Refer­ences & Re­sources for LessWrong

XiXiDu10 Oct 2010 14:54 UTC
167 points
104 comments20 min readLW link

Break your habits: be more empirical

Academian2 Oct 2010 21:04 UTC
149 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Mak­ing your ex­plicit rea­son­ing trust­wor­thy

AnnaSalamon29 Oct 2010 0:00 UTC
120 points
95 comments6 min readLW link

Self-em­pa­thy as a source of “willpower”

Academian26 Oct 2010 14:20 UTC
83 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

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

Stuart_Armstrong25 Oct 2010 13:15 UTC
74 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

The Dark Arts—Preamble

Aurini11 Oct 2010 14:01 UTC
64 points
140 comments6 min readLW link

Deal­ing with the high quan­tity of sci­en­tific er­ror in medicine

NancyLebovitz25 Oct 2010 13:53 UTC
60 points
61 comments3 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity and rel­a­tivis­tic vertigo

Academian12 Oct 2010 2:00 UTC
60 points
80 comments4 min readLW link

Mixed strat­egy Nash equilibrium

Meni_Rosenfeld16 Oct 2010 16:00 UTC
59 points
47 comments4 min readLW link

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

multifoliaterose1 Oct 2010 0:29 UTC
50 points
39 comments12 min readLW link

Op­ti­mism ver­sus cryonics

lsparrish25 Oct 2010 2:13 UTC
48 points
110 comments1 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing vipas­sana meditation

[deleted]3 Oct 2010 18:12 UTC
48 points
77 comments3 min readLW link

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

Kaj_Sotala7 Oct 2010 6:55 UTC
47 points
42 comments2 min readLW link

The Ir­ra­tional­ity Game

Will_Newsome3 Oct 2010 2:43 UTC
44 points
932 comments3 min readLW link

A sug­ges­tion on how to get peo­ple to read the Sequences

AdeleneDawner25 Oct 2010 19:21 UTC
43 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

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

Paul Crowley30 Oct 2010 9:31 UTC
42 points
414 comments1 min readLW link

Slava!

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

Willpower: not a limited re­source?

Jess_Riedel25 Oct 2010 12:06 UTC
39 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Strate­gies for deal­ing with emo­tional nihilism

[deleted]10 Oct 2010 13:31 UTC
39 points
175 comments4 min readLW link

Ac­ti­va­tion Costs

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)25 Oct 2010 21:30 UTC
39 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

HELP: Do I have a chance at be­com­ing in­tel­li­gent?

johnbgone26 Oct 2010 21:41 UTC
36 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

Recom­mended Read­ing for Friendly AI Research

Vladimir_Nesov9 Oct 2010 13:46 UTC
35 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

Gandhi, mur­der pills, and men­tal illness

erratio13 Oct 2010 9:16 UTC
34 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Hu­man perfor­mance, psy­chom­e­try, and base­ball statistics

Craig_Heldreth15 Oct 2010 13:13 UTC
33 points
21 comments6 min readLW link

Cod­ing Ra­tion­ally—Test Driven Development

DSimon1 Oct 2010 15:20 UTC
33 points
84 comments7 min readLW link

Great Math­e­mat­i­ci­ans on Math Com­pe­ti­tions and “Ge­nius”

multifoliaterose11 Oct 2010 11:50 UTC
33 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

Call for Vol­un­teers: Ra­tion­al­ists with Non-Tra­di­tional Skills

Jasen28 Oct 2010 21:38 UTC
31 points
68 comments2 min readLW link

Re­quest: In­ter­est­ing In­vert­ible Facts

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Oct 2010 20:02 UTC
29 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Vi­pas­sana Med­i­ta­tion: Devel­op­ing Meta-Feel­ing Skills

[deleted]18 Oct 2010 16:55 UTC
29 points
107 comments5 min readLW link

Free Hard SF Novels & Short Stories

XiXiDu10 Oct 2010 12:12 UTC
28 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

Love and Ra­tion­al­ity: Less Wrongers on OKCupid

Relsqui11 Oct 2010 6:35 UTC
26 points
337 comments9 min readLW link

Value Deathism

Vladimir_Nesov30 Oct 2010 18:20 UTC
26 points
121 comments1 min readLW link

Math pre­req­ui­sites for un­der­stand­ing LW stuff

cousin_it4 Oct 2010 11:30 UTC
26 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Why not be awful?

[deleted]2 Oct 2010 23:30 UTC
25 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Church: a lan­guage for prob­a­bil­is­tic modeling

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

Poker Playing

gwern11 Oct 2010 21:48 UTC
24 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Col­lect­ing and hoard­ing crap, use­less information

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)10 Oct 2010 21:05 UTC
23 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Aik­ido Trick

[deleted]10 Oct 2010 16:45 UTC
23 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

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

orthonormal4 Oct 2010 4:05 UTC
22 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

No­tion of Prefer­ence in Am­bi­ent Control

Vladimir_Nesov7 Oct 2010 21:21 UTC
21 points
47 comments8 min readLW link

Swords and Ar­mor: A Game The­ory Thought Experiment

nick01200012 Oct 2010 8:51 UTC
20 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pec­ta­tion-Based Akra­sia Management

AdeleneDawner1 Oct 2010 4:34 UTC
20 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

Beauty in Mathematics

multifoliaterose13 Oct 2010 9:12 UTC
20 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Four Ways to Do Good (and four fal­la­cies)

[deleted]9 Oct 2010 23:46 UTC
20 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Cur­rently Buy­ing AdWords for LessWrong

Louie30 Oct 2010 5:31 UTC
18 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

The spam must end

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

Teach­ers vs. Tutors

[deleted]26 Oct 2010 16:59 UTC
18 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Are mass hal­lu­ci­na­tions a real thing?

Scott Alexander3 Oct 2010 20:15 UTC
17 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Is there a “per­centage fal­lacy”?

ata23 Oct 2010 4:45 UTC
17 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

The Prob­lem With Trol­ley Problems

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