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Reason as memetic immune disorder
PhilGoetz
Sep 19, 2009, 9:05 PM
509
points
185
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The Sword of Good
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 3, 2009, 12:53 AM
156
points
303
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 29, 2009, 12:40 AM
127
points
130
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Let Them Debate College Students
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 9, 2009, 6:15 PM
88
points
144
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Anthropic Trilemma
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 27, 2009, 1:47 AM
77
points
233
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Boredom vs. Scope Insensitivity
Wei Dai
Sep 24, 2009, 11:45 AM
68
points
40
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Lifespan Dilemma
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 10, 2009, 6:45 PM
61
points
220
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 20, 2009, 5:21 PM
53
points
107
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Absent-Minded Driver
Wei Dai
Sep 16, 2009, 12:51 AM
49
points
151
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Decision theory: Why Pearl helps reduce “could” and “would”, but still leaves us with at least three alternatives
AnnaSalamon
Sep 6, 2009, 6:10 AM
48
points
72
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Solutions to Political Problems As Counterfactuals
Scott Alexander
Sep 25, 2009, 5:21 PM
46
points
36
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Beware of WEIRD psychological samples
Paul Crowley
Sep 13, 2009, 11:28 AM
46
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Decision theory: Why we need to reduce “could”, “would”, “should”
AnnaSalamon
Sep 2, 2009, 9:23 AM
38
points
48
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Forcing Anthropics: Boltzmann Brains
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 7, 2009, 7:02 PM
37
points
72
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Outlawing Anthropics: An Updateless Dilemma
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 8, 2009, 6:31 PM
37
points
210
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Torture vs. Dust vs. the Presumptuous Philosopher: Anthropic Reasoning in UDT
Wei Dai
Sep 3, 2009, 11:04 PM
37
points
29
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Intuitive differences: when to agree to disagree
Kaj_Sotala
Sep 29, 2009, 7:56 AM
35
points
36
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Your Most Valuable Skill
Alicorn
Sep 27, 2009, 5:01 PM
32
points
97
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why I’m Staying On Bloggingheads.tv
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 7, 2009, 8:15 PM
31
points
101
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Avoiding doomsday: a “proof” of the self-indication assumption
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 23, 2009, 2:54 PM
26
points
238
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Non-Malthusian Scenarios
Wei Dai
Sep 26, 2009, 2:44 AM
24
points
89
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The New Nostradamus
Kaj_Sotala
Sep 12, 2009, 2:42 PM
21
points
27
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Knowing What You Know
[deleted]
Sep 2, 2009, 5:24 AM
21
points
12
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Notes on utility function experiment
taw
Sep 5, 2009, 7:10 PM
19
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Counterfactual Mugging and Logical Uncertainty
Vladimir_Nesov
Sep 5, 2009, 10:31 PM
16
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Formalizing informal logic
Johnicholas
Sep 10, 2009, 8:16 PM
16
points
22
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Scylla of Error and the Charybdis of Paralysis
Johnicholas
Sep 26, 2009, 4:01 PM
16
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How to use SMILE to solve Bayes Nets
Johnicholas
Sep 20, 2009, 12:08 PM
16
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
What is the Singularity Summit?
Liron
Sep 16, 2009, 7:18 AM
14
points
17
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Ethics as a black box function
Kaj_Sotala
Sep 22, 2009, 5:25 PM
14
points
32
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why Many-Worlds Is Not The Rationally Favored Interpretation
Mitchell_Porter
Sep 29, 2009, 5:22 AM
13
points
101
comments
3
min read
LW
link
An idea: Sticking Point Learning
cousin_it
Sep 8, 2009, 9:52 AM
12
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Hypothetical Paradoxes
Psychohistorian
Sep 19, 2009, 6:28 AM
12
points
34
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Timeless Identity Crisis
Psy-Kosh
Sep 11, 2009, 2:37 AM
11
points
33
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Correlated decision making: a complete theory
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 26, 2009, 11:47 AM
10
points
22
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Anthropic reasoning and correlated decision making
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 23, 2009, 3:10 PM
9
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The utility curve of the human population
dclayh
Sep 24, 2009, 9:00 PM
9
points
34
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Minneapolis Meetup: Survey of interest
JustinShovelain
Sep 18, 2009, 6:52 PM
8
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Pittsburgh Meetup: Saturday 9/12, 6:30PM, CMU
Nick_Tarleton
Sep 10, 2009, 3:06 AM
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Quantum Russian Roulette
Christian_Szegedy
Sep 18, 2009, 8:49 AM
8
points
65
comments
1
min read
LW
link
FHI postdoc at Oxford
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 8, 2009, 6:18 PM
7
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
MWI, weird quantum experiments and future-directed continuity of conscious experience
SforSingularity
Sep 18, 2009, 4:45 PM
6
points
92
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Minneapolis Meetup, This Saturday (26th) at 3:00 PM, University of Minnesota
FrankAdamek
Sep 24, 2009, 8:18 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Sociosexual Orientation Inventory, or failing to perform basic sanity checks
taw
Sep 16, 2009, 10:00 AM
5
points
41
comments
2
min read
LW
link
LW/OB Quotes—Fall 2009
thomblake
Sep 1, 2009, 3:11 PM
5
points
50
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Formalizing reflective inconsistency
Johnicholas
Sep 13, 2009, 4:23 AM
5
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Rationality Quotes—September 2009
thomblake
Sep 1, 2009, 3:06 PM
4
points
105
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Featherless Biped
Annoyance
Sep 2, 2009, 5:47 PM
4
points
64
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bay Area OBLW Meetup Sep 12
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 6, 2009, 12:00 AM
4
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread: September 2009
AllanCrossman
Sep 1, 2009, 10:54 AM
4
points
186
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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