Title
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Concepts Introduced/Discussed
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Author
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Optimizing Fuzzies And Utilons: The Altruism Chip Jar
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orthonormal
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Choose To Be Happy
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DanArmak
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Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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New Year's Predictions Thread (2011)
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Kevin
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Rationality Quotes: January 2011
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wedrifid
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Applied Optimal Philanthropy: How to Donate $100 to SIAI for Free
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Louie
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Techniques for probability estimates
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Yvain
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The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship
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lukeprog
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In the Pareto-optimised crowd, be sure to know your place
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Rationalist Clue
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Mass_Driver
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I
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PhilGoetz
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A LessWrong "rationality workbook" idea
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jwhendy
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Spaced Repetition Database for A Human's Guide to Words
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divia
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Back to the Basics of Rationality
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lukeprog
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Branches of rationality
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AnnaSalamon
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Anki deck for biases and fallacies
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phob
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Simpson's Paradox
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bentarm
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Rational Repentance
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Mass_Driver
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The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
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lukeprog
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Eliezer to speak in Oxford, 8pm Jan 25th
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alexflint
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Statistical Prediction Rules Out-Perform Expert Human Judgments
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lukeprog
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Theists are wrong; is theism?
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Will_Newsome
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Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge
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lukeprog
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The Illusion of Sameness
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Elizabeth
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David Chalmers' "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis"
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lukeprog
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Optimal Employment
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Louie
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Counterfactual Calculation and Observational Knowledge
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Vladimir_Nesov
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The Urgent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Artificial Intelligence
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lukeprog
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Rationality Quotes: February 2011
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gwern
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On Charities and Linear Utility
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Anatoly_Vorobey
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Fast Minds and Slow Computers
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jacob_cannell
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How to Beat Procrastination
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lukeprog
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You're in Newcomb's Box
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HonoreDB
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Value Stability and Aggregation
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jimrandomh
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Reaching the general public
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RichardKennaway
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Procedural Knowledge Gaps
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Alicorn
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How to make your intuitions cost-sensitive
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apophenia
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Subjective Relativity, Time Dilation and Divergence
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jacob_cannell
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Make your training useful
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AnnaSalamon
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Secure Your Beliefs
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lukeprog
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Science: Do It Yourself
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tommccabe
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Algorithms as Case Studies in Rationality
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abramdemski
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Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields
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Vladimir_M
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Revisiting the Anthropic Trilemma II: axioms and assumptions
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Write It Like A Poem
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Strange7
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Scholarship and DIY Science
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SarahC
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Dead men tell tales: falling out of love with SIA
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Ability to react
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Swimmer963
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Fun and Games with Cognitive Biases
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Cosmos
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Updateless anthropics
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Research methods
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Swimmer963
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Use curiosity
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AnnaSalamon
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Vassar talk in New Haven, Sunday 2/27
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tommccabe
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Singularity Institute now accepts donations via Bitcoin
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Kevin
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Eliezer Yudkowsky and Michael Vassar at NYU, Thursday March 3rd
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Cosmos
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Rationality Quotes: March 2011
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Alexandros
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Go Try Things
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atucker
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A Transhumanist Poem
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Swimmer963
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Positive Thinking
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Swimmer963
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Less Wrong at Burning Man 2011
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Kevin
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The Limits of Curiosity
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Elizabeth
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Plant Seeds of Rationality
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lukeprog
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Making Reasoning Obviously Locally Correct
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JGWeissman
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How I Lost 100 Pounds Using TDT
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Zvi
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Being a teacher
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Swimmer963
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Enjoying food more: a case study in third options
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MBlume
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How to Be Happy
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lukeprog
|
Rationality Outreach: A Parable
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SarahC
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Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Successful Rationalist Chapter
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Cosmos
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Towards a Bay Area Less Wrong Community
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LucasSloan
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Effective Rationality Outreach
|
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paulfchristiano
|
Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy
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lukeprog
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Costs and Benefits of Scholarship
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lukeprog
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Rationality Boot Camp
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Jasen
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The trouble with teamwork
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Swimmer963
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Crime and punishment
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PhilGoetz
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Verifying Rationality via RationalPoker.com
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Louie
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Faith and theory
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PhilGoetz
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Rational Reading: Thoughts On Prioritizing Books
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patrissimo
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The Neuroscience of Pleasure
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lukeprog
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Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline
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lukeprog
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London Hackday, this Friday, April 1st (No, this is not a joke)
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Alexandros
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Mental Metadata
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Alicorn
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Guilt: Another Gift Nobody Wants
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Yvain
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Reflections on rationality a year out
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SarahC
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Singularity Institute featured on Philanthroper
|
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Louie
|
The Good News of Situationist Psychology
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lukeprog
|
The peril of ignoring emotions
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Swimmer963
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Manufacturing prejudice
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PhilGoetz
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Don't Fear Failure
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atucker
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Just Try It: Quantity Trumps Quality
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atucker
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Rationality Quotes: April 2011
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benelliott
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Details of Taskforces; or, Cooperate Now
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paulfchristiano
|
Spaniard Lesswrongers, Unite!
