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Rea­son as memetic im­mune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC
500 points
185 comments5 min readLW link

The Sword of Good

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Sep 2009 0:53 UTC
156 points
303 comments2 min readLW link

Priv­ileg­ing the Hypothesis

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Sep 2009 0:40 UTC
125 points
130 comments5 min readLW link

Let Them De­bate Col­lege Students

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Sep 2009 18:15 UTC
88 points
144 comments2 min readLW link

The An­thropic Trilemma

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Sep 2009 1:47 UTC
71 points
232 comments6 min readLW link

The Lifes­pan Dilemma

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Sep 2009 18:45 UTC
61 points
220 comments7 min readLW link

Bore­dom vs. Scope Insensitivity

Wei Dai24 Sep 2009 11:45 UTC
56 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

The Fi­nale of the Ul­ti­mate Meta Mega Crossover

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Sep 2009 17:21 UTC
52 points
107 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion the­ory: Why Pearl helps re­duce “could” and “would”, but still leaves us with at least three alternatives

AnnaSalamon6 Sep 2009 6:10 UTC
48 points
72 comments5 min readLW link

Solu­tions to Poli­ti­cal Prob­lems As Counterfactuals

Scott Alexander25 Sep 2009 17:21 UTC
46 points
36 comments6 min readLW link

Be­ware of WEIRD psy­cholog­i­cal samples

Paul Crowley13 Sep 2009 11:28 UTC
46 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

The Ab­sent-Minded Driver

Wei Dai16 Sep 2009 0:51 UTC
46 points
150 comments3 min readLW link

De­ci­sion the­ory: Why we need to re­duce “could”, “would”, “should”

AnnaSalamon2 Sep 2009 9:23 UTC
38 points
48 comments4 min readLW link

Tor­ture vs. Dust vs. the Pre­sump­tu­ous Philoso­pher: An­thropic Rea­son­ing in UDT

Wei Dai3 Sep 2009 23:04 UTC
37 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Out­law­ing An­throp­ics: An Up­date­less Dilemma

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Sep 2009 18:31 UTC
37 points
210 comments4 min readLW link

Forc­ing An­throp­ics: Boltz­mann Brains

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Sep 2009 19:02 UTC
37 points
72 comments5 min readLW link

In­tu­itive differ­ences: when to agree to disagree

Kaj_Sotala29 Sep 2009 7:56 UTC
35 points
36 comments4 min readLW link

Your Most Valuable Skill

Alicorn27 Sep 2009 17:01 UTC
32 points
97 comments2 min readLW link

Why I’m Stay­ing On Blog­ging­heads.tv

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Sep 2009 20:15 UTC
31 points
101 comments2 min readLW link

Avoid­ing dooms­day: a “proof” of the self-in­di­ca­tion assumption

Stuart_Armstrong23 Sep 2009 14:54 UTC
26 points
238 comments3 min readLW link

Non-Malthu­sian Scenarios

Wei Dai26 Sep 2009 2:44 UTC
24 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

The New Nostradamus

Kaj_Sotala12 Sep 2009 14:42 UTC
21 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Know­ing What You Know

[deleted]2 Sep 2009 5:24 UTC
21 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

Notes on util­ity func­tion experiment

taw5 Sep 2009 19:10 UTC
19 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

The Scylla of Er­ror and the Charyb­dis of Paralysis

Johnicholas26 Sep 2009 16:01 UTC
16 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

For­mal­iz­ing in­for­mal logic

Johnicholas10 Sep 2009 20:16 UTC
16 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

How to use SMILE to solve Bayes Nets

Johnicholas20 Sep 2009 12:08 UTC
16 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

What is the Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit?

Liron16 Sep 2009 7:18 UTC
14 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Ethics as a black box function

Kaj_Sotala22 Sep 2009 17:25 UTC
14 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

Why Many-Wor­lds Is Not The Ra­tion­ally Fa­vored Interpretation

Mitchell_Porter29 Sep 2009 5:22 UTC
13 points
101 comments3 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tual Mug­ging and Log­i­cal Uncertainty

Vladimir_Nesov5 Sep 2009 22:31 UTC
12 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

An idea: Stick­ing Point Learning

cousin_it8 Sep 2009 9:52 UTC
12 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Hy­po­thet­i­cal Paradoxes

Psychohistorian19 Sep 2009 6:28 UTC
12 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

Time­less Iden­tity Crisis

Psy-Kosh11 Sep 2009 2:37 UTC
11 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Cor­re­lated de­ci­sion mak­ing: a com­plete theory

Stuart_Armstrong26 Sep 2009 11:47 UTC
10 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

An­thropic rea­son­ing and cor­re­lated de­ci­sion making

Stuart_Armstrong23 Sep 2009 15:10 UTC
9 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

The util­ity curve of the hu­man population

dclayh24 Sep 2009 21:00 UTC
9 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Min­neapo­lis Meetup: Sur­vey of interest

JustinShovelain18 Sep 2009 18:52 UTC
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Pitts­burgh Meetup: Satur­day 9/​12, 6:30PM, CMU

Nick_Tarleton10 Sep 2009 3:06 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Quan­tum Rus­sian Roulette

Christian_Szegedy18 Sep 2009 8:49 UTC
8 points
65 comments1 min readLW link

FHI post­doc at Oxford

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Sep 2009 18:18 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

MWI, weird quan­tum ex­per­i­ments and fu­ture-di­rected con­ti­nu­ity of con­scious experience

SforSingularity18 Sep 2009 16:45 UTC
6 points
92 comments4 min readLW link

Min­neapo­lis Meetup, This Satur­day (26th) at 3:00 PM, Univer­sity of Min­nesota

FrankAdamek24 Sep 2009 20:18 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

So­cio­sex­ual Ori­en­ta­tion In­ven­tory, or failing to perform ba­sic san­ity checks

taw16 Sep 2009 10:00 UTC
5 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

LW/​OB Quotes—Fall 2009

thomblake1 Sep 2009 15:11 UTC
5 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

For­mal­iz­ing re­flec­tive inconsistency

Johnicholas13 Sep 2009 4:23 UTC
5 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes—Septem­ber 2009

thomblake1 Sep 2009 15:06 UTC
4 points
105 comments1 min readLW link

The Feather­less Biped

Annoyance2 Sep 2009 17:47 UTC
4 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

Bay Area OBLW Meetup Sep 12

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Sep 2009 0:00 UTC
4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread: Septem­ber 2009

AllanCrossman1 Sep 2009 10:54 UTC
4 points
186 comments1 min readLW link