Schel­ling fences on slip­pery slopes

Scott AlexanderMar 16, 2012, 11:44 PM
615 points
250 comments6 min readLW link

How to avoid dy­ing in a car crash

[deleted]Mar 17, 2012, 7:44 PM
125 points
295 comments7 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­o­ries: A Less Wrong Primer

orthonormalMar 13, 2012, 11:31 PM
111 points
174 comments8 min readLW link

New cog­ni­tive bias ar­ti­cles on wikipe­dia (up­date)

nerfhammerMar 9, 2012, 8:13 PM
108 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Fal­la­cies as weak Bayesian evidence

Kaj_SotalaMar 18, 2012, 3:53 AM
89 points
42 comments10 min readLW link

I Was Not Al­most Wrong But I Was Al­most Right: Close-Call Coun­ter­fac­tu­als and Bias

Kaj_SotalaMar 8, 2012, 5:39 AM
86 points
40 comments9 min readLW link

Bi­ased Pandemic

freyleyMar 13, 2012, 11:32 PM
82 points
36 comments4 min readLW link

The Stable State is Broken

BakkotMar 12, 2012, 6:31 PM
80 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

So­cial sta­tus hacks from The Im­prov Wiki

lsparrishMar 21, 2012, 2:56 AM
77 points
47 comments6 min readLW link

How to Fix Science

lukeprogMar 7, 2012, 2:51 AM
71 points
144 comments5 min readLW link

Com­mon mis­takes peo­ple make when think­ing about de­ci­sion theory

cousin_itMar 27, 2012, 8:03 PM
67 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

Us­ing de­grees of free­dom to change the past for fun and profit

CarlShulmanMar 7, 2012, 2:51 AM
65 points
23 comments9 min readLW link

SotW: Check Consequentialism

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 29, 2012, 1:35 AM
58 points
309 comments7 min readLW link

Is com­mu­nity-col­lab­o­ra­tive ar­ti­cle pro­duc­tion pos­si­ble?

lukeprogMar 21, 2012, 8:10 PM
57 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

Main sec­tion vs. dis­cus­sion section

ShardPhoenixMar 6, 2012, 5:37 AM
57 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

AI Risk and Op­por­tu­nity: Hu­man­ity’s Efforts So Far

lukeprogMar 21, 2012, 2:49 AM
56 points
49 comments23 min readLW link

Causal di­a­grams and soft­ware engineering

MorendilMar 7, 2012, 6:23 PM
53 points
29 comments5 min readLW link

What if the front page…

mattMar 14, 2012, 6:47 AM
53 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

How would you take over Rome?

Scott AlexanderMar 14, 2012, 4:24 PM
52 points
202 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­am­ine your assumptions

Douglas_ReayMar 30, 2012, 11:28 AM
49 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

A Prob­lem About Bar­gain­ing and Log­i­cal Uncertainty

Wei DaiMar 21, 2012, 9:03 PM
47 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

6 Tips for Pro­duc­tive Arguments

John_MaxwellMar 18, 2012, 9:02 PM
44 points
122 comments5 min readLW link

Do­ing “Noth­ing”

VoltairinaMar 29, 2012, 11:17 PM
42 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Muehlhauser-Go­ertzel Dialogue, Part 1

lukeprogMar 16, 2012, 5:12 PM
42 points
161 comments33 min readLW link

Cult im­pres­sions of Less Wrong/​Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

John_MaxwellMar 15, 2012, 12:41 AM
39 points
247 comments2 min readLW link

Mini­camps on Ra­tion­al­ity and Awe­some­ness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28

AnnaSalamonMar 29, 2012, 8:48 PM
38 points
238 comments6 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­o­ries: A Semi-For­mal Anal­y­sis, Part I

orthonormalMar 24, 2012, 4:01 PM
37 points
90 comments7 min readLW link

The In­sti­tute For Pro­pa­ganda Anal­y­sis, A Pre­cur­sor and a Warning

[deleted]Mar 29, 2012, 6:23 PM
37 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Emo­tional reg­u­la­tion Part II: re­search summary

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Mar 19, 2012, 9:51 PM
35 points
40 comments10 min readLW link

Modest Superintelligences

Wei DaiMar 22, 2012, 12:29 AM
34 points
100 comments1 min readLW link

Slow­ing Moore’s Law: Why You Might Want To and How You Would Do It

gwernMar 10, 2012, 4:22 AM
34 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

An ex­am­ple of self-fulfilling spu­ri­ous proofs in UDT

cousin_itMar 25, 2012, 11:47 AM
33 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

Brain Preservation

jefftkMar 28, 2012, 12:56 PM
33 points
108 comments3 min readLW link

[LINK] Judea Pearl wins 2011 Tur­ing Award

[deleted]Mar 15, 2012, 4:32 PM
32 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Non­mind­kil­ling open questions

Scott AlexanderMar 23, 2012, 4:23 PM
32 points
113 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Failed repli­ca­tions of the “el­derly walk­ing” prim­ing effect

MorendilMar 13, 2012, 7:55 AM
31 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dictabil­ity of De­ci­sions and the Di­ag­o­nal Method

Vladimir_NesovMar 9, 2012, 11:53 PM
30 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Set­ting up LW mee­tups in un­likely places: Pos­i­tive Data Point

[deleted]Mar 30, 2012, 9:19 PM
30 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Heuris­tics and Bi­ases in Charity

Kaj_SotalaMar 2, 2012, 3:20 PM
30 points
57 comments7 min readLW link

[Draft] How to Run a Suc­cess­ful Less Wrong Meetup

Kaj_SotalaMar 29, 2012, 6:50 PM
29 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

What epistemic hy­giene norms should there be?

Kaj_SotalaMar 21, 2012, 7:26 PM
29 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup Tac­tics Open Thread

[deleted]Mar 5, 2012, 7:28 PM
28 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute has started pub­lish­ing monthly progress reports

John_MaxwellMar 5, 2012, 8:19 AM
28 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

The Best Com­ments Ever

GrognorMar 18, 2012, 1:02 PM
27 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Sim­ple but im­por­tant ideas

John_MaxwellMar 21, 2012, 6:59 AM
27 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Con­junc­tion fal­lacy and prob­a­bil­is­tic risk as­sess­ment.

DmytryMar 8, 2012, 3:07 PM
26 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Please ad­vise the Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute with your do­main-spe­cific ex­per­tise!

lukeprog15 Mar 2012 20:13 UTC
26 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tals of kick­ing an­thropic butt

Manfred26 Mar 2012 6:43 UTC
25 points
60 comments10 min readLW link

A tax­on­omy of Or­a­cle AIs

lukeprog8 Mar 2012 23:14 UTC
25 points
53 comments4 min readLW link

Posts I re­pent of

Will_Newsome20 Mar 2012 5:29 UTC
25 points
19 comments1 min readLW link