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On learning difficult things
So8res
Nov 11, 2013, 11:35 PM
216
points
47
comments
6
min read
LW
link
AI Policy?
ChrisHallquist
Nov 11, 2013, 7:40 PM
4
points
28
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Reduced impact AI: no back channels
Stuart_Armstrong
Nov 11, 2013, 2:55 PM
21
points
42
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Berlin
blob
Nov 11, 2013, 12:35 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Saint-Petersburg: Game Event
efim
Nov 10, 2013, 8:23 PM
−2
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Design-space traps: mapping the utility-design trajectory space
joaolkf
Nov 10, 2013, 5:32 PM
−3
points
17
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : DC Meetup: Goals spreadsheet, political advocacy as effective altruism, scary rationalist stories
Benquo
Nov 10, 2013, 2:26 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup
Maelin
Nov 10, 2013, 1:59 PM
2
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A diagram for a simple two-player game
Paul Crowley
Nov 10, 2013, 8:59 AM
56
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Evolutionary Heuristic and Rationality Techniques
ChrisHallquist
Nov 10, 2013, 7:30 AM
19
points
27
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : First Meetup in Jacksonville, FL
rule_and_line
Nov 10, 2013, 12:03 AM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Cryonics Presentation [help request]
Mati_Roy
Nov 9, 2013, 8:51 PM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Non-standard cryo ideas
DataPacRat
Nov 9, 2013, 5:42 PM
17
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Good movies for rationalists?
roland
Nov 9, 2013, 8:00 AM
3
points
66
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC: Goals, Political Advocacy as Effective Altruism, and Stories
rocurley
Nov 9, 2013, 6:50 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Bet Your Friends to Be More Right
katydee
Nov 8, 2013, 9:12 PM
11
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, November 8 − 14, 2013
witzvo
Nov 8, 2013, 8:13 PM
2
points
141
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Prize] Essay Contest: Cryonics and Effective Altruism
lsparrish
Nov 8, 2013, 7:55 PM
5
points
44
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Nov 8, 2013, 4:54 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Academic Cliques
ChrisHallquist
Nov 8, 2013, 4:27 AM
35
points
57
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : West LA—The Merits of Specificity
OpenThreadGuy
Nov 8, 2013, 4:20 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The future of values
KatjaGrace
Nov 8, 2013, 12:56 AM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup: Somewhere you do not live even close to
Metus
Nov 7, 2013, 11:17 AM
23
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Yes, Virginia, You Can Be 99.99% (Or More!) Certain That 53 Is Prime
ChrisHallquist
Nov 7, 2013, 7:45 AM
95
points
70
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Comfort Zone Expansion at Citadel, Boston
Vika
Nov 6, 2013, 9:02 PM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Frankfurt
Kendra
Nov 5, 2013, 9:16 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is the orthogonality thesis at odds with moral realism?
ChrisHallquist
Nov 5, 2013, 8:47 PM
7
points
118
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] “A Long-run Perspective on Strategic Cause Selection and Philanthropy” by Nick Beckstead and Carl Shulman
Pablo
Nov 5, 2013, 6:27 PM
9
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow, Now 2 Sigma More Awesome
Slava Matyukhin
Nov 5, 2013, 10:33 AM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
No Universally Compelling Arguments in Math or Science
ChrisHallquist
Nov 5, 2013, 3:32 AM
49
points
230
comments
5
min read
LW
link
2013 Census/Survey: call for changes and additions
Scott Alexander
Nov 5, 2013, 3:10 AM
47
points
155
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New vs. Business-as-Usual Future
katydee
Nov 5, 2013, 2:13 AM
5
points
42
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Rescheduled November Meetup
Nova_Division
Nov 5, 2013, 1:56 AM
−1
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Durham NC/Triangle Area Meetup: Productive Other-Optimization
curiousepic
Nov 4, 2013, 11:33 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Meetup Bolder CO
yakurbe0112
Nov 4, 2013, 5:05 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
From Philosophy to Math to Engineering
lukeprog
Nov 4, 2013, 3:43 PM
34
points
43
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Thinking Fast and Slow Pages 70-140 Discussion Meetup
Mestroyer
Nov 4, 2013, 10:39 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Brussels monthly meetup: memory!
Roxolan
Nov 4, 2013, 7:05 AM
1
point
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Inefficiency of Theoretical Discovery
lukeprog
Nov 3, 2013, 9:26 PM
30
points
109
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : London social meetup, 10/11/13
philh
Nov 3, 2013, 5:27 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Workflow with Spaced Repetition
Emile
Nov 3, 2013, 3:58 PM
13
points
16
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Saint Petersburg. Why rationality?
efim
Nov 3, 2013, 1:30 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Witching Hour
Scott Alexander
Nov 3, 2013, 7:07 AM
22
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Kidnapping and the game of Chicken
Manfred
Nov 3, 2013, 6:29 AM
23
points
21
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Rationality Quotes November 2013
MalcolmOcean
Nov 2, 2013, 8:35 PM
10
points
390
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, November 1 − 7, 2013
witzvo
Nov 2, 2013, 4:37 PM
7
points
301
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to choose a country/city?
joaolkf
2 Nov 2013 1:48 UTC
15
points
59
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Halloween thread—rationalist’s horrors.
wwa
1 Nov 2013 22:07 UTC
35
points
123
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Singularity or Bust” full documentary
Torello
1 Nov 2013 20:48 UTC
2
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Group Rationality Diary, November 1-15
therufs
1 Nov 2013 20:37 UTC
5
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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