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Generalizing From One Example
Scott Alexander
28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC
437
points
423
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Extreme Rationality: It’s Not That Great
Scott Alexander
9 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC
249
points
281
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
21 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC
245
points
324
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
Eliezer Yudkowsky
1 Apr 2009 9:51 UTC
222
points
88
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Beware of Other-Optimizing
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10 Apr 2009 1:58 UTC
186
points
119
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Final Words
Eliezer Yudkowsky
27 Apr 2009 21:12 UTC
181
points
62
comments
9
min read
LW
link
The Epistemic Prisoner’s Dilemma
MBlume
18 Apr 2009 5:36 UTC
109
points
46
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Bayesians vs. Barbarians
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14 Apr 2009 23:45 UTC
103
points
277
comments
8
min read
LW
link
The Sin of Underconfidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Apr 2009 6:30 UTC
103
points
187
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Trouble With “Good”
Scott Alexander
17 Apr 2009 2:07 UTC
100
points
137
comments
6
min read
LW
link
“Stuck In The Middle With Bruce”
CronoDAS
9 Apr 2009 0:24 UTC
100
points
101
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality is Systematized Winning
Eliezer Yudkowsky
3 Apr 2009 14:41 UTC
98
points
267
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Incremental Progress and the Valley
Eliezer Yudkowsky
4 Apr 2009 16:42 UTC
97
points
113
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Instrumental vs. Epistemic—A Bardic Perspective
MBlume
25 Apr 2009 7:41 UTC
95
points
189
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Go Forth and Create the Art!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
23 Apr 2009 1:37 UTC
88
points
114
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Whining-Based Communities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7 Apr 2009 20:31 UTC
84
points
99
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Practical Advice Backed By Deep Theories
Eliezer Yudkowsky
25 Apr 2009 18:52 UTC
70
points
114
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Verbal Overshadowing and The Art of Rationality
pangloss
27 Apr 2009 23:39 UTC
69
points
24
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Mandatory Secret Identities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
8 Apr 2009 18:10 UTC
68
points
186
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Of Gender and Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16 Apr 2009 0:56 UTC
62
points
360
comments
5
min read
LW
link
It’s okay to be (at least a little) irrational
Kaj_Sotala
12 Apr 2009 21:06 UTC
61
points
59
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How theism works
Paul Crowley
10 Apr 2009 16:16 UTC
59
points
39
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Theism, Wednesday, and Not Being Adopted
Alicorn
27 Apr 2009 16:49 UTC
59
points
342
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Welcome to Less Wrong!
MBlume
16 Apr 2009 9:06 UTC
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
28 Apr 2009 9:25 UTC
58
points
48
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Extenuating Circumstances
Eliezer Yudkowsky
6 Apr 2009 22:57 UTC
56
points
42
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Akrasia and Shangri-La
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10 Apr 2009 20:53 UTC
53
points
97
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Collective Apathy and the Internet
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14 Apr 2009 0:02 UTC
52
points
34
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How Much Thought
jimrandomh
12 Apr 2009 4:56 UTC
49
points
26
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Fix it and tell us what you did
JulianMorrison
23 Apr 2009 14:54 UTC
49
points
38
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bystander Apathy
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13 Apr 2009 1:26 UTC
48
points
20
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Two-Tier Rationalism
Alicorn
17 Apr 2009 19:44 UTC
48
points
26
comments
4
min read
LW
link
My Way
Eliezer Yudkowsky
17 Apr 2009 1:25 UTC
48
points
126
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10 Apr 2009 20:30 UTC
48
points
232
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The End (of Sequences)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
27 Apr 2009 21:07 UTC
46
points
36
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The uniquely awful example of theism
gjm
10 Apr 2009 0:30 UTC
45
points
175
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Craft and the Community
Eliezer Yudkowsky
26 Apr 2009 17:52 UTC
44
points
10
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Evangelical Rationality
CannibalSmith
20 Apr 2009 4:51 UTC
44
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cached Procrastination
jimrandomh
25 Apr 2009 16:22 UTC
43
points
49
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Why Support the Underdog?
Scott Alexander
5 Apr 2009 0:01 UTC
43
points
102
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Help, help, I’m being oppressed!
Scott Alexander
7 Apr 2009 23:22 UTC
43
points
145
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Selecting Rationalist Groups
Eliezer Yudkowsky
2 Apr 2009 16:21 UTC
42
points
34
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Sunk Cost Fallacy
Z_M_Davis
12 Apr 2009 17:30 UTC
40
points
44
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Proposal: Use the Wiki for Concepts
Eliezer Yudkowsky
22 Apr 2009 5:21 UTC
40
points
67
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Where’s Your Sense of Mystery?
Scott Alexander
26 Apr 2009 0:45 UTC
40
points
55
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Missed Distinctions
jimrandomh
11 Apr 2009 3:15 UTC
38
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Awful Austrians
Swimmy
12 Apr 2009 6:06 UTC
38
points
95
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Mechanics without wrenches
PhilGoetz
15 Apr 2009 20:09 UTC
36
points
78
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Silver Chairs, Paternalism, and Akrasia
dclayh
9 Apr 2009 21:24 UTC
34
points
40
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How a pathological procrastinor can lose weight [Anti-akrasia]
dreeves
18 Apr 2009 20:05 UTC
34
points
31
comments
5
min read
LW
link
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