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The Use­ful Idea of Truth

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 2, 2012, 6:16 PM
196 points
545 comments14 min readLW link

Fire­wal­ling the Op­ti­mal from the Rational

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 8, 2012, 8:01 AM
176 points
313 comments5 min readLW link

Causal Di­a­grams and Causal Models

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 12, 2012, 9:49 PM
154 points
297 comments15 min readLW link

Proofs, Im­pli­ca­tions, and Models

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 30, 2012, 1:02 PM
131 points
218 comments12 min readLW link

Skill: The Map is Not the Territory

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 6, 2012, 9:59 AM
115 points
180 comments5 min readLW link

Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 18, 2012, 10:49 AM
103 points
128 comments9 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity: Ap­pre­ci­at­ing Cog­ni­tive Algorithms

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 6, 2012, 9:59 AM
102 points
135 comments5 min readLW link

How To Have Things Correctly

AlicornOct 17, 2012, 6:10 AM
100 points
219 comments6 min readLW link

[Link] “Fewer than X% of Amer­i­cans know Y”

NisanOct 10, 2012, 4:59 PM
70 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Causal Reference

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 20, 2012, 10:12 PM
68 points
247 comments12 min readLW link

Tak­ing “cor­re­la­tion does not im­ply cau­sa­tion” back from the internet

sixes_and_sevensOct 3, 2012, 12:18 PM
62 points
70 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong help desk—free pa­per down­loads and more

jsalvatierOct 7, 2012, 11:45 PM
53 points
751 comments1 min readLW link

Rais­ing the fore­cast­ing wa­ter­line (part 1)

MorendilOct 9, 2012, 3:49 PM
51 points
107 comments6 min readLW link

Origi­nal Re­search on Less Wrong

lukeprogOct 29, 2012, 10:50 PM
48 points
48 comments12 min readLW link

Rais­ing the waterline

MorendilOct 7, 2012, 4:23 PM
47 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Cake, or death!

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 25, 2012, 10:33 AM
47 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] Offense 101

Alejandro1Oct 24, 2012, 9:28 PM
45 points
84 comments1 min readLW link

The Fabric of Real Things

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 12, 2012, 2:11 AM
43 points
308 comments4 min readLW link

What I Learned About Meetup Organization

[deleted]Oct 6, 2012, 2:11 AM
42 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Par­ent­ing and Happiness

jefftkOct 3, 2012, 1:43 PM
39 points
41 comments5 min readLW link

An anec­dote about names

ManfredOct 30, 2012, 3:40 AM
39 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion mar­ket se­quence requested

[deleted]Oct 26, 2012, 10:59 AM
39 points
45 comments2 min readLW link

How to Deal with De­pres­sion—The Meta Layers

ShannonFriedmanOct 26, 2012, 6:44 PM
38 points
74 comments2 min readLW link

Rea­sons for some­one to “ig­nore” you

Wei DaiOct 8, 2012, 7:50 PM
37 points
57 comments3 min readLW link

[LINK] The most im­por­tant un­solved prob­lems in ethics

jefftkOct 17, 2012, 8:03 PM
35 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

2012 Less Wrong Cen­sus Sur­vey: Call For Cri­tiques/​Questions

Scott AlexanderOct 19, 2012, 1:12 AM
35 points
481 comments1 min readLW link

Econ­omy gos­sip open thread

John_MaxwellOct 28, 2012, 4:10 AM
35 points
59 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] Anti-Groupism

[deleted]Oct 21, 2012, 7:24 PM
34 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Break­ing the illu­sion of understanding

gjmOct 26, 2012, 11:09 PM
33 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Con­struct­ing fic­tional eu­gen­ics (LW edi­tion)

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 29, 2012, 12:41 AM
30 points
175 comments4 min readLW link

De­liber­ate Prac­tice for De­ci­sion Making

wattsdOct 4, 2012, 3:19 AM
30 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

The Prob­lem With Ra­tional Wiki

[deleted]Oct 26, 2012, 11:31 AM
29 points
58 comments2 min readLW link

Ar­ti­cle sketch: When pro­cras­ti­na­tion isn’t akrasia

[deleted]Oct 8, 2012, 4:27 AM
28 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

“Hide com­ments in down­voted threads” is now active

Wei DaiOct 5, 2012, 7:23 AM
27 points
88 comments1 min readLW link

Naive TDT, Bayes nets, and coun­ter­fac­tual mugging

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 23, 2012, 3:58 PM
26 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

If we live in a simu­la­tion, what does that im­ply?

JoshuaFoxOct 25, 2012, 9:27 PM
26 points
59 comments3 min readLW link

Pas­sive in­come for dummies

John_MaxwellOct 27, 2012, 7:25 AM
26 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Prob­lem of Op­ti­mal False Information

EndoviorOct 15, 2012, 9:42 PM
26 points
113 comments1 min readLW link

Rais­ing the fore­cast­ing wa­ter­line (part 2)

MorendilOct 12, 2012, 3:56 PM
22 points
22 comments5 min readLW link

[Link] No­bel lau­re­ate challenges psy­chol­o­gists to clean up their act

mstevensOct 3, 2012, 5:22 PM
22 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Tech­nol­ogy will de­stroy hu­man nature

[deleted]Oct 5, 2012, 3:07 PM
21 points
23 comments7 min readLW link

Smok­ing le­sion as a coun­terex­am­ple to CDT

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 26, 2012, 12:08 PM
21 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

Think­ing soberly about the con­text and con­se­quences of Friendly AI

Mitchell_PorterOct 16, 2012, 4:33 AM
21 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Fun fact: in med­i­cal school, we had a mini-les­son on com­mon cog­ni­tive er­rors in medicine

ancientcampusOct 4, 2012, 1:57 AM
21 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] The real end of science

[deleted]Oct 3, 2012, 4:09 PM
21 points
54 comments2 min readLW link

Look­ing for al­ter­a­tion sug­ges­tions for the offi­cial Se­quences ebook

alexvermeerOct 16, 2012, 10:32 PM
20 points
73 comments1 min readLW link

Notes from On­line Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy Meetup: 12-10-09

GilesOct 13, 2012, 5:36 AM
19 points
17 comments11 min readLW link

Equal­ity and na­tal­ism

[deleted]Oct 24, 2012, 3:53 PM
18 points
106 comments1 min readLW link

Signs you’re on LW too much

EneaszOct 9, 2012, 6:02 PM
17 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Check­ing Kurzweil’s track record

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 30, 2012, 11:07 AM
17 points
54 comments1 min readLW link