| Title
|
Concepts Introduced/Discussed
|
Author
|
| Free to Optimize
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Uses of Fun (Theory)
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Growing Up is Hard
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Changing Emotions
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationality Quotes 21
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Emotional Involvement
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationality Quotes 22
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Serious Stories
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationality Quotes 23
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Continuous Improvement
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Eutopia is Scary
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Building Weirdtopia
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| She has joined the Conspiracy
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Justified Expectation of Pleasant Surprises
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Seduced by Imagination
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Getting Nearer
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| In Praise of Boredom
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Sympathetic Minds
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Interpersonal Entanglement
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Failed Utopia #4-2
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Investing for the Long Slump
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Higher Purpose
|
The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationality Quotes 24
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Complexity of value, Fun theory, Sequences, The Fun Theory Sequence
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| BHTV: Yudkowsky / Wilkinson
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| 31 Laws of Fun
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| OB Status Update
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationality Quotes 25
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Value is Fragile
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Three Worlds Collide (0/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Baby-Eating Aliens (1/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| War and/or Peace (2/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Super Happy People (3/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Interlude with the Confessor (4/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Three Worlds Decide (5/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Normal Ending: Last Tears (6/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| True Ending: Sacrificial Fire (7/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Epilogue: Atonement (8/8)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Thing That I Protect
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| ...And Say No More Of It
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| (Moral) Truth in Fiction?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Informers and Persuaders
|
Dark arts
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Cynicism in Ev-Psych (and Econ?)
|
Evolutionary psychology
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Evolutionary-Cognitive Boundary
|
Evolutionary psychology, Adaptation executers
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| An Especially Elegant Evpsych Experiment
|
Evolutionary psychology
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationality Quotes 26
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| An African Folktale
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Cynical About Cynicism
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Good Idealistic Books are Rare
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Against Maturity
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Pretending to be Wise
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Wise Pretensions v.0
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationality Quotes 27
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Fairness vs. Goodness
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| On Not Having an Advance Abyssal Plan
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| About Less Wrong
|
Topic that must not be named
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Formative Youth
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Tell Your Rationalist Origin Story
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Markets are Anti-Inductive
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Issues, Bugs, and Requested Features
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Tell Your Rationalist Origin Story... at Less Wrong
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Most Important Thing You Learned
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Most Important Thing You Learned
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Most Frequently Useful Thing
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Most Frequently Useful Thing
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| That You'd Tell All Your Friends
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Test Your Rationality
|
Problem of verifying rationality
|
RobinHanson
|
| Unteachable Excellence
|
General knowledge
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Costs of Rationality
|
Costs of rationality
|
RobinHanson
|
| Teaching the Unteachable
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| No, Really, I've Deceived Myself
|
Religion, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The ethic of hand-washing and community epistemic practice
|
Epistemic hygiene
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Belief in Self-Deception
|
Litany of Tarski, Self-deception, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationality and Positive Psychology
|
|
badger
|
| Posting now enabled
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Posting now enabled on Less Wrong
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Kinnaird's truels
|
|
Johnicholas
|
| Recommended Rationalist Resources
|
|
MichaelHoward
|
| Information cascades
|
Information cascade
|
Johnicholas
|
| Is it rational to take psilocybin?
|
|
pwno
|
| Does blind review slow down science?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Formalization is a rationality technique
|
|
Johnicholas
|
| Slow down a little... maybe?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Checklists
|
Debiasing
|
Johnicholas
|
| The Golem
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Simultaneously Right and Wrong
|
|
Yvain
|
| Moore's Paradox
|
How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| It's the Same Five Dollars!
|
|
Z_M_Davis
|
| Lies and Secrets
|
|
steven0461
|
| The Mystery of the Haunted Rationalist
|
|
Yvain
|
| Don't Believe You'll Self-Deceive
|
How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Wrath of Kahneman
|
|
steven0461
|
| The Mistake Script
|
Debiasing
|
jimrandomh
|
| LessWrong anti-kibitzer (hides comment authors and vote counts)
|
|
Marcello
|
| You May Already Be A Sinner
|
|
Yvain
|
| Striving to Accept
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Software tools for community truth-seeking
|
|
Johnicholas
|
| Wanted: Python open source volunteers
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Selective processes bring tag-alongs (but not always!)
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Adversarial System Hats
|
Intellectual roles
|
Johnicholas
|
| Beginning at the Beginning
|
|
Annoyance
|
| The Apologist and the Revolutionary
|
|
Yvain
|
| Raising the Sanity Waterline
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| So you say you're an altruist...
|
|
John_Maxwell_IV
|
| A Sense That More Is Possible
|
Problem of verifying rationality, Rationality as martial art, Tsuyoku naritai, A sense that more is possible, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Talking Snakes: A Cautionary Tale
|
Religion, Absurdity heuristic
|
Yvain
|
| Boxxy and Reagan
|
|
And
|
| Dialectical Bootstrapping
|
|
Johnicholas
|
| Is Santa Real?
|
|
thomblake
|
| Epistemic Viciousness
|
Problem of verifying rationality, Rationality as martial art, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| On the Care and Feeding of Young Rationalists
|
|
MBlume
|
| The Least Convenient Possible World
|
Least convenient possible world
|
Yvain
|
| Closet survey #1
|
|
And
|
| Soulless morality
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| The Skeptic's Trilemma
|
|
Yvain
|
| Schools Proliferating Without Evidence
|
Problem of verifying rationality, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Really Extreme Altruism
|
|
CronoDAS
|
| Storm by Tim Minchin
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| 3 Levels of Rationality Verification
|
Problem of verifying rationality, Methods of verifying rationality, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Tragedy of the Anticommons
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Are You a Solar Deity?
