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Generalizing From One Example
Scott Alexander
Apr 28, 2009, 10:00 PM
438
points
423
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Extreme Rationality: It’s Not That Great
Scott Alexander
Apr 9, 2009, 2:44 AM
251
points
281
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 21, 2009, 2:44 AM
250
points
324
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 1, 2009, 9:51 AM
223
points
88
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Beware of Other-Optimizing
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 10, 2009, 1:58 AM
190
points
119
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Final Words
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 27, 2009, 9:12 PM
182
points
63
comments
9
min read
LW
link
The Epistemic Prisoner’s Dilemma
MBlume
Apr 18, 2009, 5:36 AM
116
points
46
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Bayesians vs. Barbarians
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 14, 2009, 11:45 PM
106
points
277
comments
8
min read
LW
link
The Sin of Underconfidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 20, 2009, 6:30 AM
106
points
187
comments
6
min read
LW
link
“Stuck In The Middle With Bruce”
CronoDAS
Apr 9, 2009, 12:24 AM
105
points
101
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality is Systematized Winning
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 3, 2009, 2:41 PM
103
points
267
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Trouble With “Good”
Scott Alexander
Apr 17, 2009, 2:07 AM
100
points
137
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Incremental Progress and the Valley
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 4, 2009, 4:42 PM
98
points
113
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Instrumental vs. Epistemic—A Bardic Perspective
MBlume
Apr 25, 2009, 7:41 AM
95
points
189
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Go Forth and Create the Art!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 23, 2009, 1:37 AM
90
points
114
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Whining-Based Communities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 7, 2009, 8:31 PM
86
points
99
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Practical Advice Backed By Deep Theories
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 25, 2009, 6:52 PM
71
points
114
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Verbal Overshadowing and The Art of Rationality
pangloss
Apr 27, 2009, 11:39 PM
68
points
24
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Mandatory Secret Identities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 8, 2009, 6:10 PM
68
points
186
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Of Gender and Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 16, 2009, 12:56 AM
63
points
360
comments
5
min read
LW
link
It’s okay to be (at least a little) irrational
Kaj_Sotala
Apr 12, 2009, 9:06 PM
61
points
59
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Theism, Wednesday, and Not Being Adopted
Alicorn
Apr 27, 2009, 4:49 PM
60
points
342
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How theism works
Paul Crowley
Apr 10, 2009, 4:16 PM
59
points
39
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Welcome to Less Wrong!
MBlume
Apr 16, 2009, 9:06 AM
58
points
2,000
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What is control theory, and why do you need to know about it?
Richard_Kennaway
Apr 28, 2009, 9:25 AM
58
points
48
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Extenuating Circumstances
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 6, 2009, 10:57 PM
56
points
42
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Akrasia and Shangri-La
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 10, 2009, 8:53 PM
53
points
97
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Collective Apathy and the Internet
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 14, 2009, 12:02 AM
53
points
34
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How Much Thought
jimrandomh
Apr 12, 2009, 4:56 AM
49
points
26
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Fix it and tell us what you did
JulianMorrison
Apr 23, 2009, 2:54 PM
49
points
38
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bystander Apathy
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 13, 2009, 1:26 AM
49
points
20
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 10, 2009, 8:30 PM
48
points
232
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Two-Tier Rationalism
Alicorn
Apr 17, 2009, 7:44 PM
48
points
26
comments
4
min read
LW
link
My Way
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 17, 2009, 1:25 AM
48
points
126
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The End (of Sequences)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 27, 2009, 9:07 PM
46
points
36
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The uniquely awful example of theism
gjm
Apr 10, 2009, 12:30 AM
45
points
175
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Craft and the Community
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 26, 2009, 5:52 PM
44
points
11
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Evangelical Rationality
CannibalSmith
Apr 20, 2009, 4:51 AM
44
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cached Procrastination
jimrandomh
Apr 25, 2009, 4:22 PM
44
points
49
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Why Support the Underdog?
Scott Alexander
Apr 5, 2009, 12:01 AM
43
points
102
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Help, help, I’m being oppressed!
Scott Alexander
Apr 7, 2009, 11:22 PM
43
points
145
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Selecting Rationalist Groups
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 2, 2009, 4:21 PM
42
points
34
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Sunk Cost Fallacy
Z_M_Davis
Apr 12, 2009, 5:30 PM
40
points
44
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Proposal: Use the Wiki for Concepts
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 22, 2009, 5:21 AM
40
points
67
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Where’s Your Sense of Mystery?
Scott Alexander
Apr 26, 2009, 12:45 AM
40
points
55
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Missed Distinctions
jimrandomh
Apr 11, 2009, 3:15 AM
38
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Awful Austrians
Swimmy
Apr 12, 2009, 6:06 AM
38
points
95
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Mechanics without wrenches
PhilGoetz
Apr 15, 2009, 8:09 PM
36
points
78
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Silver Chairs, Paternalism, and Akrasia
dclayh
Apr 9, 2009, 9:24 PM
34
points
40
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How a pathological procrastinor can lose weight [Anti-akrasia]
dreeves
Apr 18, 2009, 8:05 PM
34
points
31
comments
5
min read
LW
link
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