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Meetup : Tempe, AZ: How to Measure Anything I
Jayson_Virissimo
Oct 24, 2013, 7:36 PM
2
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[link] The World’s Most Powerful MRI Takes Shape
moreati
Oct 23, 2013, 8:42 PM
1
point
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Durham NC/Triangle Area Meetup: Goal Factoring
therufs
Oct 23, 2013, 7:30 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Saskatoon—Rhetorical Fallacies!
Nicholas_Rutherford
Oct 23, 2013, 6:15 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Confusion about science and technology
NancyLebovitz
Oct 23, 2013, 12:27 PM
6
points
36
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Review of studies says you can decrease motivated cognition through self-affirmation
Nick_Beckstead
Oct 23, 2013, 11:43 AM
20
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Center For Open Science makes $1.3mm available to validate 50 cancer studies.
Curiouskid
Oct 23, 2013, 3:32 AM
6
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : London Social Meetup (and AskMeAnything about the CFAR workshop)
kerspoon
Oct 22, 2013, 4:01 PM
10
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] What Can Internet Ads Teach Us About Persuasion?
JQuinton
Oct 22, 2013, 3:31 PM
10
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is it immoral to have children?
jefftk
Oct 22, 2013, 12:13 PM
25
points
320
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Which stage of effectiveness matters most?
KatjaGrace
Oct 22, 2013, 9:36 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LINK: “This novel epigenetic clock can be used to address a host of questions in developmental biology, cancer and aging research.”
fortyeridania
Oct 22, 2013, 7:59 AM
7
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Princeton NJ Meetup
Larks
Oct 22, 2013, 2:10 AM
4
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What Can We Learn About Human Psychology from Christian Apologetics?
ChrisHallquist
Oct 21, 2013, 10:02 PM
66
points
162
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Criticisms of the Metaethics
Carinthium
Oct 21, 2013, 11:23 AM
−6
points
31
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Link] Trouble at the lab
[deleted]
Oct 21, 2013, 8:51 AM
25
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC: Anthropics with Robin Hanson
maia
Oct 21, 2013, 3:58 AM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, October 20 − 26, 2013
Adele_L
Oct 21, 2013, 3:11 AM
5
points
220
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An Introduction To Rationality
kerspoon
Oct 20, 2013, 2:43 AM
18
points
12
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Meditation Trains Metacognition
LoganStrohl
Oct 20, 2013, 12:47 AM
59
points
62
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Existential Risk II
fowlertm
Oct 20, 2013, 12:25 AM
16
points
10
comments
9
min read
LW
link
[Link] You and Your Research
katydee
Oct 20, 2013, 12:05 AM
24
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Creating a Text Shorthand for Uncertainty
ozziegooen
Oct 19, 2013, 4:46 PM
11
points
29
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow, BeliefBusters
Yuu
Oct 19, 2013, 3:49 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Better Rationality Through Lucid Dreaming
katydee
Oct 18, 2013, 8:48 PM
14
points
49
comments
2
min read
LW
link
New LW Meetup: Saint Petersburg
FrankAdamek
Oct 18, 2013, 4:09 PM
3
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Blind Spot: Malthusian Crunch
bokov
Oct 18, 2013, 1:48 PM
7
points
185
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Creating an Optimal Future
[deleted]
Oct 18, 2013, 1:39 PM
−6
points
21
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Of all the SIA-doomsdays in the all the worlds...
Stuart_Armstrong
Oct 18, 2013, 12:56 PM
6
points
49
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Suggestion : make it easier to work out which tags to put on your article
Douglas_Reay
Oct 18, 2013, 10:50 AM
11
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Subjective Altruism
Scott Garrabrant
Oct 18, 2013, 4:06 AM
10
points
29
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC: Jobs/project show and tell
rocurley
Oct 18, 2013, 2:43 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
story idea...
Voltairina
Oct 18, 2013, 2:25 AM
0
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Decision Theory
Mestroyer
Oct 17, 2013, 10:34 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Looking for opinions of people like Nick Bostrom or Anders Sandberg on current cryo techniques
ChrisHallquist
Oct 17, 2013, 8:36 PM
12
points
184
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Phoenix (Tempe) Less Wrong Meetup
Danny_Hintze
Oct 17, 2013, 5:51 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Group Rationality Diary, October 16-31
therufs
Oct 17, 2013, 4:23 AM
6
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Time-logging programs and/or spreadsheets
Torello
Oct 16, 2013, 11:57 PM
7
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to Beat Procrastination (to some degree) (if you’re identical to me)
[deleted]
16 Oct 2013 23:17 UTC
16
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Does Goal Setting Work?
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
16 Oct 2013 20:54 UTC
57
points
22
comments
11
min read
LW
link
[Link] Low-Hanging Poop
GLaDOS
16 Oct 2013 20:51 UTC
46
points
38
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Link] Distance from Harvard
GLaDOS
16 Oct 2013 20:43 UTC
9
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Trusting Expert Consensus
ChrisHallquist
16 Oct 2013 20:22 UTC
41
points
81
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LW meetup: Polyphasic sleep and Offline habit training
Vika
16 Oct 2013 19:46 UTC
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Productivity Ninja: 5 Powerful Tips For Getting More Stuff Done
JQuinton
16 Oct 2013 16:45 UTC
−3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup: Philadelphia—Taleb discussion
NancyLebovitz
16 Oct 2013 13:09 UTC
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Teaching rationality to kids?
chaosmage
16 Oct 2013 12:38 UTC
17
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Spread the wings of uncertainty, the research drug version
Stuart_Armstrong
16 Oct 2013 12:37 UTC
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Research interests I don’t currently have time to develop alone
Stuart_Armstrong
16 Oct 2013 10:31 UTC
27
points
57
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bookmarklet to Hide Nested Comments
witzvo
16 Oct 2013 5:55 UTC
6
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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