|
|
Yvain
|
| In What Ways Have You Become Stronger?
|
Problem of verifying rationality, Methods of verifying rationality
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Taboo "rationality," please.
|
|
MBlume
|
| Science vs. art
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| What Do We Mean By "Rationality"?
|
Rationality, Map and Territory (sequence)
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Comments for "Rationality"
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The "Spot the Fakes" Test
|
|
Yvain
|
| On Juvenile Fiction
|
|
MBlume
|
| Rational Me or We?
|
Intellectual roles
|
RobinHanson
|
| Dead Aid
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Tarski Statements as Rationalist Exercise
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| The Pascal's Wager Fallacy Fallacy
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Never Leave Your Room
|
Bias, Priming
|
Yvain
|
| Rationalist Storybooks: A Challenge
|
|
MBlume
|
| A corpus of our community's knowledge
|
|
infotropism
|
| Little Johny Bayesian
|
|
Darmani
|
| How to Not Lose an Argument
|
|
Yvain
|
| Counterfactual Mugging
|
Counterfactual mugging
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Rationalist Fiction
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationalist Poetry Fans, Unite!
|
|
Yvain
|
| Precommitting to paying Omega.
|
|
topynate
|
| Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate
|
Akrasia, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Just a reminder: Scientists are, technically, people.
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Support That Sounds Like Dissent
|
|
jimrandomh
|
| Tolerate Tolerance
|
Tolerance, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Mind Control and Me
|
|
Patrick
|
| Individual Rationality Is a Matter of Life and Death
|
|
patrissimo
|
| The Power of Positivist Thinking
|
|
Yvain
|
| Don't Revere The Bearer Of Good Info
|
|
CarlShulman
|
| You're Calling *Who* A Cult Leader?
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Cached Selves
|
Bias, Cached thought
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts
|
Eliezer Yudkowsky
|
steven0461
|
| When Truth Isn't Enough
|
Connotation
|
Yvain
|
| BHTV: Yudkowsky & Adam Frank on "religious experience"
|
Religion
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| I'm confused. Could someone help?
|
|
CronoDAS
|
| Playing Video Games In Shuffle Mode
|
|
talisman
|
| Book: Psychiatry and the Human Condition
|
|
patrissimo
|
| Thoughts on status signals
|
|
pwno
|
| Bogus Pipeline, Bona Fide Pipeline
|
Priming
|
Yvain
|
| On Things that are Awesome
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Hyakujo's Fox
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Terrorism is not about Terror
|
|
gwern
|
| The Implicit Association Test
|
Priming
|
Yvain
|
| Contests vs. Real World Problems
|
|
badger
|
| The Sacred Mundane
|
Anti-epistemology, Religion, How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Extreme updating: The devil is in the missing details
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Spock's Dirty Little Secret
|
Emotion
|
pjeby
|
| The Good Bayesian
|
|
Sideways
|
| Fight Biases, or Route Around Them?
|
Debiasing, Priming
|
Yvain
|
| Why *I* fail to act rationally
|
|
bentarm
|
| Open Thread: March 2009
|
|
CarlShulman
|
| Two Blegs
|
|
talisman
|
| Your Price for Joining
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Sleeping Beauty gets counterfactually mugged
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| The Mind Is Not Designed For Thinking
|
|
CronoDAS
|
| Crowley on Religious Experience
|
Religion
|
Yvain
|
| Can Humanism Match Religion's Output?
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| On Seeking a Shortening of the Way
|
|
Annoyance
|
| Altruist Coordination -- Central Station
|
|
MBlume
|
| Less Wrong Facebook Page
|
|
MBlume
|
| The Hidden Origins of Ideas
|
|
cleonid
|
| Defense Against The Dark Arts: Case Study #1
|
Dark arts
|
Yvain
|
| Church vs. Taskforce
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| When It's Not Right to be Rational
|
|
Annoyance
|
| The Zombie Preacher of Somerset
|
P-zombie, Philosophical zombie
|
Yvain
|
| Hygienic Anecdotes
|
Epistemic hygiene
|
badger
|
| Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Ask LW: What questions to test in our rationality questionnaire?
|
Problem of verifying rationality, Methods of verifying rationality
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Akrasia, hyperbolic discounting, and picoeconomics
|
Akrasia
|
ciphergoth
|
| Deliberate and spontaneous creativity
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Most Rationalists Are Elsewhere
|
|
RobinHanson
|
| Framing Effects in Anthropology
|
|
Yvain
|
| Kling, Probability, and Economics
|
|
matt
|
| Helpless Individuals
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Benefits of Rationality?
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Money: The Unit of Caring
|
Shut up and multiply, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Building Communities vs. Being Rational
|
|
swestrup
|
| Degrees of Radical Honesty
|
|
MBlume
|
| Introducing CADIE
|
|
MBlume
|
| Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
|
Fuzzies, Shut up and multiply, Utilons, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Proverbs and Cached Judgments: the Rolling Stone
|
|
Annoyance
|
| You don't need Kant
|
|
Andrew
|
| Accuracy Versus Winning
|
|
John_Maxwell_IV
|
| Wrong Tomorrow
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Selecting Rationalist Groups
|
Paranoid debating, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Aumann voting; or, How to vote when you're ignorant
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| "Robot scientists can think for themselves"
|
|
CronoDAS
|
| Where are we?
|
|
ciphergoth
|
| The Brooklyn Society For Ethical Culture
|
|
MBlume
|
| Open Thread: April 2009
|
|
gjm
|
| Rationality is Systematized Winning
|
Rationalists should win, Something to protect, The utility function is not up for grabs
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Another Call to End Aid to Africa
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| First London Rationalist Meeting upcoming
|
|
taw
|
| On dollars, utility, and crack cocaine
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Incremental Progress and the Valley
|
Valley of bad rationality, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The First London Rationalist Meetup
|
Paranoid debating
|
taw
|
| Why Support the Underdog?
