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Stupid Ques­tions Open Thread

Costanza29 Dec 2011 23:23 UTC
62 points
264 comments1 min readLW link

“Mis­be­hav­ing Machines: The Emu­lated Brains of Tran­shu­man­ist Dreams”, Corry Shores

gwern29 Dec 2011 22:33 UTC
16 points
4 comments15 min readLW link

Am­bi­ent con­trol of the ar­ith­meti­cal hi­er­ar­chy?

Will_Newsome29 Dec 2011 22:25 UTC
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Smart and un­der 20? Peter Thiel wants to pay you to not go to school.

lukeprog29 Dec 2011 20:37 UTC
10 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Are Yearly/​Monthly Book Sugges­tion Threads a Good Idea?

RobertLumley29 Dec 2011 16:52 UTC
4 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Should we dis­count ex­traor­di­nary im­pli­ca­tions?

XiXiDu29 Dec 2011 14:51 UTC
4 points
104 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity of some­times miss­ing the point of the stated ques­tion, and of cer­tain type of defen­sive reasoning

Dmytry29 Dec 2011 13:09 UTC
22 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Why would a free hu­man so­ciety be in agree­ment on how to al­ter it­self?

Multiheaded29 Dec 2011 11:49 UTC
−2 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Ne­gen­tropy Over­rated?

paulfchristiano29 Dec 2011 10:14 UTC
38 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Against Dis­count Rates

MinibearRex29 Dec 2011 6:00 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : First Philadelphia Meetup of 2012

DasAllFolks29 Dec 2011 5:16 UTC
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Less Wrong men­tor­ing thread

John_Maxwell29 Dec 2011 0:10 UTC
43 points
92 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Diego ex­per­i­men­tal meetup

Mercurial28 Dec 2011 22:02 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

For-Profit Ra­tion­al­ity Training

ksvanhorn28 Dec 2011 21:42 UTC
31 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] Opac­ity as a defense against bias?

malthrin28 Dec 2011 18:15 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[LINK] Gödel, Escher, Bach read through start­ing on Reddit

Karmakaiser28 Dec 2011 15:37 UTC
8 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Can you rec­og­nize a ran­dom gen­er­a­tor?

uzalud28 Dec 2011 13:59 UTC
1 point
55 comments1 min readLW link

[Hu­mor] [Link] Eclipse Maid, a posthu­man maid role-play­ing game

Kaj_Sotala28 Dec 2011 13:18 UTC
12 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Which bi­ases would you like to keep?

cousin_it28 Dec 2011 12:59 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Reli­gious dogma as group identity

uzalud28 Dec 2011 10:12 UTC
10 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Eu­topia is Scary—for the author

Stuart_Armstrong28 Dec 2011 9:42 UTC
15 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Best of Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes, 2011 Edition

DanielVarga28 Dec 2011 5:32 UTC
41 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Allais Malaise

MinibearRex28 Dec 2011 4:25 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute $100,000 end-of-year fundraiser only 20% filled so far

Louie27 Dec 2011 21:24 UTC
8 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

How to Draw Con­clu­sions Like Sher­lock Holmes

abcd_z27 Dec 2011 13:29 UTC
−5 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Port­land Meetup?

obfuscate27 Dec 2011 6:05 UTC
6 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Zut Allais!

MinibearRex27 Dec 2011 5:13 UTC
7 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

What causes burnout?

juliawise27 Dec 2011 4:51 UTC
22 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy that can be “taken se­ri­ously by com­puter sci­en­tists”

lukeprog27 Dec 2011 2:39 UTC
30 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

If You Were Brilli­ant When You Were Ten...

AspiringKnitter27 Dec 2011 2:33 UTC
32 points
69 comments1 min readLW link

Wel­come to Less Wrong! (2012)

orthonormal26 Dec 2011 22:57 UTC
31 points
1,440 comments5 min readLW link

Sum­mary of “The Straw Vul­can”

alexvermeer26 Dec 2011 16:29 UTC
51 points
27 comments6 min readLW link

Or­ga­niz­ing the FOOM debate

Curiouskid26 Dec 2011 16:05 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Fu­ture of Mo­ral Machines—New York Times [link]

Dr_Manhattan26 Dec 2011 14:44 UTC
1 point
10 comments1 min readLW link

Wel­come to Less Wrong!, part 2?

NancyLebovitz26 Dec 2011 10:34 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] The Allais Paradox

MinibearRex26 Dec 2011 4:30 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Link, Hu­mor] The Best Christ­mas Ever

pjeby25 Dec 2011 23:14 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Merry New­ton­mas LW. Have some ra­tio­nal­ist mu­sic.

Spurlock25 Dec 2011 15:41 UTC
32 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Just an­other day in utopia

Stuart_Armstrong25 Dec 2011 9:37 UTC
142 points
118 comments13 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Trust in Math

MinibearRex25 Dec 2011 7:28 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Lin­coln on Rationality

[deleted]25 Dec 2011 6:55 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Link] Cor­re­la­tion Graphs Re­veal Shock­ing Information

Alicorn25 Dec 2011 2:26 UTC
19 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

De­tails of lab-made bird flu won’t be re­vealed [link]

Kevin25 Dec 2011 0:17 UTC
11 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Would you like to give me feed­back for “Trou­bles With CEV”

diegocaleiro24 Dec 2011 21:22 UTC
−13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Would you like to give me feed­back for “On What is a Self”

diegocaleiro24 Dec 2011 21:21 UTC
−11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Beau­tiful Probability

MinibearRex24 Dec 2011 5:33 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

East Coast Megameetup II: Elec­tric Boogalloo

atucker23 Dec 2011 23:24 UTC
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

His­tor­i­cal ex­am­ples of flinch­ing away

lukeprog23 Dec 2011 21:41 UTC
13 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion is hard, es­pe­cially of medicine

gwern23 Dec 2011 20:34 UTC
72 points
48 comments23 min readLW link

[LINK] Ques­tion Templates

jimrandomh23 Dec 2011 19:54 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link