“Big Sur­prise”—the fa­mous athe­ists are ac­tu­ally Bayesi­ans [link]

Dr_Manhattan8 Apr 2012 16:11 UTC
−12 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Two ar­ti­cles about fu­tur­ism [LINKS]

NancyLebovitz8 Apr 2012 12:59 UTC
2 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing the Idea Space Efficiently

Elithrion8 Apr 2012 4:28 UTC
28 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

[link] Is Alu Life?

ec4297 Apr 2012 21:24 UTC
−9 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

AI risk bibliog­ra­phy (draft)

lukeprog7 Apr 2012 18:46 UTC
8 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

[link] TEDxYale—Keith Chen—The Im­pact of Lan­guage on Eco­nomic Be­hav­ior

Grognor7 Apr 2012 17:20 UTC
5 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

AI Risk & Op­por­tu­nity: Strate­gic Anal­y­sis Via Prob­a­bil­ity Tree

lukeprog7 Apr 2012 8:25 UTC
20 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] No In­di­vi­d­ual Particles

MinibearRex7 Apr 2012 1:34 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

bino­mial var­i­ance problem

nerfhammer6 Apr 2012 22:59 UTC
6 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­o­ries: A Semi-For­mal Anal­y­sis, Part II

orthonormal6 Apr 2012 18:59 UTC
26 points
28 comments7 min readLW link

Com­plex­ity based moral val­ues.

Dmytry6 Apr 2012 17:09 UTC
−12 points
102 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : London

Paul Crowley6 Apr 2012 16:42 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bu­dapest Meetup

[deleted]6 Apr 2012 16:11 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Wedne­day 7pm

EvelynM6 Apr 2012 15:49 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Long­mont Spark­fun Sold­er­ing Com­pe­ti­tion Field Trip

EvelynM6 Apr 2012 15:39 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Berkeley, Madi­son, Melbourne, Norwich

FrankAdamek6 Apr 2012 15:00 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Twin Cities, MN (for real this time)

FrankAdamek6 Apr 2012 14:50 UTC
7 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Peter Singer and Tyler Cowen transcript

jefftk6 Apr 2012 12:25 UTC
56 points
34 comments31 min readLW link

SMBC comic: poorly pro­grammed av­er­age-util­ity-max­i­miz­ing AI

Jonathan_Graehl6 Apr 2012 7:18 UTC
12 points
113 comments1 min readLW link

Look­ing for re­duc­tion­ism help

[deleted]6 Apr 2012 6:34 UTC
4 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

A Pois­son pro­cess paradox

nerfhammer6 Apr 2012 5:20 UTC
29 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Feyn­man Paths

MinibearRex6 Apr 2012 4:58 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Mon­day Madi­son Meetup

fiddlemath6 Apr 2012 4:40 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Forked Rus­sian Roulette and An­ti­ci­pa­tion of Survival

FeepingCreature6 Apr 2012 3:57 UTC
12 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : First Dorset UK Meetup

danielmamay5 Apr 2012 22:28 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

File Un­der “Keep Your Iden­tity Small”

Matt_Simpson5 Apr 2012 18:36 UTC
21 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Austin, TX

Vaniver5 Apr 2012 15:21 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Logic of Para­dox: a (too) sim­ple para­con­sis­tent logic

Stuart_Armstrong5 Apr 2012 10:10 UTC
18 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Skoll World Fo­rum: Catas­trophic Risk and Threats to the Global Commons

XiXiDu5 Apr 2012 9:44 UTC
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Find­ing big donors

NancyLebovitz5 Apr 2012 7:31 UTC
14 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] The Quan­tum Arena

MinibearRex5 Apr 2012 3:00 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesi­anism and use of Ev­i­dence in So­cial De­duc­tion Games

DeevGrape5 Apr 2012 0:55 UTC
18 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Board Games Meetup

[deleted]4 Apr 2012 23:14 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics with­out freez­ers: re­s­ur­rec­tion pos­si­bil­ities in a Big World

Scott Alexander4 Apr 2012 22:48 UTC
75 points
140 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Salt Lake City Meetup (Lo­ca­tion Changed!)

hamnox4 Apr 2012 21:03 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

You only live once: a re­fram­ing of work­ing to­wards posthumanity

John_Maxwell4 Apr 2012 19:44 UTC
7 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Mak­ing Big De­ci­sions about Money

Benquo4 Apr 2012 16:02 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity and Decorating

NancyLebovitz4 Apr 2012 12:24 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Para­con­sis­tency and rele­vance: avoid log­i­cal explosions

Stuart_Armstrong4 Apr 2012 11:57 UTC
20 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity anec­dotes for the home­page?

John_Maxwell4 Apr 2012 6:33 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Clas­si­cal Con­figu­ra­tion Spaces

MinibearRex4 Apr 2012 4:32 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 14, chap­ter 82

FAWS4 Apr 2012 2:53 UTC
12 points
794 comments1 min readLW link

Chess An­a­lyst “solves” King’s Gambit

[deleted]3 Apr 2012 23:36 UTC
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

The effi­ciency of prizes

lukeprog3 Apr 2012 21:45 UTC
39 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] Neil deGrasse Tyson on kil­ler asteroids

David_Gerard3 Apr 2012 18:32 UTC
5 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Atlanta

hankx77873 Apr 2012 16:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ev­i­dence for the or­thog­o­nal­ity thesis

Stuart_Armstrong3 Apr 2012 10:58 UTC
14 points
293 comments1 min readLW link

SotW: Be Specific

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Apr 2012 6:11 UTC
86 points
294 comments12 min readLW link

Ad­vice for an iso­lated Ra­tion­al­ist?

Goobahman3 Apr 2012 4:40 UTC
19 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong down­time 2012-03-26, and site speed

matt3 Apr 2012 4:15 UTC
62 points
7 comments1 min readLW link