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The Best Text­books on Every Subject

lukeprogJan 16, 2011, 8:30 AM
774 points
417 comments7 min readLW link

Work­ing hurts less than pro­cras­ti­nat­ing, we fear the twinge of starting

Eliezer YudkowskyJan 2, 2011, 12:15 AM
365 points
162 comments3 min readLW link

The Ne­glected Virtue of Scholarship

lukeprogJan 5, 2011, 7:22 AM
331 points
155 comments3 min readLW link

Scien­tific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge

lukeprogJan 20, 2011, 8:44 PM
234 points
502 comments10 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing Fuzzies And Utilons: The Altru­ism Chip Jar

orthonormalJan 1, 2011, 6:53 PM
139 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

Back to the Ba­sics of Rationality

lukeprogJan 11, 2011, 7:05 AM
116 points
48 comments3 min readLW link

Tech­niques for prob­a­bil­ity estimates

Scott AlexanderJan 4, 2011, 11:38 PM
113 points
60 comments7 min readLW link

Branches of ra­tio­nal­ity

AnnaSalamonJan 12, 2011, 3:24 AM
108 points
66 comments5 min readLW link

Simp­son’s Paradox

bentarmJan 12, 2011, 11:01 PM
100 points
58 comments4 min readLW link

Statis­ti­cal Pre­dic­tion Rules Out-Perform Ex­pert Hu­man Judgments

lukeprogJan 18, 2011, 3:19 AM
92 points
203 comments5 min readLW link

My story /​ own­ing one’s reasons

jwhendyJan 7, 2011, 12:17 AM
70 points
26 comments4 min readLW link

Hugo Awards—HP:MoR

EneaszJan 21, 2011, 7:06 PM
66 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

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PhilGoetzJan 8, 2011, 5:51 PM
66 points
38 comments19 min readLW link

Meta: A 5 karma re­quire­ment to post in discussion

JackJan 20, 2011, 6:22 AM
66 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

An Overview of For­mal Episte­mol­ogy (links)

lukeprogJan 6, 2011, 7:57 PM
63 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

David Chalmers’ “The Sin­gu­lar­ity: A Philo­soph­i­cal Anal­y­sis”

lukeprogJan 29, 2011, 2:52 AM
55 points
203 comments4 min readLW link

6502 simu­lated—mind up­load­ing for microprocessors

humpolecJan 8, 2011, 6:03 PM
53 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

What is Eliezer Yud­kowsky’s meta-eth­i­cal the­ory?

lukeprogJan 29, 2011, 7:58 PM
51 points
375 comments1 min readLW link

Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Database for A Hu­man’s Guide to Words

diviaJan 10, 2011, 12:21 AM
48 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

My mother is now in cryostasis

turchinJan 8, 2011, 8:27 PM
46 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tional Repentance

Mass_DriverJan 14, 2011, 9:37 AM
45 points
154 comments9 min readLW link

Short fic about uFAI

[deleted]Jan 2, 2011, 2:13 PM
42 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­posal: all Ama­zon hy­per­links get Less Wrong’s Ama­zon As­so­ci­ates refer­ral code

lukeprogJan 26, 2011, 4:17 PM
41 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Note on Ter­minol­ogy: “Ra­tion­al­ity”, not “Ra­tion­al­ism”

Vladimir_NesovJan 14, 2011, 9:21 PM
40 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Clue

Mass_DriverJan 8, 2011, 8:21 AM
38 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

[LINK] What should a rea­son­able per­son be­lieve about the Sin­gu­lar­ity?

Kaj_SotalaJan 13, 2011, 9:32 AM
38 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

2011 In­trade fee changes, or, In­trade con­sid­ered no longer use­ful for LessWrongers

gwernJan 2, 2011, 5:46 PM
34 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

In­trap­er­sonal negotiation

datadataeverywhereJan 23, 2011, 11:02 PM
34 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

NPR show All Things Con­sid­ered on the Sin­gu­lar­ity and SIAI

arundeloJan 11, 2011, 10:58 PM
32 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

A poem for LessWrong

RolfAndreassenJan 28, 2011, 8:40 PM
32 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Link: “Top 10 Mis­takes in Be­hav­ior Change”

cousin_itJan 17, 2011, 5:46 PM
32 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Be­ing your own censor

[deleted]Jan 8, 2011, 7:05 PM
31 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Is Less Wrong dis­cour­ag­ing less nerdy peo­ple from par­ti­ci­pat­ing?

JoshuaZJan 24, 2011, 2:24 AM
31 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

The Orange Head Joke

Anatoly_VorobeyJan 25, 2011, 8:33 PM
30 points
96 comments2 min readLW link

Choose To Be Happy

DanArmakJan 1, 2011, 10:50 PM
29 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

Prob­lem Solv­ing via Polya

[deleted]Jan 8, 2011, 12:30 AM
29 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Freaky unfairness

benelliottJan 12, 2011, 10:08 AM
28 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Anki deck for bi­ases and fallacies

phobJan 12, 2011, 3:34 PM
26 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

A LessWrong “ra­tio­nal­ity work­book” idea

jwhendyJan 9, 2011, 5:52 PM
26 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­posal: Anti-Akra­sia Alliance

DanArmakJan 1, 2011, 9:52 PM
26 points
35 comments4 min readLW link

Why do some kinds of work not feel like work?

Wei DaiJan 8, 2011, 1:28 AM
25 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

How to Grow a Mind (video)

[deleted]Jan 23, 2011, 8:02 PM
24 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Omega can be re­placed by amnesia

BongoJan 26, 2011, 12:31 PM
23 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Meta: Test

XiXiDuJan 26, 2011, 11:35 AM
21 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Hyper­links and Less Wrong

RaemonJan 23, 2011, 4:05 AM
21 points
52 comments4 min readLW link

Knowl­edge doesn’t just hap­pen

NancyLebovitzJan 23, 2011, 1:07 PM
20 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Aguirre, Teg­mark, Layzer “Cos­molog­i­cal in­ter­pre­ta­tion of quan­tum me­chan­ics”

cousin_itJan 11, 2011, 6:29 AM
20 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

A cau­tion­ary note about “Bayesi­anism”

PhilGoetzJan 10, 2011, 1:40 AM
19 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Kick­ing Akra­sia: Now or Never

[deleted]Jan 1, 2011, 1:19 AM
18 points
56 comments2 min readLW link

Star­craft AI Competition

JoshuaZJan 19, 2011, 9:45 PM
18 points
7 comments2 min readLW link