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Viliam8 Feb 2016 12:55 UTC

93 points

27 comments7 min readLW link

Upcoming LW Changes

Vaniver3 Feb 2016 5:34 UTC

71 points

106 comments3 min readLW link

The Brain Preservation Foundation’s Small Mammalian Brain Prize won

gwern9 Feb 2016 21:02 UTC

71 points

42 comments4 min readLW link

Unofficial Canon on Applied Rationality

ScottL15 Feb 2016 13:03 UTC

65 points

32 comments23 min readLW link

A Medical Mystery: Thyroid Hormones, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia

johnlawrenceaspden14 Feb 2016 13:14 UTC

43 points

166 comments23 min readLW link

A Rationalist Guide to OkCupid

Jacob Falkovich3 Feb 2016 20:50 UTC

41 points

66 comments1 min readLW link

Posting to Main currently disabled

Vaniver19 Feb 2016 3:55 UTC

37 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Less Wrong Karma Chart Website

ScottL15 Feb 2016 12:36 UTC

36 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

The Pink Sparkly Ball Thing (Use unique, non-obvious terms for nuanced concepts)

MalcolmOcean20 Feb 2016 23:25 UTC

36 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

Where does our community disagree about meaningful issues?

ChristianKl12 Feb 2016 11:34 UTC

28 points

56 comments1 min readLW link

Gamify your goals: How turning your life into a game can help help you make better decisions and be more productive

BayesianMind3 Feb 2016 22:48 UTC

19 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

How we will be measured

So8res21 Feb 2016 3:00 UTC

18 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(mindingourway.com)

The Value of Those in Effective Altruism

Gleb_Tsipursky17 Feb 2016 0:59 UTC

18 points

14 comments13 min readLW link

The map of global catastrophic risks connected with biological weapons and genetic engineering

turchin22 Feb 2016 11:18 UTC

18 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

Defiance

So8res13 Feb 2016 8:00 UTC

17 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(mindingourway.com)

Lesswrong Survey—invitation for suggestions

Elo8 Feb 2016 8:07 UTC

17 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Toy model: convergent instrumental goals

Stuart_Armstrong25 Feb 2016 14:03 UTC

16 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

The ethics of eating meat

[deleted]17 Feb 2016 19:03 UTC

15 points

59 comments5 min readLW link

On ‘Why Global Poverty?’ and Arguments from Unobservable Impacts

Gram_Stone13 Feb 2016 6:04 UTC

15 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

Conclusion of the Replacing Guilt series

So8res28 Feb 2016 3:00 UTC

15 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(mindingourway.com)

Recklessness

So8res2 Feb 2016 2:00 UTC

11 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(mindingourway.com)

Conveying rational thinking about long-term goals to youth and young adults

Gleb_Tsipursky7 Feb 2016 1:54 UTC

11 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2016

Elo21 Feb 2016 21:14 UTC

10 points

229 comments1 min readLW link

Thyroid Hormones, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia: A Hypothesis and a Proposed Experiment

johnlawrenceaspden20 Feb 2016 23:20 UTC

10 points

36 comments5 min readLW link

Goal completion: noise, errors, bias, prejudice, preference and complexity

Stuart_Armstrong18 Feb 2016 14:37 UTC

10 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

Rationality Quotes Thread February 2016

elharo2 Feb 2016 18:17 UTC

10 points

97 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread Feb 16 - Feb 23, 2016

Elo15 Feb 2016 2:12 UTC

10 points

105 comments1 min readLW link

Cheerful one-liners and disjointed anecdotes

[deleted]13 Feb 2016 19:40 UTC

10 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

The Philosophical Implications of Quantum Information Theory

lisper26 Feb 2016 2:00 UTC

9 points

55 comments3 min readLW link

Value learners & wireheading

Manfred3 Feb 2016 9:50 UTC

9 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Request for help with economic analysis related to AI forecasting

ESRogs6 Feb 2016 1:27 UTC

9 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Open Thread Feb 29 - March 6, 2016

Elo28 Feb 2016 22:11 UTC

9 points

289 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Feb 8 - Feb 15, 2016

Elo8 Feb 2016 4:47 UTC

9 points

224 comments1 min readLW link

Is altruistic deception really necessary? Social activism and the free market

PhilGoetz26 Feb 2016 6:38 UTC

9 points

96 comments2 min readLW link

Rationality Reading Group: Part U: Fake Preferences

Gram_Stone24 Feb 2016 23:29 UTC

8 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

If there IS alien super-inteligence in our own galaxy, then what it could be like?

Coacher26 Feb 2016 11:55 UTC

8 points

59 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality Reading Group: Part T: Science and Rationality

Gram_Stone10 Feb 2016 23:40 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Group Rationality Diary, February 2016

NoSignalNoNoise14 Feb 2016 1:55 UTC

7 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Does Kolmogorov complexity imply a bound on self-improving AI?

contravariant14 Feb 2016 8:38 UTC

7 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Feb. 01 - Feb. 07, 2016

MrMind1 Feb 2016 8:24 UTC

6 points

178 comments1 min readLW link

February 2016 Media Thread

ArisKatsaris2 Feb 2016 0:20 UTC

6 points

46 comments1 min readLW link

Notes from a conversation on act-based and goal-directed systems

jessicata19 Feb 2016 0:42 UTC

6 points

50 comments5 min readLW link

LINK: Videogame with a very detailed simulated universe

polymathwannabe19 Feb 2016 3:04 UTC

6 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

[spoilers] EY’s “A Girl Corrupted...?!” new story is an allegorical study of quantum immortality?

Algernoq19 Feb 2016 11:02 UTC

6 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

If there was one element of statistical literacy that you could magically implant in every head, what would it be?

enfascination22 Feb 2016 19:53 UTC

6 points

67 comments1 min readLW link

Goal setting journal (March 2016)

[deleted]27 Feb 2016 9:39 UTC

6 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] How I Escaped The Darkness of Mental Illness

Gleb_Tsipursky4 Feb 2016 23:08 UTC

5 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

The AI That Pretends To Be Human

Houshalter2 Feb 2016 19:39 UTC

5 points

69 comments4 min readLW link

Discussion: weighting inside view versus outside view on extinction events

Ilverin the Stupid and Offensive25 Feb 2016 5:18 UTC

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Critique on my attempt to teach rationality

Bound_up17 Feb 2016 4:17 UTC

4 points

12 comments1 min readLW link