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Timeless Identity Crisis
Psy-Kosh
Sep 11, 2009, 2:37 AM
11
points
33
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Formalizing informal logic
Johnicholas
Sep 10, 2009, 8:16 PM
16
points
22
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Lifespan Dilemma
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 10, 2009, 6:45 PM
61
points
220
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Pittsburgh Meetup: Saturday 9/12, 6:30PM, CMU
Nick_Tarleton
Sep 10, 2009, 3:06 AM
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Let Them Debate College Students
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 9, 2009, 6:15 PM
88
points
144
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Outlawing Anthropics: An Updateless Dilemma
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 8, 2009, 6:31 PM
37
points
210
comments
4
min read
LW
link
FHI postdoc at Oxford
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 8, 2009, 6:18 PM
7
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An idea: Sticking Point Learning
cousin_it
Sep 8, 2009, 9:52 AM
12
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Charitable explanation
KatjaGrace
Sep 8, 2009, 5:55 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why I’m Staying On Bloggingheads.tv
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 7, 2009, 8:15 PM
31
points
101
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Forcing Anthropics: Boltzmann Brains
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 7, 2009, 7:02 PM
37
points
72
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Subconscious stalking?
KatjaGrace
Sep 6, 2009, 9:00 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Decision theory: Why Pearl helps reduce “could” and “would”, but still leaves us with at least three alternatives
AnnaSalamon
Sep 6, 2009, 6:10 AM
48
points
72
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Bay Area OBLW Meetup Sep 12
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 6, 2009, 12:00 AM
4
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Counterfactual Mugging and Logical Uncertainty
Vladimir_Nesov
Sep 5, 2009, 10:31 PM
16
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Notes on utility function experiment
taw
Sep 5, 2009, 7:10 PM
19
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Freedom is slavery
KatjaGrace
Sep 4, 2009, 9:00 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Torture vs. Dust vs. the Presumptuous Philosopher: Anthropic Reasoning in UDT
Wei Dai
Sep 3, 2009, 11:04 PM
37
points
29
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Sword of Good
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sep 3, 2009, 12:53 AM
158
points
303
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Featherless Biped
Annoyance
Sep 2, 2009, 5:47 PM
4
points
64
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Decision theory: Why we need to reduce “could”, “would”, “should”
AnnaSalamon
Sep 2, 2009, 9:23 AM
38
points
48
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The puzzle continues
KatjaGrace
Sep 2, 2009, 9:00 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Knowing What You Know
[deleted]
Sep 2, 2009, 5:24 AM
21
points
12
comments
5
min read
LW
link
LW/OB Quotes—Fall 2009
thomblake
Sep 1, 2009, 3:11 PM
5
points
50
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality Quotes—September 2009
thomblake
Sep 1, 2009, 3:06 PM
4
points
105
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread: September 2009
AllanCrossman
Sep 1, 2009, 10:54 AM
4
points
186
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Do fetching models stave off shallowness?
KatjaGrace
Sep 1, 2009, 6:00 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Optimal Strategies for Reducing Existential Risk
FrankAdamek
Aug 31, 2009, 3:52 PM
4
points
21
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Great post on Reddit about accepting atheism
cousin_it
Aug 30, 2009, 8:56 PM
18
points
44
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Argument Maps Improve Critical Thinking
Johnicholas
Aug 30, 2009, 5:34 PM
26
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cookies vs Existential Risk
FrankAdamek
Aug 30, 2009, 3:56 AM
18
points
23
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Some counterevidence for human sociobiology
taw
Aug 29, 2009, 2:08 AM
2
points
31
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Don’t be Pathologically Mugged!
Psy-Kosh
Aug 28, 2009, 9:47 PM
8
points
30
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Twin Webs of Knowledge
Kaj_Sotala
Aug 28, 2009, 9:45 AM
6
points
72
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Paper: Testing ecological models
brian_jaress
Aug 27, 2009, 10:12 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Pittsburgh Meetup: Survey of Interest
Nick_Tarleton
Aug 27, 2009, 4:18 PM
10
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Rationalist’s Bookshelf: The Mind’s I (Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, 1981)
colinmarshall
Aug 26, 2009, 7:08 PM
21
points
7
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Mathematical simplicity bias and exponential functions
taw
Aug 26, 2009, 6:34 PM
16
points
87
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Confusion about Newcomb is confusion about counterfactuals
AnnaSalamon
Aug 25, 2009, 8:01 PM
54
points
42
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How does an infovore manage information overload?
haig
Aug 25, 2009, 6:54 PM
3
points
30
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Decision theory: An outline of some upcoming posts
AnnaSalamon
Aug 25, 2009, 7:34 AM
31
points
31
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Value for money kills?
KatjaGrace
Aug 24, 2009, 11:37 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Working Mantras
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Aug 24, 2009, 10:08 PM
48
points
59
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Journal of (Failed) Replication Studies
Vladimir_Gritsenko
Aug 23, 2009, 9:15 AM
12
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is your subconscious communist?
KatjaGrace
Aug 22, 2009, 3:39 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
ESR’s New Take on Qualia
billswift
Aug 21, 2009, 9:26 AM
5
points
54
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Timeless Decision Theory and Meta-Circular Decision Theory
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Aug 2009 22:07 UTC
42
points
37
comments
10
min read
LW
link
How inevitable was modern human civilization—data
taw
20 Aug 2009 21:42 UTC
32
points
103
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Evolved Bayesians will be biased
taw
20 Aug 2009 14:54 UTC
28
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
You have just been Counterfactually Mugged!
CronoDAS
19 Aug 2009 22:24 UTC
7
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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