At­tempted Telekinesis

AnnaSalamonFeb 7, 2015, 6:53 PM
162 points
29 comments10 min readLW link

How to learn soft skills

AnnaSalamonFeb 7, 2015, 5:22 AM
139 points
29 comments7 min readLW link

The Truth About Math­e­mat­i­cal Ability

JonahSFeb 12, 2015, 1:29 AM
102 points
142 comments12 min readLW link

If you can see the box, you can open the box

ThePrussianFeb 26, 2015, 10:36 AM
83 points
108 comments5 min readLW link

In­nate Math­e­mat­i­cal Ability

JonahSFeb 18, 2015, 11:11 AM
76 points
140 comments9 min readLW link

Don’t es­ti­mate your cre­ative in­tel­li­gence by your crit­i­cal intelligence

PhilGoetzFeb 5, 2015, 2:41 AM
75 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Easy wins aren’t news

PhilGoetzFeb 19, 2015, 7:38 PM
60 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

The Gal­ileo af­fair: who was on the side of ra­tio­nal­ity?

ValFeb 15, 2015, 8:52 PM
48 points
71 comments7 min readLW link

An alarm­ing fact about the anti-ag­ing community

diegocaleiroFeb 16, 2015, 5:49 PM
44 points
65 comments2 min readLW link

Vote for MIRI to be donated a share of red­dit’s ad­ver­tis­ing revenue

[deleted]Feb 19, 2015, 10:07 AM
40 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Hu­man Minds are Fragile

diegocaleiroFeb 11, 2015, 6:40 PM
35 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing LessWrong Digest

Evan_GaensbauerFeb 23, 2015, 10:41 AM
35 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Re­quest for pro­pos­als for Musk/​FLI grants

danieldeweyFeb 5, 2015, 5:04 PM
35 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

What sub­jects are im­por­tant to ra­tio­nal­ity, but not cov­ered in Less Wrong?

casebashFeb 27, 2015, 11:57 AM
30 points
66 comments1 min readLW link

4 Com­mon Pre­dic­tion Failures and How to Fix Them [LINK]

Peter_McIntyreFeb 10, 2015, 1:34 AM
30 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Al­gorithm aversion

Stefan_SchubertFeb 27, 2015, 7:26 PM
27 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

[LINK] Wait But Why—The AI Revolu­tion Part 2

Adam ZernerFeb 4, 2015, 4:02 PM
27 points
88 comments1 min readLW link

Anatomy of Mul­tiver­sal Utility Func­tions: Teg­mark Level IV

SquarkFeb 7, 2015, 4:28 PM
26 points
24 comments5 min readLW link

Re­quest: Se­quences book read­ing group

iarwain1Feb 22, 2015, 1:06 AM
26 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] The Wrong Ob­jec­tions to the Many-Wor­lds In­ter­pre­ta­tion of Quan­tum Mechanics

[deleted]Feb 19, 2015, 6:06 PM
25 points
102 comments1 min readLW link

Re­duc­tion­ist re­search strate­gies and their biases

PhilGoetzFeb 6, 2015, 4:11 AM
24 points
27 comments7 min readLW link

In­trap­er­sonal com­par­i­sons: you might be do­ing it wrong.

fowlertmFeb 3, 2015, 9:34 PM
24 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Money thresh­old Trig­ger Ac­tion Patterns

NeotenicFeb 20, 2015, 4:56 AM
24 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion of con­crete near-to-mid­dle term trends in AI

PunoxysmFeb 8, 2015, 10:05 PM
23 points
50 comments2 min readLW link

Un­cat­e­gories and empty categories

PhilGoetzFeb 16, 2015, 1:18 AM
22 points
68 comments8 min readLW link

Wis­dom for Smart Teens—my talk at SPARC 2014

LironFeb 9, 2015, 6:58 PM
22 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Ques­tions from an imag­i­nary statis­ti­cal meth­ods exam

Richard_KennawayFeb 4, 2015, 1:57 PM
21 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Czech’s first Meetup in Prague report

kotrfaFeb 19, 2015, 8:52 AM
21 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

MIRI’s tech­ni­cal agenda: an an­no­tated bibliog­ra­phy, and other updates

So8resFeb 5, 2015, 6:11 PM
21 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Value of a Life

So8resFeb 17, 2015, 8:00 AM
19 points
1 comment10 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Jour­nal ‘Ba­sic and Ap­plied Psy­chol­ogy’ bans p<0.05 and 95% con­fi­dence intervals

Jonathan_GraehlFeb 25, 2015, 5:15 PM
19 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

“Hu­man-level con­trol through deep re­in­force­ment learn­ing”—com­puter learns 49 differ­ent games

skeptical_lurkerFeb 26, 2015, 6:21 AM
19 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Best of Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes, 2014 Edition

DanielVargaFeb 27, 2015, 10:43 PM
19 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

AI Im­pacts project

KatjaGraceFeb 2, 2015, 7:40 PM
19 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Re­port—Allo­cat­ing risk miti­ga­tion across time

owencbFeb 20, 2015, 4:37 PM
16 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 23: Co­her­ent ex­trap­o­lated volition

KatjaGraceFeb 17, 2015, 2:00 AM
15 points
98 comments7 min readLW link

In mem­ory of Leonard Ni­moy, most fa­mous for play­ing the (straw) ra­tio­nal­ist Spock, what are your top 3 ST:TOS epi­sodes with him?

ShmiFeb 27, 2015, 8:57 PM
14 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity pro­moted by the Amer­i­can Hu­man­ist Association

Gleb_TsipurskyFeb 21, 2015, 7:28 PM
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ter 104

b_senFeb 16, 2015, 1:24 AM
14 points
195 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 22: Emu­la­tion mod­u­la­tion and in­sti­tu­tional design

KatjaGraceFeb 10, 2015, 2:06 AM
13 points
11 comments6 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 24: Mo­ral­ity mod­els and “do what I mean”

KatjaGraceFeb 24, 2015, 2:00 AM
13 points
47 comments6 min readLW link

How to save (a lot of) money on flying

RobertMFeb 3, 2015, 6:25 PM
13 points
66 comments1 min readLW link

Side­kick Matchmaking

diegocaleiroFeb 19, 2015, 12:13 AM
13 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ters 105-107

b_senFeb 17, 2015, 1:17 AM
12 points
354 comments1 min readLW link

Stupid Ques­tions Fe­bru­ary 2015

GondolinianFeb 2, 2015, 12:36 AM
12 points
198 comments1 min readLW link

Can we de­crease the risk of worse-than-death out­comes fol­low­ing brain preser­va­tion?

SynapticFeb 21, 2015, 10:58 PM
12 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

The moral­ity of dis­clos­ing salary requirements

PhilGoetzFeb 8, 2015, 9:12 PM
12 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

De­con­struct­ing the rid­dle of ex­pe­rience vs. memory

michael_bFeb 17, 2015, 3:36 PM
12 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

The Sum­mer Sols­tice Paradox

RaemonFeb 8, 2015, 8:00 AM
12 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Sav­ing for the long term

Adam ZernerFeb 24, 2015, 3:33 AM
12 points
38 comments4 min readLW link