Why We Should Aban­don Weak Ar­gu­ments (Reli­gious)

Bound_up20 Jan 2017 22:30 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(atheistkit.wordpress.com)

The Quaker and the Parselmouth

Vaniver20 Jan 2017 21:24 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Meetup : Bal­ti­more /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain120 Jan 2017 18:26 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Art is Long and Nerdy

Jacob Falkovich20 Jan 2017 17:49 UTC
1 point
0 comments13 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek20 Jan 2017 16:56 UTC
2 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Could a Neu­ro­scien­tist Un­der­stand a Micro­pro­ces­sor?

Gunnar_Zarncke20 Jan 2017 12:40 UTC
16 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(journals.plos.org)

Willpower duality

Gyrodiot20 Jan 2017 9:56 UTC
10 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jrmyp.net)

In­finite Sum­ma­tions: A Ra­tion­al­ity Lit­mus Test

shev20 Jan 2017 9:31 UTC
38 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

An im­pos­si­bil­ity re­sult for do­ing with­out good priors

jessicata20 Jan 2017 5:44 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity: Over­rid­ing Defaults

lifelonglearner20 Jan 2017 5:14 UTC
4 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing Styles

TheSinceriousOne20 Jan 2017 1:48 UTC
5 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

On Arrogance

casebash20 Jan 2017 1:04 UTC
8 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

What would you like to see posts about?

shev19 Jan 2017 23:39 UTC
9 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

If ra­tio­nal­ity is purely win­ning there is a min­i­mal shared art

whpearson19 Jan 2017 21:39 UTC
2 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Thoughts on “Oper­a­tion Make Less Wrong the sin­gle con­ver­sa­tional lo­cus”, Month 1

Raemon19 Jan 2017 17:16 UTC
25 points
158 comments1 min readLW link

In-depth de­scrip­tion of a quite strict, quite suc­cess­ful gov­ern­ment pro­gram against teen sub­stance abuse, spread­ing from Iceland

chaosmage19 Jan 2017 12:04 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(mosaicscience.com)

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Board Games

rocurley19 Jan 2017 5:39 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

RobinZ19 Jan 2017 4:41 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity and Over­rid­ing Defaults

lifelonglearner19 Jan 2017 4:34 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(mindlevelup.wordpress.com)

Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: Fal­la­cyMa­nia, Tower of Chaos, Scien­tific Discovery

Alexander23018 Jan 2017 20:36 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­ject Hufflepuff

Raemon18 Jan 2017 18:57 UTC
51 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Univer­sal Hate

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Jan 2017 18:32 UTC
9 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Marginal Revolu­tion Thoughts on Black Lives Mat­ter Movement

scarcegreengrass18 Jan 2017 18:12 UTC
5 points
29 comments1 min readLW link
(marginalrevolution.com)

Cor­rigi­bil­ity thoughts III: ma­nipu­lat­ing ver­sus deceiving

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jan 2017 15:57 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cor­rigi­bil­ity thoughts II: the robot operator

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jan 2017 15:52 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Cor­rigi­bil­ity thoughts I: car­ing about mul­ti­ple things

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jan 2017 15:39 UTC
7 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Neu­ral nets de­sign­ing neu­ral nets

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jan 2017 15:28 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Neu­ral nets de­sign­ing neu­ral nets

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jan 2017 15:27 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Neu­ral nets de­sign­ing neu­ral nets

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jan 2017 14:43 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A mea­sure-the­o­retic gen­er­al­iza­tion of log­i­cal induction

Vanessa Kosoy18 Jan 2017 13:56 UTC
6 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Dodg­ing a bul­let: “the price of in­suffi­cient med­i­cal vigilance can be very high.”

James_Miller18 Jan 2017 4:11 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(westhunt.wordpress.com)

Please Help: How to make a big im­prove­ment in the al­ign­ment of poli­ti­cal par­ties’ in­cen­tives with the pub­lic in­ter­est?

interstice18 Jan 2017 0:51 UTC
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(dominiccummings.wordpress.com)

Meetup : LW Sao Paulo—Meetup de janeiro

leohmarruda18 Jan 2017 0:12 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Choos­ing pre­dic­tion over ex­pla­na­tion in psy­chol­ogy: Les­sons from ma­chine learning

Kaj_Sotala17 Jan 2017 21:23 UTC
5 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(figshare.com)

The sub­stance of money

MrMind17 Jan 2017 14:51 UTC
5 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

A note on mi­s­un­der­stand­ing the bound­aries of models

Stuart_Armstrong17 Jan 2017 12:29 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Hon­esty and perjury

Benquo17 Jan 2017 8:08 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

John Nash’s Ideal Money: The Mo­ti­va­tions of Sav­ings and Thrift

Flinter17 Jan 2017 3:58 UTC
0 points
33 comments1 min readLW link
(sites.stat.psu.edu)

Fear or fear? (A Me­te­uphoric post on dis­t­in­guish­ing feel­ings from con­sid­ered po­si­tions.)

ProofOfLogic17 Jan 2017 3:26 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Dis­gust and Politics

Gordon Seidoh Worley17 Jan 2017 0:19 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Deep Learn­ing twit­ter list

morganism16 Jan 2017 23:59 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

Wel­come to Less Wrong! (11th thread, Jan­uary 2017) (Thread B)

Richard Korzekwa 16 Jan 2017 22:25 UTC
2 points
152 comments6 min readLW link

The Mind of an Oc­to­pus,Adapted from Other Minds: The Oc­to­pus, the Sea and the Deep Ori­gins of Consciousness

morganism16 Jan 2017 21:07 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.scientificamerican.com)

Do we Share a Defi­ni­tion for the word “ideal”?

Flinter16 Jan 2017 20:45 UTC
0 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

The trol­l­ey­car dilemma, an MIT moral prob­lem app

morganism16 Jan 2017 19:32 UTC
1 point
5 comments1 min readLW link
(moralmachine.mit.edu)

A Pro­posal for a Sim­pler Solu­tion To All Th­ese Difficult Ob­ser­va­tions and Problems

Flinter16 Jan 2017 18:13 UTC
1 point
82 comments1 min readLW link

Tragedy of the free time commons

KatjaGrace16 Jan 2017 9:29 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Open thread, Jan. 16 - Jan. 22, 2016

MrMind16 Jan 2017 7:52 UTC
4 points
133 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup: January

Maelin16 Jan 2017 4:09 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Be some­one – be rec­og­nized by the sys­tem and pro­moted – or do something

James_Miller15 Jan 2017 21:22 UTC
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(dnipogo.org)