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Epistemic Luck

by Alicorn | 38

A survey of anti-cryonics writing

by ciphergoth | 42

BHTV: Eliezer Yudkowsky & Razib Khan

by MichaelGR | 8

Ethics has Evidence Too

by Jack | 18

Debate tools: an experience report

by Morendil | 30

A problem with Timeless Decision Theory (TDT)

by Gary_Drescher | 27

"Put It To The Test"

by MBlume | 12

A Much Better Life?

by Psychohistorian | 23

Applying utility functions to humans considered harmful

by Kaj_Sotala | 22

False Majorities

by JamesAndrix | 27

David Pearce on Hedonic Moral realism

by Roko | 2

My Failed Situation/Action Belief System

by MrHen | 6

The AI in a box boxes you

by Stuart_Armstrong | 39

Debunking komponisto on Amanda Knox (long)

by rolf_nelson | -8

Rationality Quotes: February 2010

by wedrifid | 3

Open Thread: February 2010

by wedrifid | 2

Strong moral realism, meta-ethics and pseudo-questions.

by Roko | 14

Pascal's Pyramid Scheme

by patrissimo | 6

Deontology for Consequentialists

by Alicorn | 26

Complexity of Value != Complexity of Outcome

by Wei_Dai | 23

Logical Rudeness

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 34

Play for a Cause

by brian_jaress | 7

Bizarre Illusions

by MrHen | 9

You cannot be mistaken about (not) wanting to wirehead

by Kaj_Sotala | 16

Welcome to Heaven

by denisbider | 8

Adaptive bias

by Morendil | 9

Simon Conway Morris: "Aliens are likely to look and behave like us".

by Roko | 1

Value Uncertainty and the Singleton Scenario

by Wei_Dai | 5

Lesswrong UK planning thread

by whpearson | 5

Lists of cognitive biases, common misconceptions, and fallacies

by Kevin | 7

Far & Near / Runaway Trolleys / The Proximity Of (Fat) Strangers

by botogol | 8

Privileged Snuff

by rwallace | 15

Costs to (potentially) eternal life

by bgrah449 | 7

Easy Predictor Tests

by MrHen | 10

Winning the Unwinnable

by JRMayne | 4

That Magical Click

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 34

London meetup: "The Friendly AI Problem"

by Roko | 6

Normal Cryonics

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 33

What big goals do we have?

by cousin_it | 7

The Prediction Hierarchy

by RobinZ | 19

Advancing Certainty

by komponisto | 24

Sorting Out Sticky Brains

by Alicorn | 32

Tips and Tricks for Answering Hard Questions

by Wei_Dai | 34

Dennett's heterophenomenology

by RichardKennaway | 3

The Wannabe Rational

by MrHen | 23

In defense of the outside view

by cousin_it | 9

The Preference Utilitarian’s Time Inconsistency Problem

by Wei_Dai | 15

Back of the envelope calculations around the singularity.

by whpearson | 3

Comic about the Singularity

by dclayh | 1

Advice for AI makers

by Stuart_Armstrong | 5

Self control may be contagious

by Psy-Kosh | 10

Meetup: Bay Area: Jan 15th, 7pm

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 1

Outline of a lower bound for consciousness

by PhilGoetz | 4

High Status and Stupidity: Why?

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 22

The things we know that we know ain't so

by PhilGoetz | 15

Consciousness Explained, chapter 3

by PhilGoetz | 2

Dennett's "Consciousness Explained": Chpt 2

by PhilGoetz | 2

Dennett's "Consciousness Explained": Prelude

by PhilGoetz | 12

Savulescu: "Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction"

by Roko | 3

Hypotheses For Dualism

by byrnema | 0

Consciousness

by Mitchell_Porter | -1

Reference class of the unclassreferenceable

by taw | 19

Fictional Evidence vs. Fictional Insight

by Wei_Dai | 24

Case study: Melatonin

by gwern | 15

Will reason ever outrun faith?