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Raw_Power
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Failure Modes sometimes correspond to Game Mechanics
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Johnicholas
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Human errors, human values
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PhilGoetz
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The Neuroscience of Desire
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lukeprog
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Separate morality from free will
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PhilGoetz
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The Absolute Self-Selection Assumption
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paulfchristiano
|
Anthropics makes sense with shorter people
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KatjaGrace
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We are not living in a simulation
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dfranke
|
Best videos inspiring first interest in rationality or the singularity
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Academian
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Podcast
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Eneasz
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How not to be a Naïve Computationalist
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diegocaleiro
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Levels of Action
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tommccabe
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Three consistent positions for computationalists
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dfranke
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The Bias You Didn't Expect
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Psychohistorian
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Say More, Justify Less
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paulfchristiano
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How You Make Judgments: The Elephant and its Rider
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lukeprog
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Offense versus harm minimization
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Yvain
|
Build Small Skills in the Right Order
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lukeprog
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Learned Blankness
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AnnaSalamon
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Vanilla and chocolate and preference judgements
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Swimmer963
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No, Seriously. Just Try It.
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lukeprog
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Official Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Suggestions
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Louie
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Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The benefits of madness: A positive account of arationality
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Skatche
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Is Kiryas Joel an Unhappy Place?
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gwern
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Heading Toward: No-Nonsense Metaethics
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lukeprog
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Mini-camp on Rationality, Awesomeness, and Existential Risk (May 28 through June 4, 2011)
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AnnaSalamon
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Being Wrong about Your Own Subjective Experience
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lukeprog
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Convincing Arguments Aren’t Necessarily Correct – They’re Merely Convincing
|
|
lionhearted
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What is Metaethics?
|
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lukeprog
|
What data generated that thought?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Mapping our maps: types of knowledge
|
|
Swimmer963
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So You've Changed Your Mind
|
|
Spurlock
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Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 1 of 3)
|
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DavidM
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Cryonics Promotional Video Contest -- 10 BTC Prize
|
|
lsparrish
|
On Being Okay with the Truth
|
|
lukeprog
|
SIAI - An Examination
|
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BrandonReinhart
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The Cognitive Costs to Doing Things
|
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lionhearted
|
Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 2 of 3)
|
|
DavidM
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Your Evolved Intuitions
|
|
lukeprog
|
Leadership and Self Deception, Anatomy of Peace
|
|
TimFreeman
|
Experiment Idea Thread - Spring 2011
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
Intuition and Unconscious Learning
|
|
lukeprog
|
The Power of Agency
|
|
lukeprog
|
The 5-Second Level
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Shifting Load to Explicit Reasoning
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
Building rationalist communities: lessons from the Latter-day Saints
|
|
calcsam
|
Building rationalist communities: a series overview
|
|
calcsam
|
Chemicals and Electricity
|
|
lionhearted
|
When Intuitions Are Useful
|
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lukeprog
|
Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently
|
|
lukeprog
|
Holy Books (Or Rationalist Sequences) Don’t Implement Themselves
|
|
calcsam
|
Designing Rationalist Projects
|
|
calcsam
|
Conceptual Analysis and Moral Theory
|
|
lukeprog
|
Colonization models: a programming tutorial (Part 1/2)
|
|
snarles
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Colonization models: a tutorial on computational Bayesian inference (part 2/2)
|
|
snarles
|
Values vs. parameters
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
How and Why to Granularize
|
|
lukeprog
|
Suffering as attention-allocational conflict
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
The Aliens have Landed!
