Meetup : 02/​12 Lon­don Meetup

philhNov 27, 2012, 11:45 PM
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

What is your true de­ci­sion met­ric? A look at medici­nal chemists

brileeNov 27, 2012, 7:43 PM
5 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

A defi­ni­tion of wireheading

AnjaNov 27, 2012, 7:31 PM
52 points
80 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : Mon­treal Meetup—Bi­ases and Bi­ased Boardgaming

Paul_GNov 27, 2012, 6:06 PM
4 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Hold­ing your own LW Solstice

RaemonNov 27, 2012, 4:03 PM
6 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] To­tal Nano Domination

MinibearRexNov 27, 2012, 4:54 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[META] Retribu­tive down­vot­ing: Why?

ialdabaothNov 27, 2012, 2:24 AM
15 points
111 comments1 min readLW link

Cen­tre for the Study of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk (CSER) at Cam­bridge makes head­lines.

betterthanwellNov 26, 2012, 8:56 PM
29 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Weekly meetup, Cham­paign IL: Cafe Paradiso

asperaNov 26, 2012, 6:06 PM
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow: Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity and Cog­ni­tive Biases

YuuNov 26, 2012, 12:34 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Hermeneu­tics!

NisanNov 26, 2012, 5:40 AM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

What do you think of my read­ing list?

[deleted]Nov 26, 2012, 2:13 AM
6 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] En­gelbart: In­suffi­ciently Recursive

MinibearRexNov 26, 2012, 1:05 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cre­dence cal­ibra­tion game FAQ

AcademianNov 26, 2012, 12:52 AM
24 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

How min­i­mal is our in­tel­li­gence?

Douglas_ReayNov 25, 2012, 11:34 PM
78 points
214 comments6 min readLW link

LW Women- Min­i­miz­ing the In­fer­en­tial Distance

daenerysNov 25, 2012, 11:33 PM
99 points
1,261 comments7 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Ab­stract/​Dis­tant Fu­ture Bias

MinibearRexNov 25, 2012, 4:20 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cry­onic re­s­ur­rec­tion—an eth­i­cal hypothetical

ialdabaothNov 25, 2012, 12:44 AM
16 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup

AxelNov 24, 2012, 6:31 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Math­e­mat­i­cal Mea­sures of Op­ti­miza­tion Power

Alex_AltairNov 24, 2012, 10:55 AM
8 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] …Re­cur­sion, Magic

MinibearRexNov 24, 2012, 5:54 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Over­con­fi­dent Pessimism

lukeprogNov 24, 2012, 12:47 AM
37 points
38 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­am­ple of neu­rons use­fully com­mu­ni­cat­ing with­out synapses found in flies [LINK]

SniffnoyNov 23, 2012, 11:25 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] 12 Myths about Hunger

CuriouskidNov 23, 2012, 10:25 PM
−19 points
9 comments7 min readLW link

Musk, Mars and x-risk

KawoombaNov 23, 2012, 8:32 PM
14 points
65 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Phoenix, AZ: Sto­icism and Visi­tors: 6 De­cem­ber 6:00PM

Danny_HintzeNov 23, 2012, 7:08 PM
3 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Chicago, Cinc­in­nati/​Colum­bus, Cleve­land/​Akron, Durham, Lon­don, Moscow, Pader­born, Salt Lake City, Wash­ing­ton DC

FrankAdamekNov 23, 2012, 5:18 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Re­quest for com­mu­nity insight

CaerbannogNov 23, 2012, 2:20 PM
−4 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Break­down of ex­is­ten­tial risks

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 23, 2012, 2:12 PM
24 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meetup : Bielefeld Meetup, De­cem­ber 5th

Just_existingNov 23, 2012, 11:50 AM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tual self-defense

MrMindNov 23, 2012, 10:15 AM
2 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Mis­in­for­ma­tion and Its Cor­rec­tion: Con­tinued In­fluence and Suc­cess­ful Debiasing

Kaj_SotalaNov 23, 2012, 7:58 AM
18 points
5 comments10 min readLW link

Play­ing the stu­dent: at­ti­tudes to learn­ing as so­cial roles

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Nov 23, 2012, 2:56 AM
10 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

The wan­der­ing ra­tio­nal­ist: an update

DespardNov 22, 2012, 8:55 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

“Op­ti­mal” mam­mog­ra­phy?

ShmiNov 22, 2012, 8:02 PM
9 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

AGI-12 and AGI-Im­pacts—late places available

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 22, 2012, 12:53 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : First meetup in Inns­bruck

David AlthausNov 21, 2012, 10:31 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] IBM simu­late a “brain” with 500 billion neu­rons and 100 trillion synapses

drnickboneNov 21, 2012, 10:23 PM
7 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Tech­ni­cal Univer­si­ties in Europe: a Recom­men­da­tion Thread

RitalinNov 21, 2012, 6:25 PM
−9 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LessWrong Mon­treal—Ad­vanced Episte­mol­ogy 101

Paul_GNov 21, 2012, 4:05 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ideas needed for a Psy­chol­ogy ex­per­i­ment in­volv­ing pop­u­lar fic­tion (Movies mainly) and bi­ases and heuristics

TenokeNov 21, 2012, 2:34 PM
−1 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Stop learn­ing, start think­ing [LINK]

NancyLebovitzNov 21, 2012, 2:32 PM
8 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

mattNov 21, 2012, 12:44 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : At­lanta—Prac­ti­cal Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Session

hankx7787Nov 20, 2012, 11:01 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Re­sponses to ques­tions on donat­ing to 80k, GWWC, EAA and LYCS

wdmacaskillNov 20, 2012, 10:41 PM
34 points
20 comments13 min readLW link

Mir­a­cle Min­eral Supplement

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 20, 2012, 9:17 PM
29 points
82 comments1 min readLW link

The Evil AI Over­lord List

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 20, 2012, 5:02 PM
44 points
80 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup

blobNov 20, 2012, 4:32 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Pitts­burgh: af­fect­ing the far future

KatjaGraceNov 20, 2012, 4:25 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Case against Killer Robots (link)

D_AlexNov 20, 2012, 7:47 AM
12 points
25 comments1 min readLW link