Mea­sures, Risk, Death, and War

Vaniver20 Dec 2011 23:37 UTC
17 points
14 comments8 min readLW link

Talk­ing to Chil­dren: A Pre-Holi­day Guide

daenerys20 Dec 2011 21:54 UTC
46 points
94 comments2 min readLW link

[link] In­no­cen­tive challenge: $8000 for ex­am­ples pro­mot­ing al­tru­is­tic behavior

dvasya20 Dec 2011 21:17 UTC
7 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Ri­tual Re­port: NYC Less Wrong Sols­tice Celebration

Raemon20 Dec 2011 20:37 UTC
143 points
180 comments11 min readLW link

What is your ra­tio­nal­ity blind spot?

Shmi20 Dec 2011 19:18 UTC
18 points
81 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Non-Con­struc­tive Proof of Con­fir­ma­tion Bias

Nymogenous20 Dec 2011 18:05 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Is any­one else wor­ried about SOPA? Try­ing to do any­thing about it?

false_vacuum20 Dec 2011 14:07 UTC
19 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

Vi­sual Map of US LW-ers

daenerys20 Dec 2011 7:40 UTC
21 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] 0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities

MinibearRex20 Dec 2011 7:39 UTC
9 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­sents for im­pov­ing ra­tio­nal­ity or re­duc­ing su­per­sti­tion?

mtaran19 Dec 2011 22:19 UTC
8 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

SingInst bloomberg cov­er­age [link]

Dr_Manhattan19 Dec 2011 19:31 UTC
8 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

“Tri­als and Er­rors: Why Science Is Failing Us”

gwern19 Dec 2011 18:48 UTC
9 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Q&A with Michael Littman on risks from AI

XiXiDu19 Dec 2011 9:51 UTC
23 points
88 comments3 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] In­finite Certainty

MinibearRex19 Dec 2011 5:30 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Con­trols are Ly­ing: A Note on the Memetic Hazards of Video Games [Link]

Nic_Smith19 Dec 2011 5:25 UTC
32 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

The Gen­er­al­ized Anti-Pas­cal Prin­ci­ple: Utility Con­ver­gence of In­finites­i­mal Probabilities

jacob_cannell18 Dec 2011 23:47 UTC
−6 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

In­verse p-zom­bies: the other di­rec­tion in the Hard Prob­lem of Consciousness

gwern18 Dec 2011 21:32 UTC
45 points
32 comments9 min readLW link

Ra­tional wart removal

TwistingFingers18 Dec 2011 18:57 UTC
−34 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

A model of UDT with a halt­ing oracle

cousin_it18 Dec 2011 14:18 UTC
70 points
102 comments2 min readLW link

Re­quest: In­duc­tion, Proof, Ex­per­i­men­tal mathematics

snarles18 Dec 2011 13:29 UTC
−7 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Donat­ing to wikipedia

snarles18 Dec 2011 13:17 UTC
−14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

List of ma­chine learn­ing researchers

robertzk18 Dec 2011 9:54 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Ab­solute Authority

MinibearRex18 Dec 2011 3:05 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy and Ma­chine Learn­ing Panel on Ethics

jsteinhardt17 Dec 2011 23:32 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Selfish rea­sons for FAI

snarles17 Dec 2011 22:58 UTC
0 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Belief in re­li­gion con­sid­ered harm­ful?

[deleted]17 Dec 2011 22:38 UTC
33 points
54 comments7 min readLW link

[LINK] High school stu­dents co­erced into non-op­ti­mal philan­thropy via psy­cholog­i­cal warfare

Dallas17 Dec 2011 22:24 UTC
10 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

MINE: Free tool for de­tect­ing novel as­so­ci­a­tions in large data sets

curiousepic17 Dec 2011 15:02 UTC
7 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Anes­the­sia and Con­scious­ness [link]

NancyLebovitz17 Dec 2011 11:50 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] The Fal­lacy of Gray

MinibearRex17 Dec 2011 6:11 UTC
7 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[Tran­script] Tyler Cowen on Stories

Grognor17 Dec 2011 5:42 UTC
96 points
14 comments9 min readLW link

Christo­pher Hitchens 1949-2011

Costanza16 Dec 2011 22:05 UTC
12 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

No one knows what Peano ar­ith­metic doesn’t know

cousin_it16 Dec 2011 21:36 UTC
28 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

I started a blog: Con­cept Space Cartography

jimrandomh16 Dec 2011 21:06 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Ad­mit­ting er­rors (in me­te­o­rol­ogy)

fortyeridania16 Dec 2011 17:21 UTC
16 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The ra­tio­nal­ist’s checklist

robertzk16 Dec 2011 16:21 UTC
44 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: At­lanta, Austin, Melbourne, Pittsburgh

FrankAdamek16 Dec 2011 15:08 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ques­tion about time­less physics

XiXiDu16 Dec 2011 13:09 UTC
6 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Allen & Wal­lach on Friendly AI

lukeprog16 Dec 2011 9:22 UTC
10 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Prob­lems of the Deutsch-Wal­lace ver­sion of Many Worlds

Mitchell_Porter16 Dec 2011 6:55 UTC
5 points
93 comments1 min readLW link

A dis­carded re­view of ‘Godel, Escher Bach: an Eter­nal Golden Braid’

lukeprog16 Dec 2011 5:51 UTC
12 points
30 comments4 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] But There’s Still A Chance, Right?

MinibearRex16 Dec 2011 3:03 UTC
12 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Do men have more part­ners than women?

DuncanS16 Dec 2011 0:11 UTC
12 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Ver­ifi­ca­tion Op­por­tu­nity?

beoShaffer15 Dec 2011 22:11 UTC
2 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

How to la­bel thoughts nonverbally

eugman15 Dec 2011 18:23 UTC
44 points
28 comments5 min readLW link

Check­ing Re­cent Upvotes?

Raemon15 Dec 2011 16:25 UTC
14 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

A case study in fool­ing oneself

Mitchell_Porter15 Dec 2011 5:25 UTC
−15 points
79 comments7 min readLW link

Com­press­ing Real­ity to Math

Vaniver15 Dec 2011 0:07 UTC
34 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

[LINK] SMBC dis­cusses the Sin­gu­lar­ity.

radical_negative_one14 Dec 2011 19:58 UTC
−4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Build­ing case-stud­ies of akrasia

Mercurial14 Dec 2011 18:42 UTC
19 points
21 comments1 min readLW link