# Index of Yvain's (Excellent) Articles

[Yvain](/user/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](/lw/de/excuse_me_would_you_like_to_take_a_survey/) [posts](/lw/di/bayesian_cabaret/), ranked by upvotes (like on [my post index](http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=13954)):

*   [Generalizing from One Example](/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/) (176)
*   [Diseased Thinking: Dissolving Questions about Disease](/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_questions_about/) (154)
*   [Eight Short Studies on Excuses](/lw/24o/eight_short_studies_on_excuses/) (137)
*   [Confidence Levels Inside and Outside an Argument](/lw/3be/confidence_levels_inside_and_outside_an_argument/) (97)
*   [The Least Convenient Possible World](/lw/2k/the_least_convenient_possible_world/) (96)
*   [Intellectual Hipsters and Metacontrarianism](/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metacontrarianism/) (94)
*   [The Apologist and the Revolutionary](/lw/20/the_apologist_and_the_revolutionary/) (92)
*   [Are Wireheads Happy?](/lw/1lb/are_wireheads_happy/) (89)
*   [Doing Your Good Deed for the Day](/lw/1d9/doing_your_good_deed_for_the_day/) (85)
*   [Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others...](/lw/3gj/efficient_charity_do_unto_others/) (78)
*   [Defense Against the Dark Arts: Case Study #1](/lw/62/defense_against_the_dark_arts_case_study_1/) (72)
*   [How to Not Lose an Argument](/lw/3k/how_to_not_lose_an_argument/) (71)
*   [A Parable of Obsolete Ideologies](/lw/fm/a_parable_on_obsolete_ideologies/) (71)
*   [Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great](/lw/9p/extreme_rationality_its_not_that_great/) (70)
*   [Shut Up and Guess](/lw/13i/shut_up_and_guess/) (64)
*   [Simultaneously Right and Wrong](/lw/1d/simultaneously_right_and_wrong/) (62)
*   [Beware Trivial Inconveniences](/lw/f1/beware_trivial_inconveniences/) (61)
*   [The Trouble with 'Good'](/lw/bk/the_trouble_with_good/) (60)
*   [That Other Kind of Status](/lw/1kr/that_other_kind_of_status/) (57)
*   [Never Leave Your Room](/lw/3b/never_leave_your_room/) (54)
*   [Guilt: Another Gift Nobody Wants](/lw/51f/guilt_another_gift_nobody_wants/) (52)
*   [Missing the Trees for the Forest](/lw/13k/missing_the_trees_for_the_forest/) (50)
*   [Techniques for Probability Estimates](/lw/3m6/techniques_for_probability_estimates/) (50)
*   [The Mystery of the Haunted Rationalist](/lw/1l/the_mystery_of_the_haunted_rationalist/) (50)
*   [Offense Versus Harm Minimization](/lw/59i/offense_versus_harm_minimization/) (49)
*   [The Power of Positivist Thinking](/lw/48/the_power_of_positivist_thinking/) (46)
*   [When Truth Isn't Enough](/lw/4h/when_truth_isnt_enough/) (44)
*   [Book Review: The Root of Thought](/lw/2hp/book_review_the_root_of_thought/) (41)
*   [Conflicts Between Mental Subagents: Expanding Wei Dai's Master-Slave Model](/lw/2jt/conflicts_between_mental_subagents_expanding_wei/) (40)
*   [Diplomacy as a Game Theory Laboratory](/lw/32u/diplomacy_as_a_game_theory_laboratory/) (39)
*   [Typical Mind and Politics](/lw/10j/typical_mind_and_politics/) (39)
*   [The Skeptic's Trilemma](/lw/2p/the_skeptics_trilemma/) (37)
*   [The 'Spot the Fakes' Test](/lw/34/the_spot_the_fakes_test/) (36)
*   [Blue- and Yellow-Tinted Choices](/lw/290/blue_and_yellowtinted_choices/) (36)
*   [Applied Picoeconomics](/lw/ep/applied_picoeconomics/) (36)
*   [Antagonizing Opioid Receptors for (Prevention of) Fun and Profit](/lw/27o/antagonizing_opioid_receptors_for_prevention_of/) (34)
*   [What I Tell You Three Times is True](/lw/eg/what_i_tell_you_three_times_is_true/) (33)
*   [Where's Your Sense of Mystery?](/lw/da/wheres_your_sense_of_mystery/) (30)
*   [Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up?](/lw/15c/would_your_real_preferences_please_stand_up/) (30)
*   [Crowley on Religious Experience](/lw/5r/crowley_on_religious_experience/) (29)
*   [Solutions to Political Problems as Counterfactuals](/lw/181/solutions_to_political_problems_as_counterfactuals/) (28)
*   [Why Real Men Wear Pink](/lw/154/why_real_men_wear_pink/) (28)
*   [Rationalist Poetry Fans, Unite!](/lw/3s/rationalist_poetry_fans_unite/) (27)
*   [Why Support the Underdog?](/lw/7s/why_support_the_underdog/) (27)
*   [The Zombie Preacher of Somerset](/lw/69/the_zombie_preacher_of_somerset/) (24)
*   [Are You a Solar Deity?](/lw/2w/are_you_a_solar_deity/) (24)
*   [The Implicit Association Test](/lw/53/the_implicit_association_test/) (23)
*   [More Thought on Assertions](/lw/1zb/more_thoughts_on_assertions/) (22)
*   [Fight Biases, or Route Around Them?](/lw/5d/fight_biases_or_route_around_them/) (22)
*   [Bogus Pipeline, Bona Fide Pipeline](/lw/4w/bogus_pipeline_bona_fide_pipeline/) (19)
*   [Help, Help, I'm Being Oppressed!](/lw/9b/help_help_im_being_oppressed/) (19)
*   [It's Not Like Anything to Be a Bat](/lw/205/its_not_like_anything_to_be_a_bat/) (12)
*   [Framing Effects in Anthropology](/lw/6k/framing_effects_in_anthropology/) (1)