Discrim­i­na­tion: less is more

KatjaGrace10 Aug 2010 18:32 UTC
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A Proof of Oc­cam’s Razor

Unknowns10 Aug 2010 14:20 UTC
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Against Cry­on­ics & For Cost-Effec­tive Charity

multifoliaterose10 Aug 2010 3:59 UTC
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Five-minute ra­tio­nal­ity techniques

sketerpot10 Aug 2010 2:24 UTC
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Open Thread, Au­gust 2010-- part 2

NancyLebovitz9 Aug 2010 23:18 UTC
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Book Recommendations

NancyLebovitz9 Aug 2010 20:05 UTC
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Book Recommendations

NancyLebovitz9 Aug 2010 20:03 UTC
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Two straw men fighting

JanetK9 Aug 2010 8:53 UTC
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Why is gen­der equal­ity so rude?

KatjaGrace9 Aug 2010 1:00 UTC
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Ex­trater­res­trial pa­per­clip maximizers

multifoliaterose8 Aug 2010 20:35 UTC
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Christo­pher Hitchens and Cryonics

James_Miller8 Aug 2010 20:32 UTC
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Pur­pose­ful­ness on Mars

JamesAndrix8 Aug 2010 9:23 UTC
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Why do ‘re­spectable’ women want dead hus­bands?

KatjaGrace8 Aug 2010 4:15 UTC
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Agree­able ways to dis­able your children

KatjaGrace7 Aug 2010 7:26 UTC
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Blog­ging­heads: Robert Wright and Eliezer Yudkowsky

Liron7 Aug 2010 6:09 UTC
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In­ter­ested in a Euro­pean less­wrong meetup

MartinB7 Aug 2010 4:43 UTC
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Con­flicts Between Men­tal Subagents: Ex­pand­ing Wei Dai’s Master-Slave Model

Scott Alexander4 Aug 2010 9:16 UTC
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The Threat of Cryonics

lsparrish3 Aug 2010 19:57 UTC
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Ra­tion­al­ity quotes: Au­gust 2010

Cyan3 Aug 2010 0:16 UTC
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Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 2

dclayh1 Aug 2010 22:58 UTC
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Open Thread, Au­gust 2010

NancyLebovitz1 Aug 2010 13:27 UTC
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AI co­op­er­a­tion in practice

cousin_it30 Jul 2010 16:21 UTC
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For­ager Anthropology

WrongBot28 Jul 2010 5:48 UTC
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Alien par­a­site tech­ni­cal guy

PhilGoetz27 Jul 2010 16:51 UTC
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Chicago Meetup: Sun­day, Au­gust 1 at 2:00 pm

Airedale27 Jul 2010 15:10 UTC
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Me­taphilo­soph­i­cal Mysteries

Wei Dai27 Jul 2010 0:55 UTC
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Madi­son meetup: Wed­nes­day, July 28th, 6PM

Kevin26 Jul 2010 2:11 UTC
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Bay Area Events Roundup

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Jul 2010 6:04 UTC
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Con­trived in­finite-tor­ture sce­nar­ios: July 2010

PlaidX23 Jul 2010 23:54 UTC
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Against the stan­dard nar­ra­tive of hu­man sex­ual evolution

WrongBot23 Jul 2010 5:28 UTC
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Public Choice and the Altru­ist’s Burden

Roko22 Jul 2010 21:34 UTC
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Sim­plified Hu­man­ism, Pos­i­tive Fu­tur­ism & How to Prevent the Uni­verse From Be­ing Turned Into Paper Clips

Kevin22 Jul 2010 10:03 UTC
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Book Re­view: The Root of Thought

Scott Alexander22 Jul 2010 8:58 UTC
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Missed op­por­tu­ni­ties for do­ing well by do­ing good

multifoliaterose21 Jul 2010 7:45 UTC
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Float­ing Fes­ti­val Jul 22-25

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jul 2010 6:36 UTC
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A spec­u­la­tion on Near and Far Modes

MichaelVassar21 Jul 2010 6:24 UTC
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(One rea­son) why cap­i­tal­ism is much maligned

multifoliaterose19 Jul 2010 3:48 UTC
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Poli­ti­ci­ans stymie hu­man coloniza­tion of space to save make-work jobs

Roko18 Jul 2010 12:57 UTC
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Fight Zero-Sum Bias

multifoliaterose18 Jul 2010 5:57 UTC
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Is cry­on­i­cists’ self­ish­ness dis­tance in­duced?

KatjaGrace17 Jul 2010 18:40 UTC
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Book Club Up­date, Chap­ter 3 of Prob­a­bil­ity Theory

Morendil16 Jul 2010 8:25 UTC
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Chicago/​Madi­son Meetup

steven046115 Jul 2010 23:30 UTC
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Fi­nan­cial in­cen­tives don’t get rid of bias? Prize for best an­swer.

Roko15 Jul 2010 13:24 UTC
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So You Think You’re a Bayesian? The Nat­u­ral Mode of Prob­a­bil­is­tic Reasoning

Matt_Simpson14 Jul 2010 16:51 UTC
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The In­stru­men­tal Value of Your Own Time

Mass_Driver14 Jul 2010 7:57 UTC
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Room for rent in North Berkeley house

Kevin13 Jul 2010 20:28 UTC
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Some Thoughts Are Too Danger­ous For Brains to Think

WrongBot13 Jul 2010 4:44 UTC
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MIRI Call for Volunteers

alyssavance12 Jul 2010 23:49 UTC
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The Pres­i­dent’s Coun­cil of Ad­vi­sors on Science and Tech­nol­ogy is so­lic­it­ing ideas

Kevin12 Jul 2010 23:41 UTC
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The red pa­per­clip the­ory of status

12 Jul 2010 23:08 UTC
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