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Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC
475 points
267 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­pect­ing Short In­fer­en­tial Distances

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

Ap­plause Lights

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Sep 2007 18:31 UTC
345 points
99 comments2 min readLW link

The Lens That Sees Its Flaws

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Sep 2007 0:10 UTC
344 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

Reli­gion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Aug 2007 3:21 UTC
341 points
331 comments4 min readLW link

Scope Insensitivity

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 May 2007 2:53 UTC
330 points
69 comments2 min readLW link

Tsuyoku Nar­i­tai! (I Want To Be­come Stronger)

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

Feel­ing Rational

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Apr 2007 4:48 UTC
294 points
86 comments3 min readLW link

Poli­tics is the Mind-Killer

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Feb 2007 21:23 UTC
289 points
243 comments2 min readLW link

Guess­ing the Teacher’s Password

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Aug 2007 3:40 UTC
283 points
98 comments4 min readLW link

9/​26 is Petrov Day

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Sep 2007 16:14 UTC
276 points
64 comments2 min readLW link

Your Strength as a Rationalist

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Aug 2007 0:21 UTC
272 points
123 comments2 min readLW link

Policy De­bates Should Not Ap­pear One-Sided

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Mar 2007 18:53 UTC
264 points
187 comments4 min readLW link

Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Aug 2007 15:55 UTC
264 points
82 comments2 min readLW link

The Im­por­tance of Say­ing “Oops”

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Aug 2007 3:17 UTC
258 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Hind­sight De­val­ues Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Aug 2007 19:39 UTC
242 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Bur­den­some Details

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Sep 2007 23:46 UTC
237 points
45 comments4 min readLW link

Thou Art Godshatter

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Nov 2007 19:38 UTC
236 points
83 comments5 min readLW link

Mys­te­ri­ous An­swers to Mys­te­ri­ous Questions

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Aug 2007 22:27 UTC
231 points
159 comments4 min readLW link

Know­ing About Bi­ases Can Hurt People

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Apr 2007 18:01 UTC
220 points
82 comments2 min readLW link

Belief in Belief

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Jul 2007 17:49 UTC
214 points
177 comments5 min readLW link

An Alien God

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Nov 2007 6:57 UTC
213 points
162 comments8 min readLW link

Are Your Ene­mies In­nately Evil?

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Jun 2007 21:13 UTC
208 points
148 comments3 min readLW link

Cached Thoughts

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Oct 2007 23:46 UTC
206 points
93 comments3 min readLW link

The Bot­tom Line

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Sep 2007 17:47 UTC
203 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

Univer­sal Fire

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Apr 2007 21:15 UTC
198 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

Mak­ing His­tory Available

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Aug 2007 19:52 UTC
192 points
87 comments3 min readLW link

Truly Part Of You

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Nov 2007 2:18 UTC
185 points
61 comments4 min readLW link

Lost Purposes

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Nov 2007 9:01 UTC
184 points
79 comments6 min readLW link

Re­v­ersed Stu­pidity Is Not Intelligence

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2007 22:14 UTC
182 points
120 comments3 min readLW link

Plan­ning Fallacy

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Sep 2007 7:06 UTC
180 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

What is Ev­i­dence?

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Sep 2007 6:43 UTC
179 points
61 comments3 min readLW link

The Hid­den Com­plex­ity of Wishes

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Nov 2007 0:12 UTC
176 points
196 comments8 min readLW link

Avoid­ing Your Belief’s Real Weak Points

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Oct 2007 1:59 UTC
176 points
212 comments4 min readLW link

You Can Face Reality

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Aug 2007 1:46 UTC
175 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Fake Explanations

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Aug 2007 21:13 UTC
173 points
96 comments2 min readLW link

Availability

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Sep 2007 6:55 UTC
173 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Eva­po­ra­tive Cool­ing of Group Beliefs

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Dec 2007 23:08 UTC
173 points
50 comments3 min readLW link

The Med­i­ta­tion on Curiosity

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Oct 2007 0:26 UTC
172 points
101 comments4 min readLW link

Origi­nal Seeing

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Oct 2007 4:38 UTC
171 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Illu­sion of Trans­parency: Why No One Un­der­stands You

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Oct 2007 23:49 UTC
171 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

Ab­sence of Ev­i­dence Is Ev­i­dence of Absence

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Aug 2007 20:34 UTC
168 points
118 comments3 min readLW link

Ein­stein’s Arrogance

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Sep 2007 1:29 UTC
168 points
90 comments3 min readLW link

Two More Things to Un­learn from School

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

Science as Attire

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Aug 2007 5:10 UTC
162 points
88 comments2 min readLW link

Hug the Query

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Dec 2007 19:51 UTC
162 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Lonely Dissent

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Dec 2007 4:23 UTC
162 points
91 comments4 min readLW link

The Third Alternative

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

“Science” as Cu­ri­os­ity-Stopper

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

Adap­ta­tion-Ex­e­cuters, not Fit­ness-Maximizers

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