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Meetup : 02/12 London Meetup
philh
Nov 27, 2012, 11:45 PM
4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What is your true decision metric? A look at medicinal chemists
brilee
Nov 27, 2012, 7:43 PM
5
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A definition of wireheading
Anja
Nov 27, 2012, 7:31 PM
52
points
80
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Montreal Meetup—Biases and Biased Boardgaming
Paul_G
Nov 27, 2012, 6:06 PM
4
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Holding your own LW Solstice
Raemon
Nov 27, 2012, 4:03 PM
6
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Total Nano Domination
MinibearRex
Nov 27, 2012, 4:54 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[META] Retributive downvoting: Why?
ialdabaoth
Nov 27, 2012, 2:24 AM
15
points
111
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at Cambridge makes headlines.
betterthanwell
Nov 26, 2012, 8:56 PM
29
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Weekly meetup, Champaign IL: Cafe Paradiso
aspera
Nov 26, 2012, 6:06 PM
2
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow: Applied Rationality and Cognitive Biases
Yuu
Nov 26, 2012, 12:34 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Hermeneutics!
Nisan
Nov 26, 2012, 5:40 AM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
What do you think of my reading list?
[deleted]
Nov 26, 2012, 2:13 AM
6
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Engelbart: Insufficiently Recursive
MinibearRex
Nov 26, 2012, 1:05 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Credence calibration game FAQ
Academian
Nov 26, 2012, 12:52 AM
24
points
57
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How minimal is our intelligence?
Douglas_Reay
Nov 25, 2012, 11:34 PM
78
points
214
comments
6
min read
LW
link
LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance
daenerys
Nov 25, 2012, 11:33 PM
99
points
1,261
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Abstract/Distant Future Bias
MinibearRex
Nov 25, 2012, 4:20 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cryonic resurrection—an ethical hypothetical
ialdabaoth
Nov 25, 2012, 12:44 AM
16
points
28
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Brussels meetup
Axel
Nov 24, 2012, 6:31 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Mathematical Measures of Optimization Power
Alex_Altair
Nov 24, 2012, 10:55 AM
8
points
16
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] …Recursion, Magic
MinibearRex
Nov 24, 2012, 5:54 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Overconfident Pessimism
lukeprog
Nov 24, 2012, 12:47 AM
37
points
38
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Example of neurons usefully communicating without synapses found in flies [LINK]
Sniffnoy
Nov 23, 2012, 11:25 PM
7
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] 12 Myths about Hunger
Curiouskid
Nov 23, 2012, 10:25 PM
−19
points
9
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Musk, Mars and x-risk
Kawoomba
Nov 23, 2012, 8:32 PM
14
points
65
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Phoenix, AZ: Stoicism and Visitors: 6 December 6:00PM
Danny_Hintze
Nov 23, 2012, 7:08 PM
3
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups: Austin, Chicago, Cincinnati/Columbus, Cleveland/Akron, Durham, London, Moscow, Paderborn, Salt Lake City, Washington DC
FrankAdamek
Nov 23, 2012, 5:18 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Request for community insight
Caerbannog
Nov 23, 2012, 2:20 PM
−4
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Breakdown of existential risks
Stuart_Armstrong
Nov 23, 2012, 2:12 PM
24
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Meetup : Bielefeld Meetup, December 5th
Just_existing
Nov 23, 2012, 11:50 AM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Counterfactual self-defense
MrMind
Nov 23, 2012, 10:15 AM
2
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[link] Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing
Kaj_Sotala
Nov 23, 2012, 7:58 AM
18
points
5
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Playing the student: attitudes to learning as social roles
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Nov 23, 2012, 2:56 AM
10
points
23
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The wandering rationalist: an update
Despard
Nov 22, 2012, 8:55 PM
4
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Optimal” mammography?
Shmi
Nov 22, 2012, 8:02 PM
9
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AGI-12 and AGI-Impacts—late places available
Stuart_Armstrong
Nov 22, 2012, 12:53 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : First meetup in Innsbruck
David Althaus
Nov 21, 2012, 10:31 PM
4
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] IBM simulate a “brain” with 500 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses
drnickbone
Nov 21, 2012, 10:23 PM
7
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Technical Universities in Europe: a Recommendation Thread
Ritalin
Nov 21, 2012, 6:25 PM
−9
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LessWrong Montreal—Advanced Epistemology 101
Paul_G
Nov 21, 2012, 4:05 PM
7
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ideas needed for a Psychology experiment involving popular fiction (Movies mainly) and biases and heuristics
Tenoke
Nov 21, 2012, 2:34 PM
−1
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Stop learning, start thinking [LINK]
NancyLebovitz
Nov 21, 2012, 2:32 PM
8
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Melbourne, practical rationality
matt
Nov 21, 2012, 12:44 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Atlanta—Practical Rationality Meetup Session
hankx7787
Nov 20, 2012, 11:01 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Responses to questions on donating to 80k, GWWC, EAA and LYCS
wdmacaskill
Nov 20, 2012, 10:41 PM
34
points
20
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Miracle Mineral Supplement
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Nov 20, 2012, 9:17 PM
29
points
82
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Evil AI Overlord List
Stuart_Armstrong
Nov 20, 2012, 5:02 PM
44
points
80
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Berlin Meetup
blob
Nov 20, 2012, 4:32 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Pittsburgh: affecting the far future
KatjaGrace
Nov 20, 2012, 4:25 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Case against Killer Robots (link)
D_Alex
Nov 20, 2012, 7:47 AM
12
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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