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by lukeprog | 28v (108c)

Drawing Less Wrong: Should You Learn to Draw?

by Raemon | 27v (55c)

Drawing Less Wrong: An Introduction

by Raemon | 33v (38c)

Modularity, signaling, and belief in belief

by Kaj_Sotala | 19v (14c)

Maximizing Cost-effectiveness via Critical Inquiry

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Rational Romantic Relationships, Part 1: Relationship Styles and Attraction Basics

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2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey

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by lukeprog | 23v (113c)

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Better Disagreement

by lukeprog | 70v (84c)

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by PhilGoetz | 68v (367c)

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by gwern | 42v (95c)

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by Yvain | 68v (117c)

A few analogies to illustrate key rationality points

by kilobug | 50v (52c)

The Outside View Of Human Complexity

by Andy_McKenzie | 14v (9c)

1001 PredictionBook Nights

by gwern | 51v (49c)

Morality is not about willpower

by PhilGoetz | 9v (144c)

Neural Correlates of Conscious Access

by atucker | 23v (5c)

Not By Empathy Alone

by gwern | 19v (108c)

Prize for the best introduction to the LessWrong source ($250)

by jsalvatier | 17v (16c)

Rationality Lessons Learned from Irrational Adventures in Romance

by lukeprog | 54v (609c)

Rationality Quotes October 2011

by MinibearRex | 3v (532c)

Open thread, October 2011

by MarkusRamikin | 5v (308c)

Rationality Drugs

by lukeprog | 26v (119c)

Concepts Don't Work That Way

by lukeprog | 57v (88c)

$100 off for Less Wrong: Singularity Summit 2011 on Oct 15 - 16 in New York

by Louie | 6v (23c)

A Rationalist's Tale

by lukeprog | 82v (305c)

Stanislav Petrov Day

by gwern | 35v (164c)

Living bias, not thinking bias

by crazy88 | 19v (56c)

Blindsight and Consciousness

by atucker | 14v (24c)

Knowledge is Worth Paying For

by lukeprog | 45v (108c)

Your inner Google

by PhilGoetz | 101v (69c)

The Optimizer's Curse and How to Beat It

by lukeprog | 42v (76c)

Complexity: inherent, created, and hidden

by Swimmer963 | 8v (49c)

The Cognitive Science of Rationality

by lukeprog | 88v (102c)

My Greatest Achievement

by Swimmer963 | 31v (29c)

Rationalist sites worth archiving?

by gwern | 22v (44c)

Rational Communication

by Swimmer963 | 23v (38c)

Tool ideology

by PhilGoetz | 25v (66c)

Prisoner's Dilemma Tournament Results

by prase | 101v (170c)

Hacking on LessWrong Just Got Easier

by atucker | 57v (20c)

Open Thread: September 2011

by Pavitra | 5v (441c)

Rationality Quotes September 2011

by dvasya | 7v (482c)

Consequentialism Need Not Be Nearsighted

by orthonormal | 53v (118c)

Is Rationality Teachable?

by lukeprog | 43v (26c)

A History of Bayes' Theorem

by lukeprog | 53v (85c)

Polyhacking

by Alicorn | 75v (603c)

Decision Theory Paradox: PD with Three Implies Chaos?

by orthonormal | 19v (56c)

Rational Home Buying

by Yvain | 99v (137c)

Help Fund Lukeprog at SIAI

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 40v (276c)

A Sketch of an Anti-Realist Metaethics

by Jack | 16v (136c)

A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation

by lukeprog | 119v (90c)

Spaced Repetition literature review prize: And the winner is...

by jsalvatier | 26v (25c)

Why We Can't Take Expected Value Estimates Literally (Even When They're Unbiased)

by HoldenKarnofsky | 75v (249c)

Are Deontological Moral Judgments Rationalizations?

by lukeprog | 37v (168c)

Remind Physicalists They're Physicalists

by lukeprog | 18v (76c)

Judgment Under Uncertainty summaries, Part 1: Representativeness

by Tesseract | 29v (2c)

Strategic ignorance and plausible deniability

by Kaj_Sotala | 41v (57c)

Theory of Knowledge (rationality outreach)

by KPier | 60v (79c)

Towards a New Decision Theory for Parallel Agents

by potato | 4v (15c)

Selecting optimal group projects and roles

by calcsam | 2v (28c)

Raise the Age Demographic

by calcsam | 4v (75c)

Consistently Inconsistent

by Kaj_Sotala | 60v (25c)

Modularity and Buzzy

by Kaj_Sotala | 24v (26c)

Do Humans Want Things?

by lukeprog | 23v (52c)

Rationality Quotes August 2011

by dvasya | 3v (176c)

Teaching Introspection

by Swimmer963 | 23v (31c)

