On the un­pop­u­lar­ity of cry­on­ics: life sucks, but at least then you die

gwern29 Jul 2011 21:06 UTC
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The $125,000 Sum­mer Sin­gu­lar­ity Challenge

Kaj_Sotala29 Jul 2011 21:02 UTC
32 points
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ex­ists(max(perfor­mance(pay)))

PhilGoetz29 Jul 2011 19:52 UTC
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[SEQ RERUN] Fake Explanations

MinibearRex29 Jul 2011 15:16 UTC
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Global Warm­ing News

falenas10829 Jul 2011 12:06 UTC
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The dan­ger of wish­ful thinking

whpearson28 Jul 2011 23:24 UTC
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Wiki Clean-up project

minderbinder28 Jul 2011 21:46 UTC
7 points
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Am I obli­gated to reread the Book of Mor­mon?

[deleted]28 Jul 2011 19:10 UTC
6 points
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LW in BusinessInsider

Dr_Manhattan28 Jul 2011 17:57 UTC
9 points
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Look­ing speak­ers on ML/​AI top­ics in NYC area

Dr_Manhattan28 Jul 2011 17:37 UTC
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[LINK] A pro­posed up­date model for work­ing mem­ory: mul­ti­ple-com­po­nent framework

tetsuo5528 Jul 2011 13:09 UTC
2 points
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[LINK] Scien­tists use Bayesian rea­son­ing to up­date the drake equa­tion for the ex­is­tence of ET’s

tetsuo5528 Jul 2011 13:03 UTC
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[LINK] Hyper­bolic dis­count­ing is rational

twanvl28 Jul 2011 12:14 UTC
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[SEQ RERUN] Is Molec­u­lar Nan­otech­nol­ogy “Scien­tific”?

MinibearRex28 Jul 2011 3:36 UTC
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Look­ing for proof of con­di­tional probability

DanielLC28 Jul 2011 2:24 UTC
1 point
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Meetup : Irv­ine Meetup Wed­nes­day Au­gust 3

JGWeissman28 Jul 2011 0:37 UTC
2 points
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New Post ver­sion 2 (please read this ONLY if your last name be­ings with l–z)

lukeprog27 Jul 2011 21:57 UTC
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New Post ver­sion 1 (please read this ONLY if your last name be­ings with a–k)

lukeprog27 Jul 2011 21:57 UTC
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[LINK] Father of Cry­on­ics “Dies” at age 92

JackEmpty27 Jul 2011 18:19 UTC
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Lo­cat­ing emotions

Nisan27 Jul 2011 16:05 UTC
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[LINK] Videos from FHI’s Win­ter In­tel­li­gence Conference

vallinder27 Jul 2011 11:22 UTC
10 points
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If your Cry­on­i­cism would be Movie Topic, would you go with it? (Real Is­sue)

diegocaleiro27 Jul 2011 8:19 UTC
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How to en­joy be­ing wrong

lincolnquirk27 Jul 2011 5:48 UTC
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What’s wrong with sim­plic­ity of value?

Wei Dai27 Jul 2011 3:09 UTC
29 points
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[SEQ RERUN] Scien­tific Ev­i­dence, Le­gal Ev­i­dence, Ra­tional Evidence

MinibearRex27 Jul 2011 3:05 UTC
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Meetup : Madison

fiddlemath27 Jul 2011 2:30 UTC
4 points
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Against im­proper priors

DanielLC26 Jul 2011 23:50 UTC
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What would you do if AI were dan­ger­ous?

cousin_it26 Jul 2011 21:11 UTC
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The lat­est in prefer­ence elic­i­ta­tion and prefer­ence learn­ing in AI [links]

lukeprog26 Jul 2011 9:33 UTC
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SIAI Logo In SVG For­mat?

[deleted]26 Jul 2011 7:29 UTC
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Writ­ing guide?

Oscar_Cunningham26 Jul 2011 7:06 UTC
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Short­en­ing the Un­short­en­able Way

Duk326 Jul 2011 6:44 UTC
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[SEQ RERUN] Hind­sight De­val­ues Science

MinibearRex26 Jul 2011 1:27 UTC
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Bayesian justice

gwern26 Jul 2011 0:58 UTC
30 points
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A po­ten­tially great im­prove­ment to min­i­mum wage laws to han­dle both eco­nomic effi­ciency as well as poverty concerns

VijayKrishnan26 Jul 2011 0:07 UTC
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Meetup : Ot­tawa LessWrong Weekly Meetup

XFrequentist25 Jul 2011 17:38 UTC
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Meetup : Van­cou­ver, Canada

michaelkeenan25 Jul 2011 17:03 UTC
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LINK: Jour­nal­ist’s search for counter ar­gu­ments dam­ages science

tetsuo5525 Jul 2011 12:16 UTC
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Robert Et­tinger, founder of cry­on­ics, now CIs 106th patient

Paul Crowley25 Jul 2011 12:11 UTC
14 points
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Video lectures

[deleted]25 Jul 2011 10:20 UTC
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Is it okay to take toi­let-pills? /​ Ra­tion­al­ity vs. the dis­gust factor

Hul-Gil25 Jul 2011 9:08 UTC
7 points
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Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy for Hu­man Beings

lukeprog25 Jul 2011 7:27 UTC
49 points
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Meetup : Hous­ton Hack­erspace Meetup

Cog25 Jul 2011 5:08 UTC
1 point
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Help me tran­si­tion to hu­man so­ciety!

Clippy24 Jul 2011 16:24 UTC
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Devel­op­ing Empathy

falenas10824 Jul 2011 13:50 UTC
17 points
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What if sym­pa­thy de­pends on an­thro­po­mor­phiz­ing?

Wei Dai24 Jul 2011 12:33 UTC
22 points
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Dun­geons and Dis­course implementation

Scott Alexander24 Jul 2011 10:37 UTC
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Be Not Averse to Lost Purposes

fiddlemath24 Jul 2011 5:09 UTC
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Those who as­pire to perfection

Will_Newsome23 Jul 2011 22:24 UTC
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[SEQ RERUN] Hind­sight Bias

MinibearRex23 Jul 2011 19:51 UTC
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