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On the importance of Less Wrong, or another single conversational locus

AnnaSalamonNov 27, 2016, 5:13 PM

178 points

365 comments4 min readLW link

Epistemic Effort

RaemonNov 29, 2016, 4:08 PM

72 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

The Pyramid And The Garden

Scott AlexanderNov 5, 2016, 6:03 AM

58 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

A Return to Discussion

sarahconstantinNov 27, 2016, 1:59 PM

58 points

32 comments6 min readLW link

If we can’t lie to others, we will lie to ourselves

paulfchristianoNov 26, 2016, 10:29 PM

45 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Sample means, how do they work?

BenquoNov 20, 2016, 9:04 PM

34 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

On Trying Not To Be Wrong

sarahconstantinNov 11, 2016, 7:25 PM

31 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Less costly signaling

paulfchristianoNov 22, 2016, 9:11 PM

30 points

38 comments1 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Updatelessness and Son of X

Scott GarrabrantNov 4, 2016, 10:58 PM

29 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Yudkowsky vs Trump: the nuclear showdown.

MrMindNov 11, 2016, 11:30 AM

27 points

162 comments2 min readLW link

Crony Beliefs

plexNov 3, 2016, 8:54 PM

22 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

(www.meltingasphalt.com)

Using a Spreadsheet to Make Good Decisions: Five Examples

Peter WildefordNov 28, 2016, 5:10 PM

22 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Matching donation fundraisers can be harmfully dishonest.

BenquoNov 11, 2016, 9:05 PM

18 points

6 comments14 min readLW link

Recent AI control posts

paulfchristianoNov 29, 2016, 6:53 PM

18 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality Heuristic for Bias Detection: Updating Towards the Net Weight of Evidence

gwernNov 17, 2016, 2:51 AM

17 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Expert Prediction Of Experiments

Scott AlexanderNov 29, 2016, 2:47 AM

15 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Mental Habits are Procedural

lifelonglearnerNov 7, 2016, 2:53 PM

14 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Industry Matters 2: Partial Retraction

sarahconstantinNov 23, 2016, 5:08 PM

14 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Terminally ill teen won historic ruling to preserve body

NancyLebovitzNov 18, 2016, 2:16 PM

14 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.bbc.com)

Seeking better name for “Effective Egoism”

DataPacRatNov 25, 2016, 10:31 PM

14 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

Rebuttal piece by Stuart Russell and FHI Research Associate Allan Dafoe: “Yes, the experts are worried about the existential risk of artificial intelligence.”

crmflynnNov 3, 2016, 5:54 PM

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.technologyreview.com)

Nassim Taleb on Election Forecasting

NatashaRostovaNov 26, 2016, 7:06 PM

13 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Stand-up comedy as a way to improve rationality skills

Andy_McKenzieNov 27, 2016, 9:52 PM

13 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

How can people write good LW articles?

abramdemskiNov 29, 2016, 10:40 AM

13 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

The Post-Virtual-Reality Sadness

morganismNov 16, 2016, 8:17 AM

13 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

The Developmental Role of Play

Gordon Seidoh WorleyNov 11, 2016, 7:41 PM

12 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(mapandterritory.org)

Polarization is the problem, “normalization” is the answer

Jacob FalkovichNov 23, 2016, 5:40 PM

10 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Wireheading Done Right: Stay Positive Without Going Insane

9eB1Nov 22, 2016, 3:16 AM

10 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(qualiacomputing.com)

Maine passes Ranked Choice Voting

morganismNov 14, 2016, 8:07 PM

10 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(ballotpedia.org)

Vestibular Stimulation and Fat Loss

sarahconstantinNov 20, 2016, 12:23 AM

10 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Finding slices of joy

Kaj_SotalaNov 28, 2016, 10:10 AM

10 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

FHI is accepting applications for internships in the area of AI Safety and Reinforcement Learning

crmflynnNov 7, 2016, 4:33 PM

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)

Open thread, Nov. 7 - Nov. 13, 2016

MrMindNov 7, 2016, 8:01 AM

9 points

120 comments1 min readLW link

Kidney Trade: A Dialectic

Gram_StoneNov 18, 2016, 5:19 PM

9 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Revealed and Stated Identity

Gordon Seidoh WorleyNov 25, 2016, 8:17 PM

9 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(mapandterritory.org)

Embed, encode, attend, predict: The new deep learning formula for state-of-the-art NLP models

morganismNov 12, 2016, 9:33 PM

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(explosion.ai)

Industry Matters

sarahconstantinNov 19, 2016, 7:29 AM

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Authenticity vs. factual accuracy

philhNov 10, 2016, 10:24 PM

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

How did experiments with lucid dreaming pan out?

listicNov 12, 2016, 8:40 PM

8 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Did social desirability effects mask Trump’s true support?

katydeeNov 10, 2016, 9:56 AM

8 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(themiddleofthatzone.wordpress.com)

Costs are not benefits

philhNov 3, 2016, 9:32 PM

8 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Increase Your Child’s Working Memory

James_MillerNov 27, 2016, 9:57 PM

8 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Mismatched Vocabularies

Error21 Nov 2016 17:55 UTC

7 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Articles in Main

Vaniver29 Nov 2016 21:35 UTC

7 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

My recent posts

paulfchristiano29 Nov 2016 18:51 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Predicting HCH using expert advice

jessicata28 Nov 2016 3:38 UTC

7 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

A failed attempt at Updatelessness using Universal Inductors

Scott Garrabrant3 Nov 2016 20:25 UTC

7 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Open thread, Nov. 14 - Nov. 20, 2016

MrMind14 Nov 2016 7:51 UTC

6 points

101 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Nov. 28 - Dec. 04, 2016

MrMind28 Nov 2016 7:40 UTC

6 points

94 comments1 min readLW link

Synthetic supermicrobe will be resistant to all known viruses

James_Miller22 Nov 2016 4:40 UTC

6 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.newscientist.com)