|
|
Yvain
|
| Off-Topic Discussion Thread: April 2009
|
|
MBlume
|
| Voting etiquette
|
|
gjm
|
| Formalizing Newcomb's
|
Newcomb's problem
|
cousin_it
|
| Supporting the underdog is explained by Hanson's Near/Far distinction
|
Near/far thinking
|
Roko
|
| Real-Life Anthropic Weirdness
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationalist Wiki
|
|
badger
|
| Rationality Toughness Tests
|
|
RobinHanson
|
| Heuristic is not a bad word
|
Heuristic
|
HughRistik
|
| Rationalists should beware rationalism
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Newcomb's Problem standard positions
|
Newcomb's problem
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Average utilitarianism must be correct?
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Rationalist wiki, redux
|
|
ciphergoth
|
| What do fellow rationalists think about Mensa?
|
|
taw
|
| Extenuating Circumstances
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| On Comments, Voting, and Karma - Part I
|
|
thomblake
|
| Newcomb's Problem vs. One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma
|
Newcomb's problem
|
Wei_Dai
|
| What isn't the wiki for?
|
|
ciphergoth
|
| Eternal Sunshine of the Rational Mind
|
|
Cyan
|
| Of Lies and Black Swan Blowups
|
How To Actually Change Your Mind
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Whining-Based Communities
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Help, help, I'm being oppressed!
|
|
Yvain
|
| Zero-based karma coming through
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| E-Prime
|
|
CannibalSmith
|
| Mandatory Secret Identities
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationality, Cryonics and Pascal's Wager
|
|
Roko
|
| Less Wrong IRC Meetup
|
|
jimrandomh
|
| "Stuck In The Middle With Bruce"
|
|
CronoDAS
|
| Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great
|
Open problems on Less Wrong
|
Yvain
|
| "Playing to Win"
|
Playing to win
|
CronoDAS
|
| Secret Identities vs. Groupthink
|
Groupthink
|
Swimmy
|
| Silver Chairs, Paternalism, and Akrasia
|
|
dclayh
|
| Extreme Rationality: It Could Be Great
|
|
badger
|
| The uniquely awful example of theism
|
Religion
|
gjm
|
| Beware of Other-Optimizing
|
Other-optimizing, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| How theism works
|
Religion
|
ciphergoth
|
| That Crisis thing seems pretty useful
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Spay or Neuter Your Irrationalities
|
|
Alicorn
|
| The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet
|
Other-optimizing
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Akrasia and Shangri-La
|
Other-optimizing, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Maybe Theism Is OK
|
Religion
|
byrnema
|
| Metauncertainty
|
|
jimmy
|
| Is masochism necessary?
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Missed Distinctions
|
|
jimrandomh
|
| Toxic Truth
|
|
MichaelHoward
|
| Too much feedback can be a bad thing
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Twelve Virtues booklet printing?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| How Much Thought
|
Costs of rationality
|
jimrandomh
|
| Awful Austrians
|
|
Swimmy
|
| Sunk Cost Fallacy
|
|
Z_M_Davis
|
| It's okay to be (at least a little) irrational
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Marketing rationalism
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Bystander Apathy
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Persuasiveness vs Soundness
|
|
Patrick
|
| Declare your signaling and hidden agendas
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| GroupThink, Theism ... and the Wiki
|
|
byrnema
|
| Collective Apathy and the Internet
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Tell it to someone who doesn't care
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Bayesians vs. Barbarians
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Actions and Words: Akrasia and the Fruit of Self-Knowledge
|
|
Annoyance
|
| Mechanics without wrenches
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| I Changed My Mind Today - Canned Laughter
|
|
pre
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| Of Gender and Rationality
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The Craft and the Community
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| Welcome to Less Wrong!
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MBlume
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| Instrumental Rationality is a Chimera
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Tom_Talbot
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| Practical rationality questionnaire
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AnnaSalamon
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| My Way
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The Craft and the Community
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| The Art of Critical Decision Making
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PhilGoetz
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| The Trouble With "Good"
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Fuzzies
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Yvain
|
| While we're on the subject of meta-ethics...
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CronoDAS
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| Chomsky on reason and science
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|
PhilGoetz
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| Anti-rationality quotes
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Quotes
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PhilGoetz
|
| Two-Tier Rationalism
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|
Alicorn
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| My main problem with utilitarianism
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|
taw
|
| Just for fun - let's play a game.
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CronoDAS
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| Rationality Quotes - April 2009
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Quotes
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| The Epistemic Prisoner's Dilemma
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|
MBlume
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| How a pathological procrastinor can lose weight (Anti-akrasia)
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|
dreeves
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| Atheist or Agnostic?
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|
byrnema
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| Great Books of Failure
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| Weekly Wiki Workshop and suggested articles
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|
badger
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| The True Epistemic Prisoner's Dilemma
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MBlume
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| Spreading the word?
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|
ciphergoth
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| The ideas you're not ready to post
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|
JulianMorrison
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| Evangelical Rationality
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|
CannibalSmith
|
| The Sin of Underconfidence
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Egalitarianism, Underconfidence, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Masochism vs. Self-defeat
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
| Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| UC Santa Barbara Rationalists Unite - Saturday, 6PM
|
|
MBlume
|
| LessWrong Boo Vote (Stochastic Downvoting)
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Proposal: Use the Wiki for Concepts
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Escaping Your Past
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|
Z_M_Davis
|
| Go Forth and Create the Art!
