Dual n-back news

gwernOct 8, 2010, 10:16 PM
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The Prob­lem With Trol­ley Problems

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Oct 23, 2010, 5:14 AM
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113 comments3 min readLW link

Are mass hal­lu­ci­na­tions a real thing?

Scott AlexanderOct 3, 2010, 8:15 PM
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Is there a “per­centage fal­lacy”?

ataOct 23, 2010, 4:45 AM
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If you don’t know the name of the game, just tell me what I mean to you

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 26, 2010, 1:43 PM
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Ben Go­ertzel: The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute’s Scary Idea (and Why I Don’t Buy It)

KevinOct 30, 2010, 3:25 AM
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Fields Medal­ists on School Mathematics

multifoliateroseOct 11, 2010, 10:06 AM
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19 comments3 min readLW link

DRAFT: Three In­tel­lec­tual Tem­per­a­ments: Birds, Frogs and Beavers

multifoliateroseOct 30, 2010, 5:49 PM
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32 comments13 min readLW link

Ethics of Jury nul­lifi­ca­tion and TDT?

Psy-KoshOct 26, 2010, 9:01 PM
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32 comments1 min readLW link

Draft: Rea­sons to Use In­for­mal Probabilities

jimrandomhOct 11, 2010, 10:50 PM
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13 comments4 min readLW link

Sam Har­ris’ sur­pris­ingly mod­est proposal

sketerpotOct 6, 2010, 12:46 AM
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Lifel­og­ging: the record­ing device

gwernOct 15, 2010, 1:04 AM
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31 comments1 min readLW link

What’s a “nat­u­ral num­ber”?

cousin_itOct 7, 2010, 1:34 PM
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Three kinds of poli­ti­cal similarity

[deleted]Oct 23, 2010, 4:01 PM
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That which can be de­stroyed by the truth should *not* nec­es­sar­ily be

Alex FlintOct 24, 2010, 10:41 AM
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A Novice Bud­dhist’s Hum­ble Experiences

Will_NewsomeOct 4, 2010, 10:40 AM
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42 comments9 min readLW link

Scope in­sen­si­tivity in juries

Scott AlexanderOct 2, 2010, 2:29 PM
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How are crit­i­cal think­ing skills ac­quired? Five perspectives

mattOct 22, 2010, 2:29 AM
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In which I fan­ta­size about drugs

cousin_itOct 12, 2010, 4:19 PM
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Pick­ing your battles

SeventhNadirOct 15, 2010, 11:17 AM
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Does any­one else find ROT13 spoilers as an­noy­ing as I do?

nick012000Oct 23, 2010, 5:15 PM
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Limi­ta­tions of eye­wit­ness testimony

NancyLebovitzOct 4, 2010, 1:03 PM
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Van­ity and Am­bi­tion in Mathematics

multifoliateroseOct 12, 2010, 5:49 AM
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The Sin­gu­lar­ity in the Zeitgeist

dclayhOct 2, 2010, 6:51 AM
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Resver­a­trol con­tinues to be useless

gwernOct 10, 2010, 12:19 AM
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Ra­tion­al­ity and advice

NancyLebovitzOct 8, 2010, 7:45 AM
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Patholog­i­cal util­i­tome­ter thought experiment

RainOct 26, 2010, 3:13 PM
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V is for Value Max­i­miz­ing Agent: Lon­don, Novem­ber 5

Scott AlexanderOct 28, 2010, 6:53 PM
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Oc­to­ber 2010 South­ern Cal­ifor­nia Meetup

jimmyOct 18, 2010, 9:28 PM
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In­ter­est­ing talk on Bayesi­ans and frequentists

jsteinhardtOct 23, 2010, 4:10 AM
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Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo

freyleyOct 15, 2010, 6:04 PM
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Learn­ing the foun­da­tions of math

jsalvatierOct 24, 2010, 7:29 PM
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Where else are you post­ing?

NancyLebovitzOct 10, 2010, 4:22 PM
10 points
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LW favorites

NancyLebovitzOct 14, 2010, 12:39 AM
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A Para­dox in Time­less De­ci­sion Theory

AlexMennenOct 25, 2010, 3:09 AM
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Does it mat­ter if you don’t re­mem­ber?

Alex FlintOct 22, 2010, 11:53 AM
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Re: sub-reddits

Scott AlexanderOct 17, 2010, 1:34 PM
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LWers on last.fm

mindspillageOct 24, 2010, 7:29 AM
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Play para­noid de­bat­ing at home!

eugmanOct 27, 2010, 4:34 PM
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“The Life Cy­cle of Soft­ware Ob­jects” by Chi­ang is available for free

NancyLebovitzOct 10, 2010, 9:49 AM
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Any LW-ers in Mu­nich, Athens, or Is­rael?

AnnaSalamonOct 11, 2010, 6:56 AM
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Help: Build­ing Awe­some Per­sonal Or­ga­ni­za­tion Systems

[deleted]Oct 25, 2010, 1:05 AM
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Seek­ing book about baseline life plan­ning and expectations

JenniferRMOct 29, 2010, 8:31 PM
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Lu­minos­ity (Twilight fan­fic) Part 2 Dis­cus­sion Thread

JenniferRMOct 25, 2010, 11:07 PM
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Melbourne Less Wrong Meetup for November

PatrickOct 15, 2010, 5:39 AM
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Green con­sumers more likely to steal

nick012000Oct 23, 2010, 11:42 AM
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Baby born from cryo-pre­served embryo

[deleted]Oct 29, 2010, 12:14 PM
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How do autis­tic peo­ple learn how to read peo­ple’s emo­tions?

eugmanOct 20, 2010, 1:57 PM
9 points
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I need to un­der­stand more about...

DilGreenOct 7, 2010, 9:15 AM
8 points
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Cam­bridge Mee­tups Nov 7 and Nov 21

jimrandomhOct 30, 2010, 12:32 AM
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