Con­fi­dence lev­els in­side and out­side an argument

Scott AlexanderDec 16, 2010, 3:06 AM
237 points
192 comments6 min readLW link

Effi­cient Char­ity: Do Unto Others...

Scott AlexanderDec 24, 2010, 9:26 PM
207 points
322 comments6 min readLW link

Ask and Guess

[deleted]Dec 1, 2010, 5:54 PM
135 points
66 comments2 min readLW link

Defect­ing by Ac­ci­dent—A Flaw Com­mon to An­a­lyt­i­cal People

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Dec 1, 2010, 8:25 AM
127 points
433 comments15 min readLW link

How to Save the World

LouieDec 1, 2010, 5:17 PM
103 points
135 comments7 min readLW link

Dark Arts 101: Us­ing presuppositions

PhilGoetzDec 27, 2010, 5:16 PM
102 points
87 comments1 min readLW link

Were atoms real?

AnnaSalamonDec 8, 2010, 5:30 PM
93 points
157 comments4 min readLW link

Cryp­to­graphic Boxes for Un­friendly AI

paulfchristianoDec 18, 2010, 8:28 AM
76 points
162 comments5 min readLW link

Solve Psy-Kosh’s non-an­thropic problem

cousin_itDec 20, 2010, 9:24 PM
67 points
116 comments1 min readLW link

The Cam­bist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics

AlicornDec 19, 2010, 2:05 AM
66 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Meta: Clean­ing the front page

TesseractDec 20, 2010, 4:45 AM
64 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Some ra­tio­nal­ity tweets

Peter_de_BlancDec 30, 2010, 7:14 AM
62 points
80 comments2 min readLW link

Gen­der Iden­tity and Rationality

lucidfoxDec 1, 2010, 4:32 PM
57 points
114 comments6 min readLW link

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

AlexandrosDec 22, 2010, 5:56 PM
57 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

I’m scared.

Mass_DriverDec 23, 2010, 9:05 AM
56 points
81 comments1 min readLW link

Cheat codes

sketerpotDec 1, 2010, 9:19 PM
51 points
93 comments1 min readLW link

Best ca­reer mod­els for do­ing re­search?

Kaj_SotalaDec 7, 2010, 4:25 PM
43 points
1,001 comments1 min readLW link

Effi­cient Charity

multifoliateroseDec 4, 2010, 10:27 AM
42 points
185 comments9 min readLW link

Ap­plied cog­ni­tive sci­ence: learn­ing from a faux pas

Kaj_SotalaDec 4, 2010, 11:15 AM
42 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

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

SniffnoyDec 24, 2010, 4:52 AM
42 points
25 comments12 min readLW link

Vegetarianism

RaemonDec 24, 2010, 4:57 AM
40 points
179 comments2 min readLW link

Tal­linn-Evans $125,000 Sin­gu­lar­ity Challenge

Kaj_SotalaDec 26, 2010, 11:21 AM
38 points
378 comments2 min readLW link

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

EmileDec 13, 2010, 4:20 PM
38 points
138 comments1 min readLW link

Two ques­tions about CEV that worry me

cousin_itDec 23, 2010, 3:58 PM
37 points
141 comments1 min readLW link

The Truth about Scots­men, or: Dis­solv­ing Fallacies

TesseractDec 5, 2010, 9:57 PM
37 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

Un­pack­ing the Con­cept of “Black­mail”

Vladimir_NesovDec 10, 2010, 12:53 AM
36 points
142 comments2 min readLW link

Nar­row your an­swer space

VaniverDec 28, 2010, 11:38 AM
33 points
110 comments8 min readLW link

Best of Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes 2009/​2010

DanielVargaDec 18, 2010, 9:36 PM
32 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

Karma Mo­ti­va­tion Thread

JackDec 13, 2010, 9:59 PM
32 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Friendly AI Re­search and Taskification

multifoliateroseDec 14, 2010, 6:30 AM
30 points
47 comments5 min readLW link

The Santa de­cep­tion: how did it af­fect you?

DesrtopaDec 20, 2010, 10:27 PM
30 points
204 comments1 min readLW link

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

JackDec 21, 2010, 4:55 AM
30 points
102 comments7 min readLW link

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

RokoDec 12, 2010, 3:02 PM
28 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Are stereo­types ever ir­ra­tional?

[deleted]Dec 3, 2010, 11:45 PM
28 points
35 comments3 min readLW link

Folk gram­mar and morality

EmileDec 17, 2010, 9:20 PM
28 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

Ge­net­i­cally Eng­ineered Intelligence

JordanDec 5, 2010, 10:19 AM
28 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

What is Cryp­to­graph­i­cally Possible

paulfchristianoDec 24, 2010, 4:58 AM
27 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

The Fal­lacy of Dress­ing Like a Winner

benelliottDec 26, 2010, 8:59 PM
27 points
21 comments6 min readLW link

Be­ing Ra­tional and Be­ing Pro­duc­tive: Similar Core Skills?

John_MaxwellDec 28, 2010, 10:11 AM
27 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Life-track­ing ap­pli­ca­tion for android

AlexeiDec 11, 2010, 1:48 AM
26 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Should LW have a pub­lic cen­sor­ship policy?

BongoDec 11, 2010, 10:45 PM
25 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

What’s hap­pened to the front page?

orthonormalDec 26, 2010, 11:30 PM
25 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Quan­tum Joint Con­figu­ra­tion ar­ti­cle: need help from physicists

mwenglerDec 22, 2010, 6:32 PM
25 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Move the help but­ton?

VaniverDec 28, 2010, 11:42 AM
24 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

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

AlexandrosDec 18, 2010, 1:26 PM
24 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

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

Kaj_SotalaDec 18, 2010, 1:41 PM
24 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

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

AnnaSalamonDec 11, 2010, 1:58 PM
23 points
48 comments4 min readLW link

A sense of logic

NancyLebovitzDec 10, 2010, 6:19 PM
23 points
281 comments1 min readLW link

Se­quences in Alter­na­tive Formats

OneWhoFrogsDec 4, 2010, 1:40 AM
22 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

What can you do with an Un­friendly AI?

paulfchristianoDec 20, 2010, 8:28 PM
22 points
129 comments7 min readLW link