On the Care and Feed­ing of Young Rationalists

MBlume13 Mar 2009 23:48 UTC
32 points
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Epistemic Viciousness

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2009 23:33 UTC
106 points
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Is Santa Real?

thomblake13 Mar 2009 20:45 UTC
20 points
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Dialec­ti­cal Bootstrapping

Johnicholas13 Mar 2009 17:10 UTC
22 points
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Real­ity vs Vir­tual Reality

cleonid13 Mar 2009 15:17 UTC
−12 points
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Boxxy and Reagan

[deleted]13 Mar 2009 6:36 UTC
−5 points
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Talk­ing Snakes: A Cau­tion­ary Tale

Scott Alexander13 Mar 2009 1:41 UTC
188 points
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A Sense That More Is Possible

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Mar 2009 1:15 UTC
161 points
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So you say you’re an al­tru­ist...

John_Maxwell12 Mar 2009 22:15 UTC
12 points
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Ra­tional Defense of Ir­ra­tional Beliefs

cleonid12 Mar 2009 18:48 UTC
6 points
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The ori­gins of virtue

KatjaGrace12 Mar 2009 12:30 UTC
1 point
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Rais­ing the San­ity Waterline

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

The Apol­o­gist and the Revolutionary

Scott Alexander11 Mar 2009 21:39 UTC
255 points
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Begin­ning at the Beginning

Annoyance11 Mar 2009 19:23 UTC
5 points
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Ad­ver­sar­ial Sys­tem Hats

Johnicholas11 Mar 2009 16:56 UTC
8 points
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Selec­tive pro­cesses bring tag-alongs (but not always!)

AnnaSalamon11 Mar 2009 8:17 UTC
39 points
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Wanted: Python open source volunteers

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2009 4:59 UTC
17 points
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Soft­ware tools for com­mu­nity truth-seeking

Johnicholas10 Mar 2009 13:20 UTC
2 points
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Striv­ing to Accept

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Mar 2009 23:29 UTC
48 points
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You May Already Be A Sinner

Scott Alexander9 Mar 2009 23:18 UTC
52 points
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LessWrong anti-kib­itzer (hides com­ment au­thors and vote counts)

Marcello9 Mar 2009 19:18 UTC
66 points
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The Mis­take Script

jimrandomh9 Mar 2009 17:35 UTC
12 points
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The Wrath of Kahneman

steven04619 Mar 2009 12:52 UTC
30 points
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Don’t Believe You’ll Self-Deceive

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Mar 2009 8:03 UTC
43 points
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The Mys­tery of the Haunted Rationalist

Scott Alexander8 Mar 2009 20:39 UTC
114 points
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Lies and Secrets

steven04618 Mar 2009 14:43 UTC
19 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

It’s the Same Five Dol­lars!

Z_M_Davis8 Mar 2009 7:23 UTC
27 points
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Moore’s Paradox

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Mar 2009 2:27 UTC
89 points
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Si­mul­ta­neously Right and Wrong

Scott Alexander7 Mar 2009 22:55 UTC
116 points
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The Golem

Kaj_Sotala7 Mar 2009 18:32 UTC
17 points
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Checklists

Johnicholas7 Mar 2009 15:47 UTC
17 points
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Slow down a lit­tle… maybe?

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Mar 2009 1:34 UTC
−4 points
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For­mal­iza­tion is a ra­tio­nal­ity technique

Johnicholas6 Mar 2009 20:22 UTC
3 points
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Does blind re­view slow down sci­ence?

Kaj_Sotala6 Mar 2009 12:35 UTC
25 points
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Is it ra­tio­nal to take psilo­cy­bin?

pwno6 Mar 2009 4:44 UTC
13 points
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In­for­ma­tion cascades

Johnicholas6 Mar 2009 4:08 UTC
61 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Recom­mended Ra­tion­al­ist Resources

MichaelHoward5 Mar 2009 20:23 UTC
6 points
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Define Rationality

Marshall5 Mar 2009 18:25 UTC
1 point
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Kin­naird’s truels

Johnicholas5 Mar 2009 16:50 UTC
30 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Post­ing now en­abled on Less Wrong

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Mar 2009 16:15 UTC
2 points
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Post­ing now enabled

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Mar 2009 15:56 UTC
5 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity and Pos­i­tive Psychology

badger5 Mar 2009 15:31 UTC
4 points
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Belief in Self-Deception

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Mar 2009 15:20 UTC
100 points
114 comments4 min readLW link

The ethic of hand-wash­ing and com­mu­nity epistemic practice

5 Mar 2009 4:28 UTC
61 points
48 comments3 min readLW link

No, Really, I’ve De­ceived Myself

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

Teach­ing the Unteachable

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Mar 2009 23:14 UTC
55 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

The Costs of Rationality

RobinHanson3 Mar 2009 18:13 UTC
36 points
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Un­teach­able Excellence

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Mar 2009 15:33 UTC
46 points
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Test Your Rationality

RobinHanson1 Mar 2009 13:21 UTC
43 points
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That You’d Tell All Your Friends

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Mar 2009 12:04 UTC
8 points
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