Ex­pect­ing Short In­fer­en­tial Distances

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 22, 2007, 11:42 PM
391 points
106 comments3 min readLW link

Cached Thoughts

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 11, 2007, 11:46 PM
219 points
94 comments3 min readLW link

Avoid­ing Your Belief’s Real Weak Points

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 5, 2007, 1:59 AM
186 points
213 comments4 min readLW link

The Med­i­ta­tion on Curiosity

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 6, 2007, 12:26 AM
183 points
101 comments4 min readLW link

Origi­nal Seeing

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 14, 2007, 4:38 AM
181 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Illu­sion of Trans­parency: Why No One Un­der­stands You

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 20, 2007, 11:49 PM
178 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

Hold Off On Propos­ing Solutions

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 17, 2007, 3:16 AM
133 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

No One Can Ex­empt You From Ra­tion­al­ity’s Laws

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 7, 2007, 5:24 PM
132 points
53 comments3 min readLW link

The Log­i­cal Fal­lacy of Gen­er­al­iza­tion from Fic­tional Evidence

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 16, 2007, 3:57 AM
130 points
62 comments6 min readLW link

Dou­ble Illu­sion of Transparency

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 24, 2007, 11:06 PM
122 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

How to Seem (and Be) Deep

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 14, 2007, 6:13 PM
119 points
122 comments4 min readLW link

Singlethink

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 6, 2007, 7:24 PM
113 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 3, 2007, 6:14 PM
112 points
120 comments1 min readLW link

Pas­cal’s Mug­ging: Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 19, 2007, 11:37 PM
112 points
354 comments4 min readLW link

Do We Believe Every­thing We’re Told?

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 10, 2007, 11:52 PM
105 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

A Ra­tional Argument

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 2, 2007, 6:35 PM
103 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ers Shoot High. Aim Low!

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 24, 2007, 1:13 AM
102 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

The “Out­side the Box” Box

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 12, 2007, 10:50 PM
94 points
51 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ti­vated Stop­ping and Mo­ti­vated Continuation

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 28, 2007, 11:10 PM
94 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 25, 2007, 11:47 PM
94 points
107 comments3 min readLW link

A Priori

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 8, 2007, 9:02 PM
87 points
133 comments4 min readLW link

Tor­ture vs. Dust Specks

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 30, 2007, 2:50 AM
84 points
630 comments1 min readLW link

Why Are In­di­vi­d­ual IQ Differ­ences OK?

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 26, 2007, 9:50 PM
76 points
515 comments3 min readLW link

The Mean­ing That Im­mor­tal­ity Gives to Life

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 15, 2007, 3:02 AM
71 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Prim­ing and Contamination

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 10, 2007, 2:23 AM
66 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Self-Anchoring

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 22, 2007, 6:11 AM
47 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

“Can’t Say No” Spending

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 18, 2007, 2:08 AM
32 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Recom­mended Ra­tion­al­ist Reading

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 1, 2007, 6:36 PM
20 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Paris Hilton

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 19, 2007, 12:31 AM
3 points
97 comments1 min readLW link

Bay Area Bayesi­ans Unite!

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 28, 2007, 12:07 AM
2 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity is the oil of rationalisation

KatjaGraceOct 3, 2007, 2:28 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link