MSF Theory: Another Explanation of Subjectively Objective Probability

by potato | 14v (11c)

On the unpopularity of cryonics: life sucks, but at least then you die

by gwern | 72v (465c)

The $125,000 Summer Singularity Challenge

by Kaj_Sotala | 20v (259c)

How to enjoy being wrong

by lincolnquirk | 20v (13c)

Optimal Philanthropy for Human Beings

by lukeprog | 36v (86c)

Bayesian Conspiracy @ Burning Man 2011

by Kevin | 9v (9c)

Tendencies in reflective equilibrium

by Yvain | 27v (69c)

Secrets of the eliminati

by Yvain | 93v (252c)

Connectionism: Modeling the mind with neural networks

by Yvain | 39v (20c)

Illustrator needed: Intuitive Bayes 2.0

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 15v (13c)

Approving reinforces low-effort behaviors

by Yvain | 91v (23c)

Ego syntonic thoughts and values

by Yvain | 53v (53c)

The limits of introspection

by Yvain | 56v (43c)

Preference For (Many) Future Worlds

by wedrifid | 18v (37c)

To what degree do we have goals?

by Yvain | 45v (52c)

Rationalist Judo, or Using the Availability Heuristic to Win

by jschulter | 21v (28c)

Rationality Market Research

by Raemon | 59v (86c)

Trivers on Self-Deception

by Yvain | 33v (24c)

Follow-up on ESP study: "We don't publish replications"

by CarlShulman | 71v (50c)

Voluntary Behavior, Conscious Thoughts

by Yvain | 24v (21c)

Community norm question: brief text ad signatures

by Kaj_Sotala | 10v (35c)

Physical and Mental Behavior

by Yvain | 48v (22c)

Prospect Theory: A Framework for Understanding Cognitive Biases

by Yvain | 66v (46c)

Wanting vs. Liking Revisited

by Yvain | 34v (8c)

Time and Effort Discounting

by Yvain | 38v (30c)

An Outside View on Less Wrong's Advice

by Mass_Driver | 60v (159c)

How to annoy misanthropes and bleeding-hearts

by PhilGoetz | 27v (31c)

Basics of Human Reinforcement

by Yvain | 28v (9c)

Find yourself a Worthy Opponent: a Chavruta

by Raw_Power | 33v (74c)

Basics of Animal Reinforcement

by Yvain | 45v (21c)

Dark Arts: Schopenhauer wrote The Book on How To Troll

by Raw_Power | 8v (55c)

'Is' and 'Ought' and Rationality

by BobTheBob | 2v (70c)

The Blue-Minimizing Robot

by Yvain | 162v (159c)

Behaviorism: Beware Anthropomorphizing Humans

by Yvain | 53v (24c)

Rationality Quotes July 2011

by Normal_Anomaly | 2v (145c)

Not for the Sake of Selfishness Alone

by lukeprog | 22v (20c)

Reasons for being rational

by Swimmer963 | 57v (183c)

The True Rejection Challenge

by Alicorn | 43v (532c)

Entangled with Reality: The Shoelace Example

by lukeprog | 18v (8c)

Community roles: committees and leadership

by calcsam | 7v (14c)

Community roles: teachers and auxiliaries

by calcsam | 7v (69c)

Foma: Beliefs that Cause Themselves to be True

by atucker | 21v (39c)

When is further research needed?

by RichardKennaway | 0v (80c)

Efficient philanthropy: local vs. global approaches

by multifoliaterose | 8v (13c)

Model Uncertainty, Pascalian Reasoning and Utilitarianism

by multifoliaterose | 23v (154c)

Malice, Stupidity, or Egalité Irréfléchie?

by lionhearted | 24v (62c)

How not to move the goalposts

by HopeFox | 4v (71c)

Not for the Sake of Pleasure Alone

by lukeprog | 36v (129c)

Memory, Spaced Repetition and Life

by Duke | 13v (31c)

Safety Culture and the Marginal Effect of a Dollar

by jimrandomh | 23v (105c)

St. Petersburg Mugging Implies You Have Bounded Utility

by TimFreeman | 10v (163c)

Action and habit

by Swimmer963 | 90v (104c)

The Landmark Forum — a rationalist's first impression

by Nisan | 11v (46c)

Rationality Quotes: June 2011

by Oscar_Cunningham | 4v (470c)

Heuristics for Deciding What to Work On

by John_Maxwell_IV | 20v (5c)

Pluralistic Moral Reductionism

by lukeprog | 33v (316c)

Nature: Red, in Truth and Qualia

by orthonormal | 35v (62c)

Overcoming suffering: Emotional acceptance

by Kaj_Sotala | 38v (44c)

Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment

by badger | 26v (8c)

Upcoming meet-ups: Bangalore, Minneapolis, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Houston, Dublin

by FrankAdamek | 5v (20c)