|
|
TimFreeman
|
On the Anthropic Trilemma
|
|
KatjaGrace
|
Metacontrarian Metaethics
|
|
Will_Newsome
|
Rationalist horoscopes: A low-hanging utility generator.
|
|
AdeleneDawner
|
A summary of Savage's foundations for probability and utility.
|
|
Sniffnoy
|
Ace Attorney: pioneer Rationalism-didactic game?
|
|
Raw_Power
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Inferring Our Desires
|
|
lukeprog
|
Self-programming through spaced repetition
|
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Luke_Grecki
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LW Biology 101 Introduction: Constraining Anticipation
|
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virtualAdept
|
Pancritical Rationalism Can Apply to Preferences and Behavior
|
|
TimFreeman
|
Dominus' Razor
|
|
badger
|
The cost of universal cryonics
|
|
handoflixue
|
Seeing Red: Dissolving Mary's Room and Qualia
|
|
orthonormal
|
Bias in capital project decision making
|
|
jsalvatier
|
Measuring aversion and habit strength
|
|
Academian
|
A Study of Scarlet: The Conscious Mental Graph
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|
orthonormal
|
Teachable Rationality Skills
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment
|
|
badger
|
Overcoming suffering: Emotional acceptance
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Nature: Red, in Truth and Qualia
|
|
orthonormal
|
Pluralistic Moral Reductionism
|
|
lukeprog
|
Heuristics for Deciding What to Work On
|
|
John_Maxwell_IV
|
Rationality Quotes: June 2011
|
|
Oscar_Cunningham
|
The Landmark Forum — a rationalist's first impression
|
|
Nisan
|
Action and habit
|
|
Swimmer963
|
St. Petersburg Mugging Implies You Have Bounded Utility
|
|
TimFreeman
|
Safety Culture and the Marginal Effect of a Dollar
|
|
jimrandomh
|
Memory, Spaced Repetition and Life
|
|
Duke
|
Not for the Sake of Pleasure Alone
|
|
lukeprog
|
How not to move the goalposts
|
|
HopeFox
|
Malice, Stupidity, or Egalité Irréfléchie?
|
|
lionhearted
|
Model Uncertainty, Pascalian Reasoning and Utilitarianism
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
Efficient philanthropy: local vs. global approaches
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
When is further research needed?
|
|
RichardKennaway
|
Foma: Beliefs that Cause Themselves to be True
|
|
atucker
|
Community roles: teachers and auxiliaries
|
|
calcsam
|
Community roles: committees and leadership
|
|
calcsam
|
Entangled with Reality: The Shoelace Example
|
|
lukeprog
|
The True Rejection Challenge
|
|
Alicorn
|
Reasons for being rational
|
|
Swimmer963
|
Not for the Sake of Selfishness Alone
|
|
lukeprog
|
Rationality Quotes July 2011
|
|
Normal_Anomaly
|
Behaviorism: Beware Anthropomorphizing Humans
|
|
Yvain
|
The Blue-Minimizing Robot
|
|
Yvain
|
'Is' and 'Ought' and Rationality
|
|
BobTheBob
|
Dark Arts: Schopenhauer wrote The Book on How To Troll
|
|
Raw_Power
|
Basics of Animal Reinforcement
|
|
Yvain
|
Find yourself a Worthy Opponent: a Chavruta
|
|
Raw_Power
|
Basics of Human Reinforcement
|
|
Yvain
|
How to annoy misanthropes and bleeding-hearts
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
An Outside View on Less Wrong's Advice
|
|
Mass_Driver
|
Time and Effort Discounting
|
|
Yvain
|
Wanting vs. Liking Revisited
|
|
Yvain
|
Prospect Theory: A Framework for Understanding Cognitive Biases
|
|
Yvain
|
Physical and Mental Behavior
|
|
Yvain
|
Community norm question: brief text ad signatures
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Voluntary Behavior, Conscious Thoughts
|
|
Yvain
|
Follow-up on ESP study: "We don't publish replications"
|
|
CarlShulman
|
Trivers on Self-Deception
|
|
Yvain
|
Knowing what you want is a prerequisite to getting what you want
|
|
nwthomas
|
Rationality Market Research
|
|
Raemon
|
Rationalist Judo, or Using the Availability Heuristic to Win
|
|
jschulter
|
To what degree do we have goals?
