At­tempted Telekinesis

AnnaSalamon7 Feb 2015 18:53 UTC
160 points
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How to learn soft skills

AnnaSalamon7 Feb 2015 5:22 UTC
135 points
29 comments7 min readLW link

The Truth About Math­e­mat­i­cal Ability

JonahS12 Feb 2015 1:29 UTC
101 points
142 comments12 min readLW link

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

ThePrussian26 Feb 2015 10:36 UTC
83 points
108 comments5 min readLW link

Don’t es­ti­mate your cre­ative in­tel­li­gence by your crit­i­cal intelligence

PhilGoetz5 Feb 2015 2:41 UTC
75 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

In­nate Math­e­mat­i­cal Ability

JonahS18 Feb 2015 11:11 UTC
75 points
139 comments9 min readLW link

Easy wins aren’t news

PhilGoetz19 Feb 2015 19:38 UTC
60 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

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

Val15 Feb 2015 20:52 UTC
48 points
71 comments7 min readLW link

An alarm­ing fact about the anti-ag­ing community

diegocaleiro16 Feb 2015 17:49 UTC
44 points
65 comments2 min readLW link

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

[deleted]19 Feb 2015 10:07 UTC
40 points
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Hu­man Minds are Fragile

diegocaleiro11 Feb 2015 18:40 UTC
35 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Re­quest for pro­pos­als for Musk/​FLI grants

danieldewey5 Feb 2015 17:04 UTC
35 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing LessWrong Digest

Evan_Gaensbauer23 Feb 2015 10:41 UTC
35 points
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What sub­jects are im­por­tant to ra­tio­nal­ity, but not cov­ered in Less Wrong?

casebash27 Feb 2015 11:57 UTC
30 points
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4 Com­mon Pre­dic­tion Failures and How to Fix Them [LINK]

Peter_McIntyre10 Feb 2015 1:34 UTC
30 points
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[Link] Al­gorithm aversion

Stefan_Schubert27 Feb 2015 19:26 UTC
27 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

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

Adam Zerner4 Feb 2015 16:02 UTC
27 points
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Anatomy of Mul­tiver­sal Utility Func­tions: Teg­mark Level IV

Squark7 Feb 2015 16:28 UTC
26 points
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Re­quest: Se­quences book read­ing group

iarwain122 Feb 2015 1:06 UTC
26 points
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[LINK] The Wrong Ob­jec­tions to the Many-Wor­lds In­ter­pre­ta­tion of Quan­tum Mechanics

[deleted]19 Feb 2015 18:06 UTC
25 points
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Re­duc­tion­ist re­search strate­gies and their biases

PhilGoetz6 Feb 2015 4:11 UTC
24 points
27 comments7 min readLW link

In­trap­er­sonal com­par­i­sons: you might be do­ing it wrong.

fowlertm3 Feb 2015 21:34 UTC
24 points
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Money thresh­old Trig­ger Ac­tion Patterns

Neotenic20 Feb 2015 4:56 UTC
24 points
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Dis­cus­sion of con­crete near-to-mid­dle term trends in AI

Punoxysm8 Feb 2015 22:05 UTC
23 points
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Un­cat­e­gories and empty categories

PhilGoetz16 Feb 2015 1:18 UTC
22 points
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Wis­dom for Smart Teens—my talk at SPARC 2014

Liron9 Feb 2015 18:58 UTC
22 points
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Ques­tions from an imag­i­nary statis­ti­cal meth­ods exam

Richard_Kennaway4 Feb 2015 13:57 UTC
21 points
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Czech’s first Meetup in Prague report

kotrfa19 Feb 2015 8:52 UTC
21 points
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MIRI’s tech­ni­cal agenda: an an­no­tated bibliog­ra­phy, and other updates

So8res5 Feb 2015 18:11 UTC
21 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

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

Jonathan_Graehl25 Feb 2015 17:15 UTC
19 points
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“Hu­man-level con­trol through deep re­in­force­ment learn­ing”—com­puter learns 49 differ­ent games

skeptical_lurker26 Feb 2015 6:21 UTC
19 points
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Best of Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes, 2014 Edition

DanielVarga27 Feb 2015 22:43 UTC
19 points
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AI Im­pacts project

KatjaGrace2 Feb 2015 19:40 UTC
19 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Re­port—Allo­cat­ing risk miti­ga­tion across time

owencb20 Feb 2015 16:37 UTC
16 points
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The Value of a Life

So8res17 Feb 2015 8:00 UTC
15 points
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(mindingourway.com)

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 23: Co­her­ent ex­trap­o­lated volition

KatjaGrace17 Feb 2015 2:00 UTC
15 points
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In mem­ory of Leonard Ni­moy, most fa­mous for play­ing the (straw) ra­tio­nal­ist Spock, what are your top 3 ST:TOS epi­sodes with him?

Shmi27 Feb 2015 20:57 UTC
14 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity pro­moted by the Amer­i­can Hu­man­ist Association

Gleb_Tsipursky21 Feb 2015 19:28 UTC
14 points
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Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ter 104

b_sen16 Feb 2015 1:24 UTC
14 points
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Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 22: Emu­la­tion mod­u­la­tion and in­sti­tu­tional design

KatjaGrace10 Feb 2015 2:06 UTC
13 points
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Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 24: Mo­ral­ity mod­els and “do what I mean”

KatjaGrace24 Feb 2015 2:00 UTC
13 points
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How to save (a lot of) money on flying

RobertM3 Feb 2015 18:25 UTC
13 points
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Side­kick Matchmaking

diegocaleiro19 Feb 2015 0:13 UTC
13 points
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Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ters 105-107

b_sen17 Feb 2015 1:17 UTC
12 points
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Stupid Ques­tions Fe­bru­ary 2015

Gondolinian2 Feb 2015 0:36 UTC
12 points
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Can we de­crease the risk of worse-than-death out­comes fol­low­ing brain preser­va­tion?

Synaptic21 Feb 2015 22:58 UTC
12 points
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The moral­ity of dis­clos­ing salary requirements

PhilGoetz8 Feb 2015 21:12 UTC
12 points
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De­con­struct­ing the rid­dle of ex­pe­rience vs. memory

michael_b17 Feb 2015 15:36 UTC
12 points
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The Sum­mer Sols­tice Paradox

Raemon8 Feb 2015 8:00 UTC
12 points
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Sav­ing for the long term

Adam Zerner24 Feb 2015 3:33 UTC
12 points
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