Teachable Rationality Skills

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 52v (257c)

A Study of Scarlet: The Conscious Mental Graph

by orthonormal | 29v (8c)

Measuring aversion and habit strength

by Academian | 79v (15c)

Bias in capital project decision making

by jsalvatier | 40v (23c)

Seeing Red: Dissolving Mary's Room and Qualia

by orthonormal | 38v (152c)

The cost of universal cryonics

by handoflixue | 37v (37c)

Dominus' Razor

by badger | 44v (27c)

Pancritical Rationalism Can Apply to Preferences and Behavior

by TimFreeman | 1v (29c)

LW Biology 101 Introduction: Constraining Anticipation

by virtualAdept | 50v (29c)

Self-programming through spaced repetition

by Luke_Grecki | 26v (16c)

Inferring Our Desires

by lukeprog | 37v (45c)

Ace Attorney: pioneer Rationalism-didactic game?

by Raw_Power | 19v (29c)

A summary of Savage's foundations for probability and utility.

by Sniffnoy | 34v (88c)

Rationalist horoscopes: A low-hanging utility generator.

by AdeleneDawner | 62v (77c)

Upcoming meet-ups: Auckland, Bangalore, Houston, Toronto, Minneapolis, Ottawa, DC, North Carolina, BC...

by John_Maxwell_IV | 5v (4c)

Metacontrarian Metaethics

by Will_Newsome | 2v (75c)

On the Anthropic Trilemma

by KatjaGrace | 33v (50c)

The Aliens have Landed!

by TimFreeman | 33v (156c)

Suffering as attention-allocational conflict

by Kaj_Sotala | 49v (61c)

How and Why to Granularize

by lukeprog | 62v (58c)

Values vs. parameters

by PhilGoetz | 9v (65c)

Colonization models: a tutorial on computational Bayesian inference (part 2/2)

by snarles | 19v (6c)

Colonization models: a programming tutorial (Part 1/2)

by snarles | 23v (5c)

Conceptual Analysis and Moral Theory

by lukeprog | 60v (456c)

Upcoming meet-ups: Buenos Aires, Minneapolis, Ottawa, Edinburgh, Cambridge, London, DC

by AnnaSalamon | 29v (24c)

Designing Rationalist Projects

by calcsam | 30v (78c)

Holy Books (Or Rationalist Sequences) Don’t Implement Themselves

by calcsam | 32v (149c)

Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently

by lukeprog | 113v (141c)

When Intuitions Are Useful

by lukeprog | 14v (12c)

Chemicals and Electricity

by lionhearted | 6v (18c)

Building rationalist communities: a series overview

by calcsam | 21v (9c)

Building rationalist communities: lessons from the Latter-day Saints

by calcsam | 15v (70c)

Shanghai Less Wrong Meetup #2 Wednesday May 11th, 7pm

by Patrick | 1v (2c)

Toronto Meetup, May 10th

by Spencer_Sleep | 5v (5c)

Shifting Load to Explicit Reasoning

by Vladimir_Nesov | 13v (9c)

The 5-Second Level

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 111v (310c)

The Power of Agency

by lukeprog | 60v (73c)

Intuition and Unconscious Learning

by lukeprog | 32v (9c)

Experiment Idea Thread - Spring 2011

by Psychohistorian | 28v (53c)

Leadership and Self Deception, Anatomy of Peace

by TimFreeman | 9v (11c)

Helsinki meetup on May 13, special guest star Patri Friedman (patrissimo)

by Kaj_Sotala | 6v (11c)

Your Evolved Intuitions

by lukeprog | 15v (104c)

Edinburgh LW meetup, Saturday May 7, 2pm

by sark | 1v (2c)

San Francisco Meetup every Tues 5/10, 7 pm

by Mass_Driver | 3v (3c)

Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 2 of 3)

by DavidM | 25v (186c)

Ames, IA LW meetup Sunday May 8 (First Iowa Meetup!) 2pm

by Matt_Simpson | 2v (8c)

The Cognitive Costs to Doing Things

by lionhearted | 39v (21c)

SIAI - An Examination

by BrandonReinhart | 143v (203c)

Berkeley LW Meet-Up Saturday May 7

by LucasSloan | 1v (4c)

Ottawa LW meetup, May 9, 7pm; Bayes study group, May 5, 9pm

by Cyan | 3v (0c)

On Being Okay with the Truth

by lukeprog | 33v (71c)

Phoenix Less Wrong Meetup- Saturday, 5-7-11, 5pm

by Danny_Hintze | 2v (54c)

Cryonics Promotional Video Contest -- 10 BTC Prize

by lsparrish | 15v (14c)

Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 1 of 3)

by DavidM | 35v (120c)

So You've Changed Your Mind

by Spurlock | 60v (44c)

