­ous Questions

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Aug 2007 22:27 UTC
186 points
157 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity: From AI to Zombies

Rob Bensinger13 Mar 2015 15:11 UTC
122 points
102 comments2 min readLW link

Your Ra­tion­al­ity is My Business

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Apr 2007 7:31 UTC
128 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

The ra­tio­nal ra­tio­nal­ist’s guide to ra­tio­nally us­ing “ra­tio­nal” in ra­tio­nal post titles

Vaniver27 May 2012 19:13 UTC
125 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

New edi­tion of “Ra­tion­al­ity: From AI to Zom­bies”

Rob Bensinger15 Dec 2018 21:33 UTC
82 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

Right­ing a Wrong Question

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Mar 2008 13:00 UTC
103 points
111 comments3 min readLW link

No One Can Ex­empt You From Ra­tion­al­ity’s Laws

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Oct 2007 17:24 UTC
109 points
55 comments3 min readLW link

Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam

alkjash22 Mar 2018 1:10 UTC
40 points
22 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Hold Off On Propos­ing Solutions

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Oct 2007 3:16 UTC
98 points
51 comments3 min readLW link

Mo­ral frame­works and the Har­ris/​Klein debate

lincolnquirk3 May 2018 9:49 UTC
5 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

How to en­joy be­ing wrong

lincolnquirk27 Jul 2011 5:48 UTC
30 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Some­thing’s Wrong

[deleted]5 Sep 2010 18:08 UTC
127 points
164 comments2 min readLW link

A Ra­tion­al­ist’s Tale

lukeprog28 Sep 2011 1:17 UTC
118 points
308 comments6 min readLW link

A Dialogue on Ra­tion­al­ist Activism

moridinamael10 Sep 2018 18:30 UTC
100 points
24 comments9 min readLW link

Branches of ra­tio­nal­ity

AnnaSalamon12 Jan 2011 3:24 UTC
106 points
66 comments5 min readLW link

Only say ‘ra­tio­nal’ when you can’t elimi­nate the word

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 May 2012 6:56 UTC
88 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­treme Ra­tion­al­ity: It’s Not That Great

Scott Alexander9 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC
233 points
281 comments8 min readLW link

Prospect The­ory: A Frame­work for Un­der­stand­ing Cog­ni­tive Biases

Scott Alexander10 Jul 2011 5:20 UTC
98 points
49 comments4 min readLW link

The Good News of Si­tu­a­tion­ist Psychology

lukeprog1 Apr 2011 19:28 UTC
76 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

Ab­solute Authority

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Jan 2008 3:33 UTC
89 points
78 comments7 min readLW link

Hind­sight bias

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Aug 2007 21:58 UTC
72 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

A Dialogue On Doublethink

LoganStrohl11 May 2014 19:38 UTC
83 points
108 comments11 min readLW link

Singlethink

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Oct 2007 19:24 UTC
90 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity and the English Language

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Sep 2007 22:55 UTC
94 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

Re­view of Scott Adams’ “How to Fail at Al­most Every­thing and Still Win Big”

James_Miller23 Dec 2013 20:48 UTC
73 points
39 comments6 min readLW link

Life as metaphor for ev­ery­thing else.

Charlie Steiner5 Apr 2020 7:21 UTC
36 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity: Com­mon In­ter­est of Many Causes

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Mar 2009 10:49 UTC
71 points
52 comments4 min readLW link

Sort­ing Out Sticky Brains

Alicorn18 Jan 2010 4:18 UTC
67 points
44 comments3 min readLW link

(Ir)ra­tio­nal­ity of Pas­cal’s wager

filozof3377@gmial.com3 Aug 2020 20:57 UTC
3 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Epistemic Effort

Raemon29 Nov 2016 16:08 UTC
63 points
26 comments4 min readLW link

Epistea Sum­mer Ex­per­i­ment (ESE)

24 Jan 2020 10:49 UTC
49 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tally Flawed, or Fast and Fru­gal?

Kaj_Sotala20 Dec 2009 15:10 UTC
49 points
86 comments6 min readLW link

Ir­ra­tional Re­sis­tance to Busi­ness Success

curi2 Aug 2020 19:15 UTC
3 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Les­sons in the Game of Go

GreenRoot21 Aug 2010 14:33 UTC
49 points
150 comments4 min readLW link

Level­ing Up in Ra­tion­al­ity: A Per­sonal Journey

lukeprog17 Jan 2012 11:02 UTC
50 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

How to Be­come a 1000 Year Old Vampire

[deleted]2 Oct 2013 5:07 UTC
123 points
132 comments8 min readLW link

Let them eat cake: In­ter­per­sonal Prob­lems vs Tasks

HughRistik7 Oct 2009 16:35 UTC
94 points
575 comments4 min readLW link

How Pas­cal’s Wager Saved My Soul

SRStarin18 Dec 2010 20:47 UTC
12 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

Goals for which Less Wrong does (and doesn’t) help

AnnaSalamon18 Nov 2010 22:37 UTC
86 points
104 comments4 min readLW link

The Scales of Jus­tice, the Note­book of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2007 16:00 UTC
87 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Ver­bal Over­shad­ow­ing and The Art of Rationality

pangloss27 Apr 2009 23:39 UTC
69 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t Believe Wrong Things

Jacob Falkovich25 Apr 2018 3:36 UTC
21 points
36 comments13 min readLW link

Where to Draw the Boundary?

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Feb 2008 19:14 UTC
66 points
51 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­ten­sions and Intensions

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Feb 2008 21:34 UTC
79 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

Skill and leverage

KatjaGrace3 Nov 2019 21:10 UTC
49 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Math­e­mat­i­cal Mindset

komponisto11 Jul 2018 3:03 UTC
54 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Teenage Ra­tion­al­ists and Chang­ing Your Mind

KPier5 Aug 2011 18:19 UTC
85 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­plain/​Wor­ship/​Ig­nore?

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Sep 2007 20:01 UTC
90 points
87 comments2 min readLW link

The Proper Use of Doubt

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Aug 2007 20:29 UTC
77 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Aug 2007 15:55 UTC
201 points
80 comments2 min readLW link

Is Ra­tion­al­ity Teach­able?

lukeprog1 Sep 2011 11:59 UTC
66 points
27 comments5 min readLW link

The Iso­la­tion As­sump­tion of Ex­pected Utility Maximization

Pedro Oliboni6 Aug 2020 4:05 UTC
7 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

You Are Likely To Be Eaten By A Grue

Alicorn17 Mar 2010 1:18 UTC
73 points
38 comments4 min readLW link

Five-minute ra­tio­nal­ity techniques

sketerpot10 Aug 2010 2:24 UTC
71 points
237 comments2 min readLW link

Test Your Rationality

RobinHanson1 Mar 2009 13:21 UTC
43 points
87 comments1 min readLW link

Cat­e­gories of Sacredness

Zvi27 Feb 2018 2:00 UTC
21 points
36 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Dark Arts of Rationality

So8res19 Jan 2014 2:47 UTC
249 points
194 comments17 min readLW link

CFAR Par­ti­ci­pant Hand­book now available to all

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien3 Jan 2020 15:43 UTC
247 points
41 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews

Lawful Uncertainty

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Nov 2008 21:06 UTC
82 points
57 comments4 min readLW link

Ac­tu­ally updating

SaraHax23 Aug 2019 17:46 UTC
52 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Class Project

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 May 2008 0:23 UTC
55 points
37 comments4 min readLW link

Speci­fic­ity: Your Brain’s Superpower

Liron2 Sep 2019 12:53 UTC
79 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

SotW: Be Specific

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Apr 2012 6:11 UTC
76 points
306 comments12 min readLW link

Is Speci­fic­ity a Men­tal Model?

