The 5-Se­cond Level

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 May 2011 4:51 UTC
241 points
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Schol­ar­ship: How to Do It Efficiently

lukeprog9 May 2011 22:05 UTC
237 points
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SIAI—An Examination

BrandonReinhart2 May 2011 7:08 UTC
182 points
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The Power of Agency

lukeprog7 May 2011 1:38 UTC
112 points
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Mea­sur­ing aver­sion and habit strength

Academian27 May 2011 1:05 UTC
111 points
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Con­cep­tual Anal­y­sis and Mo­ral Theory

lukeprog16 May 2011 6:28 UTC
94 points
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How and Why to Granularize

lukeprog17 May 2011 15:16 UTC
85 points
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A sum­mary of Sav­age’s foun­da­tions for prob­a­bil­ity and util­ity.

Sniffnoy22 May 2011 19:56 UTC
81 points
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Ra­tion­al­ist horo­scopes: A low-hang­ing util­ity gen­er­a­tor.

AdeleneDawner22 May 2011 9:37 UTC
79 points
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Teach­able Ra­tion­al­ity Skills

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 May 2011 21:57 UTC
74 points
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What we’re losing

PhilGoetz15 May 2011 3:34 UTC
72 points
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Suffer­ing as at­ten­tion-al­lo­ca­tional conflict

Kaj_Sotala18 May 2011 15:12 UTC
71 points
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LW Biol­ogy 101 In­tro­duc­tion: Con­strain­ing Anticipation

virtualAdept25 May 2011 0:32 UTC
70 points
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Ethics and ra­tio­nal­ity of suicide

anonymous2592 May 2011 1:38 UTC
68 points
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Liv­ing For­ever is Hard, or, The Gom­pertz Curve

gwern17 May 2011 21:08 UTC
67 points
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The Joys of Con­ju­gate Priors

TCB21 May 2011 2:41 UTC
63 points
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Na­ture: Red, in Truth and Qualia

orthonormal29 May 2011 23:50 UTC
62 points
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Dominus’ Razor

badger26 May 2011 1:05 UTC
61 points
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Over­com­ing suffer­ing: Emo­tional acceptance

Kaj_Sotala29 May 2011 10:57 UTC
60 points
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In­fer­ring Our Desires

lukeprog24 May 2011 5:33 UTC
60 points
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Death Note, Anonymity, and In­for­ma­tion Theory

gwern8 May 2011 15:44 UTC
59 points
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A Game­play Ex­plo­ra­tion of Yud­kowsky’s “Twelve Virtues”

ac3raven18 May 2011 18:56 UTC
59 points
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Bias in cap­i­tal pro­ject de­ci­sion making

jsalvatier26 May 2011 18:06 UTC
56 points
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See­ing Red: Dis­solv­ing Mary’s Room and Qualia

orthonormal26 May 2011 17:47 UTC
54 points
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On the An­thropic Trilemma

KatjaGrace19 May 2011 15:57 UTC
54 points
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The cost of uni­ver­sal cryonics

handoflixue26 May 2011 2:33 UTC
52 points
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On Be­ing Okay with the Truth

lukeprog2 May 2011 0:17 UTC
51 points
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The Cog­ni­tive Costs to Do­ing Things

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)2 May 2011 9:13 UTC
49 points
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How some al­gorithms feel from inside

cousin_it17 May 2011 11:26 UTC
48 points
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Seek­ing sug­ges­tions: Less Wrong Biol­ogy 101

virtualAdept20 May 2011 15:28 UTC
46 points
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The Aliens have Landed!

TimFreeman19 May 2011 17:09 UTC
46 points
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Book Re­view: Pre­dictably Ir­ra­tional by Dan Ariely

erratio8 May 2011 8:13 UTC
46 points
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Ex­am­ple de­ci­sion the­ory prob­lem: “Agent simu­lates pre­dic­tor”

cousin_it19 May 2011 15:16 UTC
45 points
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In­tu­ition and Un­con­scious Learning

lukeprog6 May 2011 18:47 UTC
44 points
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Up­com­ing meet-ups: Buenos Aires, Min­neapo­lis, Ot­tawa, Ed­in­burgh, Cam­bridge, Lon­don, DC

AnnaSalamon13 May 2011 20:49 UTC
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A Study of Scar­let: The Con­scious Men­tal Graph

orthonormal27 May 2011 20:13 UTC
44 points
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Episte­mol­ogy and the Psy­chol­ogy of Hu­man Judgment

badger28 May 2011 5:15 UTC
44 points
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Coloniza­tion mod­els: a pro­gram­ming tu­to­rial (Part 1/​2)

snarles16 May 2011 23:33 UTC
42 points
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But But­ter Goes Ran­cid In The Freezer

JenniferRM9 May 2011 6:01 UTC
42 points
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De­sign­ing Ra­tion­al­ist Projects

calcsam12 May 2011 3:38 UTC
41 points
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Offi­cial Less Wrong Redesign: Nearly there

matt24 May 2011 7:20 UTC
39 points
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How To Be More Con­fi­dent… That You’re Wrong

Wei Dai22 May 2011 23:30 UTC
38 points
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GiveWell.org in­ter­views SIAI

Paul Crowley5 May 2011 16:29 UTC
38 points
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Holy Books (Or Ra­tion­al­ist Se­quences) Don’t Im­ple­ment Themselves

calcsam10 May 2011 7:15 UTC
38 points
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Ra­tion­al­ist Horo­scopes: Low-hang­ing util­ity gen­er­a­tor?

AdeleneDawner18 May 2011 21:52 UTC
37 points
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Self-pro­gram­ming through spaced repetition

[deleted]25 May 2011 0:02 UTC
37 points
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Karma Bub­ble Fix (Grease­mon­key script)

Vladimir_Nesov7 May 2011 13:14 UTC
36 points
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Beyond Smart and Stupid

PhilGoetz17 May 2011 6:25 UTC
36 points
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Miti­gat­ing So­cial Awkwardness

Cayenne1 May 2011 0:54 UTC
36 points
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Ex­per­i­ment Idea Thread - Spring 2011

Psychohistorian6 May 2011 18:10 UTC
35 points
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