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Priv­ileg­ing the Question

Qiaochu_YuanApr 29, 2013, 6:30 PM
228 points
312 comments2 min readLW link

Prov­ing Too Much

Scott AlexanderApr 14, 2013, 12:05 AM
123 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Fermi Estimates

lukeprogApr 11, 2013, 5:52 PM
120 points
110 comments13 min readLW link

Prob­lems in Education

ThinkOfTheChildrenApr 8, 2013, 9:29 PM
92 points
321 comments1 min readLW link

Li­tany of a Bright Dilettante

ShmiApr 18, 2013, 5:06 AM
89 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

We Don’t Have a Utility Function

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

New re­port: In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion Microeconomics

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 29, 2013, 11:14 PM
72 points
246 comments3 min readLW link

Three more ways iden­tity can be a curse

gothgirl420666Apr 28, 2013, 2:53 AM
68 points
105 comments11 min readLW link

Ex­plicit and tacit rationality

lukeprogApr 9, 2013, 11:33 PM
62 points
77 comments4 min readLW link

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

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 18, 2013, 5:20 AM
62 points
162 comments9 min readLW link

Minor, per­spec­tive chang­ing facts

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 22, 2013, 7:01 PM
58 points
158 comments1 min readLW link

Four Tips for Public Speaking

palladiasApr 15, 2013, 2:56 PM
55 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­is­tic Löb theorem

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 26, 2013, 6:45 PM
51 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

Prob­lems in Education

ThinkOfTheChildrenApr 29, 2013, 9:00 PM
49 points
7 comments12 min readLW link

Anki decks by LW users

PabloApr 2, 2013, 5:50 PM
48 points
60 comments1 min readLW link

Noisy Poll Re­sults And Rep­tilian Mus­lim Cli­ma­tol­o­gists from Mars

Scott AlexanderApr 12, 2013, 10:49 AM
47 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

A thought-pro­cess test­ing opportunity

[deleted]Apr 22, 2013, 7:51 PM
46 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Ri­tual Re­port: Schel­ling Day

ModusPoniesApr 17, 2013, 3:46 AM
46 points
99 comments1 min readLW link

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

Julia_GalefApr 9, 2013, 2:58 AM
44 points
69 comments4 min readLW link

LW Women Sub­mis­sions: On Misogyny

daenerysApr 10, 2013, 7:54 PM
44 points
469 comments8 min readLW link

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

Dr_ManhattanApr 12, 2013, 1:11 PM
42 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

The Un­in­tu­itive Power Laws of Giving

jefftkApr 2, 2013, 2:10 AM
40 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

A Call for Con­stant Vigilance

katydeeApr 3, 2013, 9:52 AM
40 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

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

orthonormalApr 1, 2013, 4:19 PM
37 points
1,746 comments5 min readLW link

Re­in­force­ment and Short-Term Re­wards as Anti-Akratic

IntrismApr 13, 2013, 8:47 PM
35 points
27 comments5 min readLW link

[Link] Son of low-hang­ing fruit

GLaDOSApr 4, 2013, 12:43 PM
34 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Post Re­quest Thread

Qiaochu_YuanApr 11, 2013, 1:28 AM
30 points
100 comments1 min readLW link

Want to have a CFAR in­struc­tor visit your LW group?

AnnaSalamonApr 20, 2013, 7:04 AM
30 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Nor­ma­tivity and Meta-Philosophy

Wei DaiApr 23, 2013, 8:35 PM
29 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

Real-world ex­am­ples of money-pump­ing?

sixes_and_sevensApr 25, 2013, 1:49 PM
28 points
97 comments1 min readLW link

Tac­tics against Pas­cal’s Mugging

ArisKatsarisApr 25, 2013, 12:07 AM
26 points
54 comments8 min readLW link

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

MorendilApr 24, 2013, 3:11 PM
26 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Tak­ing Char­ity Se­ri­ously: Toby Ord talk on char­ity effectivess

jefftkApr 10, 2013, 12:59 AM
25 points
15 comments37 min readLW link

Willing gam­blers, spher­i­cal cows, and AIs

ChrisHallquistApr 8, 2013, 9:30 PM
25 points
40 comments5 min readLW link

Cry­ocras­ti­nat­ing? Send me (or some­one else) money!

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 17, 2013, 1:08 PM
25 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

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

ChrisHallquistApr 21, 2013, 9:22 PM
23 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­duce /​ Con­sume Ratios

VaniverApr 21, 2013, 6:38 PM
22 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Help us name the Se­quences ebook

lukeprogApr 15, 2013, 7:59 PM
22 points
149 comments1 min readLW link

Logic in the lan­guage of probability

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 26, 2013, 6:45 PM
22 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

CFAR is hiring a lo­gis­tics manager

AnnaSalamonApr 5, 2013, 10:32 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

CuriousguyApr 13, 2013, 8:35 PM
20 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Pay other peo­ple to go veg­e­tar­ian for you?

jefftkApr 12, 2013, 1:56 AM
19 points
92 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] How to cal­ibrate your con­fi­dence intervals

Benjamin_ToddApr 25, 2013, 6:26 AM
19 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

What Rate of Re­turn Should You Ex­pect?

jefftkApr 7, 2013, 1:40 PM
19 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

LW Study Group Face­book Page

Ben PaceApr 8, 2013, 9:15 PM
19 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence Met­rics and De­ci­sion Theories

SquarkApr 6, 2013, 4:29 PM
18 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion to Con­trol Markets

whpearsonApr 3, 2013, 11:33 PM
18 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Grad Stu­dent Ad­vice Repository

StabilizerApr 14, 2013, 9:28 AM
16 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

On mov­ing posts from Main to Discussion

PhilGoetzApr 7, 2013, 3:34 PM
15 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

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

alexvermeerApr 5, 2013, 1:43 PM
14 points
9 comments1 min readLW link