Effec­tive Giv­ing vs. Effec­tive Altruism

Gleb_Tsipursky14 Dec 2015 23:49 UTC
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[Link] Video of a pre­sen­ta­tion by Hal Arkes, one of the top world ex­perts in de­bi­as­ing, on deal­ing with the hind­sight bias and overconfidence

Gleb_Tsipursky14 Dec 2015 18:16 UTC
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Open thread, Dec. 14 - Dec. 20, 2015

MrMind14 Dec 2015 8:09 UTC
8 points
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State of the Sols­tice (NYC Event up­com­ing)

Raemon14 Dec 2015 6:33 UTC
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State of the Sols­tice (NY Event Up­com­ing)

Raemon14 Dec 2015 6:30 UTC
15 points
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Com­mu­ni­cat­ing con­cepts in value learning

Manfred14 Dec 2015 3:06 UTC
7 points
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Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Board Games

rocurley14 Dec 2015 1:18 UTC
2 points
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Es­ti­mate the Cost of Immortality

Algernoq13 Dec 2015 11:38 UTC
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This year’s biggest sci­en­tific achievements

Elo13 Dec 2015 5:26 UTC
16 points
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Re­sults of a One-Year Lon­gi­tu­di­nal Study of CFAR Alumni

Unnamed12 Dec 2015 4:39 UTC
53 points
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Con­cise Open Prob­lem in Log­i­cal Uncertainty

Scott Garrabrant12 Dec 2015 3:03 UTC
3 points
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[Link] In­tro­duc­ing OpenAI

Baughn11 Dec 2015 21:54 UTC
34 points
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Ben­ford Test with Gaps

Scott Garrabrant11 Dec 2015 21:40 UTC
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Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek11 Dec 2015 16:58 UTC
2 points
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Com­putable Univer­sal Prior

Ronny Fernandez11 Dec 2015 9:54 UTC
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5 comments1 min readLW link

List of tech­niques to help you re­mem­ber names

Elo11 Dec 2015 0:41 UTC
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Meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup

Tuk10 Dec 2015 22:48 UTC
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Meetup : Moscow so­cial meetup: Chaos is back!

Alexander23010 Dec 2015 18:31 UTC
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Meetup : Fal­la­cyMa­nia game in Kocherga club

Alexander23010 Dec 2015 17:47 UTC
2 points
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Ex­is­tence of dis­tri­bu­tions that are ex­pec­ta­tion-re­flec­tive and know it

TsviBT10 Dec 2015 7:35 UTC
6 points
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[Link] 10 Tips from CFAR: My Busi­ness In­sider article

James_Miller10 Dec 2015 2:09 UTC
29 points
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MIRI’s 2015 Win­ter Fundraiser!

So8res9 Dec 2015 19:00 UTC
43 points
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Why startup founders have mood swings (and why they may have uses)

AnnaSalamon9 Dec 2015 18:59 UTC
99 points
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LessWrong 2.0

Vaniver9 Dec 2015 18:59 UTC
127 points
313 comments8 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Shar­ing Book Excerpts

RobinZ9 Dec 2015 15:08 UTC
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Meetup : San An­to­nio Meetup: Goal Fac­tor­ing Discussion

Bryan-san9 Dec 2015 15:08 UTC
1 point
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Meetup : Meetup Ra­cional­i­dade São Paulo

leohmarruda8 Dec 2015 14:57 UTC
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LINK: Most of EvoPsych is pseudoscience

polymathwannabe8 Dec 2015 0:53 UTC
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Reflec­tive Prob­a­bil­ity Distri­bu­tions and Stan­dard Models of Arithmetic

IAFF-User-47 Dec 2015 22:04 UTC
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Ra­tion­al­ist Magic: Ini­ti­a­tion into the Cult of Rationatron

wizard7 Dec 2015 21:39 UTC
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NIPS 2015

Dr_Manhattan7 Dec 2015 20:31 UTC
12 points
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Max­i­miz­ing Dona­tions to Effec­tive Char­i­ties

Gleb_Tsipursky7 Dec 2015 18:13 UTC
9 points
29 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area Meetup

iarwain17 Dec 2015 16:39 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, De­cem­ber 7-13, 2015

polymathwannabe7 Dec 2015 14:47 UTC
8 points
224 comments1 min readLW link

Eng­ineer­ing Religion

KevinGrant_duplicate0.24097646283917137 Dec 2015 13:34 UTC
−2 points
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Mark Zucker­berg plans to give away 99% of his face­book wealth over his lifetime

ChristianKl7 Dec 2015 0:28 UTC
8 points
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New year’s re­s­olu­tions: Things worth con­sid­er­ing for next year

Elo7 Dec 2015 0:09 UTC
9 points
41 comments6 min readLW link

time­less quan­tum immortality

Algernoq6 Dec 2015 4:14 UTC
3 points
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Ob­vi­ous advice

So8res6 Dec 2015 2:00 UTC
21 points
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(mindingourway.com)

My re­search pri­ori­ties for AI con­trol

paulfchristiano6 Dec 2015 1:57 UTC
29 points
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The map of dou­ble sce­nar­ios of a global catastrophe

turchin5 Dec 2015 13:36 UTC
9 points
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EA as offsetting

KatjaGrace5 Dec 2015 3:06 UTC
1 point
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Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek4 Dec 2015 16:37 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Ra­tion­al­ity Diary

rocurley4 Dec 2015 7:20 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Strict Dom­i­nance for the Mod­ified Dem­ski Prior

abramdemski4 Dec 2015 5:57 UTC
13 points
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Meetup : Syd­ney solstice

Elo4 Dec 2015 3:19 UTC
5 points
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[Link] Huffing­ton Post ar­ti­cle pro­mot­ing Effec­tive Altru­ist ideas

Gleb_Tsipursky4 Dec 2015 2:02 UTC
7 points
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So­cial games

KatjaGrace4 Dec 2015 2:00 UTC
1 point
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Start­ing Univer­sity Ad­vice Repository

Bryan-san3 Dec 2015 23:51 UTC
17 points
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Desider­ata for Normalizers

IAFF-User-43 Dec 2015 20:45 UTC
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