Liron28 Sep 2019 22:53 UTC
19 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Har­dened Prob­lems Make Brit­tle Models

cousin_it6 May 2009 18:31 UTC
58 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

The Sig­nal and the Corrective

MalcolmOcean11 Feb 2018 0:28 UTC
21 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

11 core ra­tio­nal­ist skills

Roko2 Dec 2009 8:09 UTC
69 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

Be se­cretly wrong

Benquo10 Dec 2016 7:06 UTC
58 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

How to Un­der­stand and Miti­gate Risk

Matt Goldenberg12 Mar 2019 10:14 UTC
55 points
30 comments16 min readLW link

Boiling the Crab: Slow Changes (be­neath Sen­sory Thresh­old) add up

RTiberiu12 Jan 2018 20:44 UTC
18 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Real­ism and Rationality

bmgarfinkel16 Sep 2019 3:09 UTC
45 points
49 comments23 min readLW link

One thou­sand tips do not make a system

[deleted]30 Nov 2012 5:38 UTC
73 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

Op­ti­miza­tion and the In­tel­li­gence Explosion

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
50 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Er­ror de­tec­tion bias in research

neq122 Sep 2010 3:00 UTC
73 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How Can Peo­ple Eval­u­ate Com­plex Ques­tions Con­sis­tently?

Elizabeth26 Aug 2019 20:33 UTC
46 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

A few analo­gies to illus­trate key ra­tio­nal­ity points

kilobug9 Oct 2011 13:00 UTC
69 points
52 comments5 min readLW link

A Hier­ar­chy of Abstraction

lsusr8 Aug 2020 8:19 UTC
6 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

SotW: Check Consequentialism

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Mar 2012 1:35 UTC
58 points
313 comments7 min readLW link

Don’t Ap­ply the Prin­ci­ple of Char­ity to Yourself

UnclGhost19 Nov 2011 19:26 UTC
81 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

Su­per­hu­man Meta Process

SquirrelInHell3 Jan 2018 13:39 UTC
21 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

I want it my way!

nickhayes4 Jan 2019 18:08 UTC
39 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

The Zeroth Skillset

katydee30 Jan 2013 12:46 UTC
74 points
109 comments2 min readLW link

So You Think You’re a Bayesian? The Nat­u­ral Mode of Prob­a­bil­is­tic Reasoning

Matt_Simpson14 Jul 2010 16:51 UTC
66 points
80 comments10 min readLW link

Up­date Your­self Incrementally

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Aug 2007 14:56 UTC
79 points
29 comments3 min readLW link

Rationalization

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Sep 2007 19:29 UTC
67 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

[Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam] Ac­com­mo­date Your­self; Kind­ness Is An Epistemic Virtue; Priv­ileg­ing the Future

tcheasdfjkl8 Sep 2018 5:54 UTC
49 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

The most im­por­tant step

Jsevillamol24 Mar 2018 12:34 UTC
19 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

My­opia and Com­fort Zones

alkjash20 Jan 2018 23:11 UTC
20 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Take heed, for it is a trap

Zed14 Aug 2011 10:23 UTC
56 points
189 comments6 min readLW link

Ne­c­es­sary, But Not Sufficient

pjeby23 Mar 2010 17:11 UTC
58 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

The Tech­nique Taboo

lsusr30 Oct 2019 11:22 UTC
53 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Antimemes

lsusr26 Nov 2019 5:58 UTC
52 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

How to Talk About Antimemes

lsusr22 Dec 2019 11:57 UTC
20 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Over­con­fi­dent talk­ing down, hum­ble or hos­tile talk­ing up

ozziegooen30 Nov 2018 12:41 UTC
49 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Thoughts on tack­ling blindspots

Hazard27 Sep 2018 1:06 UTC
41 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

On Equiv­alence of Supergoals

Alexey Feldgendler20 Apr 2018 15:06 UTC
22 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Image vs. Im­pact: Can pub­lic com­mit­ment be coun­ter­pro­duc­tive for achieve­ment?

patrissimo28 May 2009 23:18 UTC
54 points
48 comments3 min readLW link

Per­sonal ex­am­ples of se­man­tic stopsigns

Alexei6 Dec 2013 2:12 UTC
69 points
72 comments1 min readLW link

Tak­ing the Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam

lifelonglearner22 Mar 2018 17:22 UTC
15 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Let There Be Light

Alicorn17 Mar 2010 19:35 UTC
56 points
101 comments4 min readLW link

Re­bel­ling Within Nature

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Jul 2008 12:32 UTC
37 points
38 comments8 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tal Doubts

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jul 2008 5:21 UTC
33 points
87 comments4 min readLW link

Re­duc­ing Agents: When ab­strac­tions break

Hazard31 Mar 2018 0:03 UTC
13 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

On the Open­ness per­son­al­ity trait & ‘ra­tio­nal­ity’

gwern14 Oct 2011 1:07 UTC
65 points
96 comments8 min readLW link

How to Dis­solve It

TurnTrout7 Mar 2018 6:19 UTC
17 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Be­ware Selec­tive Nihilism

Wei Dai20 Dec 2012 18:53 UTC
61 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­ally End­ing Discussions

curi12 Aug 2020 20:34 UTC
−7 points
27 comments14 min readLW link

Magic Tricks Re­vealed: Test Your Rationality

Peter Wildeford13 Aug 2011 5:23 UTC
42 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

The End (of Se­quences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Apr 2009 21:07 UTC
43 points
37 comments5 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Is Not Sys­tem­atized Winning

namespace11 Nov 2018 22:05 UTC
36 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Uny­ield­ing Yoda Timers: Tak­ing the Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam

TurnTrout3 Apr 2018 2:38 UTC
16 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

In­finite Sum­ma­tions: A Ra­tion­al­ity Lit­mus Test

shev20 Jan 2017 9:31 UTC
38 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

“Me­mento Mori”, Said The Confessor

namespace2 Feb 2020 3:37 UTC
34 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Gnos­tic Rationality

Gordon Seidoh Worley11 Oct 2017 21:44 UTC
19 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

Ver­ify­ing Ra­tion­al­ity via Ra­tion­alPoker.com

Louie25 Mar 2011 16:32 UTC
45 points
159 comments2 min readLW link

Say It Loud

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Sep 2008 17:34 UTC
56 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Belief in Belief vs. Internalization

Desrtopa29 Nov 2010 3:12 UTC
41 points
59 comments2 min readLW link

Gains from trade: Slug ver­sus Galaxy—how much would I give up to con­trol you?

Stuart_Armstrong23 Jul 2013 19:06 UTC
55 points
67 comments7 min readLW link

Con­fused as to use­ful­ness of ‘con­scious­ness’ as a concept

KnaveOfAllTrades13 Jul 2014 11:01 UTC
54 points
230 comments7 min readLW link

Nat­u­ral­ism ver­sus un­bounded (or un­max­imis­able) util­ity options

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2013 17:45 UTC
55 points
74 comments6 min readLW link

Test­ing the Effi­cacy of Disagree­ment Re­s­olu­tion Tech­niques (and a Pro­posal for Test­ing Dou­ble Crux)

Ronny Fernandez21 Oct 2019 22:57 UTC
35 points
4 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] What au­thors con­sis­tently give ac­cu­rate pic­tures of com­plex top­ics they dis­cuss?

seez21 Aug 2019 0:09 UTC
34 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Me­taphor­i­cal ex­ten­sions and con­cep­tual figure-ground inversions

jessicata24 Jul 2019 6:21 UTC
38 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

The Hos­tile Arguer

Error27 Nov 2014 0:30 UTC
50 points
78 comments5 min readLW link

To what de­gree do you model peo­ple as agents?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 25 Aug 2013 19:29 UTC
47 points
133 comments5 min readLW link

Just the facts, ma’am!

lukeprog10 Dec 2011 22:54 UTC
61 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

What epistemic hy­giene norms should there be?

Kaj_Sotala21 Mar 2012 19:26 UTC
21 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

On self-deception

irrational5 Oct 2011 18:46 UTC
42 points
83 comments6 min readLW link

Ad­vanc­ing Certainty

komponisto18 Jan 2010 9:51 UTC
44 points
110 comments4 min readLW link

Please Don’t Fight the Hypothetical

TimS20 Apr 2012 14:29 UTC
40 points
65 comments2 min readLW link

Con­stantly ask what you’re cur­rently do­ing that is irrational

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Mar 2011 8:21 UTC
42 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

Start­ing to see 2 months later

Pausecafe23 Jan 2019 20:46 UTC
32 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

TSR #9: Hard Rules

Hazard9 Jan 2018 14:57 UTC
12 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

What data gen­er­ated that thought?

