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Schelling fences on slippery slopes
Scott Alexander
Mar 16, 2012, 11:44 PM
615
points
250
comments
6
min read
LW
link
How to avoid dying in a car crash
[deleted]
Mar 17, 2012, 7:44 PM
125
points
295
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Decision Theories: A Less Wrong Primer
orthonormal
Mar 13, 2012, 11:31 PM
111
points
174
comments
8
min read
LW
link
New cognitive bias articles on wikipedia (update)
nerfhammer
Mar 9, 2012, 8:13 PM
108
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence
Kaj_Sotala
Mar 18, 2012, 3:53 AM
89
points
42
comments
10
min read
LW
link
I Was Not Almost Wrong But I Was Almost Right: Close-Call Counterfactuals and Bias
Kaj_Sotala
Mar 8, 2012, 5:39 AM
86
points
40
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Biased Pandemic
freyley
Mar 13, 2012, 11:32 PM
82
points
36
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Stable State is Broken
Bakkot
Mar 12, 2012, 6:31 PM
80
points
43
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Social status hacks from The Improv Wiki
lsparrish
Mar 21, 2012, 2:56 AM
77
points
47
comments
6
min read
LW
link
How to Fix Science
lukeprog
Mar 7, 2012, 2:51 AM
71
points
144
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Common mistakes people make when thinking about decision theory
cousin_it
Mar 27, 2012, 8:03 PM
67
points
27
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Using degrees of freedom to change the past for fun and profit
CarlShulman
Mar 7, 2012, 2:51 AM
65
points
23
comments
9
min read
LW
link
SotW: Check Consequentialism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 29, 2012, 1:35 AM
58
points
309
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Is community-collaborative article production possible?
lukeprog
Mar 21, 2012, 8:10 PM
57
points
46
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Main section vs. discussion section
ShardPhoenix
Mar 6, 2012, 5:37 AM
57
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AI Risk and Opportunity: Humanity’s Efforts So Far
lukeprog
Mar 21, 2012, 2:49 AM
56
points
49
comments
23
min read
LW
link
Causal diagrams and software engineering
Morendil
Mar 7, 2012, 6:23 PM
53
points
29
comments
5
min read
LW
link
What if the front page…
matt
Mar 14, 2012, 6:47 AM
53
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How would you take over Rome?
Scott Alexander
Mar 14, 2012, 4:24 PM
52
points
202
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Examine your assumptions
Douglas_Reay
Mar 30, 2012, 11:28 AM
49
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A Problem About Bargaining and Logical Uncertainty
Wei Dai
Mar 21, 2012, 9:03 PM
47
points
49
comments
1
min read
LW
link
6 Tips for Productive Arguments
John_Maxwell
Mar 18, 2012, 9:02 PM
44
points
122
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Doing “Nothing”
Voltairina
Mar 29, 2012, 11:17 PM
42
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Muehlhauser-Goertzel Dialogue, Part 1
lukeprog
Mar 16, 2012, 5:12 PM
42
points
161
comments
33
min read
LW
link
Cult impressions of Less Wrong/Singularity Institute
John_Maxwell
Mar 15, 2012, 12:41 AM
39
points
247
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28
AnnaSalamon
Mar 29, 2012, 8:48 PM
38
points
238
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part I
orthonormal
Mar 24, 2012, 4:01 PM
37
points
90
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Institute For Propaganda Analysis, A Precursor and a Warning
[deleted]
Mar 29, 2012, 6:23 PM
37
points
10
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Emotional regulation Part II: research summary
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Mar 19, 2012, 9:51 PM
35
points
40
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Modest Superintelligences
Wei Dai
Mar 22, 2012, 12:29 AM
34
points
100
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Slowing Moore’s Law: Why You Might Want To and How You Would Do It
gwern
Mar 10, 2012, 4:22 AM
34
points
89
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An example of self-fulfilling spurious proofs in UDT
cousin_it
Mar 25, 2012, 11:47 AM
33
points
43
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Brain Preservation
jefftk
Mar 28, 2012, 12:56 PM
33
points
108
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Judea Pearl wins 2011 Turing Award
[deleted]
Mar 15, 2012, 4:32 PM
32
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Nonmindkilling open questions
Scott Alexander
Mar 23, 2012, 4:23 PM
32
points
113
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Failed replications of the “elderly walking” priming effect
Morendil
Mar 13, 2012, 7:55 AM
31
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Predictability of Decisions and the Diagonal Method
Vladimir_Nesov
Mar 9, 2012, 11:53 PM
30
points
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Setting up LW meetups in unlikely places: Positive Data Point
[deleted]
Mar 30, 2012, 9:19 PM
30
points
15
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Heuristics and Biases in Charity
Kaj_Sotala
Mar 2, 2012, 3:20 PM
30
points
57
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Draft] How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup
Kaj_Sotala
Mar 29, 2012, 6:50 PM
29
points
26
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What epistemic hygiene norms should there be?
Kaj_Sotala
Mar 21, 2012, 7:26 PM
29
points
26
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup Tactics Open Thread
[deleted]
Mar 5, 2012, 7:28 PM
28
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Singularity Institute has started publishing monthly progress reports
John_Maxwell
Mar 5, 2012, 8:19 AM
28
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Best Comments Ever
Grognor
Mar 18, 2012, 1:02 PM
27
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Simple but important ideas
John_Maxwell
Mar 21, 2012, 6:59 AM
27
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Conjunction fallacy and probabilistic risk assessment.
Dmytry
Mar 8, 2012, 3:07 PM
26
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Please advise the Singularity Institute with your domain-specific expertise!
lukeprog
15 Mar 2012 20:13 UTC
26
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Fundamentals of kicking anthropic butt
Manfred
26 Mar 2012 6:43 UTC
25
points
60
comments
10
min read
LW
link
A taxonomy of Oracle AIs
lukeprog
8 Mar 2012 23:14 UTC
25
points
53
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Posts I repent of
Will_Newsome
20 Mar 2012 5:29 UTC
25
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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