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A Crash Course in the Neu­ro­science of Hu­man Motivation

lukeprogAug 19, 2011, 9:15 PM
204 points
93 comments38 min readLW link

Ra­tional Home Buying

Scott AlexanderAug 27, 2011, 12:15 AM
168 points
138 comments7 min readLW link

Why We Can’t Take Ex­pected Value Es­ti­mates Liter­ally (Even When They’re Un­bi­ased)

HoldenKarnofskyAug 18, 2011, 11:34 PM
125 points
253 comments17 min readLW link

Polyhacking

AlicornAug 28, 2011, 8:35 AM
121 points
603 comments8 min readLW link

Teenage Ra­tion­al­ists and Chang­ing Your Mind

KPierAug 5, 2011, 6:19 PM
88 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

The­ory of Knowl­edge (ra­tio­nal­ity out­reach)

KPierAug 9, 2011, 9:36 PM
86 points
82 comments2 min readLW link

Con­sis­tently Inconsistent

Kaj_SotalaAug 4, 2011, 10:33 PM
81 points
25 comments5 min readLW link

A His­tory of Bayes’ Theorem

lukeprogAug 29, 2011, 7:04 AM
76 points
91 comments15 min readLW link

Why epi­demiol­ogy will not cor­rect itself

gwernAug 11, 2011, 12:54 AM
70 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Help Fund Luke­prog at SIAI

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 24, 2011, 7:16 AM
63 points
278 comments1 min readLW link

In­di­vi­d­ual De­ni­a­bil­ity, Statis­ti­cal Honesty

AlicornAug 9, 2011, 4:17 AM
62 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Strate­gic ig­no­rance and plau­si­ble deniability

Kaj_SotalaAug 10, 2011, 9:30 AM
62 points
59 comments4 min readLW link

An EPub of Eliezer’s blog posts

Paul CrowleyAug 11, 2011, 2:20 PM
59 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Please do not down­vote ev­ery com­ment or post some­one has ever made as a re­tal­i­a­tion tac­tic.

Will_NewsomeAug 21, 2011, 12:35 PM
57 points
131 comments1 min readLW link

Take heed, for it is a trap

ZedAug 14, 2011, 10:23 AM
54 points
189 comments6 min readLW link

Are Deon­tolog­i­cal Mo­ral Judg­ments Ra­tion­al­iza­tions?

lukeprogAug 16, 2011, 4:40 PM
52 points
170 comments11 min readLW link

Level­ing IRL

cousin_itAug 5, 2011, 9:35 PM
45 points
126 comments1 min readLW link

Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute Strate­gic Plan 2011

MichaelAnissimovAug 26, 2011, 11:34 PM
45 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Magic Tricks Re­vealed: Test Your Rationality

Peter WildefordAug 13, 2011, 5:23 AM
42 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­ory Para­dox: PD with Three Im­plies Chaos?

orthonormalAug 27, 2011, 7:22 PM
42 points
56 comments4 min readLW link

Judg­ment Un­der Uncer­tainty sum­maries, Part 1: Representativeness

TesseractAug 15, 2011, 12:05 AM
42 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Do Hu­mans Want Things?

lukeprogAug 4, 2011, 5:00 AM
40 points
53 comments5 min readLW link

[LINK] Get paid to train your rationality

XFrequentistAug 3, 2011, 3:01 PM
40 points
55 comments3 min readLW link

The ba­sic ques­tions of rationality

[deleted]Aug 22, 2011, 2:23 AM
40 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

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[deleted]Aug 30, 2011, 3:56 AM
40 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Ca­reer choice for a util­i­tar­ian giver

juliawiseAug 8, 2011, 2:10 AM
39 points
29 comments3 min readLW link

Why no archive of re­futed re­search?

Kaj_SotalaAug 26, 2011, 8:14 AM
37 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion liter­a­ture re­view prize: And the win­ner is...

jsalvatierAug 19, 2011, 8:35 PM
37 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Fre­quen­tist vs Bayesian break­down: in­ter­pre­ta­tion vs inference

AcademianAug 30, 2011, 3:58 PM
36 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­du­lar­ity and Buzzy

Kaj_SotalaAug 4, 2011, 11:35 AM
34 points
27 comments9 min readLW link

Teach­ing Introspection

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Aug 1, 2011, 1:10 AM
32 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

Fic­tion: Let­ter from the End

AlexMennenAug 9, 2011, 11:04 PM
32 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Scott Aaron­son on Why Philoso­phers Should Care About Com­pu­ta­tional Complexity

DanielVargaAug 15, 2011, 10:51 PM
31 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Why are cer­tain trends so pre­cisely ex­po­nen­tial?

orthonormalAug 6, 2011, 5:38 PM
29 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Marti­ne­naite and Tave­nier on cryonics

Paul CrowleyAug 4, 2011, 7:39 AM
28 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Level­ing IRL—level 1

cousin_itAug 9, 2011, 5:12 PM
28 points
93 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] “Aca­demic pub­lish­ers make Mur­doch look like a so­cial­ist” says Ge­orge Mon­biot

[deleted]Aug 30, 2011, 12:27 PM
28 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

“Meetup” pro­posal: Google+

[deleted]Aug 12, 2011, 5:32 PM
28 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Spaced rep­e­ti­tion re­view (my en­try)

gwernAug 8, 2011, 3:48 PM
28 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Years saved: Cry­on­ics vs VillageReach

handoflixueAug 1, 2011, 9:04 PM
27 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

Call for Per­sonal Volunteers

lukeprogAug 29, 2011, 4:31 PM
27 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

How to be Deader than Dead

gwernAug 24, 2011, 3:47 PM
26 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Re­mind Phys­i­cal­ists They’re Physicalists

lukeprogAug 15, 2011, 4:36 AM
26 points
76 comments2 min readLW link

Hu­mans: Not Carved from Marble

lukeprogAug 16, 2011, 4:44 AM
26 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

An­ti­so­cial per­son­al­ity traits pre­dict util­i­tar­ian re­sponses to moral dilemmas

Vladimir_MAug 23, 2011, 9:13 AM
26 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

A Sketch of an Anti-Real­ist Metaethics

JackAug 22, 2011, 5:32 AM
26 points
136 comments7 min readLW link

[LINK] NYTimes es­say on willpower, based on an up­com­ing Baumeister book

Vladimir_GolovinAug 18, 2011, 10:05 AM
25 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Do we want more pub­lic­ity, and if so how?

Wei DaiAug 22, 2011, 5:43 PM
24 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] How Hard is Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence? The Evolu­tion­ary Ar­gu­ment and Ob­ser­va­tion Selec­tion Effects

AnnaSalamonAug 29, 2011, 5:27 AM
24 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Table of bi­ases, the nor­ma­tive mod­els they vi­o­late, and their explanations

lukeprogAug 19, 2011, 11:26 PM
24 points
4 comments1 min readLW link