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Increasing the pool of people with outstanding accomplishments
JonahS
28 Mar 2014 22:45 UTC
4
points
34
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Intelligence Amplification Interview
KatjaGrace
28 Mar 2014 22:21 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Introducing Skillshare.im
Peter Wildeford
28 Mar 2014 21:27 UTC
24
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Effective Effective Altruism Fundraising and Movement-Building
ChrisHallquist
28 Mar 2014 21:05 UTC
7
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Logical thermodynamics: towards a theory of self-trusting uncertain reasoning
Squark
28 Mar 2014 16:06 UTC
10
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Philadelphia, PA: Goal Factoring Exercise
NancyLebovitz
28 Mar 2014 4:50 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup Philadelphia: March 30, Ben Landau-Taylor on Goal Factoring
NancyLebovitz
28 Mar 2014 4:45 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What colleges look for in extracurricular activities
JonahS
27 Mar 2014 22:22 UTC
4
points
40
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Does religion help cure insanity?
Ritalin
27 Mar 2014 17:57 UTC
1
point
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Boston—Schelling Day
Vika
27 Mar 2014 17:08 UTC
4
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Estimate Effect Sizes
Vaniver
27 Mar 2014 16:56 UTC
3
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[link] Cybathlon (an Olympics for bionic athletes)
Mati_Roy
27 Mar 2014 16:44 UTC
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death [link]
Dr_Manhattan
27 Mar 2014 16:33 UTC
37
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A small rationalist win, and a question about promulgation
NancyLebovitz
27 Mar 2014 14:22 UTC
3
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Two arguments for not thinking about ethics (too much)
Kaj_Sotala
27 Mar 2014 14:15 UTC
61
points
32
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Distribution of knowledge and standardization in science
Stefan_Schubert
27 Mar 2014 10:48 UTC
4
points
34
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Urbana-Campaign: Discussion (Folk Wisdom)
Mestroyer
27 Mar 2014 1:04 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Utrecht: More on effective altruism
SoerenMind
27 Mar 2014 0:40 UTC
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Outline Summary: The Procrastination Equation
iarwain1
26 Mar 2014 23:55 UTC
11
points
4
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup—Social and Board Games
SoftFlare
26 Mar 2014 21:26 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Problem of “Win-More”
katydee
26 Mar 2014 18:32 UTC
40
points
58
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Las Vegas/Henderson, NV
thespymachine
26 Mar 2014 16:31 UTC
2
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC: Robin Hanson visits to talk about giving
maia
25 Mar 2014 17:47 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationalist fiction: a Slice of Life IN HELL
Ritalin
25 Mar 2014 17:02 UTC
13
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Zack Weinersmith’s One-Liner Generator
Dallas
25 Mar 2014 15:30 UTC
1
point
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Other minds and bats: the vampire Turing test
Stuart_Armstrong
25 Mar 2014 13:36 UTC
1
point
52
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Open thread, 24-30 March 2014
Metus
25 Mar 2014 7:42 UTC
11
points
158
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to trade money and time
KatjaGrace
25 Mar 2014 4:14 UTC
1
point
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
What legal ways do people make a profit that produce the largest net loss in utility?
Punoxysm
25 Mar 2014 1:53 UTC
1
point
84
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What is the most anti-altruistic way to spend a million dollars?
Punoxysm
24 Mar 2014 21:50 UTC
−8
points
94
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Helsinki Meetup
mikko
24 Mar 2014 13:34 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LessWrong Hamburg − 4
Gunnar_Zarncke
23 Mar 2014 23:07 UTC
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
How can Cognito Mentoring do the most good?
JonahS
23 Mar 2014 18:06 UTC
16
points
53
comments
6
min read
LW
link
What are some science mistakes you made in college?
aarongertler
23 Mar 2014 5:28 UTC
10
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Princeton NJ Meetup
Larks
23 Mar 2014 0:22 UTC
4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Agents with Cartesian childhood and Physicalist adulthood
Squark
22 Mar 2014 20:20 UTC
12
points
2
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Entrepreneurship and college attendance
JonahS
22 Mar 2014 19:32 UTC
11
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC Games meetup
rocurley
22 Mar 2014 18:40 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : First LW Meetup in Warsaw
David Althaus
22 Mar 2014 16:41 UTC
6
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Munich Meetup
cadac
22 Mar 2014 14:33 UTC
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : London Social Meetups − 23/03 and 30/03
Tenoke
22 Mar 2014 12:21 UTC
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Effective Altruism Summit 2014
Ben_LandauTaylor
21 Mar 2014 20:30 UTC
25
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
21 Mar 2014 16:07 UTC
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
21 Mar 2014 16:06 UTC
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A capabilities approach to personal development
Stabilizer
21 Mar 2014 11:03 UTC
15
points
11
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Procrastinating because of uncertainty
JonahS
21 Mar 2014 0:14 UTC
16
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Link] IBM to set Watson loose on cancer genome data
TylerJay
20 Mar 2014 16:48 UTC
5
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Engineering archaeology
NancyLebovitz
20 Mar 2014 16:38 UTC
26
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on How Consciousness Can Affect the World
DavidPlumpton
20 Mar 2014 8:32 UTC
0
points
11
comments
3
min read
LW
link
To what extent does improved rationality lead to effective altruism?
JonahS
20 Mar 2014 7:08 UTC
19
points
156
comments
4
min read
LW
link
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