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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

The Apologist and the Revolutionary

Scott Alexander11 Mar 2009 21:39 UTC

256 points

101 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

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

Rational Me or We?

RobinHanson17 Mar 2009 13:39 UTC

164 points

156 comments1 min readLW link

How to Not Lose an Argument

Scott Alexander19 Mar 2009 1:07 UTC

163 points

416 comments6 min readLW link

A Sense That More Is Possible

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2009 1:15 UTC

163 points

220 comments4 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

When Truth Isn’t Enough

Scott Alexander22 Mar 2009 20:23 UTC

135 points

59 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

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

Epistemic Viciousness

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2009 23:33 UTC

106 points

93 comments3 min readLW link

Belief in Self-Deception

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Mar 2009 15:20 UTC

100 points

114 comments4 min readLW link

The Power of Positivist Thinking

Scott Alexander21 Mar 2009 20:55 UTC

95 points

57 comments9 min readLW link

Moore’s Paradox

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Mar 2009 2:27 UTC

89 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

Helpless Individuals

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Mar 2009 11:10 UTC

88 points

244 comments3 min readLW link

Your Price for Joining

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Mar 2009 7:16 UTC

87 points

58 comments4 min readLW link

Support That Sounds Like Dissent

jimrandomh20 Mar 2009 22:28 UTC

87 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Mar 2009 10:49 UTC

87 points

53 comments4 min readLW link

The Skeptic’s Trilemma

Scott Alexander15 Mar 2009 0:12 UTC

84 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Church vs. Taskforce

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Mar 2009 9:23 UTC

83 points

88 comments5 min readLW link

Never Leave Your Room

Scott Alexander18 Mar 2009 0:30 UTC

83 points

65 comments3 min readLW link

3 Levels of Rationality Verification

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Mar 2009 17:19 UTC

83 points

246 comments3 min readLW link

Can Humanism Match Religion’s Output?

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Mar 2009 11:32 UTC

82 points

116 comments5 min readLW link

Akrasia, hyperbolic discounting, and picoeconomics

Paul Crowley29 Mar 2009 18:26 UTC

82 points

86 comments2 min readLW link

Counterfactual Mugging

Vladimir_Nesov19 Mar 2009 6:08 UTC

80 points

296 comments2 min readLW link

The Sacred Mundane

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Mar 2009 9:53 UTC

73 points

117 comments4 min readLW link

Closet survey #1

[deleted]14 Mar 2009 7:51 UTC

72 points

670 comments1 min readLW link

Most Rationalists Are Elsewhere

RobinHanson29 Mar 2009 21:46 UTC

68 points

34 comments1 min readLW link

You’re Calling Who A Cult Leader?

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Mar 2009 6:57 UTC

67 points

121 comments5 min readLW link

LessWrong anti-kibitzer (hides comment authors and vote counts)

Marcello9 Mar 2009 19:18 UTC

66 points

62 comments1 min readLW link

Schools Proliferating Without Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Mar 2009 6:43 UTC

64 points

58 comments3 min readLW link

The “Spot the Fakes” Test

Scott Alexander17 Mar 2009 0:52 UTC

63 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

The Zombie Preacher of Somerset

Scott Alexander28 Mar 2009 22:29 UTC

62 points

34 comments5 min readLW link

Information cascades

Johnicholas6 Mar 2009 4:08 UTC

61 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

The ethic of hand-washing and community epistemic practice

AnnaSalamon and Steve_Rayhawk

5 Mar 2009 4:28 UTC

61 points

48 comments3 min readLW link

Spock’s Dirty Little Secret

pjeby25 Mar 2009 19:07 UTC

60 points

71 comments7 min readLW link

Teaching the Unteachable

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Mar 2009 23:14 UTC

55 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

You May Already Be A Sinner

Scott Alexander9 Mar 2009 23:18 UTC

52 points

37 comments3 min readLW link

Are You a Solar Deity?

Scott Alexander15 Mar 2009 19:30 UTC

52 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

Terrorism is not about Terror

gwern24 Mar 2009 17:08 UTC

49 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Striving to Accept

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Mar 2009 23:29 UTC

48 points

38 comments4 min readLW link

Rationalist Fiction

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Mar 2009 8:22 UTC

46 points

193 comments2 min readLW link