Liv­ing For­ever is Hard, or, The Gom­pertz Curve

gwern17 May 2011 21:08 UTC
67 points
87 comments3 min readLW link

DC Meetup: May 22nd

atucker17 May 2011 20:13 UTC
6 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Self-de­cep­tion: Hypocrisy or Akra­sia?

badger17 May 2011 15:22 UTC
13 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

How and Why to Granularize

lukeprog17 May 2011 15:16 UTC
85 points
60 comments4 min readLW link

Space-worthiness

NancyLebovitz17 May 2011 14:50 UTC
8 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Pas­cal’s Mug­ging—Pe­nal­iz­ing the prior prob­a­bil­ity?

XiXiDu17 May 2011 14:44 UTC
12 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

How some al­gorithms feel from inside

cousin_it17 May 2011 11:26 UTC
48 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Beyond Smart and Stupid

PhilGoetz17 May 2011 6:25 UTC
36 points
44 comments3 min readLW link

Values vs. parameters

PhilGoetz17 May 2011 5:53 UTC
9 points
68 comments2 min readLW link

Coloniza­tion mod­els: a tu­to­rial on com­pu­ta­tional Bayesian in­fer­ence (part 2/​2)

snarles17 May 2011 3:54 UTC
29 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Coloniza­tion mod­els: a pro­gram­ming tu­to­rial (Part 1/​2)

snarles16 May 2011 23:33 UTC
42 points
6 comments15 min readLW link

Off-topic: Rus­sian ma­chine translation

thomblake16 May 2011 20:12 UTC
1 point
5 comments1 min readLW link

Life Ex­ten­sion through Diet Modification

Caerbannog16 May 2011 18:36 UTC
23 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Fine-tuned for In­ter­est­ing­ness vs. Ram­sey’s Theorem

Alexandros16 May 2011 17:07 UTC
1 point
19 comments2 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Chrono­phone Motivations

badger16 May 2011 16:29 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Two ar­ti­cles on Bitcoin

David_Gerard16 May 2011 14:36 UTC
8 points
63 comments1 min readLW link

Fu­ture Filters [draft]

snarles16 May 2011 12:42 UTC
1 point
12 comments1 min readLW link

Ban­ga­lore Meetup: 28th May

[deleted]16 May 2011 6:36 UTC
10 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Con­cep­tual Anal­y­sis and Mo­ral Theory

lukeprog16 May 2011 6:28 UTC
94 points
481 comments8 min readLW link

Hous­ton Hack­erspace Meetup: Sun­day May 22, 5:00PM

Cog16 May 2011 4:23 UTC
5 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity up­dat­ing ques­tion − 99.9999% chance of tails, heads on first flip

nuckingfutz16 May 2011 0:58 UTC
4 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Co­er­cion is far

saliency16 May 2011 0:37 UTC
−9 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Group of Lat­ter Day Roleplayers

Cyan15 May 2011 21:31 UTC
14 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Re­cov­er­ing In­suffer­able Ge­nius (work­ing ti­tle)

Raw_Power15 May 2011 19:27 UTC
6 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Archimedes’s Chronophone

badger15 May 2011 13:04 UTC
16 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Liars for Jesus

Swimmy15 May 2011 12:41 UTC
2 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ists don’t care about the future

PhilGoetz15 May 2011 7:48 UTC
8 points
148 comments6 min readLW link

What we’re losing

PhilGoetz15 May 2011 3:34 UTC
72 points
79 comments1 min readLW link

Miss­ing magic

KatjaGrace15 May 2011 2:31 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Talk about your research

snarles15 May 2011 1:32 UTC
20 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Peo­ple who want to save the world

Giles15 May 2011 0:44 UTC
5 points
247 comments1 min readLW link

South­ern Cal­ifor­nia Meetup May 21, Weekly Irv­ine Mee­tups on Wednesdays

JGWeissman14 May 2011 16:55 UTC
4 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Anal­y­sis of tran­sis­tion costs for chang­ing habits

NancyLebovitz14 May 2011 15:32 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Use­less Med­i­cal Disclaimers

badger14 May 2011 13:51 UTC
11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Vic­to­ria BC meetup Mon­day May 23rd 5pm

Owen_Richardson14 May 2011 6:57 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Vic­to­ria BC meet-up Mon­day May 23rd 5pm

Owen_Richardson14 May 2011 5:57 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Refer­ence Classes in the Dooms­day Argument

Caerbannog14 May 2011 2:50 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Free Thought Film Fes­ti­val: Tampa tra­di­tional ra­tio­nal­ist gath­er­ing this week­end (13-15 May)

khafra14 May 2011 0:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Gri­gori Perel­man re­fused prize be­cause he knows “how to con­trol the uni­verse”

Hul-Gil13 May 2011 23:39 UTC
1 point
26 comments1 min readLW link

Buenos Aires meetup: Satur­day, May 14th, 3pm

Pablo13 May 2011 21:15 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Min­neapo­lis Meetup: Satur­day May 14, 3:00PM

JustinShovelain13 May 2011 21:14 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Ot­tawa meetup, Satur­day May 14 6pm

XFrequentist13 May 2011 21:14 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ediburgh LW Meetup Sun­day 15th May, 2pm

sark13 May 2011 21:14 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Lon­don meetup, Sun­day 2011-05-15 14:00, near Lon­don Bridge

Paul Crowley13 May 2011 20:54 UTC
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

DC Meetup: Sun­day May 15th, 3:30 PM

atucker13 May 2011 20:53 UTC
8 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Up­com­ing meet-ups: Buenos Aires, Min­neapo­lis, Ot­tawa, Ed­in­burgh, Cam­bridge, Lon­don, DC

AnnaSalamon13 May 2011 20:49 UTC
44 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Break­ing the Pro­cras­ti­na­tion Equation

Alex_Altair13 May 2011 17:13 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

List of com­part­men­tal­ized peo­ple (who both win and fail at truth-seek­ing)

gwern13 May 2011 16:14 UTC
−14 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Ask LessWrong: De­sign a de­gree in Ra­tion­al­ity.

XFrequentist13 May 2011 15:51 UTC
19 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Refer­ence Classes in the Dooms­day Argument

Caerbannog13 May 2011 4:53 UTC
7 points
12 comments3 min readLW link