A few mis­con­cep­tions sur­round­ing Roko’s basilisk

Rob Bensinger5 Oct 2015 21:23 UTC
90 points
135 comments5 min readLW link

How could one (and should one) con­vert some­one from pseu­do­science?

Vilx-5 Oct 2015 11:53 UTC
14 points
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Open thread, Oct. 5 - Oct. 11, 2015

MrMind5 Oct 2015 6:50 UTC
11 points
348 comments1 min readLW link

The Bayes Score Meliorizer

Scott Garrabrant5 Oct 2015 5:50 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Log­i­cal pre­dic­tors can­not dom­i­nate their own com­plex­ity class

Scott Garrabrant5 Oct 2015 4:45 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

De­tach the grim-o-meter

So8res5 Oct 2015 3:00 UTC
29 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Log­i­cal coun­ter­fac­tu­als us­ing op­ti­mal pre­dic­tor schemes

Vanessa Kosoy4 Oct 2015 19:48 UTC
0 points
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[Link] Tet­lock on the power of pre­cise pre­dic­tions to counter poli­ti­cal polarization

Stefan_Schubert4 Oct 2015 15:19 UTC
10 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

De­liber­ate Grad School

Academian4 Oct 2015 10:11 UTC
37 points
155 comments3 min readLW link

Two Ques­tions about Solomonoff Induction

Scott Garrabrant4 Oct 2015 5:15 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Projects

rocurley4 Oct 2015 3:27 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meetup : Turku Meetup—Cri­tique to­wards Less Wrong and MIRI

[deleted]3 Oct 2015 18:11 UTC
2 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity Cardinality

jimrandomh3 Oct 2015 15:54 UTC
30 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

What’s log­i­cal co­her­ence for any­way?

PedroCarvalho3 Oct 2015 14:07 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rationalistramble.wordpress.com)

Monthly Brag­ging Thread Oc­to­ber 2015

elharo3 Oct 2015 13:27 UTC
4 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread Oc­to­ber 2015

elharo3 Oct 2015 13:23 UTC
6 points
272 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ment: Chang­ing minds vs. preach­ing to the choir

cleonid3 Oct 2015 11:27 UTC
19 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Digi­tal Im­mor­tal­ity Map: How to col­lect enough in­for­ma­tion about your­self for fu­ture re­s­ur­rec­tion by AI

turchin2 Oct 2015 22:21 UTC
10 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek2 Oct 2015 16:22 UTC
6 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Donna Capsella and the four ap­pli­cants, pt.1

[deleted]2 Oct 2015 14:15 UTC
2 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Con­ser­va­tive classifiers

jessicata2 Oct 2015 3:56 UTC
3 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Two Growth Curves

AnnaSalamon2 Oct 2015 0:59 UTC
62 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San An­to­nio Meetup—Discussion

Bryan-san1 Oct 2015 23:55 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Oc­to­ber 2015 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Oct 2015 22:17 UTC
7 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Pol­ling Thread—Tutorial

Gunnar_Zarncke1 Oct 2015 21:47 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Tel Aviv: Hard­ware Ver­ifi­ca­tion and FAI

Squark1 Oct 2015 21:00 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Link] Differ­en­tial Tech­nol­ogy Devel­op­ment—Some Early Thinking

[deleted]1 Oct 2015 2:08 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Two-Up­date Prob­lem, Part 3

abramdemski30 Sep 2015 21:52 UTC
1 point
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Towards re­flec­tion with rel­a­tive op­ti­mal pre­dic­tor schemes

Vanessa Kosoy30 Sep 2015 15:44 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readLW link

Im­proved er­ror space for uni­ver­sal op­ti­mal pre­dic­tor schemes

Vanessa Kosoy30 Sep 2015 15:08 UTC
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Five Wor­lds Col­lide 2015 - un­con­fer­ence in Vienna

AnnaLeptikon30 Sep 2015 13:34 UTC
32 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Five Wor­lds Col­lide 2015 - un­con­fer­ence in Vienna

AnnaLeptikon30 Sep 2015 13:20 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Five Wor­lds Col­lide—Vienna

AnnaLeptikon30 Sep 2015 12:37 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Five Wor­lds Col­lide—Vienna

AnnaLeptikon30 Sep 2015 12:37 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Vienna

AnnaLeptikon30 Sep 2015 12:20 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Vienna

AnnaLeptikon30 Sep 2015 12:18 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Trol­ley Prob­lem and Reversibility

casebash30 Sep 2015 4:06 UTC
14 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

The ap­pli­ca­tion of the sec­re­tary prob­lem to real life dating

Elo29 Sep 2015 22:28 UTC
7 points
48 comments6 min readLW link

Where Does the Uni­verse Come From?

Inyuki29 Sep 2015 22:10 UTC
−11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Scot­land Oc­to­ber Meetup

cjb23029 Sep 2015 18:19 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Availa­bil­ity Heuristic

RobinZ29 Sep 2015 15:43 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—October

luminosity29 Sep 2015 12:14 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ul­ti­ma­tums in the Territory

MalcolmOcean28 Sep 2015 22:01 UTC
24 points
23 comments7 min readLW link

Ex­am­ples of growth mind­set or prac­tice in fiction

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 28 Sep 2015 21:47 UTC
25 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Read­ing First Meetup!

Acty28 Sep 2015 16:40 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The In­finity Project

Inyuki28 Sep 2015 13:14 UTC
−4 points
50 comments12 min readLW link

Meetup : Suzhou Meet-up

Bound_up28 Sep 2015 11:35 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Sep. 28 - Oct. 4, 2015

MrMind28 Sep 2015 7:13 UTC
6 points
198 comments1 min readLW link

Dry Ice Cry­on­ics- Pre­limi­nary Thoughts

Fluttershy28 Sep 2015 7:00 UTC
12 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

Quan­tiliz­ers max­i­mize ex­pected util­ity sub­ject to a con­ser­va­tive cost constraint

jessicata28 Sep 2015 2:17 UTC
33 points
3 comments5 min readLW link