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Weekly LW Meetups

by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)

Why aren't there more forum-blogs like LW?

by Stabilizer | 9v (28c)

Question on Medical School and Wage Potential for Earning to Give

by eggman | 2v (19c)

Meetup : Tempe, AZ (ASU)

by Jayson_Virissimo | 1v (1c)

Making Fun of Things is Easy

by katydee | 32v (76c)

I played the AI Box Experiment again! (and lost both games)

by Tuxedage | 35v (123c)

Ketogenic Soylent

by BrienneYudkowsky | 6v (101c)

Intelligence Amplification and Friendly AI

by lukeprog | 14v (25c)

AI ebook cover design brainstorming

by lukeprog | 3v (35c)

Meetup : Atlanta Pre-Meetup Museum Field Trip

by Nova_Division | 0v (0c)

Meetup : Montreal LessWrong - Return from summer break

by bartimaeus | 2v (0c)

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

by PyryP | 1v (0c)

Happy Petrov Day

by Eneasz | 14v (4c)

Rationalizing: looking for the wrong kind of loopholes

by bokov | 4v (6c)

Bayesian probability as an approximate theory of uncertainty?

by cousin_it | 16v (35c)

What makes us think _any_ of our terminal values aren't based on a misunderstanding of reality?

by bokov | 17v (89c)

Doing Important Research on Amazon's Mechanical Turk?

by peter_hurford | 5v (49c)

Inferential silence

by Kaj_Sotala | 44v (58c)

Prisoner's Dilemma vs the Afterlife

by DataPacRat | 11v (69c)

Meetup : Durham NC/Triangle Area: Cognitive Biases, Part 3

by therufs | -1v (0c)

Autism, Watson, the Turing test, and General Intelligence

by Stuart_Armstrong | 7v (22c)

Open Thread, September 23-29, 2013

by Mestroyer | 5v (261c)

[Link] - No evidence of intelligence improvement after working memory training

by pinyaka | 4v (7c)

Meetup : Moscow, Beliefs

by Yuu | 2v (0c)

AAAI 2014 Spring Symposia

by Stuart_Armstrong | 1v (0c)

Torture vs. Shampoo

by ChrisHallquist | 9v (43c)

Hoping to start a discussion about overcoming insecurity

by ILikeLogic | 16v (51c)

Polyphasic Sleep Seed Study: Reprise

by BrienneYudkowsky | 40v (63c)

Predicting Organizational Behavior

by ksvanhorn | 4v (10c)

Meetup : Urbana-Champaign: The löbstacle for picking good actions.

by Manfred | 2v (0c)

Meetup : Washington DC Book Swap meetup

by rocurley | 1v (1c)

Amplituhedron?

by linkhyrule5 | 8v (15c)

Instinctive Frequentists, the Outside View, and de-Biasing

by Stuart_Armstrong | 38v (23c)

Interactive Infographic on Simpson's Paradox

by Antisuji | 25v (2c)

Weekly LW Meetups

by FrankAdamek | 0v (1c)

AI-related honours projects?

by klkblake | 3v (17c)

Meetup : Saskatoon: Iterative Improvement and Concrete Planning.

by Nicholas_Rutherford | 1v (0c)

The Belief Signaling Trilemma

by Coscott | 8v (48c)

Meetup : Intro to AI Existential Risk

by chronophasiac | 1v (0c)

Meetup : London meetup: thought experiments

by ciphergoth | 4v (3c)

Help us Optimize the Contents of the Sequences eBook

by lukeprog | 11v (73c)

Proxy Donating as Spam Filter

by beth | 4v (9c)

Meetup : The Anthropic Principle and the Great Filter

by Danny_Hintze | 0v (2c)

Meetup : Vancouver "Monthly" Super Meetup

by nyan_sandwich | 0v (0c)

Help FHI crowdsource a directory of researchers with high consequentialist significance and win a prize

by zero_0nee | 3v (8c)

Understanding Simpson's Paradox

by Vaniver | 11v (19c)

Help CFAR Take Manhattan

by palladias | 8v (0c)

[LINK] Larry = Harry sans magic? Google vs. Death

by shminux | 23v (55c)

What did governments get right? Gotta list them all!

by Stuart_Armstrong | 6v (46c)

Meetup : Philadelphia - The Sword of Good

by mare-of-night | 2v (0c)

Thought experiment: The transhuman pedophile

by PhilGoetz | 6v (74c)

Help us name a short primer on AI risk!

by lukeprog | 7v (75c)

Meetup : Bratislava Meetup VII.

by Viliam_Bur | 0v (0c)

Meetup : Durham/RTLW HPMoR discussion, ch. 86

by therufs | -1v (0c)

Dennett on the selfish neuron, etc.

by NancyLebovitz | 8v (12c)

Another way our brains betray us

by polymathwannabe | 3v (10c)

Signaling of what, precisely?

by VipulNaik | 6v (12c)

Cooperating with agents with different ideas of fairness, while resisting exploitation

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 38v (44c)

Open thread, September 16-22, 2013

by Metus | 5v (141c)

Group Rationality Diary, September 16-30

by therufs | 2v (27c)

Notes on logical priors from the MIRI workshop

by cousin_it | 18v (45c)

Meetup : Frankfurt

by Kendra | 2v (0c)

Winter Solstice 2013 Kickstarter - The Big One.

by Raemon | 26v (20c)

Meetup : Columbus, OH MEGA-MEETUP, Oct 11-13

by daenerys | 2v (5c)

Large introductory science classes

by VipulNaik | 1v (15c)

Help MIRI run its Oxford UK workshop in November

by lukeprog | 6v (0c)

College courses versus LessWrong

by VipulNaik | 7v (55c)

[link] "The Survival of Humanity"

by Pablo_Stafforini | 1v (3c)

Meetup : Atlanta Lesswrong September Meetup (2nd of 2)

by Nova_Division | 1v (0c)

Notes on Brainwashing & 'Cults'

by gwern | 35v (101c)

New LW Meetup: Phoenix

by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)

Please share your reading habits/techniques/strategies

by Torello | 9v (25c)

[LINK] Behind the Shock Machine: book reexamining Milgram obedience experiments

by DanArmak | 8v (13c)

Meetup : West LA—Talk Like a Pirate Day

by OpenThreadGuy | 1v (0c)

Meetup : Moscow: Yet Another Meetup

by Yuu | 0v (0c)

Meetup : Washington DC fun and games meetup

by rocurley | 0v (0c)

Meetup : Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Games/Discussion

by Mestroyer | 0v (0c)

Meetup : Applied Rationality Talks: Thinking in Bayes

by Swimmer963 | 3v (0c)

Games for Rationalists

by Gunnar_Zarncke | 5v (55c)

Patternist friendly AI risk

by bokov | 1v (55c)

Meetup : Brussels monthly meetup

by Roxolan | 0v (0c)

Meetup : Berlin: Fermi paradox discussion

by blob | 1v (1c)

How well will policy-makers handle AGI? (initial findings)

by lukeprog | 15v (6c)

A concise version of “Twelve Virtues of Rationality”, with Anki deck

by atroche | 3v (17c)

What's Your Hourly Rate?

by katydee | 6v (14c)

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

by morrel | 0v (1c)

Meetup : Durham NC/Triangle Area: Cognitive Biases, Continued

by therufs | 0v (1c)

The Interrupted Ultimate Newcomb's Problem

by linkhyrule5 | 3v (18c)

Two special CFAR classes in Sept: Installing Habits and Rationality for Programmers

by palladias | 5v (5c)

The Ultimate Newcomb's Problem

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 18v (112c)

Military Rationalities and Irrationalities

by pscheyer | 21v (58c)

Satisficing versus optimizing in instructor selection

by VipulNaik | 4v (1c)

Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup

by Maelin | 0v (6c)

Request for Advice: Unschool or High School?

by Brendon_Wong | 6v (47c)

Open thread, September 9-15, 2013

by Metus | 3v (126c)

High school activities and medical school admissions

by JonahSinick | 5v (12c)

Mistakes repository

by Dorikka | 24v (192c)

Course selection based on instructor

by VipulNaik | 10v (28c)

Yet More "Stupid" Questions

by NancyLebovitz | 4v (265c)

Terminology point rationality vs rationalism.

by beoShaffer | 0v (12c)

Meetup : London social meetup

by ciphergoth | 2v (0c)

New LW Meetup: Boulder CO

by FrankAdamek | 2v (0c)

Meetup : Atlanta Lesswrong September Meetup (1st of 2)

by Nova_Division | 0v (0c)

Nudging around the world - [link]

by Dr_Manhattan | 6v (1c)

Meetup : West LA—What, Exactly, Is a Person?

by OpenThreadGuy | 3v (1c)

The Up-Goer Five Game: Explaining hard ideas with simple words

by RobbBB | 29v (82c)

I attempted the AI Box Experiment again! (And won - Twice!)

by Tuxedage | 36v (163c)

Meetup : Saskatoon: Zendo!

by Nicholas_Rutherford | 0v (4c)

Meetup : Rutgers New Brunswick

by pleeppleep | 2v (1c)

You are the average of the five people you spend most time with.

by diegocaleiro | -2v (12c)

How effectively can we plan for future decades? (initial findings)

by lukeprog | 11v (18c)

Eudaimonic Utilitarianism

by Darklight | 7v (34c)

LINK: Study demonstrates politically motivated innumeracy

by Alejandro1 | 12v (3c)

Which subreddits should we create on Less Wrong?

by lukeprog | 24v (76c)

Types of recursion

by AnthonyC | 16v (16c)

Meetup : Zagreb Meetup

by IsTheLittleLion | 1v (0c)

Confidence In Opinions, Intensity In Opinion

by lionhearted | 0v (7c)

Meetup : Phoenix Tuesday Lunch Group

by Danny_Hintze | 1v (0c)

Help describing decibans?

by DataPacRat | 3v (30c)

Ignorance in parenting

by Gunnar_Zarncke | 13v (46c)

Meetup : Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

by Mestroyer | 0v (1c)

Useful Habits Repository

by XFrequentist | 10v (95c)