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| Fix it and tell us what you did
|
|
JulianMorrison
|
| This Didn't Have To Happen
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Just a bit of humor...
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|
CronoDAS
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| What's in a name? That which we call a rationalist...
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badger
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| Rational Groups Kick Ass
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|
talisman
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| Instrumental vs. Epistemic -- A Bardic Perspective
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|
MBlume
|
| Programmatic Prediction markets
|
|
whpearson
|
| Cached Procrastination
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Akrasia, Cached thought
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jimrandomh
|
| Practical Advice Backed By Deep Theories
|
Peak-end rule, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| "Self-pretending" is not as useful as we think
|
|
pwno
|
| Where's Your Sense of Mystery?
|
|
Yvain
|
| Less Meta
|
The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| SIAI call for skilled volunteers and potential interns
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| The Craft and the Community
|
Sequences, The Craft and the Community
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Excuse me, would you like to take a survey?
|
|
Yvain
|
| Should we be biased?
|
|
James_Miller
|
| Theism, Wednesday, and Not Being Adopted
|
Costs of rationality
|
Alicorn
|
| The End (of Sequences)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Final Words
|
Beisutsukai
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Bayesian Cabaret
|
|
Yvain
|
| Verbal Overshadowing and The Art of Rationality
|
|
pangloss
|
| How Not to be Stupid: Starting Up
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
| How Not to be Stupid: Know What You Want, What You Really Really Want
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
| Epistemic vs. Instrumental Rationality: Approximations
|
Antiprediction
|
Peter_de_Blanc
|
| What is control theory, and why do you need to know about it?
|
Control theory
|
RichardKennaway
|
| Re-formalizing PD
|
Prisoner's dilemma
|
cousin_it
|
| Generalizing From One Example
|
Typical mind fallacy
|
Yvain
|
| Wednesday depends on us.
|
|
byrnema
|
| How to come up with verbal probabilities
|
|
jimmy
|
| Fighting Akrasia: Incentivising Action
|
|
gworley
|
| Fire and Motion
|
|
rwallace
|
| Fiction of interest
|
|
dclayh
|
| How Not to be Stupid: Adorable Maybes
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
| Rationalistic Losing
|
|
MrHen
|
| Rationalist Role in the Information Age
|
|
byrnema
|
| Conventions and Confusing Continuity Conundrums
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
| Open Thread: May 2009
|
|
steven0461
|
| Second London Rationalist Meeting upcoming - Sunday 14:00
|
|
taw
|
| TED Talks for Less Wrong
|
|
Cyan
|
| The mind-killer
|
Mind-killer
|
ciphergoth
|
| What I Tell You Three Times Is True
|
|
Yvain
|
| Return of the Survey
|
|
Yvain
|
| Essay-Question Poll: Dietary Choices
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Allais Hack -- Transform Your Decisions!
|
|
MBlume
|
| Without models
|
Control theory
|
RichardKennaway
|
| Bead Jar Guesses
|
Priors
|
Alicorn
|
| Special Status Needs Special Support
|
Affect heuristic
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| How David Beats Goliath
|
|
JulianMorrison
|
| How to use "philosophical majoritarianism"
|
|
jimmy
|
| Off Topic Thread: May 2009
|
|
MBlume
|
| Introduction Thread: May 2009
|
|
MBlume
|
| Consider Representative Data Sets
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| No Universal Probability Space
|
|
gworley
|
| Wiki.lesswrong.com Is Live
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Hardened Problems Make Brittle Models
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Beware Trivial Inconveniences
|
|
Yvain
|
| On the Fence? Major in CS
|
|
talisman
|
| Rationality is winning - or is it?
|
|
taw
|
| The First Koan: Drinking the Hot Iron Ball
|
|
Annoyance
|
| Epistemic vs. Instrumental Rationality: Case of the Leaky Agent
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Replaying History
|
|
gworley
|
| Framing Consciousness
|
|
cousin_it
|
| A Request for Open Problems
|
|
MrHen
|
| How Not to be Stupid: Brewing a Nice Cup of Utilitea
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
| Step Back
|
|
Andy_McKenzie
|
| You Are A Brain
|
|
Liron
|
| No One Knows Stuff
|
A sense that more is possible
|
talisman
|
| Willpower Hax #487: Execute by Default
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationality in the Media: Don't (New Yorker, May 2009)
|
|
Andrew
|
| Survey Results
|
|
Yvain
|
| A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies
|
|
Yvain
|
| "Open-Mindedness" - the video
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Religion, Mystery, and Warm, Soft Fuzzies
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
| Cheerios: An "Untested New Drug"
|
|
MBlume
|
| Essay-Question Poll: Voting
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Outward Change Drives Inward Change
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Share Your Anti-Akrasia Tricks
|
|
Vladimir_Golovin
|
| Wanting to Want
|
|
Alicorn
|
| "What Is Wrong With Our Thoughts"
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Bad reasons for a rationalist to lose
|
|
matt
|
| Supernatural Math
|
|
saturn
|
| Rationality quotes - May 2009
|
Quotes
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Positive Bias Test (C++ program)
|
Positive bias
|
MBlume
|
| Catchy Fallacy Name Fallacy (and Supporting Disagreement)
|
|
JGWeissman
|
| Inhibition and the Mind
|
|
Annoyance
|
| Least Signaling Activities?
|
|
RobinHanson
|
| Brute-force Music Composition
|
|
HughRistik
|
| Changing accepted public opinion and Skynet
|
|
Roko
|
| Homogeneity vs. heterogeneity (or, What kind of sex is most moral?)
