Your in­ner Google

PhilGoetzSep 16, 2011, 6:56 AM
163 points
70 comments1 min readLW link

Pri­soner’s Dilemma Tour­na­ment Results

praseSep 6, 2011, 12:46 AM
151 points
171 comments11 min readLW link

The Cog­ni­tive Science of Rationality

lukeprogSep 12, 2011, 8:48 PM
139 points
111 comments15 min readLW link

A Ra­tion­al­ist’s Tale

lukeprogSep 28, 2011, 1:17 AM
123 points
308 comments6 min readLW link

The Op­ti­mizer’s Curse and How to Beat It

lukeprogSep 16, 2011, 2:46 AM
100 points
84 comments3 min readLW link

Free Tu­tor­ing in Math/​Programming

PatrickSep 29, 2011, 1:45 PM
93 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Con­cepts Don’t Work That Way

lukeprogSep 28, 2011, 2:01 AM
88 points
92 comments8 min readLW link

Hack­ing on LessWrong Just Got Easier

atuckerSep 4, 2011, 6:59 AM
87 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Con­se­quen­tial­ism Need Not Be Nearsighted

orthonormalSep 2, 2011, 7:37 AM
83 points
119 comments5 min readLW link

Free re­search help, edit­ing and ar­ti­cle down­loads for LessWrong

jsalvatierSep 6, 2011, 9:13 PM
75 points
441 comments1 min readLW link

What Direct In­struc­tion is

[deleted]Sep 4, 2011, 11:03 PM
69 points
81 comments4 min readLW link

Is Ra­tion­al­ity Teach­able?

lukeprogSep 1, 2011, 11:59 AM
66 points
27 comments5 min readLW link

Hard prob­lem? Hack away at the edges.

lukeprogSep 26, 2011, 10:03 AM
66 points
30 comments3 min readLW link

Knowl­edge is Worth Pay­ing For

lukeprogSep 21, 2011, 6:09 PM
61 points
109 comments4 min readLW link

The Ram­blings of an Old Man Suc­cumb­ing to Dementia

[deleted]Sep 16, 2011, 3:33 AM
50 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

My Great­est Achievement

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Sep 12, 2011, 7:26 PM
47 points
28 comments7 min readLW link

Stanis­lav Petrov Day

gwernSep 26, 2011, 2:49 PM
46 points
167 comments1 min readLW link

Is That Your True Re­jec­tion? by Eliezer Yud­kowsky @ Cato Unbound

XiXiDuSep 7, 2011, 6:27 PM
44 points
83 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist sites worth archiv­ing?

gwernSep 11, 2011, 3:24 PM
42 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

Jour­nal ar­ti­cle about poli­tics and mindkilling

CronoDASSep 7, 2011, 7:46 AM
41 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

SIAI vs. FHI achieve­ments, 2008-2010

Kaj_SotalaSep 25, 2011, 11:42 AM
40 points
62 comments4 min readLW link

Re­view: Michel Thomas French (Direct In­struc­tion)

[deleted]Sep 22, 2011, 8:34 AM
40 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

Quixey—startup ap­ply­ing LW-style ra­tio­nal­ity—hiring engineers

LironSep 28, 2011, 4:50 AM
39 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tional Communication

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Sep 10, 2011, 2:30 AM
37 points
38 comments4 min readLW link

Tool ideology

PhilGoetzSep 9, 2011, 10:37 PM
36 points
66 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] Dilbert au­thor tries to try

MileyCyrusSep 12, 2011, 4:24 PM
35 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Fixed-Length Selec­tive Iter­a­tive Pri­soner’s Dilemma Mechanics

Andreas_GigerSep 13, 2011, 3:24 AM
34 points
14 comments15 min readLW link

I hate TL;DR

MarkusRamikinSep 20, 2011, 9:23 AM
33 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Ter­ror­ists tar­get AI researchers

RobertLumleySep 15, 2011, 2:22 PM
32 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

Statis­ti­cal er­ror in half of neu­ro­science papers

Paul CrowleySep 9, 2011, 11:07 PM
31 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­posal: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread With At­tri­bu­tions in rot13

lessdazedSep 2, 2011, 1:38 PM
30 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong and Ra­tion­al­ity ebooks via Amazon

anonymSep 11, 2011, 4:08 PM
30 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Wanted: backup plans for “seed AI turns out to be easy”

Wei DaiSep 28, 2011, 9:54 PM
29 points
64 comments2 min readLW link

You’ll be who you care about

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 20, 2011, 5:52 PM
29 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

[Story] Rejection

atuckerSep 9, 2011, 4:39 AM
28 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

How to in­cen­tivize peo­ple do­ing use­ful stuff on Less Wrong

lukeprogSep 27, 2011, 1:26 AM
27 points
60 comments2 min readLW link

Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science, Ar­row’s Im­pos­si­bil­ity The­o­rem, and Co­her­ent Ex­trap­o­lated Volition

lukeprogSep 25, 2011, 11:15 AM
26 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

[Ques­tion] What’s your Ele­va­tor Pitch For Ra­tion­al­ity?

atuckerSep 6, 2011, 9:43 PM
26 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing ra­tio­nal­ist blog aggregator

nerfhammerSep 29, 2011, 7:34 PM
26 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

The Car­bo­hy­drate Hy­poth­e­sis of Obe­sity: A Crit­i­cal Examination

Vaniver5 Sep 2011 2:39 UTC
26 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Timeline of ma­jor Eliezer Yud­kowsky publications

lukeprog18 Sep 2011 15:53 UTC
26 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

How Likely Is Cry­on­ics To Work?

jefftk25 Sep 2011 23:38 UTC
25 points
124 comments3 min readLW link

De­ci­sion Fa­tigue, Ra­tion­al­ity, and Akra­sia.

Alexandros19 Sep 2011 15:37 UTC
25 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Use­ful Things Vol­un­teers Can Do Right Now

lukeprog24 Sep 2011 23:33 UTC
25 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] “How to seem good at ev­ery­thing: Stop do­ing stupid shit”

kpreid4 Sep 2011 17:37 UTC
25 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Re­v­ersed stu­pidity some­times pro­vides use­ful information

Scott Alexander28 Sep 2011 10:28 UTC
25 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Cry­onic sus­pen­sion where?

lavalamp27 Sep 2011 23:32 UTC
24 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Case Study: Read­ing Edge’s fi­nan­cial filings

gwern6 Sep 2011 3:46 UTC
24 points
13 comments7 min readLW link

[Link] The Typ­i­cal Mind Fal­lacy, Illustrated

pjeby2 Sep 2011 17:22 UTC
24 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The be­gin­nings of a test for Ra­tion­al­ity Quotient

lukeprog7 Sep 2011 8:45 UTC
24 points
22 comments1 min readLW link