The curse of identity

Kaj_Sotala17 Nov 2011 19:28 UTC
214 points
303 comments6 min readLW link

Value of In­for­ma­tion: Four Examples

Vaniver22 Nov 2011 23:02 UTC
136 points
58 comments10 min readLW link

[link] Back to the trees

[deleted]4 Nov 2011 22:06 UTC
132 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

Tran­scrip­tion of Eliezer’s Jan­uary 2010 video Q&A

curiousepic14 Nov 2011 17:02 UTC
112 points
9 comments56 min readLW link

2011 Less Wrong Cen­sus /​ Survey

Scott Alexander1 Nov 2011 18:28 UTC
101 points
699 comments1 min readLW link

King Un­der The Moun­tain: Ad­ven­ture Log + Soundtrack

Scott Alexander25 Nov 2011 22:29 UTC
87 points
36 comments23 min readLW link

Don’t Ap­ply the Prin­ci­ple of Char­ity to Yourself

UnclGhost19 Nov 2011 19:26 UTC
82 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Poll re­sults: LW prob­a­bly doesn’t cause akrasia

AnnaSalamon16 Nov 2011 18:03 UTC
73 points
106 comments8 min readLW link

Ra­tional Ro­man­tic Re­la­tion­ships, Part 1: Re­la­tion­ship Styles and At­trac­tion Basics

lukeprog5 Nov 2011 11:06 UTC
69 points
1,537 comments18 min readLW link

Where do self­ish val­ues come from?

Wei Dai18 Nov 2011 23:52 UTC
67 points
62 comments2 min readLW link

Tran­scrip­tion and Sum­mary of Nick Bostrom’s Q&A

daenerys17 Nov 2011 17:51 UTC
53 points
10 comments31 min readLW link

Draw­ing Less Wrong: Ob­serv­ing Reality

Raemon21 Nov 2011 5:10 UTC
52 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

LW Philoso­phers ver­sus Analytics

Ronny Fernandez28 Nov 2011 15:40 UTC
50 points
85 comments5 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics costs: given es­ti­mates are low

gwern14 Nov 2011 17:07 UTC
45 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Re­cent up­dates to gw­ern.net (2011)

gwern26 Nov 2011 1:58 UTC
45 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Draw­ing Less Wrong: An Introduction

Raemon13 Nov 2011 22:39 UTC
45 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

[POLL] LessWrong group on YourMo­rals.org

InquilineKea29 Nov 2011 1:22 UTC
44 points
82 comments1 min readLW link

Com­mu­ni­cat­ing ra­tio­nal­ity to the pub­lic: Ju­lia Galef’s “The Straw Vul­can”

lukeprog25 Nov 2011 22:57 UTC
42 points
36 comments27 min readLW link

Prac­ti­cal debiasing

crazy8820 Nov 2011 9:45 UTC
40 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

How ra­tio­nal­ity can make your life more awesome

Julia_Galef29 Nov 2011 1:23 UTC
39 points
41 comments5 min readLW link

Less Wrong and non-na­tive English speakers

kilobug6 Nov 2011 13:37 UTC
39 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

All free Stan­ford classes, con­tinu­ally updated

XFrequentist29 Nov 2011 16:41 UTC
39 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Be­hav­ioral psy­chol­ogy and buy­ing a war­ranty at Menards

jwhendy15 Nov 2011 2:57 UTC
38 points
38 comments2 min readLW link

Is la­tent Tox­o­plas­mo­sis worth do­ing some­thing about?

jsalvatier17 Nov 2011 17:04 UTC
38 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Liv­ing Metaphorically

lukeprog28 Nov 2011 15:01 UTC
37 points
80 comments7 min readLW link

Do we have it too easy?

Klao2 Nov 2011 1:53 UTC
37 points
44 comments3 min readLW link

New AI risks re­search in­sti­tute at Oxford University

lukeprog16 Nov 2011 18:52 UTC
36 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

5-sec­ond level case study: Value of information

Kaj_Sotala22 Nov 2011 13:44 UTC
36 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Wel­come to LessWrong (For high­school­ers)

Curiouskid26 Nov 2011 15:47 UTC
35 points
83 comments1 min readLW link

Con­nect­ing Your Beliefs (a call for help)

lukeprog20 Nov 2011 5:18 UTC
34 points
73 comments2 min readLW link

Draw­ing Less Wrong: Should You Learn to Draw?

Raemon14 Nov 2011 7:31 UTC
34 points
56 comments9 min readLW link

[LINKS] New GiveWell Top Charities

jefftk29 Nov 2011 18:40 UTC
34 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

lukeprog15 Nov 2011 14:23 UTC
34 points
108 comments4 min readLW link

Com­pre­hen­sive List of All Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit Talks and Video Links

MichaelAnissimov18 Nov 2011 16:34 UTC
34 points
29 comments5 min readLW link

Q&A with new Ex­ec­u­tive Direc­tor of Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

lukeprog7 Nov 2011 4:58 UTC
33 points
182 comments1 min readLW link

The promise of con­nected science

lukeprog12 Nov 2011 18:22 UTC
33 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Selec­tion Effects in es­ti­mates of Global Catas­trophic Risk

bentarm4 Nov 2011 9:14 UTC
32 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

(Sub­jec­tive Bayesi­anism vs. Fre­quen­tism) VS. For­mal­ism

Ronny Fernandez26 Nov 2011 5:05 UTC
32 points
107 comments5 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tionBook: A Short Note

Jayson_Virissimo10 Nov 2011 15:10 UTC
31 points
38 comments2 min readLW link

Log-odds (or log­its)

brilee28 Nov 2011 1:11 UTC
31 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Max­i­miz­ing Cost-effec­tive­ness via Crit­i­cal Inquiry

HoldenKarnofsky10 Nov 2011 19:25 UTC
31 points
24 comments7 min readLW link

Mo­du­lar­ity, sig­nal­ing, and be­lief in belief

Kaj_Sotala13 Nov 2011 11:54 UTC
29 points
14 comments5 min readLW link

[Draft] Poker With Lennier

HonoreDB10 Nov 2011 17:14 UTC
29 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

[Link]: GiveWell is aiming to have a new #1 char­ity by De­cem­ber

Normal_Anomaly29 Nov 2011 3:11 UTC
29 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

‘Next post’ and ‘Pre­vi­ous post’ links for posts in a sequence

lukeprog26 Nov 2011 6:09 UTC
28 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Uncertainty

Vaniver29 Nov 2011 23:12 UTC
27 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

Poker with Lennier

HonoreDB15 Nov 2011 22:21 UTC
26 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

Some­times, talk­ing the is­sue through *works*

lukeprog11 Nov 2011 21:51 UTC
26 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

How to prove any­thing with a re­view article

Richard_Kennaway22 Nov 2011 12:04 UTC
26 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Three more classes com­ing from Stan­ford of in­ter­est here

Dr_Manhattan17 Nov 2011 17:57 UTC
25 points
18 comments1 min readLW link