Ex­plor­ing Botworld

So8resApr 30, 2014, 10:29 PM
34 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion: How sci­en­tifi­cally sound are MBAs?

caffemacchiavelliApr 30, 2014, 9:06 PM
17 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Re­but­ting rad­i­cal sci­en­tific skepticism

asrApr 30, 2014, 7:40 PM
30 points
65 comments2 min readLW link

Mechanism De­sign: Con­struct­ing Al­gorithms for Strate­gic Agents

badgerApr 30, 2014, 6:37 PM
71 points
14 comments9 min readLW link

[Se­quence an­nounce­ment] In­tro­duc­tion to Mechanism Design

badgerApr 30, 2014, 4:21 PM
95 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don so­cial meetup

philhApr 30, 2014, 1:34 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sum­mary of the first SoCal FAI Workshop

Scott GarrabrantApr 30, 2014, 7:35 AM
13 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Link: Study finds that us­ing a for­eign lan­guage changes moral decisions

Vladimir_GolovinApr 30, 2014, 5:26 AM
14 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Pos­i­tive Queries—How Fetching

BenquoApr 30, 2014, 2:24 AM
37 points
43 comments7 min readLW link

Cog­nito Men­tor­ing and zero-sum competition

JonahSApr 29, 2014, 11:06 PM
12 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

The Univer­sal Med­i­cal Jour­nal Ar­ti­cle Error

PhilGoetzApr 29, 2014, 5:57 PM
6 points
191 comments5 min readLW link

MIRI Dona­tion Col­lab­o­ra­tion Station

SkeptitykeApr 29, 2014, 2:11 PM
30 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2014 retrospective

blobApr 29, 2014, 2:08 PM
36 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

The Value of Uncer­tainty Re­duc­tion—refer­ences to aca­demic liter­a­ture appreciated

Mike BishopApr 29, 2014, 1:51 PM
4 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

The Con­trol Group Is Out Of Control

Scott AlexanderApr 29, 2014, 12:46 AM
51 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

LessWrong as so­cial catalyst

JoshuaFoxApr 28, 2014, 2:10 PM
21 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

A brief sum­mary of effec­tive study methods

Arran_StirtonApr 28, 2014, 12:40 PM
73 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

[LINK] The er­rors, in­sights and les­sons of fa­mous AI predictions

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 28, 2014, 9:41 AM
13 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Re­quest for con­crete AI takeover mechanisms

KatjaGraceApr 28, 2014, 1:04 AM
35 points
123 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham: Ugh Fields Followup

evandApr 28, 2014, 12:32 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Hous­ton, TX

[deleted]Apr 27, 2014, 10:44 PM
4 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Deal­ing with a Ma­jor Per­sonal Cri­sis II

Gunnar_ZarnckeApr 27, 2014, 10:20 PM
8 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Why don’t you at­tend your lo­cal LessWrong meetup? /​ Gen­eral meetup feedback

philhApr 27, 2014, 10:17 PM
33 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Should I take an aca­demic class on ra­tio­nal­ity?

aarongertlerApr 27, 2014, 9:54 PM
8 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, April 27-May 4, 2014

NancyLebovitzApr 27, 2014, 8:34 PM
1 point
206 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Is­rael Less Wrong Meetup—Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and AI discussion

SoftFlareApr 27, 2014, 12:37 PM
2 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup Notes: Com­mu­nity Building

Gunnar_ZarnckeApr 27, 2014, 7:59 AM
7 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Tapestries of Gold

[deleted]Apr 27, 2014, 7:23 AM
37 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Berkeley: Alpha-test­ing at CFAR

PeerInfinityApr 27, 2014, 4:24 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup—Effec­tive Altruism

mikkoApr 26, 2014, 10:50 AM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Skills and Antiskills

katydeeApr 26, 2014, 6:54 AM
43 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

Ques­tions to ask the­ist philoso­phers? I will soon be speak­ing with several

kokotajlodApr 26, 2014, 12:46 AM
11 points
85 comments1 min readLW link

Para­met­ric poly­mor­phism in up­date­less in­tel­li­gence metrics

SquarkApr 25, 2014, 7:46 PM
8 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

New LW Meetup: Christchurch NZ

FrankAdamekApr 25, 2014, 4:01 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Rus­sian na­tive speak­ers wanted as ed­i­tors (trans­lat­ing “Smarter Than Us”)

listicApr 24, 2014, 10:40 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA—Honor and Glory

OpenThreadGuyApr 24, 2014, 10:24 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

How Tim O’Brien gets around the log­i­cal fal­lacy of gen­er­al­iza­tion from fic­tional evidence

mszegedyApr 24, 2014, 9:41 PM
16 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Sing­ing Meetup

rocurleyApr 24, 2014, 5:27 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread April 23 − 29, 2014

pinyakaApr 24, 2014, 4:50 PM
−9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Cry­on­ics Strat­egy Space

FroolowApr 24, 2014, 4:11 PM
40 points
47 comments8 min readLW link

Less Wrong Busi­ness Net­work­ing Google Group

moridinamaelApr 24, 2014, 2:45 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Sun­day Meetup

StonesOnCanvasApr 24, 2014, 2:42 AM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

LessWrongWiki User Pages Un­deruti­lized; Tag Proposal

Gunnar_ZarnckeApr 23, 2014, 9:50 PM
17 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign, Consciousness

MestroyerApr 23, 2014, 4:54 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Less Wrong Mon­treal—Easy Lifehacks

bartimaeusApr 23, 2014, 4:42 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: So Good They Can’t Ig­nore You, by Cal Newport

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Apr 23, 2014, 3:27 AM
43 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Er­gonomics Revisited

diegocaleiroApr 22, 2014, 9:57 PM
15 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

Link-Keep­ing or­gans al­ive on their own

polymathwannabeApr 22, 2014, 5:45 PM
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The track record of sur­vey-based macroe­co­nomic forecasting

VipulNaikApr 22, 2014, 4:57 AM
7 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

How do you ap­proach the prob­lem of so­cial dis­cov­ery?

InquilineKeaApr 21, 2014, 9:05 PM
26 points
44 comments1 min readLW link