Eliezer’s Se­quences and Main­stream Academia

lukeprogSep 15, 2012, 12:32 AM
245 points
148 comments4 min readLW link

Less Wrong Polls in Comments

jimrandomhSep 19, 2012, 4:19 PM
125 points
311 comments1 min readLW link

Friend­ship is Op­ti­mal: A My Lit­tle Pony fan­fic about an op­ti­miza­tion process

icemanSep 8, 2012, 6:16 AM
116 points
152 comments1 min readLW link

Causal­ity: a chap­ter by chap­ter review

VaniverSep 26, 2012, 4:55 PM
103 points
20 comments12 min readLW link

New study on choice blind­ness in moral positions

nerfhammerSep 20, 2012, 6:14 PM
101 points
152 comments1 min readLW link

Ran­dom LW-par­o­dy­ing State­ment Generator

Armok_GoBSep 11, 2012, 7:57 PM
100 points
221 comments1 min readLW link

From First Principles

[deleted]Sep 27, 2012, 7:04 PM
79 points
46 comments5 min readLW link

Un­der-ac­knowl­edged Value Differences

Wei DaiSep 12, 2012, 10:02 PM
70 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

The Yud­kowsky Am­bi­tion Scale

loup-vaillantSep 12, 2012, 3:08 PM
64 points
61 comments1 min readLW link

[Poll] Less Wrong and Main­stream Philos­o­phy: How Differ­ent are We?

Jayson_VirissimoSep 26, 2012, 12:25 PM
55 points
629 comments1 min readLW link

Dragon Ball’s Hyper­bolic Time Chamber

gwernSep 2, 2012, 11:49 PM
50 points
65 comments1 min readLW link

De­bug­ging the Quan­tum Physics Se­quence

Mitchell_PorterSep 5, 2012, 3:55 PM
43 points
130 comments2 min readLW link

A Cri­tique of Lev­er­age Re­search’s Con­nec­tion Theory

Peter WildefordSep 20, 2012, 4:28 AM
43 points
31 comments6 min readLW link

How about test­ing our ideas?

[deleted]Sep 14, 2012, 10:28 AM
42 points
113 comments3 min readLW link

In­ter­ested in learn­ing Linux? Need host­ing? Free shells!

JohnWittleSep 9, 2012, 5:35 AM
41 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­o­ries, Part 3.75: Hang On, I Think This Works After All

orthonormalSep 6, 2012, 4:23 PM
39 points
45 comments6 min readLW link

A Less Mys­te­ri­ous Mind­ful­ness Exercise

[deleted]Sep 18, 2012, 11:33 PM
36 points
64 comments7 min readLW link

High School Lec­ture—Report

XeceSep 23, 2012, 2:06 AM
34 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

How to tell apart sci­ence from pseudo-sci­ence in a field you don’t know ?

kilobugSep 2, 2012, 10:25 AM
34 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

Prin­ci­pals, agents, ne­go­ti­a­tion, and precommitments

gwillenSep 21, 2012, 3:41 AM
33 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Scien­tists make mon­keys smarter us­ing brain im­plants [link]

Dreaded_AnomalySep 15, 2012, 6:48 PM
32 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Meta: What do you think of a karma vote check­list?

NancyLebovitzSep 1, 2012, 9:02 AM
31 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Fal­la­cies of reifi­ca­tion—the placebo effect

MorendilSep 13, 2012, 7:03 AM
31 points
55 comments2 min readLW link

How to deal with some­one in a LessWrong meet­ing be­ing creepy

Douglas_ReaySep 9, 2012, 4:41 AM
31 points
776 comments2 min readLW link

Noz­ick’s pro­posed rules for ex­trap­o­lat­ing your preferences

lukeprogSep 29, 2012, 11:14 PM
30 points
2 comments15 min readLW link

Why hu­mans are some­times less ra­tio­nal than animals

lukeprogSep 25, 2012, 9:57 PM
30 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

MIT Challenge complete

komponistoSep 29, 2012, 3:54 PM
30 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Call for Anony­mous Nar­ra­tives by LW Women and Ques­tion Pro­pos­als (AMA)

daenerysSep 9, 2012, 8:39 AM
30 points
374 comments3 min readLW link

[link] Bet­ting on bad futures

fortyeridaniaSep 22, 2012, 3:50 PM
27 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

How To Ac­tu­ally Change Your Mind eBook (In Order)

Elec0Sep 3, 2012, 9:53 PM
27 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Per­sonal in­for­ma­tion management

John_MaxwellSep 11, 2012, 11:40 AM
27 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

EY “Poli­tics is the Mind Killer” sight­ing at Wash­ing­ton Ex­am­iner and Rea­son.com

buybuydandavisSep 27, 2012, 7:48 PM
25 points
61 comments1 min readLW link

Chief Prob­a­bil­ity Officer

lukeprogSep 9, 2012, 11:45 PM
23 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

No An­thropic Evidence

Vladimir_NesovSep 23, 2012, 10:33 AM
21 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Petrov Day Image

EneaszSep 25, 2012, 10:41 PM
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­men­tal psy­chol­ogy on word confusion

lukeprogSep 14, 2012, 5:44 AM
21 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

What’s your “ra­tio­nal­ist ar­gu­ing” ori­gin story?

ManfredSep 3, 2012, 6:51 AM
21 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Clean­ing up the “Worst Ar­gu­ment” essay

Scott AlexanderSep 6, 2012, 12:09 AM
20 points
57 comments5 min readLW link

Fi­nally End­ing My Cryo-Crastination

DataPacRatSep 24, 2012, 6:15 PM
19 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup re­port: How harm­ful is cannabis, and will you change your habits?

NisanSep 9, 2012, 4:50 AM
19 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Prevent­ing dis­cus­sion from be­ing wa­tered down by an “end­less Septem­ber” user in­flux.

EpiphanySep 2, 2012, 3:46 AM
19 points
102 comments19 min readLW link

The Bayesian Agent

royfSep 18, 2012, 3:23 AM
19 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Link: Toward Non-Stupid, Non-Blank-Slatey Polyandry

CosmosSep 6, 2012, 9:06 PM
19 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tual Re­pro­gram­ming De­ci­sion Theory

lukeprogSep 10, 2012, 1:35 AM
18 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Mo­ti­va­tional Ver­sus Metabolic Effects of Car­bo­hy­drates on Self-Control

NancyLebovitzSep 16, 2012, 4:57 AM
18 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[study] Ego de­ple­tion might dis­ap­pear with age

[deleted]Sep 15, 2012, 1:32 PM
17 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Me­te­o­rol­o­gists are Epistem­i­cally Rational

NoSignalNoNoiseSep 13, 2012, 4:59 AM
16 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Kaj So­tala’s Posts

lukeprogSep 10, 2012, 9:58 PM
15 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

In­te­grated Method for Policy Mak­ing Us­ing Ar­gu­ment Model­ling and Com­puter As­sisted Text Analysis

staticIPSep 8, 2012, 4:13 PM
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The REAL SIA doomsday

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 7, 2012, 11:11 AM
14 points
11 comments1 min readLW link