The non­cen­tral fal­lacy—the worst ar­gu­ment in the world?

Scott AlexanderAug 27, 2012, 3:36 AM
425 points
1,768 comments7 min readLW link

Bayes for Schizophren­ics: Rea­son­ing in Delu­sional Disorders

Scott AlexanderAug 13, 2012, 7:22 PM
153 points
155 comments11 min readLW link

What are the op­ti­mal bi­ases to over­come?

aaronswAug 4, 2012, 3:04 PM
103 points
70 comments2 min readLW link

AI timeline pre­dic­tions: are we get­ting bet­ter?

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 17, 2012, 7:07 AM
79 points
81 comments4 min readLW link

“Epiphany ad­dic­tion”

cousin_itAug 3, 2012, 5:52 PM
69 points
90 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong could grow a lot, but we’re do­ing it wrong.

EpiphanyAug 20, 2012, 5:21 AM
66 points
107 comments3 min readLW link

A model of UDT with a con­crete prior over log­i­cal statements

BenyaAug 28, 2012, 9:45 PM
62 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

Who Wants To Start An Im­por­tant Startup?

ShannonFriedmanAug 16, 2012, 8:02 PM
59 points
413 comments4 min readLW link

Why Don’t Peo­ple Help Others More?

Peter WildefordAug 13, 2012, 11:34 PM
54 points
85 comments10 min readLW link

The High Im­pact Net­work (THINK) - Launch­ing Now

RaemonAug 8, 2012, 2:29 AM
51 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Self-skep­ti­cism: the first prin­ci­ple of rationality

aaronswAug 6, 2012, 12:51 AM
50 points
86 comments2 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­o­ries, Part 3.5: Halt, Melt and Catch Fire

orthonormalAug 26, 2012, 10:40 PM
49 points
35 comments5 min readLW link

An an­gle of at­tack on Open Prob­lem #1

BenyaAug 18, 2012, 12:08 PM
48 points
85 comments7 min readLW link

Solv­ing the two en­velopes problem

rstarkovAug 9, 2012, 1:42 PM
45 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

Is­sue 301 shipped: Show par­ent com­ments on /​comments

mattAug 3, 2012, 6:14 AM
43 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Any­one know of em­piri­cally driven lob­by­ing efforts?

palladiasAug 27, 2012, 10:02 PM
37 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Mike Dar­win on an­i­mal re­search, moral cow­ardice, and rea­son­ing in an un­car­ing universe

SynapticAug 25, 2012, 4:38 PM
36 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

Let’s be friendly to our allies

JGWeissmanAug 15, 2012, 4:02 AM
35 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tual re­siliency test for non-causal models

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 30, 2012, 5:30 PM
34 points
78 comments7 min readLW link

[Link] So­cial in­ter­ven­tions gone wrong

[deleted]Aug 20, 2012, 9:24 AM
34 points
77 comments7 min readLW link

Nat­u­ral Laws Are De­scrip­tions, not Rules

pragmatistAug 8, 2012, 4:27 AM
33 points
237 comments9 min readLW link

Can we teach Ra­tion­al­ity at the Univer­sity of Red­dit?

LightwaveAug 20, 2012, 9:59 PM
32 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Cyn­i­cal ex­pla­na­tions of FAI crit­ics (in­clud­ing my­self)

Wei DaiAug 13, 2012, 9:19 PM
31 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

The Fal­lacy of Large Numbers

dspeyerAug 12, 2012, 6:39 PM
30 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] Red­dit, help me find some peace I’m dy­ing young

[deleted]Aug 18, 2012, 3:17 PM
29 points
182 comments5 min readLW link

How to get cry­ocras­ti­na­tors to ac­tu­ally sign up for cryonics

JGWeissmanAug 18, 2012, 5:57 PM
29 points
94 comments2 min readLW link

Risk aver­sion does not ex­plain peo­ple’s bet­ting behaviours

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 20, 2012, 12:38 PM
29 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

What are your ques­tions about mak­ing a differ­ence?

Benjamin_ToddAug 12, 2012, 11:14 PM
28 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

A cyn­i­cal ex­pla­na­tion for why ra­tio­nal­ists worry about FAI

aaronswAug 4, 2012, 12:27 PM
28 points
172 comments1 min readLW link

[META] Karma for last 30 days?

ArisKatsarisAug 30, 2012, 10:33 AM
28 points
179 comments1 min readLW link

Luke is do­ing an AMA on Reddit

SpurlockAug 15, 2012, 5:38 PM
26 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

AI timeline pre­dic­tion data

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 22, 2012, 11:49 AM
26 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Com­pe­tence in ex­perts: summary

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 16, 2012, 2:53 PM
25 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Friendly AI and the limits of com­pu­ta­tional epistemology

Mitchell_PorterAug 8, 2012, 1:16 PM
25 points
148 comments8 min readLW link

[LINK] Strong AI Startup Raises $15M

olalondeAug 21, 2012, 8:47 PM
24 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­posed rewrites of LW home page, about page, and FAQ

John_MaxwellAug 17, 2012, 10:41 PM
24 points
35 comments3 min readLW link

What’s Wrong with Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion The­ory?

aarondeAug 23, 2012, 12:09 AM
24 points
54 comments5 min readLW link

Smart non-re­duc­tion­ists, philo­soph­i­cal vs. en­g­ineer­ing mind­sets, and religion

Kaj_SotalaAug 4, 2012, 10:48 AM
22 points
48 comments4 min readLW link

The weak­est ar­gu­ments for and against hu­man level AI

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 15, 2012, 11:04 AM
22 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

The Dou­bling Box

MestroyerAug 6, 2012, 5:50 AM
22 points
84 comments3 min readLW link

UPDATE: So­ciety of Ven­tur­ism is spear­head­ing Kim Suozzi’s cry­op­reser­va­tion charity

dblchAug 27, 2012, 6:51 AM
22 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Ad­mit­ting to Bias

GLaDOSAug 10, 2012, 8:13 AM
22 points
131 comments5 min readLW link

What is the ev­i­dence in fa­vor of pa­leo?

jsteinhardtAug 27, 2012, 7:07 AM
21 points
97 comments1 min readLW link

How to cheat Löb’s The­o­rem: my sec­ond try

BenyaAug 22, 2012, 6:21 PM
21 points
26 comments10 min readLW link

Su­ber, “The Ethics of Deep Self-Mod­ifi­ca­tion”

lukeprogAug 6, 2012, 6:37 AM
20 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

A ra­tio­nal­ist My Lit­tle Pony fanfic

DataPacRatAug 10, 2012, 8:53 PM
20 points
102 comments1 min readLW link

PM sys­tem is not work­ing

jsteinhardtAug 2, 2012, 4:09 PM
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Four ma­jor prob­lems with neuroscience

NancyLebovitzAug 22, 2012, 5:25 AM
19 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

What’s the Value of In­for­ma­tion?

johnlawrenceaspdenAug 29, 2012, 4:20 PM
19 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

11 minute TED talk is about in­stru­men­tal rationality

JamesAndrixAug 29, 2012, 7:33 AM
17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link