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Stupid Ques­tions Open Thread

CostanzaDec 29, 2011, 11:23 PM
62 points
264 comments1 min readLW link

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

gwernDec 29, 2011, 10:33 PM
16 points
4 comments15 min readLW link

Am­bi­ent con­trol of the ar­ith­meti­cal hi­er­ar­chy?

Will_NewsomeDec 29, 2011, 10:25 PM
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

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

lukeprogDec 29, 2011, 8:37 PM
10 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

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

RobertLumleyDec 29, 2011, 4:52 PM
4 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Should we dis­count ex­traor­di­nary im­pli­ca­tions?

XiXiDuDec 29, 2011, 2:51 PM
4 points
104 comments4 min readLW link

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

DmytryDec 29, 2011, 1:09 PM
22 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

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

MultiheadedDec 29, 2011, 11:49 AM
−2 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Ne­gen­tropy Over­rated?

paulfchristianoDec 29, 2011, 10:14 AM
38 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Against Dis­count Rates

MinibearRexDec 29, 2011, 6:00 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : First Philadelphia Meetup of 2012

DasAllFolksDec 29, 2011, 5:16 AM
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Less Wrong men­tor­ing thread

John_MaxwellDec 29, 2011, 12:10 AM
43 points
92 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Diego ex­per­i­men­tal meetup

MercurialDec 28, 2011, 10:02 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

For-Profit Ra­tion­al­ity Training

ksvanhornDec 28, 2011, 9:42 PM
31 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] Opac­ity as a defense against bias?

malthrinDec 28, 2011, 6:15 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

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

KarmakaiserDec 28, 2011, 3:37 PM
8 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Can you rec­og­nize a ran­dom gen­er­a­tor?

uzaludDec 28, 2011, 1:59 PM
1 point
55 comments1 min readLW link

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

Kaj_SotalaDec 28, 2011, 1:18 PM
12 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Which bi­ases would you like to keep?

cousin_itDec 28, 2011, 12:59 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Reli­gious dogma as group identity

uzaludDec 28, 2011, 10:12 AM
10 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Eu­topia is Scary—for the author

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 28, 2011, 9:42 AM
15 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Best of Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes, 2011 Edition

DanielVargaDec 28, 2011, 5:32 AM
39 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Allais Malaise

MinibearRexDec 28, 2011, 4:25 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

LouieDec 27, 2011, 9:24 PM
8 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

How to Draw Con­clu­sions Like Sher­lock Holmes

abcd_zDec 27, 2011, 1:29 PM
−5 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Port­land Meetup?

obfuscateDec 27, 2011, 6:05 AM
6 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Zut Allais!

MinibearRexDec 27, 2011, 5:13 AM
7 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

What causes burnout?

juliawiseDec 27, 2011, 4:51 AM
22 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy that can be “taken se­ri­ously by com­puter sci­en­tists”

lukeprogDec 27, 2011, 2:39 AM
30 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

If You Were Brilli­ant When You Were Ten...

AspiringKnitterDec 27, 2011, 2:33 AM
32 points
69 comments1 min readLW link

Wel­come to Less Wrong! (2012)

orthonormalDec 26, 2011, 10:57 PM
31 points
1,440 comments5 min readLW link

Sum­mary of “The Straw Vul­can”

alexvermeerDec 26, 2011, 4:29 PM
53 points
27 comments6 min readLW link

Or­ga­niz­ing the FOOM debate

CuriouskidDec 26, 2011, 4:05 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Fu­ture of Mo­ral Machines—New York Times [link]

Dr_ManhattanDec 26, 2011, 2:44 PM
1 point
10 comments1 min readLW link

Wel­come to Less Wrong!, part 2?

NancyLebovitzDec 26, 2011, 10:34 AM
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] The Allais Paradox

MinibearRexDec 26, 2011, 4:30 AM
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Link, Hu­mor] The Best Christ­mas Ever

pjebyDec 25, 2011, 11:14 PM
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Merry New­ton­mas LW. Have some ra­tio­nal­ist mu­sic.

SpurlockDec 25, 2011, 3:41 PM
33 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Just an­other day in utopia

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 25, 2011, 9:37 AM
147 points
118 comments13 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Trust in Math

MinibearRexDec 25, 2011, 7:28 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Lin­coln on Rationality

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

[Link] Cor­re­la­tion Graphs Re­veal Shock­ing Information

AlicornDec 25, 2011, 2:26 AM
19 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

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

KevinDec 25, 2011, 12:17 AM
11 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

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

diegocaleiroDec 24, 2011, 9:22 PM
−13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

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

diegocaleiroDec 24, 2011, 9:21 PM
−11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Beau­tiful Probability

MinibearRexDec 24, 2011, 5:33 AM
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

East Coast Megameetup II: Elec­tric Boogalloo

atuckerDec 23, 2011, 11:24 PM
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

His­tor­i­cal ex­am­ples of flinch­ing away

lukeprogDec 23, 2011, 9:41 PM
16 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion is hard, es­pe­cially of medicine

gwernDec 23, 2011, 8:34 PM
72 points
48 comments23 min readLW link

[LINK] Ques­tion Templates

jimrandomhDec 23, 2011, 7:54 PM
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link