by ABranco | 5

Rationality Quotes January 2010

by Zack_M_Davis | 3

Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Video Answers

by MichaelGR | 32

Communicating effectively: form and content

by Morendil | 11

A Suite of Pragmatic Considerations in Favor of Niceness

by Alicorn | 43

TakeOnIt: Database of Expert Opinions

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 14

When does an insight count as evidence?

by alexflint | 10

Disclosure vs. Bans: Reply to Robin Hanson

by David_J_Balan | 6

Max Tegmark on our place in history: "We're Not Insignificant After All"

by Roko | 14

Drawing Two Aces

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 10

Stigmergy and Pickering's Mangle

by Johnicholas | 9

Open Thread: January 2010

by Kaj_Sotala | 4

Are wireheads happy?

by Yvain | 63

New Year's Predictions Thread

by MichaelVassar | 15

New Year’s Resolutions Thread

by MichaelVassar | 6

Boksops -- Ancient Superintelligence?

by MBlume | -3

Singularity Institute $100K Challenge Grant / 2009 Donations Reminder

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 13

That other kind of status

by Yvain | 48

A Master-Slave Model of Human Preferences

by Wei_Dai | 40

Playing the Meta-game

by Technologos | 22

Positive-affect-day-Schelling-point-mas Meetup

by Marcello | 3

Are these cognitive biases, biases?

by Kaj_Sotala | 28

On the Power of Intelligence and Rationality

by tommccabe | 10

Two Truths and a Lie

by Psychohistorian | 38

The 9/11 Meta-Truther Conspiracy Theory

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 17

lessmeta

by PlaidX | 5

Karma Changes

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 0

The Correct Contrarian Cluster

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 19

If reason told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?

by Shalmanese | -12

Mandating Information Disclosure vs. Banning Deceptive Contract Terms

by David_J_Balan | 20

Sufficiently Advanced Sanity

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 5

Fundamentally Flawed, or Fast and Frugal?

by Kaj_Sotala | 36

Any sufficiently advanced wisdom is indistinguishable from bullshit

by Shalmanese | 6

The Contrarian Status Catch-22

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 39

Reacting to Inadequate Data

by MrHen | -3

December 2009 Meta Thread

by CarlShulman | 4

An account of what I believe to be inconsistent behavior on the part of our editor

by PeterS | 1

Philadelphia LessWrong Meetup, December 16th

by Peter_de_Blanc | 2

Getting Over Dust Theory

by jhuffman | 2

Rebasing Ethics

by Shalmanese | -8

Man-with-a-hammer syndrome

by Shalmanese | 6

Previous Post Revised

by komponisto | 10

Against picking up pennies

by Warrigal | -2

The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom

by komponisto | 29

A question of rationality

by mormon2 | 3

The persuasive power of false confessions

by matt | 10

What Are Probabilities, Anyway?

by Wei_Dai | 12

Probability Space & Aumann Agreement

by Wei_Dai | 21

You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event

by komponisto | 24

Science - Idealistic Versus Signaling

by billswift | 7

Parapsychology: the control group for science

by AllanCrossman | 29

Arbitrage of prediction markets

by taw | 6

Frequentist Statistics are Frequently Subjective

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 37

Intuitive supergoal uncertainty

by JustinShovelain | 3

Help Roko become a better rationalist!

by Roko | -6

11 core rationalist skills

by Roko | 37

The Difference Between Utility and Utility

by Matt_Simpson | 6

Open Thread: December 2009

by CannibalSmith | 3

Call for new SIAI Visiting Fellows, on a rolling basis

by AnnaSalamon | 22

The Moral Status of Independent Identical Copies

by Wei_Dai | 20

Action vs. inaction

by PhilGoetz | 7

Morality and International Humanitarian Law

by David_J_Balan | 1

Rationality Quotes November 2009

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 7

A Nightmare for Eliezer

by Madbadger | -1

Rooting Hard for Overpriced M&Ms

by David_J_Balan | 4

Getting Feedback by Restricting Content

by billswift | 1

Contrarianism and reference class forecasting

by taw | 21

Agree, Retort, or Ignore? A Post From the Future

by Wei_Dai | 30

How to test your mental performance at the moment?

