Op­ti­mal Exercise

RomeoStevens10 Mar 2014 3:37 UTC
147 points
148 comments9 min readLW link

Strate­gic choice of identity

Vika8 Mar 2014 16:27 UTC
124 points
58 comments2 min readLW link

Poli­ti­cal Skills which In­crease Income

Xodarap2 Mar 2014 17:56 UTC
103 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

Self-Con­grat­u­la­tory Rationalism

ChrisHallquist1 Mar 2014 8:52 UTC
75 points
395 comments10 min readLW link

A vote against spaced repetition

ancientcampus10 Mar 2014 19:27 UTC
74 points
76 comments2 min readLW link

Less Wrong Study Hall—Year 1 Retrospective

Error18 Mar 2014 1:54 UTC
69 points
30 comments12 min readLW link

Two ar­gu­ments for not think­ing about ethics (too much)

Kaj_Sotala27 Mar 2014 14:15 UTC
61 points
32 comments7 min readLW link

On not get­ting a job as an option

diegocaleiro11 Mar 2014 2:44 UTC
51 points
190 comments2 min readLW link

Solomonoff Cartesianism

Rob Bensinger2 Mar 2014 17:56 UTC
51 points
51 comments25 min readLW link

Don’t teach peo­ple how to reach the top of a hill

PhilGoetz4 Mar 2014 21:38 UTC
50 points
37 comments6 min readLW link

The Prob­lem with AIXI

Rob Bensinger18 Mar 2014 1:55 UTC
44 points
79 comments23 min readLW link

The Prob­lem of “Win-More”

katydee26 Mar 2014 18:32 UTC
40 points
58 comments1 min readLW link

Gun­shot vic­tims to be sus­pended be­tween life and death [link]

Dr_Manhattan27 Mar 2014 16:33 UTC
37 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

What we learned about Less Wrong from Cog­nito Men­tor­ing advising

VipulNaik6 Mar 2014 21:40 UTC
37 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

How my math skills im­proved dramatically

JonahS5 Mar 2014 20:27 UTC
34 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Dis­cov­er­ing Your Se­cretly Se­cret Sen­sory Experiences

seez18 Mar 2014 10:12 UTC
33 points
75 comments3 min readLW link

Is my view con­trar­ian?

lukeprog11 Mar 2014 17:42 UTC
33 points
96 comments9 min readLW link

Chan­nel factors

benkuhn12 Mar 2014 4:52 UTC
27 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Eng­ineer­ing ar­chae­ol­ogy

NancyLebovitz20 Mar 2014 16:38 UTC
26 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Sum­mit 2014

Ben_LandauTaylor21 Mar 2014 20:30 UTC
25 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing Skil­lshare.im

Peter Wildeford28 Mar 2014 21:27 UTC
24 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Ter­ror­ist baby down the well: a look at in­sti­tu­tional forces

Stuart_Armstrong18 Mar 2014 14:30 UTC
22 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Over­com­ing the Loe­bian ob­sta­cle us­ing ev­i­dence logic

Squark14 Mar 2014 18:34 UTC
22 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

On Ir­ra­tional The­ory of Identity

SilentCal19 Mar 2014 0:06 UTC
22 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

On the con­cept of “tal­ent-con­strained” organizations

VipulNaik14 Mar 2014 16:42 UTC
21 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

In favour of terseness

Sophronius8 Mar 2014 18:01 UTC
20 points
58 comments1 min readLW link

To what ex­tent does im­proved ra­tio­nal­ity lead to effec­tive al­tru­ism?

JonahS20 Mar 2014 7:08 UTC
19 points
156 comments4 min readLW link

Why are Har­vard’s alumni so wealthy?

JonahS15 Mar 2014 18:47 UTC
19 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

Amanda Knox Re­dux: is Satoshi Nakamoto the real Satoshi Nakamoto?

Cosmos6 Mar 2014 23:33 UTC
18 points
55 comments1 min readLW link

What at­tracts smart and cu­ri­ous young peo­ple to physics? Should this be en­couraged?

VipulNaik13 Mar 2014 17:22 UTC
17 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

High school stu­dents and effec­tive altruism

VipulNaik14 Mar 2014 19:04 UTC
17 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­cras­ti­nat­ing be­cause of uncertainty

JonahS21 Mar 2014 0:14 UTC
16 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

How can Cog­nito Men­tor­ing do the most good?

JonahS23 Mar 2014 18:06 UTC
16 points
53 comments6 min readLW link

Ir­ra­tional­ity Game III

CellBioGuy12 Mar 2014 13:51 UTC
15 points
209 comments4 min readLW link

Academia as a ca­reer op­tion, its so­cial value, and alternatives

VipulNaik10 Mar 2014 18:32 UTC
15 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

One Med­i­cal? Ex­pan­sion of MIRI?

RHollerith18 Mar 2014 14:38 UTC
15 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

A ca­pa­bil­ities ap­proach to per­sonal development

Stabilizer21 Mar 2014 11:03 UTC
15 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­por­tional Giving

gjm2 Mar 2014 21:09 UTC
14 points
88 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist fic­tion: a Slice of Life IN HELL

Ritalin25 Mar 2014 17:02 UTC
13 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

The ecolog­i­cal ra­tio­nal­ity of the bad old fallacies

velisar19 Mar 2014 11:39 UTC
13 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

How much wealth is pro­duced by high IQ peo­ple?

JonahS14 Mar 2014 8:23 UTC
13 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

Solu­tions and Open Problems

Manfred15 Mar 2014 6:53 UTC
13 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Agents with Carte­sian child­hood and Phys­i­cal­ist adulthood

Squark22 Mar 2014 20:20 UTC
12 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Up­date­less In­tel­li­gence Met­rics in the Multiverse

Squark8 Mar 2014 0:25 UTC
12 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Mak­ing LessWrong no­table enough for its own Wikipe­dia page

VipulNaik13 Mar 2014 18:17 UTC
11 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

En­trepreneur­ship and col­lege attendance

JonahS22 Mar 2014 19:32 UTC
11 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­posal: LW courses

iarwain15 Mar 2014 16:18 UTC
11 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Out­line Sum­mary: The Pro­cras­ti­na­tion Equation

iarwain126 Mar 2014 23:55 UTC
11 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Open thread, 24-30 March 2014

Metus25 Mar 2014 7:42 UTC
11 points
158 comments1 min readLW link

What are some sci­ence mis­takes you made in col­lege?

aarongertler23 Mar 2014 5:28 UTC
10 points
32 comments1 min readLW link