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Guarding Against the Postmodernist Failure Mode
NoSignalNoNoise
Jul 8, 2014, 1:34 AM
11
points
78
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Calibration Training and Potluck—Portland
[deleted]
Jul 8, 2014, 1:31 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LINK: Melting Arctic is releasing millions of tons of methane
polymathwannabe
Jul 7, 2014, 11:31 PM
5
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[QUESTION]: LessWrong web traffic data?
VipulNaik
Jul 7, 2014, 9:41 PM
6
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Useful Standardized Tests?
adam_strandberg
Jul 7, 2014, 8:26 PM
6
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Time series forecasting for global temperature: an outside view of climate forecasting
VipulNaik
Jul 7, 2014, 4:25 PM
5
points
11
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Climate science: how it matters for understanding forecasting, materials I’ve read or plan to read, sources of potential bias
VipulNaik
Jul 7, 2014, 4:18 PM
3
points
8
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Open thread, 7-14 July 2014
David_Gerard
Jul 7, 2014, 7:14 AM
6
points
234
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ethicality of Denying Agency
pwno
Jul 7, 2014, 5:40 AM
14
points
32
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Quickly passing through the great filter
James_Miller
Jul 6, 2014, 6:50 PM
20
points
51
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Harry Yudkowsky and the Methods of Postrationality: Chapter One: Em Dashes Colons and Ellipses, Littérateurs Go Wild
Will_Newsome
Jul 6, 2014, 9:34 AM
−14
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality Quotes July 2014
VAuroch
Jul 6, 2014, 6:51 AM
10
points
198
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Good books for incoming college students?
aarongertler
Jul 6, 2014, 1:21 AM
2
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LessWrong Australia—Online Hangout
taryneast
Jul 6, 2014, 12:56 AM
4
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Toy problem: increase production or use production?
Alexei
Jul 5, 2014, 8:58 PM
10
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup :
[deleted]
Jul 5, 2014, 3:12 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington D.C. Games Meetup
RobinZ
Jul 5, 2014, 4:39 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : London social meetup—possibly in a park
philh
Jul 4, 2014, 11:22 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Claustrum Stimulation Temporarily Turns Off Consciousness in an otherwise Awake Patient
Shmi
Jul 4, 2014, 8:00 PM
51
points
43
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Jul 4, 2014, 5:18 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Weather and climate forecasting: how the challenges differ by time horizon
VipulNaik
Jul 4, 2014, 3:28 PM
9
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
Tools want to become agents
Stuart_Armstrong
Jul 4, 2014, 10:12 AM
24
points
81
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow meet up
Yuu
Jul 4, 2014, 8:08 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Just for fun: Computer game to illustrate AI takeover concepts?
kokotajlod
Jul 3, 2014, 7:30 PM
19
points
17
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Separating university education from grading
Stefan_Schubert
Jul 3, 2014, 5:23 PM
18
points
60
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Steelmanning Inefficiency
Stuart_Armstrong
Jul 3, 2014, 12:17 PM
26
points
27
comments
17
min read
LW
link
[moderator action] Eugine_Nier is now banned for mass downvote harassment
Kaj_Sotala
Jul 3, 2014, 12:04 PM
160
points
369
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Terminology Thread (or “name that pattern”)
sixes_and_sevens
Jul 3, 2014, 11:47 AM
16
points
51
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Moderators, please wake up and start protecting this community!
Viliam_Bur
Jul 3, 2014, 9:13 AM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How Common Are Science Failures?
Scott Alexander
Jul 3, 2014, 1:36 AM
24
points
9
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Futures studies: the field and the associated community
VipulNaik
Jul 2, 2014, 11:47 PM
6
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Scenario planning, its utility, and its relationship with forecasting
VipulNaik
Jul 2, 2014, 2:32 AM
10
points
0
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Downvote stalkers: Driving members away from the LessWrong community?
Ander
Jul 2, 2014, 12:40 AM
58
points
129
comments
2
min read
LW
link
July 2014 Media Thread
ArisKatsaris
Jul 1, 2014, 10:50 PM
8
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Group Rationality Diary, July 1-15
therufs
Jul 1, 2014, 3:46 PM
3
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Canberra: Paranoid Debating
DanielFilan
Jul 1, 2014, 9:52 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An answer to a possible objection to cash-transfer charities
B_For_Bandana
Jul 1, 2014, 12:49 AM
12
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A Parable of Elites and Takeoffs
gwern
Jun 30, 2014, 11:04 PM
39
points
98
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LW Sydney Rationality Dojo—Agency
luminosity
Jun 30, 2014, 11:28 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open thread, 30 June 2014- 6 July 2014
DanielDeRossi
Jun 30, 2014, 10:58 AM
7
points
247
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An Attempt at Logical Uncertainty
BenjaminFox
Jun 30, 2014, 6:59 AM
14
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Upper Canada LW Megameetup: Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Waterloo, London
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Jun 28, 2014, 10:48 PM
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Jun 27, 2014, 4:48 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Neuroeconomics course on coursera started just this week
IsTheLittleLion
Jun 26, 2014, 6:38 PM
12
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Hyperlink Superorganism
[deleted]
Jun 26, 2014, 5:00 PM
−12
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Rationality Practice—Be Specific
Benquo
Jun 26, 2014, 2:14 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
R support group and the benefits of applied statistics
sixes_and_sevens
Jun 26, 2014, 2:11 PM
27
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The silos of expertise: beyond heuristics and biases
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 26, 2014, 1:13 PM
48
points
16
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Setting an example too good
KatjaGrace
Jun 26, 2014, 12:21 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Happiness and Children
Carinthium
26 Jun 2014 7:36 UTC
3
points
30
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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