by taw | 21

In conclusion: in the land beyond money pumps lie extreme events

by Stuart_Armstrong | 2

Rational lies

by alexflint | 6

Friedman on Utility

by billswift | 1

Calibration for continuous quantities

by Cyan | 25

The One That Isn't There

by Annoyance | 16

Request For Article: Many-Worlds Quantum Computing

by pre | 5

A Less Wrong singularity article?

by Kaj_Sotala | 27

Efficient prestige hypothesis

by taw | 17

Why (and why not) Bayesian Updating?

by Wei_Dai | 8

BHTV: Yudkowsky / Robert Greene

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 12

The Academic Epistemology Cross Section: Who Cares More About Status?

by Matt_Simpson | 11

Auckland meet up Saturday Nov 28th

by AndrewH | 2

Consequences of arbitrage: expected cash

by Stuart_Armstrong | 3

Boston meetup Nov 15 (and others)

by MichaelVassar | 3

Anti-Akrasia Technique: Structured Procrastination

by patrissimo | 36

Test Your Calibration!

by tommccabe | 9

Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions

by MichaelGR | 16

What makes you YOU? For non-deists only.

by cleonid | 2

Restraint Bias

by Vladimir_Nesov | 14

Rationality advice from Terry Tao

by Kaj_Sotala | 15

Reflections on Pre-Rationality

by Wei_Dai | 6

Practical rationality in surveys

by taw | -2

The Danger of Stories

by Matt_Simpson | 6

Hamster in Tutu Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 23

All hail the Lisbon Treaty! Or is that "hate"? Or just "huh"?

by Stuart_Armstrong | -4

Bay area LW meet-up

by AnnaSalamon | 5

News: Improbable Coincidence Slows LHC Repairs

by Zack_M_Davis | 7

Light Arts

by Alicorn | 11

Money pumping: the axiomatic approach

by Stuart_Armstrong | 11

Rolf Nelson's "The Rational Entrepreneur"

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 9

Re-understanding Robin Hanson’s “Pre-Rationality”

by Wei_Dai | 14

Open Thread: November 2009

by Warrigal | 3

Our House, My Rules

by David_J_Balan | 30

Less Wrong / Overcoming Bias meet-up groups

by MichaelVassar | 9

David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation

by marc | 2

A Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer (Step 1: The Proposition)

by MichaelGR | 14

Post retracted: If you follow expected utility, expect to be money-pumped

by Stuart_Armstrong | 0

Expected utility without the independence axiom

by Stuart_Armstrong | 8

Doing your good deed for the day

by Yvain | 65

Computer bugs and evolution

by PhilGoetz | 40

Circular Altruism vs. Personal Preference

by Vladimir_Nesov | 3

The Value of Nature and Old Books

by David_J_Balan | 7

Arrow's Theorem is a Lie

by tommccabe | 13

Pound of Feathers, Pound of Gold

by Annoyance | 1

Extreme risks: when not to use expected utility

by Stuart_Armstrong | 3

Better thinking through experiential games

by Morendil | 25

The continued misuse of the Prisoner's Dilemma

by SilasBarta | 23

Rationality Quotes: October 2009

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 5

Biking Beyond Madness (link)

by hirvinen | 18

Why the beliefs/values dichotomy?

by Wei_Dai | 12

Lore Sjöberg's Life-Hacking FAQK

by PlaidX | -1

Shortness is now a treatable condition

by taw | 7

Near and far skills

by cousin_it | 18

Applying Double Standards to ‘‘Divisive’’ Ideas

by PlaidX | 3

Localized theories and conditional complexity

by jimmy | 6

How to think like a quantum monadologist

by Mitchell_Porter | -15

Waterloo, ON, Canada Meetup: 6pm Sun Oct 18 '09!

