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Require contributions in advance
Viliam
Feb 8, 2016, 12:55 PM
96
points
27
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Upcoming LW Changes
Vaniver
Feb 3, 2016, 5:34 AM
71
points
106
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Brain Preservation Foundation’s Small Mammalian Brain Prize won
gwern
Feb 9, 2016, 9:02 PM
71
points
42
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Unofficial Canon on Applied Rationality
ScottL
Feb 15, 2016, 1:03 PM
65
points
32
comments
23
min read
LW
link
A Medical Mystery: Thyroid Hormones, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia
johnlawrenceaspden
Feb 14, 2016, 1:14 PM
43
points
166
comments
23
min read
LW
link
A Rationalist Guide to OkCupid
Jacob Falkovich
Feb 3, 2016, 8:50 PM
41
points
66
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Posting to Main currently disabled
Vaniver
Feb 19, 2016, 3:55 AM
37
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Less Wrong Karma Chart Website
ScottL
Feb 15, 2016, 12:36 PM
36
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Pink Sparkly Ball Thing (Use unique, non-obvious terms for nuanced concepts)
MalcolmOcean
Feb 20, 2016, 11:25 PM
36
points
14
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Where does our community disagree about meaningful issues?
ChristianKl
Feb 12, 2016, 11:34 AM
28
points
56
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How we will be measured
So8res
Feb 21, 2016, 3:00 AM
21
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(mindingourway.com)
Defiance
So8res
Feb 13, 2016, 8:00 AM
19
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(mindingourway.com)
Gamify your goals: How turning your life into a game can help help you make better decisions and be more productive
BayesianMind
Feb 3, 2016, 10:48 PM
19
points
12
comments
9
min read
LW
link
The map of global catastrophic risks connected with biological weapons and genetic engineering
turchin
Feb 22, 2016, 11:18 AM
18
points
21
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Value of Those in Effective Altruism
Gleb_Tsipursky
Feb 17, 2016, 12:59 AM
18
points
14
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Lesswrong Survey—invitation for suggestions
Elo
Feb 8, 2016, 8:07 AM
17
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Conclusion of the Replacing Guilt series
So8res
Feb 28, 2016, 3:00 AM
17
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(mindingourway.com)
Toy model: convergent instrumental goals
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 25, 2016, 2:03 PM
16
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
On ‘Why Global Poverty?’ and Arguments from Unobservable Impacts
Gram_Stone
Feb 13, 2016, 6:04 AM
15
points
2
comments
9
min read
LW
link
The ethics of eating meat
[deleted]
Feb 17, 2016, 7:03 PM
15
points
59
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Recklessness
So8res
Feb 2, 2016, 2:00 AM
12
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(mindingourway.com)
Conveying rational thinking about long-term goals to youth and young adults
Gleb_Tsipursky
Feb 7, 2016, 1:54 AM
11
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Thyroid Hormones, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia: A Hypothesis and a Proposed Experiment
johnlawrenceaspden
Feb 20, 2016, 11:20 PM
10
points
36
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Goal completion: noise, errors, bias, prejudice, preference and complexity
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 18, 2016, 2:37 PM
10
points
10
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Rationality Quotes Thread February 2016
elharo
Feb 2, 2016, 6:17 PM
10
points
97
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2016
Elo
Feb 21, 2016, 9:14 PM
10
points
229
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread Feb 16 - Feb 23, 2016
Elo
Feb 15, 2016, 2:12 AM
10
points
105
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cheerful one-liners and disjointed anecdotes
[deleted]
Feb 13, 2016, 7:40 PM
10
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Value learners & wireheading
Manfred
Feb 3, 2016, 9:50 AM
9
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The Philosophical Implications of Quantum Information Theory
lisper
Feb 26, 2016, 2:00 AM
9
points
55
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Is altruistic deception really necessary? Social activism and the free market
PhilGoetz
Feb 26, 2016, 6:38 AM
9
points
96
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Open Thread Feb 29 - March 6, 2016
Elo
Feb 28, 2016, 10:11 PM
9
points
289
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, Feb 8 - Feb 15, 2016
Elo
Feb 8, 2016, 4:47 AM
9
points
224
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Request for help with economic analysis related to AI forecasting
ESRogs
Feb 6, 2016, 1:27 AM
9
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Rationality Reading Group: Part T: Science and Rationality
Gram_Stone
Feb 10, 2016, 11:40 PM
8
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
If there IS alien super-inteligence in our own galaxy, then what it could be like?
Coacher
Feb 26, 2016, 11:55 AM
8
points
59
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality Reading Group: Part U: Fake Preferences
Gram_Stone
Feb 24, 2016, 11:29 PM
8
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Group Rationality Diary, February 2016
NoSignalNoNoise
Feb 14, 2016, 1:55 AM
7
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Does Kolmogorov complexity imply a bound on self-improving AI?
contravariant
Feb 14, 2016, 8:38 AM
7
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Feb. 01 - Feb. 07, 2016
MrMind
Feb 1, 2016, 8:24 AM
6
points
178
comments
1
min read
LW
link
February 2016 Media Thread
ArisKatsaris
Feb 2, 2016, 12:20 AM
6
points
46
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Notes from a conversation on act-based and goal-directed systems
jessicata
Feb 19, 2016, 12:42 AM
6
points
50
comments
5
min read
LW
link
LINK: Videogame with a very detailed simulated universe
polymathwannabe
Feb 19, 2016, 3:04 AM
6
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[spoilers] EY’s “A Girl Corrupted...?!” new story is an allegorical study of quantum immortality?
Algernoq
Feb 19, 2016, 11:02 AM
6
points
23
comments
2
min read
LW
link
If there was one element of statistical literacy that you could magically implant in every head, what would it be?
enfascination
Feb 22, 2016, 7:53 PM
6
points
67
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Goal setting journal (March 2016)
[deleted]
Feb 27, 2016, 9:39 AM
6
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] How I Escaped The Darkness of Mental Illness
Gleb_Tsipursky
Feb 4, 2016, 11:08 PM
5
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The AI That Pretends To Be Human
Houshalter
Feb 2, 2016, 7:39 PM
5
points
69
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Discussion: weighting inside view versus outside view on extinction events
Ilverin the Stupid and Offensive
Feb 25, 2016, 5:18 AM
5
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Critique on my attempt to teach rationality
Bound_up
Feb 17, 2016, 4:17 AM
4
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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