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Presents for impoving rationality or reducing superstition?
mtaran
Dec 19, 2011, 10:19 PM
8
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
SingInst bloomberg coverage [link]
Dr_Manhattan
Dec 19, 2011, 7:31 PM
8
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us”
gwern
Dec 19, 2011, 6:48 PM
9
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Q&A with Michael Littman on risks from AI
XiXiDu
Dec 19, 2011, 9:51 AM
23
points
88
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Infinite Certainty
MinibearRex
Dec 19, 2011, 5:30 AM
8
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Controls are Lying: A Note on the Memetic Hazards of Video Games [Link]
Nic_Smith
Dec 19, 2011, 5:25 AM
32
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Generalized Anti-Pascal Principle: Utility Convergence of Infinitesimal Probabilities
jacob_cannell
Dec 18, 2011, 11:47 PM
−6
points
19
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Inverse p-zombies: the other direction in the Hard Problem of Consciousness
gwern
Dec 18, 2011, 9:32 PM
45
points
32
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Rational wart removal
TwistingFingers
Dec 18, 2011, 6:57 PM
−34
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A model of UDT with a halting oracle
cousin_it
Dec 18, 2011, 2:18 PM
70
points
102
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Request: Induction, Proof, Experimental mathematics
snarles
Dec 18, 2011, 1:29 PM
−7
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Donating to wikipedia
snarles
Dec 18, 2011, 1:17 PM
−14
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
List of machine learning researchers
robertzk
Dec 18, 2011, 9:54 AM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Absolute Authority
MinibearRex
Dec 18, 2011, 3:05 AM
8
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Philosophy and Machine Learning Panel on Ethics
jsteinhardt
Dec 17, 2011, 11:32 PM
14
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Selfish reasons for FAI
snarles
Dec 17, 2011, 10:58 PM
0
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Belief in religion considered harmful?
[deleted]
Dec 17, 2011, 10:38 PM
33
points
54
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[LINK] High school students coerced into non-optimal philanthropy via psychological warfare
Dallas
Dec 17, 2011, 10:24 PM
10
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
MINE: Free tool for detecting novel associations in large data sets
curiousepic
Dec 17, 2011, 3:02 PM
7
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Anesthesia and Consciousness [link]
NancyLebovitz
Dec 17, 2011, 11:50 AM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] The Fallacy of Gray
MinibearRex
Dec 17, 2011, 6:11 AM
7
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Transcript] Tyler Cowen on Stories
Grognor
Dec 17, 2011, 5:42 AM
96
points
14
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Christopher Hitchens 1949-2011
Costanza
Dec 16, 2011, 10:05 PM
12
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
No one knows what Peano arithmetic doesn’t know
cousin_it
Dec 16, 2011, 9:36 PM
28
points
54
comments
1
min read
LW
link
I started a blog: Concept Space Cartography
jimrandomh
Dec 16, 2011, 9:06 PM
9
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[link] Admitting errors (in meteorology)
fortyeridania
Dec 16, 2011, 5:21 PM
16
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The rationalist’s checklist
robertzk
Dec 16, 2011, 4:21 PM
44
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups: Atlanta, Austin, Melbourne, Pittsburgh
FrankAdamek
Dec 16, 2011, 3:08 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Question about timeless physics
XiXiDu
Dec 16, 2011, 1:09 PM
6
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Allen & Wallach on Friendly AI
lukeprog
Dec 16, 2011, 9:22 AM
10
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Problems of the Deutsch-Wallace version of Many Worlds
Mitchell_Porter
Dec 16, 2011, 6:55 AM
5
points
93
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A discarded review of ‘Godel, Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid’
lukeprog
Dec 16, 2011, 5:51 AM
12
points
30
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] But There’s Still A Chance, Right?
MinibearRex
Dec 16, 2011, 3:03 AM
12
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Do men have more partners than women?
DuncanS
Dec 16, 2011, 12:11 AM
12
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality Verification Opportunity?
beoShaffer
Dec 15, 2011, 10:11 PM
2
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to label thoughts nonverbally
eugman
Dec 15, 2011, 6:23 PM
44
points
28
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Checking Recent Upvotes?
Raemon
Dec 15, 2011, 4:25 PM
14
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A case study in fooling oneself
Mitchell_Porter
Dec 15, 2011, 5:25 AM
−15
points
79
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Compressing Reality to Math
Vaniver
Dec 15, 2011, 12:07 AM
34
points
7
comments
8
min read
LW
link
[LINK] SMBC discusses the Singularity.
radical_negative_one
Dec 14, 2011, 7:58 PM
−4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Building case-studies of akrasia
Mercurial
Dec 14, 2011, 6:42 PM
19
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] A Failed Just-So Story
MinibearRex
Dec 14, 2011, 6:22 PM
6
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How Many Worlds?
smk
Dec 14, 2011, 2:51 PM
2
points
64
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Tracking emotions with kinesthetic memory
eugman
Dec 14, 2011, 12:49 PM
47
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
You Are Not So Smart—Book on Bias by david mcraney
Goobahman
Dec 14, 2011, 6:05 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : West LA Meetup 12-14-2011
[deleted]
Dec 14, 2011, 1:46 AM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
The Likelihood Ratio and the Problem of Evil
JQuinton
Dec 13, 2011, 4:28 PM
−5
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What are you working on? December 2011
jsalvatier
Dec 13, 2011, 3:27 PM
12
points
117
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Examples of the Mind Projection Fallacy?
fiddlemath
Dec 13, 2011, 3:27 PM
19
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Problems Related to the Singularity (draft 1)
lukeprog
Dec 13, 2011, 10:57 AM
53
points
42
comments
4
min read
LW
link
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