Kaj_Sotala26 Apr 2011 12:54 UTC
42 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

Refer­ence Points

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)17 Nov 2010 8:09 UTC
40 points
45 comments3 min readLW link

Ap­plied cog­ni­tive sci­ence: learn­ing from a faux pas

Kaj_Sotala4 Dec 2010 11:15 UTC
41 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

A Call for Con­stant Vigilance

katydee3 Apr 2013 9:52 UTC
40 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

Solved Prob­lems Repository

Qiaochu_Yuan27 Mar 2013 4:51 UTC
40 points
273 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tional Read­ing: Thoughts On Pri­ori­tiz­ing Books

patrissimo27 Mar 2011 19:54 UTC
40 points
44 comments5 min readLW link

Time Biases

PeterMcCluskey12 Jan 2019 21:35 UTC
30 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Ra­tion­al­ity is about pat­tern recog­ni­tion, not reasoning

JonahS26 May 2015 19:23 UTC
46 points
83 comments4 min readLW link

Plant Seeds of Rationality

lukeprog10 Mar 2011 17:51 UTC
45 points
77 comments1 min readLW link

Pat­tern-botch­ing: when you for­get you understand

MalcolmOcean15 Jun 2015 22:58 UTC
46 points
18 comments7 min readLW link

An On­tol­ogy of Sys­temic Failures: Dragons, Bul­lshit Moun­tain, and the Cloud of Doom

ialdabaoth8 Sep 2018 18:19 UTC
29 points
28 comments5 min readLW link

Re­duc­tion­ism Revisited

alkjash20 Mar 2018 6:00 UTC
11 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

An experiment

cousin_it31 Jan 2018 12:20 UTC
12 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Crowd­sourc­ing the availa­bil­ity heuristic

kalla72425 Apr 2012 6:20 UTC
43 points
40 comments7 min readLW link

Ex­am­ine your assumptions

Douglas_Reay30 Mar 2012 11:28 UTC
47 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

The In­sti­tute For Pro­pa­ganda Anal­y­sis, A Pre­cur­sor and a Warning

[deleted]29 Mar 2012 18:23 UTC
37 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Changes to my workflow

paulfchristiano26 Aug 2014 17:29 UTC
45 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Muehlhauser-Go­ertzel Dialogue, Part 1

lukeprog16 Mar 2012 17:12 UTC
42 points
161 comments33 min readLW link

Ra­tional Groups Kick Ass

talisman25 Apr 2009 2:37 UTC
32 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

De­sire is the di­rec­tion, ra­tio­nal­ity is the magnitude

So8res5 Apr 2015 17:27 UTC
35 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Ac­knowl­edg­ing Ra­tion­al­ist Angst

Hazard6 Nov 2017 5:26 UTC
10 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Note on Ter­minol­ogy: “Ra­tion­al­ity”, not “Ra­tion­al­ism”

Vladimir_Nesov14 Jan 2011 21:21 UTC
37 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing the In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity Sequence

lifelonglearner26 Apr 2017 21:53 UTC
45 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 0: Introduction

Mark Xu14 Feb 2020 8:22 UTC
36 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 1: What is ap­plied ra­tio­nal­ity?

Mark Xu15 Feb 2020 21:03 UTC
31 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 2: Search­ing for bugs

Mark Xu16 Feb 2020 17:16 UTC
23 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 3: Tips and Tricks

Mark Xu17 Feb 2020 18:53 UTC
23 points
5 comments11 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 4: Murphyjitsu

Mark Xu18 Feb 2020 17:33 UTC
22 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 5: TAPs

Mark Xu19 Feb 2020 18:11 UTC
19 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 6: Seek­ing Sense

Mark Xu20 Feb 2020 17:33 UTC
8 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 7: Goal Factoring

Mark Xu21 Feb 2020 17:55 UTC
11 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 8: Noticing

Mark Xu22 Feb 2020 19:47 UTC
26 points
8 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

Train­ing Regime Day 9: Dou­ble-Crux

Mark Xu23 Feb 2020 18:08 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 10: Systemization

Mark Xu24 Feb 2020 17:20 UTC
13 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 11: So­cratic Ducking

Mark Xu25 Feb 2020 17:19 UTC
11 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 12: Focusing

Mark Xu26 Feb 2020 19:07 UTC
10 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 13: Re­solve Cycles

Mark Xu27 Feb 2020 17:45 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 14: Traf­fic Jams

Mark Xu28 Feb 2020 17:52 UTC
8 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 15: CoZE

Mark Xu29 Feb 2020 17:13 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 16: Ham­ming Questions

Mark Xu1 Mar 2020 18:46 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Three types of “should”

Sniffnoy2 Jun 2018 0:54 UTC
9 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

In fa­vor of taboo­ing the word “val­ues” and us­ing only “pri­ori­ties” instead

chaosmage25 Oct 2018 22:28 UTC
21 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Spec­u­la­tions on im­prov­ing debating

Richard_Ngo5 Nov 2018 16:10 UTC
22 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Mar­ket­ing Rationality

Viliam18 Nov 2015 13:43 UTC
39 points
221 comments2 min readLW link

The Power to Be Emo­tion­ally Mature

Liron16 Sep 2019 2:41 UTC
32 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Be­com­ing stronger together

b4yes_duplicate0.992409072968312811 Jul 2017 13:00 UTC
30 points
39 comments9 min readLW link

The path of the rationalist

So8res12 Apr 2015 1:44 UTC
31 points
30 comments5 min readLW link

Bi­ases of In­tu­itive and Log­i­cal Thinkers

pwno13 Aug 2013 3:50 UTC
32 points
84 comments7 min readLW link

The Sin of Persuasion

Desrtopa27 Nov 2010 21:44 UTC
37 points
63 comments2 min readLW link

How ra­tio­nal­ity can make your life more awesome

Julia_Galef29 Nov 2011 1:23 UTC
37 points
41 comments5 min readLW link

The ba­sic ques­tions of rationality

[deleted]22 Aug 2011 2:23 UTC
39 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Se­quen­tial Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Think­ing: “Six Think­ing Hats”

JustinShovelain18 Mar 2010 5:22 UTC
30 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Luck I: Find­ing White Swans

fowlertm12 Dec 2013 17:56 UTC
39 points
52 comments8 min readLW link

Luck II: Ex­pect­ing White Swans

fowlertm15 Dec 2013 17:40 UTC
10 points
87 comments7 min readLW link

[Link] How to Dispel Your Illu­sions

[deleted]6 Dec 2011 14:46 UTC
37 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

Press Your Luck (3/​3)

Douglas_Reay8 Mar 2018 15:59 UTC
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Choice begets regret

bryjnar4 Jan 2018 20:28 UTC
12 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

TSR #3 En­train­ment: Discussion

Hazard1 Dec 2017 16:46 UTC
11 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

RFC on an open prob­lem: how to de­ter­mine prob­a­bil­ities in the face of so­cial distortion

ialdabaoth7 Oct 2017 22:04 UTC
6 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

The Cor­rect Use of Analogy

SilentCal16 Jul 2014 21:07 UTC
35 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Failure By Analogy

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Nov 2008 2:54 UTC
24 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

Sur­face Analo­gies and Deep Causes

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Jun 2008 7:51 UTC
36 points
32 comments5 min readLW link

Skills and Antiskills

katydee26 Apr 2014 6:54 UTC
43 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

Towards an Al­gorithm for (Hu­man) Self-Modification

moridinamael29 Mar 2011 23:40 UTC
37 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Think Be­fore You Speak (And Sig­nal It)

Wei Dai19 Mar 2010 22:21 UTC
35 points
40 comments2 min readLW link

In­di­vi­d­ual Ra­tion­al­ity Is a Mat­ter of Life and Death

patrissimo21 Mar 2009 19:22 UTC
25 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Willpower duality

Gyrodiot20 Jan 2017 9:56 UTC
10 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jrmyp.net)

My hour-long in­ter­view with Yud­kowsky on “Be­com­ing a Ra­tion­al­ist”

lukeprog6 Feb 2011 3:19 UTC
33 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

On Sys­tems—Liv­ing a life of zero willpower

Neel Nanda16 Aug 2020 16:44 UTC
38 points
10 comments13 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Hello or­di­nary folks, I’m the Cho­sen One

dadadarren4 Sep 2020 19:59 UTC
20 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Clue

Mass_Driver8 Jan 2011 8:21 UTC
37 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Be­ing For­eign and Be­ing Sane

fowlertm25 May 2013 0:58 UTC
35 points
42 comments7 min readLW link

Blind artifacts

So8res7 Apr 2015 23:23 UTC
36 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Ask­ing for help teach­ing a crit­i­cal think­ing class.

