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Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 19:50 UTC

119 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Out to Get You

Zvi23 Sep 2017 10:50 UTC

117 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 8:22 UTC

96 points

4 comments28 min readLW link

Sabbath hard and go home

Benquo27 Sep 2017 7:49 UTC

96 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

LW 2.0 Strategic Overview

habryka15 Sep 2017 3:00 UTC

85 points

296 comments23 min readLW link

If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing With Made-Up Statistics

Scott Alexander3 Sep 2017 20:56 UTC

74 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Against Individual IQ Worries

Scott Alexander28 Sep 2017 17:12 UTC

69 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

Nobody does the thing that they are supposedly doing

Kaj_Sotala23 Sep 2017 10:40 UTC

61 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

The Anthropic Principle: Five Short Examples

Optimization Process26 Sep 2017 22:35 UTC

60 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

Notes From an Apocalypse

Toggle22 Sep 2017 5:10 UTC

59 points

24 comments14 min readLW link

My IRB Nightmare

Scott Alexander28 Sep 2017 16:47 UTC

56 points

1 comment19 min readLW link

Common vs Expert Jargon

Raemon21 Sep 2017 3:05 UTC

50 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

Why I am not a Quaker (even though it often seems as though I should be)

Benquo26 Sep 2017 7:00 UTC

48 points

18 comments16 min readLW link

Against EA PR

ozymandias21 Sep 2017 1:23 UTC

48 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

Against Facebook: The Stalking

Zvi16 Sep 2017 12:41 UTC

42 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Intellectual Progress Inside and Outside Academia

Ben Pace2 Sep 2017 23:08 UTC

40 points

5 comments14 min readLW link

LW 2.0 Open Beta starts 9/20

Vaniver15 Sep 2017 2:57 UTC

39 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

LW 2.0 Open Beta Live

Vaniver21 Sep 2017 1:15 UTC

35 points

37 comments1 min readLW link

Moderator’s Dilemma: The Risks of Partial Intervention

Chris_Leong29 Sep 2017 1:47 UTC

33 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

Beta—First Impressions

Chris_Leong21 Sep 2017 1:56 UTC

32 points

104 comments1 min readLW link

Learning To Love Scientific Consensus

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 8:44 UTC

30 points

1 comment19 min readLW link

2017 LessWrong Survey

namespace13 Sep 2017 6:26 UTC

29 points

75 comments1 min readLW link

Online discussion is better than pre-publication peer review

Wei Dai5 Sep 2017 13:25 UTC

27 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Translating CFAR to Therapy

squidious26 Sep 2017 7:00 UTC

27 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(www.blogger.com)

Frontpage Posting and Commenting Guidelines

Ben Pace26 Sep 2017 6:24 UTC

24 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Wikipedia pageviews: still in decline

VipulNaik26 Sep 2017 23:03 UTC

24 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

Motivating a Semantics of Logical Counterfactuals

Sam_A_Barnett22 Sep 2017 1:10 UTC

22 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

The Outside View isn’t magic

Stuart_Armstrong27 Sep 2017 14:33 UTC

21 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Rational Feed

sapphire9 Sep 2017 19:48 UTC

20 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

Voting Weight Discussion

Raemon22 Sep 2017 22:48 UTC

20 points

73 comments1 min readLW link

Speed & Performance is our current top priority

habryka27 Sep 2017 23:36 UTC

20 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Why Attitudes Matter

ozymandias21 Sep 2017 15:07 UTC

19 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Musings on Double Crux (and “Productive Disagreement”)

Raemon28 Sep 2017 5:26 UTC

19 points

72 comments6 min readLW link

Blind Goaltenders: Unproductive Disagreements

PDV28 Sep 2017 16:19 UTC

19 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

The Case Of The Suffocating Woman

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 19:42 UTC

17 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

Naturalized induction – a challenge for evidential and causal decision theory

Caspar Oesterheld22 Sep 2017 8:15 UTC

15 points

15 comments7 min readLW link

Stanislav Petrov has died (2017-05-19)

fortyeridania18 Sep 2017 3:13 UTC

14 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.rt.com)

The Great Filter isn’t magic either

Stuart_Armstrong27 Sep 2017 17:04 UTC

13 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

David C Denkenberger on Food Production after a Sun Obscuring Disaster

JenniferRM17 Sep 2017 21:06 UTC

13 points

26 comments3 min readLW link

New business opportunities due to self-driving cars

chaosmage6 Sep 2017 20:07 UTC

13 points

68 comments4 min readLW link

Heuristics for textbook selection

John_Maxwell6 Sep 2017 4:17 UTC

12 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

LW 2.0 Site Update: 09/21/17

Ben Pace22 Sep 2017 7:43 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Outside View isn’t magic

Stuart_Armstrong27 Sep 2017 14:37 UTC

12 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Rational Feed

sapphire17 Sep 2017 22:03 UTC

12 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Publication of “Anthropic Decision Theory”

Stuart_Armstrong20 Sep 2017 15:41 UTC

12 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic Spot Check: Exercise for Mood and Anxiety (Michael W. Otto, Jasper A.J. Smits)

Elizabeth9 Sep 2017 23:50 UTC

11 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

LW 2.0 Site Update: 09/22/17

habryka23 Sep 2017 10:10 UTC

11 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

The Five Hindrances to Doing the Thing

moridinamael25 Sep 2017 17:04 UTC

10 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Deontologist Envy

ozymandias23 Sep 2017 20:21 UTC

10 points

16 comments6 min readLW link

Stupid Questions—September 2017

ChristianKl27 Sep 2017 9:51 UTC

9 points

25 comments1 min readLW link