Open thread, September 2-8, 2013

by David_Gerard | 0v (376c)

Baseline of my opinion on LW topics

by Gunnar_Zarncke | 7v (6c)

Rudeness

by Odinn | 4v (19c)

Artificial explosion of the Sun: a new x-risk?

by lukeprog | 3v (34c)

Teapots and Soda Cans

by Odinn | 6v (14c)

Advanced Placement exam cutoffs and superficial knowledge over deep knowledge

by JonahSinick | 4v (18c)

P/S/A - Sam Harris offering money for a little good philosophy

by Benito | 10v (77c)

MIRI course list book reviews, part 1: Gödel, Escher, Bach

by So8res | 16v (10c)

Bed time stories with clear concepts

by Gunnar_Zarncke | 21v (9c)

September 2013 Media Thread

by ArisKatsaris | 4v (70c)

Group Rationality Diary, September 1-15

by therufs | 2v (18c)

Relevance of the STEPS project to (F)AI teams

by Gunnar_Zarncke | 2v (7c)

Raising numerate children

by Gunnar_Zarncke | 33v (25c)

Looking for Opinions on "Antifragile" by N. Taleb

by Torello | 2v (28c)

Meetup : Washington, DC: Goals

by maia | 0v (4c)

New LW Meetup: Urbana-Champaign

by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)

Genies and Wishes in the context of computer science

by private_messaging | 15v (43c)

Why Productivity? Why Gratitude?

by feanor1600 | 11v (5c)

Techniques to consciously activate a rationalist self-image

by chaosmage | 2v (6c)

A basis for pattern-matching in logical uncertainty

by Manfred | 3v (18c)

Meetup : Moscow: The Sunday Meetup

by Yuu | 0v (0c)

Meetup : Fall Equinox: Festival of Heroes

by hamnox | 0v (1c)

Outside View(s) and MIRI's FAI Endgame

by Wei_Dai | 16v (60c)

[LINK] - Aaron Sell (Psychology Today) on the Politicisation of Science

by Salemicus | 5v (9c)

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 27, chapter 98

by Vaniver | 2v (308c)

Yet more "stupid" questions

by NancyLebovitz | 7v (340c)

Open Thread: How much strategic thinking have you done recently?

by Emile | 7v (29c)

Meetup : Melbourne Practical Rationality: Group Prediction Calibration and Aumann's Agreement Theorem

by BraydenM | 0v (0c)

What should a college student do to maximize future earnings for effective altruism?

by D_Malik | 16v (75c)

Meetup : Arizona State Lunch Group

by Danny_Hintze | 0v (8c)

Meetup : New Meetup: Boulder CO

by yakurbe0112 | 2v (1c)

Meetup : Saskatoon Meetup: Value of Information

by Nicholas_Rutherford | 1v (0c)

Open thread, August 26 - September 1, 2013

by philh | 3v (148c)

Two angles on Repetitive Strain Injury

by NancyLebovitz | 1v (27c)

How sure are you that brain emulations would be conscious?

by ChrisHallquist | 15v (174c)

Meetup : Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

by Mestroyer | 0v (0c)

[LINK] Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness

by ESRogs | 3v (7c)

Transparency in safety-critical systems

by lukeprog | 4v (13c)

The 50 Shades of Grey Book Club

by PhilGoetz | 5v (60c)

How Efficient is the Charitable Market?

by lukeprog | 16v (12c)

Meetup : West LA—Nothing in Particular

by OpenThreadGuy | 0v (0c)

Weekly LW Meetups

by FrankAdamek | 0v (1c)

Meetup : Comfort Zone Expansion outing - London

by philh | 3v (8c)

Lesswrong Philosophy and Personal Identity

by Carinthium | 10v (54c)

Rationalist households: What can London learn from its predecessors?

by KnaveOfAllTrades | 7v (40c)

Meetup : Philadelphia - Humans are not automatically strategic

by mare-of-night | 1v (0c)

Another Anki deck for Less Wrong content

by MondSemmel | 14v (5c)

Use Your Identity Carefully

by Ben_LandauTaylor | 76v (33c)

Meetup : VA Callibration/Biased games meetup

by rocurley | 0v (0c)

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

by morrel | 0v (1c)

Meetup : Durham NC/Triangle Area: Cognitive Biases and Where to Find Them + games!

by therufs | 0v (0c)

Meetup : [Boston] Estimation Experiment & Discussion

by Ben_LandauTaylor | 0v (0c)

Meetup : Durham/RTLW HPMoR discussion, ch. 82-85

by therufs | 0v (0c)

[LINK] "Preventing Human Extinction" by Nick Beckstead, Peter Singer, and Matt Wage

by peter_hurford | 3v (1c)

Internal and external criticism

by Kaj_Sotala | 14v (5c)

[LINK] Cochrane on Existential Risk

by Salemicus | 0v (21c)

Torture vs Dust Specks Yet Again

by sentientplatypus | -2v (54c)

[LINK] Slashdot interview with David Ettinger of the Cryonics Institute

by moreati | 1v (12c)

Open thread, August 19-25, 2013

by David_Gerard | 2v (325c)

Engaging First Introductions to AI Risk

by RobbBB | 20v (21c)

One way to manipulate your level of abstraction related to a task

by Andy_McKenzie | 26v (5c)

Effective Altruist Job Board?

by peter_hurford | 4v (5c)

My daily reflection routine

by Nick_Beckstead | 20v (17c)

LW Melbourne: Report on Public Rationality Lecture

by Reuven | 21v (2c)

Meetup : New Meetup: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

by Mestroyer | 0v (1c)

Group Rationality Diary, August 16-31

by therufs | 2v (15c)

New LW Meetup: Saskatoon

by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)

[LINK] Radio interview with Daniel Kahneman

by RichardKennaway | 4v (0c)

Meetup : Moscow: The Sunday Meetup

by Yuu | 0v (0c)

Where I've Changed My Mind on My Approach to Speculative Causes

by peter_hurford | 36v (51c)

"Mind reading" - how is this done?

by CWG | 2v (41c)

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 26, chapter 97

by palladias | 5v (501c)

Practical Limits to Giving Now and The Haste Consideration

by peter_hurford | 7v (12c)

Meetup : Bratislava Meetup VI.

by Viliam_Bur | 1v (0c)

[LINK] EdTech startup hosts AI Hunger Games (cash prize $1k)

by malcolmocean | 9v (23c)

Meetup : Washington DC meetup: Robin Hanson visits again

by maia | 2v (0c)

[LINK] Major guide to supplements

by NancyLebovitz | 10v (19c)

Engaging Intellectual Elites at Less Wrong

by lukeprog | 11v (136c)

Bets on an Extreme Future

by JoshuaFox | 1v (38c)

Does Checkers have simpler rules than Go?

by jkaufman | 14v (46c)

[LINK] Hyperloop officially announced — predictions, anyone?

by malcolmocean | 4v (32c)

Course - Saving Millions of lives at a time [link]

by Dr_Manhattan | 4v (0c)

Update on establishment of Cambridge’s Centre for Study of Existential Risk

by Sean_o_h | 40v (15c)

Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup

by Maelin | 0v (4c)

Open thread, August 12-18, 2013

by David_Gerard | 2v (123c)

Meetup : Washington DC Lojban meetup

by rocurley | 0v (0c)

Some MIRI Workshop Stuff

by abramdemski | 6v (8c)

New Monthly Thread: Bragging

by Joshua_Blaine | 30v (145c)

The Rebuttal Repository

by peter_hurford | 11v (59c)

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

by morrel | 0v (1c)

Meetup: Philadelphia, August 11, games

by NancyLebovitz | 1v (2c)

Proposal: periodic repost of the Best Learning resources

by Dr_Manhattan | 9v (5c)

Who are some of the best writers in history?

by Crux | 1v (36c)

Effective Rationality Training Online

by Brendon_Wong | 2v (23c)

Interesting new Pew Research study on American opinions about radical life extension

by impromptublue | 10v (21c)

Meetup : Durham NC/Triangle Area: "Rationality is hard! Let's do math" (Utility Functions/Prospect Theory)

by therufs | 0v (1c)

Weekly LW Meetups

by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)

Greatest Philosopher in History

by Carinthium | 1v (62c)

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Confess Your Unpopular Opinion

by OpenThreadGuy | 4v (23c)

Meetup : Atlanta LessWrong: Games Night

by Nova_Division | 2v (0c)

Random variables and Evidential Decision Theory

by twanvl | -1v (37c)

[LINK] Bitcoins, "Investment of Money," and Law

by TimS | 1v (1c)

New article on in vitro iterated embryo selection

by CarlShulman | 11v (33c)

Meetup : London Social - The Unwelcome but Probable Decline and Fall of Direct Sunlight

by philh | 6v (0c)

Should you work at 80,000 Hours?

by Jess_Whittlestone | 17v (11c)

Motivation and Merciless Commitment Contracts

by peirce | 5v (70c)

What Would it Take to "Prove" a Speculative Cause?

by peter_hurford | 6v (15c)

Meetup : Vancouver!

by nyan_sandwich | 0v (0c)

Improving Enjoyment and Retention Reading Technical Literature

by sentientplatypus | 28v (39c)

Meetup : [Boston] Using Causal Graphs to Understand Bias in the Medical Literature

by Ben_LandauTaylor | 6v (7c)

Meetup : LessWrong Israel September meetup

by DanArmak | 0v (3c)

Meetup : LW Munich Meetup in August

by Teobaldo | 0v (0c)

Meetup : LW Munich Meetup in August

by Teobaldo | 0v (0c)

Open thread, August 5-11, 2013

by David_Gerard | 3v (307c)

Meetup : Saskatoon's First Meetup!

by Nicholas_Rutherford | 5v (1c)

Meetup : Washington DC books meetup

by rocurley | 0v (0c)

Crossing the experiments: a baby

by Stuart_Armstrong | 4v (90c)

Seeking a reader for LessWrong sequences

by Rick_from_Castify | 5v (12c)

Meetup : Washington DC fun and games meetup

by rocurley | 0v (0c)

Algorithmic Progress in Six Domains

by lukeprog | 24v (30c)

August 2013 Media Thread

by ArisKatsaris | 5v (119c)

[Link] AI advances: computers can be almost as funny as people

by shminux | 5v (17c)

Meetup : Vienna Meetup

by Ratcourse | 0v (0c)

Weekly LW Meetups

by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)

Group Rationality Diary, August 1-15

by therufs | 3v (61c)

The Fermi paradox as evidence against the likelyhood of unfriendly AI

by chaosmage | 5v (53c)

Meetup : Picnic au Parc de la Tête d'Or

by Oriane | 0v (1c)

How does MIRI Know it Has a Medium Probability of Success?

by peter_hurford | 19v (137c)

Meetup : Vancouver Open Discussion

by eggman | 0v (3c)

RapGenius + Sequences = ?

by Alexandros | 15v (3c)

Common Task Time Estimation Repository

by Arkanj3l | 5v (15c)

Q for GiveWell: What is GiveDirectly's mechanism of action?