Ronny Fernandez7 Mar 2019 2:15 UTC
22 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

A Sim­ple Motto

katerinjo18 Feb 2018 18:12 UTC
11 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Es­cap­ing Your Past

Z_M_Davis22 Apr 2009 21:15 UTC
28 points
51 comments3 min readLW link

Separat­ing the roles of the­ory and di­rect em­piri­cal ev­i­dence in be­lief for­ma­tion: the ex­am­ples of min­i­mum wage and an­thro­pogenic global warming

VipulNaik25 Jun 2014 21:47 UTC
38 points
66 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Outreach: A Parable

[deleted]17 Mar 2011 13:10 UTC
34 points
124 comments5 min readLW link

Effortless Technique

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Dec 2007 4:22 UTC
35 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Some crit­i­cisms of polling

Jimdrix_Hendri25 Oct 2020 18:45 UTC
5 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Pass­ing the Re­cur­sive Buck

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Jun 2008 4:50 UTC
42 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity and Pos­i­tive Psychology

badger5 Mar 2009 15:31 UTC
4 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Define Rationality

Marshall5 Mar 2009 18:25 UTC
1 point
14 comments1 min readLW link

Whither Mo­ral Progress?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Jul 2008 5:04 UTC
20 points
101 comments2 min readLW link

A Ge­nius for Destruction

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Aug 2008 19:25 UTC
19 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Con­tam­i­nated by Optimism

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Aug 2008 0:26 UTC
17 points
78 comments7 min readLW link

A Parable of Four Riders

matejsuchy30 Oct 2020 23:24 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Sleep­ing Ju­lia: Em­piri­cal sup­port for thirder ar­gu­ment in the Sleep­ing Beauty Problem

Alex V3 Nov 2020 0:21 UTC
4 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Hot Air Doesn’t Disagree

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Aug 2008 0:42 UTC
14 points
45 comments3 min readLW link

In­visi­ble Frameworks

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Aug 2008 3:36 UTC
22 points
47 comments6 min readLW link

Fried­man’s “Pre­dic­tion vs. Ex­pla­na­tion”

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Sep 2008 6:15 UTC
9 points
79 comments1 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence in Economics

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Oct 2008 21:17 UTC
14 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

Build­ing Some­thing Smarter

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Nov 2008 17:00 UTC
22 points
57 comments4 min readLW link

Disjunc­tions, An­tipre­dic­tions, Etc.

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Dec 2008 15:13 UTC
27 points
26 comments5 min readLW link

Com­mu­ni­cat­ing ra­tio­nal­ity to the pub­lic: Ju­lia Galef’s “The Straw Vul­can”

lukeprog25 Nov 2011 22:57 UTC
34 points
36 comments27 min readLW link

The Most Fre­quently Use­ful Thing

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Feb 2009 18:43 UTC
12 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

Wise Preten­sions v.0

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Feb 2009 17:02 UTC
15 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

For­mal­iza­tion is a ra­tio­nal­ity technique

Johnicholas6 Mar 2009 20:22 UTC
3 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

A Cor­re­spon­dence Theorem

johnswentworth26 Oct 2020 23:28 UTC
28 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

The Mis­take Script

jimrandomh9 Mar 2009 17:35 UTC
12 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Begin­ning at the Beginning

Annoyance11 Mar 2009 19:23 UTC
5 points
60 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tional Defense of Ir­ra­tional Beliefs

cleonid12 Mar 2009 18:48 UTC
5 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Com­ments for “Ra­tion­al­ity”

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2009 22:34 UTC
2 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

Tarski State­ments as Ra­tion­al­ist Exercise

Vladimir_Nesov17 Mar 2009 19:47 UTC
12 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Why should EA care about ra­tio­nal­ity (and vice-versa)?

Gordon Seidoh Worley9 Dec 2018 22:03 UTC
14 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Why *I* fail to act rationally

bentarm26 Mar 2009 3:56 UTC
15 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

When It’s Not Right to be Rational

Annoyance28 Mar 2009 16:15 UTC
5 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Hy­gienic Anecdotes

badger29 Mar 2009 5:46 UTC
10 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Build­ing Com­mu­ni­ties vs. Be­ing Rational

swestrup31 Mar 2009 18:35 UTC
21 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

The Ra­tion­al­ity Wars

Stefan_Schubert27 Feb 2014 17:08 UTC
30 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

Heuris­tic is not a bad word

HughRistik6 Apr 2009 6:55 UTC
11 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Only hu­mans can have hu­man values

PhilGoetz26 Apr 2010 18:57 UTC
51 points
161 comments17 min readLW link

How Not to be Stupid: Know What You Want, What You Really Really Want

Psy-Kosh28 Apr 2009 1:11 UTC
2 points
39 comments4 min readLW link

Epistemic vs. In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity: Approximations

Peter_de_Blanc28 Apr 2009 3:12 UTC
30 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Arthur Chu: Jeop­ardy! cham­pion through ex­em­plary rationality

syllogism2 Feb 2014 8:02 UTC
33 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

For-Profit Ra­tion­al­ity Training

ksvanhorn28 Dec 2011 21:42 UTC
31 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­treme Ra­tion­al­ity: It Could Be Great

badger9 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC
15 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

That Cri­sis thing seems pretty useful

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Apr 2009 17:10 UTC
18 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Spay or Neuter Your Irrationalities

Alicorn10 Apr 2009 20:08 UTC
3 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Anti-ra­tio­nal­ity quotes

PhilGoetz17 Apr 2009 17:55 UTC
14 points
53 comments5 min readLW link

Per­sua­sive­ness vs Soundness

Patrick13 Apr 2009 8:43 UTC
0 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity is a Chimera

Tom_Talbot16 Apr 2009 23:15 UTC
10 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Chom­sky on rea­son and science

PhilGoetz17 Apr 2009 17:52 UTC
8 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Spread­ing the word?

Paul Crowley19 Apr 2009 19:25 UTC
7 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

How Not to be Stupid: Start­ing Up

Psy-Kosh28 Apr 2009 0:23 UTC
13 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Read­ing/​listen­ing list for the US failing or other sig­nifi­cant shifts?

Nicole Ross13 Nov 2020 15:34 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity: An Introduction

Rob Bensinger11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
32 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Role in the In­for­ma­tion Age

byrnema30 Apr 2009 18:24 UTC
7 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

My Con­fu­sion about Mo­ral Philos­o­phy

Nacruno9614 Nov 2020 3:49 UTC
1 point
14 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity is win­ning—or is it?

taw7 May 2009 14:51 UTC
−8 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic vs. In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity: Case of the Leaky Agent

Wei Dai7 May 2009 23:09 UTC
18 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity in the Me­dia: Don’t (New Yorker, May 2009)

12 May 2009 13:32 UTC
7 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

My con­cerns about the term ‘ra­tio­nal­ist’

JamesCole4 Jun 2009 15:31 UTC
12 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

The Laws of Magic

Annoyance15 Jun 2009 19:13 UTC
20 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Do not ask what ra­tio­nal­ists should do

thakil13 Jul 2011 10:47 UTC
34 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Why I write about the basics

lukeprog10 Dec 2011 22:49 UTC
26 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

“I know I’m bi­ased, but...”

[deleted]10 May 2011 20:03 UTC
32 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

A LessWrong “ra­tio­nal­ity work­book” idea

jwhendy9 Jan 2011 17:52 UTC
25 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Evolu­tion and fit­ness vs self-aware­ness and memetics

FractalParrot29 Nov 2020 21:07 UTC
3 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Avoid­ing Failure: Fal­lacy Finding

Patrick3 Jul 2009 17:59 UTC
14 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] A short talk on SB and friends

Jon Zero29 Nov 2020 21:07 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Power Tools

Nic_Smith19 Sep 2010 6:20 UTC
27 points
67 comments6 min readLW link

What hap­pens when your be­liefs fully propagate

Alexei14 Feb 2012 7:53 UTC
29 points
79 comments7 min readLW link

Two Kinds of Ir­ra­tional­ity and How to Avoid One of Them

ChrisHallquist2 Feb 2012 18:13 UTC
30 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Will AGI have “hu­man” flaws?

