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

Stabilizer8 Jan 2014 19:36 UTC
14 points
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Liter­a­ture-re­view on cog­ni­tive effects of modafinil (my bach­e­lor the­sis)

David Althaus8 Jan 2014 19:23 UTC
53 points
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[Link] Con­scious­ness as a State of Mat­ter (Max Teg­mark)

Mark_Friedenbach8 Jan 2014 18:11 UTC
22 points
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Some thoughts on hav­ing children

pianoforte6118 Jan 2014 17:26 UTC
6 points
107 comments5 min readLW link

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

sixes_and_sevens8 Jan 2014 13:12 UTC
11 points
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Open Thread for Jan­uary 8 − 16 2014

tut8 Jan 2014 12:14 UTC
9 points
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A big Sin­gu­lar­ity-themed Hol­ly­wood movie out in April offers many op­por­tu­ni­ties to talk about AI risk

chaosmage7 Jan 2014 17:48 UTC
49 points
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Meetup : Meetup at CFAR, Wed­nes­day: Nutri­tion­ally com­plete bread

Nisan7 Jan 2014 10:25 UTC
3 points
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Meetup : Bos­ton—Macroe­co­nomic The­ory (Joe Sch­nei­der)

Vika7 Jan 2014 2:49 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Jan­uary Monthly Brag­ging Thread

diegocaleiro6 Jan 2014 21:44 UTC
13 points
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Meetup : Durham Meetup—Bias Defenses from Influence

curiousepic6 Jan 2014 21:17 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup

Maelin6 Jan 2014 6:43 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

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

OpenThreadGuy6 Jan 2014 6:11 UTC
3 points
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[LINK] Why I’m not on the Ra­tion­al­ist Masterlist

Apprentice6 Jan 2014 0:16 UTC
40 points
882 comments1 min readLW link

Mar­ijuana: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott Alexander5 Jan 2014 20:41 UTC
32 points
4 comments19 min readLW link

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

Gunnar_Zarncke5 Jan 2014 20:34 UTC
6 points
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Meetup : At­lanta, Jan­uary Meetup & Movie Night!

Nova_Division5 Jan 2014 18:15 UTC
−3 points
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In­tro­duc­ing .impact

Peter Wildeford5 Jan 2014 15:35 UTC
27 points
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Another Cri­tique of Effec­tive Altruism

jsteinhardt5 Jan 2014 9:51 UTC
28 points
109 comments6 min readLW link

[Link] Valproic acid, a drug for brain plasticity

Mark_Friedenbach5 Jan 2014 7:41 UTC
20 points
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Fas­cists and Rakes

philh5 Jan 2014 0:41 UTC
58 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Jan­uary 2014

Mestroyer4 Jan 2014 19:39 UTC
11 points
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Meetup : Moscow, First New Year

Yuu4 Jan 2014 18:05 UTC
1 point
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[Link] More om­i­nous than a [Mar­riage] strike

GLaDOS4 Jan 2014 17:34 UTC
4 points
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Soft Pa­ter­nal­ism in Parenting

Gunnar_Zarncke4 Jan 2014 15:52 UTC
53 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

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

ChrisHallquist4 Jan 2014 5:16 UTC
25 points
88 comments8 min readLW link

[LINK] How Long Does Habit For­ma­tion Take?

Antisuji4 Jan 2014 1:33 UTC
30 points
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Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek3 Jan 2014 22:19 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

[link] How do good ideas spread?

Kaj_Sotala3 Jan 2014 20:19 UTC
18 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

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

daenerys3 Jan 2014 19:53 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing lethal­ity in re­duced ex­pected heartbeats

chaosmage3 Jan 2014 14:14 UTC
6 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Changelings, In­fan­ti­cide and Nortwest Euro­pean Guilt Culture

[deleted]3 Jan 2014 9:24 UTC
3 points
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Hand­shakes, Hi, and What’s New: What’s Go­ing On With Small Talk?

Benquo2 Jan 2014 22:08 UTC
106 points
79 comments5 min readLW link

Ra­tional Re­s­olu­tions: Spe­cial CFAR Mini-work­shop SATURDAY

LoganStrohl2 Jan 2014 20:32 UTC
13 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC fun and games meetup

rocurley2 Jan 2014 18:00 UTC
1 point
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TED Prize Nomination

Eneasz2 Jan 2014 16:47 UTC
9 points
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Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Jan­uary 1-15

therufs2 Jan 2014 15:18 UTC
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Two Dark Side Statis­tics Papers

Scott Alexander2 Jan 2014 5:51 UTC
36 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

[LINK] On what ship are we?

polymathwannabe2 Jan 2014 1:35 UTC
−12 points
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Tulpa Refer­ences/​Discussion

Vulture2 Jan 2014 1:34 UTC
22 points
81 comments2 min readLW link

What are you work­ing on? Jan­uary 2014

David_Gerard1 Jan 2014 23:13 UTC
10 points
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Chap­ter 102: Caring

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jan 2014 22:46 UTC
17 points
3 comments13 min readLW link

One Year of Pomodoros

alexvermeer1 Jan 2014 21:27 UTC
34 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

What if Strong AI is just not pos­si­ble?

listic1 Jan 2014 17:51 UTC
11 points
101 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread for Jan­uary 1-7, 2014

NancyLebovitz1 Jan 2014 15:54 UTC
4 points
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Jan­uary 2014 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Jan 2014 15:19 UTC
11 points
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New Year’s Pre­dic­tion Thread (2014)

Thomas1 Jan 2014 9:38 UTC
14 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Meetup: January

taryneast1 Jan 2014 5:15 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cri­tiquing Gary Taubes, Part 4: What Causes Obe­sity?

ChrisHallquist31 Dec 2013 22:04 UTC
9 points
122 comments9 min readLW link

Cog­nito Men­tor­ing: An ad­vis­ing ser­vice for in­tel­lec­tu­ally cu­ri­ous students

JonahS31 Dec 2013 22:03 UTC
84 points
32 comments1 min readLW link