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Co­or­di­na­tion Sur­veys: why we should sur­vey to or­ga­nize re­spon­si­bil­ities, not just predictions

AcademianMay 7, 2019, 5:43 PM
68 points
12 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

Un­rol­ling so­cial metacog­ni­tion: Three lev­els of meta are not enough.

AcademianAug 25, 2018, 12:00 PM
191 points
44 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Sur­vey: What’s the most nega­tive*plau­si­ble cry­on­ics-works story that you know?

AcademianDec 23, 2015, 7:32 AM
9 points
75 comments2 min readLW link

De­liber­ate Grad School

AcademianOct 4, 2015, 10:11 AM
38 points
155 comments3 min readLW link

Willpower De­ple­tion vs Willpower Distraction

AcademianJun 15, 2014, 6:29 PM
110 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

CFAR is look­ing for a videog­ra­pher for next Wednesday

AcademianOct 8, 2013, 5:16 AM
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Are coin flips quan­tum ran­dom to my con­scious brain-parts?

AcademianFeb 19, 2013, 9:51 AM
11 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] Gen­eral-au­di­ence doc­u­men­tary on cos­mol­ogy, an­throp­ics, and superintelligence

AcademianJan 11, 2013, 5:11 AM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Re­la­tion Pro­jec­tion Fal­lacy and the pur­pose of life

AcademianDec 28, 2012, 4:14 AM
129 points
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Nar­ra­tive, self-image, and self-communication

AcademianDec 19, 2012, 9:42 AM
48 points
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Cre­dence cal­ibra­tion game FAQ

AcademianNov 26, 2012, 12:52 AM
24 points
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Vot­ing is like donat­ing thou­sands of dol­lars to charity

AcademianNov 5, 2012, 1:02 AM
41 points
206 comments5 min readLW link

In­for­ma­tion The­ory vs Harry Pot­ter [LINK]

AcademianApr 25, 2012, 5:40 PM
−9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Needed: A large database of state­ments for true/​false exercises

AcademianApr 13, 2012, 2:26 AM
7 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Teach­ing ra­tio­nal­ity made me bet­ter (at re­search and other things)

AcademianFeb 2, 2012, 6:10 PM
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Mini-camp was in­deed awe­some, and so was Luke (just add Bayes)

AcademianSep 2, 2011, 8:55 AM
4 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Fre­quen­tist vs Bayesian break­down: in­ter­pre­ta­tion vs inference

AcademianAug 30, 2011, 3:58 PM
36 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Michael Jor­dan dis­solves Bayesian vs Fre­quen­tist in­fer­ence de­bate [video lec­ture]

AcademianAug 30, 2011, 1:12 AM
10 points
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Mea­sur­ing aver­sion and habit strength

AcademianMay 27, 2011, 1:05 AM
111 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

List of liter­ally false state­ments in the Bible

AcademianMay 20, 2011, 8:10 AM
−17 points
8 comments1 min readLW link