The cor­rect re­sponse to un­cer­tainty is *not* half-speed

AnnaSalamonJan 15, 2016, 10:55 PM
267 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

Fact Posts: How and Why

sarahconstantinDec 2, 2016, 6:55 PM
265 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

“Flinch­ing away from truth” is of­ten about *pro­tect­ing* the epistemology

AnnaSalamonDec 20, 2016, 6:39 PM
233 points
58 comments7 min readLW link

On the im­por­tance of Less Wrong, or an­other sin­gle con­ver­sa­tional locus

AnnaSalamonNov 27, 2016, 5:13 PM
176 points
365 comments4 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence FAQ

Scott AlexanderSep 20, 2016, 7:00 PM
137 points
39 comments27 min readLW link

Re­quire con­tri­bu­tions in advance

ViliamFeb 8, 2016, 12:55 PM
96 points
27 comments7 min readLW link

Zom­bies Redacted

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 2, 2016, 8:16 PM
94 points
173 comments16 min readLW link

[mod­er­a­tor ac­tion] The_Lion and The_Lion2 are banned

Viliam_BurJan 30, 2016, 2:09 AM
90 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

What is up with car­bon diox­ide and cog­ni­tion? An offer

paulfchristianoApr 23, 2016, 5:47 PM
84 points
48 comments2 min readLW link

Turn­ing the Tech­ni­cal Crank

ErrorApr 5, 2016, 5:36 AM
74 points
134 comments6 min readLW link

Epistemic Effort

RaemonNov 29, 2016, 4:08 PM
72 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

The Brain Preser­va­tion Foun­da­tion’s Small Mam­malian Brain Prize won

gwernFeb 9, 2016, 9:02 PM
71 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

Mak­ing in­ten­tions con­crete—Trig­ger-Ac­tion Planning

Kaj_SotalaDec 1, 2016, 8:34 PM
71 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

Up­com­ing LW Changes

VaniverFeb 3, 2016, 5:34 AM
71 points
106 comments3 min readLW link

Is Caviar a Risk Fac­tor For Be­ing a Million­aire?

Anders_HDec 9, 2016, 4:27 PM
67 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

How does per­son­al­ity vary across US cities?

JonahSDec 20, 2016, 8:00 AM
66 points
16 comments6 min readLW link

Be se­cretly wrong

BenquoDec 10, 2016, 7:06 AM
66 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

The Sally-Anne fallacy

philhApr 11, 2016, 1:06 PM
66 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Fur­ther dis­cus­sion of CFAR’s fo­cus on AI safety, and the good things folks wanted from “cause neu­tral­ity”

AnnaSalamonDec 12, 2016, 7:39 PM
65 points
38 comments5 min readLW link

Unoffi­cial Canon on Ap­plied Rationality

ScottLFeb 15, 2016, 1:03 PM
65 points
32 comments23 min readLW link

A Se­cond Year of Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Soft­ware in the Classroom

tanagrabeastMay 1, 2016, 10:14 PM
64 points
30 comments21 min readLW link

Buy­ing happiness

gjmJun 16, 2016, 5:08 PM
62 points
34 comments4 min readLW link

Why CFAR’s Mis­sion?

AnnaSalamonJan 2, 2016, 11:23 PM
59 points
56 comments9 min readLW link

A Re­turn to Discussion

sarahconstantinNov 27, 2016, 1:59 PM
58 points
32 comments6 min readLW link

The Pyra­mid And The Garden

Scott AlexanderNov 5, 2016, 6:03 AM
56 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

Sleep­walk bias, self-defeat­ing pre­dic­tions and ex­is­ten­tial risk

Stefan_SchubertApr 22, 2016, 6:31 PM
56 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Do you want to be like Kuro5hin? Be­cause this is how you get to be like Kuro5hin.

DentinAug 26, 2016, 3:32 PM
54 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Hedge drift and ad­vanced motte-and-bailey

Stefan_SchubertMay 1, 2016, 2:45 PM
54 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Anx­iety and Rationality

[deleted]Jan 19, 2016, 6:30 PM
51 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

CFAR’s new fo­cus, and AI Safety

AnnaSalamonDec 3, 2016, 6:09 PM
51 points
88 comments3 min readLW link

The Mo­ral Of The Story

Scott AlexanderOct 18, 2016, 2:22 AM
50 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

2016 LessWrong Di­as­pora Sur­vey Results

namespaceMay 14, 2016, 5:38 PM
48 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion-based medicine (PBM)

ChristianKlDec 29, 2016, 10:49 PM
46 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

If we can’t lie to oth­ers, we will lie to ourselves

paulfchristianoNov 26, 2016, 10:29 PM
45 points
24 comments1 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Less­wrong 2016 Survey

EloMar 30, 2016, 6:17 PM
45 points
273 comments3 min readLW link

2016 LessWrong Di­as­pora Sur­vey Anal­y­sis: Part Two (LessWrong Use, Suc­ces­sor­ship, Di­as­pora)

namespaceJun 10, 2016, 7:40 PM
44 points
12 comments10 min readLW link

The Web Browser is Not Your Client (But You Don’t Need To Know That)

ErrorApr 22, 2016, 12:12 AM
44 points
47 comments7 min readLW link

Linkposts now live!

VaniverSep 28, 2016, 3:13 PM
44 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

A toy model of the treach­er­ous turn

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 8, 2016, 12:58 PM
43 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

A Med­i­cal Mys­tery: Thy­roid Hor­mones, Chronic Fa­tigue and Fibromyalgia

johnlawrenceaspdenFeb 14, 2016, 1:14 PM
43 points
166 comments23 min readLW link

Re­cent up­dates to gw­ern.net (2015-2016)

gwernAug 26, 2016, 7:22 PM
42 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

How I use Anki to learn mathematics

Arthur MilchiorDec 7, 2016, 10:29 PM
41 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

A Ra­tion­al­ist Guide to OkCupid

Jacob FalkovichFeb 3, 2016, 8:50 PM
41 points
66 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on the Safety in Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence conference

UmamiSalamiJul 1, 2016, 12:36 AM
40 points
15 comments13 min readLW link

The Ide­ol­ogy Is Not The Movement

Scott AlexanderApr 5, 2016, 1:52 AM
40 points
3 comments24 min readLW link

Pos­i­tivity Thread :)

ViliamApr 8, 2016, 9:34 PM
40 points
66 comments2 min readLW link

How The West Was Won

Scott AlexanderJul 26, 2016, 3:05 AM
40 points
10 comments17 min readLW link

To con­tribute to AI safety, con­sider do­ing AI research

VikaJan 16, 2016, 8:42 PM
39 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

Google Deep­mind and FHI col­lab­o­rate to pre­sent re­search at UAI 2016

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 9, 2016, 6:08 PM
39 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Di­as­pora roundup thread, 15th June 2016

philhJun 15, 2016, 9:36 AM
39 points
13 comments1 min readLW link