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That Alien Message

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 May 2008 5:55 UTC
394 points
176 comments10 min readLW link

The Fal­lacy of Gray

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Jan 2008 6:24 UTC
286 points
81 comments5 min readLW link

Ta­boo Your Words

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Feb 2008 22:53 UTC
274 points
133 comments3 min readLW link

Use the Try Harder, Luke

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2008 10:52 UTC
274 points
45 comments2 min readLW link

Mun­dane Magic

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Oct 2008 16:00 UTC
273 points
97 comments3 min readLW link

How An Al­gorithm Feels From Inside

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Feb 2008 2:35 UTC
271 points
85 comments4 min readLW link

Beyond the Reach of God

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Oct 2008 15:42 UTC
246 points
281 comments11 min readLW link

The True Pri­soner’s Dilemma

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Sep 2008 21:34 UTC
229 points
117 comments4 min readLW link

The Parable of the Dagger

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Feb 2008 20:53 UTC
229 points
105 comments1 min readLW link

37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Mar 2008 5:09 UTC
225 points
78 comments9 min readLW link

Sort­ing Peb­bles Into Cor­rect Heaps

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Aug 2008 1:00 UTC
219 points
110 comments4 min readLW link

Try­ing to Try

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Oct 2008 8:58 UTC
217 points
58 comments3 min readLW link

Some­thing to Protect

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Jan 2008 17:52 UTC
213 points
81 comments6 min readLW link

Leave a Line of Retreat

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Feb 2008 23:57 UTC
201 points
75 comments4 min readLW link

Ends Don’t Jus­tify Means (Among Hu­mans)

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Oct 2008 21:00 UTC
198 points
97 comments4 min readLW link

You Only Live Twice

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2008 19:14 UTC
191 points
183 comments6 min readLW link

The Se­cond Law of Ther­mo­dy­nam­ics, and Eng­ines of Cognition

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Feb 2008 0:48 UTC
190 points
76 comments9 min readLW link

If You De­mand Magic, Magic Won’t Help

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Mar 2008 18:10 UTC
183 points
133 comments4 min readLW link

Dis­guised Queries

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Feb 2008 0:05 UTC
179 points
108 comments5 min readLW link

Cri­sis of Faith

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Oct 2008 22:08 UTC
175 points
250 comments9 min readLW link

Joy in the Merely Real

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Mar 2008 6:18 UTC
171 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

Zom­bies: The Movie

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Apr 2008 5:53 UTC
169 points
82 comments3 min readLW link

Is That Your True Re­jec­tion?

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

The Sim­ple Truth

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jan 2008 20:00 UTC
156 points
15 comments22 min readLW link

The Cluster Struc­ture of Thingspace

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Feb 2008 0:07 UTC
154 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

Thou Art Physics

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

New­comb’s Prob­lem and Re­gret of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Jan 2008 19:36 UTC
149 points
616 comments10 min readLW link

The Gift We Give To Tomorrow

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Jul 2008 6:07 UTC
147 points
100 comments8 min readLW link

Dis­solv­ing the Question

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Mar 2008 3:17 UTC
144 points
122 comments5 min readLW link

Make an Ex­traor­di­nary Effort

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Oct 2008 15:15 UTC
143 points
48 comments5 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity is in the Mind

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Mar 2008 4:08 UTC
142 points
193 comments6 min readLW link

Com­pe­tent Elites

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Sep 2008 0:07 UTC
132 points
112 comments8 min readLW link

The Level Above Mine

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Sep 2008 9:18 UTC
132 points
357 comments4 min readLW link

Lawful Uncertainty

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Nov 2008 21:06 UTC
131 points
57 comments4 min readLW link

Right­ing a Wrong Question

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Mar 2008 13:00 UTC
129 points
111 comments3 min readLW link

Ini­ti­a­tion Ceremony

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Mar 2008 20:40 UTC
129 points
99 comments3 min readLW link

Reductionism

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2008 6:26 UTC
126 points
162 comments4 min readLW link

2-Place and 1-Place Words

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Jun 2008 7:39 UTC
124 points
38 comments5 min readLW link

Where Re­cur­sive Jus­tifi­ca­tion Hits Bottom

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Jul 2008 10:16 UTC
123 points
81 comments10 min readLW link

Dark Side Epistemology

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Oct 2008 23:55 UTC
123 points
154 comments5 min readLW link

No Safe Defense, Not Even Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 May 2008 5:19 UTC
118 points
75 comments6 min readLW link

Ein­stein’s Superpowers

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 May 2008 6:40 UTC
118 points
91 comments5 min readLW link

Disput­ing Definitions

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Feb 2008 0:15 UTC
117 points
46 comments5 min readLW link

But There’s Still A Chance, Right?

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Jan 2008 1:56 UTC
116 points
61 comments2 min readLW link

The Mag­ni­tude of His Own Folly

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Sep 2008 11:31 UTC
116 points
128 comments6 min readLW link

Zom­bies! Zom­bies?

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Apr 2008 9:55 UTC
114 points
157 comments22 min readLW link

Belief in Intelligence

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Oct 2008 15:00 UTC
111 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

Shut up and do the im­pos­si­ble!

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Oct 2008 21:24 UTC
109 points
165 comments12 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ing vs. Ex­plain­ing Away

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Mar 2008 1:59 UTC
109 points
101 comments4 min readLW link

Beau­tiful Probability

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