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I Want To Live In A Baugruppe
Alicorn
Mar 17, 2017, 1:36 AM
109
points
195
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[REPOST] The Demiurge’s Older Brother
Scott Alexander
Mar 22, 2017, 2:03 AM
97
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons
Scott Alexander
Mar 24, 2017, 4:33 AM
66
points
5
comments
19
min read
LW
link
What’s up with Arbital?
Alexei
Mar 29, 2017, 5:22 PM
41
points
91
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Sufficiently sincere confirmation bias is indistinguishable from science
Benquo
Mar 15, 2017, 1:19 PM
37
points
19
comments
2
min read
LW
link
In support of Yak Shaving
Elo
Mar 16, 2017, 5:31 AM
36
points
14
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Musical setting of the Litany of Tarski
komponisto
Mar 23, 2017, 11:18 AM
30
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LW UI issue
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Mar 24, 2017, 6:08 PM
22
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
IQ and Magnus Carlsen, Leo Messi and the Decathlon
ragintumbleweed
Mar 28, 2017, 10:37 PM
21
points
32
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Generalizing Foundations of Decision Theory
abramdemski
Mar 4, 2017, 4:46 PM
19
points
11
comments
10
min read
LW
link
5 Project Hufflepuff Suggestions for the Rationality Community
lifelonglearner
Mar 4, 2017, 2:23 AM
18
points
35
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Putanumonit: A spreadsheet helps debias decisions, like picking a girl to date
Jacob Falkovich
Mar 15, 2017, 3:19 AM
17
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Avoiding Emotional Dominance Spirals
Zvi
Mar 30, 2017, 12:43 AM
17
points
18
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Humor] In honor of our new overlord decision theory acronym FDT...
Zvi
Mar 24, 2017, 9:17 PM
16
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Am I Really an X?
Gram_Stone
Mar 5, 2017, 12:11 AM
14
points
359
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[stub] 100-Word Unpolished Insights Thread (3/10-???)
Bound_up
Mar 10, 2017, 2:12 PM
14
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Announcing: The great bridge
Elo
Mar 17, 2017, 1:11 AM
13
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Submission and dominance among friends
jsalvatier
Mar 28, 2017, 2:43 AM
13
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(johnsalvatier.org)
Dreaming of Political Bayescraft
Zack_M_Davis
Mar 6, 2017, 8:41 PM
12
points
49
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(zackmdavis.net)
Making equilibrium CDT into FDT in one+ easy step
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 21, 2017, 2:42 PM
12
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system
ig0r
Mar 10, 2017, 8:40 PM
11
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(donellameadows.org)
Chuckling a Bit at Microsoft and the PCFG Formalism
Daniel_Burfoot
Mar 20, 2017, 7:37 PM
11
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(ozoraresearch.wordpress.com)
Automoderation System used by Columbus Rationality Community
J Thomas Moros
Mar 15, 2017, 1:18 PM
11
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(ferocioustruth.com)
Phenomenological Complexity Classes
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Mar 2, 2017, 7:47 PM
11
points
11
comments
18
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
survey about biases in the investment context
-necate-
Mar 25, 2017, 2:24 PM
10
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LW mentioned in influential 2016 Milo article on the Alt-Right
James_Miller
Mar 18, 2017, 7:30 PM
10
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.breitbart.com)
Act into Uncertainty
lifelonglearner
Mar 24, 2017, 9:28 PM
10
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Antidepressant Pharmacogenomics: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Scott Alexander
Mar 6, 2017, 5:38 AM
9
points
0
comments
20
min read
LW
link
Could utility functions be for narrow AI only, and downright antithetical to AGI?
chaosmage
Mar 16, 2017, 6:24 PM
9
points
38
comments
5
min read
LW
link
If only we had taller been
jsalvatier
Mar 4, 2017, 11:15 PM
9
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(johnsalvatier.org)
AI Research Discussed by Mainstream Media
TimS
Mar 2, 2017, 4:22 PM
9
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.slate.com)
Don’t Fear the Reaper: Refuting Bostrom’s Superintelligence Argument
sbenthall
Mar 1, 2017, 2:28 PM
9
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Naturally solved problems that are easy to verify but that would be hard to compute
Douglas_Reay
Mar 29, 2017, 1:01 PM
8
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An Intuition on the Bayes-Structural Justification for Free Speech Norms
Zack_M_Davis
Mar 9, 2017, 3:15 AM
8
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(zackmdavis.net)
Globally better means locally worse
Tyrrell_McAllister
Mar 22, 2017, 7:25 PM
8
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
20000 UC Berkeley lectures that were deleted from Youtube
username2
Mar 19, 2017, 11:40 AM
8
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(lbry.io)
Some problems with making induction benign, and approaches to them
jessicata
Mar 27, 2017, 6:49 AM
8
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Mar. 20 - Mar. 26, 2017
MrMind
Mar 20, 2017, 8:01 AM
7
points
208
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Mar. 27 - Apr. 02, 2017
username2
Mar 27, 2017, 8:29 AM
7
points
41
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, March. 6 - March 12, 2017
Elo
Mar 6, 2017, 5:29 AM
7
points
156
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dominance, care, and social touch
Benquo
Mar 29, 2017, 5:53 PM
7
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
What Value Epicycles?
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Mar 27, 2017, 9:03 PM
7
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
[Error]: Statistical Death in Damascus
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 20, 2017, 7:17 PM
7
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Stub] The wrong philosophical question
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 1, 2017, 12:31 PM
7
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Attractor Theory: A Model of Minds and Motivation
lifelonglearner
Mar 18, 2017, 3:12 AM
7
points
11
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Get full-text of research papers as you browse
morganism
Mar 23, 2017, 7:56 PM
7
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(unpaywall.org)
What Value Hermeneutics?
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Mar 21, 2017, 8:03 PM
7
points
9
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
[stub] Soliciting help for experimental design
MaryCh
Mar 15, 2017, 11:49 AM
6
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
Alien Implant: Newcomb’s Smoking Lesion
entirelyuseless
Mar 3, 2017, 4:51 AM
6
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(entirelyuseless.wordpress.com)
LessWrong Discord
excinera
Mar 13, 2017, 5:24 AM
6
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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