A new blog with analy­ses of var­i­ous top­ics (e. g. slav­ery and cap­i­tal­ism, why elec­tion mod­els didn’t pre­dict Trump’s vic­tory)

phl4326 Jan 2017 23:30 UTC
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(necpluribusimpar.net)

http://​nec­pluribusim­par.net (a new blog with analy­ses of var­i­ous top­ics, e. g. slav­ery and cap­i­tal­ism, why elec­tion mod­els didn’t pre­dict Trump’s vic­tory)

phl4326 Jan 2017 22:50 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

80,000 Hours: EA and Highly Poli­ti­cal Causes

The_Jaded_One26 Jan 2017 21:44 UTC
45 points
25 comments7 min readLW link

The Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute is hiring a pro­ject manager

crmflynn26 Jan 2017 18:19 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A ma­jor­ity coal­i­tion can lose a sym­met­ric zero-sum game

Stuart_Armstrong26 Jan 2017 12:13 UTC
21 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : SF Meetup: Group Debugging

maia26 Jan 2017 6:13 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow: unconference

berekuk25 Jan 2017 18:55 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Value Journaling

ProofOfLogic25 Jan 2017 6:10 UTC
24 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Odds ra­tios and con­di­tional risk ratios

Anders_H25 Jan 2017 3:55 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(andershuitfeldt.net)

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Meta Meetup

RobinZ25 Jan 2017 0:48 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fund­ing the Re­pro­ducibil­ity Crises as effec­tive giving

morganism24 Jan 2017 23:05 UTC
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wired.com)

First im­pres­sions...

ArisC24 Jan 2017 15:14 UTC
11 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Too Much Effort | Too Lit­tle Evidence

Erfeyah24 Jan 2017 12:37 UTC
2 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

Did EDT get it right all along? In­tro­duc­ing yet an­other med­i­cal New­comb problem

Johannes Treutlein24 Jan 2017 11:43 UTC
22 points
21 comments8 min readLW link

Strate­gic Think­ing: Paradigm Selection

katydee24 Jan 2017 6:24 UTC
15 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Life Ex­ten­sion Possibilities

sarahconstantin24 Jan 2017 1:54 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Met­rics to eval­u­ate a Presidency

ArisC24 Jan 2017 1:02 UTC
1 point
70 comments1 min readLW link

Self med­i­cat­ing for Schizophre­nia with—cigarettes ?

morganism24 Jan 2017 0:08 UTC
4 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(neurosciencenews.com)

Another UBI ar­ti­cle, this one on costs and benefits to society

morganism23 Jan 2017 23:21 UTC
2 points
16 comments1 min readLW link
(www.weforum.org)

Most em­piri­cal ques­tions are un­re­solve­able; The good, the bad, and the ap­pro­pri­ately un­der-powered

Davidmanheim23 Jan 2017 20:35 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Meetup : [Metro Detroit /​ Ann Ar­bor], Michigan

excinera23 Jan 2017 19:35 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

MAD Trollies

Gordon Seidoh Worley23 Jan 2017 18:57 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Quick mod­el­ing: re­solv­ing dis­agree­ments.

ProofOfLogic23 Jan 2017 18:18 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link
(nthlook.wordpress.com)

Open thread, Jan. 23 - Jan. 29, 2017

MrMind23 Jan 2017 7:41 UTC
5 points
196 comments1 min readLW link

Eval­u­at­ing Mo­ral Theories

ArisC23 Jan 2017 5:04 UTC
5 points
40 comments2 min readLW link

Strate­gies for coal­i­tions in unit-sum games

jessicata23 Jan 2017 4:20 UTC
9 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Pol­ling Thread Jan­uary 2017

Gunnar_Zarncke22 Jan 2017 23:26 UTC
4 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Pu­tanu­monit—Bayesian in­fer­ence vs. null hy­poth­e­sis testing

Jacob Falkovich22 Jan 2017 14:31 UTC
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Meetup : Den­ver Area LW Fe­bru­ary Meetup

PonchoPal22 Jan 2017 7:33 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Den­ver Area LW Fe­bru­ary Meetup

PonchoPal22 Jan 2017 7:29 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : First Bo­gota, Colom­bia Meetup

jpulgarin22 Jan 2017 6:02 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

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)