Reminder: London meetup, Sunday 2pm, near Holborn

by ciphergoth | 4v (13c)

First Triangle LW Meetup 5/4 7pm (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) [Repost]

by curiousepic | 7v (10c)

Melbourne Meetup: Friday 6th May, 6pm

by matt | 8v (8c)

Mapping our maps: types of knowledge

by Swimmer963 | 4v (13c)

DC Meetup: Sunday May 1st, 1 PM

by atucker | 8v (19c)

What data generated that thought?

by Kaj_Sotala | 32v (32c)

Toronto Meetup, April 28

by Spencer_Sleep | 6v (2c)

What is Metaethics?

by lukeprog | 31v (550c)

Convincing Arguments Aren’t Necessarily Correct – They’re Merely Convincing

by lionhearted | 9v (15c)

New Haven / Southern Connecticut Meetup, Wednesday Apr. 27th 6 PM

by alyssavance | 5v (18c)

San Francisco Meetup 4/28

by Mass_Driver | 4v (2c)

Being Wrong about Your Own Subjective Experience

by lukeprog | 37v (187c)

Edinburgh LW Meetup Saturday April 30th

by sark | 2v (1c)

Paris Meetup, Saturday April 30th, 2PM

by Emile | 3v (4c)

Mini-camp on Rationality, Awesomeness, and Existential Risk (May 28 through June 4, 2011)

by AnnaSalamon | 39v (84c)

Heading Toward: No-Nonsense Metaethics

by lukeprog | 38v (57c)

Is Kiryas Joel an Unhappy Place?

by gwern | 20v (186c)

The benefits of madness: A positive account of arationality

by Skatche | 101v (121c)

Ottawa LW Meetup: Thursday April 28, 7:00pm (ADDED: Bayes study group satellite meeting)

by Cyan | 5v (4c)

Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 90v (271c)

Official Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Suggestions

by Louie | 20v (565c)

No, Seriously. Just Try It.

by lukeprog | 48v (41c)

Cambridge Less Wrong Meetups April 21, May 1, May 15, ...

by jimrandomh | 5v (4c)

Pittsburgh Less Wrong meet-up April 22 7pm

by Matt_Duing | 5v (7c)

Vanilla and chocolate and preference judgements

by Swimmer963 | 29v (32c)

Learned Blankness

by AnnaSalamon | 130v (186c)

Austin Less Wrong Meetup, Saturday April 23rd, 12:00 Noon

by NMJablonski | 4v (28c)

Build Small Skills in the Right Order

by lukeprog | 90v (213c)

Shanghai Less Wrong Meetup April 30th, 2pm

by Patrick | 8v (3c)

Offense versus harm minimization

by Yvain | 60v (417c)

First Triangle LW Meetup 5/4 7pm (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill)

by curiousepic | 4v (9c)

How You Make Judgments: The Elephant and its Rider

by lukeprog | 42v (18c)

Say More, Justify Less

by paulfchristiano | 19v (25c)

First Phoenix, AZ Less Wrong Meetup 4/17 from 12-2pm

by Danny_Hintze | 5v (9c)

The Bias You Didn't Expect

by Psychohistorian | 92v (90c)

Three consistent positions for computationalists

by dfranke | 5v (176c)

Levels of Action

by alyssavance | 106v (47c)

How not to be a Naïve Computationalist

by diegocaleiro | 29v (34c)

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Podcast

by Eneasz | 38v (28c)

Melbourne Meetup May 6th, 6pm

by Patrick | 3v (12c)

Best videos inspiring first interest in rationality or the singularity

by Academian | 4v (24c)

Toronto Meetup, Apr 14 8pm

by Spencer_Sleep | 4v (3c)

NEW TIME: Sydney Less Wrong meetup, 23/4, 3PM

by meta_ark | 7v (18c)

Anthropics makes sense with shorter people

by KatjaGrace | 24v (18c)

The Absolute Self-Selection Assumption

by paulfchristiano | 16v (38c)

Separate morality from free will

by PhilGoetz | 6v (84c)

The Neuroscience of Desire

by lukeprog | 54v (30c)

Human errors, human values

by PhilGoetz | 32v (135c)

Failure Modes sometimes correspond to Game Mechanics

by Johnicholas | 17v (15c)

Spaniard Lesswrongers, Unite!

by Raw_Power | 7v (15c)

Lesswrong Meetup in Barcelona?

by Raw_Power | 5v (20c)

Edinburgh LW Meetup Saturday April 16th

by sark | 8v (16c)

Ottawa LW Meetup Saturday April 16th

by Cyan | 7v (5c)

First Waco, Texas LW Meetup, 4/09, 1PM

by SilasBarta | 15v (54c)

April 10 2011 Southern California Meetup

by JGWeissman | 5v (8c)