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Con­fi­dence lev­els in­side and out­side an argument

Scott Alexander16 Dec 2010 3:06 UTC
234 points
192 comments6 min readLW link

Effi­cient Char­ity: Do Unto Others...

Scott Alexander24 Dec 2010 21:26 UTC
206 points
322 comments6 min readLW link

Ask and Guess

[deleted]1 Dec 2010 17:54 UTC
132 points
66 comments2 min readLW link

Defect­ing by Ac­ci­dent—A Flaw Com­mon to An­a­lyt­i­cal People

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)1 Dec 2010 8:25 UTC
125 points
433 comments15 min readLW link

How to Save the World

Louie1 Dec 2010 17:17 UTC
103 points
135 comments7 min readLW link

Dark Arts 101: Us­ing presuppositions

PhilGoetz27 Dec 2010 17:16 UTC
101 points
87 comments1 min readLW link

Were atoms real?

AnnaSalamon8 Dec 2010 17:30 UTC
93 points
157 comments4 min readLW link

Cryp­to­graphic Boxes for Un­friendly AI

paulfchristiano18 Dec 2010 8:28 UTC
71 points
162 comments5 min readLW link

Solve Psy-Kosh’s non-an­thropic problem

cousin_it20 Dec 2010 21:24 UTC
67 points
116 comments1 min readLW link

The Cam­bist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics

Alicorn19 Dec 2010 2:05 UTC
66 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Meta: Clean­ing the front page

Tesseract20 Dec 2010 4:45 UTC
64 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Some ra­tio­nal­ity tweets

Peter_de_Blanc30 Dec 2010 7:14 UTC
62 points
80 comments2 min readLW link

Many of us *are* hit with a base­ball once a month.

Alexandros22 Dec 2010 17:56 UTC
57 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Gen­der Iden­tity and Rationality

lucidfox1 Dec 2010 16:32 UTC
56 points
114 comments6 min readLW link

I’m scared.

Mass_Driver23 Dec 2010 9:05 UTC
56 points
81 comments1 min readLW link

Cheat codes

sketerpot1 Dec 2010 21:19 UTC
51 points
93 comments1 min readLW link

Best ca­reer mod­els for do­ing re­search?

Kaj_Sotala7 Dec 2010 16:25 UTC
43 points
1,001 comments1 min readLW link

Effi­cient Charity

multifoliaterose4 Dec 2010 10:27 UTC
42 points
185 comments9 min readLW link

Ap­plied cog­ni­tive sci­ence: learn­ing from a faux pas

Kaj_Sotala4 Dec 2010 11:15 UTC
42 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Draft/​wiki: In­fini­ties and mea­sur­ing in­finite sets: A quick reference

Sniffnoy24 Dec 2010 4:52 UTC
42 points
25 comments12 min readLW link

Vegetarianism

Raemon24 Dec 2010 4:57 UTC
40 points
179 comments2 min readLW link

Tal­linn-Evans $125,000 Sin­gu­lar­ity Challenge

Kaj_Sotala26 Dec 2010 11:21 UTC
38 points
378 comments2 min readLW link

What top­ics would you like to see more of on LessWrong?

Emile13 Dec 2010 16:20 UTC
38 points
138 comments1 min readLW link

Two ques­tions about CEV that worry me

cousin_it23 Dec 2010 15:58 UTC
37 points
141 comments1 min readLW link

The Truth about Scots­men, or: Dis­solv­ing Fallacies

Tesseract5 Dec 2010 21:57 UTC
37 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

Un­pack­ing the Con­cept of “Black­mail”

Vladimir_Nesov10 Dec 2010 0:53 UTC
36 points
142 comments2 min readLW link

Nar­row your an­swer space

Vaniver28 Dec 2010 11:38 UTC
33 points
110 comments8 min readLW link

Best of Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes 2009/​2010

DanielVarga18 Dec 2010 21:36 UTC
32 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

Karma Mo­ti­va­tion Thread

Jack13 Dec 2010 21:59 UTC
32 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Friendly AI Re­search and Taskification

multifoliaterose14 Dec 2010 6:30 UTC
30 points
47 comments5 min readLW link

The Santa de­cep­tion: how did it af­fect you?

Desrtopa20 Dec 2010 22:27 UTC
30 points
204 comments1 min readLW link

Dutch Books and De­ci­sion The­ory: An In­tro­duc­tion to a Long Conversation

Jack21 Dec 2010 4:55 UTC
30 points
102 comments7 min readLW link

$100 for the best ar­ti­cle on effi­cient charty—the win­ner is …

Roko12 Dec 2010 15:02 UTC
28 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Are stereo­types ever ir­ra­tional?

[deleted]3 Dec 2010 23:45 UTC
28 points
35 comments3 min readLW link

Folk gram­mar and morality

Emile17 Dec 2010 21:20 UTC
28 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

Ge­net­i­cally Eng­ineered Intelligence

Jordan5 Dec 2010 10:19 UTC
28 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

What is Cryp­to­graph­i­cally Possible

paulfchristiano24 Dec 2010 4:58 UTC
27 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

The Fal­lacy of Dress­ing Like a Winner

benelliott26 Dec 2010 20:59 UTC
27 points
21 comments6 min readLW link

Be­ing Ra­tional and Be­ing Pro­duc­tive: Similar Core Skills?

John_Maxwell28 Dec 2010 10:11 UTC
27 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Life-track­ing ap­pli­ca­tion for android

Alexei11 Dec 2010 1:48 UTC
26 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Should LW have a pub­lic cen­sor­ship policy?

Bongo11 Dec 2010 22:45 UTC
25 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

Quan­tum Joint Con­figu­ra­tion ar­ti­cle: need help from physicists

mwengler22 Dec 2010 18:32 UTC
25 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

What’s hap­pened to the front page?

orthonormal26 Dec 2010 23:30 UTC
25 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Move the help but­ton?

Vaniver28 Dec 2010 11:42 UTC
24 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

An In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Eliezer Yud­kowsky’s In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Bayes’ Theorem

Alexandros18 Dec 2010 13:26 UTC
24 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

When and how psy­cholog­i­cal data is col­lected af­fects the kind of stu­dents who volunteer

Kaj_Sotala18 Dec 2010 13:41 UTC
24 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

If re­duc­tion­ism is the ham­mer, what nails are out there?

AnnaSalamon11 Dec 2010 13:58 UTC
23 points
48 comments4 min readLW link

A sense of logic

NancyLebovitz10 Dec 2010 18:19 UTC
23 points
278 comments1 min readLW link

Se­quences in Alter­na­tive Formats

OneWhoFrogs4 Dec 2010 1:40 UTC
22 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

What can you do with an Un­friendly AI?

paulfchristiano20 Dec 2010 20:28 UTC
22 points
129 comments7 min readLW link