July 2014 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsarisJul 1, 2014, 10:50 PM
8 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, July 1-15

therufsJul 1, 2014, 3:46 PM
3 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Can­berra: Para­noid Debating

DanielFilanJul 1, 2014, 9:52 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

An an­swer to a pos­si­ble ob­jec­tion to cash-trans­fer charities

B_For_BandanaJul 1, 2014, 12:49 AM
12 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

A Parable of Elites and Takeoffs

gwernJun 30, 2014, 11:04 PM
39 points
98 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Agency

luminosityJun 30, 2014, 11:28 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, 30 June 2014- 6 July 2014

DanielDeRossiJun 30, 2014, 10:58 AM
7 points
247 comments1 min readLW link

An At­tempt at Log­i­cal Uncertainty

BenjaminFoxJun 30, 2014, 6:59 AM
14 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Up­per Canada LW Megameetup: Ot­tawa, Toronto, Mon­treal, Water­loo, London

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Jun 28, 2014, 10:48 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekJun 27, 2014, 4:48 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] Neu­roe­co­nomics course on coursera started just this week

IsTheLittleLionJun 26, 2014, 6:38 PM
12 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Hyper­link Superorganism

[deleted]Jun 26, 2014, 5:00 PM
−12 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Prac­tice—Be Specific

BenquoJun 26, 2014, 2:14 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

R sup­port group and the benefits of ap­plied statistics

sixes_and_sevensJun 26, 2014, 2:11 PM
27 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The silos of ex­per­tise: be­yond heuris­tics and biases

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 26, 2014, 1:13 PM
48 points
16 comments9 min readLW link

Set­ting an ex­am­ple too good

KatjaGraceJun 26, 2014, 12:21 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Hap­piness and Children

CarinthiumJun 26, 2014, 7:36 AM
3 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Gen­eral-pur­pose fore­cast­ing and the as­so­ci­ated community

VipulNaikJun 26, 2014, 2:49 AM
6 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Separat­ing the roles of the­ory and di­rect em­piri­cal ev­i­dence in be­lief for­ma­tion: the ex­am­ples of min­i­mum wage and an­thro­pogenic global warming

VipulNaikJun 25, 2014, 9:47 PM
38 points
66 comments4 min readLW link

Doubt re­gard­ing ba­sic assumptions

KatjaGraceJun 25, 2014, 7:05 PM
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

A new deriva­tion of the Born rule

MrMindJun 25, 2014, 3:07 PM
29 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

The rep­re­sen­ta­tional fallacy

DanielDeRossiJun 25, 2014, 11:29 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The rep­re­sen­ta­tional fallacy

DanielDeRossiJun 25, 2014, 11:28 AM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­tifi­cial Utility Mon­sters as Effec­tive Altruism

[deleted]Jun 25, 2014, 9:52 AM
22 points
13 comments7 min readLW link

[LINK] seL4, se­cure op­er­at­ing sys­tem ker­nel is be­ing open-sourced

Mark_FriedenbachJun 24, 2014, 11:02 PM
6 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

An overview of fore­cast­ing for poli­tics, con­flict, and poli­ti­cal violence

VipulNaikJun 24, 2014, 10:10 PM
10 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

How do you no­tice when you are ig­no­rant of nec­es­sary al­ter­na­tive hy­pothe­ses?

[deleted]Jun 24, 2014, 6:12 PM
27 points
69 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Tel Aviv: Choos­ing re­search topics

JoshuaFoxJun 24, 2014, 8:33 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Tel Aviv Meetup: Choos­ing re­search topics

JoshuaFoxJun 24, 2014, 8:33 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Tel Aviv Meetup: Choos­ing re­search topics

JoshuaFoxJun 24, 2014, 8:31 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Vec­tor psychology

[deleted]Jun 23, 2014, 8:43 PM
−18 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Utili­tar­i­anism and Rel­a­tivity Realism

TruePathJun 23, 2014, 7:12 PM
−5 points
31 comments5 min readLW link

[LINK] Why Talk to Philoso­phers: Physi­cist Sean Car­roll Dis­cusses “Com­mon Mi­sun­der­stand­ings” about Philosophy

ShmiJun 23, 2014, 7:09 PM
18 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Les­sons from weather fore­cast­ing and its his­tory for fore­cast­ing as a domain

VipulNaikJun 23, 2014, 5:08 PM
23 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

Open thread, 23-29 June 2014

David_GerardJun 23, 2014, 7:21 AM
6 points
194 comments1 min readLW link

How do you take notes?

ChristianKlJun 22, 2014, 10:45 AM
19 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Will AGI sur­prise the world?

lukeprogJun 21, 2014, 10:27 PM
21 points
129 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ti­va­tors: Altru­is­tic Ac­tions for Non-Altru­is­tic Reasons

RubyJun 21, 2014, 4:32 PM
26 points
20 comments9 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekJun 21, 2014, 4:14 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton D.C.: See­ing Off

RobinZJun 21, 2014, 8:23 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of Force Mul­ti­pli­ers for Success

Nick5a1Jun 21, 2014, 5:15 AM
21 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bratis­lava Meetup XIV.

Viliam_BurJun 20, 2014, 6:41 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Con­ser­va­tion of ex­pected moral ev­i­dence, clarified

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 20, 2014, 10:28 AM
23 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow meet up

YuuJun 20, 2014, 5:05 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Vienna

Viliam_BurJun 19, 2014, 8:28 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Scott Aaron­son on Google, Break­ing Cir­cu­lar­ity and Eigenmorality

ShmiJun 19, 2014, 8:17 PM
31 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

An AI Takeover Thought Experiment

GavinJun 19, 2014, 4:59 PM
16 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

Proper value learn­ing through indifference

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 19, 2014, 9:39 AM
30 points
51 comments7 min readLW link

Against util­ity functions

Qiaochu_YuanJun 19, 2014, 5:56 AM
67 points
87 comments1 min readLW link

Paper­clip Max­i­mizer Re­vis­ited

Jan_RzymkowskiJun 19, 2014, 1:25 AM
23 points
13 comments1 min readLW link