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Meetup : NYC. Joint Meetup With Another Rationality Community
Raemon
11 Aug 2012 15:25 UTC
4
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Berlin Meetup
blob
11 Aug 2012 9:59 UTC
2
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Mirrors and Paintings
MinibearRex
11 Aug 2012 5:17 UTC
6
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A rationalist My Little Pony fanfic
DataPacRat
10 Aug 2012 20:53 UTC
20
points
102
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Subsuming Purpose, Part 1
OrphanWilde
10 Aug 2012 18:45 UTC
−1
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Opinions on Boltzmann brain arguments constraining modern multiverse theories
Dr_Manhattan
10 Aug 2012 18:05 UTC
2
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups: Austin, Cambridge UK, Copenhagen, Dublin, Pittsburgh, Washington DC
FrankAdamek
10 Aug 2012 14:44 UTC
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Admitting to Bias
GLaDOS
10 Aug 2012 8:13 UTC
22
points
131
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Invisible Frameworks
MinibearRex
10 Aug 2012 6:07 UTC
6
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Board Games “Seattle”
SarahNibs
10 Aug 2012 2:55 UTC
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Solving the two envelopes problem
rstarkov
9 Aug 2012 13:42 UTC
45
points
33
comments
4
min read
LW
link
From the “weird math questions” department...
CronoDAS
9 Aug 2012 7:19 UTC
7
points
50
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mentioning cryonics to a dying person
DanielH
9 Aug 2012 6:48 UTC
11
points
73
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Longmont Colorado Meetup
EvelynM
9 Aug 2012 2:50 UTC
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Seeking advice on using evolutionary methods to solve the 3-body problem
Troshen
8 Aug 2012 23:43 UTC
−4
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is lossless information transfer possible?
kirpi
8 Aug 2012 20:02 UTC
−12
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Vancouver Big Public Meetup
Arkanj3l
8 Aug 2012 19:10 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Biohacking in New York, Cybernetics and first Cyborg Hate Crime: theverge.com
MatthewBaker
8 Aug 2012 18:00 UTC
4
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Less Wrong Sydney: 20th August
Oklord
8 Aug 2012 17:44 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] “Proxy measures, sunk costs, and Chesterton’s fence”, or: the sunk cost heuristic
kpreid
8 Aug 2012 14:39 UTC
13
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Friendly AI and the limits of computational epistemology
Mitchell_Porter
8 Aug 2012 13:16 UTC
25
points
148
comments
8
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] No License To Be Human
MinibearRex
8 Aug 2012 7:26 UTC
6
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reinforcement, Preference and Utility
royf
8 Aug 2012 6:23 UTC
14
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Group rationality diary, 8/6/12
cata
8 Aug 2012 5:58 UTC
9
points
36
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules
pragmatist
8 Aug 2012 4:27 UTC
33
points
237
comments
9
min read
LW
link
The High Impact Network (THINK) - Launching Now
Raemon
8 Aug 2012 2:29 UTC
51
points
17
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC Social Meetup
rocurley
8 Aug 2012 0:37 UTC
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC Social Meetup
rocurley
8 Aug 2012 0:37 UTC
1
point
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Transcript: “Choice Machines, Causality, and Cooperation”
Randaly
7 Aug 2012 22:15 UTC
16
points
4
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Depth of Knowledge
billswift
7 Aug 2012 17:39 UTC
−3
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
A question about Singularity Summit 2012
UngnsCobra
7 Aug 2012 12:13 UTC
−2
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Draft: Get Lucky
atucker
7 Aug 2012 6:26 UTC
17
points
36
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] You Provably Can’t Trust Yourself
MinibearRex
7 Aug 2012 5:06 UTC
4
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
SI/CFAR Are Looking for Contract Web Developers
Malo
6 Aug 2012 22:47 UTC
6
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Bratislava, Slovakia—the first LW meetup
BarbaraB
6 Aug 2012 10:36 UTC
17
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Suber, “The Ethics of Deep Self-Modification”
lukeprog
6 Aug 2012 6:37 UTC
20
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Doubling Box
Mestroyer
6 Aug 2012 5:50 UTC
22
points
84
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] The Cartoon Guide to Lob’s Theorem
MinibearRex
6 Aug 2012 5:41 UTC
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Self-skepticism: the first principle of rationality
aaronsw
6 Aug 2012 0:51 UTC
50
points
86
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[video] Robin Hanson: Uploads Economics 101
mapnoterritory
5 Aug 2012 21:00 UTC
8
points
54
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] The Cartoon Guide to Löb’s Theorem
Oscar_Cunningham
5 Aug 2012 8:28 UTC
4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Random question about starfish
Raemon
5 Aug 2012 2:31 UTC
2
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What are the optimal biases to overcome?
aaronsw
4 Aug 2012 15:04 UTC
103
points
70
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A cynical explanation for why rationalists worry about FAI
aaronsw
4 Aug 2012 12:27 UTC
28
points
172
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Smart non-reductionists, philosophical vs. engineering mindsets, and religion
Kaj_Sotala
4 Aug 2012 10:48 UTC
21
points
48
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The supposedly hard problem of consciousness and the nonexistence of sense data: Is your dog a conscious being?
[deleted]
4 Aug 2012 1:57 UTC
−21
points
19
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Pittsburgh: Semantic Stopsigns
KatjaGrace
3 Aug 2012 22:14 UTC
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Epiphany addiction”
cousin_it
3 Aug 2012 17:52 UTC
69
points
90
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality Quotes August 2012
Alejandro1
3 Aug 2012 15:33 UTC
9
points
432
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups: Austin, Madison, NYC
FrankAdamek
3 Aug 2012 15:21 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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