Tor­ture vs. Dust Specks

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Oct 2007 2:50 UTC
83 points
629 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ti­vated Stop­ping and Mo­ti­vated Continuation

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Oct 2007 23:10 UTC
91 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Bay Area Bayesi­ans Unite!

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Oct 2007 0:07 UTC
2 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Why Are In­di­vi­d­ual IQ Differ­ences OK?

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Oct 2007 21:50 UTC
74 points
515 comments3 min readLW link

No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Oct 2007 23:47 UTC
91 points
107 comments3 min readLW link

Dou­ble Illu­sion of Transparency

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Oct 2007 23:06 UTC
118 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ers Shoot High. Aim Low!

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Oct 2007 1:13 UTC
100 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pect­ing Short In­fer­en­tial Distances

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

Self-Anchoring

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

Illu­sion of Trans­parency: Why No One Un­der­stands You

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

Pas­cal’s Mug­ging: Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Oct 2007 23:37 UTC
112 points
353 comments4 min readLW link

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Paris Hilton

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Oct 2007 0:31 UTC
3 points
97 comments1 min readLW link

“Can’t Say No” Spending

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Oct 2007 2:08 UTC
32 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Hold Off On Propos­ing Solutions

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Oct 2007 3:16 UTC
124 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

The Log­i­cal Fal­lacy of Gen­er­al­iza­tion from Fic­tional Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Oct 2007 3:57 UTC
126 points
62 comments6 min readLW link

The Mean­ing That Im­mor­tal­ity Gives to Life

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Oct 2007 3:02 UTC
71 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

How to Seem (and Be) Deep

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Oct 2007 18:13 UTC
115 points
122 comments4 min readLW link

Origi­nal Seeing

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

The “Out­side the Box” Box

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Oct 2007 22:50 UTC
94 points
51 comments2 min readLW link

Cached Thoughts

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

Do We Believe Every­thing We’re Told?

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Oct 2007 23:52 UTC
99 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

Prim­ing and Contamination

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Oct 2007 2:23 UTC
64 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

A Priori

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Oct 2007 21:02 UTC
86 points
133 comments4 min readLW link

No One Can Ex­empt You From Ra­tion­al­ity’s Laws

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Oct 2007 17:24 UTC
127 points
53 comments3 min readLW link

Singlethink

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Oct 2007 19:24 UTC
113 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

The Med­i­ta­tion on Curiosity

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

Avoid­ing Your Belief’s Real Weak Points

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

We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Oct 2007 18:14 UTC
106 points
120 comments1 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity is the oil of rationalisation

KatjaGrace3 Oct 2007 2:28 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Ra­tional Argument

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2007 18:35 UTC
99 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

Recom­mended Ra­tion­al­ist Reading

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Oct 2007 18:36 UTC
20 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Rationalization

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Sep 2007 19:29 UTC
112 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

What Ev­i­dence Filtered Ev­i­dence?

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

Is out­do­ing mon­keys while imag­in­ing free will the only way you can feel like a man?

KatjaGrace29 Sep 2007 0:34 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Bot­tom Line

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

How to Con­vince Me That 2 + 2 = 3

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Sep 2007 23:00 UTC
151 points
409 comments3 min readLW link

9/​26 is Petrov Day

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

Oc­cam’s Razor

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Sep 2007 6:36 UTC
131 points
55 comments5 min readLW link

Ein­stein’s Arrogance

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

How Much Ev­i­dence Does It Take?

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Sep 2007 4:06 UTC
149 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

The Lens That Sees Its Flaws

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Sep 2007 0:10 UTC
336 points
45 comments3 min readLW link

What is Ev­i­dence?

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

Bur­den­some Details

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

Con­junc­tion Con­tro­versy (Or, How They Nail It Down)

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Sep 2007 2:41 UTC
59 points
25 comments8 min readLW link

Con­junc­tion Fallacy

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Sep 2007 1:54 UTC
50 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

Kah­ne­man’s Plan­ning Anecdote

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Sep 2007 16:39 UTC
38 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Plan­ning Fallacy

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

Why I’m Blooking

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Sep 2007 17:49 UTC
49 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Dou­ble­think (Choos­ing to be Bi­ased)

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

Hu­man Evil and Mud­dled Thinking

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Sep 2007 23:43 UTC
138 points
144 comments3 min readLW link