Re­quire con­tri­bu­tions in advance

ViliamFeb 8, 2016, 12:55 PM
96 points
27 comments7 min readLW link

Up­com­ing LW Changes

VaniverFeb 3, 2016, 5:34 AM
71 points
106 comments3 min readLW link

The Brain Preser­va­tion Foun­da­tion’s Small Mam­malian Brain Prize won

gwernFeb 9, 2016, 9:02 PM
71 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

Unoffi­cial Canon on Ap­plied Rationality

ScottLFeb 15, 2016, 1:03 PM
65 points
32 comments23 min readLW link

A Med­i­cal Mys­tery: Thy­roid Hor­mones, Chronic Fa­tigue and Fibromyalgia

johnlawrenceaspdenFeb 14, 2016, 1:14 PM
43 points
166 comments23 min readLW link

A Ra­tion­al­ist Guide to OkCupid

Jacob FalkovichFeb 3, 2016, 8:50 PM
41 points
66 comments1 min readLW link

Post­ing to Main cur­rently disabled

VaniverFeb 19, 2016, 3:55 AM
37 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Less Wrong Karma Chart Website

ScottLFeb 15, 2016, 12:36 PM
36 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

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

MalcolmOceanFeb 20, 2016, 11:25 PM
36 points
14 comments5 min readLW link

Where does our com­mu­nity dis­agree about mean­ingful is­sues?

ChristianKlFeb 12, 2016, 11:34 AM
28 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

How we will be measured

So8resFeb 21, 2016, 3:00 AM
21 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Defiance

So8resFeb 13, 2016, 8:00 AM
19 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

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

BayesianMindFeb 3, 2016, 10:48 PM
19 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

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

turchinFeb 22, 2016, 11:18 AM
18 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

The Value of Those in Effec­tive Altruism

Gleb_TsipurskyFeb 17, 2016, 12:59 AM
18 points
14 comments13 min readLW link

Less­wrong Sur­vey—in­vi­ta­tion for suggestions

EloFeb 8, 2016, 8:07 AM
17 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Con­clu­sion of the Re­plac­ing Guilt series

So8resFeb 28, 2016, 3:00 AM
17 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Toy model: con­ver­gent in­stru­men­tal goals

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 25, 2016, 2:03 PM
16 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

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

Gram_StoneFeb 13, 2016, 6:04 AM
15 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

The ethics of eat­ing meat

[deleted]Feb 17, 2016, 7:03 PM
15 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

Recklessness

So8resFeb 2, 2016, 2:00 AM
12 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

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

Gleb_TsipurskyFeb 7, 2016, 1:54 AM
11 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

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

johnlawrenceaspdenFeb 20, 2016, 11:20 PM
10 points
36 comments5 min readLW link

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

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 18, 2016, 2:37 PM
10 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread Fe­bru­ary 2016

elharoFeb 2, 2016, 6:17 PM
10 points
97 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2016

EloFeb 21, 2016, 9:14 PM
10 points
229 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread Feb 16 - Feb 23, 2016

EloFeb 15, 2016, 2:12 AM
10 points
105 comments1 min readLW link

Cheer­ful one-lin­ers and dis­jointed anecdotes

[deleted]Feb 13, 2016, 7:40 PM
10 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Value learn­ers & wireheading

ManfredFeb 3, 2016, 9:50 AM
9 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

The Philo­soph­i­cal Im­pli­ca­tions of Quan­tum In­for­ma­tion Theory

lisperFeb 26, 2016, 2:00 AM
9 points
55 comments3 min readLW link

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

PhilGoetzFeb 26, 2016, 6:38 AM
9 points
96 comments2 min readLW link

Open Thread Feb 29 - March 6, 2016

EloFeb 28, 2016, 10:11 PM
9 points
289 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Feb 8 - Feb 15, 2016

EloFeb 8, 2016, 4:47 AM
9 points
224 comments1 min readLW link

Re­quest for help with eco­nomic anal­y­sis re­lated to AI forecasting

ESRogsFeb 6, 2016, 1:27 AM
9 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part T: Science and Rationality

Gram_StoneFeb 10, 2016, 11:40 PM
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

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

CoacherFeb 26, 2016, 11:55 AM
8 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part U: Fake Preferences

Gram_StoneFeb 24, 2016, 11:29 PM
8 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Fe­bru­ary 2016

NoSignalNoNoiseFeb 14, 2016, 1:55 AM
7 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

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

contravariantFeb 14, 2016, 8:38 AM
7 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

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

MrMindFeb 1, 2016, 8:24 AM
6 points
178 comments1 min readLW link

Fe­bru­ary 2016 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsarisFeb 2, 2016, 12:20 AM
6 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

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

jessicataFeb 19, 2016, 12:42 AM
6 points
50 comments5 min readLW link

LINK: Videogame with a very de­tailed simu­lated universe

polymathwannabeFeb 19, 2016, 3:04 AM
6 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

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

AlgernoqFeb 19, 2016, 11:02 AM
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?

enfascinationFeb 22, 2016, 7:53 PM
6 points
67 comments1 min readLW link

Goal set­ting jour­nal (March 2016)

[deleted]Feb 27, 2016, 9:39 AM
6 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] How I Es­caped The Dark­ness of Men­tal Illness

Gleb_TsipurskyFeb 4, 2016, 11:08 PM
5 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

The AI That Pre­tends To Be Human

HoushalterFeb 2, 2016, 7:39 PM
5 points
69 comments4 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion: weight­ing in­side view ver­sus out­side view on ex­tinc­tion events

Ilverin the Stupid and OffensiveFeb 25, 2016, 5:18 AM
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Cri­tique on my at­tempt to teach rationality

Bound_upFeb 17, 2016, 4:17 AM
4 points
12 comments1 min readLW link