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1 | Author | Karma | Title | Num Tags | Tags | #Core Tags | #Non-Core Tags | Pageviews Rank | Last Updated |
2 | Scott Alexander | 479 | Eight Short Studies On Excuses | 4 | Rationality, Practical, Game Theory, Abstraction | 2 | 2 | 17 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
3 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 415 | Preface | 2 | Postmortems & Retrospectives, Rationality | 1 | 1 | 22 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
4 | lukeprog | 386 | The Best Textbooks on Every Subject | 5 | Scholarship & Learning, Inferential Distance, World Modeling, Practical, List of Links | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
5 | Scott Alexander | 373 | Schelling fences on slippery slopes | 4 | Rationality, Game Theory, Sex & Gender, Value Drift | 1 | 3 | 47 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
6 | Scott Alexander | 366 | Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease | 5 | Rationality, Philosophy of Language, Medicine, Carving / Clustering Reality, Reversal Test | 1 | 4 | 193 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
7 | Scott Alexander | 334 | Generalizing From One Example | 5 | Rationality, Inferential Distance, Fallacies, Typical Mind Fallacy, Mental Imagery / Visualization | 1 | 4 | 85 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
8 | PhilGoetz | 332 | Reason as memetic immune disorder | 7 | Rationality, Compartmentalization, Memetic Immune System, Pitfalls of Rationality, Cultural knowledge, Memetics, Valley of Bad Rationality | 1 | 6 | 883 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
9 | HoldenKarnofsky | 322 | Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) | 4 | World Optimization, Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), Tool AI, GiveWell | 1 | 3 | 1250 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
10 | jefftk | 308 | Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners | 3 | Betting, Practical, Parenting | 1 | 2 | 48 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
11 | Zvi | 303 | Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over | 2 | Coronavirus, World Modeling | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
12 | alkjash | 301 | Pain is not the unit of Effort | 7 | Rationality, Fallacies, Practical, Well-being, Heroic Responsibility, Suffering, Happiness | 2 | 5 | 16 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
13 | AnnaSalamon | 285 | Humans are not automatically strategic | 4 | Rationality, "Goodharts Law", Introspection, General Intelligence | 1 | 3 | 76 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
14 | Scott Alexander | 270 | The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world? | 4 | Rationality, Fallacies, Conversation (topic), Unbundling | 1 | 3 | 41 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
15 | HalFinney | 268 | Dying Outside | 6 | Biology, Community, Life Extension, Medicine, Human Bodies, Death | 1 | 5 | 670 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
16 | Scott Alexander | 257 | The Blue-Minimizing Robot | 3 | Motivations, Robotics, Ontological Crisis | 0 | 3 | 674 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
17 | Scott Alexander | 255 | Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism | 6 | Signaling, World Modeling, Social Status, Social & Cultural Dynamics, Contrarianism, Intellectual Fashion | 1 | 5 | 35 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
18 | lukeprog | 254 | The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship | 3 | Scholarship & Learning, World Modeling, Virtues | 1 | 2 | 871 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
19 | kalla724 | 253 | Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation | 3 | Motivations, Neuroscience, Attention | 0 | 3 | 718 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
20 | JackH | 250 | Anti-Aging: State of the Art | 3 | World Optimization, Life Extension, Aging | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
21 | benkuhn | 239 | To listen well, get curious | 4 | Communication Cultures, Practical, World Optimization, Conversation (topic) | 2 | 2 | 42 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
22 | abramdemski | 238 | The Parable of Predict-O-Matic | 6 | AI, Myopia, Oracle AI, Parables & Fables, Self Fulfilling/Refuting Prophecies, Self Fulfilling/Refuting Prophecies | 1 | 5 | 312 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
23 | AnnaSalamon | 238 | Reality-Revealing and Reality-Masking Puzzles | 3 | Rationality, Memetic Immune System, Pitfalls of Rationality | 1 | 2 | 490 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
24 | paulfchristiano | 237 | What failure looks like | 4 | AI, World Modeling, World Optimization, AI Risk | 3 | 1 | 121 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
25 | Roko | 234 | Ugh fields | 4 | Akrasia, Motivations, Emotions, Aversion | 0 | 4 | 138 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
26 | Ideopunk | 234 | 100 Tips for a Better Life | 3 | Practical, World Optimization, Life Improvements | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