Agustinus Theodorus23 Dec 2020 3:43 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ask­ing For Help

Neel Nanda27 Dec 2020 11:32 UTC
23 points
5 comments12 min readLW link
(neelnanda.io)

Ret­ro­spec­tive on Teach­ing Ra­tion­al­ity Workshops

Neel Nanda3 Jan 2021 17:15 UTC
59 points
2 comments31 min readLW link

What should nor­mal peo­ple do?

seez25 Oct 2013 2:28 UTC
33 points
94 comments2 min readLW link

Mini thoughts on mintheism

CraigMichael11 Jan 2021 5:14 UTC
15 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

When Hope Fails

resurgam25 Jan 2021 20:22 UTC
5 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Early ca­reer choices to max­imise learn­ing?

Eugleo4 Feb 2021 13:37 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

What it means to be lucky

Amir Bolous6 Feb 2021 17:40 UTC
7 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Quadratic, not logarithmic

Just Learning8 Feb 2021 3:42 UTC
82 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Ein­stein’s Speed

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 May 2008 2:48 UTC
58 points
36 comments8 min readLW link

Time­less Identity

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Jun 2008 8:16 UTC
51 points
248 comments14 min readLW link

Heuris­tic: Re­place “No Ev­i­dence” with “No Rea­son”

Yair Halberstadt15 Feb 2021 21:25 UTC
44 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Aim to get re­jected often

Amir Bolous22 Feb 2021 22:38 UTC
10 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] A ‘Prac­tice of Ra­tion­al­ity’ Se­quence?

abramdemski14 Feb 2020 22:56 UTC
78 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

The Psy­cholog­i­cal Diver­sity of Mankind

Kaj_Sotala9 May 2010 5:53 UTC
134 points
162 comments7 min readLW link

Ir­ra­tional ar­gu­ments or valuable heuris­tics?

Hauntology Ph.D.8 Mar 2021 5:34 UTC
8 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Direct effects mat­ter!

Aaron Bergman14 Mar 2021 4:33 UTC
95 points
25 comments5 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Use­ful Ques­tions Repository

Qiaochu_Yuan25 Jul 2013 2:58 UTC
40 points
67 comments1 min readLW link

Some blindspots in ra­tio­nal­ity and effec­tive altruism

Remmelt19 Mar 2021 11:40 UTC
38 points
46 comments14 min readLW link

On LessWrong/​Ra­tion­al­ity and Poli­ti­cal Debates

sophia_xu20 Mar 2021 18:26 UTC
22 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

How You Can Gain Self Con­trol Without “Self-Con­trol”

spencerg24 Mar 2021 23:38 UTC
102 points
41 comments23 min readLW link

Call to the tech­ni­cal sup­port of reality

bayesyatina25 Mar 2021 20:05 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing Rus­sian Roulette

Bunthut2 Apr 2021 18:56 UTC
24 points
38 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What if we could use the the­ory of Mechanism De­sign from Game The­ory as a medium achieve AI Align­ment?

farari74 Apr 2021 12:56 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Iden­ti­fi­a­bil­ity Prob­lem for Su­per­ra­tional De­ci­sion Theories

Bunthut9 Apr 2021 20:33 UTC
17 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

On Sleep Pro­cras­ti­na­tion: Go­ing To Bed At A Rea­son­able Hour

emily.fan17 Apr 2021 2:10 UTC
22 points
22 comments9 min readLW link

When Should the Fire Alarm Go Off: A model for op­ti­mal thresholds

peterbarnett28 Apr 2021 12:27 UTC
40 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(peterbarnett.org)

Ar­gu­ing from a Gap of Perspective

ideenrun1 May 2021 22:42 UTC
6 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

Si­mu­la­tion the­ol­ogy: prac­ti­cal as­pect.

Just Learning5 May 2021 2:20 UTC
11 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

On “Epistemic Tres­pass­ing” and In­tel­lec­tual Modesty

Aidan_Kierans16 May 2021 0:40 UTC
9 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

The Ree­bok effect

Jan Christian Refsgaard21 May 2021 17:11 UTC
13 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

Con­trol­ling In­tel­li­gent Agents The Only Way We Know How: Ideal Bureau­cratic Struc­ture (IBS)

Justin Bullock24 May 2021 12:53 UTC
11 points
11 comments6 min readLW link

Cu­rated con­ver­sa­tions with brilli­ant rationalists

spencerg28 May 2021 14:23 UTC
153 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

Good Macro, Bad Micro

Ilemauzar4 Jun 2021 4:30 UTC
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

On mak­ing fic­tional mir­a­cles seem plausible

Yair Halberstadt31 May 2021 11:32 UTC
5 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

If You Want to Find Truth You Need to Step Into Cringe

Writer1 Jun 2021 19:03 UTC
23 points
11 comments5 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

Neo-Mohism

Bae's Theorem16 Jun 2021 21:57 UTC
5 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

Ir­ra­tional Modesty

Tomás B.20 Jun 2021 19:38 UTC
132 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Go­ing Out With Dignity

Tomás B.9 Jul 2021 22:07 UTC
176 points
24 comments6 min readLW link1 review

A Guide for Productivity

Marius Hobbhahn23 Jul 2021 7:03 UTC
27 points
7 comments41 min readLW link

Reflect­ing on build­ing my own tools from scratch and ‘in­vent­ing on prin­ci­ple’

Amir Bolous17 Jul 2021 18:43 UTC
44 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

In Praise (and Defence) of The People

Olitness27 Jul 2021 7:13 UTC
−8 points
4 comments14 min readLW link
(olitness.wordpress.com)

A Frame­work for Disagreements

Anshul Jain31 Jul 2021 1:51 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.anshuljain.me)

The World is Con­tin­u­ous, Not Discrete

Anshul Jain31 Jul 2021 2:26 UTC
5 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.anshuljain.me)

[Question] Do Bayesi­ans like Bayesian model Aver­ag­ing?

Haziq Muhammad2 Aug 2021 12:24 UTC
4 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Halpern’s pa­per—A re­fu­ta­tion of Cox’s the­o­rem?

Haziq Muhammad11 Aug 2021 9:25 UTC
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Jaynes-Cox Prob­a­bil­ity: Are plau­si­bil­ities ob­jec­tive?

Haziq Muhammad12 Aug 2021 14:23 UTC
9 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Has Van Horn fixed Cox’s the­o­rem?

Haziq Muhammad29 Aug 2021 18:36 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Is Ex­per­tise With Reality

Horatio Von Becker2 Sep 2021 20:45 UTC
−14 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Psy­chomagic | Chap­ter 1: Affect

Henry Prowbell15 Sep 2021 17:03 UTC
55 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Why do we talk about autism (spec­trum) with­out talk­ing about bor­der­line p.d.?

MoritzG22 Sep 2021 14:32 UTC
−11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The un­der­ap­pre­ci­ated value of origi­nal think­ing be­low the frontier

Emrik2 Oct 2021 16:03 UTC
34 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

What makes us happy and de­pressed?

Marius Hobbhahn3 Oct 2021 6:25 UTC
16 points
7 comments19 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Growth

jkim211 Oct 2021 1:07 UTC
9 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

关于中国的“巫”的部分解释(Some ex­pla­na­tions of “wu” in China)

Axioms20 Oct 2021 8:56 UTC
−4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Sen­tience, Sapi­ence, Con­scious­ness & Self-Aware­ness: Defin­ing Com­plex Terms

LukeOnline20 Oct 2021 13:48 UTC
8 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Scout Mind­set and Lat­ter-Day Saint Apostasy

Erich_Grunewald23 Oct 2021 14:18 UTC
22 points
1 comment18 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Psy­chomagic | Chap­ter 2: The Global Neu­ronal Workspace

Henry Prowbell26 Oct 2021 18:54 UTC
43 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

Foma: Beliefs that Cause Them­selves to be True

atucker20 Jun 2011 5:13 UTC
36 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

In Defence of Op­ti­miz­ing Rou­tine Tasks

leogao9 Nov 2021 5:09 UTC
47 points
6 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Sasha Chapin on bad so­cial norms in ra­tio­nal­ity/​EA

Kaj_Sotala17 Nov 2021 9:43 UTC
47 points
22 comments5 min readLW link
(sashachapin.substack.com)

