Meetup : Melbourne LW Out­ing: In­door Rock Climb­ing, Sun­day June 30th

BraydenMJun 22, 2013, 5:21 AM
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

For FAI: Is “Molec­u­lar Nan­otech­nol­ogy” putting our best foot for­ward?

leplenJun 22, 2013, 4:44 AM
86 points
118 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco: Effec­tive Altruism

ozziegooenJun 22, 2013, 2:54 AM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Sav­ing lives via bed nets is hard to beat for im­me­di­ate impact

JonahSJun 21, 2013, 6:46 PM
15 points
46 comments2 min readLW link

240 ques­tions for your util­ity function

HumanitiesResearcherJun 21, 2013, 5:56 PM
4 points
25 comments6 min readLW link

Seek­ing de­scrip­tions of deciban-levels

DataPacRatJun 21, 2013, 5:35 PM
2 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekJun 21, 2013, 3:36 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Col­lege Stu­dent Philan­thropy and Fund­ing Mille­nium Villages

Peter WildefordJun 21, 2013, 2:52 PM
6 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

What makes you differ­ent from Tim Fer­riss?

SuspiciousTitForTatJun 21, 2013, 2:51 AM
−13 points
46 comments2 min readLW link

How would not hav­ing free will feel to you?

ShmiJun 20, 2013, 8:51 PM
12 points
70 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : At­lanta: Self-Hacking

Nova_DivisionJun 20, 2013, 3:26 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Some reser­va­tions about Singer’s child-in-the-pond argument

JonahSJun 19, 2013, 11:54 PM
40 points
120 comments6 min readLW link

Ini­tial Thoughts on Per­son­ally Find­ing a High-Im­pact Career

Peter WildefordJun 19, 2013, 7:10 PM
18 points
58 comments6 min readLW link

Giv­ing Now Cur­rently Seems to Beat Giv­ing Later

Peter WildefordJun 19, 2013, 6:40 PM
1 point
9 comments8 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham: Lu­minos­ity followup

evandJun 19, 2013, 5:32 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Key­ne­sian key in­sight

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 19, 2013, 2:05 PM
10 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

X-Risk Roll Call

fowlertmJun 19, 2013, 4:07 AM
10 points
38 comments4 min readLW link

Why do the­ists, un­der­grads, and Less Wrongers fa­vor one-box­ing on New­comb?

CarlShulmanJun 19, 2013, 1:55 AM
28 points
300 comments2 min readLW link

Is our con­tinued ex­is­tence ev­i­dence that Mu­tu­ally As­sured Destruc­tion worked?

jefftkJun 18, 2013, 2:40 PM
12 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing pro­gram­ming: so I’ve learned the ba­sics of Python, what next?

ChrisHallquistJun 17, 2013, 11:31 PM
12 points
69 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, June 1-30

therufsJun 17, 2013, 6:26 PM
7 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : [Moscow] How to use your brain

YuuJun 17, 2013, 11:59 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Quotes and Notes on Scott Aaron­son’s “The Ghost in the Quan­tum Tur­ing Ma­chine”

ShmiJun 17, 2013, 5:11 AM
31 points
83 comments15 min readLW link

[video] “Tran­shu­man”, fea­tur­ing Sand­berg and Bostrom

PabloJun 16, 2013, 6:59 PM
8 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

On ma­nipu­lat­ing others

JoniiJun 16, 2013, 5:44 PM
−11 points
110 comments2 min readLW link

The Clas­sic Liter­a­ture Workshop

RitalinJun 16, 2013, 9:54 AM
5 points
115 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne Win­ter Sols­tice Din­ner Party and So­cial Meetup

BraydenMJun 16, 2013, 9:46 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, June 16-30, 2013

DorikkaJun 16, 2013, 4:45 AM
6 points
314 comments1 min readLW link

Nor­ma­tive un­cer­tainty in New­comb’s problem

CarlShulmanJun 16, 2013, 2:16 AM
14 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

How to Write Deep Characters

Eliezer YudkowskyJun 16, 2013, 2:10 AM
69 points
67 comments3 min readLW link

[LINK] The Point of Life is the Ex­plo­sion of Ex­pe­rience Into Ideas

[deleted]Jun 16, 2013, 1:34 AM
−14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Elites and AI: Stated Opinions

lukeprogJun 15, 2013, 7:52 PM
14 points
24 comments7 min readLW link

[META] LW bug: Pri­vate drafts are pub­li­cly viewable

VincentYuJun 15, 2013, 4:56 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity wit­ti­cisms suit­able for t-shirts or bumper stickers

evandJun 15, 2013, 12:56 PM
5 points
85 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : CFAR vis­its Salt Lake City

AnnaSalamonJun 15, 2013, 4:43 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup with HEALES

AxelJun 14, 2013, 9:35 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] The Selected Papers Network

Qiaochu_YuanJun 14, 2013, 8:20 PM
13 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The Virtue of Silence

Scott AlexanderJun 14, 2013, 7:00 PM
129 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Eliezer and Nick Share a Cab...

Scott GarrabrantJun 14, 2013, 6:59 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

How should Eliezer and Nick’s ex­tra $20 be split

Scott GarrabrantJun 14, 2013, 6:14 PM
22 points
66 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekJun 14, 2013, 3:03 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Can we dodge the mind­kil­ler?

NancyLebovitzJun 14, 2013, 12:25 PM
7 points
103 comments1 min readLW link

Near-Term Risk: Killer Robots a Threat to Free­dom and Democracy

EpiphanyJun 14, 2013, 6:28 AM
15 points
105 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] Con­crete steps are be­ing taken to­wards futarchy

NoSignalNoNoiseJun 14, 2013, 12:21 AM
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

After crit­i­cal event W hap­pens, they still won’t be­lieve you

Eliezer YudkowskyJun 13, 2013, 9:59 PM
95 points
107 comments3 min readLW link

Coursera Public Speak­ing Course—LW Study Group?

sixes_and_sevensJun 13, 2013, 5:15 PM
12 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Coursera Public Speak­ing Course—LW Study Group?

sixes_and_sevensJun 13, 2013, 5:12 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC pro­jects plan­ning meetup

rocurleyJun 13, 2013, 3:51 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Do Earths with slower eco­nomic growth have a bet­ter chance at FAI?

Eliezer YudkowskyJun 12, 2013, 7:54 PM
59 points
175 comments4 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Through Ad­ver­tis­ing Vege­tar­i­anism?

Peter WildefordJun 12, 2013, 6:50 PM
29 points
553 comments14 min readLW link