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Rea­son as memetic im­mune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC
500 points
185 comments5 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­iz­ing From One Example

Scott Alexander28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC
437 points
423 comments6 min readLW link

Dy­ing Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC
398 points
91 comments2 min readLW link

What Do We Mean By “Ra­tion­al­ity”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC
370 points
19 comments6 min readLW link

The Least Con­ve­nient Pos­si­ble World

Scott Alexander14 Mar 2009 2:11 UTC
301 points
204 comments5 min readLW link

Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Mar 2009 8:37 UTC
292 points
211 comments9 min readLW link

Be­ware Triv­ial Inconveniences

Scott Alexander6 May 2009 22:04 UTC
260 points
107 comments4 min readLW link

The Apol­o­gist and the Revolutionary

Scott Alexander11 Mar 2009 21:39 UTC
256 points
101 comments5 min readLW link

Ex­treme Ra­tion­al­ity: It’s Not That Great

Scott Alexander9 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC
249 points
281 comments8 min readLW link

Well-Kept Gar­dens Die By Pacifism

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC
245 points
324 comments5 min readLW link

Eliezer Yud­kowsky Facts

steven046122 Mar 2009 20:17 UTC
243 points
324 comments1 min readLW link

Rais­ing the San­ity Waterline

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Mar 2009 4:28 UTC
239 points
233 comments3 min readLW link

Pur­chase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Apr 2009 9:51 UTC
222 points
88 comments4 min readLW link

Money: The Unit of Caring

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Mar 2009 12:35 UTC
216 points
132 comments4 min readLW link

Cached Selves

AnnaSalamon22 Mar 2009 19:34 UTC
215 points
81 comments7 min readLW link

Talk­ing Snakes: A Cau­tion­ary Tale

Scott Alexander13 Mar 2009 1:41 UTC
189 points
234 comments3 min readLW link

Be­ware of Other-Optimizing

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Apr 2009 1:58 UTC
186 points
119 comments5 min readLW link

A Parable On Ob­so­lete Ideologies

Scott Alexander13 May 2009 22:51 UTC
185 points
288 comments7 min readLW link

Fi­nal Words

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Apr 2009 21:12 UTC
181 points
62 comments9 min readLW link

Value is Fragile

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Jan 2009 8:46 UTC
170 points
108 comments6 min readLW link

The Hero With A Thou­sand Chances

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Jul 2009 4:25 UTC
167 points
170 comments9 min readLW link

Ra­tional Me or We?

RobinHanson17 Mar 2009 13:39 UTC
164 points
156 comments1 min readLW link

A Sense That More Is Possible

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2009 1:15 UTC
163 points
220 comments4 min readLW link

How to Not Lose an Argument

Scott Alexander19 Mar 2009 1:07 UTC
163 points
416 comments6 min readLW link

Pre­tend­ing to be Wise

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Feb 2009 22:30 UTC
159 points
77 comments4 min readLW link

The Sword of Good

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Sep 2009 0:53 UTC
156 points
303 comments2 min readLW link

Do­ing your good deed for the day

Scott Alexander27 Oct 2009 0:45 UTC
152 points
57 comments3 min readLW link

Thomas C. Schel­ling’s “Strat­egy of Con­flict”

cousin_it28 Jul 2009 16:08 UTC
151 points
154 comments2 min readLW link

Tol­er­ate Tolerance

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Mar 2009 7:34 UTC
146 points
87 comments2 min readLW link

Defense Against The Dark Arts: Case Study #1

Scott Alexander28 Mar 2009 2:31 UTC
145 points
54 comments6 min readLW link

Athe­ism = Un­the­ism + Antitheism

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jul 2009 2:19 UTC
138 points
187 comments4 min readLW link

When Truth Isn’t Enough

Scott Alexander22 Mar 2009 20:23 UTC
135 points
59 comments3 min readLW link

The Na­ture of Offense

Wei Dai23 Jul 2009 11:15 UTC
135 points
179 comments3 min readLW link

The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Jul 2009 2:27 UTC
133 points
614 comments2 min readLW link

You Are A Brain

Liron9 May 2009 21:53 UTC
131 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pe­ri­en­tial Pica

Alicorn16 Aug 2009 21:23 UTC
129 points
113 comments3 min readLW link

No, Really, I’ve De­ceived Myself

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Mar 2009 23:29 UTC
129 points
90 comments2 min readLW link

Don’t Re­vere The Bearer Of Good Info

CarlShulman21 Mar 2009 23:22 UTC
126 points
72 comments3 min readLW link

Failed Utopia #4-2

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jan 2009 11:04 UTC
126 points
267 comments9 min readLW link

Se­ri­ous Stories

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Jan 2009 23:49 UTC
126 points
105 comments9 min readLW link

Priv­ileg­ing the Hypothesis

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Sep 2009 0:40 UTC
125 points
130 comments5 min readLW link

Shut Up And Guess

Scott Alexander21 Jul 2009 4:04 UTC
125 points
110 comments5 min readLW link

The Baby-Eat­ing Aliens (1/​8)

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Jan 2009 12:07 UTC
125 points
85 comments11 min readLW link

The Su­per Happy Peo­ple (3/​8)

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Feb 2009 8:18 UTC
123 points
55 comments16 min readLW link

Si­mul­ta­neously Right and Wrong

Scott Alexander7 Mar 2009 22:55 UTC
116 points
63 comments3 min readLW link

The Mys­tery of the Haunted Rationalist

Scott Alexander8 Mar 2009 20:39 UTC
114 points
70 comments3 min readLW link

The Epistemic Pri­soner’s Dilemma

MBlume18 Apr 2009 5:36 UTC
109 points
46 comments2 min readLW link

That other kind of status

Scott Alexander29 Dec 2009 2:45 UTC
108 points
113 comments4 min readLW link

Epistemic Viciousness

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2009 23:33 UTC
106 points
93 comments3 min readLW link

Bayesi­ans vs. Barbarians

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Apr 2009 23:45 UTC
103 points
277 comments8 min readLW link