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Attempted Telekinesis
AnnaSalamon
Feb 7, 2015, 6:53 PM
162
points
29
comments
10
min read
LW
link
How to learn soft skills
AnnaSalamon
Feb 7, 2015, 5:22 AM
139
points
29
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Truth About Mathematical Ability
JonahS
Feb 12, 2015, 1:29 AM
102
points
142
comments
12
min read
LW
link
If you can see the box, you can open the box
ThePrussian
Feb 26, 2015, 10:36 AM
83
points
108
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Innate Mathematical Ability
JonahS
Feb 18, 2015, 11:11 AM
76
points
140
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Don’t estimate your creative intelligence by your critical intelligence
PhilGoetz
Feb 5, 2015, 2:41 AM
75
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Easy wins aren’t news
PhilGoetz
Feb 19, 2015, 7:38 PM
60
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Galileo affair: who was on the side of rationality?
Val
Feb 15, 2015, 8:52 PM
48
points
71
comments
7
min read
LW
link
An alarming fact about the anti-aging community
diegocaleiro
Feb 16, 2015, 5:49 PM
44
points
65
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Vote for MIRI to be donated a share of reddit’s advertising revenue
[deleted]
Feb 19, 2015, 10:07 AM
40
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Human Minds are Fragile
diegocaleiro
Feb 11, 2015, 6:40 PM
35
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Announcing LessWrong Digest
Evan_Gaensbauer
Feb 23, 2015, 10:41 AM
35
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Request for proposals for Musk/FLI grants
danieldewey
Feb 5, 2015, 5:04 PM
35
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What subjects are important to rationality, but not covered in Less Wrong?
casebash
Feb 27, 2015, 11:57 AM
30
points
66
comments
1
min read
LW
link
4 Common Prediction Failures and How to Fix Them [LINK]
Peter_McIntyre
Feb 10, 2015, 1:34 AM
30
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Algorithm aversion
Stefan_Schubert
Feb 27, 2015, 7:26 PM
27
points
31
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Wait But Why—The AI Revolution Part 2
Adam Zerner
Feb 4, 2015, 4:02 PM
27
points
88
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Anatomy of Multiversal Utility Functions: Tegmark Level IV
Squark
Feb 7, 2015, 4:28 PM
26
points
24
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Request: Sequences book reading group
iarwain1
Feb 22, 2015, 1:06 AM
26
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] The Wrong Objections to the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
[deleted]
Feb 19, 2015, 6:06 PM
25
points
102
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reductionist research strategies and their biases
PhilGoetz
Feb 6, 2015, 4:11 AM
24
points
27
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Intrapersonal comparisons: you might be doing it wrong.
fowlertm
Feb 3, 2015, 9:34 PM
24
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Money threshold Trigger Action Patterns
Neotenic
Feb 20, 2015, 4:56 AM
24
points
44
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Discussion of concrete near-to-middle term trends in AI
Punoxysm
Feb 8, 2015, 10:05 PM
23
points
50
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Uncategories and empty categories
PhilGoetz
Feb 16, 2015, 1:18 AM
22
points
68
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Wisdom for Smart Teens—my talk at SPARC 2014
Liron
Feb 9, 2015, 6:58 PM
22
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Questions from an imaginary statistical methods exam
Richard_Kennaway
Feb 4, 2015, 1:57 PM
21
points
25
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Czech’s first Meetup in Prague report
kotrfa
Feb 19, 2015, 8:52 AM
21
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
MIRI’s technical agenda: an annotated bibliography, and other updates
So8res
Feb 5, 2015, 6:11 PM
21
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Value of a Life
So8res
Feb 17, 2015, 8:00 AM
19
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
(mindingourway.com)
Journal ‘Basic and Applied Psychology’ bans p<0.05 and 95% confidence intervals
Jonathan_Graehl
Feb 25, 2015, 5:15 PM
19
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning”—computer learns 49 different games
skeptical_lurker
Feb 26, 2015, 6:21 AM
19
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Best of Rationality Quotes, 2014 Edition
DanielVarga
Feb 27, 2015, 10:43 PM
19
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AI Impacts project
KatjaGrace
Feb 2, 2015, 7:40 PM
19
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Report—Allocating risk mitigation across time
owencb
Feb 20, 2015, 4:37 PM
16
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Superintelligence 23: Coherent extrapolated volition
KatjaGrace
Feb 17, 2015, 2:00 AM
15
points
98
comments
7
min read
LW
link
In memory of Leonard Nimoy, most famous for playing the (straw) rationalist Spock, what are your top 3 ST:TOS episodes with him?
Shmi
Feb 27, 2015, 8:57 PM
14
points
40
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality promoted by the American Humanist Association
Gleb_Tsipursky
Feb 21, 2015, 7:28 PM
14
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 104
b_sen
Feb 16, 2015, 1:24 AM
14
points
195
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Superintelligence 22: Emulation modulation and institutional design
KatjaGrace
Feb 10, 2015, 2:06 AM
13
points
11
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Superintelligence 24: Morality models and “do what I mean”
KatjaGrace
Feb 24, 2015, 2:00 AM
13
points
47
comments
6
min read
LW
link
How to save (a lot of) money on flying
RobertM
Feb 3, 2015, 6:25 PM
13
points
66
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Sidekick Matchmaking
diegocaleiro
Feb 19, 2015, 12:13 AM
13
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapters 105-107
b_sen
Feb 17, 2015, 1:17 AM
12
points
354
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Stupid Questions February 2015
Gondolinian
Feb 2, 2015, 12:36 AM
12
points
198
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Can we decrease the risk of worse-than-death outcomes following brain preservation?
Synaptic
Feb 21, 2015, 10:58 PM
12
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The morality of disclosing salary requirements
PhilGoetz
Feb 8, 2015, 9:12 PM
12
points
39
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Deconstructing the riddle of experience vs. memory
michael_b
Feb 17, 2015, 3:36 PM
12
points
23
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Summer Solstice Paradox
Raemon
Feb 8, 2015, 8:00 AM
12
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Saving for the long term
Adam Zerner
Feb 24, 2015, 3:33 AM
12
points
38
comments
4
min read
LW
link
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