Laplace’s rule of succession

Ege Erdil23 Nov 2021 15:48 UTC
48 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How do you write origi­nal ra­tio­nal­ist es­says?

lumenwrites1 Dec 2021 8:08 UTC
22 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

HIRING: In­form and shape a new pro­ject on AI safety at Part­ner­ship on AI

madhu_lika7 Dec 2021 19:37 UTC
1 point
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[Question] Can you prove that 0 = 1?

purplelight4 Feb 2022 21:31 UTC
−10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

How the Equiv­a­lent Bet Test Ac­tu­ally Works

Erich_Grunewald18 Dec 2021 11:17 UTC
4 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Psy­chomagic | Chap­ter 3: In­tel­li­gence Explosions

Henry Prowbell20 Jan 2022 13:11 UTC
21 points
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Tough Choices and Disappointment

maralorn24 Dec 2021 21:59 UTC
2 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Work­ing through D&D.Sci, prob­lem 2 (pref­ace)

Pablo Repetto1 Jan 2022 17:40 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(pabloernesto.github.io)

Use Nor­mal Predictions

Jan Christian Refsgaard9 Jan 2022 15:01 UTC
137 points
69 comments6 min readLW link

The pos­si­bil­ity of no good amaz­ing forecasters

Johannes C. Mayer3 Jan 2022 12:57 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How would you ex­plain Bayesian think­ing to a ten year old?

lumenwrites5 Jan 2022 17:25 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

SONN : What’s Next ?

D𝜋9 Jan 2022 8:15 UTC
−17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

A com­pila­tion of mi­suses of statistics

Younes Kamel14 Feb 2022 21:53 UTC
4 points
11 comments13 min readLW link
(youneskamel.substack.com)

Books Wor­thy of Integration

Roven Skyfal20 Feb 2022 8:03 UTC
12 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

If your solu­tion doesn’t work, make it work

Ege Erdil11 Mar 2022 16:10 UTC
17 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

The On­tics and The Decouplers

hawkebia24 Mar 2022 14:04 UTC
11 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

An out­line of an ironic LessWrong post

Yitz25 Mar 2022 22:51 UTC
−8 points
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Prac­ti­cal ev­ery­day hu­man strategizing

akaTrickster27 Mar 2022 14:20 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] If you lose enough Good Heart To­kens, will you lose real-world money?

Yitz1 Apr 2022 21:11 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Moloch and the sand­pile catastrophe

Eric Raymond2 Apr 2022 15:35 UTC
115 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Prob­lem of In­duc­tion: What if In­stants Were Independent

Epirito3 Apr 2022 0:54 UTC
0 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

A Brief Ex­cur­sion Into Molec­u­lar Neuroscience

Jan10 Apr 2022 17:55 UTC
45 points
8 comments19 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Ra­tion­al­ist Should Win. Not Dy­ing with Dig­nity and Fund­ing WBE.

CitizenTen12 Apr 2022 2:14 UTC
23 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

How I use Anki: ex­pand­ing the scope of SRS

CallumMcDougall12 Apr 2022 8:28 UTC
28 points
8 comments19 min readLW link

[Question] What re­cent aca­demic ar­eas of study have a sam­ple size that is ‘too small’?

hatta_afiq16 Apr 2022 13:52 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Unity of Doc­trine vs Unity of Method in Philosophy

JonathanErhardt22 Apr 2022 13:16 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Your Utility Func­tion is Your Utility Function

David Udell6 May 2022 7:15 UTC
34 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Procla­ma­tion of game-the­o­retic emergence

dr_diagoras19 May 2022 18:09 UTC
−4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The mis­guided pur­suit of ex­is­ten­tial­ism and ab­sur­dism in com­bat­ting nihilism

Sundae26 May 2022 21:17 UTC
−3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Sneak­ing Suspicion

benwr27 May 2022 19:17 UTC
17 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ism in an Age of Egregores

David Udell1 Jun 2022 7:29 UTC
13 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

[Re­post] Non-Nashian Game The­ory: A Nor­mal-Form Primer

Ghislain Fourny1 Jun 2022 16:40 UTC
47 points
14 comments8 min readLW link

Our men­tal build­ing blocks are more differ­ent than I thought

Marius Hobbhahn15 Jun 2022 11:07 UTC
44 points
11 comments14 min readLW link

FYI: I’m work­ing on a book about the threat of AGI/​ASI for a gen­eral au­di­ence. I hope it will be of value to the cause and the community

Darren McKee15 Jun 2022 18:08 UTC
42 points
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In­tel­li­gence in Com­mit­ment Races

David Udell24 Jun 2022 14:30 UTC
22 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

A Li­tany Miss­ing from the Canon

benwr17 Jun 2022 1:39 UTC
38 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.benwr.net)

Have The Effec­tive Altru­ists And Ra­tion­al­ists Brain­washed Me?

UtilityMonster19 Jun 2022 16:05 UTC
6 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What is the most prob­a­ble AI?

Zeruel01720 Jun 2022 23:26 UTC
−2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Build­ing an Epistemic Sta­tus Tracker

rcu22 Jun 2022 18:57 UTC
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Abadar­ian Trades

David Udell30 Jun 2022 16:41 UTC
15 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Mur­phyjitsu: an In­ner Si­mu­la­tor algorithm

CFAR!Duncan30 Jun 2022 21:50 UTC
54 points
21 comments11 min readLW link

He­donis­tic Iso­topes:

Trozxzr30 Jun 2022 16:49 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Aver­sion Factoring

CFAR!Duncan7 Jul 2022 16:09 UTC
68 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Gen­ders Discrimination

Jacob Falkovich7 Jul 2022 15:20 UTC
11 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­po­si­tion as sci­ence: some ideas for how to make progress

riceissa8 Jul 2022 1:29 UTC
21 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Mo­saic and Pal­impsests: Two Shapes of Research

adamShimi12 Jul 2022 9:05 UTC
38 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Every­one is an Im­poster

Tharin13 Jul 2022 8:46 UTC
18 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(echoesandchimes.com)

To-do waves

Paweł Sysiak16 Jul 2022 1:19 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

A sum­mary of ev­ery “High­lights from the Se­quences” post

Akash15 Jul 2022 23:01 UTC
92 points
7 comments17 min readLW link

Sex­ual Abuse at­ti­tudes might be infohazardous

Pseudonymous Otter19 Jul 2022 18:06 UTC
214 points
60 comments1 min readLW link

Get­ting Un­stuck on Counterfactuals

Chris_Leong20 Jul 2022 5:31 UTC
7 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

A Short In­tro to Humans

Ben Amitay20 Jul 2022 15:28 UTC
1 point
1 comment7 min readLW link

Utility func­tions and prob­a­bil­ities are entangled

Thomas Kwa26 Jul 2022 5:36 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How Promis­ing is The­o­ret­i­cal Re­search on Ra­tion­al­ity? Seek­ing Ca­reer Advice

Aspirant22326 Jul 2022 1:08 UTC
3 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Unify­ing Bar­gain­ing No­tions (2/​2)

Diffractor27 Jul 2022 3:40 UTC
102 points
11 comments20 min readLW link

[Question] How does one rec­og­nize in­for­ma­tion and differ­en­ti­ate it from noise?

M. Y. Zuo3 Aug 2022 3:57 UTC
4 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Gears-Level Un­der­stand­ing, De­liber­ate Perfor­mance, The Strate­gic Level

CFAR!Duncan5 Aug 2022 17:11 UTC
28 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] COVID-19 Group Test­ing Post-mortem?

gwern5 Aug 2022 16:32 UTC
73 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Area un­der the curve, Eat Dirt, Broc­coli Er­rors, Coper­ni­cus & Chaos

CFAR!Duncan8 Aug 2022 8:17 UTC
32 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

How (not) to choose a re­search project

9 Aug 2022 0:26 UTC
76 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What are some al­ter­na­tives to Shap­ley val­ues which drop ad­di­tivity?

eapi9 Aug 2022 9:16 UTC
10 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(math.stackexchange.com)

Ra­dio Bostrom: Au­dio nar­ra­tions of pa­pers by Nick Bostrom

PeterH9 Aug 2022 8:56 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

The Host Minds of HBO’s West­world.

