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How to Beat Procrastination

lukeprog5 Feb 2011 18:49 UTC
275 points
162 comments15 min readLW link

Pro­ce­du­ral Knowl­edge Gaps

Alicorn8 Feb 2011 3:17 UTC
196 points
1,495 comments1 min readLW link

Make your train­ing useful

AnnaSalamon12 Feb 2011 2:14 UTC
140 points
46 comments5 min readLW link

Some Heuris­tics for Eval­u­at­ing the Sound­ness of the Aca­demic Main­stream in Un­fa­mil­iar Fields

Vladimir_M15 Feb 2011 9:17 UTC
100 points
274 comments9 min readLW link

Abil­ity to react

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 18 Feb 2011 19:19 UTC
100 points
99 comments4 min readLW link

A ra­tio­nal­ist’s guide to psy­choac­tive drugs

Skatche10 Feb 2011 1:01 UTC
95 points
48 comments17 min readLW link

Science: Do It Yourself

alyssavance13 Feb 2011 4:47 UTC
91 points
206 comments6 min readLW link

Fun and Games with Cog­ni­tive Biases

Cosmos18 Feb 2011 20:38 UTC
85 points
28 comments6 min readLW link

Use cu­ri­os­ity

AnnaSalamon25 Feb 2011 22:23 UTC
85 points
61 comments1 min readLW link

The Ur­gent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

lukeprog1 Feb 2011 14:15 UTC
75 points
252 comments1 min readLW link

The Value of The­o­ret­i­cal Research

paulfchristiano25 Feb 2011 18:06 UTC
65 points
53 comments3 min readLW link

Se­cure Your Beliefs

lukeprog12 Feb 2011 16:53 UTC
59 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

You’re in New­comb’s Box

HonoreDB5 Feb 2011 20:46 UTC
59 points
176 comments4 min readLW link

Set­tled ques­tions in philosophy

lukeprog16 Feb 2011 6:53 UTC
55 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Start­ing a LW meet-up is easy.

AnnaSalamon1 Feb 2011 4:05 UTC
54 points
60 comments1 min readLW link

Is GiveWell.org the best char­ity (ex­clud­ing SIAI)?

syllogism26 Feb 2011 13:37 UTC
52 points
61 comments2 min readLW link

Mak­ing money with Bit­coin?

Clippy16 Feb 2011 19:17 UTC
49 points
129 comments1 min readLW link

Fast Minds and Slow Computers

jacob_cannell5 Feb 2011 10:05 UTC
47 points
93 comments5 min readLW link

Philoso­phers and seek­ing answers

Scott Alexander4 Feb 2011 22:51 UTC
41 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Time Magaz­ine has an ar­ti­cle about the Sin­gu­lar­ity...

Raemon11 Feb 2011 2:20 UTC
40 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup posts as dis­cus­sion threads, please

Jonii14 Feb 2011 11:49 UTC
39 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Al­gorithms as Case Stud­ies in Rationality

abramdemski14 Feb 2011 18:27 UTC
38 points
40 comments6 min readLW link

Why Do We En­gage in Mo­ral Sim­plifi­ca­tion?

Wei Dai14 Feb 2011 1:16 UTC
34 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

My hour-long in­ter­view with Yud­kowsky on “Be­com­ing a Ra­tion­al­ist”

lukeprog6 Feb 2011 3:19 UTC
33 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

How to make your in­tu­itions cost-sensitive

apophenia8 Feb 2011 9:59 UTC
32 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Isn’t this siteme­ter log­ging a bit too ex­ces­sive?

DanielVarga2 Feb 2011 20:55 UTC
29 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

[link] On Rea­son­able Efforts

Kaj_Sotala26 Feb 2011 9:57 UTC
27 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Space Sta­sis: What the strange per­sis­tence of rock­ets can teach us about innovation

Kaj_Sotala3 Feb 2011 18:36 UTC
26 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

What does your web of be­liefs look like, as of to­day?

lukeprog20 Feb 2011 19:47 UTC
23 points
30 comments3 min readLW link

Schol­ar­ship and DIY Science

[deleted]18 Feb 2011 6:37 UTC
22 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Re­duc­tion Ca­reer Network

FrankAdamek27 Feb 2011 0:27 UTC
21 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Strong sub­strate in­de­pen­dence: a thing that goes wrong in my mind when ex­posed to philosophy

HonoreDB18 Feb 2011 1:40 UTC
21 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

LINK: Bostrom & Yud­kowsky, “The Ethics of Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence” (2011)

lukeprog27 Feb 2011 17:43 UTC
21 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Solomonoff In­duc­tion, by Shane Legg

cousin_it21 Feb 2011 0:32 UTC
21 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes: Fe­bru­ary 2011

gwern1 Feb 2011 17:46 UTC
21 points
355 comments1 min readLW link

On Char­i­ties and Lin­ear Utility

Anatoly_Vorobey4 Feb 2011 14:13 UTC
21 points
59 comments6 min readLW link

SUGGEST and VOTE: Posts We Want to Read on Less Wrong

lukeprog7 Feb 2011 2:51 UTC
21 points
105 comments2 min readLW link

Age, fluid in­tel­li­gence, and in­tel­li­gent posts

InquilineKea20 Feb 2011 9:06 UTC
21 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

So­cial Ne­ces­sity of Drinking

Raemon13 Feb 2011 22:52 UTC
20 points
97 comments1 min readLW link

BOOK DRAFT: ‘Ethics and Su­per­in­tel­li­gence’ (part 1, re­vised)

lukeprog22 Feb 2011 20:59 UTC
20 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

Reach­ing the gen­eral public

Richard_Kennaway7 Feb 2011 17:52 UTC
20 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Is Mo­ral­ity a Valid Prefer­ence?

MinibearRex21 Feb 2011 1:18 UTC
19 points
75 comments1 min readLW link

Op­ti­mal Em­ploy­ment Open Thread

[deleted]14 Feb 2011 22:49 UTC
18 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Re­search methods

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 22 Feb 2011 6:10 UTC
18 points
42 comments2 min readLW link

Go Try Things

atucker25 Feb 2011 6:23 UTC
18 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

Tor­tur­ing peo­ple for fun

cousin_it14 Feb 2011 20:52 UTC
18 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

BOOK DRAFT: ‘Ethics and Su­per­in­tel­li­gence’ (part 1)

lukeprog13 Feb 2011 10:09 UTC
18 points
112 comments2 min readLW link

Open Thread: Mathematics

bentarm13 Feb 2011 23:50 UTC
18 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Write It Like A Poem

Strange716 Feb 2011 15:11 UTC
18 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

Brains more com­pli­cated than pre­vi­ously thought

NancyLebovitz18 Feb 2011 15:37 UTC
17 points
25 comments1 min readLW link