Agents with Carte­sian child­hood and Phys­i­cal­ist adulthood

SquarkMar 22, 2014, 8:20 PM
12 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

En­trepreneur­ship and col­lege attendance

JonahSMar 22, 2014, 7:32 PM
11 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Games meetup

rocurleyMar 22, 2014, 6:40 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : First LW Meetup in Warsaw

David AlthausMar 22, 2014, 4:41 PM
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Mu­nich Meetup

cadacMar 22, 2014, 2:33 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial Mee­tups − 23/​03 and 30/​03

TenokeMar 22, 2014, 12:21 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Sum­mit 2014

Ben_LandauTaylorMar 21, 2014, 8:30 PM
25 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekMar 21, 2014, 4:07 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekMar 21, 2014, 4:06 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

A ca­pa­bil­ities ap­proach to per­sonal development

StabilizerMar 21, 2014, 11:03 AM
15 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­cras­ti­nat­ing be­cause of uncertainty

JonahSMar 21, 2014, 12:14 AM
16 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] IBM to set Wat­son loose on can­cer genome data

TylerJayMar 20, 2014, 4:48 PM
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Eng­ineer­ing ar­chae­ol­ogy

NancyLebovitzMar 20, 2014, 4:38 PM
26 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on How Con­scious­ness Can Affect the World

DavidPlumptonMar 20, 2014, 8:32 AM
0 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

To what ex­tent does im­proved ra­tio­nal­ity lead to effec­tive al­tru­ism?

JonahSMar 20, 2014, 7:08 AM
19 points
156 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup: Philadelphia, 1 PM, March 23-- treat­ing mis­takes as though they’re bugs

NancyLebovitzMar 19, 2014, 3:55 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The ecolog­i­cal ra­tio­nal­ity of the bad old fallacies

velisarMar 19, 2014, 11:39 AM
13 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Lose Ar­gu­ments to Win Fab­u­lous Prizes

ManfredMar 19, 2014, 9:46 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Berkeley: Beta-test­ing at CFAR

NisanMar 19, 2014, 5:32 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Ir­ra­tional The­ory of Identity

SilentCalMar 19, 2014, 12:06 AM
22 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

In­for­ma­tion-gen­er­at­ing re­search projects

JonahSMar 18, 2014, 6:53 PM
7 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham: Stupid Ra­tion­al­ity Questions

evandMar 18, 2014, 5:11 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

One Med­i­cal? Ex­pan­sion of MIRI?

RHollerithMar 18, 2014, 2:38 PM
15 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Ter­ror­ist baby down the well: a look at in­sti­tu­tional forces

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 18, 2014, 2:30 PM
22 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, 18-24 March 2014

David_GerardMar 18, 2014, 12:26 PM
5 points
176 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­cov­er­ing Your Se­cretly Se­cret Sen­sory Experiences

seezMar 18, 2014, 10:12 AM
34 points
75 comments3 min readLW link

FiveThir­tyEight (Nate Silver) rolls out new blog to­day, and at­tempts to teach peo­ple Bayes’ rule.

RomeoStevensMar 18, 2014, 6:37 AM
9 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Global Ex­is­ten­tial Risks & Rad­i­cal Fu­tures (con­fer­ence June 14)

turchinMar 18, 2014, 3:27 AM
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

The Prob­lem with AIXI

Rob BensingerMar 18, 2014, 1:55 AM
44 points
80 comments23 min readLW link

Less Wrong Study Hall—Year 1 Retrospective

ErrorMar 18, 2014, 1:54 AM
69 points
30 comments12 min readLW link

Meetup : Detroit/​Ann Ar­bor—Me­mory Workshop

Scott AlexanderMar 17, 2014, 11:45 PM
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Friendly AI ideas needed: how would you ban porn?

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 17, 2014, 6:00 PM
9 points
80 comments1 min readLW link

Re­duced im­pact in prac­tice: ran­domly sam­pling the future

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 17, 2014, 4:30 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

My book: Si­mu­lat­ing Den­nett—This Wed­nes­day in Sao Paulo

diegocaleiroMar 17, 2014, 8:15 AM
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow, Chaotic Meet up

YuuMar 17, 2014, 7:59 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, March 16-31

therufsMar 16, 2014, 10:47 PM
4 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Utrecht: Famine, Affluence and Morality

SoerenMindMar 16, 2014, 7:56 PM
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

Refer­ence Frames for Ex­pected Value

ozziegooenMar 16, 2014, 7:22 PM
8 points
25 comments6 min readLW link

Meta-er­ror: I like there­fore I am

KatjaGraceMar 16, 2014, 7:10 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence-disadvantage

casebashMar 16, 2014, 7:14 AM
9 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Why are Har­vard’s alumni so wealthy?

JonahSMar 15, 2014, 6:47 PM
19 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

High school stu­dents and epistemic rationality

VipulNaikMar 15, 2014, 5:40 PM
5 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Democ­racy and in­di­vi­d­ual liberty; de­cen­tral­ised pre­dic­tion markets

ChrysophylaxMar 15, 2014, 12:27 PM
0 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Shoulds can be changed to Cans

StabilizerMar 15, 2014, 9:05 AM
7 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Solu­tions and Open Problems

ManfredMar 15, 2014, 6:53 AM
13 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

What are you work­ing on? March /​ April 2014

VincentYuMar 15, 2014, 3:45 AM
6 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Biomed­i­cal re­search, su­per­stars, and innovation

VipulNaikMar 14, 2014, 10:38 PM
2 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

High school stu­dents and effec­tive altruism

VipulNaikMar 14, 2014, 7:04 PM
17 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Over­com­ing the Loe­bian ob­sta­cle us­ing ev­i­dence logic

SquarkMar 14, 2014, 6:34 PM
22 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

Can you es­cape Heat Death with MWI?

DataPacRatMar 14, 2014, 6:12 PM
−6 points
14 comments1 min readLW link