Do bi­ases mat­ter?

Student_UKFeb 20, 2011, 1:10 AM
0 points
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New blog

chronophasiacFeb 20, 2011, 12:07 AM
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

LW was started to help altruists

RHollerithFeb 19, 2011, 9:13 PM
−7 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] “It’ll never work”: a col­lec­tion of failed predictions

AlexandrosFeb 19, 2011, 6:02 PM
13 points
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Ra­tion­al­ist Hobbies

Wei DaiFeb 19, 2011, 8:24 AM
12 points
65 comments1 min readLW link

prefer­ences:de­ci­sion the­ory :: data:code

ArthurBFeb 19, 2011, 7:45 AM
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23 comments3 min readLW link

Spoiled Dis­cus­sion of Per­mu­ta­tion City, A Fire Upon The Deep, and Eliezer’s Mega Crossover

JenniferRMFeb 19, 2011, 6:10 AM
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Alt text of to­day’s xkcd ad­dresses akrasia

CyanFeb 19, 2011, 2:03 AM
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Fun and Games with Cog­ni­tive Biases

CosmosFeb 18, 2011, 8:38 PM
85 points
28 comments6 min readLW link

Abil­ity to react

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Feb 18, 2011, 7:19 PM
100 points
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Cry­on­ics and Pas­cal’s wager

TimwiFeb 18, 2011, 6:36 PM
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Brains more com­pli­cated than pre­vi­ously thought

NancyLebovitzFeb 18, 2011, 3:37 PM
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Doodling as a tool of thought (just a link)

NancyLebovitzFeb 18, 2011, 2:53 PM
6 points
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Dead men tell tales: fal­ling out of love with SIA

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 18, 2011, 2:10 PM
5 points
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Schol­ar­ship and DIY Science

[deleted]Feb 18, 2011, 6:37 AM
22 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

Why can’t a man be more like a woman?

KatjaGraceFeb 18, 2011, 3:31 AM
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0 comments3 min readLW link

Strong sub­strate in­de­pen­dence: a thing that goes wrong in my mind when ex­posed to philosophy

HonoreDBFeb 18, 2011, 1:40 AM
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Writ­ing re­views in­stead of collecting

DSimonFeb 17, 2011, 11:27 PM
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Re­cur­sively Self-Im­prov­ing Hu­man Intelligence

curiousepicFeb 17, 2011, 9:55 PM
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Re­vis­it­ing the an­thropic trilemma III: solu­tions and interpretations

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 17, 2011, 3:14 PM
6 points
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Sleep­ing anti-beauty and the pre­sump­tu­ous philosopher

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 17, 2011, 2:59 PM
8 points
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Com­puter se­cu­rity story

PerplexedFeb 17, 2011, 12:26 AM
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Over­com­ing the nega­tive sig­nal of not at­tend­ing col­lege.

James_MillerFeb 16, 2011, 8:13 PM
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Mak­ing money with Bit­coin?

ClippyFeb 16, 2011, 7:17 PM
49 points
129 comments1 min readLW link

Who’s likely to write the AI? A hypothesis

NancyLebovitzFeb 16, 2011, 5:04 PM
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A sim­ple-minded the­ory of “ob­server fluid”

cousin_itFeb 16, 2011, 4:40 PM
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Write It Like A Poem

Strange7Feb 16, 2011, 3:11 PM
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(Hu­mor, link) UnFriendly AI has claimed its first vic­tim...

CronoDASFeb 16, 2011, 2:28 PM
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Au­to­mated the­o­rem prov­ing by learn­ing from examples

Alex FlintFeb 16, 2011, 1:38 PM
5 points
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Re­vis­it­ing the An­thropic Trilemma II: ax­ioms and assumptions

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 16, 2011, 9:42 AM
9 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

Set­tled ques­tions in philosophy

lukeprogFeb 16, 2011, 6:53 AM
56 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] What are some stupid things smart peo­ple do?

David_GerardFeb 15, 2011, 5:51 PM
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A gene for bad mem­ory? (Link)

Richard_KennawayFeb 15, 2011, 3:27 PM
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Not own­ing our beliefs

Alex FlintFeb 15, 2011, 3:02 PM
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Re­vis­it­ing the an­thropic trilemma I: in­tu­itions and contradictions

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 15, 2011, 11:18 AM
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Some Heuris­tics for Eval­u­at­ing the Sound­ness of the Aca­demic Main­stream in Un­fa­mil­iar Fields

Vladimir_MFeb 15, 2011, 9:17 AM
100 points
274 comments9 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Di­plo­macy, Game Two Post-game Discussion

RandalyFeb 15, 2011, 5:13 AM
7 points
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The non-painless upload

PrismatticFeb 15, 2011, 4:23 AM
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Op­ti­mal Em­ploy­ment Open Thread

[deleted]Feb 14, 2011, 10:49 PM
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In­tro to Nat­u­ral­ist Me­taethics?

Mass_DriverFeb 14, 2011, 10:32 PM
10 points
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Tor­tur­ing peo­ple for fun

cousin_itFeb 14, 2011, 8:52 PM
18 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

Why we should fear the Paper­clip­per [Link]

XiXiDuFeb 14, 2011, 7:24 PM
5 points
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Al­gorithms as Case Stud­ies in Rationality

abramdemskiFeb 14, 2011, 6:27 PM
38 points
40 comments6 min readLW link

[COMIC] An­thropic dun­geon crawling

jsalvatierFeb 14, 2011, 3:30 PM
3 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

IBM’s “Wat­son” pro­gram to com­pete against “Jeop­ardy” cham­pi­ons tonight

NihilCredoFeb 14, 2011, 3:28 PM
12 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Peter Thiel backs “AI startup” [link]

Dr_ManhattanFeb 14, 2011, 2:56 PM
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0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup posts as dis­cus­sion threads, please

JoniiFeb 14, 2011, 11:49 AM
39 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Against Desirism

endoselfFeb 14, 2011, 5:56 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Why Do We En­gage in Mo­ral Sim­plifi­ca­tion?

Wei DaiFeb 14, 2011, 1:16 AM
34 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Open Thread: Mathematics

bentarmFeb 13, 2011, 11:50 PM
18 points
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