Out to Get You

Zvi23 Sep 2017 10:50 UTC
123 points
14 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Be­ware Iso­lated De­mands For Rigor

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 19:50 UTC
119 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

I Can Tol­er­ate Any­thing Ex­cept The Outgroup

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 8:22 UTC
100 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
70 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