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 16v (29c)

Mutual Worth without default point (but with potential threats)

by Stuart_Armstrong | 6v (1c)

More "Stupid" Questions

by NancyLebovitz | 14v (495c)

Internet Research (with tangent on intelligence analysis and collapse)

by Arkanj3l | 11v (43c)

Meetup : [Boston] Goal Factoring

by Ben_LandauTaylor | 2v (0c)

A thought on the value of "rationality" as a value

by D_Alex | 1v (11c)

Freakonomics Study Investigates Decision-Making and Estimated Prior Probabilities

by telms | 3v (2c)

Open thread, July 29-August 4, 2013

by David_Gerard | 3v (381c)

Leveling up...

by RobertChange | 12v (10c)

Meetup : Durham/RTLW HPMoR discussion, ch. 79-81

by therufs | 0v (0c)

[link] Book review: Mindmelding: Consciousness, Neuroscience, and the Mind’s Privacy

by Kaj_Sotala | 3v (2c)

Rationality Quotes from people associated with LessWrong

by ChristianKl | 24v (62c)

Valuing Sentience: Can They Suffer?

by jkaufman | 6v (29c)

Repository repository

by pinyaka | 35v (30c)

Alternative to Bayesian Score

by Coscott | 6v (29c)

Norbert Wiener on automation and unemployment

by JonahSinick | 6v (17c)

Meetup : Israel (Tel Aviv) Meetup: Fun and Games with Cognitive Biases

by SoftFlare | 0v (3c)

Meetup : Helsinki Practical Meetup

by morrel | 0v (1c)

Meetup : (Improv?) games meetup

by rocurley | 0v (1c)

Meetup : Meetup: Vancouver

by eggman | 0v (1c)

Meetup : Durham/RTLW HPMoR discussion, ch. 77-78, Part 2

by therufs | -1v (0c)

System Administrator Appreciation Day - Thanks Trike!

by John_Maxwell_IV | 70v (5c)

New LW Meetup: Southeast Michigan

by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)

The Argument From Marginal Cases

by jkaufman | 15v (55c)

Meetup : Brussels meetup

by Axel | 0v (0c)

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Introduction to Anthropics

by OpenThreadGuy | 1v (2c)

Meetup : Atlanta LessWrong: August Meetup

by Nova_Division | 1v (0c)

The difference between Determinism & Pre-determination

by RogerS | 3v (29c)

Meetup : Moscow: Miscellaneous Rationality

by Yuu | 0v (0c)

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 25, chapter 96

by NancyLebovitz | 6v (524c)

Meetup : Chicago: Discuss Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Nic_Smith | 0v (0c)

Useful Questions Repository

by Qiaochu_Yuan | 23v (68c)

Meetup : Philadelphia informal meetup

by mare-of-night | 2v (2c)

Meetup : London Meetup - Achieving Better Goals

by kerspoon | 1v (4c)

An argument against indirect normativity

by cousin_it | 1v (25c)

Inferential credit history

by RyanCarey | 33v (35c)

Business Insider: "They Finally Tested The 'Prisoner's Dilemma' On Actual Prisoners — And The Results Were Not What You Would Expect"

by chaosmage | 2v (11c)

Introducing Familiar, a quantified reasoning assistant (feedback sought!)

by jamesf | 19v (40c)

low stress employment/ munchkin income thread

by gotdistractedbythe | 14v (82c)

Meetup : Cleveland Ohio Meetup

by Raelifin | 0v (0c)

Meetup : [Boston] Becoming Stronger

by ModusPonies | 0v (0c)

Low-hanging fruit: improving wikipedia entries

by LanceSBush | 36v (19c)

The Empty White Room: Surreal Utilities

by linkhyrule5 | 11v (124c)

Polyphasic Sleep Support Group

by KenChen | 3v (7c)

Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma in software patents

by RolfAndreassen | 3v (8c)

Daily Schedules in Combating Akrasia

by sentientplatypus | 7v (9c)

Resources from the Boston Megameetup

by KenChen | 7v (2c)

Open thread, July 23-29, 2013

by David_Gerard | 9v (197c)

Superrationality and network flow control

by alexflint | 16v (11c)

Notes on "The Limits to Growth" and surrounding material

by JonahSinick | 16v (16c)

[Link] Sparrows may be vulnerable to sunk-cost-like effects

by Ishaan | 1v (10c)

Introducing Effective Fundraising, a New EA Org

by peter_hurford | 16v (14c)

[Link] Eliezer, PZ, Brin, and me on Immortality

by Eneasz | 5v (20c)

Meetup : Melbourne, practical rationality

by matt | 0v (2c)

The Domain of Politics

by CarlJ | 0v (14c)

How To Construct a Political Ideology

by CarlJ | -2v (26c)

[Link] Cosmological Infancy

by Konkvistador | 10v (21c)

Meetup : Helsinki Social Meetup

by morrel | 0v (1c)

Norbert Wiener's paper "Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation"

by JonahSinick | 11v (1c)

Meetup : Zagreb meetup - July 27th

by IsTheLittleLion | 2v (0c)

Meetup : Washington DC Megametup debriefing/planning meetup

by rocurley | 0v (0c)

Even with default points, systems remain exploitable

by Stuart_Armstrong | 9v (9c)

New LW Meetup: Zagreb

by FrankAdamek | 2v (0c)

Consumption Smoothing and Hedonic Adaptation

by jkaufman | 5v (6c)

[Link] My talk about the Future

by Stuart_Armstrong | 2v (0c)

Meetup : Melbourne Excursion: Comfort Zone Expansion

by BraydenM | 1v (5c)

Meetup : Durham NC/Triangle Area: Value of Information/Curiosity

by therufs | 0v (3c)

Meetup : Atlanta Lesswrong: The Math of Bayes' Theorem

by Nova_Division | 0v (0c)

Does anchoring on deadlines cause procrastination?

by alex_zag_al | 6v (23c)

The idiot savant AI isn't an idiot

by Stuart_Armstrong | 8v (133c)

Valuable economics knowledge available, ironically, for free

by Stuart_Armstrong | 29v (37c)

Meetup : Cincinnati: Financial optimisation

by RolfAndreassen | 2v (1c)

Instrumental rationality/self help resources

by gothgirl420666 | 35v (104c)

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 24, chapter 95

by palladias | 6v (304c)

See Eliezer talk with PZ Myers and David Brin (and me) about immortality this Sunday

by Eneasz | 16v (4c)

Three Approaches to "Friendliness"

by Wei_Dai | 14v (84c)

Meetup : Durham NC/Triangle Area: Rationality Checklist Workshop

by therufs | 0v (0c)

Meetup : West LA Meetup - The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number

by Coscott | 0v (0c)

HIKE: A Group Dynamics Case Study

by iconreforged | 9v (3c)

Comparative and absolute advantage in AI

by Stuart_Armstrong | 18v (50c)

An Attempt at Preference Uncertainty Using VNM

by nyan_sandwich | 8v (33c)

Meetup : Southeast Michigan

by Yvain | 8v (13c)

Recent MIRI workshop results?

by johnswentworth | 2v (30c)

Open thread, July 16-22, 2013

by David_Gerard | 13v (297c)

Semi-open thread: blackmail

by Stuart_Armstrong | 0v (31c)

Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup

by Maelin | 0v (6c)

Group Rationality Diary, July 16-31

by therufs | 1v (34c)

Duller blackmail definitions

by Stuart_Armstrong | 7v (44c)

Countess and Baron attempt to define blackmail, fail

by Stuart_Armstrong | 11v (7c)

Notes/blog posts on two recent MIRI papers

by Quinn | 21v (3c)

Meetup : Bratislava Meetup V.

by Viliam_Bur | 0v (0c)

Writing Style and the Typical Mind Fallacy

by lukeprog | 27v (75c)

Meetup : London Social - Direct Sunlight 2, Vitamin Boogaloo - July 21st

by Leonhart | 4v (3c)

"Stupid" questions thread

by gothgirl420666 | 40v (850c)

Weekly LW Meetups

by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)

[LINK] If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?

by Strilanc | 4v (23c)

Meetup : [Columbus] Upcoming Workshop Topics

by daenerys | 1v (0c)

The WASH-1400 Reactor Safety Study

by JonahSinick | 8v (12c)

[META] Open threads (and repository threads) are underutilized.

by Adele_L | 18v (24c)

Less Wrong London New Arrival Integration Task Force

by sixes_and_sevens | 28v (6c)

Meetup : [Moscow] The Meet up

by Yuu | 0v (0c)

Seed Study: Polyphasic Sleep in Ten Steps

by BrienneYudkowsky | 31v (134c)

Meetup : Durham/RTLW HPMoR discussion, ch. 77-78

by therufs | 1v (0c)

Svante Arrhenius's Prediction of Climate Change

by JonahSinick | 7v (22c)

[LINK] Hypothesis about the mechanism for storing long-term memory

by Andy_McKenzie | 3v (8c)

Against easy superintelligence: the unforeseen friction argument

by Stuart_Armstrong | 25v (48c)

The failure of counter-arguments argument

by Stuart_Armstrong | 14v (43c)