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 5

Information theory and FOOM

by PhilGoetz | 5

The Shadow Question

by Alicorn | 20

PredictionBook.com - Track your calibration

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 25

We're in danger. I must tell the others...

by AllanCrossman | 2

BHTV: Eliezer Yudkowsky and Andrew Gelman

by MichaelGR | 6

Quantifying ethicality of human actions

by bogus | -14

The power of information?

by PhilGoetz | 0

Anticipation vs. Faith: At What Cost Rationality?

by Wei_Dai | 7

Do the 'unlucky' systematically underestimate high-variance strategies?

by MBlume | 20

What Program Are You?

by RobinHanson | 27

Link: PRISMs, Gom Jabbars, and Consciousness (Peter Watts)

by JulianMorrison | 9

The Argument from Witness Testimony

by Johnicholas | 3

How to get that Friendly Singularity: a minority view

by Mitchell_Porter | 7

I'm Not Saying People Are Stupid

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 23

LW Meetup Google Calendar

by MBlume | 8

Boston Area Less Wrong Meetup: 2 pm Sunday October 11th

by CarlShulman | 4

New Haven/Yale Less Wrong Meetup: 5 pm, Monday October 12

by CarlShulman | 3

Let them eat cake: Interpersonal Problems vs Tasks

by HughRistik | 44

The First Step is to Admit That You Have a Problem

by Alicorn | 29

The Presumptuous Philosopher's Presumptuous Friend

by PlaidX | 2

Don't Think Too Hard.

by hegemonicon | 9

Dying Outside

by HalFinney | 74

When Willpower Attacks

by jimrandomh | 19

'oy, girls on lw, want to get together some time?'

by MBlume | 9

Scott Aaronson on Born Probabilities

by Wei_Dai | 27

Are you a Democrat singletonian, or a Republican singletonian?

by PhilGoetz | -12

Why Don’t We Apply What We Know About Twins to Everybody Else?

by MichaelGR | 12

Open Thread: October 2009

by gwern | 5

Regular NYC Meetups

by MBlume | 7

NY-area OB/LW meetup Saturday 10/3 7 PM

by MBlume | 7

Intuitive differences: when to agree to disagree

by Kaj_Sotala | 16

Why Many-Worlds Is Not The Rationally Favored Interpretation

by Mitchell_Porter | 5

Privileging the Hypothesis

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 29

Your Most Valuable Skill

by Alicorn | 23

The Anthropic Trilemma

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 13

The Scylla of Error and the Charybdis of Paralysis

by Johnicholas | 13

Correlated decision making: a complete theory

by Stuart_Armstrong | 7

Non-Malthusian Scenarios

by Wei_Dai | 11

Solutions to Political Problems As Counterfactuals

by Yvain | 26

The utility curve of the human population

by dclayh | 6

Minneapolis Meetup, This Saturday (26th) at 3:00 PM, University of Minnesota

by FrankAdamek | 2

Boredom vs. Scope Insensitivity

by Wei_Dai | 20

Anthropic reasoning and correlated decision making

by Stuart_Armstrong | 4

Avoiding doomsday: a "proof" of the self-indication assumption

by Stuart_Armstrong | 12

Ethics as a black box function

by Kaj_Sotala | 11

The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 20

How to use SMILE to solve Bayes Nets

by Johnicholas | 8

Reason as memetic immune disorder

by PhilGoetz | 85

Hypothetical Paradoxes

by Psychohistorian | 10

Minneapolis Meetup: Survey of interest

by JustinShovelain | 7

MWI, weird quantum experiments and future-directed continuity of conscious experience

by SforSingularity | 4

Quantum Russian Roulette

by Christian_Szegedy | 2

Sociosexual Orientation Inventory, or failing to perform basic sanity checks

by taw | 2

What is the Singularity Summit?

by Liron | 8

The Absent-Minded Driver

by Wei_Dai | 16

Beware of WEIRD psychological samples

by ciphergoth | 27

Formalizing reflective inconsistency

by Johnicholas | 3

The New Nostradamus

by Kaj_Sotala | 12

Timeless Identity Crisis

by Psy-Kosh | 5

Formalizing informal logic

by Johnicholas | 12

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