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“Meditation for skeptics” – a review of two books, and some thoughts
Sherrinford
20 Mar 2021 23:35 UTC
16
points
4
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Conspicuous saving
Matthew Barnett
20 Mar 2021 20:59 UTC
50
points
42
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(matthewbarnett.substack.com)
Trust status sigmoidally
DirectedEvolution
20 Mar 2021 19:50 UTC
15
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Unnecessary Boredom Bias
Mathisco
20 Mar 2021 19:29 UTC
8
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
On LessWrong/Rationality and Political Debates
sophia_xu
20 Mar 2021 18:26 UTC
22
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Vows & Declaration
Ruby
20 Mar 2021 17:21 UTC
24
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open, Free, Safe: Choose Two
jaspax
20 Mar 2021 16:42 UTC
108
points
17
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Fisherian Runaway as a decision-theoretic problem
Bunthut
20 Mar 2021 16:34 UTC
11
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are the best resources to point people who are skeptical of getting vaccinated for COVID-19 to?
ChristianKl
20 Mar 2021 11:18 UTC
13
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Jean Monnet: The Guerilla Bureaucrat
Martin Sustrik
20 Mar 2021 10:37 UTC
177
points
25
comments
18
min read
LW
link
1
review
[Question]
Is January AI a real thing?
Ericf
20 Mar 2021 0:10 UTC
9
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Babble Challenge: 50 Ways to Overcome Impostor Syndrome
Tim Liptrot
19 Mar 2021 18:21 UTC
15
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Feelings of Admiration, Ruby ⇔ Miranda
Ruby
19 Mar 2021 16:12 UTC
26
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Some blindspots in rationality and effective altruism
Remmelt
19 Mar 2021 11:40 UTC
37
points
44
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Ads are everywhere, and it’s not okay
damiensnyder
19 Mar 2021 5:43 UTC
6
points
11
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Asking questions to fulfill expectations
erkenbrand
19 Mar 2021 2:27 UTC
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“You and Your Research” – Hamming Watch/Discuss Party
Ben Pace
19 Mar 2021 0:16 UTC
45
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Voting-like mechanisms which address size of preferences?
abramdemski
18 Mar 2021 23:23 UTC
36
points
29
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Chaos Induces Abstractions
johnswentworth
18 Mar 2021 20:08 UTC
100
points
13
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The EMH is False—Specific Strong Evidence
sapphire
18 Mar 2021 18:38 UTC
62
points
83
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Why sigmoids are so hard to predict
Stuart_Armstrong
18 Mar 2021 18:21 UTC
56
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Book Club: Software Design for Flexibility
stuhlmueller
18 Mar 2021 15:42 UTC
43
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Acetylcholine = Learning rate (aka plasticity)
Steven Byrnes
18 Mar 2021 13:57 UTC
38
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Is RL involved in sensory processing?
Steven Byrnes
18 Mar 2021 13:57 UTC
21
points
21
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Learn and practice using the Circle of Competence with exercises
icompetetowin
18 Mar 2021 13:56 UTC
1
point
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(newsletter.decisionschool.org)
Covid 3/18: An Expected Quantity of Blood Clots
Zvi
18 Mar 2021 13:50 UTC
74
points
25
comments
15
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Spirits vs Terms as Arbitration Norms
nonveumann
18 Mar 2021 5:07 UTC
12
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are fun little puzzles / games / exercises to learn interesting concepts?
Mati_Roy
18 Mar 2021 3:26 UTC
18
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The best things are often free or cheap
Adam Zerner
18 Mar 2021 2:57 UTC
25
points
15
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Product orientation
DirectedEvolution
18 Mar 2021 0:41 UTC
14
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Age of Imaginative Machines
Yuli_Ban
18 Mar 2021 0:35 UTC
10
points
1
comment
11
min read
LW
link
“Objective vs Social Reality” vs “Simulacra 1/3″
Raemon
17 Mar 2021 22:15 UTC
27
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AstraZeneca vaccine shows no protection against Covid-19 variant from Africa
Gytis Daujotas
17 Mar 2021 18:45 UTC
13
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[AN #142]: The quest to understand a network well enough to reimplement it by hand
Rohin Shah
17 Mar 2021 17:10 UTC
36
points
4
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Sharing a Car
jefftk
17 Mar 2021 13:30 UTC
12
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
HCH Speculation Post #2A
Charlie Steiner
17 Mar 2021 13:26 UTC
43
points
7
comments
9
min read
LW
link
On Attempts to Transcend our Models of Numbers
Chris_Leong
17 Mar 2021 8:37 UTC
9
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Politics is way too meta
Rob Bensinger
17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC
288
points
46
comments
11
min read
LW
link
1
review
Intermittent Distillations #1
Mark Xu
17 Mar 2021 5:15 UTC
25
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Nutrition for brain.
Valentin2026
17 Mar 2021 5:00 UTC
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Comments on “The Singularity is Nowhere Near”
Steven Byrnes
16 Mar 2021 23:59 UTC
51
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
MetaPrompt: a tool for telling yourself what to do.
abramdemski
16 Mar 2021 20:49 UTC
66
points
12
comments
15
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Partial-Consciousness as semantic/symbolic representational language model trained on NN
Joe Kwon
16 Mar 2021 18:51 UTC
2
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An Antropic Argument for Post-singularity Antinatalism
monkaap
16 Mar 2021 17:40 UTC
1
point
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why is rhetoric taboo among rationalists?
TOoHNA
16 Mar 2021 17:38 UTC
−5
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Can an economy keep on growing?
invertedpassion
16 Mar 2021 9:55 UTC
1
point
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Conversation Exchange Statistics
lsusr
16 Mar 2021 8:50 UTC
23
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Link: How to Star-Man
Chris_Leong
16 Mar 2021 3:12 UTC
12
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(centerforinquiry.org)
Bay and/or Global Solstice* Job Search (2021 − 2022)
Raemon
,
Alex_Altair
and
LauraVaughan
16 Mar 2021 0:21 UTC
37
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What’s So Bad About Ad-Hoc Mathematical Definitions?
johnswentworth
15 Mar 2021 21:51 UTC
200
points
58
comments
7
min read
LW
link
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