Fact Posts: How and Why

sarahconstantin2 Dec 2016 18:55 UTC
261 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

“Flinch­ing away from truth” is of­ten about *pro­tect­ing* the epistemology

AnnaSalamon20 Dec 2016 18:39 UTC
233 points
58 comments7 min readLW link

Mak­ing in­ten­tions con­crete—Trig­ger-Ac­tion Planning

Kaj_Sotala1 Dec 2016 20:34 UTC
69 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

Is Caviar a Risk Fac­tor For Be­ing a Million­aire?

Anders_H9 Dec 2016 16:27 UTC
67 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

How does per­son­al­ity vary across US cities?

JonahS20 Dec 2016 8:00 UTC
66 points
16 comments6 min readLW link

Be se­cretly wrong

Benquo10 Dec 2016 7:06 UTC
66 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

Fur­ther dis­cus­sion of CFAR’s fo­cus on AI safety, and the good things folks wanted from “cause neu­tral­ity”

AnnaSalamon12 Dec 2016 19:39 UTC
65 points
38 comments5 min readLW link

CFAR’s new fo­cus, and AI Safety

AnnaSalamon3 Dec 2016 18:09 UTC
51 points
88 comments3 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion-based medicine (PBM)

ChristianKl29 Dec 2016 22:49 UTC
46 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

How I use Anki to learn mathematics

Arthur Milchior7 Dec 2016 22:29 UTC
41 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

A quick note on weird­ness points and Sols­tices [And also ran­dom other Sols­tice dis­cus­sion]

Raemon21 Dec 2016 17:29 UTC
38 points
85 comments1 min readLW link

The en­g­ineer and the diplomat

Benquo27 Dec 2016 20:49 UTC
35 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Cir­cles of discussion

Paul Crowley16 Dec 2016 4:35 UTC
33 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

Triag­ing men­tal phe­nom­ena or: lev­el­ing up the stack trace skill

RomeoStevens23 Dec 2016 0:15 UTC
32 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

2016: a year in re­view in science

Elo11 Dec 2016 5:01 UTC
29 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

The Par­tial Con­trol Fallacy

Darmani14 Dec 2016 2:57 UTC
29 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Down­votes tem­porar­ily disabled

Vaniver1 Dec 2016 17:31 UTC
27 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Im­prove com­ments by tag­ging claims

Benquo20 Dec 2016 17:04 UTC
26 points
40 comments5 min readLW link

The challenge of writ­ing Utopia

Stuart_Armstrong24 Dec 2016 17:35 UTC
26 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Land war in Asia

Apprentice7 Dec 2016 19:31 UTC
26 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

A differ­ent ar­gu­ment against Univer­sal Ba­sic Income

chaosmage28 Dec 2016 22:35 UTC
26 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Fea­ture Wish List for LessWrong

sarahconstantin17 Dec 2016 21:10 UTC
25 points
84 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­tor­tion and trade negotiations

Stuart_Armstrong17 Dec 2016 21:39 UTC
23 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­pected Er­ror, or how wrong you ex­pect to be

ozziegooen24 Dec 2016 22:49 UTC
21 points
8 comments6 min readLW link

Com­bin­ing Pre­dic­tion Tech­nolo­gies to Help Moder­ate Discussions

Wei Dai8 Dec 2016 0:19 UTC
21 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Com­mu­nity needs, in­di­vi­d­ual needs, and a model of adult development

Vaniver17 Dec 2016 0:18 UTC
21 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Be­ware of iden­ti­fy­ing with schools of thought

ChristianKl5 Dec 2016 0:30 UTC
20 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing the news feed

paulfchristiano1 Dec 2016 23:23 UTC
20 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Which ar­eas of ra­tio­nal­ity are un­der­ex­plored? - Dis­cus­sion Thread

casebash1 Dec 2016 22:05 UTC
19 points
69 comments1 min readLW link

Canons (What are they good for?)

Benquo13 Dec 2016 21:34 UTC
18 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

Ex­plo­ra­tion-Ex­ploita­tion problems

Elo28 Dec 2016 1:33 UTC
18 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Crowd­sourc­ing mod­er­a­tion with­out sac­ri­fic­ing quality

paulfchristiano2 Dec 2016 21:47 UTC
18 points
26 comments1 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Bio­elec­tronic medicine: a very brief overview

sarahconstantin22 Dec 2016 4:03 UTC
18 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Cus­tom games that in­volve skills re­lated to rationality

Alexander23022 Dec 2016 21:03 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion of LW in Ezra Klein pod­cast [starts 47:40]

Scott Alexander7 Dec 2016 23:22 UTC
17 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(itunes.apple.com)

“What is Wrong With our Thoughts” -David Stove (1991)

NatashaRostova8 Dec 2016 1:27 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(web.maths.unsw.edu.au)

In mem­ory of Thomas Schelling

Qiaochu_Yuan13 Dec 2016 22:17 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(publicpolicy.umd.edu)

Pur­su­ing con­ver­gent in­stru­men­tal sub­goals on the user’s be­half doesn’t always re­quire good priors

jessicata30 Dec 2016 2:36 UTC
15 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity 101 (An In­tro Post to the Ra­tion­al­ist-Sphere for Friends: Kah­ne­man, LW, etc.)

lifelonglearner17 Dec 2016 22:13 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(mindlevelup.wordpress.com)

CFAR’s new mis­sion state­ment (on our web­site)

AnnaSalamon10 Dec 2016 8:37 UTC
15 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(www.rationality.org)

Wikipe­dia us­age sur­vey results

VipulNaik25 Dec 2016 13:55 UTC
14 points
17 comments35 min readLW link

2016 AI Risk Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks15 Dec 2016 0:19 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(effective-altruism.com)

I’m Not An Effec­tive Altru­ist Be­cause I Pre­fer...

ozymandias28 Dec 2016 22:39 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

Guilt vs Shame, Pride vs Joy?

ProofOfLogic19 Dec 2016 20:00 UTC
12 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

If Pri­son Were a Disease, How Bad Would It Be?

sarahconstantin7 Dec 2016 21:46 UTC
11 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Un­for­tu­nate Information

NatashaRostova6 Dec 2016 5:31 UTC
11 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Tra­di­tions and Ra­tion­al­ity.

NatashaRostova10 Dec 2016 5:08 UTC
11 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

Are you be­ing p-hacked? Time to hack back.

Jacob Falkovich20 Dec 2016 16:57 UTC
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

IEEE re­leased the first draft of their AI ethics guide

c0rw1n14 Dec 2016 13:30 UTC
10 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(standards.ieee.org)

50 things I learned at NIPS AI and ma­chine learn­ing con­fer­ence 2016

morganism26 Dec 2016 20:50 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(blog.ought.com)