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Reason as memetic immune disorder
PhilGoetz
19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC
498
points
185
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The Sword of Good
Eliezer Yudkowsky
3 Sep 2009 0:53 UTC
156
points
303
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
29 Sep 2009 0:40 UTC
125
points
130
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Let Them Debate College Students
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9 Sep 2009 18:15 UTC
88
points
144
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Anthropic Trilemma
Eliezer Yudkowsky
27 Sep 2009 1:47 UTC
69
points
232
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Lifespan Dilemma
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10 Sep 2009 18:45 UTC
61
points
220
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Boredom vs. Scope Insensitivity
Wei Dai
24 Sep 2009 11:45 UTC
56
points
40
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Sep 2009 17:21 UTC
52
points
107
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Decision theory: Why Pearl helps reduce “could” and “would”, but still leaves us with at least three alternatives
AnnaSalamon
6 Sep 2009 6:10 UTC
48
points
72
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Solutions to Political Problems As Counterfactuals
Scott Alexander
25 Sep 2009 17:21 UTC
46
points
36
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Beware of WEIRD psychological samples
Paul Crowley
13 Sep 2009 11:28 UTC
46
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Absent-Minded Driver
Wei Dai
16 Sep 2009 0:51 UTC
46
points
150
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Decision theory: Why we need to reduce “could”, “would”, “should”
AnnaSalamon
2 Sep 2009 9:23 UTC
38
points
48
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Torture vs. Dust vs. the Presumptuous Philosopher: Anthropic Reasoning in UDT
Wei Dai
3 Sep 2009 23:04 UTC
37
points
29
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Outlawing Anthropics: An Updateless Dilemma
Eliezer Yudkowsky
8 Sep 2009 18:31 UTC
37
points
210
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Forcing Anthropics: Boltzmann Brains
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7 Sep 2009 19:02 UTC
37
points
72
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Intuitive differences: when to agree to disagree
Kaj_Sotala
29 Sep 2009 7:56 UTC
35
points
36
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Your Most Valuable Skill
Alicorn
27 Sep 2009 17:01 UTC
32
points
97
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why I’m Staying On Bloggingheads.tv
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7 Sep 2009 20:15 UTC
31
points
101
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Avoiding doomsday: a “proof” of the self-indication assumption
Stuart_Armstrong
23 Sep 2009 14:54 UTC
26
points
238
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Non-Malthusian Scenarios
Wei Dai
26 Sep 2009 2:44 UTC
24
points
89
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The New Nostradamus
Kaj_Sotala
12 Sep 2009 14:42 UTC
21
points
27
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Knowing What You Know
[deleted]
2 Sep 2009 5:24 UTC
21
points
12
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Notes on utility function experiment
taw
5 Sep 2009 19:10 UTC
19
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Scylla of Error and the Charybdis of Paralysis
Johnicholas
26 Sep 2009 16:01 UTC
16
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Formalizing informal logic
Johnicholas
10 Sep 2009 20:16 UTC
16
points
22
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How to use SMILE to solve Bayes Nets
Johnicholas
20 Sep 2009 12:08 UTC
16
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
What is the Singularity Summit?
Liron
16 Sep 2009 7:18 UTC
14
points
17
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Ethics as a black box function
Kaj_Sotala
22 Sep 2009 17:25 UTC
14
points
32
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why Many-Worlds Is Not The Rationally Favored Interpretation
Mitchell_Porter
29 Sep 2009 5:22 UTC
13
points
101
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Counterfactual Mugging and Logical Uncertainty
Vladimir_Nesov
5 Sep 2009 22:31 UTC
12
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
An idea: Sticking Point Learning
cousin_it
8 Sep 2009 9:52 UTC
12
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Hypothetical Paradoxes
Psychohistorian
19 Sep 2009 6:28 UTC
12
points
34
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Timeless Identity Crisis
Psy-Kosh
11 Sep 2009 2:37 UTC
11
points
33
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Correlated decision making: a complete theory
Stuart_Armstrong
26 Sep 2009 11:47 UTC
10
points
22
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Anthropic reasoning and correlated decision making
Stuart_Armstrong
23 Sep 2009 15:10 UTC
9
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The utility curve of the human population
dclayh
24 Sep 2009 21:00 UTC
9
points
34
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Minneapolis Meetup: Survey of interest
JustinShovelain
18 Sep 2009 18:52 UTC
8
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Pittsburgh Meetup: Saturday 9/12, 6:30PM, CMU
Nick_Tarleton
10 Sep 2009 3:06 UTC
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Quantum Russian Roulette
Christian_Szegedy
18 Sep 2009 8:49 UTC
8
points
65
comments
1
min read
LW
link
FHI postdoc at Oxford
Eliezer Yudkowsky
8 Sep 2009 18:18 UTC
7
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
MWI, weird quantum experiments and future-directed continuity of conscious experience
SforSingularity
18 Sep 2009 16:45 UTC
6
points
92
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Minneapolis Meetup, This Saturday (26th) at 3:00 PM, University of Minnesota
FrankAdamek
24 Sep 2009 20:18 UTC
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Sociosexual Orientation Inventory, or failing to perform basic sanity checks
taw
16 Sep 2009 10:00 UTC
5
points
41
comments
2
min read
LW
link
LW/OB Quotes—Fall 2009
thomblake
1 Sep 2009 15:11 UTC
5
points
50
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Formalizing reflective inconsistency
Johnicholas
13 Sep 2009 4:23 UTC
5
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Rationality Quotes—September 2009
thomblake
1 Sep 2009 15:06 UTC
4
points
105
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Featherless Biped
Annoyance
2 Sep 2009 17:47 UTC
4
points
64
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bay Area OBLW Meetup Sep 12
Eliezer Yudkowsky
6 Sep 2009 0:00 UTC
4
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread: September 2009
AllanCrossman
1 Sep 2009 10:54 UTC
4
points
186
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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