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Projects-in-Progress Thread

lifelonglearner21 Jan 2017 5:11 UTC

18 points

47 comments1 min readLW link

In Defense of the Obvious

lifelonglearner21 Jan 2017 3:06 UTC

20 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

0.999...=1: Another Rationality Litmus Test

shev21 Jan 2017 2:16 UTC

27 points

59 comments7 min readLW link

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