Tell Culture

LoganStrohlJan 18, 2014, 8:13 PM
269 points
229 comments3 min readLW link

Dark Arts of Rationality

So8resJan 19, 2014, 2:47 AM
261 points
193 comments18 min readLW link

On sav­ing the world

So8resJan 30, 2014, 8:00 PM
230 points
171 comments16 min readLW link

The me­chan­ics of my re­cent productivity

So8resJan 9, 2014, 2:30 AM
202 points
47 comments9 min readLW link

Dangers of steel­man­ning /​ prin­ci­ple of charity

gothgirl420666Jan 16, 2014, 6:35 AM
149 points
94 comments2 min readLW link

2013 Sur­vey Results

Scott AlexanderJan 19, 2014, 2:51 AM
112 points
560 comments19 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ists Are Less Cre­d­u­lous But Bet­ter At Tak­ing Ideas Seriously

Scott AlexanderJan 21, 2014, 2:18 AM
108 points
287 comments3 min readLW link

Hand­shakes, Hi, and What’s New: What’s Go­ing On With Small Talk?

BenquoJan 2, 2014, 10:08 PM
107 points
79 comments5 min readLW link

Dereg­u­lat­ing Dis­trac­tion, Mov­ing Towards the Goal, and Level Hopping

So8resJan 12, 2014, 3:21 AM
102 points
25 comments8 min readLW link

Ha­bit­ual Productivity

So8resJan 9, 2014, 6:44 AM
90 points
36 comments6 min readLW link

Try more things.

whalesJan 12, 2014, 1:25 AM
88 points
20 comments7 min readLW link

Even Odds

Scott GarrabrantJan 12, 2014, 7:24 AM
77 points
48 comments3 min readLW link

Dr. Jub­jub pre­dicts a crisis

ApprenticeJan 10, 2014, 3:52 PM
74 points
65 comments2 min readLW link

Re­sults from MIRI’s De­cem­ber workshop

BenyaJan 15, 2014, 10:29 PM
73 points
43 comments6 min readLW link

De­ci­sion Auc­tions aka “How to fairly as­sign chores, or de­cide who gets the last cookie”

daenerysJan 21, 2014, 9:13 PM
60 points
59 comments3 min readLW link

Fas­cists and Rakes

philhJan 5, 2014, 12:41 AM
58 points
71 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: How Learn­ing Works

whalesJan 19, 2014, 8:45 PM
56 points
16 comments17 min readLW link

[link] Why Self-Con­trol Seems (but may not be) Limited

Kaj_SotalaJan 20, 2014, 4:55 PM
55 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

I Will Pay $500 To Any­one Who Can Con­vince Me To Can­cel My Cry­on­ics Subscription

ChrisHallquistJan 11, 2014, 10:39 AM
54 points
182 comments2 min readLW link

Soft Pa­ter­nal­ism in Parenting

Gunnar_ZarnckeJan 4, 2014, 3:52 PM
53 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Hu­mans can drive cars

ApprenticeJan 30, 2014, 11:55 AM
53 points
89 comments2 min readLW link

Liter­a­ture-re­view on cog­ni­tive effects of modafinil (my bach­e­lor the­sis)

David AlthausJan 8, 2014, 7:23 PM
53 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

AALWA: Ask any LessWronger anything

Will_NewsomeJan 12, 2014, 2:18 AM
53 points
636 comments1 min readLW link

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end in Berlin

blobJan 24, 2014, 5:55 PM
50 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

A big Sin­gu­lar­ity-themed Hol­ly­wood movie out in April offers many op­por­tu­ni­ties to talk about AI risk

chaosmageJan 7, 2014, 5:48 PM
49 points
85 comments1 min readLW link

Log­i­cal and In­dex­i­cal Uncertainty

Scott GarrabrantJan 29, 2014, 9:49 PM
48 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

Things I Wish They’d Taught Me When I Was Younger: Why Money Is Awesome

ChrisHallquistJan 16, 2014, 7:27 AM
47 points
234 comments6 min readLW link

LessWrong Help Desk—free pa­per down­loads and more (2014)

jsalvatierJan 16, 2014, 5:51 AM
47 points
335 comments1 min readLW link

What should su­per­ra­tional play­ers do in asym­met­ric games?

badgerJan 24, 2014, 7:42 AM
46 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

Pro­duc­tivity as a func­tion of abil­ity in the­o­ret­i­cal fields

Stefan_SchubertJan 26, 2014, 1:16 PM
45 points
34 comments4 min readLW link

Flashes of Nondecisionmaking

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Jan 27, 2014, 2:30 PM
44 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­duc­tivity tool: race!

wwaJan 16, 2014, 9:53 PM
43 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Why I haven’t signed up for cryonics

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Jan 12, 2014, 5:16 AM
43 points
252 comments5 min readLW link

Two Dark Side Statis­tics Papers

Scott AlexanderJan 2, 2014, 5:51 AM
41 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

[LINK] Why I’m not on the Ra­tion­al­ist Masterlist

ApprenticeJan 6, 2014, 12:16 AM
40 points
882 comments1 min readLW link

One Year of Pomodoros

alexvermeerJan 1, 2014, 9:27 PM
34 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

An­thropic Atheism

[deleted]Jan 13, 2014, 5:00 AM
34 points
54 comments5 min readLW link

Mar­ijuana: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott AlexanderJan 5, 2014, 8:41 PM
34 points
4 comments19 min readLW link

Google may be try­ing to take over the world

[deleted]Jan 27, 2014, 9:33 AM
33 points
133 comments1 min readLW link

Plan while your ugh field is down

XFrequentistJan 23, 2014, 5:42 PM
33 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Mul­ti­verse-Wide Prefer­ence Utilitarianism

Brian_TomasikJan 30, 2014, 6:08 PM
32 points
22 comments12 min readLW link

[LINK] How Long Does Habit For­ma­tion Take?

AntisujiJan 4, 2014, 1:33 AM
30 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Find a study partner

Mati_RoyJan 24, 2014, 2:27 AM
29 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Another Cri­tique of Effec­tive Altruism

jsteinhardtJan 5, 2014, 9:51 AM
28 points
109 comments6 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing .impact

Peter WildefordJan 5, 2014, 3:35 PM
27 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Deal­ing with a Ma­jor Per­sonal Crisis

Gunnar_ZarnckeJan 20, 2014, 1:36 AM
26 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Tricky Bets and Truth-Track­ing Fields

lukeprogJan 29, 2014, 8:52 AM
26 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Us­ing vs. eval­u­at­ing (or, Why I don’t come around here no more)

PhilGoetzJan 20, 2014, 2:36 AM
25 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Cri­tiquing Gary Taubes, Fi­nal: The Truth About Diets and Weight Loss

ChrisHallquistJan 4, 2014, 5:16 AM
25 points
88 comments8 min readLW link

Vol­un­teer­ing pro­gram­mer hours /​ dis­cussing how to im­prove LessWrong’s soft­ware

ChrisHallquistJan 26, 2014, 10:47 PM
25 points
13 comments1 min readLW link