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How valuable is volunteering?
JonahS
Mar 29, 2014, 9:55 PM
10
points
52
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Increasing the pool of people with outstanding accomplishments
JonahS
Mar 28, 2014, 10:45 PM
4
points
34
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Intelligence Amplification Interview
KatjaGrace
Mar 28, 2014, 10:21 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Introducing Skillshare.im
Peter Wildeford
Mar 28, 2014, 9:27 PM
24
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Effective Effective Altruism Fundraising and Movement-Building
ChrisHallquist
Mar 28, 2014, 9:05 PM
7
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Logical thermodynamics: towards a theory of self-trusting uncertain reasoning
Squark
Mar 28, 2014, 4:06 PM
10
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Philadelphia, PA: Goal Factoring Exercise
NancyLebovitz
Mar 28, 2014, 4:50 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup Philadelphia: March 30, Ben Landau-Taylor on Goal Factoring
NancyLebovitz
Mar 28, 2014, 4:45 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What colleges look for in extracurricular activities
JonahS
Mar 27, 2014, 10:22 PM
4
points
40
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Does religion help cure insanity?
Ritalin
Mar 27, 2014, 5:57 PM
1
point
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Boston—Schelling Day
Vika
Mar 27, 2014, 5:08 PM
4
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Estimate Effect Sizes
Vaniver
Mar 27, 2014, 4:56 PM
3
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[link] Cybathlon (an Olympics for bionic athletes)
Mati_Roy
Mar 27, 2014, 4:44 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death [link]
Dr_Manhattan
Mar 27, 2014, 4:33 PM
37
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A small rationalist win, and a question about promulgation
NancyLebovitz
Mar 27, 2014, 2:22 PM
3
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Two arguments for not thinking about ethics (too much)
Kaj_Sotala
Mar 27, 2014, 2:15 PM
61
points
32
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Distribution of knowledge and standardization in science
Stefan_Schubert
Mar 27, 2014, 10:48 AM
4
points
34
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Urbana-Campaign: Discussion (Folk Wisdom)
Mestroyer
Mar 27, 2014, 1:04 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Utrecht: More on effective altruism
SoerenMind
Mar 27, 2014, 12:40 AM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Outline Summary: The Procrastination Equation
iarwain1
Mar 26, 2014, 11:55 PM
12
points
4
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup—Social and Board Games
SoftFlare
Mar 26, 2014, 9:26 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Problem of “Win-More”
katydee
Mar 26, 2014, 6:32 PM
40
points
58
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Las Vegas/Henderson, NV
thespymachine
Mar 26, 2014, 4:31 PM
2
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC: Robin Hanson visits to talk about giving
maia
Mar 25, 2014, 5:47 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationalist fiction: a Slice of Life IN HELL
Ritalin
Mar 25, 2014, 5:02 PM
13
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Zack Weinersmith’s One-Liner Generator
Dallas
Mar 25, 2014, 3:30 PM
1
point
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Other minds and bats: the vampire Turing test
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 25, 2014, 1:36 PM
1
point
52
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Open thread, 24-30 March 2014
Metus
Mar 25, 2014, 7:42 AM
11
points
158
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to trade money and time
KatjaGrace
Mar 25, 2014, 4:14 AM
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
Mar 25, 2014, 1:53 AM
1
point
84
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What is the most anti-altruistic way to spend a million dollars?
Punoxysm
Mar 24, 2014, 9:50 PM
−8
points
94
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Helsinki Meetup
mikko
Mar 24, 2014, 1:34 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LessWrong Hamburg − 4
Gunnar_Zarncke
Mar 23, 2014, 11:07 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
How can Cognito Mentoring do the most good?
JonahS
Mar 23, 2014, 6:06 PM
16
points
53
comments
6
min read
LW
link
What are some science mistakes you made in college?
aarongertler
Mar 23, 2014, 5:28 AM
10
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Princeton NJ Meetup
Larks
Mar 23, 2014, 12:22 AM
4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Agents with Cartesian childhood and Physicalist adulthood
Squark
Mar 22, 2014, 8:20 PM
12
points
2
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Entrepreneurship and college attendance
JonahS
Mar 22, 2014, 7:32 PM
11
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC Games meetup
rocurley
Mar 22, 2014, 6:40 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : First LW Meetup in Warsaw
David Althaus
Mar 22, 2014, 4:41 PM
6
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Munich Meetup
cadac
Mar 22, 2014, 2:33 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : London Social Meetups − 23/03 and 30/03
Tenoke
Mar 22, 2014, 12:21 PM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Effective Altruism Summit 2014
Ben_LandauTaylor
Mar 21, 2014, 8:30 PM
25
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Mar 21, 2014, 4:07 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Mar 21, 2014, 4:06 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A capabilities approach to personal development
Stabilizer
Mar 21, 2014, 11:03 AM
15
points
11
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Procrastinating because of uncertainty
JonahS
Mar 21, 2014, 12:14 AM
16
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Link] IBM to set Watson loose on cancer genome data
TylerJay
Mar 20, 2014, 4:48 PM
5
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Engineering archaeology
NancyLebovitz
Mar 20, 2014, 4:38 PM
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
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