Nerret12 Aug 2022 18:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ment by In­tel­lec­tual Ordeal

lc12 Aug 2022 13:03 UTC
26 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Perfect Predictors

aditya malik12 Aug 2022 11:51 UTC
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

“What Mis­takes Are You Mak­ing Right Now?”

David Udell15 Aug 2022 21:19 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Build­ing a Bugs List prompts

CFAR!Duncan13 Aug 2022 8:00 UTC
54 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

All the posts I will never write

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel14 Aug 2022 18:29 UTC
52 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

Statis­tics for vague con­cepts and “Colors” of places

Q Home19 Aug 2022 10:33 UTC
−1 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Ad­ver­sar­ial epistemology

jchan24 Aug 2022 16:57 UTC
25 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Schel­ling Points in Thing-Space

Richard Henage24 Aug 2022 16:19 UTC
5 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Solv­ing Align­ment by “solv­ing” semantics

Q Home27 Aug 2022 4:17 UTC
14 points
10 comments26 min readLW link

I Tripped and Be­came GPT! (And How This Up­dated My Timelines)

Frankophone1 Sep 2022 17:56 UTC
31 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

On the na­ture of help—a frame­work for helping

Faustify29 Aug 2022 20:42 UTC
3 points
2 comments13 min readLW link

Over­ton Gym­nas­tics: An Ex­er­cise in Discomfort

5 Sep 2022 19:20 UTC
39 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Can “Re­ward Eco­nomics” solve AI Align­ment?

Q Home7 Sep 2022 7:58 UTC
3 points
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[Question] In a lack of data, how should you weigh cre­dences in the­o­ret­i­cal physics’s The­o­ries of Every­thing, or TOEs?

Noosphere897 Sep 2022 18:25 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

What Should AI Owe To Us? Ac­countable and Aligned AI Sys­tems via Con­trac­tu­al­ist AI Alignment

xuan8 Sep 2022 15:04 UTC
31 points
15 comments25 min readLW link

How To Ac­tu­ally Succeed

Jordan Arel13 Sep 2022 0:21 UTC
1 point
1 comment5 min readLW link

I’m tak­ing a course on game the­ory and am faced with this ques­tion. What’s the ra­tio­nal de­ci­sion?

Dalton Mabery14 Sep 2022 0:27 UTC
0 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

As­tralCodexTen and Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Or­ganisers’ Re­treat — Europe, Mid­dle East, and Africa 2023

Sam F. Brown15 Sep 2022 22:38 UTC
25 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.rationalitymeetups.org)

Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo Ber­lin Handout

UnplannedCauliflower19 Sep 2022 20:11 UTC
19 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Los­ing the root for the tree

Adam Zerner20 Sep 2022 4:53 UTC
371 points
25 comments9 min readLW link

Fea­tures and Antifeatures

Davis_Kingsley20 Sep 2022 17:54 UTC
22 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Scrap­ing train­ing data for your mind

Henrik Karlsson21 Sep 2022 16:27 UTC
45 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Fund­ing is All You Need: Get­ting into Grad School by Hack­ing the NSF GRFP Fellowship

hapanin22 Sep 2022 21:39 UTC
94 points
9 comments12 min readLW link

Opt out from the Funni

Coafos24 Sep 2022 22:07 UTC
8 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

On Generality

Oren Montano26 Sep 2022 4:06 UTC
2 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­is­tic rea­son­ing for de­scrip­tion and experience

Q Home27 Sep 2022 10:57 UTC
0 points
0 comments26 min readLW link

Reflec­tion on a Con­sult­ing Workshop

myutin29 Sep 2022 3:04 UTC
11 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

FDT is not di­rectly com­pa­rable to CDT and EDT

Sylvester Kollin29 Sep 2022 14:42 UTC
29 points
7 comments11 min readLW link

[Link] “Im­proper Nouns” by siderea

Kenny29 Sep 2022 13:28 UTC
17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(siderea.dreamwidth.org)

The Im­por­tance-Avoidance Effect

David Hartsough30 Sep 2022 10:09 UTC
19 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Statis­tics for ob­jects with shared identities

Q Home3 Oct 2022 9:21 UTC
2 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Self-defeat­ing con­spir­acy the­o­rists and their theories

M. Y. Zuo4 Oct 2022 0:48 UTC
5 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Re­search Depri­ori­tiz­ing Ex­ter­nal Communication

jefftk6 Oct 2022 12:20 UTC
34 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Cal­ibrate—New Chrome Ex­ten­sion for hid­ing num­bers so you can guess

chanamessinger7 Oct 2022 11:21 UTC
57 points
16 comments1 min readLW link
(chrome.google.com)

Sig­nal­ing Guilt

Krieger8 Oct 2022 20:40 UTC
20 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

What if hu­man rea­son­ing is anti-in­duc­tive?

Q Home11 Oct 2022 5:15 UTC
1 point
2 comments13 min readLW link

Apollo

Jarred Filmer10 Oct 2022 21:30 UTC
42 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

When should you defer to ex­per­tise? A use­ful heuris­tic (Cross­post from EA fo­rum)

Noosphere8913 Oct 2022 14:14 UTC
9 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

The im­por­tance of study­ing sub­jec­tive experience

Q Home21 Oct 2022 8:43 UTC
8 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Method of state­ments: an al­ter­na­tive to taboo

Q Home16 Nov 2022 10:57 UTC
7 points
0 comments41 min readLW link

San­ity-check­ing in an age of hyperbole

Ciprian Elliu Ivanof31 Oct 2022 20:04 UTC
2 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

The cir­cu­lar prob­lem of epistemic irresponsibility

Roman Leventov31 Oct 2022 17:23 UTC
5 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

K-types vs T-types — what pri­ors do you have?

Cleo Nardo3 Nov 2022 11:29 UTC
67 points
24 comments7 min readLW link

Fur­ther con­sid­er­a­tions on the Ev­i­den­tial­ist’s Wager

Martín Soto3 Nov 2022 20:06 UTC
−4 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Can we get around Godel’s In­com­plete­ness the­o­rems and Tur­ing un­de­cid­able prob­lems via in­finite com­put­ers?

Noosphere895 Nov 2022 18:01 UTC
−10 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Word-Dis­tance vs Idea-Dis­tance: The Case for Lanoitaring

Sable6 Nov 2022 5:25 UTC
7 points
7 comments7 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

Eu­daimo­nia, Voltron, and The Multi-Di­men­sional Cri­sis Revolution

Jarred Filmer6 Nov 2022 1:03 UTC
24 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

The Ma­trix of Untruth

MiguelDev10 Nov 2022 18:42 UTC
−3 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.whitehatstoic.com)

Do Time­less De­ci­sion The­o­rists re­ject all black­mail from other Time­less De­ci­sion The­o­rists?

myren11 Nov 2022 0:38 UTC
1 point
8 comments3 min readLW link

Where the log­i­cal fal­lacy is not (Gen­er­al­iza­tion From Fic­tional Ev­i­dence)

banev11 Nov 2022 10:41 UTC
−12 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

The sky is not blue (par­don the ob­vi­ous­ness)

banev13 Nov 2022 10:49 UTC
−13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion mak­ing un­der model am­bi­guity, moral un­cer­tainty, and other agents with free will?

Jobst Heitzig13 Nov 2022 12:50 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

The Fu­til­ity of Sta­tus and Signalling

Ape in the coat13 Nov 2022 17:14 UTC
17 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tional over­con­fi­dence in the tens of billions: re­cent example

banev13 Nov 2022 22:48 UTC
−20 points
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New free Sub­stack blog on the psy­chol­ogy of belief

Derrick Farnell14 Nov 2022 8:48 UTC
−3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Utili­tar­i­anism and the idea of a “ra­tio­nal agent” are fun­da­men­tally in­con­sis­tent with reality

banev16 Nov 2022 0:19 UTC
−4 points
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[Question] What kind of bias is this?

Daniel Samuel17 Nov 2022 18:44 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ti­vated Cog­ni­tion and the Mul­ti­verse of Truth

Q Home22 Nov 2022 12:51 UTC
8 points
12 comments24 min readLW link

My Deon­tol­ogy Says Nar­row-Mind­ed­ness is Always Wrong

LVSN18 Nov 2022 6:11 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

SBF, Pas­cal’s Mug­ging, and a Pro­posed Solution

Cole Killian18 Nov 2022 18:39 UTC
−2 points
5 comments5 min readLW link
(colekillian.com)

On Mo­ral­ity, Ethics, and all that Jazz

Delen Heisman20 Nov 2022 20:00 UTC
4 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(delen.substack.com)

Re­search Prin­ci­ples for 6 Months of AI Align­ment Studies

Shoshannah Tekofsky2 Dec 2022 22:55 UTC
22 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Chat GPT’s views on Me­ta­physics and Ethics

Cole Killian3 Dec 2022 18:12 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

[Question] How should I judge the im­pact of giv­ing $5k to a fam­ily of three kids and two men­tally ill par­ents?

