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
26 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
26 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