Learned Blankness

AnnaSalamon18 Apr 2011 18:55 UTC
260 points
188 comments5 min readLW link

Levels of Action

alyssavance14 Apr 2011 0:18 UTC
186 points
47 comments9 min readLW link

Build Small Skills in the Right Order

lukeprog17 Apr 2011 23:01 UTC
168 points
219 comments5 min readLW link

Epis­tle to the New York Less Wrongians

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Apr 2011 21:13 UTC
149 points
275 comments10 min readLW link

The Bias You Didn’t Expect

Psychohistorian14 Apr 2011 16:20 UTC
132 points
91 comments2 min readLW link

The benefits of mad­ness: A pos­i­tive ac­count of arationality

Skatche22 Apr 2011 19:43 UTC
131 points
122 comments14 min readLW link

96 Bad Links in the Se­quences [fixed]

Louie27 Apr 2011 19:01 UTC
97 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

The Ab­solute Self-Selec­tion Assumption

paulfchristiano11 Apr 2011 15:25 UTC
96 points
44 comments7 min readLW link

It is OK to pub­li­cly make a mis­take and change your mind

JGWeissman12 Apr 2011 1:24 UTC
91 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

No, Se­ri­ously. Just Try It.

lukeprog20 Apr 2011 16:11 UTC
88 points
42 comments2 min readLW link

Just Try It: Quan­tity Trumps Quality

atucker4 Apr 2011 1:13 UTC
88 points
83 comments2 min readLW link

Offense ver­sus harm minimization

Scott Alexander16 Apr 2011 1:06 UTC
87 points
429 comments9 min readLW link

The Good News of Si­tu­a­tion­ist Psychology

lukeprog1 Apr 2011 19:28 UTC
80 points
48 comments3 min readLW link

SIAI Fundraising

BrandonReinhart26 Apr 2011 8:35 UTC
78 points
120 comments6 min readLW link

So You’ve Changed Your Mind

Spurlock28 Apr 2011 19:42 UTC
77 points
48 comments4 min readLW link

The Neu­ro­science of Desire

lukeprog9 Apr 2011 19:08 UTC
73 points
30 comments10 min readLW link

Be­ing Wrong about Your Own Sub­jec­tive Experience

lukeprog24 Apr 2011 20:24 UTC
63 points
191 comments7 min readLW link

How You Make Judg­ments: The Elephant and its Rider

lukeprog15 Apr 2011 1:02 UTC
62 points
19 comments13 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tion, in­sight, and ra­tio­nal­ity. (Part 1 of 3)

DavidM28 Apr 2011 20:26 UTC
61 points
123 comments17 min readLW link

The Black Team—A Parable of Group Effectiveness

JGWeissman22 Apr 2011 2:37 UTC
59 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Head­ing Toward: No-Non­sense Metaethics

lukeprog24 Apr 2011 0:42 UTC
55 points
60 comments2 min readLW link

Mini-camp on Ra­tion­al­ity, Awe­some­ness, and Ex­is­ten­tial Risk (May 28 through June 4, 2011)

AnnaSalamon24 Apr 2011 8:10 UTC
51 points
87 comments4 min readLW link

Non­mag­i­cal Powers

sixes_and_sevens26 Apr 2011 10:53 UTC
51 points
63 comments1 min readLW link

96 Bad Links in the Sequences

Alexandros7 Apr 2011 10:39 UTC
51 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

New Less Wrong Fea­ture: Rerun­ning The Sequences

Unnamed11 Apr 2011 17:01 UTC
49 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

An­throp­ics makes sense with shorter people

KatjaGrace11 Apr 2011 22:58 UTC
46 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

What is Me­taethics?

lukeprog25 Apr 2011 16:53 UTC
46 points
562 comments5 min readLW link

Join the Spe­cial Re­lo­ca­tion Task Force!

jsalvatier24 Apr 2011 21:26 UTC
46 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

Hu­man er­rors, hu­man values

PhilGoetz9 Apr 2011 2:50 UTC
45 points
138 comments1 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity Podcast

Eneasz13 Apr 2011 17:09 UTC
45 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Se­quence Ex­er­cise: first 3 posts from “A Hu­man’s Guide to Words”

Normal_Anomaly16 Apr 2011 17:21 UTC
43 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

What data gen­er­ated that thought?

Kaj_Sotala26 Apr 2011 12:54 UTC
42 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

In­suffi­ciently Awesome

Cayenne19 Apr 2011 19:28 UTC
41 points
94 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t Fear Failure

atucker3 Apr 2011 22:52 UTC
40 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Things That Shouldn’t Need Point­ing Out

Alicorn21 Apr 2011 1:13 UTC
40 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

Con­se­quen­tial­ism FAQ

Scott Alexander26 Apr 2011 1:45 UTC
39 points
124 comments1 min readLW link

Vanilla and choco­late and prefer­ence judgements

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 18 Apr 2011 22:14 UTC
39 points
32 comments6 min readLW link

How not to be a Naïve Computationalist

diegocaleiro13 Apr 2011 19:45 UTC
39 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Re­cent de-con­vert sat­u­rated by re­li­gious com­mu­nity; ad­vice?

jwhendy4 Apr 2011 3:25 UTC
38 points
158 comments7 min readLW link

Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences): Exercises

RobinZ17 Apr 2011 15:31 UTC
38 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Man­u­fac­tur­ing prejudice

PhilGoetz3 Apr 2011 17:26 UTC
37 points
73 comments1 min readLW link

Do mee­tups re­ally have to go on the front page?

InquilineKea11 Apr 2011 0:24 UTC
36 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

Elitist Jerks: A Well-Kept Gar­den

malthrin25 Apr 2011 18:56 UTC
36 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Ran­dom ad­vice: Teenage U.S. LW-ers should prob­a­bly be tak­ing more AP exams

HonoreDB7 Apr 2011 4:37 UTC
34 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Any­one read Erf­world?

Raemon1 Apr 2011 1:48 UTC
33 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Dense Math Notation

JK_Ravenclaw1 Apr 2011 3:37 UTC
33 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

New Ra­tion­al­ity Blog: ‘Mea­sure of Doubt’

lukeprog1 Apr 2011 20:11 UTC
33 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

What To Do: En­vi­ron­men­tal­ism vs Friendly AI (John Baez)

XiXiDu24 Apr 2011 18:03 UTC
31 points
63 comments2 min readLW link

On De­bates with Trolls

prase12 Apr 2011 8:46 UTC
31 points
247 comments3 min readLW link

The Im­por­tance of Research

falenas1084 Apr 2011 22:08 UTC
31 points
10 comments1 min readLW link