The Out­side View Of Hu­man Complexity

Andy_McKenzieOct 8, 2011, 6:12 PM
19 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

1001 Pre­dic­tionBook Nights

gwernOct 8, 2011, 4:04 PM
72 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Mike Dar­win on Kurzweil, Techno-Op­ti­mism, and Delu­sional Stances on Cryonics

SynapticOct 8, 2011, 2:45 PM
23 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Bal­ti­more, Hous­ton, Chicago, Melbourne, and Penn State

FrankAdamekOct 8, 2011, 2:12 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Guardian ar­ti­cle high­lights ob­ser­va­tional bi­ases in Knox investigators

machriderOct 8, 2011, 7:41 AM
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Mike Dar­win on Steve Jobs’s hyp­o­crit­i­cal stance to­wards death

SynapticOct 8, 2011, 3:32 AM
33 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

Link: WJS ar­ti­cle that uses Steve Jobs’ death to mock cry­on­ics and the Singularity

James_MillerOct 8, 2011, 2:56 AM
6 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know

MinibearRexOct 8, 2011, 2:36 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ap­ply­ing Bayesian Anal­y­sis to His­tory (post idea)

AsymmetricOct 8, 2011, 2:25 AM
17 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity is not about willpower

PhilGoetzOct 8, 2011, 1:33 AM
20 points
146 comments13 min readLW link

Karma and good discussions

NancyLebovitzOct 8, 2011, 1:21 AM
11 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Neu­ral Cor­re­lates of Con­scious Access

atuckerOct 7, 2011, 11:12 PM
39 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Key­log­ger virus strikes Amer­i­can UAV con­trol center

CarlShulmanOct 7, 2011, 9:30 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Dublin, IE, Meetup

Barry_CotterOct 7, 2011, 12:34 PM
3 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Re­pres­sion in the age of hu­man enhancement

KatjaGraceOct 7, 2011, 9:54 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Marsh et al. “Sero­tonin Trans­porter Geno­type (5-HTTLPR) Pre­dicts Utili­tar­ian Mo­ral Judg­ments”

JackOct 7, 2011, 7:08 AM
16 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Dou­ble Illu­sion of Transparency

MinibearRexOct 7, 2011, 5:24 AM
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Should I play World of War­craft?

PhilGoetzOct 7, 2011, 4:25 AM
14 points
107 comments2 min readLW link

Mul­ti­ply­ing 10-digit num­bers us­ing Flickr: The power of recog­ni­tion memory

printing-spoonOct 7, 2011, 1:18 AM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Link] Neu­ral Cor­re­lates of Con­fu­sion?

atuckerOct 6, 2011, 11:52 PM
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

What are you work­ing on?

jsalvatierOct 6, 2011, 4:19 PM
16 points
97 comments1 min readLW link

Up­com­ing book: “Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence and the End of the Hu­man Era”

lukeprogOct 6, 2011, 3:14 PM
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

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[deleted]Oct 6, 2011, 6:03 AM
17 points
65 comments1 min readLW link

More shame­less ploys for job advice

[deleted]Oct 6, 2011, 4:08 AM
4 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Ex­plain­ers Shoot High, Aim Low!

MinibearRexOct 6, 2011, 3:19 AM
10 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Vol­un­teer needed to change the front page ‘Fea­tured Ar­ti­cles’ each week

lukeprogOct 6, 2011, 2:10 AM
4 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Im­per­a­tive Cat­e­gories?

[deleted]Oct 5, 2011, 9:44 PM
−25 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

On self-deception

irrationalOct 5, 2011, 6:46 PM
42 points
83 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Ot­tawa Meetup—Learn­ing Lin­ear Algebra

XFrequentistOct 5, 2011, 6:02 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Freewill vs. Determinism

[deleted]Oct 5, 2011, 4:41 PM
−8 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Re­pairing Yud­kowsky’s anti-zom­bie argument

[deleted]Oct 5, 2011, 11:08 AM
7 points
79 comments11 min readLW link

Pas­cal’s wa­ger re-examined

PhilGoetzOct 5, 2011, 8:43 AM
−10 points
120 comments3 min readLW link

[LINK] Robin Han­son on Carl Shul­man’s re­cent pa­per on Whole Brain Emulation

AlexandrosOct 5, 2011, 7:51 AM
21 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] A Re­view and Sum­mary of John Har­ris’s Case for Chem­i­cal Enhancement

r_claypoolOct 5, 2011, 3:15 AM
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Why are you down­vot­ing?

[deleted]Oct 5, 2011, 2:52 AM
−5 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Ex­pect­ing Short In­fer­en­tial Distances

MinibearRexOct 5, 2011, 2:34 AM
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Another Mechanism for the Placebo Effect?

jimrandomhOct 5, 2011, 1:55 AM
8 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Cam­bridge, MA Sun­day meetup

jimrandomhOct 5, 2011, 1:37 AM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Re-eval­u­ate old beliefs

PhilGoetzOct 5, 2011, 1:18 AM
4 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Not By Em­pa­thy Alone

gwernOct 5, 2011, 12:36 AM
29 points
109 comments12 min readLW link

Pri­vate Manned Moon­base in the 1990s, Yet Another Plan­ning Fallacy

DavidPlumptonOct 5, 2011, 12:09 AM
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Prize for the best in­tro­duc­tion to the LessWrong source ($250)

jsalvatierOct 5, 2011, 12:08 AM
24 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

The Na­tional In­sti­tute of Theology

PhilGoetzOct 4, 2011, 6:21 PM
−2 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Peter Thiel warns of up­com­ing (and cur­rent) stagnation

SilasBartaOct 4, 2011, 5:30 PM
36 points
121 comments2 min readLW link

Pod­casts with Robin Han­son 2

KatjaGraceOct 4, 2011, 5:03 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ap­ply your knowl­edge: pick half a number

EneaszOct 4, 2011, 4:49 PM
8 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Lec­tur­ing con­gress­men on cog­ni­tive biases

Apprentice4 Oct 2011 14:11 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ig No­bel for the anti-akra­sia guy

Craig_Heldreth4 Oct 2011 13:28 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Another “Oops” mo­ment [link]

fortyeridania4 Oct 2011 10:59 UTC
17 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Reli­gion, hap­piness, and Bayes

fortyeridania4 Oct 2011 10:21 UTC
5 points
27 comments1 min readLW link