Blake5 Dec 2022 13:42 UTC
10 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Play­ing shell games with definitions

weverka8 Dec 2022 19:35 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT has a HAL Problem

Paul Anderson14 Dec 2022 21:31 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

How Death Feels

sisyphus18 Dec 2022 23:47 UTC
−7 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Pod­cast: What’s Wrong With LessWrong

Alfred21 Dec 2022 7:06 UTC
−32 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

Men­tal ac­cep­tance and reflection

22 Dec 2022 14:32 UTC
34 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­tion: Bias in Eval­u­at­ing AGI X-Risks

27 Dec 2022 10:27 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Pre­sump­tive Listen­ing: stick­ing to fa­mil­iar con­cepts and miss­ing the outer rea­son­ing paths

Remmelt27 Dec 2022 15:40 UTC
−14 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(mflb.com)

To Be Par­tic­u­lar About Morality

AGO31 Dec 2022 19:58 UTC
6 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Effec­tively self-study­ing over the Internet

libai3 Jan 2023 16:23 UTC
4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Orange County ACX 14 Forer State­ments and Boundaries

Michael Michalchik6 Jan 2023 4:39 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

You’re Not One “You”—How De­ci­sion The­o­ries Are Talk­ing Past Each Other

keith_wynroe9 Jan 2023 1:21 UTC
26 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Prac­tice: Self-Deception

Darmani9 Jan 2023 4:07 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing ex­treme outcomes

AidanGoth9 Jan 2023 16:34 UTC
4 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Idea: Learn­ing How To Move Towards The Metagame

Algon10 Jan 2023 0:58 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Talents

jenn10 Jan 2023 17:17 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A sim­ple thought ex­per­i­ment show­ing why re­ces­sions are an un­nec­es­sary bug in our eco­nomic system

skogsnisse11 Jan 2023 0:43 UTC
1 point
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Write to Think

Michael Samoilov12 Jan 2023 0:33 UTC
9 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

The AI Con­trol Prob­lem in a wider in­tel­lec­tual context

philosophybear13 Jan 2023 0:28 UTC
10 points
3 comments12 min readLW link

Wok­ism, re­think­ing pri­ori­ties and the Bostrom case

Arturo Macias14 Jan 2023 2:27 UTC
−29 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Wheel of Con­sent The­ory for Ra­tion­al­ists and Effec­tive Altruists

adamwilder13 Jan 2023 17:59 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Aligned with what?

Program Den14 Jan 2023 10:28 UTC
3 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Non-di­rected con­cep­tual found­ing

TsviBT15 Jan 2023 14:56 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Freiburg—Units of Exchange

omark15 Jan 2023 21:34 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Panop­ti­cons aren’t enough

Program Den15 Jan 2023 12:55 UTC
−10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Why you ask the sig­nifi­cance ques­tion why

Slider16 Jan 2023 3:44 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

hol­low­ing’s Shortform

hollowing16 Jan 2023 18:10 UTC
1 point
8 comments1 min readLW link

What can thought-ex­per­i­ments do?

Cleo Nardo17 Jan 2023 0:35 UTC
13 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Five Rea­sons to Lie

Dzoldzaya17 Jan 2023 16:53 UTC
−1 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­duc­tivity.txt

LazarIlic17 Jan 2023 19:05 UTC
−3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(github.com)

Quotes Worth Talk­ing About

akaTrickster17 Jan 2023 21:26 UTC
−1 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­to­type of Us­ing GPT-3 to Gen­er­ate Text­book-length Content

Rafael Cosman18 Jan 2023 14:25 UTC
2 points
8 comments40 min readLW link
(github.com)

A prob­lem with group epistemics

Mckay Jensen18 Jan 2023 17:06 UTC
4 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(quevivasbien.github.io)

Pare­to­ism, a “safe” AI gov­er­nance paradigm

Jonas Metzger19 Jan 2023 23:09 UTC
3 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

In­ter­sub­jec­tivity Col­lapse and Idea Scarcity Fallacy

Michael Michalchik20 Jan 2023 23:28 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

A new Heuris­tic to Up­date on the Cre­dences of Others

aaron_mai21 Jan 2023 21:00 UTC
6 points
0 comments20 min readLW link

Quan­tum Suicide, De­ci­sion The­ory, and The Multiverse

Slimepriestess22 Jan 2023 8:44 UTC
3 points
38 comments10 min readLW link
(voidgoddess.org)

What fills a vac­uum?

Logan Kieller22 Jan 2023 19:25 UTC
18 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Reg­u­lar Meetup (topic: Defin­ing Ra­tion­al­ity)

Harold23 Jan 2023 8:53 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Hu­man-AI Reflec­tive Equilibrium

Allison Duettmann24 Jan 2023 1:32 UTC
11 points
1 comment24 min readLW link

Vi­su­al­i­sa­tion of Prob­a­bil­ity Mass

brook25 Jan 2023 15:09 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

As­tralCodexTen /​ LessWrong Meetup

Søren Elverlin25 Jan 2023 18:36 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Just an­other thought ex­per­i­ment

Bohdan Kudlai 26 Jan 2023 19:29 UTC
−11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Alex Lof­tus’s Shortform

Alex Loftus26 Jan 2023 21:05 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ba­sics of Ra­tion­al­ist Discourse

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien27 Jan 2023 2:40 UTC
217 points
175 comments36 min readLW link

Spooky ac­tion at a dis­tance in the loss landscape

28 Jan 2023 0:22 UTC
53 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jessehoogland.com)

The Knock­down Ar­gu­ment Paradox

Bryan Frances28 Jan 2023 19:23 UTC
−12 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Fe­bru­ary Meetup – Rea­son­ing in the face of bias from ob­ser­va­tion se­lec­tion effects

shaneebert29 Jan 2023 17:20 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Si­mu­lacra Levels Summary

Zvi30 Jan 2023 13:40 UTC
67 points
12 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What­ever their ar­gu­ments, Covid vac­cine scep­tics will prob­a­bly never con­vince me

contrarianbrit30 Jan 2023 13:42 UTC
8 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(thomasprosser.substack.com)

Kar­ls­ruhe Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup: How to be Less Wong [sic] about Dating

Felix Karg30 Jan 2023 22:59 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Be­ware of Fake Alternatives

silentbob31 Jan 2023 10:21 UTC
49 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Nice Clothes are Good, Actually

Gordon Seidoh Worley31 Jan 2023 19:22 UTC
51 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

Su­biti­sa­tion of Self

vitaliya1 Feb 2023 9:18 UTC
12 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

A sim­ple tech­nique to re­duce nega­tive rumination

cranberry_bear2 Feb 2023 1:33 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

OC LW/​ACX Satur­day (2/​4/​23) Chat GPT simu­lates safety and 12 virtues of ra­tio­nal­ity

Michael Michalchik2 Feb 2023 21:51 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Stan­zas On Power Calculation

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2023 19:15 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Per­va­sive Illu­sion of See­ing the Com­plete World

shminux9 Feb 2023 6:47 UTC
34 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

FLI Pod­cast: Con­nor Leahy on AI Progress, Chimps, Memes, and Mar­kets (Part 1/​3)

10 Feb 2023 13:55 UTC
37 points
0 comments43 min readLW link

[S] D&D.Sci: All the D8a. Allllllll of it.

aphyer10 Feb 2023 21:14 UTC
29 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

The Prac­ti­tioner’s Path 2.0: the Prag­ma­tist Archetype

Evenflair11 Feb 2023 15:48 UTC
17 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(guildoftherose.org)

How I Learn From Textbooks

DirectedEvolution12 Feb 2023 4:45 UTC
19 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Is writ­ing an effec­tive way to im­prove crit­i­cal think­ing? How do we val­i­date that?

JD Ranpariya12 Feb 2023 7:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link