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Why people want to die

PhilGoetz24 Aug 2015 20:13 UTC

93 points

174 comments2 min readLW link

The Goddess of Everything Else

Scott Alexander17 Aug 2015 20:59 UTC

90 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

Travel Through Time to Increase Your Effectiveness

tanagrabeast23 Aug 2015 1:32 UTC

67 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

MIRI’s 2015 Summer Fundraiser!

So8res19 Aug 2015 0:27 UTC

64 points

44 comments5 min readLW link

On Overconfidence

Scott Alexander21 Aug 2015 2:21 UTC

64 points

6 comments14 min readLW link

Less Wrong EBook Creator

ScottL13 Aug 2015 21:17 UTC

61 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Yvain’s most important articles

casebash16 Aug 2015 8:27 UTC

35 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

My future posts; a table of contents.

Elo30 Aug 2015 22:27 UTC

31 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Versions of AIXI can be arbitrarily stupid

Stuart_Armstrong10 Aug 2015 13:23 UTC

30 points

59 comments1 min readLW link

Time-Binding

Viliam14 Aug 2015 17:38 UTC

29 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

Predict—“Log your predictions” app

Gust17 Aug 2015 16:20 UTC

26 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Where coulds go

So8res17 Aug 2015 3:00 UTC

25 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(mindingourway.com)

Book Review: Naive Set Theory (MIRI research guide)

David_Kristoffersson14 Aug 2015 22:08 UTC

23 points

13 comments6 min readLW link

[Link] Game Theory YouTube Videos

James_Miller6 Aug 2015 16:17 UTC

23 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Scott Aaronson: Common knowledge and Aumann’s agreement theorem

gjm17 Aug 2015 8:41 UTC

23 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.scottaaronson.com)

Is semiotics bullshit?

PhilGoetz25 Aug 2015 14:09 UTC

23 points

46 comments1 min readLW link

An overview of the mental model theory

ScottL17 Aug 2015 13:18 UTC

22 points

26 comments20 min readLW link

There are no “bad people”

So8res30 Aug 2015 3:00 UTC

21 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(mindingourway.com)

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

Liron16 Aug 2015 5:51 UTC

21 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Instrumental Rationality Questions Thread

NoSignalNoNoise22 Aug 2015 20:25 UTC

21 points

92 comments1 min readLW link

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

Elo18 Aug 2015 5:42 UTC

21 points

39 comments3 min readLW link

Self compassion

So8res25 Aug 2015 3:00 UTC

20 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(mindingourway.com)

Words per person year and intellectual rigor

PhilGoetz27 Aug 2015 3:31 UTC

19 points

26 comments6 min readLW link

List of common human goals

Elo24 Aug 2015 7:58 UTC

19 points

23 comments7 min readLW link

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

Elo22 Aug 2015 12:24 UTC

18 points

33 comments7 min readLW link

Peer-to-peer “knowledge exchanges”

snarles8 Aug 2015 15:33 UTC

17 points

30 comments1 min readLW link

Not yet gods

So8res9 Aug 2015 3:00 UTC

17 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(mindingourway.com)

Manhood of Humanity

Viliam24 Aug 2015 18:31 UTC

17 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Unlearning shoddy thinking

MalcolmOcean21 Aug 2015 3:07 UTC

17 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Effects of Castration on the Life Expectancy of Contemporary Men

Fluttershy8 Aug 2015 4:37 UTC

16 points

52 comments10 min readLW link

Rationality Compendium

ScottL23 Aug 2015 8:00 UTC

15 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

How to fix academia?

passive_fist20 Aug 2015 0:50 UTC

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

Transfuturist15 Aug 2015 22:45 UTC

14 points

40 comments1 min readLW link

AI, cure this fake person’s fake cancer!

Stuart_Armstrong24 Aug 2015 16:42 UTC

14 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Calling references: Rational or irrational?

PhilGoetz28 Aug 2015 21:06 UTC

14 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

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

contravariant28 Aug 2015 1:12 UTC

14 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] The Bayesian Second Law of Thermodynamics

Shmi12 Aug 2015 16:52 UTC

13 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality Reading Group: Part H: Against Doublethink

Gram_Stone27 Aug 2015 1:22 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread—Aug 24 - Aug 30

Elo24 Aug 2015 8:14 UTC

12 points

318 comments1 min readLW link

We really need a “cryonics sales pitch” article.

CronoDAS3 Aug 2015 22:42 UTC

12 points

98 comments1 min readLW link

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

Gleb_Tsipursky26 Aug 2015 16:38 UTC

12 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015

polymathwannabe11 Aug 2015 13:24 UTC

12 points

244 comments1 min readLW link

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

ScottL29 Aug 2015 16:24 UTC

11 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

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

ESRogs19 Aug 2015 6:37 UTC

11 points

40 comments1 min readLW link

The virtual AI within its virtual world

Stuart_Armstrong24 Aug 2015 16:42 UTC

10 points

34 comments1 min readLW link

On stopping rules

Anders_H2 Aug 2015 21:38 UTC

10 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

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

James_Miller12 Aug 2015 16:16 UTC

10 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Integral vs differential ethics, continued

Stuart_Armstrong3 Aug 2015 13:25 UTC

10 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

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

PeterCoin18 Aug 2015 0:53 UTC

10 points

32 comments7 min readLW link

Stupid Questions August 2015

Richard Korzekwa 1 Aug 2015 23:08 UTC

10 points

131 comments1 min readLW link