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Saturation, Distillation, Improvisation: A Story About Procedural Knowledge And Cookies
|
|
Alicorn
|
| This Failing Earth
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Wire versus Evolutionary Psychology
|
|
MrShaggy
|
| Dissenting Views
|
|
byrnema
|
| Eric Drexler on Learning About Everything
|
General knowledge
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Anime Explains the Epimenides Paradox
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Do Fandoms Need Awfulness?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Can we create a function that provably predicts the optimization power of intelligences?
|
|
whpearson
|
| Link: The Case for Working With Your Hands
|
|
Daniel_Burfoot
|
| Image vs. Impact: Can public commitment be counterproductive for achievement?
|
|
patrissimo
|
| A social norm against unjustified opinions?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Taking Occam Seriously
|
|
steven0461
|
| The Onion Goes Inside The Biased Mind
|
|
patrissimo
|
| The Frontal Syndrome
|
|
Annoyance
|
| Open Thread: June 2009
|
|
Cyan
|
| Concrete vs Contextual values
|
|
whpearson
|
| Bioconservative and biomoderate singularitarian positions
|
|
Roko
|
| Would You Slap Your Father? Article Linkage and Discussion
|
|
Annoyance
|
| With whom shall I diavlog?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Mate selection for the men here
|
|
rhollerith
|
| Third London Rationalist Meeting
|
|
taw
|
| Post Your Utility Function
|
|
taw
|
| Probability distributions and writing style
|
|
dclayh
|
| My concerns about the term 'rationalist'
|
|
JamesCole
|
| Honesty: Beyond Internal Truth
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Macroeconomics, The Lucas Critique, Microfoundations, and Modeling in General
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
| indexical uncertainty and the Axiom of Independence
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| The Aumann's agreement theorem game (guess 2/3 of the average)
|
|
Warrigal
|
| Expected futility for humans
|
|
Roko
|
| You can't believe in Bayes
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Less wrong economic policy
|
|
gworley
|
| The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth About Morality and What To Do About It
|
|
Roko
|
| Let's reimplement EURISKO!
|
|
cousin_it
|
| If it looks like utility maximizer and quacks like utility maximizer...
|
|
taw
|
| Typical Mind and Politics
|
Typical mind fallacy
|
Yvain
|
| Why safety is not safe
|
|
rwallace
|
| Rationality Quotes - June 2009
|
Quotes
|
pjeby
|
| Readiness Heuristics
|
|
jimrandomh
|
| The two meanings of mathematical terms
|
|
JamesCole
|
| The Laws of Magic
|
Contagion heuristic, Sympathetic magic
|
Annoyance
|
| Intelligence enhancement as existential risk mitigation
|
Existential risk
|
Roko
|
| Rationalists lose when others choose
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Ask LessWrong: Human cognitive enhancement now?
|
|
taw
|
| Don't Count Your Chickens...
|
|
thomblake
|
| Applied Picoeconomics
|
Akrasia
|
Yvain
|
| Representative democracy awesomeness hypothesis
|
|
taw
|
| The Physiology of Willpower
|
|
pjeby
|
| Time to See If We Can Apply Anything We Have Learned
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
| Cascio in The Atlantic, more on cognitive enhancement as existential risk mitigation
|
|
Roko
|
| ESR's comments on some EY:OB/LW posts
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Nonparametric Ethics
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Shane Legg on prospect theory and computational finance
|
Prospect theory
|
Roko
|
| The Domain of Your Utility Function
|
Hedonism
|
Peter_de_Blanc
|
| The Monty Maul Problem
|
|
JGWeissman
|
| Guilt by Association
|
|
Annoyance
|
| Lie to me?
|
|
pwno
|
| Richard Dawkins TV - Baloney Detection Kit video
|
|
Roko
|
| Coming Out
|
|
cousin_it
|
| The Great Brain is Located Externally
|
General knowledge
|
Alicorn
|
| Controlling your inner control circuits
|
Perceptual control theory, Control theory
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| What's In A Name?
|
|
Yvain
|
| Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism
|
Religion
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Book Review: Complications
|
|
Annoyance
|
| Open Thread: July 2009
|
|
Warrigal
|
| Fourth London Rationalist Meeting?
|
|
RichardKennaway
|
| Rationality Quotes - July 2009
|
Quotes
|
SilasBarta
|
| Harnessing Your Biases
|
|
swestrup
|
| Avoiding Failure: Fallacy Finding
|
|
Patrick
|
| Not Technically Lying
|
Not technically a lie
|
Psychohistorian
|
| The enemy within
|
|
Roko
|
| Media bias
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Can chess be a game of luck?
|
|
Rune
|
| The Dangers of Partial Knowledge of the Way: Failing in School
|
Dangerous knowledge
|
gworley
|
| An interesting speed dating study
|
|
CronoDAS
|
| Can self-help be bad for you?
|
|
Tom_Talbot
|
| Causality does not imply correlation
|
|
RichardKennaway
|
| Recommended reading for new rationalists
|
|
XFrequentist
|
| Formalized math: dream vs reality
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Causation as Bias (sort of)
|
|
spuckblase
|
| Debate: Is short term planning in humans due to a short life or due to bias?
|
|
whpearson
|
| Jul 12 Bay Area meetup - Hanson, Vassar, Yudkowsky
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Our society lacks good self-preservation mechanisms
|
Existential risk
|
Roko
|
| Good Quality Heuristics
|
|
CannibalSmith
|
| How likely is a failure of nuclear deterrence?
