Weak re­pug­nant con­clu­sion need not be so re­pug­nant given fixed resources

Stuart_Armstrong17 Nov 2013 15:44 UTC
11 points
48 comments2 min readLW link

Quan­tum ver­sus log­i­cal bombs

Stuart_Armstrong17 Nov 2013 15:14 UTC
27 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

Main­stream Episte­mol­ogy for LessWrong, Part 1: Feld­man on Evidentialism

ChrisHallquist16 Nov 2013 16:16 UTC
30 points
84 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC: Goals, Poli­ti­cal Ad­vo­cacy as Effec­tive Altru­ism, and Sto­ries

rocurley16 Nov 2013 16:00 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Self-serv­ing meta: Who­ever keeps block-down­vot­ing me, is there some way to ne­go­ti­ate peace?

ialdabaoth16 Nov 2013 4:35 UTC
28 points
283 comments1 min readLW link

I am switch­ing to biomed­i­cal en­g­ineer­ing and am look­ing for feed­back on my strat­egy and assumptions

Arkanj3l16 Nov 2013 3:42 UTC
6 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Open Thread, Novem­ber 15-22, 2013

drethelin16 Nov 2013 1:36 UTC
5 points
261 comments1 min readLW link

Re­search on un­con­scious vi­sual processing

passive_fist15 Nov 2013 22:54 UTC
15 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

The Restora­tion of William: the skele­ton of a short story about re­s­ur­rec­tion and identity

AlanCrowe15 Nov 2013 17:59 UTC
15 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek15 Nov 2013 17:05 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Video Link] PostHu­man: An In­tro­duc­tion to Transhumanism

Joshua_Blaine15 Nov 2013 2:04 UTC
4 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Game the­ory and ex­pected opponents

Manfred14 Nov 2013 23:26 UTC
4 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

I no­tice that I am con­fused about Iden­tity and Resurrection

ialdabaoth14 Nov 2013 20:38 UTC
65 points
80 comments6 min readLW link

The fu­ture of val­ues 2: ex­plicit vs. implicit

KatjaGrace14 Nov 2013 20:28 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA—In Ap­pre­hend­ing Hard Stuff

OpenThreadGuy14 Nov 2013 16:17 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham/​RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, ch. 97-98

therufs14 Nov 2013 3:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

To like, or not to like?

PhilGoetz14 Nov 2013 2:26 UTC
2 points
89 comments4 min readLW link

Help the Brain Preser­va­tion Foundation

aurellem13 Nov 2013 21:18 UTC
34 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Think­ing Fast and Slow Dis­cus­sion Novem­ber 17

Mestroyer13 Nov 2013 20:47 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Am I Un­der­stand­ing Bayes Right?

CyrilDan13 Nov 2013 20:40 UTC
5 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

LessWrong Study Hall will be pass­word-protected

tkadlubo13 Nov 2013 20:38 UTC
30 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : New Meetup: Milwaukee

CyrilDan13 Nov 2013 19:36 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Wolfram’s new “Cloud” initiative

Gvaerg13 Nov 2013 18:02 UTC
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Buy­ing Debt as Effec­tive Altru­ism?

aarongertler13 Nov 2013 6:09 UTC
17 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

How to have high-value conversations

Vika13 Nov 2013 3:39 UTC
21 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Mon­treal Meetup: Long-term de­ci­sion-making

Oriane12 Nov 2013 19:01 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Brus­sels monthly meetup: time!

Roxolan12 Nov 2013 18:44 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don so­cial meetup—New venue

philh12 Nov 2013 14:39 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Amsterdam

steven046112 Nov 2013 9:12 UTC
7 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI course list study pairs

Adele_L12 Nov 2013 5:44 UTC
26 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

On learn­ing difficult things

So8res11 Nov 2013 23:35 UTC
205 points
47 comments6 min readLW link

AI Policy?

ChrisHallquist11 Nov 2013 19:40 UTC
4 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

Re­duced im­pact AI: no back channels

Stuart_Armstrong11 Nov 2013 14:55 UTC
21 points
42 comments10 min readLW link

Meetup : Berlin

blob11 Nov 2013 12:35 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Saint-Peters­burg: Game Event

efim10 Nov 2013 20:23 UTC
−2 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

De­sign-space traps: map­ping the util­ity-de­sign tra­jec­tory space

joaolkf10 Nov 2013 17:32 UTC
−3 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : DC Meetup: Goals spread­sheet, poli­ti­cal ad­vo­cacy as effec­tive al­tru­ism, scary ra­tio­nal­ist stories

Benquo10 Nov 2013 14:26 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup

Maelin10 Nov 2013 13:59 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A di­a­gram for a sim­ple two-player game

Paul Crowley10 Nov 2013 8:59 UTC
56 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Evolu­tion­ary Heuris­tic and Ra­tion­al­ity Techniques

ChrisHallquist10 Nov 2013 7:30 UTC
19 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : First Meetup in Jack­sonville, FL

rule_and_line10 Nov 2013 0:03 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics Pre­sen­ta­tion [help re­quest]

Mati_Roy9 Nov 2013 20:51 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Non-stan­dard cryo ideas

DataPacRat9 Nov 2013 17:42 UTC
17 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Good movies for ra­tio­nal­ists?

roland9 Nov 2013 8:00 UTC
3 points
66 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC: Goals, Poli­ti­cal Ad­vo­cacy as Effec­tive Altru­ism, and Stories

rocurley9 Nov 2013 6:50 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Bet Your Friends to Be More Right

katydee8 Nov 2013 21:12 UTC
11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Novem­ber 8 − 14, 2013

witzvo8 Nov 2013 20:13 UTC
2 points
141 comments1 min readLW link

[Prize] Es­say Con­test: Cry­on­ics and Effec­tive Altruism

lsparrish8 Nov 2013 19:55 UTC
5 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek8 Nov 2013 16:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Aca­demic Cliques

ChrisHallquist8 Nov 2013 4:27 UTC
35 points
57 comments1 min readLW link