Cal­ibrate your self-assessments

Scott AlexanderOct 9, 2011, 11:26 PM
102 points
122 comments6 min readLW link

Things you are sup­posed to like

PhilGoetzOct 22, 2011, 2:04 AM
102 points
372 comments3 min readLW link

How to un­der­stand peo­ple bet­ter

pwnoOct 14, 2011, 7:53 PM
101 points
163 comments5 min readLW link

A sig­nal­ing the­ory of class x poli­tics interaction

Scott AlexanderOct 17, 2011, 6:49 PM
93 points
61 comments3 min readLW link

Bet­ter Disagreement

lukeprogOct 24, 2011, 9:13 PM
90 points
84 comments4 min readLW link

Rhetoric for the Good

lukeprogOct 26, 2011, 6:52 PM
85 points
292 comments4 min readLW link

Anti-akra­sia tool: like stickK.com for data nerds

dreevesOct 10, 2011, 2:09 AM
80 points
88 comments2 min readLW link

On the Open­ness per­son­al­ity trait & ‘ra­tio­nal­ity’

gwernOct 14, 2011, 1:07 AM
77 points
97 comments8 min readLW link

1001 Pre­dic­tionBook Nights

gwernOct 8, 2011, 4:04 PM
72 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Les­sons Learned from Ir­ra­tional Ad­ven­tures in Romance

lukeprogOct 4, 2011, 2:45 AM
69 points
616 comments6 min readLW link

A few analo­gies to illus­trate key ra­tio­nal­ity points

kilobugOct 9, 2011, 1:00 PM
69 points
52 comments5 min readLW link

Over­com­ing the Curse of Knowledge

JesseGalefOct 18, 2011, 5:39 PM
60 points
56 comments3 min readLW link

Whole Brain Emu­la­tion: Look­ing At Progress On C. elgans

jefftkOct 29, 2011, 3:21 PM
60 points
85 comments2 min readLW link

So­cial sta­tus & testosterone

gwernOct 20, 2011, 2:05 PM
51 points
39 comments10 min readLW link

[FICTION] Ham­let and the Philoso­pher’s Stone

HonoreDBOct 25, 2011, 10:31 PM
51 points
61 comments2 min readLW link

Get geno­typed for free ( If your IQ is high enough)

David AlthausOct 1, 2011, 4:00 PM
49 points
63 comments1 min readLW link

Amanda Knox: post mortem

gwernOct 20, 2011, 4:10 PM
48 points
484 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Drugs

lukeprogOct 1, 2011, 11:20 AM
43 points
122 comments5 min readLW link

On self-deception

irrationalOct 5, 2011, 6:46 PM
42 points
83 comments6 min readLW link

11 Less Wrong Ar­ti­cles I Prob­a­bly Will Never Have Time to Write

lukeprogOct 23, 2011, 2:44 AM
42 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

Re­view of Kah­ne­man, ‘Think­ing, Fast and Slow’ (2011)

lukeprogOct 28, 2011, 1:59 AM
42 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

[Funny] Even Clippy can be blamed on the use of non-Bayesian methods

lukeprogOct 2, 2011, 7:40 AM
41 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Be­ing proven wrong is like win­ning the lot­tery

UnnamedOct 29, 2011, 10:40 PM
40 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Knox and Sol­lecito freed

komponistoOct 3, 2011, 8:24 PM
40 points
114 comments1 min readLW link

Neu­ral Cor­re­lates of Con­scious Access

atuckerOct 7, 2011, 11:12 PM
39 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Dis­abil­ity Cul­ture Meets the Tran­shu­man­ist Condition

RubixOct 28, 2011, 7:02 PM
39 points
150 comments3 min readLW link

Satis­ficers want to be­come maximisers

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 21, 2011, 4:27 PM
38 points
70 comments1 min readLW link

Peter Thiel warns of up­com­ing (and cur­rent) stagnation

SilasBartaOct 4, 2011, 5:30 PM
36 points
121 comments2 min readLW link

Vasili Arkhipov Day

David AlthausOct 27, 2011, 6:27 AM
36 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics on Cas­tle [Spoilers]

wedrifidOct 4, 2011, 9:46 AM
35 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Mike Dar­win on Steve Jobs’s hyp­o­crit­i­cal stance to­wards death

SynapticOct 8, 2011, 3:32 AM
33 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

Re­view of Lakoff & John­son, ‘Philos­o­phy in the Flesh’

lukeprogOct 26, 2011, 11:57 AM
32 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Let Your Work­ers Gather Food

D_MalikOct 24, 2011, 7:51 PM
29 points
48 comments7 min readLW link

5 Se­cond Level: Sub­sti­tut­ing the Question

malthrinOct 28, 2011, 12:20 AM
29 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Not By Em­pa­thy Alone

gwernOct 5, 2011, 12:36 AM
29 points
109 comments12 min readLW link

Don’t call your­self a ra­tio­nal­ist.

KenChenOct 14, 2011, 8:26 PM
28 points
121 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ti­vated skep­ti­cism: it’s harder to avoid than I’d think

KlaoOct 9, 2011, 6:35 PM
27 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

A Ra­tional Ap­proach to Fashion

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Oct 10, 2011, 6:53 PM
26 points
96 comments3 min readLW link

Ger­ald Jay Suss­man talk on new ideas about mod­el­ing computation

cataOct 28, 2011, 1:29 AM
25 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

[LINK] Loss of lo­cal knowl­edge af­fect­ing in­tel­lec­tual trends

GLaDOSOct 22, 2011, 3:54 PM
25 points
50 comments2 min readLW link

The Pro­tag­o­nist Problem

atuckerOct 23, 2011, 3:06 AM
24 points
29 comments4 min readLW link

First, they must be con­vinced to play the game

lavalampOct 9, 2011, 4:52 PM
24 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

Prize for the best in­tro­duc­tion to the LessWrong source ($250)

jsalvatierOct 5, 2011, 12:08 AM
24 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Mike Dar­win on Kurzweil, Techno-Op­ti­mism, and Delu­sional Stances on Cryonics

SynapticOct 8, 2011, 2:45 PM
23 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] Awe­some in­ter­ac­tive vi­su­al­iza­tion article

MorendilOct 13, 2011, 12:46 PM
23 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Plea­sures of Rationality

lukeprogOct 28, 2011, 2:35 AM
22 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

Con­ver­sa­tion as so­cial groom­ing – a ra­tio­nal­ity prob­lem?

[deleted]Oct 27, 2011, 10:07 PM
22 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Help needed: Ger­man trans­la­tion of the Sin­gu­lar­ity FAQ

cadacOct 28, 2011, 9:06 PM
22 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

How to Build Your Post

ShmiOct 25, 2011, 11:39 PM
22 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Don’t ban chimp testing

PhilGoetzOct 1, 2011, 5:17 PM
21 points
105 comments2 min readLW link