|
|
Roko
|
| The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| "Sex Is Always Well Worth Its Two-Fold Cost"
|
|
cousin_it
|
| The Dirt on Depression
|
|
pjeby
|
| Fair Division of Black-Hole Negentropy: an Introduction to Cooperative Game Theory
|
Game theory
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Absolute denial for atheists
|
Mind-killer
|
taw
|
| Causes of disagreements
|
|
JustinShovelain
|
| The Popularization Bias
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Zwicky's Trifecta of Illusions
|
|
thomblake
|
| Are You Anosognosic?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Article upvoting
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Sayeth the Girl
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Timeless Decision Theory: Problems I Can't Solve
|
Counterfactual mugging, Timeless decision theory
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| An Akrasia Anecdote
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
| Being saner about gender and rationality
|
|
Roko
|
| Are you crazy?
|
|
gworley
|
| Counterfactual Mugging v. Subjective Probability
|
|
MBlume
|
| Creating The Simple Math of Everything
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
| Joint Distributions and the Slow Spread of Good Ideas
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
| Chomsky, Sports Talk Radio, Media Bias, and Me
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
| Outside Analysis and Blind Spots
|
|
orthonormal
|
| Shut Up And Guess
|
Loss aversion
|
Yvain
|
| Of Exclusionary Speech and Gender Politics
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Missing the Trees for the Forest
|
Narrative fallacy
|
Yvain
|
| Deciding on our rationality focus
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Fairness and Geometry
|
|
cousin_it
|
| It's all in your head-land
|
|
colinmarshall
|
| An observation on cryocrastination
|
|
AndrewH
|
| The Price of Integrity
|
|
Aurini
|
| Are calibration and rational decisions mutually exclusive? (Part one)
|
|
Cyan
|
| The Nature of Offense
|
Status, Offense
|
Wei_Dai
|
| AndrewH's observation and opportunity costs
|
|
Yvain
|
| Are calibration and rational decisions mutually exclusive? (Part two)
|
|
Cyan
|
| Celebrate Trivial Impetuses
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Freaky Fairness
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Link: Interview with Vladimir Vapnik
|
|
Daniel_Burfoot
|
| Five Stages of Idolatry
|
|
hegemonicon
|
| Bayesian Flame
|
|
cousin_it
|
| The Second Best
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Bayesian Utility: Representing Preference by Probability Measures
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| The Trolley Problem in popular culture: Torchwood Series 3
|
|
botogol
|
| Thomas C. Schelling's "Strategy of Conflict"
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Information cascades in scientific practice
|
|
RichardKennaway
|
| The Obesity Myth
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
| The Hero With A Thousand Chances
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Pract: A Guessing and Testing Game
|
|
brian_jaress
|
| An Alternative Approach to AI Cooperation
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Open Thread: August 2009
|
|
taw
|
| Pain
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Suffering
|
|
Tiiba
|
| Why You're Stuck in a Narrative
|
Narrative fallacy
|
hegemonicon
|
| Unspeakable Morality
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Difficulties of Potential People and Decision Making
|
|
FrankAdamek
|
| Wits and Wagers
|
|
Johnicholas
|
| The usefulness of correlations
|
|
RichardKennaway
|
| She Blinded Me With Science
|
|
Jonathan_Graehl
|
| The Machine Learning Personality Test
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| A Normative Rule for Decision-Changing Metrics
|
|
FrankAdamek
|
| Recommended reading: George Orwell on knowledge from authority
|
|
CronoDAS
|
| Rationality Quotes - August 2009
|
Quotes
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Why Real Men Wear Pink
|
Status
|
Yvain
|
| The Objective Bayesian Programme
|
|
cousin_it
|
| LW/OB Rationality Quotes - August 2009
|
Quotes
|
Rune
|
| Exterminating life is rational
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Robin Hanson's lists of Overcoming Bias Posts
|
|
AndrewH
|
| Fighting Akrasia: Finding the Source
|
|
gworley
|
| A note on hypotheticals
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Dreams with Damaged Priors
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up?
|
|
Yvain
|
| Calibration fail
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Guess Again
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Misleading the witness
|
|
Bo102010
|
| Utilons vs. Hedons
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
| Deleting paradoxes with fuzzy logic
|
|
Warrigal
|
| Sense, Denotation and Semantics
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Towards a New Decision Theory
|
Counterfactual mugging, Updateless decision theory
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Fighting Akrasia: Survey Design Help Request
|
|
gworley
|
| Minds that make optimal use of small amounts of sensory data
|
|
SforSingularity
|
| Bloggingheads: Yudkowsky and Aaronson talk about AI and Many-worlds
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Oh my God! It's full of Nash equilibria!
|
|
Cyan
|
| Happiness is a Heuristic
|
|
hegemonicon
|
| Experiential Pica
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Friendlier AI through politics
|
|
Jonathan_Graehl
|
| Singularity Summit 2009 (quick post)
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Scott Aaronson's "On Self-Delusion and Bounded Rationality"
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory
|
Decision theory, Timeless decision theory
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| You have just been Counterfactually Mugged!
|
|
CronoDAS
|
| Evolved Bayesians will be biased
|
|
taw
|
| How inevitable was modern human civilization - data
|
|
taw
|
| Timeless Decision Theory and Meta-Circular Decision Theory
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| ESR's New Take on Qualia
|
|
billswift
|
| The Journal of (Failed) Replication Studies
|
|
Vladimir_Gritsenko
|
| Working Mantras
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Decision theory: An outline of some upcoming posts
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| How does an infovore manage information overload?
|
|
haig
|
| Confusion about Newcomb is confusion about counterfactuals
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Mathematical simplicity bias and exponential functions
|
|
taw
|
| A Rationalist's Bookshelf: The Mind's I (Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, 1981)
|
|
colinmarshall
|
| Paper: Testing ecological models
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brian_jaress
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| The Twin Webs of Knowledge
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Kaj_Sotala
|
| Don't be Pathologically Mugged!
