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Gen­er­al­iz­ing From One Example

Scott AlexanderApr 28, 2009, 10:00 PM
438 points
423 comments6 min readLW link

Ex­treme Ra­tion­al­ity: It’s Not That Great

Scott AlexanderApr 9, 2009, 2:44 AM
251 points
281 comments8 min readLW link

Well-Kept Gar­dens Die By Pacifism

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 21, 2009, 2:44 AM
250 points
324 comments5 min readLW link

Pur­chase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 1, 2009, 9:51 AM
223 points
88 comments4 min readLW link

Be­ware of Other-Optimizing

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 10, 2009, 1:58 AM
190 points
119 comments5 min readLW link

Fi­nal Words

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 27, 2009, 9:12 PM
182 points
63 comments9 min readLW link

The Epistemic Pri­soner’s Dilemma

MBlumeApr 18, 2009, 5:36 AM
116 points
46 comments2 min readLW link

Bayesi­ans vs. Barbarians

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 14, 2009, 11:45 PM
106 points
277 comments8 min readLW link

The Sin of Underconfidence

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 20, 2009, 6:30 AM
106 points
187 comments6 min readLW link

“Stuck In The Mid­dle With Bruce”

CronoDASApr 9, 2009, 12:24 AM
105 points
101 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity is Sys­tem­atized Winning

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 3, 2009, 2:41 PM
103 points
267 comments3 min readLW link

The Trou­ble With “Good”

Scott AlexanderApr 17, 2009, 2:07 AM
100 points
137 comments6 min readLW link

In­cre­men­tal Progress and the Valley

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 4, 2009, 4:42 PM
98 points
113 comments6 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal vs. Epistemic—A Bardic Perspective

MBlumeApr 25, 2009, 7:41 AM
95 points
189 comments3 min readLW link

Go Forth and Create the Art!

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 23, 2009, 1:37 AM
90 points
114 comments5 min readLW link

Whin­ing-Based Communities

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 7, 2009, 8:31 PM
86 points
99 comments4 min readLW link

Prac­ti­cal Ad­vice Backed By Deep Theories

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 25, 2009, 6:52 PM
71 points
114 comments4 min readLW link

Ver­bal Over­shad­ow­ing and The Art of Rationality

panglossApr 27, 2009, 11:39 PM
68 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

Manda­tory Se­cret Identities

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 8, 2009, 6:10 PM
68 points
186 comments3 min readLW link

Of Gen­der and Rationality

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 16, 2009, 12:56 AM
63 points
360 comments5 min readLW link

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

Kaj_SotalaApr 12, 2009, 9:06 PM
61 points
59 comments2 min readLW link

Theism, Wed­nes­day, and Not Be­ing Adopted

AlicornApr 27, 2009, 4:49 PM
60 points
342 comments3 min readLW link

How the­ism works

Paul CrowleyApr 10, 2009, 4:16 PM
59 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Wel­come to Less Wrong!

MBlumeApr 16, 2009, 9:06 AM
58 points
2,000 comments2 min readLW link

What is con­trol the­ory, and why do you need to know about it?

Richard_KennawayApr 28, 2009, 9:25 AM
58 points
48 comments9 min readLW link

Ex­ten­u­at­ing Circumstances

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 6, 2009, 10:57 PM
56 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

Akra­sia and Shangri-La

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 10, 2009, 8:53 PM
53 points
97 comments2 min readLW link

Col­lec­tive Apa­thy and the Internet

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 14, 2009, 12:02 AM
53 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

How Much Thought

jimrandomhApr 12, 2009, 4:56 AM
49 points
26 comments4 min readLW link

Fix it and tell us what you did

JulianMorrisonApr 23, 2009, 2:54 PM
49 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

By­s­tan­der Apathy

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 13, 2009, 1:26 AM
49 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

The Un­finished Mys­tery of the Shangri-La Diet

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 10, 2009, 8:30 PM
48 points
232 comments5 min readLW link

Two-Tier Rationalism

AlicornApr 17, 2009, 7:44 PM
48 points
26 comments4 min readLW link

My Way

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 17, 2009, 1:25 AM
48 points
126 comments7 min readLW link

The End (of Se­quences)

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 27, 2009, 9:07 PM
46 points
36 comments5 min readLW link

The uniquely awful ex­am­ple of theism

gjmApr 10, 2009, 12:30 AM
45 points
175 comments2 min readLW link

The Craft and the Community

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 26, 2009, 5:52 PM
44 points
11 comments12 min readLW link

Evan­gel­i­cal Rationality

CannibalSmithApr 20, 2009, 4:51 AM
44 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Cached Procrastination

jimrandomhApr 25, 2009, 4:22 PM
44 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

Why Sup­port the Un­der­dog?

Scott AlexanderApr 5, 2009, 12:01 AM
43 points
102 comments3 min readLW link

Help, help, I’m be­ing op­pressed!

Scott AlexanderApr 7, 2009, 11:22 PM
43 points
145 comments5 min readLW link

Select­ing Ra­tion­al­ist Groups

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 2, 2009, 4:21 PM
42 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

Sunk Cost Fallacy

Z_M_DavisApr 12, 2009, 5:30 PM
40 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Pro­posal: Use the Wiki for Concepts

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 22, 2009, 5:21 AM
40 points
67 comments3 min readLW link

Where’s Your Sense of Mys­tery?

Scott AlexanderApr 26, 2009, 12:45 AM
40 points
55 comments5 min readLW link

Missed Distinctions

jimrandomhApr 11, 2009, 3:15 AM
38 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Awful Austrians

SwimmyApr 12, 2009, 6:06 AM
38 points
95 comments5 min readLW link

Me­chan­ics with­out wrenches

PhilGoetzApr 15, 2009, 8:09 PM
36 points
78 comments3 min readLW link

Silver Chairs, Pa­ter­nal­ism, and Akrasia

dclayhApr 9, 2009, 9:24 PM
34 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

How a patholog­i­cal pro­cras­tinor can lose weight [Anti-akra­sia]

dreevesApr 18, 2009, 8:05 PM
34 points
31 comments5 min readLW link