Refer­ences & Re­sources for LessWrong

XiXiDuOct 10, 2010, 2:54 PM
168 points
104 comments20 min readLW link

Break your habits: be more empirical

AcademianOct 2, 2010, 9:04 PM
150 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Mak­ing your ex­plicit rea­son­ing trust­wor­thy

AnnaSalamonOct 29, 2010, 12:00 AM
121 points
95 comments6 min readLW link

Self-em­pa­thy as a source of “willpower”

AcademianOct 26, 2010, 2:20 PM
83 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

Let’s split the cake, length­wise, up­wise and slantwise

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 25, 2010, 1:15 PM
74 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

The Dark Arts—Preamble

AuriniOct 11, 2010, 2:01 PM
65 points
140 comments6 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity and rel­a­tivis­tic vertigo

AcademianOct 12, 2010, 2:00 AM
60 points
80 comments4 min readLW link

Mixed strat­egy Nash equilibrium

Meni_RosenfeldOct 16, 2010, 4:00 PM
60 points
47 comments4 min readLW link

Deal­ing with the high quan­tity of sci­en­tific er­ror in medicine

NancyLebovitzOct 25, 2010, 1:53 PM
60 points
61 comments3 min readLW link

Reflec­tions on a Per­sonal Public Re­la­tions Failure: A Les­son in Communication

multifoliateroseOct 1, 2010, 12:29 AM
50 points
39 comments12 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing vipas­sana meditation

[deleted]Oct 3, 2010, 6:12 PM
48 points
77 comments3 min readLW link

Op­ti­mism ver­sus cryonics

lsparrishOct 25, 2010, 2:13 AM
48 points
110 comments1 min readLW link

Greg Egan disses stand-ins for Over­com­ing Bias, SIAI in new book

Kaj_SotalaOct 7, 2010, 6:55 AM
48 points
42 comments2 min readLW link

The Ir­ra­tional­ity Game

Will_NewsomeOct 3, 2010, 2:43 AM
44 points
932 comments3 min readLW link

A sug­ges­tion on how to get peo­ple to read the Sequences

AdeleneDawnerOct 25, 2010, 7:21 PM
43 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Ben Go­ertzel: The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute’s Scary Idea (and Why I Don’t Buy It)

Paul CrowleyOct 30, 2010, 9:31 AM
42 points
414 comments1 min readLW link

Slava!

[deleted]Oct 3, 2010, 2:47 AM
40 points
105 comments4 min readLW link

Willpower: not a limited re­source?

Jess_RiedelOct 25, 2010, 12:06 PM
39 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Strate­gies for deal­ing with emo­tional nihilism

[deleted]Oct 10, 2010, 1:31 PM
39 points
175 comments4 min readLW link

Ac­ti­va­tion Costs

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Oct 25, 2010, 9:30 PM
39 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

HELP: Do I have a chance at be­com­ing in­tel­li­gent?

johnbgoneOct 26, 2010, 9:41 PM
38 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

Recom­mended Read­ing for Friendly AI Research

Vladimir_NesovOct 9, 2010, 1:46 PM
35 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

Gandhi, mur­der pills, and men­tal illness

erratioOct 13, 2010, 9:16 AM
34 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Hu­man perfor­mance, psy­chom­e­try, and base­ball statistics

Craig_HeldrethOct 15, 2010, 1:13 PM
33 points
21 comments6 min readLW link

Cod­ing Ra­tion­ally—Test Driven Development

DSimonOct 1, 2010, 3:20 PM
33 points
84 comments7 min readLW link

Great Math­e­mat­i­ci­ans on Math Com­pe­ti­tions and “Ge­nius”

multifoliateroseOct 11, 2010, 11:50 AM
33 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

Call for Vol­un­teers: Ra­tion­al­ists with Non-Tra­di­tional Skills

JasenOct 28, 2010, 9:38 PM
31 points
68 comments2 min readLW link

Vi­pas­sana Med­i­ta­tion: Devel­op­ing Meta-Feel­ing Skills

[deleted]Oct 18, 2010, 4:55 PM
30 points
107 comments5 min readLW link

Re­quest: In­ter­est­ing In­vert­ible Facts

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 8, 2010, 8:02 PM
29 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Free Hard SF Novels & Short Stories

XiXiDuOct 10, 2010, 12:12 PM
28 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

Love and Ra­tion­al­ity: Less Wrongers on OKCupid

RelsquiOct 11, 2010, 6:35 AM
27 points
337 comments9 min readLW link

Math pre­req­ui­sites for un­der­stand­ing LW stuff

cousin_itOct 4, 2010, 11:30 AM
27 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Value Deathism

Vladimir_NesovOct 30, 2010, 6:20 PM
26 points
121 comments1 min readLW link

Why not be awful?

[deleted]Oct 2, 2010, 11:30 PM
25 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Church: a lan­guage for prob­a­bil­is­tic modeling

[deleted]Oct 22, 2010, 11:59 AM
25 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Poker Playing

gwernOct 11, 2010, 9:48 PM
24 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Col­lect­ing and hoard­ing crap, use­less information

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Oct 10, 2010, 9:05 PM
23 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Aik­ido Trick

[deleted]Oct 10, 2010, 4:45 PM
23 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

(Some) poli­ti­ci­ans might be more ra­tio­nal than they ap­pear.

orthonormalOct 4, 2010, 4:05 AM
22 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Swords and Ar­mor: A Game The­ory Thought Experiment

nick012000Oct 12, 2010, 8:51 AM
22 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

No­tion of Prefer­ence in Am­bi­ent Control

Vladimir_NesovOct 7, 2010, 9:21 PM
21 points
47 comments8 min readLW link

Ex­pec­ta­tion-Based Akra­sia Management

AdeleneDawnerOct 1, 2010, 4:34 AM
20 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

Beauty in Mathematics

multifoliateroseOct 13, 2010, 9:12 AM
20 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Four Ways to Do Good (and four fal­la­cies)

[deleted]Oct 9, 2010, 11:46 PM
20 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Cur­rently Buy­ing AdWords for LessWrong

LouieOct 30, 2010, 5:31 AM
18 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

The spam must end

[deleted]Oct 29, 2010, 2:20 AM
18 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Teach­ers vs. Tutors

[deleted]Oct 26, 2010, 4:59 PM
18 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Are mass hal­lu­ci­na­tions a real thing?

Scott AlexanderOct 3, 2010, 8:15 PM
17 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Is there a “per­centage fal­lacy”?

ataOct 23, 2010, 4:45 AM
17 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

The Prob­lem With Trol­ley Problems

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Oct 23, 2010, 5:14 AM
17 points
113 comments3 min readLW link