How to Be Happy

lukeprogMar 17, 2011, 7:22 AM
236 points
207 comments17 min readLW link

Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Suc­cess­ful Ra­tion­al­ist Chapter

CosmosMar 17, 2011, 8:12 PM
189 points
172 comments11 min readLW link

Less Wrong Ra­tion­al­ity and Main­stream Philosophy

lukeprogMar 20, 2011, 8:28 PM
164 points
334 comments5 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy: A Diseased Discipline

lukeprogMar 28, 2011, 7:31 PM
150 points
447 comments7 min readLW link

How I Lost 100 Pounds Us­ing TDT

ZviMar 14, 2011, 3:50 PM
136 points
242 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Boot Camp

JasenMar 22, 2011, 8:37 AM
96 points
199 comments2 min readLW link

How SIAI could pub­lish in main­stream cog­ni­tive sci­ence journals

lukeprogMar 9, 2011, 9:17 PM
87 points
78 comments9 min readLW link

Be­ing a teacher

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Mar 14, 2011, 8:03 PM
82 points
155 comments3 min readLW link

AGI and Friendly AI in the dom­i­nant AI textbook

lukeprogMar 11, 2011, 4:12 AM
80 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Costs and Benefits of Scholarship

lukeprogMar 22, 2011, 2:19 AM
72 points
109 comments4 min readLW link

A Ra­tion­al­ist’s Ac­count of Ob­jec­tifi­ca­tion?

lukeprogMar 19, 2011, 11:10 PM
65 points
327 comments5 min readLW link

Bring Back the Se­quences?

AlexandrosMar 7, 2011, 7:21 AM
62 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

Sim­ple em­bod­ied cog­ni­tion hacks

curiousepicMar 23, 2011, 1:24 PM
59 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Neu­ro­science of Pleasure

lukeprogMar 27, 2011, 11:57 PM
52 points
17 comments11 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity, Sin­gu­lar­ity, Method, and the Mainstream

Mitchell_PorterMar 22, 2011, 12:06 PM
52 points
35 comments5 min readLW link

The Friendly AI Game

bentarmMar 15, 2011, 4:45 PM
50 points
178 comments1 min readLW link

Crime and punishment

PhilGoetzMar 24, 2011, 9:53 PM
50 points
192 comments2 min readLW link

Men­tal Metadata

AlicornMar 30, 2011, 3:07 AM
47 points
35 comments3 min readLW link

Ver­ify­ing Ra­tion­al­ity via Ra­tion­alPoker.com

LouieMar 25, 2011, 4:32 PM
46 points
159 comments2 min readLW link

Are You a Par­a­lyzed Subor­di­nate Mon­key?

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 2, 2011, 9:12 PM
46 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

Plant Seeds of Rationality

lukeprogMar 10, 2011, 5:51 PM
45 points
77 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tional Read­ing: Thoughts On Pri­ori­tiz­ing Books

patrissimoMar 27, 2011, 7:54 PM
43 points
45 comments5 min readLW link

Sin­gu­lar­ity goes main­stream (in philos­o­phy)

lukeprogMar 21, 2011, 3:18 AM
43 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Con­stantly ask what you’re cur­rently do­ing that is irrational

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 25, 2011, 8:21 AM
42 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Move mee­tups to the side­bar?

JohnicholasMar 13, 2011, 4:35 PM
41 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Towards an Al­gorithm for (Hu­man) Self-Modification

moridinamaelMar 29, 2011, 11:40 PM
37 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

The Limits of Curiosity

ElizabethMar 10, 2011, 3:20 PM
37 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

LessWrong search traf­fic doubles

LouieMar 25, 2011, 10:01 PM
34 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Preschool­ers learn­ing to guess the teacher’s pass­word [link]

UnnamedMar 18, 2011, 4:13 AM
34 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Outreach: A Parable

[deleted]Mar 17, 2011, 1:10 PM
34 points
124 comments5 min readLW link

Sublimity vs. Youtube

AlicornMar 18, 2011, 5:33 AM
33 points
63 comments1 min readLW link

Towards a Bay Area Less Wrong Community

LucasSloanMar 18, 2011, 5:35 AM
32 points
32 comments3 min readLW link

Hong Kong LW meetup

IsaacMar 2, 2011, 9:53 AM
31 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

What are you work­ing on?

jsalvatierMar 4, 2011, 1:33 AM
30 points
104 comments1 min readLW link

The Heilmeier Questions

[deleted]Mar 22, 2011, 7:51 PM
29 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Effec­tive Ra­tion­al­ity Outreach

paulfchristianoMar 19, 2011, 12:16 AM
29 points
30 comments7 min readLW link

Mak­ing Rea­son­ing Ob­vi­ously Lo­cally Correct

JGWeissmanMar 12, 2011, 7:41 PM
28 points
26 comments4 min readLW link

Pos­i­tive Thinking

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Mar 7, 2011, 1:03 AM
28 points
283 comments5 min readLW link

Col­lapsi­ble ar­ti­cle sec­tions?

lukeprogMar 28, 2011, 12:55 AM
27 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Video] AI Box Ex­per­i­ment on BBC’s “Look Around You”

ataMar 10, 2011, 6:36 AM
27 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Life hacks from the dark side

ataMar 29, 2011, 3:22 AM
27 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

The null model of science

JohnicholasMar 26, 2011, 1:53 PM
25 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Eliezer passes 100,000 karma points

lukeprogMar 9, 2011, 7:59 PM
25 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

How best to show dy­ing is bad

ZviMar 8, 2011, 3:18 PM
25 points
73 comments2 min readLW link

En­joy­ing food more: a case study in third options

MBlumeMar 16, 2011, 6:23 AM
25 points
48 comments2 min readLW link

Free Will as Un­solv­abil­ity by Rivals

PavitraMar 28, 2011, 3:28 AM
25 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Folk the­o­ries can be use­ful even when they’re en­tirely wrong

tawMar 23, 2011, 4:04 PM
25 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Real-world New­comb-like Prob­lems

SilasBartaMar 25, 2011, 8:44 PM
25 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Link: Paul Gra­ham on in­tel­li­gence vs determination

Vladimir_GolovinMar 24, 2011, 8:18 AM
24 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Sean Car­roll: Does the Uni­verse Need God? [link]

Dreaded_AnomalyMar 23, 2011, 7:31 PM
24 points
22 comments8 min readLW link