Help please! Making a good choice between two jobs

by cjb230 | 2v (31c)

Can we make Drake-like Fermi estimates of expected distance to the next planet with primitive, sentient or self-improving life?

by chaosmage | 0v (12c)

"Can we know what to do about AI?": An Introduction

by JonahSinick | 17v (69c)

Where Are We the Weakest?

by DiscyD3rp | 5v (9c)

Gauging interest for a Zurich, Switzerland meetup group

by roland | 2v (10c)

[LINK] Analysis of why excluding hostile people is worth it

by NancyLebovitz | 9v (43c)

HPMoR the Youtube Series! But in need of advice

by wobster109 | -1v (12c)

My Take on a Decision Theory

by ygert | 2v (30c)

Strategic Bestseller: Taking the Blog Path (4HS002)

by Neotenic | 3v (2c)

Meetup : Zagreb LW meetup

by morrel | 1v (3c)

Responses to Catastrophic AGI Risk: A Survey

by lukeprog | 11v (8c)

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 23, chapter 94

by elharo | 8v (343c)

Meetup : [Moscow] Weekday meet up

by Yuu | 0v (0c)

Estimating the kolmogorov complexity of the known laws of physics?

by Strilanc | 10v (46c)

Home Economics

by Ritalin | 11v (46c)

On-line conference for LW readers and meet up members

by Yuu | 7v (8c)

Meetup : Helsinki LW meetup

by morrel | 1v (9c)

Optimizing Workouts for Intellectual Performance

by Ritalin | 9v (40c)

Prioritizing Happiness

by jkaufman | 1v (7c)

What's the name of this cognitive bias?

by pete22 | 9v (23c)

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 22, chapter 93

by daenerys | 5v (354c)

Personal Library Management

by Ritalin | 3v (20c)

[HPMOR][Possible Spoilers] Gedankenexperiment: Time Turner Meta-Informational Relativity

by stcredzero | 1v (42c)

Free ebook: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

by PhilGoetz | 1v (2c)

Beeminding Sin

by nyan_sandwich | 13v (16c)

New LW Meetup: Lyon

by FrankAdamek | 5v (4c)

Caught in the glare of two anthropic shadows

by Stuart_Armstrong | 17v (10c)

[Link]: Anthropic shadow, or the dark dusk of disaster

by Stuart_Armstrong | 10v (25c)

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 21, chapters 91 & 92

by NancyLebovitz | 4v (366c)

New HPMOR Article(s)

by NancyLebovitz | 0v (10c)

Meetup : Melbourne Practical Rationality - July 5th

by BraydenM | 0v (1c)

Meetup : Washington DC fun and games meetup

by rocurley | 0v (0c)

RIP Doug Engelbart

by Dr_Manhattan | 11v (15c)

Progress on automated mathematical theorem proving?

by JonahSinick | 14v (65c)

Meetup : Atlanta: Intro to Meditation

by Nova_Division | 0v (0c)

Group Rationality Diary, July 1-15

by therufs | 4v (35c)

What are you working on? July 2013

by David_Gerard | 8v (100c)

Seeking paid help for SPARC logistics

by paulfchristiano | 9v (0c)

Meetup : Durham/RTLW General Discussion

by curiousepic | 1v (0c)

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 20, chapter 90

by palladias | 9v (609c)

July 2013 Media Thread

by ArisKatsaris | 2v (51c)

Meetup : West LA - Randomness: Why We Want It, How We Get It

by Coscott | 1v (3c)

Open Thread, July 1-15, 2013

by Vaniver | 4v (342c)

[Link] Bets, Portfolios, and Belief Revelation

by Jayson_Virissimo | 1v (4c)

Dealing with Administrative Stress

by Stabilizer | 17v (13c)

[LINK] Cantor's theorem, the prisoner's dilemma, and the halting problem

by Qiaochu_Yuan | 13v (9c)

Meetup : São Paulo, Transhumanist Manifestation, Lesswrongers invited

by diegocaleiro | 0v (0c)

Why one-box?

by PhilosophyStudent | 7v (95c)

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 19, chapter 88-89

by Vaniver | 12v (957c)

An attempt at a short no-prerequisite test for programming inclination

by ShardPhoenix | 4v (68c)

How probable is Molecular Nanotech?

by leplen | 45v (56c)

Emotional Basilisks

by OrphanWilde | -2v (28c)

Book: AKA Shakespeare (an extended Bayesian investigation)

by matt | -1v (13c)

Weekly LW Meetups

by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)

Fractals and time management

by saph | -1v (5c)

Vacancy at the Future of Humanity Institute: Academic Project Manager

by Sean_o_h | 13v (0c)

Meetup : LW Vienna Meetup #4

by Ratcourse | 2v (0c)

Common failure modes in habit formation

by RomeoStevens | 14v (19c)

BuzzFeed on Cryonics

by jaibot | 7v (5c)

A total life checklist

by Warrigal | 7v (15c)

[META] Make poll results accessible to people who have not voted

by sp4233 | 13v (12c)

Public Service Announcement Collection

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 37v (328c)

Meetup : Melbourne LW Outing: Astronomy evening in Eltham, Saturday 29th June, 5:30pm

by BraydenM | 1v (0c)

Bad Concepts Repository

by moridinamael | 20v (204c)

A Ketogenic Diet as an Effective Cancer Treatment?

by notsonewuser | 5v (21c)

Nick Beckstead: On the Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future

by ciphergoth | 6v (20c)

Meetup : London Practical - Sunday 7th July

by Leonhart | 2v (2c)

Meetup : Israel LW meetup

by DanArmak | 4v (8c)

Meetup : LW Munich Meetup in July

by Teobaldo | 1v (1c)

Meetup : [Moscow] The Goals We Set

by Yuu | 0v (0c)

Part of a THINK Meetup Group? We Want to Hear From You!

by OnTheOtherHandle | 2v (2c)

Ancestor Simulations for Fun and Profit

by DataPacRat | 0v (4c)

Suggestions for Rationality Blogs in the Sidebar

by LucasSloan | 11v (31c)

[LINK] Mr. Money Mustache on Back of the Napkin Calculations and Financial Planning

by Petruchio | -2v (1c)

Living in the shadow of superintelligence

by Mitchell_Porter | 0v (17c)

Meetup : LW Meetup in Lyon

by Oriane | 5v (4c)

Meetup : San Francisco: Effective Altruism

by ozziegooen | 3v (0c)

[LINK] Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is now on slashdot

by Douglas_Reay | -1v (10c)

Meetup : Melbourne LW Outing: Indoor Rock Climbing, Sunday June 30th

by BraydenM | 1v (4c)

For FAI: Is "Molecular Nanotechnology" putting our best foot forward?

by leplen | 48v (117c)

Saving lives via bed nets is hard to beat for immediate impact

by JonahSinick | 9v (45c)

240 questions for your utility function

by HumanitiesResearcher | 2v (25c)

Seeking descriptions of deciban-levels

by DataPacRat | 0v (9c)

Weekly LW Meetups

by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)

College Student Philanthropy and Funding Millenium Villages

by peter_hurford | 2v (5c)

How would not having free will feel to you?

by shminux | 4v (70c)

Meetup : Atlanta: Self-Hacking

by Nova_Division | 1v (0c)

Initial Thoughts on Personally Finding a High-Impact Career

by peter_hurford | 10v (56c)

Meetup : Durham: Luminosity followup

by evand | 2v (0c)

A Keynesian key insight

by Stuart_Armstrong | 6v (31c)

X-Risk Roll Call

by fowlertm | 6v (37c)

Why do theists, undergrads, and Less Wrongers favor one-boxing on Newcomb?

by CarlShulman | 15v (299c)

Is our continued existence evidence that Mutually Assured Destruction worked?

by jkaufman | 7v (67c)

Learning programming: so I've learned the basics of Python, what next?

by ChrisHallquist | 8v (67c)

Group Rationality Diary, June 1-30

by therufs | 4v (23c)

Meetup : [Moscow] How to use your brain

by Yuu | 0v (0c)

Quotes and Notes on Scott Aaronson’s "The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine"

by shminux | 16v (82c)

[video] "Transhuman", featuring Sandberg and Bostrom

by Pablo_Stafforini | 6v (11c)

The Classic Literature Workshop

by Ritalin | 2v (115c)

Meetup : Melbourne Winter Solstice Dinner Party and Social Meetup

by BraydenM | 1v (0c)

Open Thread, June 16-30, 2013

by Dorikka | 3v (313c)

Normative uncertainty in Newcomb's problem

by CarlShulman | 6v (31c)

How to Write Deep Characters

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 45v (68c)

Elites and AI: Stated Opinions

by lukeprog | 10v (24c)

Rationality witticisms suitable for t-shirts or bumper stickers

by evand | 3v (83c)

Meetup : CFAR visits Salt Lake City

by AnnaSalamon | 4v (0c)

Meetup : Brussels meetup with HEALES

by Axel | 2v (0c)

[LINK] The Selected Papers Network

by Qiaochu_Yuan | 9v (8c)

Meetup : West LA Meetup - Eliezer and Nick Share a Cab...

by Coscott | 2v (0c)

How should Eliezer and Nick's extra $20 be split

by Coscott | 9v (66c)

Weekly LW Meetups

by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)

Can we dodge the mindkiller?

by NancyLebovitz | 5v (103c)

Near-Term Risk: Killer Robots a Threat to Freedom and Democracy

by Epiphany | 10v (105c)

[Link] Concrete steps are being taken towards futarchy

by AspiringRationalist | 4v (4c)

After critical event W happens, they still won't believe you

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 37v (104c)

Coursera Public Speaking Course - LW Study Group?

by sixes_and_sevens | 7v (10c)

Meetup : Washington DC projects planning meetup

by rocurley | 0v (0c)

Do Earths with slower economic growth have a better chance at FAI?

