New book on athe­ism, tran­shu­man­ism, and x-risk

lukeprog12 Jul 2012 21:17 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Valuable Things to Know While Dis­cussing Mo­ral Philosophy

mwengler12 Jul 2012 20:40 UTC
−7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

What Is Sig­nal­ing, Really?

Scott Alexander12 Jul 2012 17:43 UTC
143 points
173 comments6 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Math is Sub­junc­tively Objective

MinibearRex12 Jul 2012 2:07 UTC
6 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

What Is Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy?

alyssavance12 Jul 2012 0:17 UTC
39 points
35 comments5 min readLW link

Ra­tional Ethics

OrphanWilde11 Jul 2012 22:26 UTC
−5 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

Moder­ate al­co­hol con­sump­tion in­versely cor­re­lated with all-cause mortality

[deleted]11 Jul 2012 17:41 UTC
4 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

Use­ful maxims

Paul Crowley11 Jul 2012 11:56 UTC
38 points
111 comments1 min readLW link

Kurzweil’s pre­dic­tions: good ac­cu­racy, poor self-calibration

Stuart_Armstrong11 Jul 2012 9:55 UTC
50 points
39 comments9 min readLW link

An In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Solomonoff Induction

Alex_Altair11 Jul 2012 8:05 UTC
160 points
225 comments24 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Can Coun­ter­fac­tu­als Be True?

MinibearRex11 Jul 2012 6:54 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity and Cancer

SwingDancerMike11 Jul 2012 6:48 UTC
22 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Big Monthly

[deleted]11 Jul 2012 2:46 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Re­ply to Holden on The Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

lukeprog10 Jul 2012 23:20 UTC
69 points
214 comments26 min readLW link

SI vis­it­ing fel­low Diego Caleiro gives a TED talk on Friendly AI

lukeprog10 Jul 2012 22:57 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 7/​9/​12

cata10 Jul 2012 8:35 UTC
6 points
66 comments1 min readLW link

Cul­tural norms in choice of mate

TraderJoe10 Jul 2012 8:18 UTC
−27 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] When (Not) To Use Probabilities

MinibearRex10 Jul 2012 5:33 UTC
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Steam Greenlight

BrandonReinhart10 Jul 2012 5:11 UTC
24 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Dual N-Back browser-based “game” in pub­lic alpha-test­ing state.

Logos0110 Jul 2012 3:36 UTC
6 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Low hang­ing fruit: Web­sites that sig­nifi­cantly im­prove your life?

RomeoStevens10 Jul 2012 2:32 UTC
16 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Should LW have a sep­a­rate AI sec­tion?

Alex_Altair10 Jul 2012 1:42 UTC
16 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Muehlhauser-Hib­bard Dialogue on AGI

lukeprog9 Jul 2012 23:11 UTC
14 points
16 comments20 min readLW link

How Bayes’ the­o­rem is con­sis­tent with Solomonoff induction

Alex_Altair9 Jul 2012 22:16 UTC
21 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Ad­vice On Get­ting A Soft­ware Job

alyssavance9 Jul 2012 18:52 UTC
34 points
41 comments4 min readLW link

Value of a Com­pu­ta­tional Pro­cess?

jefftk9 Jul 2012 17:33 UTC
4 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Cargo Cult Debugging

MarkL9 Jul 2012 16:05 UTC
−9 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ed­in­burgh sum­mer meetup

scaphandre9 Jul 2012 13:31 UTC
4 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Cal­ibra­tion Games meetup

rocurley9 Jul 2012 12:24 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Nick Bostrom’s TED talk and set­ting priorities

ChrisHallquist9 Jul 2012 5:01 UTC
4 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Fake Norms, or “Truth” vs. Truth

MinibearRex9 Jul 2012 3:37 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Games & Apps Brainstorming

lukeprog9 Jul 2012 3:04 UTC
42 points
59 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Thurs­day 7pm

EvelynM8 Jul 2012 16:03 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity open thread

Will_Newsome8 Jul 2012 14:30 UTC
6 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Should We Ban Physics?

MinibearRex8 Jul 2012 6:50 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Links about naturalism

lukeprog8 Jul 2012 5:39 UTC
8 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

To Learn Crit­i­cal Think­ing, Study Crit­i­cal Thinking

gwern7 Jul 2012 23:50 UTC
41 points
16 comments11 min readLW link

Stupid Ques­tions Open Thread Round 3

OpenThreadGuy7 Jul 2012 17:16 UTC
11 points
209 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Ex­is­ten­tial Angst Factory

MinibearRex7 Jul 2012 5:00 UTC
12 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­lude for Be­hav­ioral Economics

Scott Alexander6 Jul 2012 20:12 UTC
90 points
53 comments6 min readLW link

Trans­parency in In­surance (Edit: Solu­tion found)

[deleted]6 Jul 2012 18:01 UTC
6 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Cali, Columbia; Melbourne; Pitts­burgh; St. Petersburg

FrankAdamek6 Jul 2012 14:39 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Berkeley meta-meetup

Nisan6 Jul 2012 8:02 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Madi­son: Prob­a­bil­ity Calibration

fiddlemath6 Jul 2012 3:59 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Nega­tive and Pos­i­tive Selection

alyssavance6 Jul 2012 1:34 UTC
148 points
263 comments3 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Could Any­thing Be Right?

MinibearRex5 Jul 2012 22:29 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

On the Care and Feed­ing of Young Ra­tion­al­ists—Re­vis­ited[Draft] [Re­quest for Feed­back]

MBlume5 Jul 2012 19:12 UTC
31 points
89 comments3 min readLW link

Less Wrong views on moral­ity?

hankx77875 Jul 2012 17:04 UTC
−1 points
146 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : First New Jersey Meetup

[deleted]5 Jul 2012 16:11 UTC
4 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Should you try to do good work on LW?

cousin_it5 Jul 2012 12:36 UTC
49 points
32 comments1 min readLW link