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New business opportunities due to self-driving cars

chaosmage6 Sep 2017 20:07 UTC

13 points

68 comments4 min readLW link

Come check out the Boulder Future Salon this Saturday!

fowlertm6 Sep 2017 15:49 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Heuristics for textbook selection

John_Maxwell6 Sep 2017 4:17 UTC

12 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Expanding Premium Mediocrity

Zvi5 Sep 2017 23:01 UTC

−1 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Online discussion is better than pre-publication peer review

Wei Dai5 Sep 2017 13:25 UTC

27 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, September 4 - September 10, 2017

Thomas4 Sep 2017 7:41 UTC

2 points

30 comments1 min readLW link

If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing With Made-Up Statistics

Scott Alexander3 Sep 2017 20:56 UTC

74 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Minimizing Motivated Beliefs

entirelyuseless3 Sep 2017 15:56 UTC

2 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(entirelyuseless.wordpress.com)

Debiasing by rationalizing your own motives

Kaj_Sotala3 Sep 2017 12:20 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Intellectual Progress Inside and Outside Academia

Ben Pace2 Sep 2017 23:08 UTC

40 points

5 comments14 min readLW link

September 2017 Media Thread

ArisKatsaris2 Sep 2017 21:17 UTC

1 point

26 comments1 min readLW link

Simplified Anthropic Doomsday

Stuart_Armstrong2 Sep 2017 20:37 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 19:50 UTC

119 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

The Case Of The Suffocating Woman

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 19:42 UTC

17 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

Exploring Premium Mediocrity

Zvi2 Sep 2017 19:20 UTC

−1 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Learning To Love Scientific Consensus

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 8:44 UTC

30 points

1 comment19 min readLW link

I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 8:22 UTC

100 points

4 comments28 min readLW link

The Doomsday argument in anthropic decision theory

Stuart_Armstrong31 Aug 2017 13:44 UTC

11 points

58 comments3 min readLW link

The Doomsday argument in anthropic decision theory

Stuart_Armstrong31 Aug 2017 13:20 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

What you can’t say to a sympathetic ear

KatjaGrace31 Aug 2017 0:05 UTC

9 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Critiquing other people’s plans politely

KatjaGrace30 Aug 2017 23:25 UTC

1 point

0 comments5 min readLW link

Intrinsic properties and Eliezer’s metaethics

Tyrrell_McAllister29 Aug 2017 23:26 UTC

18 points

27 comments6 min readLW link

Is there a flaw in the simulation argument?

philosophytorres29 Aug 2017 14:34 UTC

2 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

Doing a big survey on work, stress, and productivity. Feedback / anything you’re curious about?

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)29 Aug 2017 14:19 UTC

1 point

16 comments1 min readLW link

Request For Collaboration

DragonGod28 Aug 2017 23:05 UTC

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, August 28 - September 3, 2017

Thomas28 Aug 2017 6:11 UTC

1 point

71 comments1 min readLW link

FACTS ARE FACTS?

arisen28 Aug 2017 4:13 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

P: 0 ⇐ P ⇐ 1

DragonGod27 Aug 2017 21:57 UTC

7 points

61 comments9 min readLW link

The Contrarian Sequences

DragonGod27 Aug 2017 19:33 UTC

9 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Funding opportunity for AI alignment research

paulfchristiano27 Aug 2017 5:23 UTC

1 point

4 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Rational Feed

sapphire27 Aug 2017 3:49 UTC

18 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

Escaping the Premium Mediocre

Jacob Falkovich27 Aug 2017 0:47 UTC

1 point

0 comments10 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Play in Hard Mode

Zvi26 Aug 2017 19:00 UTC

43 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Play in Easy Mode

Zvi26 Aug 2017 18:57 UTC

23 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

The Limits of Correctness, by Bryan Cantwell Smith [pdf]

cousin_it25 Aug 2017 11:36 UTC

5 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca)

Could the Maxipok rule have catastrophic consequences? (I argue yes.)

philosophytorres25 Aug 2017 10:00 UTC

10 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

When “I’m here” means nothing

squidious25 Aug 2017 7:00 UTC

2 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(www.blogger.com)

Paranoia testing

Elo25 Aug 2017 4:41 UTC

0 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Social Insight: Status Exchange: When an Insult Is a Compliment, When a Compliment Is an Insult

Bound_up25 Aug 2017 3:57 UTC

9 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

What is Rational?

DragonGod24 Aug 2017 22:35 UTC

3 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

A Decision Problem

DragonGod24 Aug 2017 21:53 UTC

0 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Using modal fixed points to formalize logical causality

cousin_it24 Aug 2017 14:33 UTC

21 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Nasas ambitious plan to save earth from a supervolcano

ChristianKl24 Aug 2017 10:01 UTC

7 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

(www.bbc.com)

Habits 101: Techniques and Research

lifelonglearner22 Aug 2017 10:54 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Emotional labour

Elo22 Aug 2017 0:54 UTC

6 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

It is easy to expose users’ secret web habits, say researchers

ChristianKl21 Aug 2017 7:05 UTC

6 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.bbc.com)

Open thread, August 21 - August 27, 2017

Thomas21 Aug 2017 6:13 UTC

1 point

71 comments1 min readLW link

The new spring of artificial intelligence: A few early economics

fortyeridania21 Aug 2017 2:06 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(voxeu.org)

Ten small life improvements

paulfchristiano20 Aug 2017 19:09 UTC

39 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Altruism is Incomplete

Zvi20 Aug 2017 16:29 UTC

2 points

0 comments15 min readLW link