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 30v (174c)

Meetup : Berkeley: Hypothetical Apostasy

by Nisan | 3v (2c)

Charity Effectiveness and Third-World Economics

by jimrandomh | 7v (37c)

Anders, wine and enhancements

by Stuart_Armstrong | 0v (2c)

Meetup : [Boston] The Psychology of Marketing

by ModusPonies | 0v (0c)

All-pay auction for charity?

by jkaufman | 5v (13c)

Tegmark's talk at Oxford

by Stuart_Armstrong | 7v (10c)

How can I strategically write a complex bestseller? (4HS001)

by Neotenic | 13v (40c)

Life hack request: I want to want to work.

by DanielLC | 6v (53c)

Meetup : London Social - Exposure to Direct Sunlight - June 23rd

by sixes_and_sevens | 3v (7c)

Sydney meetup?

by Goobahman | 2v (2c)

Changing Systems is Different than Running Controlled Experiments - Don’t Choose How to Run Your Country That Way!

by ShannonFriedman | 3v (260c)

[link] Scott Aaronson on free will

by DanielVarga | 20v (109c)

Are imaginary and complex numbers of decibans meaningful?

by DataPacRat | 0v (15c)

Weak evidence that eating vegetables makes you live longer

by jkaufman | 8v (24c)

Meetup : Rationalist Housewarming at Isengard (Melbourne)

by BraydenM | 4v (5c)

Useful Concepts Repository

by Qiaochu_Yuan | 32v (105c)

Exercise isn't necessarily good for people

by NancyLebovitz | 9v (53c)

Social Impact, Effective Altruism, and Motivated Cognition

by JonahSinick | 9v (18c)

Some clarifications concerning my "many weak arguments" post

by JonahSinick | 3v (2c)

Weekly LW Meetups

by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)

Meetup : [NYC] Self Improvement - Productivity Apps

by Raemon | 0v (0c)

CFAR workshop, June 15th, Salt Lake City UT

by Julia_Galef | 17v (7c)

Meetup : Second Bristol meetup & mailing list for future meetups

by Benja | 2v (4c)

Ideas wanted: democracy in an Em world

by Stuart_Armstrong | 1v (64c)

Mahatma Armstrong: CEVed to death.

by Stuart_Armstrong | 23v (60c)

[link] The Economics of Social Status

by Kaj_Sotala | 19v (3c)

A Viable Alternative to Typing

by fowlertm | 2v (28c)

Meetup : Zendo and discussion

by evand | 2v (1c)

Applied art of rationality: Richard Feynman steelmanning his mother's concerns

by shminux | 8v (26c)

Meetup : Berkeley: Board games

by Nisan | 2v (0c)

Other prespective on resolving the Prisoner's dilemma

by Stuart_Armstrong | 11v (34c)

Why economics is not a morality tale

by Stuart_Armstrong | 7v (55c)

David Brooks from the NY Times writes on earning-to-give

by AnthonyC | 8v (3c)

2013 June-August Life Hacks Thread

by diegocaleiro | 8v (42c)

Meetup : West LA Meetup - Quantifying and Measuring for Self-Experimentation

by nickernst | 0v (0c)

Does model theory [psychology] predict anything? (book: "How We Reason" (2009))

by Jonathan_Graehl | 2v (27c)

Meetup : Bratislava Meetup IV.

by Viliam_Bur | 4v (0c)

Risques existentiels en Français

by Stuart_Armstrong | 5v (2c)

How much was creating Google worth?

by JonahSinick | 3v (48c)

Open Thread, June 2-15, 2013

by TimS | 5v (433c)

Karma as Money

by diegocaleiro | 0v (49c)

June 2013 Media Thread

by ArisKatsaris | 4v (55c)

A disclaimer about my effective philanthropy posts (in connection with astronomical waste)

by JonahSinick | 11v (6c)

Jaan Tallinn: A Skype founder on biomonitors, existential risk and simulated realities

by Kevin | 5v (4c)

A World War I example showing the danger of deceiving your own side

by James_Miller | 2v (13c)

Will the world's elites navigate the creation of AI just fine?

by lukeprog | 20v (266c)

[link] Join Wall Street. Save the World

by Pablo_Stafforini | 23v (16c)

Great big ocean waves in an even bigger blank spot

by NancyLebovitz | 12v (31c)

Weekly LW Meetups

by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)

Optimizing for attractiveness

by MrMind | 13v (219c)

Meetup : [Moscow] Rational choice

by Yuu | 0v (0c)

Curriculum suggestions for someone looking to teach themselves contemporary philosophy

by quanticle | 7v (15c)

The Paucity of Elites Online

by JonahSinick | 26v (42c)

Meetup : Brussels meetup with Cat

by Axel | 2v (7c)

Meetup : LW Vienna Meetup #3

by Ratcourse | 0v (0c)

Finding interesting communities

by Error | 12v (27c)

Meetup : Helsinki meetup with CatM (CFAR instructor) as special guest star

by Kaj_Sotala | 3v (3c)

The Rational Investor, Part I

by wubbles | -2v (29c)

To become more rational, rinse your left ear with cold water

by dvasya | 3v (27c)

Stats Advice on a New N-back Game

by Antisuji | 4v (8c)

Meetup : [Boston] The Science Of Happiness

by ModusPonies | 0v (0c)

[LINK] SMBC on human and alien values

by shminux | 3v (5c)

Who thinks quantum computing will be necessary for AI?

by ChrisHallquist | 4v (101c)

Is there any way to avoid Post Narcissism? [with Video link]

by diegocaleiro | 5v (22c)

Meetup : London - Inaugural Practical Session - June 9th

by sixes_and_sevens | 2v (9c)

Requesting advice: Doing Epistemology Right (Warning: Abstract mainstream Philosophy herein)

by Carinthium | 0v (70c)

Meetup : Berkeley: The Motivation Hacker by Nick Winter

by Nisan | 1v (1c)

[LINK] Bets do not (necessarily) reveal beliefs

by Cyan | 12v (22c)

Meetup : Melbourne, social meetup: 31 May 2013 07:00PM

by RyanCarey | 1v (2c)

Meetup : Atlanta LessWrong June Meetup: Effective Altruism

by Nova_Division | 1v (0c)

Research is polygamous! The importance of what you do needn't be proportional to your awesomeness

by diegocaleiro | 22v (42c)

Meetup : Melbourne, practical rationality

by matt | 0v (1c)

[LINK] Sign up for DAGGRE to improve science and technology forecasting

by Qiaochu_Yuan | 3v (9c)

Evidence and counterexample to positive relevance

by fsopho | -2v (37c)

Collecting expressions of interest in a rationality conference in August

by purplerabbits | 19v (22c)

Be a little bit more trusting than most people think sensible

by purplerabbits | 10v (28c)

Mathematicians and the Prevention of Recessions

by JonahSinick | 8v (131c)

Is a paperclipper better than nothing?

by DataPacRat | 6v (116c)

[LINK] Raw Story: US seizes operator accounts of a subsidiary of Mt. Gox

by Cyan | 0v (11c)

New LW Meetups: Bristol, Tel Aviv

by FrankAdamek | 2v (0c)

Orwell and fictional evidence for dictatorship stability

by Stuart_Armstrong | 16v (79c)

Problems with Academia and the Rising Sea

by JonahSinick | 28v (39c)

Random responses to surveys [reference request]

by JonahSinick | 3v (5c)

Maximizing Financial Utility and Frugality

by Petruchio | 15v (33c)

[LINK] Does Time Exist? With Julian Barbour

by Benito | -1v (6c)

[link] Are All Dictator Game Results Artifacts?

by Kaj_Sotala | 15v (8c)

Preparing for a Rational Financial Planning Sequence

by elharo | 21v (65c)

Potential Impacts of Climate Change

by JonahSinick | 8v (43c)

Meetup : Berkeley: To-do lists and other systems

by Nisan | 3v (1c)

[LINK] Soylent crowdfunding

by Qiaochu_Yuan | 7v (169c)

Meetup : Munich Meetup

by cadac | 1v (0c)

[LINK]s: Who says Watson is only a narrow AI?

by shminux | 4v (26c)

General intelligence test: no domains of stupidity

by Stuart_Armstrong | 8v (36c)

Meetup : Fermi Estimates in Chicago

by Nic_Smith | 1v (1c)

High yield information sources for Software Development

by rationalnoob | 0v (14c)

[TED Talk] Peter Singer on Effective Altruism

by peter_hurford | 15v (4c)

Meetup : RTLW Meetup: Contra Dance!

by therufs | 5v (7c)

Meetup : Buffalo LW Thursday meetup

by StonesOnCanvas | 1v (0c)

Meetup : West LA Meetup - Probabilistic Graphical Models, Take 2!

by nickernst | 0v (0c)

Terminology suggestion: Say "degrees utility" instead of "utils" to prompt affine thinking

by Sniffnoy | 11v (43c)

[LINK] Evidence-based giving by Laura and John Arnold Foundation

by brilee | 2v (9c)

[Paper] On the 'Simulation Argument' and Selective Scepticism

by Pablo_Stafforini | 11v (56c)

LINK: Google research chief: 'Emergent artificial intelligence? Hogwash!'

by shminux | 7v (44c)

Meetup : [Cambridge] Sunk Cost Kata

by ModusPonies | 2v (5c)

Meetup : First Bristol meetup

by Benja | 4v (10c)

Education control?

by PhilGoetz | 12v (43c)

Morality should be Moral

by OrphanWilde | 9v (63c)

Weekly LW Meetups: Atlanta, Austin, Moscow, Ottawa, Vancouver

by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)

Open thread, May 17-31 2013

by PhilipL | 2v (311c)

The Unselfish Trolley Problem

by elharo | 5v (131c)

10-Step Anti-Procrastination Checklist

by JesseGalef | 32v (51c)

Meetup : Tel Aviv, Israel Meetup - Goal Clarification with special guest Cat from CFAR

by SoftFlare | 6v (10c)

Meetup : London Meetup - 26th May

by sixes_and_sevens | 3v (0c)

Meetup : Bielefeld Meetup May 22nd

by Just_existing | 0v (0c)

Meetup : [Moscow] Belief cleaning

by Yuu | 0v (0c)

Meetup : Durham/RTLW HPMoR discussion, ch. 65-68

by therufs | 0v (0c)

