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Just an­other day in utopia

Stuart_Armstrong25 Dec 2011 9:37 UTC
145 points
118 comments13 min readLW link

Ri­tual Re­port: NYC Less Wrong Sols­tice Celebration

Raemon20 Dec 2011 20:37 UTC
143 points
180 comments11 min readLW link

2011 Sur­vey Results

Scott Alexander5 Dec 2011 10:49 UTC
123 points
513 comments8 min readLW link

[Tran­script] Tyler Cowen on Stories

Grognor17 Dec 2011 5:42 UTC
96 points
14 comments9 min readLW link

Hack Away at the Edges

lukeprog1 Dec 2011 13:26 UTC
89 points
53 comments3 min readLW link

Spend Money on Ergonomics

Kevin23 Dec 2011 6:40 UTC
80 points
212 comments5 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Quan­tified Health Prize

Zvi2 Dec 2011 6:01 UTC
73 points
141 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion is hard, es­pe­cially of medicine

gwern23 Dec 2011 20:34 UTC
72 points
48 comments23 min readLW link

A model of UDT with a halt­ing oracle

cousin_it18 Dec 2011 14:18 UTC
70 points
102 comments2 min readLW link

Fun­nel plots: the study that didn’t bark, or, vi­su­al­iz­ing re­gres­sion to the null

gwern4 Dec 2011 11:05 UTC
69 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Just the facts, ma’am!

lukeprog10 Dec 2011 22:54 UTC
69 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Stupid Ques­tions Open Thread

Costanza29 Dec 2011 23:23 UTC
62 points
264 comments1 min readLW link

Video Q&A with Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute Ex­ec­u­tive Director

lukeprog10 Dec 2011 11:27 UTC
56 points
124 comments15 min readLW link

Open Prob­lems Re­lated to the Sin­gu­lar­ity (draft 1)

lukeprog13 Dec 2011 10:57 UTC
53 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

Sum­mary of “The Straw Vul­can”

alexvermeer26 Dec 2011 16:29 UTC
51 points
27 comments6 min readLW link

Mitt Rom­ney’s $10,000 bet

MileyCyrus12 Dec 2011 2:14 UTC
50 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

5 Ax­ioms of De­ci­sion Making

Vaniver1 Dec 2011 22:22 UTC
50 points
63 comments5 min readLW link

Map­ping Fun The­ory onto the challenges of eth­i­cal foie gras

HonoreDB7 Dec 2011 20:47 UTC
49 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

Track­ing emo­tions with kines­thetic memory

eugman14 Dec 2011 12:49 UTC
47 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Talk­ing to Chil­dren: A Pre-Holi­day Guide

daenerys20 Dec 2011 21:54 UTC
46 points
94 comments2 min readLW link

The Value (and Danger) of Ritual

Raemon30 Dec 2011 6:52 UTC
46 points
68 comments12 min readLW link

[Link] A gen­tle video in­tro­duc­tion to game the­ory

[deleted]13 Dec 2011 8:52 UTC
45 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

In­verse p-zom­bies: the other di­rec­tion in the Hard Prob­lem of Consciousness

gwern18 Dec 2011 21:32 UTC
45 points
32 comments9 min readLW link

The ra­tio­nal­ist’s checklist

robertzk16 Dec 2011 16:21 UTC
44 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

How to la­bel thoughts nonverbally

eugman15 Dec 2011 18:23 UTC
44 points
28 comments5 min readLW link

An akra­sia case study

[deleted]10 Dec 2011 20:46 UTC
44 points
29 comments3 min readLW link

Less Wrong men­tor­ing thread

John_Maxwell29 Dec 2011 0:10 UTC
43 points
92 comments1 min readLW link

Why we need bet­ter sci­ence, ex­am­ple #6,281

lukeprog10 Dec 2011 23:25 UTC
43 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion Anal­y­sis Sequence

Vaniver21 Dec 2011 0:12 UTC
42 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Scooby Doo and Sec­u­lar Hu­man­ism [link]

Dreaded_Anomaly3 Dec 2011 4:58 UTC
40 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

How is your mind differ­ent from ev­ery­one else’s?

Kaj_Sotala5 Dec 2011 8:38 UTC
40 points
267 comments1 min readLW link

Best of Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes, 2011 Edition

DanielVarga28 Dec 2011 5:32 UTC
39 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Ne­gen­tropy Over­rated?

paulfchristiano29 Dec 2011 10:14 UTC
38 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

The Gift We Give To­mor­row, Spo­ken Word [Finished?]

Raemon2 Dec 2011 3:20 UTC
37 points
37 comments6 min readLW link

[Link] How to Dispel Your Illu­sions

[deleted]6 Dec 2011 14:46 UTC
37 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

Draw­ing Less Wrong: Tech­ni­cal Skill

Raemon5 Dec 2011 5:12 UTC
37 points
36 comments9 min readLW link

Com­press­ing Real­ity to Math

Vaniver15 Dec 2011 0:07 UTC
34 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

[Link] Belief in re­li­gion con­sid­ered harm­ful?

[deleted]17 Dec 2011 22:38 UTC
33 points
54 comments7 min readLW link

Merry New­ton­mas LW. Have some ra­tio­nal­ist mu­sic.

Spurlock25 Dec 2011 15:41 UTC
33 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Clar­ifi­ca­tion of AI Reflec­tion Problem

paulfchristiano10 Dec 2011 22:30 UTC
33 points
9 comments7 min readLW link

If You Were Brilli­ant When You Were Ten...

AspiringKnitter27 Dec 2011 2:33 UTC
32 points
69 comments1 min readLW link

The Con­trols are Ly­ing: A Note on the Memetic Hazards of Video Games [Link]

Nic_Smith19 Dec 2011 5:25 UTC
32 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Wel­come to Less Wrong! (2012)

orthonormal26 Dec 2011 22:57 UTC
31 points
1,440 comments5 min readLW link

For-Profit Ra­tion­al­ity Training

ksvanhorn28 Dec 2011 21:42 UTC
31 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

Is­sues with the Li­tany of Gendlin

Raemon10 Dec 2011 5:25 UTC
30 points
81 comments2 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy that can be “taken se­ri­ously by com­puter sci­en­tists”

lukeprog27 Dec 2011 2:39 UTC
30 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] How doc­tors die

Morendil6 Dec 2011 13:22 UTC
29 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Does Hyper­bolic Dis­count­ing Really Ex­ist?

gwern3 Dec 2011 3:07 UTC
29 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

In the Pareto world, liars prosper

Stuart_Armstrong8 Dec 2011 14:15 UTC
28 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

No one knows what Peano ar­ith­metic doesn’t know

cousin_it16 Dec 2011 21:36 UTC
28 points
54 comments1 min readLW link