|
|
Yvain
|
Preference For (Many) Future Worlds
|
|
wedrifid
|
The limits of introspection
|
|
Yvain
|
Ego syntonic thoughts and values
|
|
Yvain
|
Approving reinforces low-effort behaviors
|
|
Yvain
|
Illustrator needed: Intuitive Bayes 2.0
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Connectionism: Modeling the mind with neural networks
|
|
Yvain
|
Secrets of the eliminati
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Yvain
|
Tendencies in reflective equilibrium
|
|
Yvain
|
Bayesian Conspiracy @ Burning Man 2011
|
|
Kevin
|
Optimal Philanthropy for Human Beings
|
|
lukeprog
|
How to enjoy being wrong
|
|
lincolnquirk
|
The $125,000 Summer Singularity Challenge
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
On the unpopularity of cryonics: life sucks, but at least then you die
|
|
gwern
|
MSF Theory: Another Explanation of Subjectively Objective Probability
|
|
potato
|
Teaching Introspection
|
|
Swimmer963
|
Rationality Quotes August 2011
|
|
dvasya
|
Do Humans Want Things?
|
|
lukeprog
|
Modularity and Buzzy
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Consistently Inconsistent
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Raise the Age Demographic
|
|
calcsam
|
Selecting optimal group projects and roles
|
|
calcsam
|
Towards a New Decision Theory for Parallel Agents
|
|
potato
|
Theory of Knowledge (rationality outreach)
|
|
KPier
|
Strategic ignorance and plausible deniability
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Judgment Under Uncertainty summaries, Part 1: Representativeness
|
|
Tesseract
|
Remind Physicalists They're Physicalists
|
|
lukeprog
|
Are Deontological Moral Judgments Rationalizations?
|
|
lukeprog
|
Why We Can't Take Expected Value Estimates Literally (Even When They're Unbiased)
|
|
HoldenKarnofsky
|
Spaced Repetition literature review prize: And the winner is...
|
|
jsalvatier
|
A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation
|
|
lukeprog
|
A Sketch of an Anti-Realist Metaethics
|
|
Jack
|
Help Fund Lukeprog at SIAI
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Rational Home Buying
|
|
Yvain
|
Decision Theory Paradox: PD with Three Implies Chaos?
|
|
orthonormal
|
Polyhacking
|
|
Alicorn
|
A History of Bayes' Theorem
|
|
lukeprog
|
Is Rationality Teachable?
|
|
lukeprog
|
Consequentialism Need Not Be Nearsighted
|
|
orthonormal
|
Rationality Quotes September 2011
|
|
dvasya
|
Open Thread: September 2011
|
|
Pavitra
|
Hacking on LessWrong Just Got Easier
|
|
atucker
|
Prisoner's Dilemma Tournament Results
|
|
prase
|
Tool ideology
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Rational Communication
|
|
Swimmer963
|
Rationalist sites worth archiving?