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Psy-Kosh
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| Some counterevidence for human sociobiology
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|
taw
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| Cookies vs Existential Risk
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FrankAdamek
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| Argument Maps Improve Critical Thinking
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Johnicholas
|
| Great post on Reddit about accepting atheism
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Optimal Strategies for Reducing Existential Risk
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FrankAdamek
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| Open Thread: September 2009
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AllanCrossman
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| Rationality Quotes - September 2009
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Quotes
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thomblake
|
| LW/OB Quotes - Fall 2009
|
Quotes
|
thomblake
|
| Knowing What You Know
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|
hegemonicon
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| Decision theory: Why we need to reduce "could", "would", "should"
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|
AnnaSalamon
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| The Featherless Biped
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|
Annoyance
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| The Sword of Good
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| Torture vs. Dust vs. the Presumptuous Philosopher: Anthropic Reasoning in UDT
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Wei_Dai
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| Notes on utility function experiment
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|
taw
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| Counterfactual Mugging and Logical Uncertainty
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|
Vladimir_Nesov
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| Decision theory: Why Pearl helps reduce "could" and "would", but still leaves us with at least three alternatives
|
Timeless decision theory
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AnnaSalamon
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| Forcing Anthropics: Boltzmann Brains
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| Why I'm Staying On Bloggingheads.tv
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| An idea: Sticking Point Learning
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|
cousin_it
|
| FHI postdoc at Oxford
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Outlawing Anthropics: An Updateless Dilemma
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Let Them Debate College Students
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Lifespan Dilemma
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Formalizing informal logic
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|
Johnicholas
|
| Timeless Identity Crisis
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
| The New Nostradamus
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Formalizing reflective inconsistency
|
|
Johnicholas
|
| Beware of WEIRD psychological samples
|
|
ciphergoth
|
| The Absent-Minded Driver
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Updateless decision theory
|
Wei_Dai
|
| What is the Singularity Summit?
|
|
Liron
|
| Sociosexual Orientation Inventory, or failing to perform basic sanity checks
|
|
taw
|
| Quantum Russian Roulette
|
|
Christian_Szegedy
|
| MWI, weird quantum experiments and future-directed continuity of conscious experience
|
|
SforSingularity
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| Hypothetical Paradoxes
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
| Reason as memetic immune disorder
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Epistemic hygiene, Separate magisteria
|
PhilGoetz
|
| How to use SMILE to solve Bayes Nets
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|
Johnicholas
|
| The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Ethics as a black box function
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Avoiding doomsday: a "proof" of the self-indication assumption
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Anthropic reasoning and correlated decision making
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|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Boredom vs. Scope Insensitivity
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|
Wei_Dai
|
| The utility curve of the human population
|
|
dclayh
|
| Solutions to Political Problems As Counterfactuals
|
|
Yvain
|
| Non-Malthusian Scenarios
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Correlated decision making: a complete theory
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|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| The Scylla of Error and the Charybdis of Paralysis
|
|
Johnicholas
|
| The Anthropic Trilemma
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Your Most Valuable Skill
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Privileging the Hypothesis
|
Privileging the hypothesis, How To Actually Change Your Mind, Antiprediction
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Why Many-Worlds Is Not The Rationally Favored Interpretation
|
|
Mitchell_Porter
|
| Intuitive differences: when to agree to disagree
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Regular NYC Meetups
|
|
MBlume
|
| Open Thread: October 2009
|
|
gwern
|
| Why Don't We Apply What We Know About Twins to Everybody Else?
|
|
MichaelGR
|
| Are you a Democrat singletonian, or a Republican singletonian?
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Scott Aaronson on Born Probabilities
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| 'oy, girls on lw, want to get together some time?'
|
|
MBlume
|
| When Willpower Attacks
|
|
jimrandomh
|
| Dying Outside
|
|
HalFinney
|
| Don't Think Too Hard.
|
|
hegemonicon
|
| The Presumptuous Philosopher's Presumptuous Friend
|
|
PlaidX
|
| The First Step is to Admit That You Have a Problem
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Let them eat cake: Interpersonal Problems vs Tasks
|
|
HughRistik
|
| LW Meetup Google Calendar
|
|
MBlume
|
| I'm Not Saying People Are Stupid
|
Stupidity
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| How to get that Friendly Singularity: a minority view
|
|
Mitchell_Porter
|
| The Argument from Witness Testimony
|
|
Johnicholas
|
| Link: PRISMs, Gom Jabbars, and Consciousness (Peter Watts)
|
|
JulianMorrison
|
| What Program Are You?
|
|
RobinHanson
|
| Do the 'unlucky' systematically underestimate high-variance strategies?
|
|
MBlume
|
| Anticipation vs. Faith: At What Cost Rationality?
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| The power of information?
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Quantifying ethicality of human actions
|
|
bogus
|
| BHTV: Eliezer Yudkowsky and Andrew Gelman
|
|
MichaelGR
|
| We're in danger. I must tell the others...
|
|
AllanCrossman
|
| PredictionBook.com - Track your calibration
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Shadow Question
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Information theory and FOOM
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| How to think like a quantum monadologist
|
|
Mitchell_Porter
|
| Localized theories and conditional complexity
|
|
jimmy
|
| Applying Double Standards to "Divisive" Ideas
|
|
PlaidX
|
| Near and far skills
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Shortness is now a treatable condition
|
|
taw
|
| Lore Sjoberg's Life-Hacking FAQK
|
|
PlaidX
|
| Why the beliefs/values dichotomy?
