Questions
Events
Shortform
Alignment Forum
AF Comments
Home
Featured
All
Tags
Recent
Comments
Archive
Sequences
About
Search
Log In
All
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
All
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
All
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Page
1
Obviousness is not what it seems
KatjaGrace
21 Jul 2009 11:34 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Old blog
KatjaGrace
21 Jul 2009 11:25 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
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
Shut Up And Guess
Scott Alexander
21 Jul 2009 4:04 UTC
125
points
110
comments
5
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
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
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
Creating The Simple Math of Everything
Matt_Simpson
20 Jul 2009 22:45 UTC
18
points
28
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Counterfactual Mugging v. Subjective Probability
MBlume
20 Jul 2009 16:31 UTC
4
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Are you crazy?
Gordon Seidoh Worley
20 Jul 2009 16:27 UTC
2
points
18
comments
2
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
An Akrasia Anecdote
Matt_Simpson
20 Jul 2009 3:10 UTC
12
points
6
comments
6
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
Sayeth the Girl
Alicorn
19 Jul 2009 22:24 UTC
76
points
504
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Article upvoting
Eliezer Yudkowsky
19 Jul 2009 17:03 UTC
18
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Are You Anosognosic?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
19 Jul 2009 4:35 UTC
20
points
67
comments
1
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 Popularization Bias
Wei Dai
17 Jul 2009 15:43 UTC
30
points
54
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Causes of disagreements
JustinShovelain
16 Jul 2009 21:51 UTC
32
points
20
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Absolute denial for atheists
taw
16 Jul 2009 15:41 UTC
52
points
606
comments
1
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
The Dirt on Depression
pjeby
15 Jul 2009 17:58 UTC
5
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Sex Is Always Well Worth Its Two-Fold Cost”
cousin_it
15 Jul 2009 9:52 UTC
8
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15 Jul 2009 2:27 UTC
134
points
614
comments
2
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
Good Quality Heuristics
CannibalSmith
14 Jul 2009 9:53 UTC
12
points
113
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
Jul 12 Bay Area meetup—Hanson, Vassar, Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Jul 2009 21:13 UTC
10
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Debate: Is short term planning in humans due to a short life or due to bias?
whpearson
11 Jul 2009 16:34 UTC
8
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Causation as Bias (sort of)
spuckblase
10 Jul 2009 8:38 UTC
−13
points
92
comments
2
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
Recommended reading for new rationalists
XFrequentist
9 Jul 2009 19:47 UTC
39
points
168
comments
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
Causality does not imply correlation
Richard_Kennaway
8 Jul 2009 0:52 UTC
18
points
58
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Can self-help be bad for you?
Tom_Talbot
7 Jul 2009 20:40 UTC
4
points
13
comments
1
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
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
Can chess be a game of luck?
Rune
6 Jul 2009 3:08 UTC
−3
points
44
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Media bias
PhilGoetz
5 Jul 2009 16:54 UTC
39
points
47
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
Not Technically Lying
Psychohistorian
4 Jul 2009 18:40 UTC
50
points
86
comments
4
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 Fixed Sum Fallacy
cousin_it
3 Jul 2009 13:01 UTC
5
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Who do we care about?
KatjaGrace
3 Jul 2009 7:18 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Harnessing Your Biases
swestrup
2 Jul 2009 20:45 UTC
13
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Rationality Quotes—July 2009
SilasBarta
2 Jul 2009 18:35 UTC
7
points
185
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Fourth London Rationalist Meeting?
Richard_Kennaway
2 Jul 2009 9:56 UTC
6
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread: July 2009
[deleted]
2 Jul 2009 4:00 UTC
5
points
251
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
Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
1 Jul 2009 2:19 UTC
138
points
187
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Back to top
Next