Group Rationality Diary, May 16-31

by therufs | 4v (15c)

Why is it rational to invest in retirement? I don't get it.

by diegocaleiro | 20v (113c)

[LINK] Prizes and open source for drug research (proposed, and some politics)

by NancyLebovitz | 5v (18c)

Crash problems for total futarchy

by Stuart_Armstrong | 6v (16c)

Kevin Drum's Article about AI and Technology

by knb | 19v (33c)

Adjusting Effort to Barely Meet Standards

by SapientPearwood | 7v (19c)

Improving Cryonics - Regulations and Ethical Considerations

by jennabouche | 0v (16c)

Meetup : Paris Meetup: Sunday, May 26.

by Emile | 1v (8c)

Avoiding the emergency room

by NancyLebovitz | 7v (68c)

The impact of whole brain emulation

by jkaufman | 3v (34c)

Megameetup Announcement: Boston, July 13-14

by ModusPonies | 3v (6c)

Meetup : Berkeley: Munchkinism

by Nisan | 2v (0c)

[LINK] Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

by HaydnB | 3v (3c)

Anyone live in or near Osaka?

by Crux | 1v (0c)

The autopilot problem: driving without experience

by Stuart_Armstrong | 23v (37c)

[SEQ RERUN] Final Words

by MinibearRex | 2v (3c)

Unlimited Pomodoro Works: My Scheduling System

by Intrism | 11v (26c)

How to calibrate your political beliefs

by Macaulay | 2v (75c)

Computer Science and Software Engineering

by JMiller | 1v (30c)

Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup

by Maelin | 1v (2c)

LW Study Hall - 2 Month Update

by Lachouette | 30v (20c)

Meetup : Washington DC Munchinkry meetup

by rocurley | 0v (1c)

Keeping Choices Donation Neutral

by jkaufman | 15v (18c)

[SEQ RERUN] Practical Advice Backed By Deep Theories

by MinibearRex | 1v (1c)

new meetup policy: promote posts only with first-time meetups

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 5v (11c)

Weekly LW Meetups: Austin, Atlanta, Buffalo, Cambridge MA, Durham, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Pittsburgh, Washington DC

by FrankAdamek | 1v (1c)

Meetup : Seattle-Vancouver Kilomeetup

by nyan_sandwich | 5v (6c)

Meetup : Vancouver Microeconomics: Fungibility

by nyan_sandwich | 0v (1c)

Wikifying the blog list

by Yvain | 32v (4c)

[SEQ RERUN] Go Forth and Create the Art

by MinibearRex | 3v (3c)

Meetup : LessWrong Ottawa

by Cyan | 4v (3c)

[SEQ RERUN] Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism

by MinibearRex | 1v (9c)

Justifiable Erroneous Scientific Pessimism

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 14v (116c)

[SEQ RERUN] The Sin of Underconfidence

by MinibearRex | 2v (2c)

Testing lords over foolish lords: gaming Pascal's mugging

by Stuart_Armstrong | 2v (18c)

Open Thread: how do you look for information?

by Emile | 7v (15c)

Meetup : Durham NC meetup: Living Luminously, Part 3

by therufs | 1v (0c)

[LINK] Antibiotic seemingly improves decision-making in the presence of attractive women.

by iconreforged | 5v (11c)

Googling is the first step. Consider adding scholarly searches to your arsenal.

by Tenoke | 19v (45c)

Catching Up With the Present From the Developing World

by diegocaleiro | 17v (3c)

[SEQ RERUN] My Way

by MinibearRex | 4v (1c)

Be Nice to Non-Rationalists

by wobster109 | 32v (26c)

Using Evolution for Marriage or Sex

by diegocaleiro | 17v (148c)

[SEQ RERUN] Of Gender and Rationality

by MinibearRex | 2v (26c)

Pascal's Muggle (short version)

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 29v (55c)

Meetup : Berkeley: Information theory and the art of conversation

by Nisan | 1v (0c)

Meetup : London Special Guests: Jaan Tallinn and Michael Vassar of MetaMed

by kerspoon | 5v (5c)

Antijargon Project

by jkaufman | 12v (29c)

[Link] More Right launched

by mstevens | 13v (101c)

Use Search Engines Early and Often

by katydee | 0v (13c)

Ray Kurzweil joins Google to work on AI (link)

by D_Alex | 2v (0c)

Health/Longevity Link List

by Dorikka | 3v (26c)

LW Women- Female privilege

by daenerys | 24v (236c)

[LINK] Fixed-action patterns: Stop FAPing!

by David_Gerard | 0v (2c)

Meetup : Padeborn Meetup May 8th

by Just_existing | 2v (1c)

Seeking reliable evidence - claim that closing sweatshops leads to child prostitution

by michaelcurzi | 11v (25c)

Meetup : Visiting Sweden and Switzerland! Let's get together

by CatM | 5v (1c)

Weekly LW Meetups: Austin, London, Melbourne, Moscow, Vancouver, Washington DC

by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)

Meetup : [Cambridge] How To Do Everything

by ModusPonies | 3v (0c)

Meetup : [Moscow] Rationality and Media

by Yuu | 0v (0c)

[SEQ RERUN] Bayesians vs. Barbarians

by MinibearRex | 2v (11c)

Developmental Thinking Shout-out to CFAR

by MarkL | 16v (5c)

Book Suggestion: "Diaminds" is worth reading (CFAR-esque)

by MarkL | 1v (5c)

Meetup : [New York] Effective Altruism (Outdoor!) Dinner Discussion

by Raemon | 1v (0c)

Social intelligence, education, & the workplace

by PhilGoetz | 3v (30c)

Meetup : Washington DC fun and games meetup

by rocurley | 0v (2c)

Open Thread, May 1-14, 2013

by whpearson | 3v (648c)

Meetup : Durham/RTLW HPMoR discussion, ch. 61-63

by therufs | 2v (0c)

Group Rationality Diary, May 1-15

by therufs | 4v (40c)

What do professional philosophers believe, and why?

by RobbBB | 31v (249c)

May 2013 Media Thread

by ArisKatsaris | 4v (55c)

[SEQ RERUN] Collective Apathy and the Internet

by MinibearRex | 2v (0c)

Mortal: A Transponyist Fanfiction

by ModusPonies | 14v (65c)

[LINK] The Unbelievers: Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins Team Up Against Religion

by shminux | -1v (25c)

Meetup : Group Decision Making (the good, the bad, and the confusion of welfare economics)

by Davidmanheim | 4v (7c)

Meetup : Buffalo LW Sunday Meetup

by StonesOnCanvas | 1v (0c)

Meetup : Big Gaming Fun 6: A New Beginning!

by Kenoubi | 1v (2c)

[SEQ RERUN] Bystander Apathy

by MinibearRex | 3v (0c)

[Link] Caplan asks for help optimizing his will.

by Jayson_Virissimo | 4v (12c)

[Link] 2012 Winter Intelligence Conference videos available

by Pablo_Stafforini | 7v (8c)

Good luck, Mr. Rationalist

by Stuart_Armstrong | 4v (75c)

Meetup : NewYork - Humanist Culture Open Mic

by Raemon | 5v (2c)

[LINK] Is it worth the time?

by alexvermeer | 10v (8c)

Meetup : Brussels meetup

by Axel | 1v (0c)

Meet up in St. Petersburg, Russia

by Yuu | 1v (0c)

LW Women Entries- Creepiness

by daenerys | 7v (472c)

Meetup : Atlanta Lesswrong's May Meetup: The Rationality of Social Relationships, Friendship, Love, and Family.

by Nova_Division | 1v (2c)

Three more ways identity can be a curse

by gothgirl420666 | 40v (104c)

The Upward Scaling Importance of Rationality

by alfredmacdonald | 5v (9c)

Are there good reasons to get into a PHD (i.e. in Philosophy)? And what to optimize for in such case?

by diegocaleiro | 1v (21c)

Links passing through api.viglink.com?

by Document | 5v (20c)

Weekly LW Meetups: Atlanta, Austin, Berlin, Brussels, Cambridge MA, Cincinnati, Durham, Vancouver, Washington DC

by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)

Probabilistic Löb theorem

by Stuart_Armstrong | 24v (39c)

Logic in the language of probability

by Stuart_Armstrong | 12v (7c)

Meetup : Washington DC books meetup

by rocurley | 0v (3c)

Meetup : Bratislava lesswrong meetup III

by BarbaraB | 2v (1c)

Attempting to rescue logical positivism

by RolfAndreassen | 3v (29c)

Real-world examples of money-pumping?

by sixes_and_sevens | 19v (97c)

[LINK] How to calibrate your confidence intervals

by Benjamin_Todd | 11v (7c)

Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt: apparently a transhumanist

by chaosmage | 10v (18c)

Tactics against Pascal's Mugging

by ArisKatsaris | 16v (59c)

Michael Vassar in Europe

by Yvain | 7v (1c)

[SEQ RERUN] Akrasia and Shangri-La

by MinibearRex | 1v (1c)

Normativity and Meta-Philosophy

by Wei_Dai | 12v (55c)

[LINK] Possible Unrepresentative Subjects in Studies of Medical Interventions

by TimS | 7v (3c)

[SEQ RERUN] The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet

by MinibearRex | 1v (10c)

A thought-process testing opportunity

by gregv | 27v (28c)

Minor, perspective changing facts

by Stuart_Armstrong | 38v (157c)

Meetup : Durham NC meetup: Living Luminously, Part 2

by therufs | 2v (0c)

Meetup : Mountain View: More on Reinforcement

by fiddlemath | 0v (2c)

Potential Meetup: Ann Arbor, MI, USA

by blumsha | 2v (9c)

Meetup : Melbourne, practical rationality

by matt | 0v (3c)

Can somebody explain this to me?: The computability of the laws of physics and hypercomputation

by ChrisHallquist | 12v (53c)

Produce / Consume Ratios

by Vaniver | 13v (5c)

Meetup : Atlanta Lesswrong: Cryonics FAQ & Signing up Party!

by Nova_Division | 1v (6c)

