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Claim explainer: donor lotteries and returns to scale

Benquo30 Dec 2016 19:46 UTC

9 points

20 comments10 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek30 Dec 2016 15:44 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

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

Prediction-based medicine (PBM)

ChristianKl29 Dec 2016 22:49 UTC

46 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Cambridge/Boston Less Wrong: Planning 2017

jimrandomh29 Dec 2016 22:43 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Off-switch for CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system discovered

morganism29 Dec 2016 22:08 UTC

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(phys.org)

How do you identify complex systems?

NatashaRostova29 Dec 2016 4:39 UTC

6 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Bargaining trade-offs in your brain

Elo29 Dec 2016 0:18 UTC

3 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

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)

A different argument against Universal Basic Income

chaosmage28 Dec 2016 22:35 UTC

27 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

sarahconstantin28 Dec 2016 18:26 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games

RobinZ28 Dec 2016 14:42 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Dec. 26, 2016 - Jan. 1, 2017

username228 Dec 2016 12:23 UTC

4 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

John Ioannidis: Why Most Clinical Research Is Not Useful (2016)

username228 Dec 2016 3:42 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(journals.plos.org)

Exploration-Exploitation problems

Elo28 Dec 2016 1:33 UTC

18 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

diabetes medication Metformin and hypertension drug syrosingopine treat cancers.

morganism27 Dec 2016 23:39 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.eurekalert.org)

The engineer and the diplomat

Benquo27 Dec 2016 20:49 UTC

35 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Make Putanumonit Great (for the first time)

Jacob Falkovich27 Dec 2016 16:50 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Empirically assess your time use

Elo27 Dec 2016 0:01 UTC

10 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Free-energy, reinforcement, and utility

IAFF-User-17726 Dec 2016 23:02 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

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)

Wikipedia usage survey results

VipulNaik25 Dec 2016 13:55 UTC

14 points

17 comments35 min readLW link

Meetup : Role playing game based on HPMOR in Moscow

Alexander23025 Dec 2016 8:22 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Free-Energy Theory and Precision: can a neural network catch a fly ball?

IAFF-User-17725 Dec 2016 1:10 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Treaties vs Fusion

Jack_LaSota25 Dec 2016 0:40 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(sinceriously.fyi)

Expected Error, or how wrong you expect to be

ozziegooen24 Dec 2016 22:49 UTC

21 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

The challenge of writing Utopia

Stuart_Armstrong24 Dec 2016 17:35 UTC

27 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Suggested solution to The Naturalized Induction Problem

Linda Linsefors24 Dec 2016 16:03 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

(lesswrong.com)

Suggested solution to The Naturalized Induction Problem

Linda Linsefors24 Dec 2016 15:55 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(lesswrong.com)

Meetup : Denver Area LW January Meetup

PonchoPal24 Dec 2016 5:52 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Denver Area LW January Meetup

PonchoPal24 Dec 2016 5:48 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Introduction to the Free-Energy Theory of Mind

IAFF-User-17724 Dec 2016 1:15 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Inflated Bubbles

Jacob Falkovich23 Dec 2016 16:55 UTC

1 point

0 comments6 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

New LW Meetup: Kyiv

FrankAdamek23 Dec 2016 16:44 UTC

7 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

username223 Dec 2016 11:28 UTC

4 points

41 comments1 min readLW link

(idlewords.com)

Triaging mental phenomena or: leveling up the stack trace skill

RomeoStevens23 Dec 2016 0:15 UTC

32 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Kyiv: 29 December 2016 18:15 (+0200)

networked22 Dec 2016 22:24 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Custom games that involve skills related to rationality

Alexander23022 Dec 2016 21:03 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Fractal Discussion Groups

whpearson22 Dec 2016 15:03 UTC

4 points

26 comments2 min readLW link

Bioelectronic medicine: a very brief overview

sarahconstantin22 Dec 2016 4:03 UTC

18 points

6 comments2 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

On Truth, On God, and On Faith (religious (obviously)) (Atheist material for believers instead of other atheists/ attempted use of a spoonful of sugar)

Bound_up20 Dec 2016 23:07 UTC

1 point

37 comments1 min readLW link

(atheistkit.wordpress.com)

Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: FallacyMania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery

Alexander23020 Dec 2016 21:36 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Scott Adams mentions Prediction Markets and explains Cognitive Blindness bias

Gunnar_Zarncke20 Dec 2016 21:23 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(blog.dilbert.com)

Meetup : Kyiv: 21 December 2016 18:15 (+0200)

networked20 Dec 2016 19:36 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 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

Improve comments by tagging claims

Benquo20 Dec 2016 17:04 UTC

26 points

40 comments5 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)

Teaching an AI not to cheat?

Florian_Dietz20 Dec 2016 14:37 UTC

5 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

How does personality vary across US cities?

JonahS20 Dec 2016 8:00 UTC

66 points

16 comments6 min readLW link