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Schel­ling fences on slip­pery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC
595 points
250 comments6 min readLW link

The non­cen­tral fal­lacy—the worst ar­gu­ment in the world?

Scott Alexander27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC
420 points
1,768 comments7 min readLW link

Thoughts on the Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute (SI)

HoldenKarnofsky11 May 2012 4:31 UTC
329 points
1,274 comments29 min readLW link

At­ten­tion con­trol is crit­i­cal for chang­ing/​in­creas­ing/​al­ter­ing motivation

kalla72411 Apr 2012 0:48 UTC
284 points
91 comments7 min readLW link

How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 23 Jan 2012 23:50 UTC
254 points
240 comments10 min readLW link

Eliezer’s Se­quences and Main­stream Academia

lukeprog15 Sep 2012 0:32 UTC
243 points
148 comments4 min readLW link

Can the Chain Still Hold You?

lukeprog13 Jan 2012 1:28 UTC
213 points
361 comments4 min readLW link

Check­list of Ra­tion­al­ity Habits

AnnaSalamon7 Nov 2012 21:19 UTC
207 points
189 comments11 min readLW link

The Use­ful Idea of Truth

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2012 18:16 UTC
190 points
544 comments14 min readLW link

The Power of Reinforcement

lukeprog21 Jun 2012 13:42 UTC
172 points
474 comments4 min readLW link

Fire­wal­ling the Op­ti­mal from the Rational

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Oct 2012 8:01 UTC
171 points
313 comments5 min readLW link

Be Happier

Klevador16 Apr 2012 1:51 UTC
166 points
267 comments35 min readLW link

Back­ward Rea­son­ing Over De­ci­sion Trees

Scott Alexander30 Jun 2012 3:17 UTC
166 points
58 comments4 min readLW link

Game The­ory As A Dark Art

Scott Alexander24 Jul 2012 3:27 UTC
165 points
107 comments13 min readLW link

An In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Solomonoff Induction

Alex_Altair11 Jul 2012 8:05 UTC
160 points
225 comments24 min readLW link

On Say­ing the Obvious

Grognor2 Feb 2012 5:13 UTC
157 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

Bayes for Schizophren­ics: Rea­son­ing in Delu­sional Disorders

Scott Alexander13 Aug 2012 19:22 UTC
153 points
155 comments11 min readLW link

Causal Di­a­grams and Causal Models

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Oct 2012 21:49 UTC
153 points
297 comments15 min readLW link

Re­ply to Holden on ‘Tool AI’

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jun 2012 18:00 UTC
152 points
356 comments17 min readLW link

Nega­tive and Pos­i­tive Selection

alyssavance6 Jul 2012 1:34 UTC
148 points
263 comments3 min readLW link

My Al­gorithm for Beat­ing Procrastination

lukeprog10 Feb 2012 2:48 UTC
145 points
138 comments7 min readLW link

What Is Sig­nal­ing, Really?

Scott Alexander12 Jul 2012 17:43 UTC
143 points
173 comments6 min readLW link

Punc­tu­al­ity—Ar­riv­ing on Time and Math

Xachariah3 May 2012 1:35 UTC
136 points
40 comments5 min readLW link

Causal Universes

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Nov 2012 4:08 UTC
134 points
395 comments11 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Pinpointing

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Nov 2012 15:33 UTC
133 points
345 comments10 min readLW link

Nash Equil­ibria and Schel­ling Points

Scott Alexander29 Jun 2012 2:06 UTC
131 points
82 comments7 min readLW link

Proofs, Im­pli­ca­tions, and Models

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Oct 2012 13:02 UTC
130 points
218 comments12 min readLW link

Neu­ro­science ba­sics for LessWrongians

ChrisHallquist26 Jul 2012 5:10 UTC
129 points
102 comments13 min readLW link

The Re­la­tion Pro­jec­tion Fal­lacy and the pur­pose of life

Academian28 Dec 2012 4:14 UTC
129 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

The ra­tio­nal ra­tio­nal­ist’s guide to ra­tio­nally us­ing “ra­tio­nal” in ra­tio­nal post titles

Vaniver27 May 2012 19:13 UTC
127 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tional Tooth­paste: A Case Study

badger31 May 2012 0:31 UTC
127 points
60 comments6 min readLW link

Urges vs. Goals: The anal­ogy to an­ti­ci­pa­tion and belief

AnnaSalamon24 Jan 2012 23:57 UTC
126 points
71 comments7 min readLW link

Less Wrong Polls in Comments

jimrandomh19 Sep 2012 16:19 UTC
125 points
311 comments1 min readLW link

How to avoid dy­ing in a car crash

[deleted]17 Mar 2012 19:44 UTC
125 points
295 comments7 min readLW link

The prob­lem with too many ra­tio­nal memes

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 19 Jan 2012 0:56 UTC
121 points
342 comments3 min readLW link

2012 Sur­vey Results

Scott Alexander7 Dec 2012 21:04 UTC
120 points
653 comments19 min readLW link

Train Philoso­phers with Pearl and Kah­ne­man, not Plato and Kant

lukeprog6 Dec 2012 0:42 UTC
116 points
515 comments3 min readLW link

[Tran­script] Richard Feyn­man on Why Questions

Grognor8 Jan 2012 19:01 UTC
116 points
45 comments5 min readLW link

Skill: The Map is Not the Territory

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Oct 2012 9:59 UTC
113 points
180 comments5 min readLW link

The Sub­sti­tu­tion Principle

Kaj_Sotala28 Jan 2012 4:20 UTC
112 points
65 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on de­sign­ing poli­cies for oneself

John_Maxwell28 Nov 2012 1:27 UTC
112 points
63 comments7 min readLW link

Friend­ship is Op­ti­mal: A My Lit­tle Pony fan­fic about an op­ti­miza­tion process

iceman8 Sep 2012 6:16 UTC
110 points
152 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­o­ries: A Less Wrong Primer

orthonormal13 Mar 2012 23:31 UTC
110 points
174 comments9 min readLW link

New cog­ni­tive bias ar­ti­cles on wikipe­dia (up­date)

nerfhammer9 Mar 2012 20:13 UTC
108 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Plasti­na­tion is ma­tur­ing and needs fund­ing, says Hanson

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Jun 2012 20:00 UTC
105 points
47 comments1 min readLW link
(www.overcomingbias.com)

Causal­ity: a chap­ter by chap­ter review

Vaniver26 Sep 2012 16:55 UTC
103 points
20 comments12 min readLW link

Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Oct 2012 10:49 UTC
103 points
128 comments9 min readLW link

What are the op­ti­mal bi­ases to over­come?

aaronsw4 Aug 2012 15:04 UTC
103 points
70 comments2 min readLW link

Avoid in­fla­tion­ary use of terms

lsparrish30 May 2012 20:31 UTC
101 points
86 comments3 min readLW link

Should cor­re­la­tion co­effi­cients be ex­pressed as an­gles?

Sniffnoy28 Nov 2012 0:05 UTC
101 points
25 comments2 min readLW link