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Index of Yvain's (Excellent) Articles

by lukeprog
30th Jun 2011
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Index of Yvain's (Excellent) Articles
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[-]Scott Alexander14y140

Wow, thank you for the nice words.

I feel a predictable desire to reciprocate, but cataloging your output is starting to look like a Herculean task :)

Also, I can think of at least five of those posts that I no longer endorse and think are embarrassingly wrong, but I think it's more interesting if I don't say which ones.

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[-]jsalvatier14y150

But less useful..., please do say which ones; at least an edit at the bottom.

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[-]DPiepgrass4y20

Yes, and also be specific about what you don't endorse and why.

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[-]lukeprog14y50

I feel a predictable desire to reciprocate...

Don't. I already keep this exact same list for my own posts here.

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[-]DPiepgrass4y10

Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress. Or so it tells me.

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[-]Armok_GoB14y100

once the sequence reruns are done we should probably continue with these.

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[-]Dr_Manhattan14y80

This really seems like a feature request in disguise.

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[-]gwern14y80

Well, in theory you could use http://lesswrong.com/user/Yvain/submitted/ but that shows a lot of context and doesn't sort by anything except date. It also mixes Discussion, Meetup, and Articles.

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[-]MixedNuts14y80

This really seems like it's answering its own request.

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[-]Dr_Manhattan14y40

This was manual work, and trivially implemented by extending existing feature mentioned by gwern http://lesswrong.com/lw/6ga/index_of_yvains_excellent_articles/4fxa

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[-]magfrump14y20

The Apologist and the Revolutionary is one of my favorite things I have ever read.

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Yvain is one of Less Wrong's best and most prolific writers. I suspect many Less Wrongers haven't read his posts. Here's an index of Yvain's articles (not including meta posts, ranked by upvotes (like on my post index):

 

  • Generalizing from One Example (176)
  • Diseased Thinking: Dissolving Questions about Disease (154)
  • Eight Short Studies on Excuses (137)
  • Confidence Levels Inside and Outside an Argument (97)
  • The Least Convenient Possible World (96)
  • Intellectual Hipsters and Metacontrarianism (94)
  • The Apologist and the Revolutionary (92)
  • Are Wireheads Happy? (89)
  • Doing Your Good Deed for the Day (85)
  • Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others... (78)
  • Defense Against the Dark Arts: Case Study #1 (72)
  • How to Not Lose an Argument (71)
  • A Parable of Obsolete Ideologies (71)
  • Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great (70)
  • Shut Up and Guess (64)
  • Simultaneously Right and Wrong (62)
  • Beware Trivial Inconveniences (61)
  • The Trouble with 'Good' (60)
  • That Other Kind of Status (57)
  • Never Leave Your Room (54)
  • Guilt: Another Gift Nobody Wants (52)
  • Missing the Trees for the Forest (50)
  • Techniques for Probability Estimates (50)
  • The Mystery of the Haunted Rationalist (50)
  • Offense Versus Harm Minimization (49)
  • The Power of Positivist Thinking (46)
  • When Truth Isn't Enough (44)
  • Book Review: The Root of Thought (41)
  • Conflicts Between Mental Subagents: Expanding Wei Dai's Master-Slave Model (40)
  • Diplomacy as a Game Theory Laboratory (39)
  • Typical Mind and Politics (39)
  • The Skeptic's Trilemma (37)
  • The 'Spot the Fakes' Test (36)
  • Blue- and Yellow-Tinted Choices (36)
  • Applied Picoeconomics (36)
  • Antagonizing Opioid Receptors for (Prevention of) Fun and Profit (34)
  • What I Tell You Three Times is True (33)
  • Where's Your Sense of Mystery? (30)
  • Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up? (30)
  • Crowley on Religious Experience (29)
  • Solutions to Political Problems as Counterfactuals (28)
  • Why Real Men Wear Pink (28)
  • Rationalist Poetry Fans, Unite! (27)
  • Why Support the Underdog? (27)
  • The Zombie Preacher of Somerset (24)
  • Are You a Solar Deity? (24)
  • The Implicit Association Test (23)
  • More Thought on Assertions (22)
  • Fight Biases, or Route Around Them? (22)
  • Bogus Pipeline, Bona Fide Pipeline (19)
  • Help, Help, I'm Being Oppressed! (19)
  • It's Not Like Anything to Be a Bat (12)
  • Framing Effects in Anthropology (1)

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