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Link: PRISMs, Gom Jabbars, and Consciousness (Peter Watts)
JulianMorrison
Oct 11, 2009, 9:51 PM
14
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Argument from Witness Testimony
Johnicholas
Oct 10, 2009, 2:05 PM
8
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How to get that Friendly Singularity: a minority view
Mitchell_Porter
Oct 10, 2009, 10:56 AM
17
points
69
comments
7
min read
LW
link
I’m Not Saying People Are Stupid
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Oct 9, 2009, 4:23 PM
61
points
101
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LW Meetup Google Calendar
MBlume
Oct 7, 2009, 10:51 PM
14
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Boston Area Less Wrong Meetup: 2 pm Sunday October 11th
CarlShulman
Oct 7, 2009, 9:15 PM
8
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New Haven/Yale Less Wrong Meetup: 5 pm, Monday October 12
CarlShulman
Oct 7, 2009, 8:35 PM
7
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Let them eat cake: Interpersonal Problems vs Tasks
HughRistik
Oct 7, 2009, 4:35 PM
96
points
575
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The First Step is to Admit That You Have a Problem
Alicorn
Oct 6, 2009, 8:59 PM
87
points
87
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Presumptuous Philosopher’s Presumptuous Friend
PlaidX
Oct 5, 2009, 5:26 AM
4
points
82
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Don’t Think Too Hard.
[deleted]
Oct 5, 2009, 3:51 AM
14
points
36
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Dying Outside
HalFinney
Oct 5, 2009, 2:45 AM
402
points
91
comments
2
min read
LW
link
When Willpower Attacks
jimrandomh
Oct 3, 2009, 3:36 AM
22
points
77
comments
3
min read
LW
link
‘oy, girls on lw, want to get together some time?’
MBlume
Oct 2, 2009, 10:50 AM
38
points
184
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Scott Aaronson on Born Probabilities
Wei Dai
Oct 2, 2009, 6:40 AM
39
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Dominant characters on the left
KatjaGrace
Oct 1, 2009, 10:40 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Are you a Democrat singletonian, or a Republican singletonian?
PhilGoetz
Oct 1, 2009, 9:35 PM
−14
points
37
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why Don’t We Apply What We Know About Twins to Everybody Else?
MichaelGR
Oct 1, 2009, 4:23 PM
20
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread: October 2009
gwern
Oct 1, 2009, 12:49 PM
8
points
436
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Regular NYC Meetups
MBlume
Oct 1, 2009, 12:44 PM
11
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
NY-area OB/LW meetup Saturday 10/3 7 PM
MBlume
Sep 30, 2009, 11:52 PM
10
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Intuitive differences: when to agree to disagree
Kaj_Sotala
Sep 29, 2009, 7:56 AM
35
points
36
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Why Many-Worlds Is Not The Rationally Favored Interpretation
Mitchell_Porter
Sep 29, 2009, 5:22 AM
13
points
101
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 29, 2009, 12:40 AM
127
points
130
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Your Most Valuable Skill
Alicorn
Sep 27, 2009, 5:01 PM
32
points
97
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Anthropic Trilemma
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 27, 2009, 1:47 AM
77
points
233
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Scylla of Error and the Charybdis of Paralysis
Johnicholas
Sep 26, 2009, 4:01 PM
16
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Correlated decision making: a complete theory
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 26, 2009, 11:47 AM
10
points
22
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Non-Malthusian Scenarios
Wei Dai
Sep 26, 2009, 2:44 AM
24
points
89
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Solutions to Political Problems As Counterfactuals
Scott Alexander
Sep 25, 2009, 5:21 PM
46
points
36
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The utility curve of the human population
dclayh
Sep 24, 2009, 9:00 PM
9
points
34
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Minneapolis Meetup, This Saturday (26th) at 3:00 PM, University of Minnesota
FrankAdamek
Sep 24, 2009, 8:18 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Boredom vs. Scope Insensitivity
Wei Dai
Sep 24, 2009, 11:45 AM
68
points
40
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Anthropic reasoning and correlated decision making
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 23, 2009, 3:10 PM
9
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Avoiding doomsday: a “proof” of the self-indication assumption
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 23, 2009, 2:54 PM
26
points
238
comments
3
min read
LW
link
‘Clearly’ covers murky thought
KatjaGrace
Sep 22, 2009, 6:26 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ethics as a black box function
Kaj_Sotala
Sep 22, 2009, 5:25 PM
14
points
32
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why do animal lovers want animals to feel pain?
KatjaGrace
Sep 21, 2009, 9:00 AM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 20, 2009, 5:21 PM
53
points
107
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to use SMILE to solve Bayes Nets
Johnicholas
Sep 20, 2009, 12:08 PM
16
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Reason as memetic immune disorder
PhilGoetz
Sep 19, 2009, 9:05 PM
513
points
185
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Hypothetical Paradoxes
Psychohistorian
Sep 19, 2009, 6:28 AM
12
points
34
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Minneapolis Meetup: Survey of interest
JustinShovelain
Sep 18, 2009, 6:52 PM
8
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
MWI, weird quantum experiments and future-directed continuity of conscious experience
SforSingularity
Sep 18, 2009, 4:45 PM
6
points
92
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Quantum Russian Roulette
Christian_Szegedy
Sep 18, 2009, 8:49 AM
8
points
65
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Sociosexual Orientation Inventory, or failing to perform basic sanity checks
taw
Sep 16, 2009, 10:00 AM
5
points
41
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What is the Singularity Summit?
Liron
16 Sep 2009 7:18 UTC
14
points
17
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Absent-Minded Driver
Wei Dai
16 Sep 2009 0:51 UTC
49
points
151
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Beware of WEIRD psychological samples
Paul Crowley
13 Sep 2009 11:28 UTC
46
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Formalizing reflective inconsistency
Johnicholas
13 Sep 2009 4:23 UTC
5
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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