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Meetup : Washington DC projects planning meetup
rocurley
Jun 13, 2013, 3:51 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Do Earths with slower economic growth have a better chance at FAI?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Jun 12, 2013, 7:54 PM
59
points
175
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Effective Altruism Through Advertising Vegetarianism?
Peter Wildeford
Jun 12, 2013, 6:50 PM
29
points
553
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Berkeley: Hypothetical Apostasy
Nisan
Jun 12, 2013, 5:53 PM
7
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Charity Effectiveness and Third-World Economics
jimrandomh
Jun 12, 2013, 3:50 PM
13
points
37
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Anders, wine and enhancements
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 12, 2013, 3:37 PM
−2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : [Boston] The Psychology of Marketing
ModusPonies
Jun 12, 2013, 3:21 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
All-pay auction for charity?
jefftk
Jun 12, 2013, 12:46 PM
9
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Tegmark’s talk at Oxford
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 12, 2013, 11:49 AM
11
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How can I strategically write a complex bestseller? (4HS001)
Neotenic
Jun 12, 2013, 8:47 AM
19
points
40
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Life hack request: I want to want to work.
DanielLC
Jun 11, 2013, 7:41 PM
11
points
54
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : London Social—Exposure to Direct Sunlight—June 23rd
sixes_and_sevens
Jun 11, 2013, 1:43 PM
6
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Sydney meetup?
Goobahman
Jun 11, 2013, 6:57 AM
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Changing Systems is Different than Running Controlled Experiments—Don’t Choose How to Run Your Country That Way!
ShannonFriedman
Jun 11, 2013, 5:37 AM
1
point
260
comments
5
min read
LW
link
A personal history of involvement with effective altruism
JonahS
Jun 11, 2013, 4:49 AM
25
points
55
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[link] Scott Aaronson on free will
DanielVarga
Jun 10, 2013, 11:24 PM
32
points
109
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Status Anxiety
diegocaleiro
Jun 10, 2013, 7:32 PM
−11
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Are imaginary and complex numbers of decibans meaningful?
DataPacRat
Jun 10, 2013, 4:14 PM
2
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weak evidence that eating vegetables makes you live longer
jefftk
Jun 10, 2013, 1:09 PM
14
points
24
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Rationalist Housewarming at Isengard (Melbourne)
BraydenM
Jun 10, 2013, 12:07 PM
6
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Useful Concepts Repository
Qiaochu_Yuan
Jun 10, 2013, 6:12 AM
50
points
105
comments
1
min read
LW
link
All Debates Are Bravery Debates
Scott Alexander
Jun 9, 2013, 7:00 PM
120
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Anticipating critical transitions
PhilGoetz
Jun 9, 2013, 4:28 PM
29
points
52
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Exercise isn’t necessarily good for people
NancyLebovitz
Jun 8, 2013, 2:32 PM
17
points
53
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Social Impact, Effective Altruism, and Motivated Cognition
JonahS
Jun 8, 2013, 2:31 AM
16
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Some clarifications concerning my “many weak arguments” post
JonahS
Jun 7, 2013, 7:34 PM
8
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Jun 7, 2013, 3:26 PM
3
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma
orthonormal
Jun 7, 2013, 8:30 AM
124
points
147
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Prisoner’s Dilemma (with visible source code) Tournament
AlexMennen
Jun 7, 2013, 8:30 AM
73
points
236
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Model Stability in Intervention Assessment
Joanna Morningstar
Jun 6, 2013, 11:24 PM
10
points
5
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Failure in the marketplace of ideas
KatjaGrace
Jun 6, 2013, 9:05 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Tiling Agents for Self-Modifying AI (OPFAI #2)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Jun 6, 2013, 8:24 PM
88
points
259
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Many Weak Arguments and the Typical Mind
JonahS
Jun 6, 2013, 6:52 PM
14
points
9
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Meetup : [NYC] Self Improvement—Productivity Apps
Raemon
Jun 6, 2013, 6:28 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
CFAR workshop, June 15th, Salt Lake City UT
Julia_Galef
Jun 6, 2013, 4:47 PM
30
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Second Bristol meetup & mailing list for future meetups
Benya
Jun 6, 2013, 4:47 PM
4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ideas wanted: democracy in an Em world
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 6, 2013, 2:05 PM
3
points
64
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mahatma Armstrong: CEVed to death.
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 6, 2013, 12:50 PM
33
points
62
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[link] The Economics of Social Status
Kaj_Sotala
Jun 6, 2013, 8:38 AM
39
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A Viable Alternative to Typing
fowlertm
Jun 6, 2013, 5:38 AM
1
point
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Zendo and discussion
evand
Jun 5, 2013, 12:35 AM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Applied art of rationality: Richard Feynman steelmanning his mother’s concerns
Shmi
Jun 4, 2013, 5:31 PM
13
points
26
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Berkeley: Board games
Nisan
Jun 4, 2013, 4:21 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Other prespective on resolving the Prisoner’s dilemma
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 4, 2013, 4:13 PM
17
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why economics is not a morality tale
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 4, 2013, 3:20 PM
11
points
55
comments
1
min read
LW
link
David Brooks from the NY Times writes on earning-to-give
AnthonyC
Jun 4, 2013, 3:15 PM
14
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
2013 June-August Life Hacks Thread
diegocaleiro
Jun 4, 2013, 2:29 PM
12
points
42
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Many Weak Arguments vs. One Relatively Strong Argument
JonahS
Jun 4, 2013, 3:32 AM
35
points
87
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Meetup : West LA Meetup—Quantifying and Measuring for Self-Experimentation
[deleted]
Jun 3, 2013, 6:05 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Use of Many Independent Lines of Evidence: The Basel Problem
JonahS
Jun 3, 2013, 4:42 AM
38
points
44
comments
5
min read
LW
link
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