Gen­er­al­iz­ing From One Example

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

Pur­chase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

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

Be­ware of Other-Optimizing

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

Fi­nal Words

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

The Epistemic Pri­soner’s Dilemma

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

Bayesi­ans vs. Barbarians

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

The Sin of Underconfidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Apr 2009 6:30 UTC
103 points
187 comments6 min readLW link

The Trou­ble With “Good”

Scott Alexander17 Apr 2009 2:07 UTC
100 points
137 comments6 min readLW link

“Stuck In The Mid­dle With Bruce”

CronoDAS9 Apr 2009 0:24 UTC
100 points
101 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity is Sys­tem­atized Winning

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Apr 2009 14:41 UTC
98 points
267 comments3 min readLW link

In­cre­men­tal Progress and the Valley

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Apr 2009 16:42 UTC
97 points
113 comments6 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal vs. Epistemic—A Bardic Perspective

MBlume25 Apr 2009 7:41 UTC
95 points
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Go Forth and Create the Art!

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Apr 2009 1:37 UTC
88 points
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Whin­ing-Based Communities

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Apr 2009 20:31 UTC
84 points
99 comments4 min readLW link

Prac­ti­cal Ad­vice Backed By Deep Theories

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Apr 2009 18:52 UTC
70 points
114 comments4 min readLW link

Ver­bal Over­shad­ow­ing and The Art of Rationality

pangloss27 Apr 2009 23:39 UTC
69 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

Manda­tory Se­cret Identities

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Apr 2009 18:10 UTC
68 points
186 comments3 min readLW link

Of Gen­der and Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Apr 2009 0:56 UTC
62 points
360 comments5 min readLW link

It’s okay to be (at least a lit­tle) irrational

Kaj_Sotala12 Apr 2009 21:06 UTC
61 points
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How the­ism works

Paul Crowley10 Apr 2009 16:16 UTC
59 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Theism, Wed­nes­day, and Not Be­ing Adopted

Alicorn27 Apr 2009 16:49 UTC
59 points
342 comments3 min readLW link

Wel­come to Less Wrong!

MBlume16 Apr 2009 9:06 UTC
58 points
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What is con­trol the­ory, and why do you need to know about it?

Richard_Kennaway28 Apr 2009 9:25 UTC
58 points
48 comments9 min readLW link

Ex­ten­u­at­ing Circumstances

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Apr 2009 22:57 UTC
56 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

Akra­sia and Shangri-La

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Apr 2009 20:53 UTC
53 points
97 comments2 min readLW link

Col­lec­tive Apa­thy and the Internet

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Apr 2009 0:02 UTC
52 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

How Much Thought

jimrandomh12 Apr 2009 4:56 UTC
49 points
26 comments4 min readLW link

Fix it and tell us what you did

JulianMorrison23 Apr 2009 14:54 UTC
49 points
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By­s­tan­der Apathy

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Apr 2009 1:26 UTC
48 points
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Two-Tier Rationalism

Alicorn17 Apr 2009 19:44 UTC
48 points
26 comments4 min readLW link

My Way

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Apr 2009 1:25 UTC
48 points
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The Un­finished Mys­tery of the Shangri-La Diet

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Apr 2009 20:30 UTC
48 points
232 comments5 min readLW link

The End (of Se­quences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Apr 2009 21:07 UTC
46 points
36 comments5 min readLW link

The uniquely awful ex­am­ple of theism

gjm10 Apr 2009 0:30 UTC
45 points
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The Craft and the Community

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Apr 2009 17:52 UTC
44 points
10 comments12 min readLW link

Evan­gel­i­cal Rationality

CannibalSmith20 Apr 2009 4:51 UTC
44 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Cached Procrastination

jimrandomh25 Apr 2009 16:22 UTC
43 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

Why Sup­port the Un­der­dog?

Scott Alexander5 Apr 2009 0:01 UTC
43 points
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Help, help, I’m be­ing op­pressed!

Scott Alexander7 Apr 2009 23:22 UTC
43 points
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Select­ing Ra­tion­al­ist Groups

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Apr 2009 16:21 UTC
42 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

Sunk Cost Fallacy

Z_M_Davis12 Apr 2009 17:30 UTC
40 points
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Pro­posal: Use the Wiki for Concepts

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Apr 2009 5:21 UTC
40 points
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Where’s Your Sense of Mys­tery?

Scott Alexander26 Apr 2009 0:45 UTC
40 points
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Missed Distinctions

jimrandomh11 Apr 2009 3:15 UTC
38 points
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Awful Austrians

Swimmy12 Apr 2009 6:06 UTC
38 points
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Me­chan­ics with­out wrenches

PhilGoetz15 Apr 2009 20:09 UTC
36 points
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Silver Chairs, Pa­ter­nal­ism, and Akrasia

dclayh9 Apr 2009 21:24 UTC
34 points
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How a patholog­i­cal pro­cras­tinor can lose weight [Anti-akra­sia]

dreeves18 Apr 2009 20:05 UTC
34 points
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