Be­ware sur­pris­ing and sus­pi­cious convergence

Thrasymachus24 Jan 2016 19:13 UTC
23 points
6 comments15 min readLW link

“Why Try Hard” Es­say tar­geted at non rationalists

lifelonglearner24 Jan 2016 16:40 UTC
5 points
20 comments6 min readLW link

Desperation

So8res24 Jan 2016 2:00 UTC
15 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

[Link] Video Pre­sen­ta­tion: Ra­tion­al­ity 101 for Sec­u­lar People

Gleb_Tsipursky24 Jan 2016 0:45 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LessWrong Aus On­line Hangout

Calien23 Jan 2016 12:55 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Group Debugging

rocurley23 Jan 2016 6:17 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Map:Ter­ri­tory::Uncer­tainty::Ran­dom­ness – but that doesn’t mat­ter, value of in­for­ma­tion does.

Davidmanheim22 Jan 2016 19:12 UTC
8 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek22 Jan 2016 17:14 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

In­vest­ment Strategy

[deleted]22 Jan 2016 2:26 UTC
−8 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don di­as­pora meetup: weird foods − 24/​01/​2016

philh21 Jan 2016 16:45 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Palo Alto Meetup: Light­ning Talks

Anders_H20 Jan 2016 20:04 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Goal com­ple­tion: the rocket equations

Stuart_Armstrong20 Jan 2016 14:10 UTC
0 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Goal com­ple­tion: the rocket equations

Stuart_Armstrong20 Jan 2016 13:54 UTC
9 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Could a digi­tal in­tel­li­gence be bad at math?

leplen20 Jan 2016 2:38 UTC
7 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Cel­e­brat­ing All Who Are in Effec­tive Altruism

Gleb_Tsipursky20 Jan 2016 1:31 UTC
25 points
39 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: [Post­poned for snow]

RobinZ20 Jan 2016 1:02 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sym­bolic Ges­tures – Salutes For Effec­tive Altru­ists To Iden­tify Each Other

Darklight20 Jan 2016 0:40 UTC
−8 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

Spread­ing ra­tio­nal­ity through en­gage­ment with sec­u­lar groups

Gleb_Tsipursky19 Jan 2016 23:19 UTC
23 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Anx­iety and Rationality

[deleted]19 Jan 2016 18:30 UTC
51 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­tend­ing the stated objectives

Stuart_Armstrong19 Jan 2016 15:46 UTC
0 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

How did my baby die and what is the prob­a­bil­ity that my next one will?

deprimita_patro19 Jan 2016 6:24 UTC
37 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : MelbLW So­cial Meetup: Jan 2016

Maelin18 Jan 2016 14:48 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Jan. 18 - Jan. 24, 2016

MrMind18 Jan 2016 9:42 UTC
8 points
199 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Cologne meetup

EGI17 Jan 2016 22:04 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

“Why Op­ti­mize?” Es­say tar­geted at non­ra­tional­ist friends of mine

lifelonglearner17 Jan 2016 19:15 UTC
2 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

Think­ing About a Tech­ni­cal Solu­tion to Co­or­di­na­tion Problems

ChaosMote17 Jan 2016 7:16 UTC
12 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Cam­bridge Less Wrong: Tu­tor­ing Wheels

jimrandomh17 Jan 2016 5:23 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Con­fi­dence all the way up

So8res17 Jan 2016 2:00 UTC
21 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

To con­tribute to AI safety, con­sider do­ing AI research

Vika16 Jan 2016 20:42 UTC
39 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: Fal­la­cyMa­nia, Tower of Chaos, Train­ing game

Alexander23016 Jan 2016 10:11 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup

Tuk16 Jan 2016 3:49 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The cor­rect re­sponse to un­cer­tainty is *not* half-speed

AnnaSalamon15 Jan 2016 22:55 UTC
265 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Tel Aviv: Nick Lane’s Vi­tal Question

Squark15 Jan 2016 18:54 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek15 Jan 2016 16:59 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] Com­mon fal­la­cies in prob­a­bil­ity (when num­bers aren’t used)

Stuart_Armstrong15 Jan 2016 8:29 UTC
10 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[link] “The Hap­piness Code”—New York Times on CFAR

Kaj_Sotala15 Jan 2016 6:34 UTC
24 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Short Talks

rocurley14 Jan 2016 17:21 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Find­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism with Bi­ased In­puts on Op­tions—LA Ra­tion­al­ity Weekly Meetup

Davidmanheim14 Jan 2016 5:31 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part R: Phys­i­cal­ism 201

Gram_Stone13 Jan 2016 23:41 UTC
5 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Wel­come to LessWrong (Jan­uary 2016)

[deleted]13 Jan 2016 21:34 UTC
11 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Eco­nomics Discussion

RobinZ13 Jan 2016 17:41 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­tend­ing the stated objectives

Stuart_Armstrong13 Jan 2016 16:20 UTC
13 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

[Stub] On­tolog­i­cal crisis = out of en­vi­ron­ment be­havi­our?

Stuart_Armstrong13 Jan 2016 15:11 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Stub] On­tolog­i­cal crisis = out of en­vi­ron­ment be­havi­our?

Stuart_Armstrong13 Jan 2016 15:10 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area: Episte­mol­ogy of Disagreement

iarwain112 Jan 2016 13:33 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Tack­ling the sub­agent prob­lem: pre­limi­nary analysis

Stuart_Armstrong12 Jan 2016 12:27 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Tack­ling the sub­agent prob­lem: pre­limi­nary analysis

Stuart_Armstrong12 Jan 2016 12:26 UTC
9 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Open Thread, Jan­uary 11-17, 2016

username212 Jan 2016 10:29 UTC
6 points
173 comments1 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal be­havi­our: In­box zero—A guide

Elo12 Jan 2016 7:28 UTC
6 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Gam­ified psychiatry

[deleted]12 Jan 2016 0:16 UTC
0 points
12 comments1 min readLW link