Kelly Cri­te­ria and Two Envelopes

Wei Dai16 Aug 2012 21:57 UTC
11 points
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Who Wants To Start An Im­por­tant Startup?

ShannonFriedman16 Aug 2012 20:02 UTC
59 points
413 comments4 min readLW link

Com­pe­tence in ex­perts: summary

Stuart_Armstrong16 Aug 2012 14:53 UTC
25 points
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Towards Safe Robots: Ap­proach­ing Asi­mov’s 1st Law

Utopiah16 Aug 2012 8:53 UTC
−12 points
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[LINK] SMBC comics: Ex­is­ten­tial Cri­sis Sally on “Is for­got­ten tor­ture real?”

Shmi16 Aug 2012 6:53 UTC
2 points
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[SEQ RERUN] Against Mo­dal Logics

MinibearRex16 Aug 2012 5:26 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC TED talks Meetup

rocurley15 Aug 2012 21:36 UTC
3 points
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Luke is do­ing an AMA on Reddit

Spurlock15 Aug 2012 17:38 UTC
26 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

The weak­est ar­gu­ments for and against hu­man level AI

Stuart_Armstrong15 Aug 2012 11:04 UTC
22 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Dreams of AI Design

MinibearRex15 Aug 2012 4:06 UTC
6 points
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Let’s be friendly to our allies

JGWeissman15 Aug 2012 4:02 UTC
35 points
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Open Thread, Au­gust 16-31, 2012

OpenThreadGuy15 Aug 2012 3:25 UTC
5 points
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Idle spec­u­la­tion about an­chor­ing and the Face­book IPO

RolfAndreassen15 Aug 2012 1:00 UTC
0 points
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Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Dis­cus­sion about startups

Nisan14 Aug 2012 17:09 UTC
3 points
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[LINK] The Cam­bridge Dec­la­ra­tion on Consciousness

David_Gerard14 Aug 2012 13:40 UTC
7 points
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[SEQ RERUN] Three Fal­la­cies of Teleology

MinibearRex14 Aug 2012 7:45 UTC
6 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup

toner14 Aug 2012 5:26 UTC
3 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Ca­reer Op­ti­miza­tion (Em­pha­sis on Soft­ware)

[deleted]14 Aug 2012 4:14 UTC
3 points
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Why Don’t Peo­ple Help Others More?

Peter Wildeford13 Aug 2012 23:34 UTC
54 points
85 comments10 min readLW link

Meetup : Long­mont Colorado Meetup

EvelynM13 Aug 2012 23:13 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meetup: South­west­ern Ohio

dugancm13 Aug 2012 22:27 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Cyn­i­cal ex­pla­na­tions of FAI crit­ics (in­clud­ing my­self)

Wei Dai13 Aug 2012 21:19 UTC
31 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Bayes for Schizophren­ics: Rea­son­ing in Delu­sional Disorders

Scott Alexander13 Aug 2012 19:22 UTC
153 points
155 comments11 min readLW link

[Link] The per­ils of “rea­son”

GLaDOS13 Aug 2012 6:37 UTC
3 points
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[SEQ RERUN] Mag­i­cal Categories

MinibearRex13 Aug 2012 5:19 UTC
6 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

What are your ques­tions about mak­ing a differ­ence?

Benjamin_Todd12 Aug 2012 23:14 UTC
28 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

The Fal­lacy of Large Numbers

dspeyer12 Aug 2012 18:39 UTC
30 points
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[SEQ RERUN] Un­nat­u­ral Categories

MinibearRex12 Aug 2012 5:27 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

What is moral foun­da­tion the­ory good for?

novalis12 Aug 2012 5:03 UTC
11 points
300 comments6 min readLW link

Mag­i­cal Heal­ing Powers

jefftk12 Aug 2012 3:19 UTC
2 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : NYC. Joint Meetup With Another Ra­tion­al­ity Community

Raemon11 Aug 2012 15:25 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup

blob11 Aug 2012 9:59 UTC
2 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Mir­rors and Paintings

MinibearRex11 Aug 2012 5:17 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

A ra­tio­nal­ist My Lit­tle Pony fanfic

DataPacRat10 Aug 2012 20:53 UTC
20 points
102 comments1 min readLW link

Sub­sum­ing Pur­pose, Part 1

OrphanWilde10 Aug 2012 18:45 UTC
−1 points
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Opinions on Boltz­mann brain ar­gu­ments con­strain­ing mod­ern mul­ti­verse theories

Dr_Manhattan10 Aug 2012 18:05 UTC
2 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Cam­bridge UK, Copen­hagen, Dublin, Pitts­burgh, Wash­ing­ton DC

FrankAdamek10 Aug 2012 14:44 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Link] Ad­mit­ting to Bias

GLaDOS10 Aug 2012 8:13 UTC
22 points
131 comments5 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] In­visi­ble Frameworks

MinibearRex10 Aug 2012 6:07 UTC
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Board Games “Seat­tle”

SarahNibs10 Aug 2012 2:55 UTC
3 points
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Solv­ing the two en­velopes problem

rstarkov9 Aug 2012 13:42 UTC
45 points
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From the “weird math ques­tions” de­part­ment...

CronoDAS9 Aug 2012 7:19 UTC
7 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Men­tion­ing cry­on­ics to a dy­ing person

DanielH9 Aug 2012 6:48 UTC
11 points
73 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Long­mont Colorado Meetup

EvelynM9 Aug 2012 2:50 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Seek­ing ad­vice on us­ing evolu­tion­ary meth­ods to solve the 3-body problem

Troshen8 Aug 2012 23:43 UTC
−4 points
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Is lossless in­for­ma­tion trans­fer pos­si­ble?

kirpi8 Aug 2012 20:02 UTC
−12 points
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Meetup : Van­cou­ver Big Public Meetup

Arkanj3l8 Aug 2012 19:10 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Bio­hack­ing in New York, Cy­ber­net­ics and first Cy­borg Hate Crime: thev­erge.com

MatthewBaker8 Aug 2012 18:00 UTC
4 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Less Wrong Syd­ney: 20th Au­gust

Oklord8 Aug 2012 17:44 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] “Proxy mea­sures, sunk costs, and Ch­ester­ton’s fence”, or: the sunk cost heuristic

kpreid8 Aug 2012 14:39 UTC
13 points
5 comments1 min readLW link