Bridge Col­lapse: Re­duc­tion­ism as Eng­ineer­ing Problem

Rob Bensinger18 Feb 2014 22:03 UTC
81 points
62 comments15 min readLW link

Au­dio Ver­sion of “How to Ac­tu­ally Change Your Mind”

Rick_from_Castify18 Feb 2014 20:23 UTC
19 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

A Fer­vent Defense of Fre­quen­tist Statistics

jsteinhardt18 Feb 2014 20:08 UTC
75 points
129 comments16 min readLW link

The Jan­uary 2013 CFAR work­shop: one-year retrospective

Qiaochu_Yuan18 Feb 2014 18:41 UTC
53 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : At­lanta Less­wrong Meetup: How to In­crease Your Brainpower

Nova_Division18 Feb 2014 17:48 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Iden­tity and Death

Tenoke18 Feb 2014 11:35 UTC
14 points
56 comments2 min readLW link

Don’t rely on the sys­tem to guaran­tee you life satisfaction

JonahS18 Feb 2014 5:48 UTC
21 points
64 comments2 min readLW link

[RESCHEDULED] NYC Ra­tion­al­ity Megameetup and Un­con­fer­ence: 4/​5 − 4/​6

KenChen18 Feb 2014 1:28 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Lin­ear Alge­bra Done Right (MIRI course list)

So8res17 Feb 2014 20:52 UTC
57 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Meth­ods for treat­ing depression

JonahS17 Feb 2014 19:02 UTC
28 points
51 comments4 min readLW link

Steel­man­ning Young Earth Creationism

ChrisHallquist17 Feb 2014 7:17 UTC
6 points
57 comments3 min readLW link

[Open Thread] Stupid Ques­tions (2014-02-17)

solipsist17 Feb 2014 5:34 UTC
8 points
140 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup Re­port Thread: Fe­bru­ary 2014

eggman17 Feb 2014 3:19 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Meta: so­cial in­fluence bias and the karma system

[deleted]17 Feb 2014 1:07 UTC
24 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup re­port: Lon­don LW para­noid de­bat­ing session

philh16 Feb 2014 23:46 UTC
17 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

A defense of Senex­ism (Death­ism)

Gunnar_Zarncke16 Feb 2014 19:47 UTC
−12 points
89 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC fun and games meetup

rocurley15 Feb 2014 18:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Re­think­ing Education

Adam Zerner15 Feb 2014 5:22 UTC
−1 points
88 comments5 min readLW link

Men­tal Sub­vo­cal­iza­tion—”Say­ing” Words In Your Mind As You Read

Torello15 Feb 2014 2:38 UTC
13 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Poli­tics and the English Language

Mestroyer15 Feb 2014 2:30 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Effec­tive pub­lic col­lege tu­ition vs. pri­vate col­lege tuition

JonahS14 Feb 2014 22:59 UTC
13 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on Death

BlackNoise14 Feb 2014 20:27 UTC
10 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

I like sim­plic­ity, but not THAT much

Benya14 Feb 2014 19:51 UTC
38 points
33 comments8 min readLW link

Cam­bridge (England) lec­ture: Ex­is­ten­tial Risk: Sur­viv­ing the 21st Cen­tury, 26th Fe­bru­ary

Sean_o_h14 Feb 2014 19:39 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bos­ton: In Defence of the Cathedral

Vika14 Feb 2014 19:31 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek14 Feb 2014 17:03 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

How to illus­trate that so­ciety is mostly ir­ra­tional, and how ra­tio­nal­ity would be beneficial

Adam Zerner14 Feb 2014 6:16 UTC
−4 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

[Open Thread] Links (2014-02-14)

solipsist14 Feb 2014 5:32 UTC
4 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Pri­vate cur­rency to gen­er­ate funds for effec­tive altruism

Stefan_Schubert14 Feb 2014 0:00 UTC
4 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Some Tools For Op­ti­miz­ing Our Me­dia Use

mbitton2413 Feb 2014 21:28 UTC
6 points
19 comments9 min readLW link

A few re­marks about mass-downvoting

gjm13 Feb 2014 17:06 UTC
34 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

Em­brac­ing the “sadis­tic” conclusion

Stuart_Armstrong13 Feb 2014 10:30 UTC
31 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

Ter­mi­nal and In­stru­men­tal Beliefs

Scott Garrabrant12 Feb 2014 22:45 UTC
8 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

[Meta] Open thread even more of­ten?

solipsist12 Feb 2014 21:28 UTC
20 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Berkeley: The Twelve Virtues

Nisan12 Feb 2014 19:56 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : CANCELLED—Mon­treal Less Wrong—Easy Lifehacks

bartimaeus12 Feb 2014 19:16 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Calorie Restric­tion: My The­ory and Practice

brazil8412 Feb 2014 1:16 UTC
11 points
34 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Bratis­lava Meetup X.

Viliam_Bur11 Feb 2014 19:55 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread for Fe­bru­ary 11 − 17

Scott Garrabrant11 Feb 2014 18:08 UTC
5 points
335 comments1 min readLW link

Na­tive Rus­sian speak­ers wanted, for help with trans­la­tion of LW texts

listic11 Feb 2014 17:37 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weight­ing the prob­a­bil­ity of be­ing a mind by the quan­tity of the mat­ter com­pos­ing the com­puter that calcu­lates that mind

yttrium11 Feb 2014 15:34 UTC
0 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Brain­storm­ing: chil­dren’s stories

Emile11 Feb 2014 13:23 UTC
14 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Use­ful Per­son­al­ity Tests

seez11 Feb 2014 11:18 UTC
13 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LessWrong Ham­burg—about Procrastination

Gunnar_Zarncke10 Feb 2014 21:27 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Saint Peters­burg sun­day meetup

efim10 Feb 2014 17:38 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Baldness

TraderJoe10 Feb 2014 10:13 UTC
−9 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Yale: Ini­tial Meetup

Lambda10 Feb 2014 6:11 UTC
12 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The ra­tio­nal­ity of split­ting donations

JonahS10 Feb 2014 3:13 UTC
14 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Fi­nance as a ca­reer option

JonahS9 Feb 2014 20:47 UTC
26 points
90 comments5 min readLW link

Ask­ing about polyamory in Melbourne

Carinthium9 Feb 2014 9:51 UTC
−14 points
8 comments1 min readLW link