27 | Thrasymachus | 233 | Why the tails come apart | 2 | World Modeling, Probability & Statistics | 1 | 1 | 642 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
28 | jasoncrawford | 232 | Industrial literacy | 2 | Progress Studies, "Chestertons Fence" | 0 | 2 | 671 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
29 | UnexpectedValues | 232 | Great minds might not think alike | 4 | Rationality, Inferential Distance, Heuristics & Biases, Mind Space | 1 | 3 | 23 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
30 | Andy Jones | 226 | Are we in an AI overhang? | 4 | AI, GPT, AI Timelines, Computing Overhang | 1 | 3 | 201 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
31 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 225 | Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting | 4 | Akrasia, Productivity, Practical, Procrastination | 1 | 3 | 364 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
32 | Duncan_Sabien | 220 | CFAR Participant Handbook now available to all | 6 | Trigger-Action Planning, Rationality, Community, Techniques, Bucket Errors, Internal Double Crux | 2 | 4 | 877 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
33 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 218 | A Fable of Science and Politics | 6 | Politics, Rationality, Fiction, Blues & Greens (metaphor), Tribalism, Parables & Fables | 1 | 5 | 163 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
34 | alkjash | 218 | Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full) | 2 | Social Status, Social & Cultural Dynamics | 0 | 2 | 75 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
35 | Zack_M_Davis | 217 | Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists | 6 | Politics, Rationality, Blues & Greens (metaphor), Filtered Evidence, Group Rationality, Censorship | 1 | 5 | 156 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
36 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 217 | What Do We Mean By "Rationality"? | 2 | Rationality, Definitions | 1 | 1 | 66 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
37 | Ben Pace | 217 | Coronavirus: Justified Practical Advice Thread | 2 | Coronavirus, Practical | 1 | 1 | 918 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
38 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 216 | Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences) | 5 | Rationality, Epistemology, Anticipated Experiences, Empiricism, Principles | 1 | 4 | 69 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
39 | Amandango | 216 | Embedded Interactive Predictions on LessWrong | 2 | Forecasting & Prediction, Site Meta | 1 | 1 | 232 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
40 | Scott Alexander | 215 | The Least Convenient Possible World | 3 | Rationality, Steelmanning, Hypotheticals | 1 | 2 | 468 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
41 | lukeprog | 214 | How to Beat Procrastination | 3 | Akrasia, Practical, Procrastination | 1 | 2 | 37 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
42 | johnswentworth | 212 | What Money Cannot Buy | 2 | World Modeling, Expertise (topic) | 1 | 1 | 558 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
43 | Wei_Dai | 212 | A tale from Communist China | 3 | History, Censorship, China | 0 | 3 | 541 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
44 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 212 | Expecting Short Inferential Distances | 6 | Rationality, Inferential Distance, Conversation (topic), Public Discourse, Evolutionary Psychology, Illusion of Transparency | 1 | 5 | 238 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
45 | Elizabeth | 210 | Credibility of the CDC on SARS-CoV-2 | 3 | Coronavirus, World Modeling, Government | 1 | 2 | 1825 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
46 | Swimmer963 | 209 | How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious | 3 | Motivations, Emotions, Ambition | 0 | 3 | 887 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
47 | Scott Alexander | 209 | The Apologist and the Revolutionary | 2 | Rationality, Rationalization | 1 | 1 | 497 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
48 | Martin Sustrik | 208 | Anti-social Punishment | 4 | World Modeling, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Social & Cultural Dynamics | 1 | 3 | 262 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
49 | Kaj_Sotala | 206 | Book summary: Unlocking the Emotional Brain | 11 | Book Reviews, Motivations, Emotions, Subagents, Internal Double Crux, Neuroscience, Alief, Summaries, Memory Reconsolidation, Cached Thoughts, Therapy | 0 | 11 | 92 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
50 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 206 | 9/26 is Petrov Day | 1 | Petrov Day | 0 | 1 | 2486 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
51 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 206 | That Alien Message | 6 | AI, AI Boxing (Containment), Fiction, Simulation Hypothesis, Bayesianism, Parables & Fables | 1 | 5 | 244 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
