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Trade makes you responsible, but why?
KatjaGrace
Mar 9, 2010, 6:54 PM
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0
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1
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LW
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Divide individuals for utilitarian libertarianism
KatjaGrace
Mar 7, 2010, 11:59 PM
1
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0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Selfishness Signals Status
Liron
Mar 7, 2010, 3:38 AM
0
points
92
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The strongest status signals
pwno
Mar 6, 2010, 8:13 AM
−5
points
48
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The strongest status signals
pwno
Mar 6, 2010, 8:03 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
TED Talks: Daniel Kahneman
Cyan
Mar 6, 2010, 1:45 AM
24
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Signaling Strategies and Morality
MichaelVassar
Mar 5, 2010, 9:09 PM
20
points
50
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The fallacy of work-life compartmentalization
Morendil
Mar 4, 2010, 10:59 PM
13
points
92
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Graviton as Aether
alyssavance
Mar 4, 2010, 10:13 PM
16
points
136
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Priors and Surprise
MichaelVassar
Mar 3, 2010, 8:27 AM
23
points
32
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Interesting Peter Norvig interview
xamdam
Mar 3, 2010, 12:59 AM
6
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Individual vs. Group Epistemic Rationality
Wei Dai
Mar 2, 2010, 9:46 PM
36
points
54
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup: Bay Area: Sunday, March 7th, 7pm
JustinShovelain
Mar 2, 2010, 9:18 PM
8
points
44
comments
1
min read
LW
link
For progress to be by accumulation and not by random walk, read great books
MichaelVassar
Mar 2, 2010, 8:11 AM
85
points
117
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Rationality quotes: March 2010
Morendil
Mar 1, 2010, 10:26 AM
6
points
262
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread: March 2010
AdeleneDawner
Mar 1, 2010, 9:25 AM
9
points
680
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Hedging our Bets: The Case for Pursuing Whole Brain Emulation to Safeguard Humanity’s Future
inklesspen
Mar 1, 2010, 2:32 AM
14
points
248
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Great Product. Lousy Marketing.
BenAlbahari
Feb 28, 2010, 9:33 AM
18
points
71
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Splinters and Wooden Beams
knb
Feb 28, 2010, 8:26 AM
5
points
50
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Mental Crystallography
Alicorn
Feb 27, 2010, 1:04 AM
33
points
60
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Superstimuli, setpoints, and obesity
taw
Feb 26, 2010, 11:59 PM
−3
points
46
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Improving The Akrasia Hypothesis
pjeby
Feb 26, 2010, 8:45 PM
101
points
70
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Creating a Less Wrong prediction market
Kevin
Feb 26, 2010, 11:48 AM
9
points
52
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What is Bayesianism?
Kaj_Sotala
Feb 26, 2010, 7:43 AM
120
points
218
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Last Days of the Singularity Challenge
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Feb 26, 2010, 3:46 AM
24
points
86
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Outside View!” as Conversation-Halter
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Feb 24, 2010, 5:53 AM
93
points
103
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Fictitious sentiments
KatjaGrace
Feb 23, 2010, 6:46 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dignity
KatjaGrace
Feb 22, 2010, 5:16 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych
Alicorn
Feb 22, 2010, 1:53 AM
81
points
843
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Woo!
BenAlbahari
Feb 21, 2010, 8:19 AM
10
points
59
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Case study: abuse of frequentist statistics
Cyan
Feb 21, 2010, 6:35 AM
45
points
100
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Akrasia Tactics Review
orthonormal
Feb 21, 2010, 4:25 AM
93
points
151
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Conversation Halters
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Feb 20, 2010, 3:00 PM
78
points
98
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Doers or doings?
KatjaGrace
Feb 20, 2010, 7:48 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Study: Making decisions makes you tired
bgrah449
Feb 19, 2010, 8:27 PM
31
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Med Patient Social Networks Are Better Scientific Institutions
Liron
Feb 19, 2010, 8:11 AM
46
points
49
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Explicit Optimization of Global Strategy (Fixing a Bug in UDT1)
Wei Dai
Feb 19, 2010, 1:30 AM
55
points
38
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Things You Can’t Countersignal
Alicorn
Feb 19, 2010, 12:18 AM
103
points
126
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Open Thread: February 2010, part 2
CronoDAS
Feb 16, 2010, 8:29 AM
15
points
917
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Friendly AI at the NYC Future Salon
Jasen
Feb 16, 2010, 2:57 AM
10
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Hayekian Prediction Markets?
David_J_Balan
Feb 15, 2010, 11:50 PM
10
points
79
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Boo lights: groupthink edition
Morendil
Feb 15, 2010, 6:29 PM
27
points
72
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Two probabilities
rwallace
Feb 15, 2010, 2:18 PM
1
point
44
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Demands for Particular Proof: Appendices
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Feb 15, 2010, 7:58 AM
40
points
70
comments
7
min read
LW
link
You’re Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Feb 15, 2010, 7:58 AM
88
points
229
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Two Challenges
Daniel_Burfoot
Feb 14, 2010, 8:31 AM
20
points
14
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Shock Levels are Point Estimates
Peter_de_Blanc
Feb 14, 2010, 4:31 AM
9
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How Much Should We Care What the Founding Fathers Thought About Anything?
David_J_Balan
11 Feb 2010 0:38 UTC
−6
points
36
comments
4
min read
LW
link
My Fundamental Question About Omega
MrHen
10 Feb 2010 17:26 UTC
11
points
153
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks OR How I learned to stop worrying and create one billion dollars out of nothing
Kevin
10 Feb 2010 3:15 UTC
53
points
227
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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