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Math­e­mat­i­ci­ans and the Preven­tion of Recessions

JonahSMay 25, 2013, 4:12 AM
17 points
132 comments5 min readLW link

Be­ing For­eign and Be­ing Sane

fowlertmMay 25, 2013, 12:58 AM
35 points
42 comments7 min readLW link

Could Robots Take All Our Jobs?: A Philo­soph­i­cal Perspective

ChrisHallquistMay 24, 2013, 10:06 PM
3 points
14 comments18 min readLW link

Ro­bust­ness of Cost-Effec­tive­ness Es­ti­mates and Philanthropy

JonahSMay 24, 2013, 8:28 PM
56 points
37 comments6 min readLW link

Is a pa­per­clip­per bet­ter than noth­ing?

DataPacRatMay 24, 2013, 7:34 PM
10 points
116 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Raw Story: US seizes op­er­a­tor ac­counts of a sub­sidi­ary of Mt. Gox

CyanMay 24, 2013, 6:14 PM
−3 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

New LW Mee­tups: Bris­tol, Tel Aviv

FrankAdamekMay 24, 2013, 3:07 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Or­well and fic­tional ev­i­dence for dic­ta­tor­ship stability

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 24, 2013, 12:19 PM
24 points
77 comments2 min readLW link

Prob­lems with Academia and the Ris­ing Sea

JonahSMay 23, 2013, 7:17 PM
46 points
39 comments4 min readLW link

Ran­dom re­sponses to sur­veys [refer­ence re­quest]

JonahSMay 23, 2013, 4:14 PM
6 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Max­i­miz­ing Fi­nan­cial Utility and Frugality

PetruchioMay 23, 2013, 3:55 PM
23 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] Does Time Ex­ist? With Ju­lian Barbour

Ben PaceMay 23, 2013, 2:38 PM
−1 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Are All Dic­ta­tor Game Re­sults Ar­ti­facts?

Kaj_SotalaMay 23, 2013, 7:08 AM
24 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Prepar­ing for a Ra­tional Fi­nan­cial Plan­ning Sequence

elharoMay 22, 2013, 11:48 AM
30 points
65 comments3 min readLW link

Po­ten­tial Im­pacts of Cli­mate Change

JonahSMay 22, 2013, 7:22 AM
14 points
44 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Berkeley: To-do lists and other systems

NisanMay 22, 2013, 1:09 AM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[LINK] Soylent crowdfunding

Qiaochu_YuanMay 21, 2013, 7:09 PM
10 points
172 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Mu­nich Meetup

cadacMay 21, 2013, 6:31 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK]s: Who says Wat­son is only a nar­row AI?

ShmiMay 21, 2013, 6:04 PM
6 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Gen­eral in­tel­li­gence test: no do­mains of stupidity

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 21, 2013, 4:04 PM
15 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Fermi Es­ti­mates in Chicago

Nic_SmithMay 21, 2013, 1:47 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

High yield in­for­ma­tion sources for Soft­ware Development

rationalnoobMay 21, 2013, 6:59 AM
−2 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[TED Talk] Peter Singer on Effec­tive Altruism

Peter WildefordMay 21, 2013, 4:06 AM
21 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : RTLW Meetup: Con­tra Dance!

therufsMay 20, 2013, 5:56 PM
8 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Buf­falo LW Thurs­day meetup

StonesOnCanvasMay 20, 2013, 2:35 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Prob­a­bil­is­tic Graph­i­cal Models, Take 2!

[deleted]May 19, 2013, 4:39 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ter­minol­ogy sug­ges­tion: Say “de­grees util­ity” in­stead of “utils” to prompt af­fine thinking

SniffnoyMay 19, 2013, 8:03 AM
14 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic and In­stru­men­tal Tradeoffs

katydeeMay 19, 2013, 7:49 AM
29 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] Ev­i­dence-based giv­ing by Laura and John Arnold Foundation

brileeMay 18, 2013, 7:47 PM
3 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Paper] On the ‘Si­mu­la­tion Ar­gu­ment’ and Selec­tive Scepticism

PabloMay 18, 2013, 6:31 PM
14 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

LINK: Google re­search chief: ‘Emer­gent ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence? Hog­wash!’

ShmiMay 17, 2013, 7:45 PM
6 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : [Cam­bridge] Sunk Cost Kata

ModusPoniesMay 17, 2013, 5:57 PM
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : First Bris­tol meetup

BenyaMay 17, 2013, 4:52 PM
7 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Ed­u­ca­tion con­trol?

PhilGoetzMay 17, 2013, 4:32 PM
21 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity should be Moral

OrphanWildeMay 17, 2013, 3:26 PM
12 points
63 comments3 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: At­lanta, Austin, Moscow, Ot­tawa, Vancouver

FrankAdamekMay 17, 2013, 2:53 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

The flawed Tur­ing test: lan­guage, un­der­stand­ing, and par­tial p-zombies

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 17, 2013, 2:02 PM
11 points
184 comments2 min readLW link

Open thread, May 17-31 2013

[deleted]May 17, 2013, 1:47 PM
5 points
312 comments1 min readLW link

The Un­selfish Trol­ley Problem

elharoMay 17, 2013, 10:51 AM
5 points
132 comments5 min readLW link

To In­spire Peo­ple to Give, Be Public About Your Giving

Peter WildefordMay 17, 2013, 6:58 AM
24 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

10-Step Anti-Pro­cras­ti­na­tion Checklist

JesseGalefMay 17, 2013, 1:59 AM
42 points
55 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Tel Aviv, Is­rael Meetup—Goal Clar­ifi­ca­tion with spe­cial guest Cat from CFAR

SoftFlareMay 16, 2013, 4:04 PM
10 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don Meetup − 26th May

sixes_and_sevensMay 16, 2013, 10:51 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bielefeld Meetup May 22nd

Just_existingMay 16, 2013, 9:50 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : [Moscow] Belief cleaning

YuuMay 16, 2013, 6:09 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham/​RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, ch. 65-68

therufs16 May 2013 4:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, May 16-31

therufs16 May 2013 4:12 UTC
8 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Why is it ra­tio­nal to in­vest in re­tire­ment? I don’t get it.

diegocaleiro16 May 2013 1:28 UTC
28 points
114 comments1 min readLW link

Post ridicu­lous munchkin ideas!

D_Malik15 May 2013 22:27 UTC
81 points
1,252 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Prizes and open source for drug re­search (pro­posed, and some poli­tics)

NancyLebovitz15 May 2013 18:23 UTC
10 points
18 comments2 min readLW link