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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
Mar 20, 2014, 8:32 AM
0
points
11
comments
3
min read
LW
link
To what extent does improved rationality lead to effective altruism?
JonahS
Mar 20, 2014, 7:08 AM
19
points
156
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup: Philadelphia, 1 PM, March 23-- treating mistakes as though they’re bugs
NancyLebovitz
Mar 19, 2014, 3:55 PM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The ecological rationality of the bad old fallacies
velisar
Mar 19, 2014, 11:39 AM
13
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Lose Arguments to Win Fabulous Prizes
Manfred
Mar 19, 2014, 9:46 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Berkeley: Beta-testing at CFAR
Nisan
Mar 19, 2014, 5:32 AM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On Irrational Theory of Identity
SilentCal
Mar 19, 2014, 12:06 AM
22
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Information-generating research projects
JonahS
Mar 18, 2014, 6:53 PM
7
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Durham: Stupid Rationality Questions
evand
Mar 18, 2014, 5:11 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
One Medical? Expansion of MIRI?
RHollerith
Mar 18, 2014, 2:38 PM
15
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Terrorist baby down the well: a look at institutional forces
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 18, 2014, 2:30 PM
22
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open thread, 18-24 March 2014
David_Gerard
Mar 18, 2014, 12:26 PM
5
points
176
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Discovering Your Secretly Secret Sensory Experiences
seez
Mar 18, 2014, 10:12 AM
34
points
75
comments
3
min read
LW
link
FiveThirtyEight (Nate Silver) rolls out new blog today, and attempts to teach people Bayes’ rule.
RomeoStevens
Mar 18, 2014, 6:37 AM
9
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Global Existential Risks & Radical Futures (conference June 14)
turchin
Mar 18, 2014, 3:27 AM
3
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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