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Thomas C. Schelling’s “Strategy of Conflict”
cousin_it
28 Jul 2009 16:08 UTC
151
points
154
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
1 Jul 2009 2:19 UTC
138
points
187
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Nature of Offense
Wei Dai
23 Jul 2009 11:15 UTC
135
points
179
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15 Jul 2009 2:27 UTC
133
points
614
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Shut Up And Guess
Scott Alexander
21 Jul 2009 4:04 UTC
125
points
110
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Of Exclusionary Speech and Gender Politics
Eliezer Yudkowsky
21 Jul 2009 7:22 UTC
90
points
669
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Missing the Trees for the Forest
Scott Alexander
22 Jul 2009 3:23 UTC
87
points
159
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Outside Analysis and Blind Spots
orthonormal
21 Jul 2009 1:00 UTC
82
points
34
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Sayeth the Girl
Alicorn
19 Jul 2009 22:24 UTC
76
points
504
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Fair Division of Black-Hole Negentropy: an Introduction to Cooperative Game Theory
Wei Dai
16 Jul 2009 4:17 UTC
62
points
37
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Timeless Decision Theory: Problems I Can’t Solve
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Jul 2009 0:02 UTC
57
points
156
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Absolute denial for atheists
taw
16 Jul 2009 15:41 UTC
52
points
606
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Not Technically Lying
Psychohistorian
4 Jul 2009 18:40 UTC
50
points
86
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Bayesian Utility: Representing Preference by Probability Measures
Vladimir_Nesov
27 Jul 2009 14:28 UTC
48
points
37
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Celebrate Trivial Impetuses
Alicorn
24 Jul 2009 22:36 UTC
48
points
41
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bayesian Flame
cousin_it
26 Jul 2009 16:49 UTC
41
points
163
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Media bias
PhilGoetz
5 Jul 2009 16:54 UTC
39
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Recommended reading for new rationalists
XFrequentist
9 Jul 2009 19:47 UTC
39
points
168
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Deciding on our rationality focus
Kaj_Sotala
22 Jul 2009 6:27 UTC
39
points
51
comments
2
min read
LW
link
It’s all in your head-land
colinmarshall
22 Jul 2009 19:41 UTC
34
points
68
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Causes of disagreements
JustinShovelain
16 Jul 2009 21:51 UTC
32
points
20
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Popularization Bias
Wei Dai
17 Jul 2009 15:43 UTC
30
points
54
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AndrewH’s observation and opportunity costs
Scott Alexander
23 Jul 2009 11:36 UTC
29
points
61
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Zwicky’s Trifecta of Illusions
thomblake
17 Jul 2009 16:59 UTC
23
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The enemy within
Roko
5 Jul 2009 15:08 UTC
22
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Link: Interview with Vladimir Vapnik
Daniel_Burfoot
25 Jul 2009 13:36 UTC
22
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
An interesting speed dating study
CronoDAS
7 Jul 2009 7:09 UTC
20
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Are You Anosognosic?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
19 Jul 2009 4:35 UTC
20
points
67
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Formalized math: dream vs reality
cousin_it
9 Jul 2009 20:51 UTC
19
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Creating The Simple Math of Everything
Matt_Simpson
20 Jul 2009 22:45 UTC
18
points
28
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Causality does not imply correlation
Richard_Kennaway
8 Jul 2009 0:52 UTC
18
points
58
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Second Best
Wei Dai
26 Jul 2009 22:58 UTC
18
points
59
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Article upvoting
Eliezer Yudkowsky
19 Jul 2009 17:03 UTC
18
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Our society lacks good self-preservation mechanisms
Roko
12 Jul 2009 9:26 UTC
17
points
135
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Being saner about gender and rationality
Roko
20 Jul 2009 7:17 UTC
17
points
98
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Chomsky, Sports Talk Radio, Media Bias, and Me
David_J_Balan
21 Jul 2009 0:57 UTC
17
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Trolley Problem in popular culture: Torchwood Series 3
botogol
27 Jul 2009 22:46 UTC
16
points
87
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Joint Distributions and the Slow Spread of Good Ideas
David_J_Balan
20 Jul 2009 23:31 UTC
16
points
21
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Avoiding Failure: Fallacy Finding
Patrick
3 Jul 2009 17:59 UTC
14
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Dangers of Partial Knowledge of the Way: Failing in School
Gordon Seidoh Worley
6 Jul 2009 15:16 UTC
14
points
38
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Fairness and Geometry
cousin_it
22 Jul 2009 10:44 UTC
14
points
35
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Freaky Fairness
cousin_it
25 Jul 2009 8:14 UTC
14
points
36
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Obesity Myth
Matt_Simpson
30 Jul 2009 0:12 UTC
14
points
62
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book Review: Complications
Annoyance
1 Jul 2009 18:39 UTC
13
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Harnessing Your Biases
swestrup
2 Jul 2009 20:45 UTC
13
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
An Akrasia Anecdote
Matt_Simpson
20 Jul 2009 3:10 UTC
12
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Good Quality Heuristics
CannibalSmith
14 Jul 2009 9:53 UTC
12
points
113
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An observation on cryocrastination
AndrewH
22 Jul 2009 20:41 UTC
12
points
47
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How likely is a failure of nuclear deterrence?
Roko
15 Jul 2009 0:01 UTC
10
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Revisiting torture vs. dust specks
cousin_it
8 Jul 2009 11:04 UTC
10
points
66
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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