How valuable is it to learn math deeply?

JonahS2 Sep 2013 18:01 UTC
33 points
79 comments3 min readLW link

Reflec­tive Control

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)2 Sep 2013 17:45 UTC
21 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Heuris­tics and Bi­ases (MIRI course list)

So8res2 Sep 2013 15:37 UTC
49 points
22 comments20 min readLW link

Open thread, Septem­ber 2-8, 2013

David_Gerard2 Sep 2013 14:07 UTC
3 points
379 comments1 min readLW link

Baseline of my opinion on LW topics

Gunnar_Zarncke2 Sep 2013 12:13 UTC
8 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Rudeness

Odinn2 Sep 2013 10:49 UTC
5 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­tifi­cial ex­plo­sion of the Sun: a new x-risk?

lukeprog2 Sep 2013 6:12 UTC
6 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Teapots and Soda Cans

Odinn1 Sep 2013 22:21 UTC
8 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Ad­vanced Place­ment exam cut­offs and su­perfi­cial knowl­edge over deep knowledge

JonahS1 Sep 2013 21:01 UTC
12 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

P/​S/​A—Sam Har­ris offer­ing money for a lit­tle good philosophy

Ben Pace1 Sep 2013 18:36 UTC
19 points
79 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI course list book re­views, part 1: Gödel, Escher, Bach

So8res1 Sep 2013 17:40 UTC
27 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Bed time sto­ries with clear concepts

Gunnar_Zarncke1 Sep 2013 12:26 UTC
41 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

Septem­ber 2013 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Sep 2013 11:05 UTC
8 points
72 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Septem­ber 1-15

therufs31 Aug 2013 22:04 UTC
5 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Rele­vance of the STEPS pro­ject to (F)AI teams

Gunnar_Zarncke31 Aug 2013 17:27 UTC
4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Any in­ter­est in a one-time meetup in Char­lotte, NC this Tues­day?

pinyaka31 Aug 2013 17:09 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Rais­ing nu­mer­ate children

Gunnar_Zarncke30 Aug 2013 23:44 UTC
50 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

Look­ing for Opinions on “An­tifrag­ile” by N. Taleb

Torello30 Aug 2013 22:29 UTC
1 point
28 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, DC: Goals

maia30 Aug 2013 20:13 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

New LW Meetup: Ur­bana-Champaign

FrankAdamek30 Aug 2013 17:50 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Ge­nies and Wishes in the con­text of com­puter science

private_messaging30 Aug 2013 12:43 UTC
20 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

Why Pro­duc­tivity? Why Grat­i­tude?

feanor160030 Aug 2013 2:28 UTC
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Tech­niques to con­sciously ac­ti­vate a ra­tio­nal­ist self-image

chaosmage30 Aug 2013 0:01 UTC
5 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

A ba­sis for pat­tern-match­ing in log­i­cal uncertainty

Manfred29 Aug 2013 8:53 UTC
7 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow: The Sun­day Meetup

Yuu29 Aug 2013 7:32 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Fall Equinox: Fes­ti­val of Heroes

hamnox29 Aug 2013 1:59 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Out­side View(s) and MIRI’s FAI Endgame

Wei Dai28 Aug 2013 23:27 UTC
21 points
60 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] - Aaron Sell (Psy­chol­ogy To­day) on the Poli­ti­ci­sa­tion of Science

Salemicus28 Aug 2013 20:25 UTC
8 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 27, chap­ter 98

Vaniver28 Aug 2013 19:29 UTC
5 points
310 comments1 min readLW link

Yet more “stupid” questions

NancyLebovitz28 Aug 2013 15:58 UTC
8 points
342 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread: How much strate­gic think­ing have you done re­cently?

Emile28 Aug 2013 11:48 UTC
12 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

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[deleted]28 Aug 2013 11:01 UTC
0 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne Prac­ti­cal Ra­tion­al­ity: Group Pre­dic­tion Cal­ibra­tion and Au­mann’s Agree­ment Theorem

BraydenM28 Aug 2013 7:17 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

What should a col­lege stu­dent do to max­i­mize fu­ture earn­ings for effec­tive al­tru­ism?

D_Malik27 Aug 2013 19:06 UTC
21 points
76 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Ari­zona State Lunch Group

Danny_Hintze27 Aug 2013 17:37 UTC
1 point
8 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : New Meetup: Boulder CO

yakurbe011227 Aug 2013 16:15 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

How I Am Productive

Peter Wildeford27 Aug 2013 13:04 UTC
70 points
34 comments14 min readLW link

Meetup : Saska­toon Meetup: Value of Information

Nicholas_Rutherford27 Aug 2013 8:59 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Au­gust 26 - Septem­ber 1, 2013

philh26 Aug 2013 21:00 UTC
8 points
149 comments1 min readLW link

Two an­gles on Repet­i­tive Strain Injury

NancyLebovitz26 Aug 2013 15:40 UTC
2 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

How sure are you that brain em­u­la­tions would be con­scious?

ChrisHallquist26 Aug 2013 6:21 UTC
19 points
177 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign, Illinois

Mestroyer26 Aug 2013 4:47 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] At­ten­tion Schema The­ory of Consciousness

ESRogs25 Aug 2013 22:30 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Real­ity is weirdly normal

Rob Bensinger25 Aug 2013 19:29 UTC
55 points
81 comments5 min readLW link

To what de­gree do you model peo­ple as agents?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 25 Aug 2013 19:29 UTC
47 points
132 comments5 min readLW link

Trans­parency in safety-crit­i­cal systems

lukeprog25 Aug 2013 18:52 UTC
10 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

The 50 Shades of Grey Book Club

PhilGoetz24 Aug 2013 20:55 UTC
3 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

Ob­vi­ous points

KatjaGrace24 Aug 2013 18:56 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

How Effi­cient is the Char­i­ta­ble Mar­ket?

lukeprog24 Aug 2013 5:57 UTC
26 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA—Noth­ing in Particular

OpenThreadGuy23 Aug 2013 21:29 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link