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Biking Beyond Madness (link)
|
|
hirvinen
|
| Rationality Quotes: October 2009
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The continued misuse of the Prisoner's Dilemma
|
|
SilasBarta
|
| Better thinking through experiential games
|
Puzzle game index, The Less Wrong Video Game
|
Morendil
|
| Extreme risks: when not to use expected utility
|
Expected utility
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Pound of Feathers, Pound of Gold
|
|
Annoyance
|
| Arrow's Theorem is a Lie
|
|
tommccabe
|
| The Value of Nature and Old Books
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
| Circular Altruism vs. Personal Preference
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Computer bugs and evolution
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Doing your good deed for the day
|
|
Yvain
|
| Expected utility without the independence axiom
|
Expected utility
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Post retracted: If you follow expected utility, expect to be money-pumped
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| A Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer (Step 1: The Proposition)
|
|
MichaelGR
|
| David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation
|
|
marc
|
| Less Wrong / Overcoming Bias meet-up groups
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
| Our House, My Rules
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
| Open Thread: November 2009
|
|
Warrigal
|
| Re-understanding Robin Hanson's "Pre-Rationality"
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Rolf Nelson's "The Rational Entrepreneur"
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Money pumping: the axiomatic approach
|
Expected utility
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Light Arts
|
|
Alicorn
|
| News: Improbable Coincidence Slows LHC Repairs
|
|
Zack_M_Davis
|
| All hail the Lisbon Treaty! Or is that "hate"? Or just "huh"?
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Hamster in Tutu Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Danger of Stories
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
| Practical rationality in surveys
|
|
taw
|
| Reflections on Pre-Rationality
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Rationality advice from Terry Tao
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Restraint Bias
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| What makes you YOU? For non-deists only.
|
|
cleonid
|
| Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions
|
|
MichaelGR
|
| Test Your Calibration!
|
|
tommccabe
|
| Anti-Akrasia Technique: Structured Procrastination
|
|
patrissimo
|
| Consequences of arbitrage: expected cash
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Auckland meet up Saturday Nov 28th
|
|
AndrewH
|
| The Academic Epistemology Cross Section: Who Cares More About Status?
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
| BHTV: Yudkowsky / Robert Greene
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Why (and why not) Bayesian Updating?
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Efficient prestige hypothesis
|
|
taw
|
| A Less Wrong singularity article?
|
Singularity paper
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Request For Article: Many-Worlds Quantum Computing
|
|
pre
|
| The One That Isn't There
|
|
Annoyance
|
| Calibration for continuous quantities
|
|
Cyan
|
| Friedman on Utility
|
|
billswift
|
| Rational lies
|
|
alexflint
|
| In conclusion: in the land beyond money pumps lie extreme events
|
Expected utility
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| How to test your mental performance at the moment?
|
|
taw
|
| Agree, Retort, or Ignore? A Post From the Future
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Contrarianism and reference class forecasting
|
|
taw
|
| Getting Feedback by Restricting Content
|
|
billswift
|
| Rooting Hard for Overpriced M&Ms
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
| A Nightmare for Eliezer
|
|
Madbadger
|
| Rationality Quotes November 2009
|
Quotes
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Morality and International Humanitarian Law
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
| Action vs. inaction
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| The Moral Status of Independent Identical Copies
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Call for new SIAI Visiting Fellows, on a rolling basis
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Open Thread: December 2009
|
|
CannibalSmith
|
| The Difference Between Utility and Utility
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
| 11 core rationalist skills
|
|
Roko
|
| Help Roko become a better rationalist!
|
|
Roko
|
| Intuitive supergoal uncertainty
|
|
JustinShovelain
|
| Frequentist Statistics are Frequently Subjective
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Arbitrage of prediction markets
|
|
taw
|
| Parapsychology: the control group for science
|
|
AllanCrossman
|
| Science - Idealistic Versus Signaling
|
|
billswift
|
| You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event
|
|
komponisto
|
| Probability Space & Aumann Agreement
|
Aumann's agreement theorem
|
Wei_Dai
|
| What Are Probabilities, Anyway?
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| The persuasive power of false confessions
|
|
matt
|
| A question of rationality
|
|
mormon2
|
| The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom
|
|
komponisto
|
| Against picking up pennies
|
|
Warrigal
|
| Previous Post Revised
|
|
komponisto
|
| Man-with-a-hammer syndrome
|
|
Shalmanese
|
| Rebasing Ethics
|
|
Shalmanese
|
| Getting Over Dust Theory
|
|
jhuffman
|
| An account of what I believe to be inconsistent behavior on the part of our editor
|
|
PeterS
|
| December 2009 Meta Thread
|
|
CarlShulman
|
| Reacting to Inadequate Data
|
|
MrHen
|
| The Contrarian Status Catch-22
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Any sufficiently advanced wisdom is indistinguishable from bullshit
|
|
Shalmanese
|
| Fundamentally Flawed, or Fast and Frugal?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Sufficiently Advanced Sanity
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Mandating Information Disclosure vs. Banning Deceptive Contract Terms
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
| If reason told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?
|
|
Shalmanese
|
| The Correct Contrarian Cluster
|
Absurdity heuristic, Problem of verifying rationality
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Karma Changes
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| lessmeta
|
|
PlaidX
|
| The 9/11 Meta-Truther Conspiracy Theory
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Two Truths and a Lie
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
| On the Power of Intelligence and Rationality
|
|
tommccabe
|
| Are these cognitive biases, biases?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Positive-affect-day-Schelling-point-mas Meetup
|
|
Marcello
|
| Playing the Meta-game
|
|
Technologos
|
| A Master-Slave Model of Human Preferences
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| That other kind of status
|
|
Yvain
|
| Singularity Institute $100K Challenge Grant / 2009 Donations Reminder
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Boksops -- Ancient Superintelligence?
|
|
MBlume
|
| New Year's Resolutions Thread
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
| New Year's Predictions Thread
|
|
MichaelVassar
|