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Priv­ileg­ing the Question

Qiaochu_Yuan29 Apr 2013 18:30 UTC
227 points
312 comments2 min readLW link

Fermi Estimates

lukeprog11 Apr 2013 17:52 UTC
117 points
110 comments13 min readLW link

Prov­ing Too Much

Scott Alexander14 Apr 2013 0:05 UTC
116 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Prob­lems in Education

ThinkOfTheChildren8 Apr 2013 21:29 UTC
92 points
321 comments1 min readLW link

Li­tany of a Bright Dilettante

Shmi18 Apr 2013 5:06 UTC
89 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

We Don’t Have a Utility Function

[deleted]2 Apr 2013 3:49 UTC
73 points
118 comments4 min readLW link

New re­port: In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion Microeconomics

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Apr 2013 23:14 UTC
72 points
246 comments3 min readLW link

Three more ways iden­tity can be a curse

gothgirl42066628 Apr 2013 2:53 UTC
68 points
105 comments11 min readLW link

Be­ing Half-Ra­tional About Pas­cal’s Wager is Even Worse

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Apr 2013 5:20 UTC
63 points
162 comments9 min readLW link

Ex­plicit and tacit rationality

lukeprog9 Apr 2013 23:33 UTC
62 points
77 comments4 min readLW link

Minor, per­spec­tive chang­ing facts

Stuart_Armstrong22 Apr 2013 19:01 UTC
58 points
158 comments1 min readLW link

Four Tips for Public Speaking

palladias15 Apr 2013 14:56 UTC
55 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­is­tic Löb theorem

Stuart_Armstrong26 Apr 2013 18:45 UTC
51 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

Prob­lems in Education

ThinkOfTheChildren29 Apr 2013 21:00 UTC
49 points
7 comments12 min readLW link

Anki decks by LW users

Pablo2 Apr 2013 17:50 UTC
48 points
60 comments1 min readLW link

A thought-pro­cess test­ing opportunity

[deleted]22 Apr 2013 19:51 UTC
46 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Ri­tual Re­port: Schel­ling Day

ModusPonies17 Apr 2013 3:46 UTC
46 points
99 comments1 min readLW link

New ap­plied ra­tio­nal­ity work­shops (April, May, and July)

Julia_Galef9 Apr 2013 2:58 UTC
44 points
69 comments4 min readLW link

LW Women Sub­mis­sions: On Misogyny

daenerys10 Apr 2013 19:54 UTC
44 points
469 comments8 min readLW link

NES-game play­ing AI [video link and AI-box­ing-re­lated com­ment]

Dr_Manhattan12 Apr 2013 13:11 UTC
42 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Noisy Poll Re­sults And Rep­tilian Mus­lim Cli­ma­tol­o­gists from Mars

Scott Alexander12 Apr 2013 10:49 UTC
42 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

The Un­in­tu­itive Power Laws of Giving

jefftk2 Apr 2013 2:10 UTC
40 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

A Call for Con­stant Vigilance

katydee3 Apr 2013 9:52 UTC
40 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Wel­come to Less Wrong! (5th thread, March 2013)

orthonormal1 Apr 2013 16:19 UTC
37 points
1,746 comments5 min readLW link

Re­in­force­ment and Short-Term Re­wards as Anti-Akratic

Intrism13 Apr 2013 20:47 UTC
35 points
27 comments5 min readLW link

[Link] Son of low-hang­ing fruit

GLaDOS4 Apr 2013 12:43 UTC
34 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Post Re­quest Thread

Qiaochu_Yuan11 Apr 2013 1:28 UTC
30 points
100 comments1 min readLW link

Want to have a CFAR in­struc­tor visit your LW group?

AnnaSalamon20 Apr 2013 7:04 UTC
30 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Nor­ma­tivity and Meta-Philosophy

Wei Dai23 Apr 2013 20:35 UTC
29 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

Real-world ex­am­ples of money-pump­ing?

sixes_and_sevens25 Apr 2013 13:49 UTC
28 points
97 comments1 min readLW link

Tac­tics against Pas­cal’s Mugging

ArisKatsaris25 Apr 2013 0:07 UTC
26 points
54 comments8 min readLW link

Rocket sci­ence and big money—a cau­tion­ary tale of math gone wrong

Morendil24 Apr 2013 15:11 UTC
26 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Tak­ing Char­ity Se­ri­ously: Toby Ord talk on char­ity effectivess

jefftk10 Apr 2013 0:59 UTC
25 points
15 comments37 min readLW link

Willing gam­blers, spher­i­cal cows, and AIs

ChrisHallquist8 Apr 2013 21:30 UTC
25 points
40 comments5 min readLW link

Cry­ocras­ti­nat­ing? Send me (or some­one else) money!

Stuart_Armstrong17 Apr 2013 13:08 UTC
25 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

Can some­body ex­plain this to me?: The com­putabil­ity of the laws of physics and hypercomputation

ChrisHallquist21 Apr 2013 21:22 UTC
23 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­duce /​ Con­sume Ratios

Vaniver21 Apr 2013 18:38 UTC
22 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Help us name the Se­quences ebook

lukeprog15 Apr 2013 19:59 UTC
22 points
149 comments1 min readLW link

Logic in the lan­guage of probability

Stuart_Armstrong26 Apr 2013 18:45 UTC
22 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

CFAR is hiring a lo­gis­tics manager

AnnaSalamon5 Apr 2013 22:32 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Worth re­mem­ber­ing (when com­par­ing ‘the US’ to ‘Europe’)

Curiousguy13 Apr 2013 20:35 UTC
20 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Pay other peo­ple to go veg­e­tar­ian for you?

jefftk12 Apr 2013 1:56 UTC
19 points
92 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] How to cal­ibrate your con­fi­dence intervals

Benjamin_Todd25 Apr 2013 6:26 UTC
19 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

What Rate of Re­turn Should You Ex­pect?

jefftk7 Apr 2013 13:40 UTC
19 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

LW Study Group Face­book Page

Ben Pace8 Apr 2013 21:15 UTC
19 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence Met­rics and De­ci­sion Theories

Squark6 Apr 2013 16:29 UTC
18 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion to Con­trol Markets

whpearson3 Apr 2013 23:33 UTC
18 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Grad Stu­dent Ad­vice Repository

Stabilizer14 Apr 2013 9:28 UTC
15 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

On mov­ing posts from Main to Discussion

PhilGoetz7 Apr 2013 15:34 UTC
15 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Call for help: vol­un­teers needed to proofread MIRI’s publications

alexvermeer5 Apr 2013 13:43 UTC
14 points
9 comments1 min readLW link