Help with a deriva­tion in chap­ter 18 of Jaynes PT:LoS?

alex_zag_alSep 5, 2013, 8:55 PM
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link

Nudg­ing around the world - [link]

Dr_ManhattanSep 5, 2013, 3:52 PM
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA—What, Ex­actly, Is a Per­son?

OpenThreadGuySep 5, 2013, 10:56 AM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Up-Goer Five Game: Ex­plain­ing hard ideas with sim­ple words

Rob BensingerSep 5, 2013, 5:54 AM
44 points
82 comments2 min readLW link

I at­tempted the AI Box Ex­per­i­ment again! (And won—Twice!)

TuxedageSep 5, 2013, 4:49 AM
79 points
168 comments12 min readLW link

Meetup : Saska­toon: Zendo!

Nicholas_RutherfordSep 5, 2013, 12:28 AM
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Rut­gers New Brunswick

pleeppleepSep 5, 2013, 12:07 AM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

You are the av­er­age of the five peo­ple you spend most time with.

diegocaleiroSep 4, 2013, 11:02 PM
−3 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

How effec­tively can we plan for fu­ture decades? (ini­tial find­ings)

lukeprogSep 4, 2013, 10:42 PM
21 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

Should We Tell Peo­ple That Giv­ing Makes Them Hap­pier?

Peter WildefordSep 4, 2013, 9:22 PM
17 points
27 comments5 min readLW link

Eu­daimonic Utilitarianism

DarklightSep 4, 2013, 7:43 PM
10 points
35 comments10 min readLW link

LINK: Study demon­strates poli­ti­cally mo­ti­vated innumeracy

Alejandro1Sep 4, 2013, 6:14 PM
24 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Which sub­red­dits should we cre­ate on Less Wrong?

lukeprogSep 4, 2013, 5:56 PM
34 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

Types of recursion

AnthonyCSep 4, 2013, 5:48 PM
23 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Za­greb Meetup

IsTheLittleLionSep 4, 2013, 5:38 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Con­fi­dence In Opinions, In­ten­sity In Opinion

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Sep 4, 2013, 4:56 PM
0 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Sup­pos­ing you in­her­ited an AI pro­ject...

bokovSep 4, 2013, 8:07 AM
−10 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Septem­ber 2013

VaniverSep 4, 2013, 5:02 AM
7 points
451 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Phoenix Tues­day Lunch Group

Danny_HintzeSep 4, 2013, 1:44 AM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Help de­scribing decibans?

DataPacRatSep 4, 2013, 12:44 AM
5 points
30 comments5 min readLW link

Ig­no­rance in parenting

Gunnar_ZarnckeSep 3, 2013, 10:00 AM
17 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign, Illinois

MestroyerSep 3, 2013, 5:40 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

True Op­ti­mi­sa­tion

LearnFromObservationSep 3, 2013, 3:50 AM
−5 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Use­ful Habits Repository

XFrequentistSep 3, 2013, 1:58 AM
15 points
95 comments1 min readLW link

How valuable is it to learn math deeply?

JonahSSep 2, 2013, 6:01 PM
33 points
79 comments3 min readLW link

Reflec­tive Control

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Sep 2, 2013, 5:45 PM
21 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Heuris­tics and Bi­ases (MIRI course list)

So8resSep 2, 2013, 3:37 PM
49 points
22 comments20 min readLW link

Open thread, Septem­ber 2-8, 2013

David_GerardSep 2, 2013, 2:07 PM
3 points
379 comments1 min readLW link

Baseline of my opinion on LW topics

Gunnar_ZarnckeSep 2, 2013, 12:13 PM
8 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Rudeness

OdinnSep 2, 2013, 10:49 AM
5 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

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

lukeprogSep 2, 2013, 6:12 AM
6 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Teapots and Soda Cans

OdinnSep 1, 2013, 10:21 PM
8 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Ad­vanced Place­ment exam cut­offs and su­perfi­cial knowl­edge over deep knowledge

JonahSSep 1, 2013, 9:01 PM
12 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

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

Ben PaceSep 1, 2013, 6:36 PM
19 points
79 comments1 min readLW link

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

So8resSep 1, 2013, 5:40 PM
27 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Bed time sto­ries with clear concepts

Gunnar_ZarnckeSep 1, 2013, 12:26 PM
41 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

Septem­ber 2013 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsarisSep 1, 2013, 11:05 AM
8 points
72 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Septem­ber 1-15

therufsAug 31, 2013, 10:04 PM
5 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Rele­vance of the STEPS pro­ject to (F)AI teams

Gunnar_ZarnckeAug 31, 2013, 5:27 PM
4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

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

pinyakaAug 31, 2013, 5:09 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Rais­ing nu­mer­ate children

Gunnar_ZarnckeAug 30, 2013, 11:44 PM
50 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

Look­ing for Opinions on “An­tifrag­ile” by N. Taleb

TorelloAug 30, 2013, 10:29 PM
1 point
28 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, DC: Goals

maiaAug 30, 2013, 8:13 PM
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

New LW Meetup: Ur­bana-Champaign

FrankAdamekAug 30, 2013, 5:50 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Ge­nies and Wishes in the con­text of com­puter science

private_messagingAug 30, 2013, 12:43 PM
20 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

Why Pro­duc­tivity? Why Grat­i­tude?

feanor1600Aug 30, 2013, 2:28 AM
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Tech­niques to con­sciously ac­ti­vate a ra­tio­nal­ist self-image

chaosmageAug 30, 2013, 12:01 AM
5 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

A ba­sis for pat­tern-match­ing in log­i­cal uncertainty

ManfredAug 29, 2013, 8:53 AM
7 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow: The Sun­day Meetup

YuuAug 29, 2013, 7:32 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Fall Equinox: Fes­ti­val of Heroes

hamnoxAug 29, 2013, 1:59 AM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link