Meetup : Emotional Awareness

by nyan_sandwich | 1v (4c)

[LINK] Causal Entropic Forces

by Qiaochu_Yuan | 5v (15c)

LW Women Entries- LW Meetups

by daenerys | 8v (131c)

Want to have a CFAR instructor visit your LW group?

by AnnaSalamon | 17v (31c)

Metatickle Intelligence Metrics and Friendly Utility Functions

by Squark | 5v (5c)

Bitcoins are not digital greenbacks

by lsparrish | 6v (159c)

Weekly LW Meetups: Atlanta, London, Moscow, Vienna

by FrankAdamek | 0v (2c)

Meetup : London Meetup, 28th April

by philh | 0v (6c)

Meetup : Cambridge: The Meaning Of Life For Beginners

by ModusPonies | 1v (1c)

Meetup : Durham/RTLW HPMoR discussion, ch. 56-60

by therufs | 2v (1c)

Meetup : Vienna meetup #3

by Ratcourse | 1v (2c)

Meetup : Moscow, Measurements

by Yuu | 2v (1c)

[Link] Should Psychological Neuroscience Research Be Funded?

by wallowinmaya | 2v (12c)

Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 18v (168c)

Meetup : Washington DC Kennedy Center Meetup with Michael Vassar

by komponisto | 1v (1c)

Litany of a Bright Dilettante

by shminux | 55v (70c)

Cryocrastinating? Send me (or someone else) money!

by Stuart_Armstrong | 14v (43c)

Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simulation (link)

by D_Alex | 4v (48c)

Meetup : Washington DC books meetup

by rocurley | 1v (1c)

What truths are actually taboo?

by sunflowers | 4v (293c)

Meetup : Berlin Social Meetup

by blob | 0v (2c)

Meetup : Berlin Social Meetup

by blob | 0v (0c)

Meetup : Vancouver CFAR Materials: Bayes practice!

by nyan_sandwich | 2v (1c)

Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup

by Maelin | 1v (10c)

Time turners, Energy Conservation and General Relativity

by shminux | 7v (168c)

[SEQ RERUN] Beware of Other-Optimizing

by MinibearRex | 4v (1c)

The real difference between Reductionism and Emergentism

by RogerS | 2v (14c)

Help us name the Sequences ebook

by lukeprog | 14v (146c)

Open Thread, April 15-30, 2013

by diegocaleiro | 4v (459c)

Group Rationality Diary, April 15-29

by therufs | 3v (32c)

Four Tips for Public Speaking

by palladias | 39v (12c)

[SEQ RERUN] Mandatory Secret Identities

by MinibearRex | 2v (3c)

Meetup : Mountain View: Reinforcement

by fiddlemath | 1v (0c)

Meetup : Buffalo - Thursday Meetup

by StonesOnCanvas | 1v (0c)

Pay Other Species to Pandemize Vegetarianism for You

by diegocaleiro | 2v (14c)

Looks like it was a completely different problem.... "LW Women: Submissions on misogyny" needs normal visibility

by NancyLebovitz | 2v (9c)

Meetup : Bielefeld Meetup April 17th

by Just_existing | 2v (1c)

[LINK] Climate change and food security

by HaydnB | -1v (8c)

Grad Student Advice Repository

by Stabilizer | 10v (55c)

Bitcoin Cryonics Fund

by lsparrish | 7v (67c)

[SEQ RERUN] Whining-Based Communities

by MinibearRex | 4v (1c)

Reinforcement and Short-Term Rewards as Anti-Akratic

by Intrism | 24v (27c)

Meetup : Munich Meetup

by Teobaldo | 1v (2c)

Worth remembering (when comparing ‘the US’ to ‘Europe’)

by Curiousguy | 10v (25c)

Estimate Stability

by lukeprog | 6v (15c)

[SEQ RERUN] Extenuating Circumstances

by MinibearRex | 2v (1c)

Meetup : Brussels meetup

by Axel | 1v (0c)

Weekly LW Meetups: Austin, Brussels, Cambridge UK, Frankfurt, Moscow, Vancouver

by FrankAdamek | 3v (0c)

NES-game playing AI [video link and AI-boxing-related comment]

by Dr_Manhattan | 30v (22c)

[SEQ RERUN] Real-Life Anthropic Weirdness

by MinibearRex | 1v (1c)

Meetup : Cincinnati near-Schelling day

by RolfAndreassen | 3v (0c)

Pay other people to go vegetarian for you?

by jkaufman | 12v (92c)

Columbus Mega-meetup Planning- RSVPs wanted

by daenerys | 8v (16c)

Meetup : April Atlanta Meetup! Friday, April 19th

by Nova_Division | 3v (2c)

[SEQ RERUN] Incremental Progress and the Valley

by MinibearRex | 1v (0c)

Post Request Thread

by Qiaochu_Yuan | 20v (99c)

Open Request for Writing Assistance

by apophenia | 1v (2c)

LW Women Submissions: On Misogyny

by daenerys | 27v (472c)

"I know what she has to offer already" is almost always false

by diegocaleiro | 7v (12c)

[SEQ RERUN] Rationality is Systematized Winning

by MinibearRex | 2v (0c)

Meetup Interest Probe: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

by Mestroyer | 1v (7c)

Taking Charity Seriously: Toby Ord talk on charity effectivess

by jkaufman | 17v (15c)

Explicit and tacit rationality

by lukeprog | 40v (76c)

Litany of Instrumentarski

by shminux | 1v (43c)

[SEQ RERUN] Selecting Rationalist Groups

by MinibearRex | 1v (1c)

How to Evaluate Data?

by jetm | 5v (45c)

Problems in Education

by ThinkOfTheChildren | 65v (318c)

LW Study Group Facebook Page

by Benito | 16v (4c)

Best causal/dependency diagram software for fluid capture?

by Arkanj3l | 1v (14c)

[SEQ RERUN] Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

by MinibearRex | 3v (2c)

Utility Quilting

by nyan_sandwich | 7v (18c)

On moving posts from Main to Discussion

by PhilGoetz | 13v (44c)

What Rate of Return Should You Expect?

by jkaufman | 11v (23c)

[SEQ RERUN] Helpless Individuals

by MinibearRex | 0v (2c)

[Link] Values Spreading is Often More Important than Extinction Risk

by Pablo_Stafforini | 11v (21c)

Meetup : LessWrong Montreal Biweekly Meetup

by Paul_G | 2v (2c)

Game for organizational structure testing

by whpearson | -2v (28c)

Meetup : London Meetup, 14th April: Hedonic hacks

by philh | 1v (1c)

Meetup : LessWrong/HPMoR Harvard

by atucker | 0v (1c)

Intelligence Metrics and Decision Theories

by Squark | 11v (2c)

Meetup : Toronto: Our guest: Cat Lavigne from the Center for Applied Rationality

by Giles | 3v (1c)

[SEQ RERUN] Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes

by MinibearRex | 1v (4c)

How do you interpret your "% positive"?

by PhilGoetz | 4v (51c)

CFAR is hiring a logistics manager

by AnnaSalamon | 12v (2c)

I need help: Device of imaginary results by I J Good

by BT_Uytya | 5v (18c)

Weekly LW Meetups: Atlanta, Brussels, London, Melbourne, Moscow, Munich, Paderborn, Tucson, Washington DC

by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)

Weekly LW Meetups: Berlin, Buffalo, Durham (2), Moscow, Mountain View, Vancouver

by FrankAdamek | 0v (0c)

Group Rationality Diary, April 5-14

by therufs | 4v (63c)

Call for help: volunteers needed to proofread MIRI's publications

by alexvermeer | 10v (9c)

[SEQ RERUN] Church vs. Taskforce

by MinibearRex | 1v (12c)

April 2013 Media Thread

by ArisKatsaris | 7v (65c)

[Link] Son of low-hanging fruit

by GLaDOS | 23v (1c)

[Link] Diversity and Academic Open Mindedness

by GLaDOS | 3v (148c)

Meetup : Mountain View: Board Game Night

by fiddlemath | 1v (1c)

[SEQ RERUN] Can Humanism Match Religion's Output?

by MinibearRex | 2v (11c)

An Introduction to Control Markets

by whpearson | 10v (14c)

Anybody want to meet in Leipzig, Germany?

by chaosmage | 1v (1c)

Meetup : Durham: Luminosity (New location!)

by evand | 3v (0c)

Meetup : Durham HPMoR Discussion, chapters 51-55

by evand | 3v (0c)

[SEQ RERUN] Your Price for Joining

by MinibearRex | 4v (2c)

Meetup : Buffalo Meetup at UB

by StonesOnCanvas | 2v (0c)

Anki decks by LW users

by Pablo_Stafforini | 26v (57c)

Journalist's piece about predicting AI

by Stuart_Armstrong | 3v (4c)

Differential reproduction for men and women.

by NancyLebovitz | 5v (35c)

Meetup : Moscow, Applied Rationality for beginners

by Yuu | 2v (0c)

Meetup : Moscow, Applied Rationality, take two

by Yuu | 1v (1c)

[SEQ RERUN] The Sacred Mundane

by MinibearRex | 1v (0c)

The Unintuitive Power Laws of Giving

by jkaufman | 28v (20c)

Upcoming meditation workshop in the Bay Area

by KenChen | 4v (0c)

Open Thread, April 1-15, 2013

by Vaniver | 3v (254c)

A hypothesis testing video game

by Swimmy | 6v (12c)

[SEQ RERUN] On Things that are Awesome

by MinibearRex | 1v (0c)

Meetup : Mountain View: Cure Light Aversions

by fiddlemath | 1v (0c)

A Rational Altruist Punch in The Stomach

by Neotenic | 8v (53c)

What are some in depth / meta-analytic, professionally edited wiki's? Examples inside

by someonewrongonthenet | 7v (2c)

[SEQ RERUN] You're Calling Who A Cult Leader?

by MinibearRex | 2v (16c)

Existential risks open thread

by John_Maxwell_IV | 10v (46c)

[SEQ RERUN] Tolerate Tolerance

by MinibearRex | 1v (20c)