52 | paulfchristiano | 204 | Hiring engineers and researchers to help align GPT-3 | 5 | AI, Community, Practical, GPT, OpenAI | 3 | 2 | 1153 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
53 | So8res | 203 | Dark Arts of Rationality | 3 | Rationality, Dark Arts, Compartmentalization | 1 | 2 | 467 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
54 | Jacobian | 201 | Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real? | 4 | Rationality, Practical, Life Improvements, Value of Rationality | 2 | 2 | 154 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
55 | johnswentworth | 200 | Being the (Pareto) Best in the World | 2 | Rationality, Efficient Market Hypothesis | 1 | 1 | 253 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
56 | RomeoStevens | 200 | Lifestyle interventions to increase longevity | 6 | Practical, Life Extension, Exercise (Physical), Sleep, Human Bodies, Nutrition | 1 | 5 | 96 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
57 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 200 | Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate | 4 | Community, Social & Cultural Dynamics, Coordination / Cooperation, Group Rationality | 1 | 3 | 528 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
58 | sarahconstantin | 199 | Personalized Medicine For Real | 4 | Postmortems & Retrospectives, World Optimization, Medicine, More Dakka | 1 | 3 | 976 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
59 | chaosmage | 199 | What cognitive biases feel like from the inside | 4 | Rationality, Fallacies, Heuristics & Biases, Inside/Outside View | 1 | 3 | 1978 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
60 | Buck | 198 | "Other people are wrong" vs "I am right" | 4 | Rationality, Updated Beliefs (examples of), "Chestertons Fence", Distinctions | 1 | 3 | 391 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
61 | abramdemski | 198 | Alignment Research Field Guide | 5 | Community, Practical, Social & Cultural Dynamics, Practice & Philosophy of Science, Intellectual Progress (Individual-Level) | 2 | 3 | 451 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
62 | johnswentworth | 198 | When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is The Real Wealth | 3 | Economics, World Modeling, Expertise (topic) | 1 | 2 | 33 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
63 | AnnaSalamon | 196 | Cached Selves | 2 | Identity, Cached Thoughts | 0 | 2 | 1237 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
64 | sarahconstantin | 194 | The Pavlov Strategy | 1 | Game Theory | 0 | 1 | 501 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
65 | Hazard | 194 | How to Ignore Your Emotions (while also thinking you're awesome at emotions) | 3 | Rationality, Emotions, Growth Stories | 1 | 2 | 107 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
66 | AnnaSalamon | 194 | Learned Blankness | 4 | Identity, Rationality, Motivations, Cached Thoughts | 1 | 3 | 1113 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
67 | Scott Alexander | 192 | Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great | 4 | Rationality, Pitfalls of Rationality, Value of Rationality, Criticisms of The Rationalist Movement | 1 | 3 | 458 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
68 | Scott Alexander | 190 | Confidence levels inside and outside an argument | 5 | Forecasting & Prediction, Rationality, Probability & Statistics, Inside/Outside View, Distinctions | 1 | 4 | 409 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
69 | Ruby | 190 | Welcome to LessWrong! | 10 | Identity, Site Meta, Probability & Statistics, Social Status, Social & Cultural Dynamics, Medicine, Education, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychiatry | 1 | 9 | 8 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
70 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 190 | Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable | 2 | Rationality, Religion | 1 | 1 | 252 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
71 | Scott Alexander | 189 | A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy | 4 | Postmortems & Retrospectives, Community, Financial Investing, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain | 1 | 3 | 433 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
72 | Larks | 189 | 2018 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison | 11 | AI, Community, Value Learning, Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), Moral Uncertainty, DeepMind, Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI), Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR), Future of Life Institute (FLI), Literature Reviews | 2 | 9 | 1752 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
73 | abramdemski | 188 | The Zettelkasten Method | 5 | Scholarship & Learning, Practical, Note-Taking, Zettelkasten, Intellectual Progress (Individual-Level) | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
74 | Swimmer963 | 187 | The Importance of Sidekicks | 3 | Motivations, Coordination / Cooperation, Psychology | 0 | 3 | 1412 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