|
|
gwern
|
My Greatest Achievement
|
|
Swimmer963
|
The Cognitive Science of Rationality
|
|
lukeprog
|
Complexity: inherent, created, and hidden
|
|
Swimmer963
|
The Optimizer's Curse and How to Beat It
|
|
lukeprog
|
Your inner Google
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Knowledge is Worth Paying For
|
|
lukeprog
|
Blindsight and Consciousness
|
|
atucker
|
Living bias, not thinking bias
|
|
crazy88
|
Stanislav Petrov Day
|
|
gwern
|
A Rationalist's Tale
|
|
lukeprog
|
$100 off for Less Wrong: Singularity Summit 2011 on Oct 15 - 16 in New York
|
|
Louie
|
Philosophy by Humans, 1: Concepts Don't Work That Way
|
|
lukeprog
|
Rationality Drugs
|
|
lukeprog
|
Open thread, October 2011
|
|
MarkusRamikin
|
Rationality Quotes October 2011
|
|
MinibearRex
|
Rationality Lessons Learned from Irrational Adventures in Romance
|
|
lukeprog
|
Prize for the best introduction to the LessWrong source ($250)
|
|
jsalvatier
|
Not By Empathy Alone
|
|
gwern
|
Neural Correlates of Conscious Access
|
|
atucker
|
Morality is not about willpower
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
1001 PredictionBook Nights
|
|
gwern
|
The Outside View Of Human Complexity
|
|
Andy_McKenzie
|
A few analogies to illustrate key rationality points
|
|
kilobug
|
Calibrate your self-assessments
|
|
Yvain
|
Anti-akrasia tool: like stickK.com for data nerds
|
|
dreeves
|
A Rational Approach to Fashion
|
|
lionhearted
|
On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality'
|
|
gwern
|
How to understand people better
|
|
pwno
|
Amanda Knox: post mortem
|
|
gwern
|
Things you are supposed to like
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
The Protagonist Problem
|
|
atucker
|
Let Your Workers Gather Food
|
|
D_Malik
|
Better Disagreement
|
|
lukeprog
|
Rhetoric for the Good
|
|
lukeprog
|
Great Explanations
|
|
lukeprog
|
2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey
|
|
Yvain
|
Rationality Quotes November 2011
|
|
Jayson_Virissimo
|
Rational Romantic Relationships, Part 1: Relationship Styles and Attraction Basics
|
|
lukeprog
|
Maximizing Cost-effectiveness via Critical Inquiry
|
|
HoldenKarnofsky
|
Modularity, signaling, and belief in belief
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Drawing Less Wrong: An Introduction
|
|
Raemon
|
Drawing Less Wrong: Should You Learn to Draw?
|
|
Raemon
|
Existential Risk
|
|
lukeprog
|
Poker with Lennier
|
|
HonoreDB
|
Poll results: LW probably doesn't cause akrasia
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
The curse of identity
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Drawing Less Wrong: Overview of Skills, and Relevance to Rationality
|
|
Raemon
|
Don’t Apply the Principle of Charity to Yourself
|
|
UnclGhost
|
Practical debiasing
|
|
crazy88
|
Drawing Less Wrong: Observing Reality
|
|
Raemon
|
Objections to Coherent Extrapolated Volition
|
|
XiXiDu
|
5-second level case study: Value of information
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Value of Information: Four Examples
|
|
Vaniver
|
(Subjective Bayesianism vs. Frequentism) VS. Formalism
|
|
potato
|
Philosophy by Humans, 2: Living Metaphorically
|
|
lukeprog
|
Uncertainty
|
|
Vaniver
|
Hack Away at the Edges
|
|
lukeprog
|
5 Axioms of Decision Making
|
|
Vaniver
|
Announcing the Quantified Health Prize
|
|
Zvi
|
Rationality Quotes December 2011
|
|
Jayson_Virissimo
|
Funnel plots: the study that didn't bark, or, visualizing regression to the null
|
|
gwern
|
Drawing Less Wrong: Technical Skill
|
|
Raemon
|
2011 Survey Results
|
|
Yvain
|
An akrasia case study
|
|
nyan_sandwich
|
[Link] A gentle video introduction to game theory
|
|
Konkvistador
|
Compressing Reality to Math
|
|
Vaniver
|
How to label thoughts nonverbally
|
|
eugman
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