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Reason as memetic immune disorder
PhilGoetz
19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC
488
points
184
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Generalizing From One Example
Scott Alexander
28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC
430
points
422
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Dying Outside
HalFinney
5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC
384
points
91
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What Do We Mean By “Rationality”?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC
331
points
17
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Least Convenient Possible World
Scott Alexander
14 Mar 2009 2:11 UTC
294
points
203
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Mar 2009 8:37 UTC
286
points
211
comments
9
min read
LW
link
The Apologist and the Revolutionary
Scott Alexander
11 Mar 2009 21:39 UTC
250
points
100
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Beware Trivial Inconveniences
Scott Alexander
6 May 2009 22:04 UTC
247
points
107
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Extreme Rationality: It’s Not That Great
Scott Alexander
9 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC
241
points
281
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Raising the Sanity Waterline
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12 Mar 2009 4:28 UTC
235
points
232
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts
steven0461
22 Mar 2009 20:17 UTC
231
points
319
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
21 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC
225
points
324
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
Eliezer Yudkowsky
1 Apr 2009 9:51 UTC
212
points
88
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Cached Selves
AnnaSalamon
22 Mar 2009 19:34 UTC
211
points
81
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Money: The Unit of Caring
Eliezer Yudkowsky
31 Mar 2009 12:35 UTC
211
points
132
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Talking Snakes: A Cautionary Tale
Scott Alexander
13 Mar 2009 1:41 UTC
185
points
233
comments
3
min read
LW
link
A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies
Scott Alexander
13 May 2009 22:51 UTC
184
points
288
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Beware of Other-Optimizing
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10 Apr 2009 1:58 UTC
181
points
119
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Final Words
Eliezer Yudkowsky
27 Apr 2009 21:12 UTC
173
points
62
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Rational Me or We?
RobinHanson
17 Mar 2009 13:39 UTC
163
points
156
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Value is Fragile
Eliezer Yudkowsky
29 Jan 2009 8:46 UTC
161
points
108
comments
6
min read
LW
link
How to Not Lose an Argument
Scott Alexander
19 Mar 2009 1:07 UTC
160
points
416
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Hero With A Thousand Chances
Eliezer Yudkowsky
31 Jul 2009 4:25 UTC
159
points
170
comments
9
min read
LW
link
The Sword of Good
Eliezer Yudkowsky
3 Sep 2009 0:53 UTC
155
points
303
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A Sense That More Is Possible
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13 Mar 2009 1:15 UTC
154
points
219
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Doing your good deed for the day
Scott Alexander
27 Oct 2009 0:45 UTC
152
points
57
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Pretending to be Wise
Eliezer Yudkowsky
19 Feb 2009 22:30 UTC
147
points
77
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Thomas C. Schelling’s “Strategy of Conflict”
cousin_it
28 Jul 2009 16:08 UTC
146
points
154
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Defense Against The Dark Arts: Case Study #1
Scott Alexander
28 Mar 2009 2:31 UTC
138
points
54
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Tolerate Tolerance
Eliezer Yudkowsky
21 Mar 2009 7:34 UTC
138
points
87
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
1 Jul 2009 2:19 UTC
136
points
187
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Nature of Offense
Wei Dai
23 Jul 2009 11:15 UTC
135
points
179
comments
3
min read
LW
link
When Truth Isn’t Enough
Scott Alexander
22 Mar 2009 20:23 UTC
133
points
59
comments
3
min read
LW
link
You Are A Brain
Liron
9 May 2009 21:53 UTC
131
points
64
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15 Jul 2009 2:27 UTC
129
points
613
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Experiential Pica
Alicorn
16 Aug 2009 21:23 UTC
126
points
113
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Shut Up And Guess
Scott Alexander
21 Jul 2009 4:04 UTC
124
points
110
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Don’t Revere The Bearer Of Good Info
CarlShulman
21 Mar 2009 23:22 UTC
124
points
72
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Serious Stories
Eliezer Yudkowsky
8 Jan 2009 23:49 UTC
119
points
105
comments
9
min read
LW
link
No, Really, I’ve Deceived Myself
Eliezer Yudkowsky
4 Mar 2009 23:29 UTC
118
points
90
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
29 Sep 2009 0:40 UTC
117
points
130
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Failed Utopia #4-2
Eliezer Yudkowsky
21 Jan 2009 11:04 UTC
117
points
265
comments
10
min read
LW
link
The Baby-Eating Aliens (1/8)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
30 Jan 2009 12:07 UTC
116
points
85
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Simultaneously Right and Wrong
Scott Alexander
7 Mar 2009 22:55 UTC
112
points
63
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Super Happy People (3/8)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
1 Feb 2009 8:18 UTC
110
points
55
comments
16
min read
LW
link
That other kind of status
Scott Alexander
29 Dec 2009 2:45 UTC
108
points
113
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Mystery of the Haunted Rationalist
Scott Alexander
8 Mar 2009 20:39 UTC
107
points
70
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Epistemic Viciousness
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13 Mar 2009 23:33 UTC
103
points
93
comments
3
min read
LW
link
“Stuck In The Middle With Bruce”
CronoDAS
9 Apr 2009 0:24 UTC
101
points
101
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bayesians vs. Barbarians
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14 Apr 2009 23:45 UTC
101
points
277
comments
8
min read
LW
link
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