The God­dess of Every­thing Else

Scott AlexanderAug 17, 2015, 8:59 PM
94 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

Why peo­ple want to die

PhilGoetzAug 24, 2015, 8:13 PM
93 points
174 comments2 min readLW link

Travel Through Time to In­crease Your Effectiveness

tanagrabeastAug 23, 2015, 1:32 AM
67 points
13 comments10 min readLW link

On Overconfidence

Scott AlexanderAug 21, 2015, 2:21 AM
65 points
7 comments14 min readLW link

MIRI’s 2015 Sum­mer Fundraiser!

So8resAug 19, 2015, 12:27 AM
64 points
44 comments5 min readLW link

Less Wrong EBook Creator

ScottLAug 13, 2015, 9:17 PM
61 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Yvain’s most im­por­tant articles

casebashAug 16, 2015, 8:27 AM
35 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

My fu­ture posts; a table of con­tents.

EloAug 30, 2015, 10:27 PM
31 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Ver­sions of AIXI can be ar­bi­trar­ily stupid

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 10, 2015, 1:23 PM
30 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Time-Binding

ViliamAug 14, 2015, 5:38 PM
29 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

Pre­dict—“Log your pre­dic­tions” app

GustAug 17, 2015, 4:20 PM
26 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Where coulds go

So8resAug 17, 2015, 3:00 AM
25 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Book Re­view: Naive Set The­ory (MIRI re­search guide)

David_KristofferssonAug 14, 2015, 10:08 PM
23 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

[Link] Game The­ory YouTube Videos

James_MillerAug 6, 2015, 4:17 PM
23 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Scott Aaron­son: Com­mon knowl­edge and Au­mann’s agree­ment theorem

gjmAug 17, 2015, 8:41 AM
23 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.scottaaronson.com)

Is semiotics bul­lshit?

PhilGoetzAug 25, 2015, 2:09 PM
23 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

An overview of the men­tal model theory

ScottLAug 17, 2015, 1:18 PM
22 points
26 comments20 min readLW link

There are no “bad peo­ple”

So8resAug 30, 2015, 3:00 AM
21 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

You Are A Brain—In­tro to LW/​Ra­tion­al­ity Con­cepts [Video & Slides]

LironAug 16, 2015, 5:51 AM
21 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity Ques­tions Thread

NoSignalNoNoiseAug 22, 2015, 8:25 PM
21 points
92 comments1 min readLW link

How to learn a new area X that you have no idea about.

EloAug 18, 2015, 5:42 AM
21 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

Self compassion

So8resAug 25, 2015, 3:00 AM
20 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Words per per­son year and in­tel­lec­tual rigor

PhilGoetzAug 27, 2015, 3:31 AM
19 points
26 comments6 min readLW link

List of com­mon hu­man goals

EloAug 24, 2015, 7:58 AM
19 points
23 comments7 min readLW link

Not yet gods

So8resAug 9, 2015, 3:00 AM
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

A list of apps that are use­ful to me. (And other phone de­tails)

EloAug 22, 2015, 12:24 PM
18 points
33 comments7 min readLW link

Peer-to-peer “knowl­edge ex­changes”

snarlesAug 8, 2015, 3:33 PM
17 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Man­hood of Humanity

ViliamAug 24, 2015, 6:31 PM
17 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Un­learn­ing shoddy thinking

MalcolmOceanAug 21, 2015, 3:07 AM
17 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Effects of Cas­tra­tion on the Life Ex­pec­tancy of Con­tem­po­rary Men

FluttershyAug 8, 2015, 4:37 AM
16 points
52 comments10 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Compendium

ScottLAug 23, 2015, 8:00 AM
15 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

How to fix academia?

passive_fistAug 20, 2015, 12:50 AM
15 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

Soylent has been found to con­tain lead (12-25x) and cad­mium (≥4x) in greater con­cen­tra­tions than Cal­ifor­nia’s ‘safe har­bor’ levels

TransfuturistAug 15, 2015, 10:45 PM
14 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

AI, cure this fake per­son’s fake can­cer!

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 24, 2015, 4:42 PM
14 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

Cal­ling refer­ences: Ra­tional or ir­ra­tional?

PhilGoetzAug 28, 2015, 9:06 PM
14 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Is my brain a util­ity min­i­mizer? Or, the me­chan­ics of la­bel­ing things as “work” vs. “fun”

contravariantAug 28, 2015, 1:12 AM
14 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] The Bayesian Se­cond Law of Thermodynamics

ShmiAug 12, 2015, 4:52 PM
13 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part H: Against Doublethink

Gram_StoneAug 27, 2015, 1:22 AM
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread—Aug 24 - Aug 30

EloAug 24, 2015, 8:14 AM
12 points
318 comments1 min readLW link

We re­ally need a “cry­on­ics sales pitch” ar­ti­cle.

CronoDASAug 3, 2015, 10:42 PM
12 points
98 comments1 min readLW link

Per­sonal story about benefits of Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo and shut­ting up and multiplying

Gleb_TsipurskyAug 26, 2015, 4:38 PM
12 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015

polymathwannabeAug 11, 2015, 1:24 PM
12 points
244 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Com­pendium: Prin­ci­ple 2 - You are im­ple­mented on a hu­man brain

ScottLAug 29, 2015, 4:24 PM
11 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

[Link] First al­most fully-formed hu­man [foe­tus] brain grown in lab, re­searchers claim

ESRogsAug 19, 2015, 6:37 AM
11 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

The vir­tual AI within its vir­tual world

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 24, 2015, 4:42 PM
10 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

On stop­ping rules

Anders_HAug 2, 2015, 9:38 PM
10 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] My re­view of Ra­tion­al­ity: From AI to Zombies

James_MillerAug 12, 2015, 4:16 PM
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

In­te­gral vs differ­en­tial ethics, continued

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 3, 2015, 1:25 PM
10 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Frag­ile Uni­verse Hy­poth­e­sis and the Con­tinual An­thropic Prin­ci­ple—How crazy am I?

PeterCoinAug 18, 2015, 12:53 AM
10 points
32 comments7 min readLW link

Stupid Ques­tions Au­gust 2015

Richard Korzekwa Aug 1, 2015, 11:08 PM
10 points
131 comments1 min readLW link