75 | abramdemski | 185 | Embedded Agents | 3 | AI, Research Agendas, Embedded Agency | 1 | 2 | 242 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
76 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 184 | Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger) | 4 | Rationality, Ambition, Something To Protect, Tsuyoku Naritai | 1 | 3 | 266 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
77 | lukeprog | 184 | Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge | 3 | Practical, Well-being, Happiness | 1 | 2 | 180 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
78 | Kaj_Sotala | 183 | The curse of identity | 1 | Identity | 0 | 1 | 1356 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
79 | sarahconstantin | 182 | Norms of Membership for Voluntary Groups | 2 | Social & Cultural Dynamics, Coordination / Cooperation | 0 | 2 | 2757 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
80 | alexei | 181 | Arbital postmortem | 6 | Postmortems & Retrospectives, Community, Software Tools, Public Discourse, Online Socialization, Startups | 1 | 5 | 800 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
81 | lukeprog | 180 | How to Be Happy | 4 | Practical, Well-being, Gratitude, Happiness | 1 | 3 | 62 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
82 | Scott Alexander | 179 | Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others... | 3 | Altruism, World Optimization, Cause Prioritization | 1 | 2 | 827 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
83 | Zvi | 179 | Covid-19: My Current Model | 1 | Coronavirus | 0 | 1 | 1337 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
84 | Ben Pace | 178 | The LessWrong 2018 Book is Available for Pre-order | 2 | Community, LessWrong Review | 1 | 1 | 18 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
85 | sarahconstantin | 178 | Fact Posts: How and Why | 4 | Scholarship & Learning, World Modeling, Practical, Fact posts | 2 | 2 | 809 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
86 | Cosmos | 178 | Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Successful Rationalist Chapter | 4 | Community, Practical, Group Rationality, Meetups (topic) | 2 | 2 | 2791 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
87 | LoganStrohl | 177 | Tell Culture | 1 | Communication Cultures | 0 | 1 | 325 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
88 | Ben Pace | 176 | Debate on Instrumental Convergence between LeCun, Russell, Bengio, Zador, and More | 4 | AI, Instrumental Convergence, AI Risk, Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) | 1 | 3 | 1068 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
89 | Alicorn | 176 | Ureshiku Naritai | 6 | Practical, World Optimization, Well-being, Emotions, Happiness, Reset (technique) | 2 | 4 | 235 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
90 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 175 | The Fallacy of Gray | 2 | Fallacies, Fallacy of Gray | 0 | 2 | 306 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
91 | aphyer | 175 | Limits of Current US Prediction Markets (PredictIt Case Study) | 6 | Economics, Betting, Rationality, Prediction Markets, World Modeling, Efficient Market Hypothesis | 2 | 4 | 73 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
92 | AnnaSalamon | 175 | "Flinching away from truth” is often about *protecting* the epistemology | 4 | Rationality, Compartmentalization, Bucket Errors, Distinctions | 1 | 3 | 788 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
93 | Jameson Quinn | 175 | A voting theory primer for rationalists | 3 | Voting Theory, World Modeling, Mechanism Design | 1 | 2 | 123 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
94 | lukeprog | 174 | Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently | 2 | Scholarship & Learning, Practical | 1 | 1 | 240 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
95 | Kaj_Sotala | 174 | Building up to an Internal Family Systems model | 4 | Motivations, Emotions, Subagents, Therapy | 0 | 4 | 24 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
96 | lukeprog | 174 | A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation | 5 | Rationality, World Modeling, Motivations, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science | 2 | 3 | 196 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
97 | lukeprog | 173 | Can the Chain Still Hold You? | 4 | Biology, History, Progress Studies, Industrial Revolution | 0 | 4 | 2404 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
98 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 173 | Applause Lights | 6 | Rationality, Social & Cultural Dynamics, Anticipated Experiences, Tribalism, Reversal Test, Applause Light | 1 | 5 | 373 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
99 | AnnaSalamon | 173 | Checklist of Rationality Habits | 4 | Rationality, Practical, Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR), Checklists | 2 | 2 | 1315 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |
100 | TurnTrout | 172 | Lessons I've Learned from Self-Teaching | 3 | Scholarship & Learning, Rationality, Practical | 2 | 1 | 21 | 2021-01-30 3:01:31 |