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Learned Blankness

AnnaSalamonApr 18, 2011, 6:55 PM
261 points
188 comments5 min readLW link

Levels of Action

alyssavanceApr 14, 2011, 12:18 AM
187 points
47 comments9 min readLW link

Build Small Skills in the Right Order

lukeprogApr 17, 2011, 11:01 PM
169 points
219 comments5 min readLW link

Epis­tle to the New York Less Wrongians

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 20, 2011, 9:13 PM
149 points
275 comments10 min readLW link

The Bias You Didn’t Expect

PsychohistorianApr 14, 2011, 4:20 PM
132 points
91 comments2 min readLW link

The benefits of mad­ness: A pos­i­tive ac­count of arationality

SkatcheApr 22, 2011, 7:43 PM
131 points
122 comments14 min readLW link

96 Bad Links in the Se­quences [fixed]

LouieApr 27, 2011, 7:01 PM
97 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

The Ab­solute Self-Selec­tion Assumption

paulfchristianoApr 11, 2011, 3:25 PM
96 points
44 comments7 min readLW link

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

JGWeissmanApr 12, 2011, 1:24 AM
91 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

No, Se­ri­ously. Just Try It.

lukeprogApr 20, 2011, 4:11 PM
90 points
42 comments2 min readLW link

Just Try It: Quan­tity Trumps Quality

atuckerApr 4, 2011, 1:13 AM
88 points
83 comments2 min readLW link

Offense ver­sus harm minimization

Scott AlexanderApr 16, 2011, 1:06 AM
87 points
429 comments9 min readLW link

The Good News of Si­tu­a­tion­ist Psychology

lukeprogApr 1, 2011, 7:28 PM
81 points
48 comments3 min readLW link

SIAI Fundraising

BrandonReinhartApr 26, 2011, 8:35 AM
78 points
120 comments6 min readLW link

So You’ve Changed Your Mind

SpurlockApr 28, 2011, 7:42 PM
77 points
48 comments4 min readLW link

The Neu­ro­science of Desire

lukeprogApr 9, 2011, 7:08 PM
73 points
30 comments10 min readLW link

Be­ing Wrong about Your Own Sub­jec­tive Experience

lukeprogApr 24, 2011, 8:24 PM
63 points
191 comments7 min readLW link

How You Make Judg­ments: The Elephant and its Rider

lukeprogApr 15, 2011, 1:02 AM
62 points
19 comments13 min readLW link

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

DavidMApr 28, 2011, 8:26 PM
61 points
123 comments17 min readLW link

The Black Team—A Parable of Group Effectiveness

JGWeissmanApr 22, 2011, 2:37 AM
59 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Head­ing Toward: No-Non­sense Metaethics

lukeprogApr 24, 2011, 12:42 AM
55 points
60 comments2 min readLW link

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

AnnaSalamonApr 24, 2011, 8:10 AM
51 points
87 comments4 min readLW link

Non­mag­i­cal Powers

sixes_and_sevensApr 26, 2011, 10:53 AM
51 points
63 comments1 min readLW link

96 Bad Links in the Sequences

AlexandrosApr 7, 2011, 10:39 AM
51 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

New Less Wrong Fea­ture: Rerun­ning The Sequences

UnnamedApr 11, 2011, 5:01 PM
49 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

What is Me­taethics?

lukeprogApr 25, 2011, 4:53 PM
46 points
562 comments5 min readLW link

An­throp­ics makes sense with shorter people

KatjaGraceApr 11, 2011, 10:58 PM
46 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

In­suffi­ciently Awesome

CayenneApr 19, 2011, 7:28 PM
46 points
94 comments1 min readLW link

Join the Spe­cial Re­lo­ca­tion Task Force!

jsalvatierApr 24, 2011, 9:26 PM
46 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

Hu­man er­rors, hu­man values

PhilGoetzApr 9, 2011, 2:50 AM
45 points
138 comments1 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity Podcast

EneaszApr 13, 2011, 5:09 PM
45 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

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

Normal_AnomalyApr 16, 2011, 5:21 PM
44 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

What data gen­er­ated that thought?

Kaj_SotalaApr 26, 2011, 12:54 PM
42 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

Don’t Fear Failure

atuckerApr 3, 2011, 10:52 PM
40 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Things That Shouldn’t Need Point­ing Out

AlicornApr 21, 2011, 1:13 AM
40 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

Con­se­quen­tial­ism FAQ

Scott AlexanderApr 26, 2011, 1:45 AM
39 points
124 comments1 min readLW link

Vanilla and choco­late and prefer­ence judgements

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Apr 18, 2011, 10:14 PM
39 points
32 comments6 min readLW link

How not to be a Naïve Computationalist

diegocaleiroApr 13, 2011, 7:45 PM
39 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences): Exercises

RobinZApr 17, 2011, 3:31 PM
38 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Re­cent de-con­vert sat­u­rated by re­li­gious com­mu­nity; ad­vice?

jwhendyApr 4, 2011, 3:25 AM
38 points
158 comments7 min readLW link

Man­u­fac­tur­ing prejudice

PhilGoetzApr 3, 2011, 5:26 PM
37 points
73 comments1 min readLW link

Do mee­tups re­ally have to go on the front page?

InquilineKeaApr 11, 2011, 12:24 AM
36 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

Elitist Jerks: A Well-Kept Gar­den

malthrinApr 25, 2011, 6:56 PM
36 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

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

HonoreDBApr 7, 2011, 4:37 AM
34 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Any­one read Erf­world?

RaemonApr 1, 2011, 1:48 AM
33 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Dense Math Notation

JK_RavenclawApr 1, 2011, 3:37 AM
33 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

New Ra­tion­al­ity Blog: ‘Mea­sure of Doubt’

lukeprogApr 1, 2011, 8:11 PM
33 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

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

XiXiDuApr 24, 2011, 6:03 PM
31 points
63 comments2 min readLW link

On De­bates with Trolls

praseApr 12, 2011, 8:46 AM
31 points
247 comments3 min readLW link

The Im­por­tance of Research

falenas108Apr 4, 2011, 10:08 PM
31 points
10 comments1 min readLW link