Game The­ory As A Dark Art

Scott AlexanderJul 24, 2012, 3:27 AM
170 points
108 comments13 min readLW link

An In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Solomonoff Induction

Alex_AltairJul 11, 2012, 8:05 AM
164 points
225 comments24 min readLW link

Nega­tive and Pos­i­tive Selection

alyssavanceJul 6, 2012, 1:34 AM
148 points
263 comments3 min readLW link

What Is Sig­nal­ing, Really?

Scott AlexanderJul 12, 2012, 5:43 PM
146 points
173 comments6 min readLW link

Neu­ro­science ba­sics for LessWrongians

ChrisHallquistJul 26, 2012, 5:10 AM
129 points
102 comments13 min readLW link

The Mere Cable Chan­nel Ad­di­tion Paradox

GhatanathoahJul 26, 2012, 7:20 AM
100 points
147 comments12 min readLW link

In­ter­lude for Be­hav­ioral Economics

Scott AlexanderJul 6, 2012, 8:12 PM
91 points
53 comments6 min readLW link

A Mar­riage Cer­e­mony for Aspiring Rationalists

lukeprogJul 23, 2012, 7:33 PM
84 points
76 comments4 min readLW link

Real World Solu­tions to Pri­son­ers’ Dilemmas

Scott AlexanderJul 3, 2012, 3:25 AM
74 points
88 comments7 min readLW link

Work on Se­cu­rity In­stead of Friendli­ness?

Wei DaiJul 21, 2012, 6:28 PM
71 points
107 comments2 min readLW link

Re­ply to Holden on The Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

lukeprogJul 10, 2012, 11:20 PM
69 points
214 comments26 min readLW link

Im­perfect Vot­ing Systems

Scott AlexanderJul 20, 2012, 12:07 AM
63 points
92 comments6 min readLW link

Notes on the Psy­chol­ogy of Power

gwernJul 27, 2012, 7:22 PM
61 points
49 comments40 min readLW link

AI co­op­er­a­tion is already stud­ied in academia as “pro­gram equil­ibrium”

cousin_itJul 30, 2012, 3:22 PM
60 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Bar­gain­ing and Auctions

Scott AlexanderJul 15, 2012, 5:01 PM
57 points
72 comments8 min readLW link

Magic play­ers: “How do I lose?”

ManfredJul 15, 2012, 8:58 AM
53 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

Where to In­ter­vene in a Hu­man?

lukeprogJul 3, 2012, 6:31 AM
53 points
72 comments2 min readLW link

Kurzweil’s pre­dic­tions: good ac­cu­racy, poor self-calibration

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 11, 2012, 9:55 AM
50 points
39 comments9 min readLW link

Should you try to do good work on LW?

cousin_itJul 5, 2012, 12:36 PM
49 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­ploit­ing the Typ­i­cal Mind Fal­lacy for more ac­cu­rate ques­tion­ing?

XachariahJul 17, 2012, 12:46 AM
47 points
73 comments1 min readLW link

Re­vis­it­ing SI’s 2011 strate­gic plan: How are we do­ing?

lukeprogJul 16, 2012, 9:10 AM
46 points
20 comments7 min readLW link

CFAR web­site launched

lukeprogJul 3, 2012, 3:01 PM
45 points
77 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­ti­cle about LW: Faith, Hope, and Sin­gu­lar­ity: En­ter­ing the Ma­trix with New York’s Fu­tur­ist Set

MaloJul 25, 2012, 7:28 PM
44 points
155 comments1 min readLW link

Berkeley visit report

EvelynMJul 14, 2012, 7:02 PM
44 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Games & Apps Brainstorming

lukeprogJul 9, 2012, 3:04 AM
42 points
59 comments2 min readLW link

To Learn Crit­i­cal Think­ing, Study Crit­i­cal Thinking

gwernJul 7, 2012, 11:50 PM
41 points
16 comments11 min readLW link

[Re­tracted] Simp­son’s para­dox strikes again: there is no great stag­na­tion?

CarlShulmanJul 30, 2012, 5:55 PM
41 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

What Is Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy?

alyssavanceJul 12, 2012, 12:17 AM
39 points
35 comments5 min readLW link

Use­ful maxims

Paul CrowleyJul 11, 2012, 11:56 AM
38 points
111 comments1 min readLW link

Hope Function

gwernJul 1, 2012, 3:40 PM
38 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

New “Best” com­ment sort­ing system

mattJul 2, 2012, 11:08 AM
35 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Ad­vice On Get­ting A Soft­ware Job

alyssavanceJul 9, 2012, 6:52 PM
34 points
41 comments4 min readLW link

Why could you be op­ti­mistic that the Sin­gu­lar­ity is Near?

gwernJul 14, 2012, 11:33 PM
34 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

Wis­dom of the Crowd: not always so wise

tgbJul 1, 2012, 8:55 PM
33 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing: A Non-Stan­dard In­tro­duc­tion (Part 1)

royfJul 29, 2012, 12:13 AM
33 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

What have you re­cently tried, and failed at?

EmileJul 5, 2012, 9:52 AM
32 points
131 comments1 min readLW link

In Defense of Tone Arguments

OrphanWildeJul 19, 2012, 7:48 PM
32 points
175 comments2 min readLW link

On the Care and Feed­ing of Young Ra­tion­al­ists—Re­vis­ited[Draft] [Re­quest for Feed­back]

MBlumeJul 5, 2012, 7:12 PM
31 points
89 comments3 min readLW link

Wel­come to Less Wrong! (July 2012)

Paul CrowleyJul 18, 2012, 5:24 PM
31 points
850 comments5 min readLW link

Less Wrong Product & Ser­vice Recommendations

lukeprogJul 2, 2012, 1:18 PM
30 points
371 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Why the kids don’t know no algebra

GLaDOSJul 4, 2012, 10:29 AM
30 points
165 comments4 min readLW link

HP:MOR and the Ra­dio Fallacy

RichardChappellJul 21, 2012, 7:55 PM
27 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

[Paper] Si­mu­la­tion of a com­plete cell

Richard_KennawayJul 24, 2012, 3:04 PM
27 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Take Part in CFAR Ra­tion­al­ity Surveys

UnnamedJul 18, 2012, 11:57 PM
26 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Steam Greenlight

BrandonReinhartJul 10, 2012, 5:11 AM
24 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

New York Less Wrong: Ex­pan­sion Plans

alyssavanceJul 1, 2012, 1:20 AM
23 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Learn Power Search­ing with Google

[deleted]Jul 2, 2012, 7:09 PM
23 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity and Cancer

SwingDancerMikeJul 11, 2012, 6:48 AM
22 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

How Bayes’ the­o­rem is con­sis­tent with Solomonoff induction

Alex_AltairJul 9, 2012, 10:16 PM
21 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Tips for Start­ing Group Houses

ShannonFriedmanJul 16, 2012, 9:03 PM
20 points
15 comments2 min readLW link