New (pro­posal for) monthly thread: Meetup Reports

bartimaeusJan 12, 2014, 3:50 PM
25 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Pop­u­lar press ac­count of so­cial benefits of mo­ti­vated reasoning

Peter WildefordJan 12, 2014, 1:55 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Even Odds

Scott GarrabrantJan 12, 2014, 7:24 AM
77 points
47 comments3 min readLW link

Why I haven’t signed up for cryonics

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Jan 12, 2014, 5:16 AM
43 points
252 comments5 min readLW link

Dereg­u­lat­ing Dis­trac­tion, Mov­ing Towards the Goal, and Level Hopping

So8resJan 12, 2014, 3:21 AM
102 points
25 comments8 min readLW link

AALWA: Ask any LessWronger anything

Will_NewsomeJan 12, 2014, 2:18 AM
53 points
636 comments1 min readLW link

Try more things.

whalesJan 12, 2014, 1:25 AM
88 points
20 comments7 min readLW link

I Will Pay $500 To Any­one Who Can Con­vince Me To Can­cel My Cry­on­ics Subscription

ChrisHallquistJan 11, 2014, 10:39 AM
54 points
182 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Effec­tive Altru­ism Meetup

rocurleyJan 11, 2014, 10:15 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Calcu­lat­ing an ex­pected value

polymathwannabeJan 11, 2014, 6:41 AM
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Free on­line course: How to Rea­son and Ar­gue start­ing Mon. Any in­ter­est in study group?

pinyakaJan 10, 2014, 7:25 PM
7 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

New LW Mee­tups: Port­land, Sydney

FrankAdamekJan 10, 2014, 5:04 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Dr. Jub­jub pre­dicts a crisis

ApprenticeJan 10, 2014, 3:52 PM
74 points
65 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Biweekly Se­quences Dis­cus­sion: Poli­tics Is the Mind-killer

eggmanJan 10, 2014, 10:21 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Peo­ple be­come more util­i­tar­ian in VR moral dilem­mas as com­pared to text based.

trifithJan 9, 2014, 8:28 PM
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Vari­ables in Ar­gu­ments as a Source of Confusion

kremlinJan 9, 2014, 1:16 PM
8 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Ha­bit­ual Productivity

So8resJan 9, 2014, 6:44 AM
89 points
36 comments6 min readLW link

The me­chan­ics of my re­cent productivity

So8resJan 9, 2014, 2:30 AM
201 points
47 comments9 min readLW link

We need new hu­mans, please help

ApprenticeJan 9, 2014, 12:25 AM
−16 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

Physics grad stu­dent: how to build em­ploy­a­bil­ity in pro­gram­ming & finance

StabilizerJan 8, 2014, 7:36 PM
14 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

Liter­a­ture-re­view on cog­ni­tive effects of modafinil (my bach­e­lor the­sis)

David AlthausJan 8, 2014, 7:23 PM
53 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] Con­scious­ness as a State of Mat­ter (Max Teg­mark)

Mark_FriedenbachJan 8, 2014, 6:11 PM
22 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Some thoughts on hav­ing children

pianoforte611Jan 8, 2014, 5:26 PM
6 points
107 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don—The Schel­ling Point Strat­egy Game (plus so­cials)

sixes_and_sevensJan 8, 2014, 1:12 PM
11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread for Jan­uary 8 − 16 2014

tutJan 8, 2014, 12:14 PM
9 points
347 comments1 min readLW link

A big Sin­gu­lar­ity-themed Hol­ly­wood movie out in April offers many op­por­tu­ni­ties to talk about AI risk

chaosmageJan 7, 2014, 5:48 PM
49 points
85 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meetup at CFAR, Wed­nes­day: Nutri­tion­ally com­plete bread

NisanJan 7, 2014, 10:25 AM
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bos­ton—Macroe­co­nomic The­ory (Joe Sch­nei­der)

VikaJan 7, 2014, 2:49 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Jan­uary Monthly Brag­ging Thread

diegocaleiroJan 6, 2014, 9:44 PM
13 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham Meetup—Bias Defenses from Influence

curiousepicJan 6, 2014, 9:17 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup

MaelinJan 6, 2014, 6:43 AM
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA—How to Live on 22 Hours a Day

OpenThreadGuyJan 6, 2014, 6:11 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Why I’m not on the Ra­tion­al­ist Masterlist

ApprenticeJan 6, 2014, 12:16 AM
40 points
882 comments1 min readLW link

Mar­ijuana: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott AlexanderJan 5, 2014, 8:41 PM
32 points
4 comments19 min readLW link

[LINK] The Math­e­mat­ics of Gam­ifi­ca­tion—Ap­pli­ca­tion of Bayes Rule to Voting

Gunnar_ZarnckeJan 5, 2014, 8:34 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : At­lanta, Jan­uary Meetup & Movie Night!

Nova_DivisionJan 5, 2014, 6:15 PM
−3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing .impact

Peter WildefordJan 5, 2014, 3:35 PM
27 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Another Cri­tique of Effec­tive Altruism

jsteinhardtJan 5, 2014, 9:51 AM
28 points
109 comments6 min readLW link

[Link] Valproic acid, a drug for brain plasticity

Mark_FriedenbachJan 5, 2014, 7:41 AM
20 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Fas­cists and Rakes

philhJan 5, 2014, 12:41 AM
58 points
71 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Jan­uary 2014

MestroyerJan 4, 2014, 7:39 PM
11 points
189 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow, First New Year

YuuJan 4, 2014, 6:05 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] More om­i­nous than a [Mar­riage] strike

GLaDOSJan 4, 2014, 5:34 PM
4 points
96 comments5 min readLW link

Soft Pa­ter­nal­ism in Parenting

Gunnar_ZarnckeJan 4, 2014, 3:52 PM
53 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Cri­tiquing Gary Taubes, Fi­nal: The Truth About Diets and Weight Loss

ChrisHallquistJan 4, 2014, 5:16 AM
25 points
88 comments8 min readLW link

[LINK] How Long Does Habit For­ma­tion Take?

AntisujiJan 4, 2014, 1:33 AM
30 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekJan 3, 2014, 10:19 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

[link] How do good ideas spread?

Kaj_SotalaJan 3, 2014, 8:19 PM
18 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

Meetup : I moved to Port­land! I want to meet you!

daenerysJan 3, 2014, 7:53 PM
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing lethal­ity in re­duced ex­pected heartbeats

chaosmageJan 3, 2014, 2:14 PM
6 points
27 comments1 min readLW link