Meetup : Berlin, practical rationality

by blob | 2v (1c)

LW wiki spam filtering

by gwern | 24v (32c)

Meetup : Shanghai Meetup

by Barry_Cotter | 2v (0c)

Buridan's ass and the psychological origins of objective probability

by common_law | 1v (54c)

[SEQ RERUN] Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate

by MinibearRex | 1v (2c)

Drowning In An Information Ocean

by diegocaleiro | 25v (21c)

[Link] Researchers devise technique to allow X-ray crystallography of un-crystallized molecule groups

by ChristianKl | 1v (1c)

Robin Hanson's Cryonics Hour

by orthonormal | 26v (27c)

Weekly LW Meetups: Atlanta, Austin, Berlin, Durham, London, Montreal, Vancouver

by FrankAdamek | 1v (0c)

Meetup : Padeborn Meetup April 3th

by Just_existing | 2v (2c)

[SEQ RERUN] Rationalist Fiction

by MinibearRex | 1v (0c)

Meetup : Vancouver Rationality Habits and Friendship

by nyan_sandwich | 1v (1c)

Suggestion: LW Meditation Hall

by aditya | 2v (10c)

Is The Blood Thicker Near The Tropics? Trade-Offs Of Living In The Cold

by diegocaleiro | 5v (31c)

Noticing the 5-second mindkill

by shminux | 14v (14c)

[SEQ RERUN] The Pascal's Wager Fallacy Fallacy

by MinibearRex | 2v (10c)

Upgrading moral theories to include complex values

by Ghatanathoah | 1v (21c)

Removing Bias From the Definition of Reductionism

by RogerS | 1v (48c)

[LINK] On the unlikelihood of intelligent life

by NancyLebovitz | 7v (23c)

Solved Problems Repository

by Qiaochu_Yuan | 25v (270c)

[SEQ RERUN] What Do We Mean By "Rationality"?

by MinibearRex | 1v (7c)

Meetup : Durham NC meetup

by therufs | 3v (0c)

A Difficulty in the Concept of CEV

by Christopher_Russo | 5v (23c)

Want to be on TV?

by calcsam | 7v (29c)

Meetup : Mountain View: Invoking Curiosity

by fiddlemath | 1v (0c)

The cup-holder paradox

by PhilGoetz | 18v (78c)

Meetup : West LA Meetup - Probabilistic Graphical Models

by nickernst | 2v (0c)

[SEQ RERUN] 3 Levels of Rationality Verification

by MinibearRex | 4v (1c)

Meetup : Tucson LW Meetup 0

by Mandos | 1v (0c)

Meetup : Washington DC Social meetup+ Birthday party!

by rocurley | 1v (0c)

[SEQ RERUN] Schools Proliferating Without Evidence

by MinibearRex | 3v (0c)

Meetup : London Meetup, 31st March

by philh | 2v (0c)

[LINK] The power of fiction for moral instruction

by David_Gerard | 11v (37c)

Meetup : Melbourne, practical rationality

by matt | 1v (0c)

Why AI may not foom

by John_Maxwell_IV | 23v (78c)

[SEQ RERUN] Epistemic Viciousness

by MinibearRex | 1v (0c)

Meetup : Washington DC fun and games meetup

by rocurley | 2v (6c)

Meetup : Moscow, Beliefs

by Yuu | 3v (0c)

Suggestion: Read Paul Graham

by katydee | 34v (28c)

Personal Evidence - Superstitions as Rational Beliefs

by OrphanWilde | 3v (135c)

[SEQ RERUN] A Sense That More Is Possible

by MinibearRex | 2v (9c)

Stanford talk: easy step to universal colonisation

by Stuart_Armstrong | 6v (1c)

Meetup : Brussels Biased Boardgaming

by Roxolan | 2v (1c)

[LINK] Transcendence (2014) -- A movie about "technological singularity"

by shminux | 8v (20c)

Another community about existential risk - Arctic news

by turchin | -1v (6c)

Call for Volunteers at Global Future 2045

by MichaelAnissimov | 1v (0c)

[LINK]Real time mapping of neural activity in a larval zebra fish

by NancyLebovitz | 3v (3c)

[SEQ RERUN] Raising the Sanity Waterline

by MinibearRex | 1v (18c)

Meetup : Vancouver

by nyan_sandwich | 3v (0c)

Solstice and Megameetup Preparations for 2013

by Raemon | 16v (3c)

[SEQ RERUN] Striving to Accept

by MinibearRex | 0v (0c)

Meetup : Montreal Meetup - Bayes' Theorem

by Paul_G | 3v (0c)

Meetup : Durham HPMoR meetup, ch. 47-50

by therufs | 3v (0c)

[SEQ RERUN] Don't Believe You'll Self-Deceive

by MinibearRex | 2v (1c)

Critiques of the heuristics and biases tradition

by lukeprog | 18v (32c)

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Bookshelves

by JesseGalef | 33v (45c)

We Don't Drink Vodka (LW Moscow report)

by Yuu | 35v (15c)

Arguing Orthogonality, published form

by Stuart_Armstrong | 10v (10c)

Caring about possible people in far Worlds

by Neotenic | -1v (32c)

Meetup : Thursday Meetup at UB

by StonesOnCanvas | 2v (0c)

Meetup : South Bay Meetup: Be Specific

by fiddlemath | 3v (0c)

[SEQ RERUN] Moore's Paradox

by MinibearRex | 1v (2c)

Population Ethics Shouldn't Be About Maximizing Utility

by Ghatanathoah | 0v (46c)

Meetup : Atlanta: ATLessWrong Meetup

by Nova_Division | 3v (6c)

Open thread, March 17-31, 2013

by David_Gerard | 1v (173c)

Meetup : Toronto: fight/flight/freeze experiences

by Giles | 5v (0c)

[SEQ RERUN] Belief in Self-Deception

by MinibearRex | 3v (2c)

Meetup : Berlin social

by blob | 2v (0c)

Weekly LW Meetups: Cambridge UK, Durham, London, Vienna

by FrankAdamek | 1v (1c)

Risks of downloading alien AI via SETI search

by turchin | 9v (98c)

Meetup : Meetup [Reading Group, HAEFB-06]

by Sohum | 1v (0c)

[LINK] Intrade Shuts Down

by Douglas_Reay | 9v (30c)

AI prediction case study 5: Omohundro's AI drives

by Stuart_Armstrong | 5v (5c)

[SEQ RERUN] No, Really, I've Deceived Myself

by MinibearRex | 2v (2c)

Imposing conditions that would have been evidence about optimal behaviour in the EEA

by D_Malik | 11v (7c)

[SEQ RERUN] Teaching the Unteachable

by MinibearRex | 0v (5c)

Exercise in dissolving

by Eneasz | 8v (32c)

AI prediction case study 4: Kurzweil's spiritual machines

by Stuart_Armstrong | 3v (9c)

Amending the "General Pupose Intelligence: Arguing the Orthogonality Thesis"

by diegocaleiro | 2v (22c)

Overcoming bias guy meme | quickmeme

by saliency | 4v (77c)

AI prediction case study 3: Searle's Chinese room

by Stuart_Armstrong | 7v (34c)

Meetup : Durham NC meetup: Defense Against the Dumb Arts

by therufs | 3v (0c)

Meetup : West LA Meetup - Strong Evidence, Weak Evidence

by nickernst | 2v (0c)

Meetup : London Meetup, 24th March: Steelmanning

by philh | 1v (0c)

AI prediction case study 2: Dreyfus's Artificial Alchemy

by Stuart_Armstrong | 11v (18c)

Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup

by Maelin | 1v (4c)

[SEQ RERUN] Unteachable Excellence

by MinibearRex | 1v (6c)

Pluralistic Existence in Many Many-Worlds

by Neotenic | 6v (30c)

Meetup : Vancouver Extraordinary Evidence and Bayes

by nyan_sandwich | 3v (1c)

AI prediction case study 1: The original Dartmouth Conference

by Stuart_Armstrong | 7v (13c)

Game Theory of the Immortals

by Crystalist | -2v (14c)

Thoughts on the frame problem and moral symbol grounding

by Stuart_Armstrong | 0v (9c)

[SEQ RERUN] Markets are Anti-Inductive

by MinibearRex | 3v (0c)

You only need faith in two things

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[SEQ RERUN] Wise Pretentions v.0

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The Need for Human Friendliness

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Getting myself to eat vegetables

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"Why doesn't that cool thing happen when I try to do it?"

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Caelum est Conterrens: I frankly don't see how this is a horror story

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[SEQ RERUN] Pretending to be Wise

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SENS and Givewell: Conversation between Holden Karnofsky and Aubrey de Grey

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March 2013 Media Thread

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Induction; or, the rules and etiquette of reference class tennis

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Giving in to small vices

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Risks of Genetic Publicy

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[SEQ RERUN] Cynical About Cynicism

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The VNM independence axiom ignores the value of information

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Positive Information Diet, Take the Challenge

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Open Thread, March 1-15, 2013

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Constructive mathemathics and its dual

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Seize the Maximal Probability Moment

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[SEQ RERUN] An African Folktale

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Risk-aversion and investment (for altruists)

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Feature request: Green glow for "continue this thread"

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[VIDEO] Harm reduction, hacker psychology

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Idea: Self-Improving Task Management Software

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Need help with an MLP fanfiction with a transhumanist theme.

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Why might the future be good?

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[SEQ RERUN] An Especially Elegant Evpsych Experiment

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When should you give to multiple charities?

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[Link] Is the Endowment Effect Real?

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Exponent of Desire

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How much do you value your current identity vs. your life?

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Givewell Survey - Opportunity to influence their research

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Self-assessment in expert AI predictions

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[LINK] Westerners may be terrible experimental psychology subjects

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The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology

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Memory, nutrition, motivation, and genes

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[SEQ RERUN] The Evolutionary-Cognitive Boundary

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Singularity Fiction

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What Deontology gets right

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Can biases be used to encourage rational thinking?

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[SEQ RERUN] Cynicism in Ev-Psych (and Econ)

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How do you not be a hater?

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