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What does your web of beliefs look like, as of today?
lukeprog
Feb 20, 2011, 7:47 PM
23
points
30
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Updateless anthropics
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 20, 2011, 7:23 PM
13
points
13
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Age, fluid intelligence, and intelligent posts
InquilineKea
Feb 20, 2011, 9:06 AM
21
points
51
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Tool for combating undue hesitation
Dorikka
Feb 20, 2011, 5:19 AM
6
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Deception by cherry picking
AlephNeil
Feb 20, 2011, 5:11 AM
1
point
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is science the worst field for learning science in?
KatjaGrace
Feb 20, 2011, 4:29 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Social ethics vs decision theory
AlexMennen
Feb 20, 2011, 4:14 AM
7
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Request for Widely Applicable Quantitative Methods
atucker
Feb 20, 2011, 4:08 AM
5
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Do biases matter?
Student_UK
Feb 20, 2011, 1:10 AM
0
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New blog
chronophasiac
Feb 20, 2011, 12:07 AM
7
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LW was started to help altruists
RHollerith
Feb 19, 2011, 9:13 PM
−7
points
36
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Link] “It’ll never work”: a collection of failed predictions
Alexandros
Feb 19, 2011, 6:02 PM
13
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationalist Hobbies
Wei Dai
Feb 19, 2011, 8:24 AM
12
points
65
comments
1
min read
LW
link
preferences:decision theory :: data:code
ArthurB
Feb 19, 2011, 7:45 AM
6
points
23
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Spoiled Discussion of Permutation City, A Fire Upon The Deep, and Eliezer’s Mega Crossover
JenniferRM
Feb 19, 2011, 6:10 AM
10
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Alt text of today’s xkcd addresses akrasia
Cyan
Feb 19, 2011, 2:03 AM
8
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Fun and Games with Cognitive Biases
Cosmos
Feb 18, 2011, 8:38 PM
86
points
28
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Ability to react
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Feb 18, 2011, 7:19 PM
100
points
99
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Cryonics and Pascal’s wager
Timwi
Feb 18, 2011, 6:36 PM
−3
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Brains more complicated than previously thought
NancyLebovitz
Feb 18, 2011, 3:37 PM
17
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Doodling as a tool of thought (just a link)
NancyLebovitz
Feb 18, 2011, 2:53 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Dead men tell tales: falling out of love with SIA
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 18, 2011, 2:10 PM
5
points
24
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Scholarship and DIY Science
[deleted]
Feb 18, 2011, 6:37 AM
22
points
20
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Why can’t a man be more like a woman?
KatjaGrace
Feb 18, 2011, 3:31 AM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Strong substrate independence: a thing that goes wrong in my mind when exposed to philosophy
HonoreDB
Feb 18, 2011, 1:40 AM
21
points
46
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Writing reviews instead of collecting
DSimon
Feb 17, 2011, 11:27 PM
13
points
23
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Recursively Self-Improving Human Intelligence
curiousepic
Feb 17, 2011, 9:55 PM
17
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Revisiting the anthropic trilemma III: solutions and interpretations
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 17, 2011, 3:14 PM
6
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Sleeping anti-beauty and the presumptuous philosopher
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 17, 2011, 2:59 PM
8
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Computer security story
Perplexed
Feb 17, 2011, 12:26 AM
5
points
30
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Overcoming the negative signal of not attending college.
James_Miller
Feb 16, 2011, 8:13 PM
14
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Making money with Bitcoin?
Clippy
Feb 16, 2011, 7:17 PM
49
points
129
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Who’s likely to write the AI? A hypothesis
NancyLebovitz
Feb 16, 2011, 5:04 PM
8
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A simple-minded theory of “observer fluid”
cousin_it
Feb 16, 2011, 4:40 PM
6
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Write It Like A Poem
Strange7
Feb 16, 2011, 3:11 PM
18
points
40
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(Humor, link) UnFriendly AI has claimed its first victim...
CronoDAS
Feb 16, 2011, 2:28 PM
−10
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Automated theorem proving by learning from examples
Alex Flint
Feb 16, 2011, 1:38 PM
5
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Revisiting the Anthropic Trilemma II: axioms and assumptions
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 16, 2011, 9:42 AM
9
points
9
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Settled questions in philosophy
lukeprog
Feb 16, 2011, 6:53 AM
56
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] What are some stupid things smart people do?
David_Gerard
Feb 15, 2011, 5:51 PM
12
points
40
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A gene for bad memory? (Link)
Richard_Kennaway
Feb 15, 2011, 3:27 PM
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Not owning our beliefs
Alex Flint
Feb 15, 2011, 3:02 PM
10
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Revisiting the anthropic trilemma I: intuitions and contradictions
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 15, 2011, 11:18 AM
3
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields
Vladimir_M
Feb 15, 2011, 9:17 AM
100
points
274
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Rationalist Diplomacy, Game Two Post-game Discussion
Randaly
Feb 15, 2011, 5:13 AM
7
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The non-painless upload
Prismattic
Feb 15, 2011, 4:23 AM
6
points
79
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Optimal Employment Open Thread
[deleted]
14 Feb 2011 22:49 UTC
18
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Intro to Naturalist Metaethics?
Mass_Driver
14 Feb 2011 22:32 UTC
10
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Torturing people for fun
cousin_it
14 Feb 2011 20:52 UTC
18
points
48
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why we should fear the Paperclipper [Link]
XiXiDu
14 Feb 2011 19:24 UTC
5
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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