Rea­son as memetic im­mune disorder

PhilGoetzSep 19, 2009, 9:05 PM
507 points
185 comments5 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­iz­ing From One Example

Scott AlexanderApr 28, 2009, 10:00 PM
437 points
423 comments6 min readLW link

Dy­ing Outside

HalFinneyOct 5, 2009, 2:45 AM
401 points
91 comments2 min readLW link

What Do We Mean By “Ra­tion­al­ity”?

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 16, 2009, 10:33 PM
389 points
19 comments6 min readLW link

The Least Con­ve­nient Pos­si­ble World

Scott AlexanderMar 14, 2009, 2:11 AM
303 points
204 comments5 min readLW link

Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 20, 2009, 8:37 AM
295 points
211 comments9 min readLW link

Be­ware Triv­ial Inconveniences

Scott AlexanderMay 6, 2009, 10:04 PM
283 points
107 comments4 min readLW link

The Apol­o­gist and the Revolutionary

Scott AlexanderMar 11, 2009, 9:39 PM
258 points
101 comments5 min readLW link

Ex­treme Ra­tion­al­ity: It’s Not That Great

Scott AlexanderApr 9, 2009, 2:44 AM
250 points
281 comments8 min readLW link

Well-Kept Gar­dens Die By Pacifism

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 21, 2009, 2:44 AM
250 points
324 comments5 min readLW link

Eliezer Yud­kowsky Facts

steven0461Mar 22, 2009, 8:17 PM
244 points
324 comments1 min readLW link

Rais­ing the San­ity Waterline

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 12, 2009, 4:28 AM
241 points
233 comments3 min readLW link

Pur­chase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 1, 2009, 9:51 AM
223 points
88 comments4 min readLW link

Money: The Unit of Caring

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 31, 2009, 12:35 PM
218 points
132 comments4 min readLW link

Cached Selves

AnnaSalamonMar 22, 2009, 7:34 PM
216 points
81 comments7 min readLW link

Talk­ing Snakes: A Cau­tion­ary Tale

Scott AlexanderMar 13, 2009, 1:41 AM
190 points
235 comments3 min readLW link

Be­ware of Other-Optimizing

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 10, 2009, 1:58 AM
189 points
119 comments5 min readLW link

A Parable On Ob­so­lete Ideologies

Scott AlexanderMay 13, 2009, 10:51 PM
185 points
288 comments7 min readLW link

Fi­nal Words

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 27, 2009, 9:12 PM
181 points
63 comments9 min readLW link

Value is Fragile

Eliezer YudkowskyJan 29, 2009, 8:46 AM
171 points
108 comments6 min readLW link

A Sense That More Is Possible

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 13, 2009, 1:15 AM
169 points
220 comments4 min readLW link

The Hero With A Thou­sand Chances

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 31, 2009, 4:25 AM
169 points
170 comments9 min readLW link

Pre­tend­ing to be Wise

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 19, 2009, 10:30 PM
166 points
77 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tional Me or We?

RobinHansonMar 17, 2009, 1:39 PM
164 points
156 comments1 min readLW link

How to Not Lose an Argument

Scott AlexanderMar 19, 2009, 1:07 AM
164 points
416 comments6 min readLW link

The Sword of Good

Eliezer YudkowskySep 3, 2009, 12:53 AM
156 points
303 comments2 min readLW link

Do­ing your good deed for the day

Scott AlexanderOct 27, 2009, 12:45 AM
152 points
57 comments3 min readLW link

Thomas C. Schel­ling’s “Strat­egy of Con­flict”

cousin_itJul 28, 2009, 4:08 PM
151 points
154 comments2 min readLW link

Tol­er­ate Tolerance

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 21, 2009, 7:34 AM
149 points
87 comments2 min readLW link

Defense Against The Dark Arts: Case Study #1

Scott AlexanderMar 28, 2009, 2:31 AM
148 points
54 comments6 min readLW link

Athe­ism = Un­the­ism + Antitheism

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 1, 2009, 2:19 AM
138 points
187 comments4 min readLW link

The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 15, 2009, 2:27 AM
137 points
616 comments2 min readLW link

Failed Utopia #4-2

Eliezer YudkowskyJan 21, 2009, 11:04 AM
136 points
267 comments9 min readLW link

When Truth Isn’t Enough

Scott AlexanderMar 22, 2009, 8:23 PM
135 points
59 comments3 min readLW link

The Na­ture of Offense

Wei DaiJul 23, 2009, 11:15 AM
135 points
179 comments3 min readLW link

You Are A Brain

LironMay 9, 2009, 9:53 PM
131 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

No, Really, I’ve De­ceived Myself

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 4, 2009, 11:29 PM
130 points
90 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­pe­ri­en­tial Pica

AlicornAug 16, 2009, 9:23 PM
129 points
113 comments3 min readLW link

Se­ri­ous Stories

Eliezer YudkowskyJan 8, 2009, 11:49 PM
128 points
105 comments9 min readLW link

Don’t Re­vere The Bearer Of Good Info

CarlShulmanMar 21, 2009, 11:22 PM
126 points
72 comments3 min readLW link

Priv­ileg­ing the Hypothesis

Eliezer YudkowskySep 29, 2009, 12:40 AM
126 points
130 comments5 min readLW link

The Baby-Eat­ing Aliens (1/​8)

Eliezer YudkowskyJan 30, 2009, 12:07 PM
126 points
85 comments11 min readLW link

Shut Up And Guess

Scott AlexanderJul 21, 2009, 4:04 AM
125 points
110 comments5 min readLW link

The Su­per Happy Peo­ple (3/​8)

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 1, 2009, 8:18 AM
123 points
55 comments16 min readLW link

Si­mul­ta­neously Right and Wrong

Scott AlexanderMar 7, 2009, 10:55 PM
117 points
63 comments3 min readLW link

The Epistemic Pri­soner’s Dilemma

MBlumeApr 18, 2009, 5:36 AM
114 points
46 comments2 min readLW link

The Mys­tery of the Haunted Rationalist

Scott AlexanderMar 8, 2009, 8:39 PM
114 points
70 comments3 min readLW link

That other kind of status

Scott AlexanderDec 29, 2009, 2:45 AM
108 points
113 comments4 min readLW link

Epistemic Viciousness

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 13, 2009, 11:33 PM
107 points
93 comments3 min readLW link

The Sin of Underconfidence

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 20, 2009, 6:30 AM
106 points
187 comments6 min readLW link