| 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
|
|
divia
|
| 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
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Eliezer to speak in Oxford, 8pm Jan 25th
|
|
alexflint
|
| Statistical Prediction Rules Out-Perform Expert Human Judgments
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Theists are wrong; is theism?
|
|
Will_Newsome
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| Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge
|
|
lukeprog
|
| The Illusion of Sameness
|
|
Elizabeth
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| David Chalmers' "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis"
|
|
lukeprog
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| Optimal Employment
|
|
Louie
|
| Counterfactual Calculation and Observational Knowledge
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| The Urgent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Artificial Intelligence
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Rationality Quotes: February 2011
|
|
gwern
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| On Charities and Linear Utility
|
|
Anatoly_Vorobey
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| Fast Minds and Slow Computers
|
|
jacob_cannell
|
| How to Beat Procrastination
|
|
lukeprog
|
| You're in Newcomb's Box
|
|
HonoreDB
|
| Value Stability and Aggregation
|
|
jimrandomh
|
| Reaching the general public
|
|
RichardKennaway
|
| Procedural Knowledge Gaps
|
|
Alicorn
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| How to make your intuitions cost-sensitive
|
|
apophenia
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| Subjective Relativity, Time Dilation and Divergence
|
|
jacob_cannell
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| Make your training useful
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Secure Your Beliefs
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Science: Do It Yourself
|
|
tommccabe
|
| Algorithms as Case Studies in Rationality
|
|
abramdemski
|
| Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields
|
|
Vladimir_M
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| Revisiting the Anthropic Trilemma II: axioms and assumptions
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
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| Write It Like A Poem
|
|
Strange7
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| Scholarship and DIY Science
|
|
SarahC
|
| Dead men tell tales: falling out of love with SIA
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
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| Ability to react
|
|
Swimmer963
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| Fun and Games with Cognitive Biases
|
|
Cosmos
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| Updateless anthropics
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
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| Research methods
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Use curiosity
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Vassar talk in New Haven, Sunday 2/27
|
|
tommccabe
|
| Singularity Institute now accepts donations via Bitcoin
|
|
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
|
|
Alexandros
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| Go Try Things
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|
atucker
|
| A Transhumanist Poem
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Positive Thinking
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Less Wrong at Burning Man 2011
|
|
Kevin
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| The Limits of Curiosity
|
|
Elizabeth
|
| Plant Seeds of Rationality
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Making Reasoning Obviously Locally Correct
|
|
JGWeissman
|
| How I Lost 100 Pounds Using TDT
|
|
Zvi
|
| Being a teacher
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Enjoying food more: a case study in third options
|
|
MBlume
|
| How to Be Happy
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Rationality Outreach: A Parable
|
|
SarahC
|
| Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Successful Rationalist Chapter
|
|
Cosmos
|
| Towards a Bay Area Less Wrong Community
|
|
LucasSloan
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| Effective Rationality Outreach
|
|
paulfchristiano
|
| Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Costs and Benefits of Scholarship
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Rationality Boot Camp
|
|
Jasen
|
| The trouble with teamwork
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Crime and punishment
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Verifying Rationality via RationalPoker.com
|
|
Louie
|
| Faith and theory
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Rational Reading: Thoughts On Prioritizing Books
|
|
patrissimo
|
| The Neuroscience of Pleasure
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline
|
|
lukeprog
|
| London Hackday, this Friday, April 1st (No, this is not a joke)
|
|
Alexandros
|
| Mental Metadata
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Guilt: Another Gift Nobody Wants
|
|
Yvain
|
| Reflections on rationality a year out
|
|
SarahC
|
| Singularity Institute featured on Philanthroper
|
|
Louie
|
| The Good News of Situationist Psychology
|
|
lukeprog
|
| The peril of ignoring emotions
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Manufacturing prejudice
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Don't Fear Failure
|
|
atucker
|
| Just Try It: Quantity Trumps Quality
|
|
atucker
|
| Rationality Quotes: April 2011
|
|
benelliott
|
| Details of Taskforces; or, Cooperate Now
|
|
paulfchristiano
|
| Spaniard Lesswrongers, Unite!
|
|
Raw_Power
|
| Failure Modes sometimes correspond to Game Mechanics
|
|
Johnicholas
|
| Human errors, human values
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| The Neuroscience of Desire
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Separate morality from free will
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| The Absolute Self-Selection Assumption
|
|
paulfchristiano
|
| Anthropics makes sense with shorter people
|
|
KatjaGrace
|
| We are not living in a simulation
|
|
dfranke
|
| Best videos inspiring first interest in rationality or the singularity
|
|
Academian
|
| Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Podcast
|
|
Eneasz
|
| How not to be a Naïve Computationalist
|
|
diegocaleiro
|
| Levels of Action
|
|
tommccabe
|
| Three consistent positions for computationalists
|
|
dfranke
|
| The Bias You Didn't Expect
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
| Say More, Justify Less
|
|
paulfchristiano
|
| How You Make Judgments: The Elephant and its Rider
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Offense versus harm minimization
|
|
Yvain
|
| Build Small Skills in the Right Order
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Learned Blankness
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Vanilla and chocolate and preference judgements
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| No, Seriously. Just Try It.
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Official Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Suggestions
|
|
Louie
|
| Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The benefits of madness: A positive account of arationality
|
|
Skatche
|
| Is Kiryas Joel an Unhappy Place?
|
|
gwern
|
| Heading Toward: No-Nonsense Metaethics
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Mini-camp on Rationality, Awesomeness, and Existential Risk (May 28 through June 4, 2011)
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Being Wrong about Your Own Subjective Experience
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Convincing Arguments Aren’t Necessarily Correct – They’re Merely Convincing
|
|
lionhearted
|
| What is Metaethics?
|
|
lukeprog
|
| What data generated that thought?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Mapping our maps: types of knowledge
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| So You've Changed Your Mind
|
|
Spurlock
|
| Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 1 of 3)
|
|
DavidM
|
| Cryonics Promotional Video Contest -- 10 BTC Prize
|
|
lsparrish
|
| On Being Okay with the Truth
|
|
lukeprog
|
| SIAI - An Examination
|
|
BrandonReinhart
|
| The Cognitive Costs to Doing Things
|
|
lionhearted
|
| Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 2 of 3)
|
|
DavidM
|
| 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
|
|
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
|
| 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
|
| Inferring Our Desires
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Self-programming through spaced repetition
|
|
Luke_Grecki
|
| LW Biology 101 Introduction: Constraining Anticipation
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
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| Hack Away at the Edges
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lukeprog
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Vaniver
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Zvi
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| Rationality Quotes December 2011
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Jayson_Virissimo
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gwern
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| Drawing Less Wrong: Technical Skill
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Raemon
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| 2011 Survey Results
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Yvain
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nyan_sandwich
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| [Link] A gentle video introduction to game theory
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Konkvistador
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| Compressing Reality to Math
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Vaniver
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| How to label thoughts nonverbally
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eugman
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| Ritual Report: NYC Less Wrong Solstice Celebration
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Raemon
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| Measures, Risk, Death, and War
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Vaniver
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| Decision Analysis Sequence
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Vaniver
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| Spend Money on Ergonomics
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Kevin
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| Prediction is hard, especially of medicine
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gwern
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| Just another day in utopia
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Stuart_Armstrong
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| Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012)
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orthonormal
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| Best of Rationality Quotes, 2011 Edition
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DanielVarga
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| For-Profit Rationality Training
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ksvanhorn
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| The Value (and Danger) of Ritual
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Raemon
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| The bias shield
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PhilGoetz
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