Out to Get You

ZviSep 23, 2017, 10:50 AM
134 points
14 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Be­ware Iso­lated De­mands For Rigor

Scott AlexanderSep 2, 2017, 7:50 PM
125 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

I Can Tol­er­ate Any­thing Ex­cept The Outgroup

Scott AlexanderSep 2, 2017, 8:22 AM
106 points
5 comments28 min readLW link

Sab­bath hard and go home

BenquoSep 27, 2017, 7:49 AM
99 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

LW 2.0 Strate­gic Overview

habrykaSep 15, 2017, 3:00 AM
85 points
296 comments23 min readLW link

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

Scott AlexanderSep 3, 2017, 8:56 PM
78 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Against In­di­vi­d­ual IQ Worries

Scott AlexanderSep 28, 2017, 5:12 PM
73 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

No­body does the thing that they are sup­pos­edly doing

Kaj_SotalaSep 23, 2017, 10:40 AM
62 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

The An­thropic Prin­ci­ple: Five Short Examples

Optimization ProcessSep 26, 2017, 10:35 PM
60 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Notes From an Apocalypse

ToggleSep 22, 2017, 5:10 AM
59 points
24 comments14 min readLW link

My IRB Nightmare

Scott AlexanderSep 28, 2017, 4:47 PM
58 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

Com­mon vs Ex­pert Jar­gon

RaemonSep 21, 2017, 3:05 AM
56 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

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

BenquoSep 26, 2017, 7:00 AM
49 points
18 comments16 min readLW link

Against EA PR

ozymandiasSep 21, 2017, 1:23 AM
48 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Against Face­book: The Stalking

ZviSep 16, 2017, 12:41 PM
42 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

In­tel­lec­tual Progress In­side and Out­side Academia

Ben PaceSep 2, 2017, 11:08 PM
40 points
5 comments14 min readLW link

LW 2.0 Open Beta starts 9/​20

VaniverSep 15, 2017, 2:57 AM
39 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

LW 2.0 Open Beta Live

VaniverSep 21, 2017, 1:15 AM
35 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

Moder­a­tor’s Dilemma: The Risks of Par­tial Intervention

Chris_LeongSep 29, 2017, 1:47 AM
33 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

Beta—First Impressions

Chris_LeongSep 21, 2017, 1:56 AM
32 points
104 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing To Love Scien­tific Consensus

Scott AlexanderSep 2, 2017, 8:44 AM
31 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

2017 LessWrong Survey

namespaceSep 13, 2017, 6:26 AM
29 points
75 comments1 min readLW link

On­line dis­cus­sion is bet­ter than pre-pub­li­ca­tion peer review

Wei DaiSep 5, 2017, 1:25 PM
28 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Trans­lat­ing CFAR to Therapy

squidiousSep 26, 2017, 7:00 AM
27 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(www.blogger.com)

Front­page Post­ing and Com­ment­ing Guidelines

Ben PaceSep 26, 2017, 6:24 AM
24 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

Wikipe­dia pageviews: still in decline

VipulNaikSep 26, 2017, 11:03 PM
24 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

Mo­ti­vat­ing a Se­man­tics of Log­i­cal Counterfactuals

Sam_A_BarnettSep 22, 2017, 1:10 AM
22 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

The Out­side View isn’t magic

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 27, 2017, 2:33 PM
21 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Ra­tional Feed

sapphireSep 9, 2017, 7:48 PM
20 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Vot­ing Weight Discussion

RaemonSep 22, 2017, 10:48 PM
20 points
73 comments1 min readLW link

Speed & Perfor­mance is our cur­rent top priority

habrykaSep 27, 2017, 11:36 PM
20 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Mus­ings on Dou­ble Crux (and “Pro­duc­tive Disagree­ment”)

RaemonSep 28, 2017, 5:26 AM
19 points
72 comments6 min readLW link

Why At­ti­tudes Matter

ozymandiasSep 21, 2017, 3:07 PM
19 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Blind Goal­ten­ders: Un­pro­duc­tive Disagreements

PDVSep 28, 2017, 4:19 PM
19 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

The Case Of The Suffo­cat­ing Woman

Scott AlexanderSep 2, 2017, 7:42 PM
18 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Nat­u­ral­ized in­duc­tion – a challenge for ev­i­den­tial and causal de­ci­sion theory

Caspar OesterheldSep 22, 2017, 8:15 AM
15 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

Stanis­lav Petrov has died (2017-05-19)

fortyeridaniaSep 18, 2017, 3:13 AM
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.rt.com)

David C Denken­berger on Food Pro­duc­tion af­ter a Sun Ob­scur­ing Disaster

JenniferRMSep 17, 2017, 9:06 PM
13 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

The Great Filter isn’t magic either

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 27, 2017, 5:04 PM
13 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

New busi­ness op­por­tu­ni­ties due to self-driv­ing cars

chaosmageSep 6, 2017, 8:07 PM
13 points
68 comments4 min readLW link

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

ElizabethSep 9, 2017, 11:50 PM
12 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Heuris­tics for text­book selection

John_MaxwellSep 6, 2017, 4:17 AM
12 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

The Out­side View isn’t magic

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 27, 2017, 2:37 PM
12 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

LW 2.0 Site Up­date: 09/​21/​17

Ben PaceSep 22, 2017, 7:43 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tional Feed

sapphireSep 17, 2017, 10:03 PM
12 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Publi­ca­tion of “An­thropic De­ci­sion The­ory”

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 20, 2017, 3:41 PM
12 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

LW 2.0 Site Up­date: 09/​22/​17

habrykaSep 23, 2017, 10:10 AM
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Deon­tol­o­gist Envy

ozymandiasSep 23, 2017, 8:21 PM
10 points
16 comments6 min readLW link

The Five Hin­drances to Do­ing the Thing

moridinamaelSep 25, 2017, 5:04 PM
10 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Why I Quit So­cial Media

sarahconstantinSep 26, 2017, 12:58 AM
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)