The Se­cond Best

Wei Dai26 Jul 2009 22:58 UTC
18 points
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Bayesian Flame

cousin_it26 Jul 2009 16:49 UTC
41 points
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Five Stages of Idolatry

[deleted]25 Jul 2009 18:16 UTC
10 points
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Link: In­ter­view with Vladimir Vapnik

Daniel_Burfoot25 Jul 2009 13:36 UTC
22 points
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Freaky Fairness

cousin_it25 Jul 2009 8:14 UTC
14 points
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Many Reasons

steven046125 Jul 2009 5:09 UTC
2 points
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Cel­e­brate Triv­ial Impetuses

Alicorn24 Jul 2009 22:36 UTC
48 points
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Are cal­ibra­tion and ra­tio­nal de­ci­sions mu­tu­ally ex­clu­sive? (Part two)

Cyan24 Jul 2009 0:49 UTC
8 points
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An­drewH’s ob­ser­va­tion and op­por­tu­nity costs

Scott Alexander23 Jul 2009 11:36 UTC
29 points
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The Na­ture of Offense

Wei Dai23 Jul 2009 11:15 UTC
135 points
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Are cal­ibra­tion and ra­tio­nal de­ci­sions mu­tu­ally ex­clu­sive? (Part one)

Cyan23 Jul 2009 5:15 UTC
7 points
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The Price of Integrity

Aurini23 Jul 2009 4:30 UTC
−3 points
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Murder

KatjaGrace23 Jul 2009 2:52 UTC
1 point
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An ob­ser­va­tion on cryocrastination

AndrewH22 Jul 2009 20:41 UTC
12 points
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It’s all in your head-land

colinmarshall22 Jul 2009 19:41 UTC
34 points
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Fair­ness and Geometry

cousin_it22 Jul 2009 10:44 UTC
14 points
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De­cid­ing on our ra­tio­nal­ity focus

Kaj_Sotala22 Jul 2009 6:27 UTC
39 points
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Miss­ing the Trees for the Forest

Scott Alexander22 Jul 2009 3:23 UTC
87 points
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Ob­vi­ous­ness is not what it seems

KatjaGrace21 Jul 2009 11:34 UTC
1 point
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Old blog

KatjaGrace21 Jul 2009 11:25 UTC
1 point
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Of Ex­clu­sion­ary Speech and Gen­der Politics

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jul 2009 7:22 UTC
90 points
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Shut Up And Guess

Scott Alexander21 Jul 2009 4:04 UTC
125 points
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Out­side Anal­y­sis and Blind Spots

orthonormal21 Jul 2009 1:00 UTC
82 points
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Chom­sky, Sports Talk Ra­dio, Me­dia Bias, and Me

David_J_Balan21 Jul 2009 0:57 UTC
17 points
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Joint Distri­bu­tions and the Slow Spread of Good Ideas

David_J_Balan20 Jul 2009 23:31 UTC
16 points
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Creat­ing The Sim­ple Math of Everything

Matt_Simpson20 Jul 2009 22:45 UTC
18 points
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Coun­ter­fac­tual Mug­ging v. Sub­jec­tive Probability

MBlume20 Jul 2009 16:31 UTC
4 points
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Are you crazy?

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 Jul 2009 16:27 UTC
2 points
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Be­ing saner about gen­der and rationality

Roko20 Jul 2009 7:17 UTC
17 points
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An Akra­sia Anecdote

Matt_Simpson20 Jul 2009 3:10 UTC
12 points
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Time­less De­ci­sion The­ory: Prob­lems I Can’t Solve

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Jul 2009 0:02 UTC
57 points
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Sayeth the Girl

Alicorn19 Jul 2009 22:24 UTC
76 points
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Ar­ti­cle upvoting

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Jul 2009 17:03 UTC
18 points
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Are You Anosog­nosic?

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Jul 2009 4:35 UTC
20 points
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Zwicky’s Trifecta of Illusions

thomblake17 Jul 2009 16:59 UTC
23 points
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The Pop­u­lariza­tion Bias

Wei Dai17 Jul 2009 15:43 UTC
30 points
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Causes of disagreements

JustinShovelain16 Jul 2009 21:51 UTC
32 points
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Ab­solute de­nial for atheists

taw16 Jul 2009 15:41 UTC
52 points
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Fair Divi­sion of Black-Hole Ne­gen­tropy: an In­tro­duc­tion to Co­op­er­a­tive Game Theory

Wei Dai16 Jul 2009 4:17 UTC
62 points
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The Dirt on Depression

pjeby15 Jul 2009 17:58 UTC
5 points
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“Sex Is Always Well Worth Its Two-Fold Cost”

cousin_it15 Jul 2009 9:52 UTC
8 points
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The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Jul 2009 2:27 UTC
134 points
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How likely is a failure of nu­clear de­ter­rence?

Roko15 Jul 2009 0:01 UTC
10 points
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Good Qual­ity Heuristics

CannibalSmith14 Jul 2009 9:53 UTC
12 points
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Our so­ciety lacks good self-preser­va­tion mechanisms

Roko12 Jul 2009 9:26 UTC
17 points
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Jul 12 Bay Area meetup—Han­son, Vas­sar, Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Jul 2009 21:13 UTC
10 points
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De­bate: Is short term plan­ning in hu­mans due to a short life or due to bias?

whpearson11 Jul 2009 16:34 UTC
8 points
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Cau­sa­tion as Bias (sort of)

spuckblase10 Jul 2009 8:38 UTC
−13 points
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For­mal­ized math: dream vs reality

cousin_it9 Jul 2009 20:51 UTC
19 points
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Recom­mended read­ing for new rationalists

XFrequentist9 Jul 2009 19:47 UTC
39 points
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