The lad­der of ab­strac­tion and giv­ing ex­am­ples

EloAug 16, 2016, 5:31 AM
26 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Willpower Thermodynamics

FluttershyAug 16, 2016, 3:00 AM
9 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Seek­ing Op­ti­miza­tion of New Web­site “New Athe­ist Sur­vival Kit,” a go-to site for newly-made atheists

Bound_upAug 16, 2016, 1:03 AM
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Ad­den­dum to ap­pli­ca­ble advice

EloAug 16, 2016, 12:59 AM
6 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Euro­pean Soylent alternatives

ChristianKlAug 15, 2016, 8:22 PM
20 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup: August

MaelinAug 15, 2016, 2:56 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Iden­tity map

turchinAug 15, 2016, 11:29 AM
15 points
41 comments5 min readLW link

Avoid­ing col­lapse: Grand challenges for sci­ence and so­ciety to solve by 2050

morganismAug 15, 2016, 5:47 AM
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meetup : San Jose Meetup: Park Day (VII)

steven0461Aug 15, 2016, 1:05 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Aug. 15. - Aug 21. 2016

EloAug 15, 2016, 12:26 AM
11 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

What is it like to un­der­stand ad­vanced math­e­mat­ics?

morganismAug 14, 2016, 11:14 PM
−3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

A Re­view of Sig­nal Data Science

The_Jaded_OneAug 14, 2016, 3:32 PM
18 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Help with Bayesian priors

WikiLogicOrgAug 14, 2016, 10:24 AM
8 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

New LW Meetup: Munich

FrankAdamekAug 12, 2016, 3:51 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

“Is Science Bro­ken?” is underspecified

NancyLebovitzAug 12, 2016, 11:59 AM
16 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Ap­pli­ca­ble advice

EloAug 12, 2016, 8:16 AM
6 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Filter on the way in, Filter on the way out...

EloAug 12, 2016, 7:24 AM
12 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

In­verse cry­on­ics: one weird trick to per­suade any­one to sign up for cry­on­ics to­day!

The_Jaded_OneAug 11, 2016, 5:29 PM
7 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: TED Talks

RobinZAug 11, 2016, 4:52 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area Weekly Meetup

iarwain1Aug 11, 2016, 4:47 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Men­tal mod­els—giv­ing peo­ple per­son­hood and tak­ing it away

EloAug 11, 2016, 8:32 AM
7 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Non-Fic­tion Book Reviews

SquirrelInHellAug 11, 2016, 5:05 AM
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Meetup : SF Meetup: Group Debugging

maiaAug 11, 2016, 4:59 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Set­ting up my work en­vi­ron­ment—Do­ing the cau­sa­tion back­wards

EloAug 11, 2016, 2:36 AM
11 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Low hang­ing pro­duc­tivity—im­prov­ing your workspace

EloAug 9, 2016, 12:14 PM
22 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Peo­ple who lie about how much they eat are jerks

EloAug 8, 2016, 3:45 AM
1 point
40 comments3 min readLW link

Open Thread, Aug. 8 - Aug 14. 2016

EloAug 7, 2016, 11:07 PM
9 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Aus­tralian-ish On­line Hangout

CalienAug 7, 2016, 10:40 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ad­vice to new Doc­tors start­ing practice

anandjeyaharAug 7, 2016, 8:27 AM
4 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Now is the time to elimi­nate mosquitoes

James_MillerAug 6, 2016, 7:10 PM
33 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Mu­nich Meetup in August

ValeriyAug 6, 2016, 10:19 AM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Darknet Min­ing for Proac­tive Cy­ber­se­cu­rity Threat Intelligence

morganismAug 6, 2016, 1:19 AM
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow: Non-Om­ni­science, On ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­ni­ca­tion, ACH train­ing, games

Slava MatyukhinAug 6, 2016, 12:34 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area Weekly Meetup

iarwain1Aug 5, 2016, 4:06 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekAug 5, 2016, 3:42 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

New Pas­cal’s Mug­ging idea for po­ten­tial solution

kokotajlodAug 4, 2016, 8:38 PM
5 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence and phys­i­cal law

AnthonyCAug 4, 2016, 6:49 PM
19 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : SF Meetup: Projects

maiaAug 4, 2016, 12:44 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ti­vated Thinking

Bound_upAug 3, 2016, 11:27 PM
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[link] MIRI’s 2015 in review

Kaj_SotalaAug 3, 2016, 12:03 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The meta-strat­egy

EloAug 2, 2016, 11:08 PM
12 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

The Prob­lem (TM) - Part 2

EloAug 2, 2016, 8:01 AM
16 points
5 comments9 min readLW link

Two Agent Mild Optimization

NormanPerlmutterAug 2, 2016, 1:45 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(normanspace.org)

Can we hy­bridize Ab­sent-Minded Driver with Death in Da­m­as­cus?

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 1, 2016, 9:43 PM
5 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Out­door Fun & Games

RobinZAug 1, 2016, 9:12 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ir­ra­tional­ity Quotes Au­gust 2016

PhilGoetzAug 1, 2016, 7:12 PM
8 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Au­gust 2016

SabiolaAug 1, 2016, 9:32 AM
4 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Au­gust 2016 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsarisAug 1, 2016, 7:00 AM
3 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Aug. 1 - Aug 7. 2016

EloAug 1, 2016, 12:12 AM
9 points
83 comments1 min readLW link

A Lay­man’s Ex­pla­na­tion of “Safely In­ter­rupt­ible Agents”

ZachWeemsJul 31, 2016, 11:20 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)