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Nothing is Forbidden, but Some Things are Good

Gordon Seidoh Worley27 Jan 2017 23:53 UTC

8 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(mapandterritory.org)

Did slavery make the US an economic superpower and would the industrial revolution have happened without it?

phl4327 Jan 2017 21:01 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(necpluribusimpar.net)

Did slavery make the US an economic superpower and would the industrial revolution have happened without it?

phl4327 Jan 2017 21:00 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Maze of Moral Relativism

Stabilizer27 Jan 2017 19:29 UTC

5 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

New LW Meetup: Bogota

FrankAdamek27 Jan 2017 18:55 UTC

2 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

2017: An Actual Plan to Actually Improve

[deleted]27 Jan 2017 18:42 UTC

26 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain127 Jan 2017 18:29 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

new study finds performance enhancing drugs for chess

morganism27 Jan 2017 0:04 UTC

6 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(worldchess.com)

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