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The curse of identity

Kaj_SotalaNov 17, 2011, 7:28 PM
219 points
303 comments6 min readLW link

Value of In­for­ma­tion: Four Examples

VaniverNov 22, 2011, 11:02 PM
137 points
58 comments10 min readLW link

[link] Back to the trees

[deleted]Nov 4, 2011, 10:06 PM
132 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

Tran­scrip­tion of Eliezer’s Jan­uary 2010 video Q&A

curiousepicNov 14, 2011, 5:02 PM
112 points
9 comments56 min readLW link

2011 Less Wrong Cen­sus /​ Survey

Scott AlexanderNov 1, 2011, 6:28 PM
101 points
699 comments1 min readLW link

King Un­der The Moun­tain: Ad­ven­ture Log + Soundtrack

Scott AlexanderNov 25, 2011, 10:29 PM
87 points
36 comments23 min readLW link

Don’t Ap­ply the Prin­ci­ple of Char­ity to Yourself

UnclGhostNov 19, 2011, 7:26 PM
82 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Poll re­sults: LW prob­a­bly doesn’t cause akrasia

AnnaSalamonNov 16, 2011, 6:03 PM
73 points
106 comments8 min readLW link

Where do self­ish val­ues come from?

Wei DaiNov 18, 2011, 11:52 PM
70 points
62 comments2 min readLW link

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

lukeprogNov 5, 2011, 11:06 AM
69 points
1,537 comments18 min readLW link

Tran­scrip­tion and Sum­mary of Nick Bostrom’s Q&A

daenerysNov 17, 2011, 5:51 PM
53 points
10 comments31 min readLW link

Draw­ing Less Wrong: Ob­serv­ing Reality

RaemonNov 21, 2011, 5:10 AM
52 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

LW Philoso­phers ver­sus Analytics

Ronny FernandezNov 28, 2011, 3:40 PM
50 points
85 comments5 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics costs: given es­ti­mates are low

gwernNov 14, 2011, 5:07 PM
45 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

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

lukeprogNov 25, 2011, 10:57 PM
45 points
36 comments27 min readLW link

Draw­ing Less Wrong: An Introduction

RaemonNov 13, 2011, 10:39 PM
45 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

Re­cent up­dates to gw­ern.net (2011)

gwernNov 26, 2011, 1:58 AM
45 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

[POLL] LessWrong group on YourMo­rals.org

InquilineKeaNov 29, 2011, 1:22 AM
44 points
82 comments1 min readLW link

Prac­ti­cal debiasing

crazy88Nov 20, 2011, 9:45 AM
40 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

How ra­tio­nal­ity can make your life more awesome

Julia_GalefNov 29, 2011, 1:23 AM
39 points
41 comments5 min readLW link

Less Wrong and non-na­tive English speakers

kilobugNov 6, 2011, 1:37 PM
39 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

All free Stan­ford classes, con­tinu­ally updated

XFrequentistNov 29, 2011, 4:41 PM
39 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Be­hav­ioral psy­chol­ogy and buy­ing a war­ranty at Menards

jwhendyNov 15, 2011, 2:57 AM
38 points
38 comments2 min readLW link

Is la­tent Tox­o­plas­mo­sis worth do­ing some­thing about?

jsalvatierNov 17, 2011, 5:04 PM
38 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Liv­ing Metaphorically

lukeprogNov 28, 2011, 3:01 PM
37 points
80 comments7 min readLW link

Do we have it too easy?

KlaoNov 2, 2011, 1:53 AM
37 points
44 comments3 min readLW link

5-sec­ond level case study: Value of information

Kaj_SotalaNov 22, 2011, 1:44 PM
36 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

New AI risks re­search in­sti­tute at Oxford University

lukeprogNov 16, 2011, 6:52 PM
36 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Wel­come to LessWrong (For high­school­ers)

CuriouskidNov 26, 2011, 3:47 PM
35 points
83 comments1 min readLW link

Con­nect­ing Your Beliefs (a call for help)

lukeprogNov 20, 2011, 5:18 AM
34 points
73 comments2 min readLW link

Com­pre­hen­sive List of All Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit Talks and Video Links

MichaelAnissimovNov 18, 2011, 4:34 PM
34 points
29 comments5 min readLW link

[LINKS] New GiveWell Top Charities

jefftkNov 29, 2011, 6:40 PM
34 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

lukeprogNov 15, 2011, 2:23 PM
34 points
108 comments4 min readLW link

Draw­ing Less Wrong: Should You Learn to Draw?

RaemonNov 14, 2011, 7:31 AM
34 points
56 comments9 min readLW link

Q&A with new Ex­ec­u­tive Direc­tor of Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

lukeprogNov 7, 2011, 4:58 AM
33 points
182 comments1 min readLW link

The promise of con­nected science

lukeprogNov 12, 2011, 6:22 PM
33 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Selec­tion Effects in es­ti­mates of Global Catas­trophic Risk

bentarmNov 4, 2011, 9:14 AM
32 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

(Sub­jec­tive Bayesi­anism vs. Fre­quen­tism) VS. For­mal­ism

Ronny FernandezNov 26, 2011, 5:05 AM
32 points
107 comments5 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tionBook: A Short Note

Jayson_VirissimoNov 10, 2011, 3:10 PM
31 points
38 comments2 min readLW link

Log-odds (or log­its)

brileeNov 28, 2011, 1:11 AM
31 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Max­i­miz­ing Cost-effec­tive­ness via Crit­i­cal Inquiry

HoldenKarnofskyNov 10, 2011, 7:25 PM
31 points
24 comments7 min readLW link

Mo­du­lar­ity, sig­nal­ing, and be­lief in belief

Kaj_SotalaNov 13, 2011, 11:54 AM
29 points
14 comments5 min readLW link

[Draft] Poker With Lennier

HonoreDBNov 10, 2011, 5:14 PM
29 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

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

Normal_AnomalyNov 29, 2011, 3:11 AM
29 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

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

lukeprogNov 26, 2011, 6:09 AM
28 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Uncertainty

VaniverNov 29, 2011, 11:12 PM
27 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

Poker with Lennier

HonoreDBNov 15, 2011, 10:21 PM
26 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

Some­times, talk­ing the is­sue through *works*

lukeprogNov 11, 2011, 9:51 PM
26 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

How to prove any­thing with a re­view article

Richard_KennawayNov 22, 2011, 12:04 PM
26 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[link] I Was Wrong, and So Are You

[deleted]Nov 9, 2011, 4:25 PM
25 points
96 comments3 min readLW link