What is up with car­bon diox­ide and cog­ni­tion? An offer

paulfchristianoApr 23, 2016, 5:47 PM
84 points
48 comments2 min readLW link

Turn­ing the Tech­ni­cal Crank

ErrorApr 5, 2016, 5:36 AM
74 points
134 comments6 min readLW link

The Sally-Anne fallacy

philhApr 11, 2016, 1:06 PM
66 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Sleep­walk bias, self-defeat­ing pre­dic­tions and ex­is­ten­tial risk

Stefan_SchubertApr 22, 2016, 6:31 PM
56 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

The Web Browser is Not Your Client (But You Don’t Need To Know That)

ErrorApr 22, 2016, 12:12 AM
44 points
47 comments7 min readLW link

The Ide­ol­ogy Is Not The Movement

Scott AlexanderApr 5, 2016, 1:52 AM
40 points
3 comments24 min readLW link

Pos­i­tivity Thread :)

ViliamApr 8, 2016, 9:34 PM
40 points
66 comments2 min readLW link

JFK was not as­sas­si­nated: prior prob­a­bil­ity zero events

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 27, 2016, 11:47 AM
38 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Albion’s Seed

Scott AlexanderApr 27, 2016, 8:40 AM
34 points
1 comment32 min readLW link

Happy No­tice Your Sur­prise Day!

VaniverApr 1, 2016, 1:02 PM
30 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Tonic Judo

Gram_StoneApr 2, 2016, 9:19 PM
29 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

Sev­eral free CFAR sum­mer pro­grams on ra­tio­nal­ity and AI safety

AnnaSalamonApr 14, 2016, 2:35 AM
29 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Con­sider hav­ing sparse insides

AnnaSalamonApr 1, 2016, 12:07 AM
27 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Us­ing hu­mil­ity to coun­ter­act shame

VikaApr 15, 2016, 6:32 PM
21 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

[link] Disjunc­tive AI Risk Scenarios

Kaj_SotalaApr 5, 2016, 12:51 PM
19 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Geo­met­ric Bayesian Update

SquirrelInHellApr 9, 2016, 7:24 AM
19 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

My new ra­tio­nal­ity/​fu­tur­ism podcast

James_MillerApr 6, 2016, 5:36 PM
18 points
76 comments1 min readLW link

Fake Amnesia

Gram_StoneApr 3, 2016, 9:23 PM
16 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Max­i­miz­ing a quan­tity while ig­nor­ing effect through some channel

jessicataApr 2, 2016, 1:20 AM
13 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

The Thy­roid Mad­ness: Two Ap­par­ently Con­tra­dic­tory Stud­ies. Proof?

johnlawrenceaspdenApr 10, 2016, 8:21 PM
12 points
80 comments7 min readLW link

Up­date to the list of apps that are use­ful to me

EloApr 8, 2016, 1:02 AM
12 points
12 comments11 min readLW link

The Science of Effec­tive Fundrais­ing: Four Com­mon Mis­takes to Avoid

Gleb_TsipurskyApr 11, 2016, 3:19 PM
12 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

[link] Sim­plify­ing the en­vi­ron­ment: a new con­ver­gent in­stru­men­tal goal

Kaj_SotalaApr 22, 2016, 6:48 AM
10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread April 4 - April 10, 2016

EloApr 4, 2016, 4:56 AM
10 points
204 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part X: Yud­kowsky’s Com­ing of Age

Gram_StoneApr 6, 2016, 11:05 PM
9 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

How to provide a sim­ple ex­am­ple to the re­quire­ment of falsifi­a­bil­ity in the sci­en­tific method to a novice au­di­ence?

ValApr 11, 2016, 9:26 PM
9 points
58 comments2 min readLW link

An up­date on Sig­nal Data Science (an in­ten­sive data sci­ence train­ing pro­gram)

JonahSApr 9, 2016, 5:02 AM
9 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Dou­ble Cor­rigi­bil­ity: bet­ter Corrigibility

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 28, 2016, 2:46 PM
9 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Is the av­er­age eth­i­cal re­view board eth­i­cal from an util­i­tar­ian stand­point?

ChristianKlApr 27, 2016, 12:11 PM
8 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread April 25 - May 1, 2016

EloApr 25, 2016, 6:02 AM
8 points
130 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Mu­tual fund fees

James_MillerApr 23, 2016, 10:09 PM
7 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Roughly you

JDRApr 21, 2016, 3:28 PM
7 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Grat­i­tude Thread :-)

Gleb_TsipurskyApr 19, 2016, 3:11 AM
7 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

An ap­proach to the Agent Si­mu­lates Pre­dic­tor problem

AlexMennenApr 9, 2016, 6:28 AM
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(drive.google.com)

April 2016 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsarisApr 1, 2016, 8:02 PM
6 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread April 11 - April 17, 2016

[deleted]Apr 10, 2016, 9:01 PM
6 points
135 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Apr. 18 - Apr. 24, 2016

MrMindApr 18, 2016, 7:19 AM
6 points
176 comments1 min readLW link

My Cus­tom Spel­ling Dictionary

Gram_StoneApr 23, 2016, 9:56 PM
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

New LW Meetup: Nairobi

FrankAdamekApr 8, 2016, 3:50 PM
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

An­throp­ics and Bi­ased Models

casebashApr 15, 2016, 2:18 AM
6 points
14 comments6 min readLW link

Sphere pack­ing and log­i­cal uncertainty

sanxiynApr 25, 2016, 6:02 AM
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pect to know bet­ter when you know more

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 21, 2016, 3:47 PM
5 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Monthly Brag­ging Thread April 2016

SoothsilverApr 8, 2016, 1:26 PM
5 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part Y: Challeng­ing the Difficult

Gram_StoneApr 20, 2016, 10:32 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

One weird trick to turn max­imisers into minimisers

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 22, 2016, 4:47 PM
5 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Suggest best book as an in­tro­duc­tion to com­pu­ta­tional neuroscience

BiasedBayesApr 26, 2016, 9:16 PM
5 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bris­bane Govin­das Dinner

EloApr 12, 2016, 7:44 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekApr 15, 2016, 3:26 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Dis­solv­ing Deep Ques­tions: A De­cline in Con­tem­po­rary Controversy

Bound_upApr 8, 2016, 12:03 AM
3 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Time hi­er­ar­chy the­o­rems for dis­tri­bu­tional es­ti­ma­tion problems

paulfchristianoApr 20, 2016, 5:13 PM
3 points
6 comments3 min readLW link