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Visualizing Bayesian Inference [link]
Dreaded_Anomaly
Mar 14, 2011, 8:10 PM
16
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ranting about Representative Democracy
rabidchicken
Mar 14, 2011, 8:06 PM
−12
points
17
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Being a teacher
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Mar 14, 2011, 8:03 PM
82
points
155
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Kinect self-awareness hack
ArisKatsaris
Mar 14, 2011, 6:54 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Science Journalism and How To Present Probabilities [Link]
gimpf
Mar 14, 2011, 6:30 PM
15
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How I Lost 100 Pounds Using TDT
Zvi
Mar 14, 2011, 3:50 PM
136
points
242
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Handedness Bias
beriukay
Mar 14, 2011, 2:49 PM
7
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationalist Lord of the Rings fanfiction, newly translated from Russian
Costanza
Mar 14, 2011, 2:38 AM
18
points
69
comments
1
min read
LW
link
‘The Economist’ hosts a debate on AI and the singularity (with video)
lukeprog
Mar 13, 2011, 11:18 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Map and Territory and “Paths”
Goobahman
Mar 13, 2011, 10:38 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Map and Territory and “Paths”
Goobahman
Mar 13, 2011, 10:38 PM
6
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What exactly IS the overpopulation argument (in regards to immortality)?
Raemon
Mar 13, 2011, 6:22 PM
14
points
55
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Move meetups to the sidebar?
Johnicholas
Mar 13, 2011, 4:35 PM
41
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Organ donation versus cryonics
Snowyowl
Mar 13, 2011, 4:08 PM
5
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cryonics in Australia: How do you actually do it?
Maelin
Mar 13, 2011, 10:26 AM
11
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
If ‘birth’ is worth nothing, births are worth anything
KatjaGrace
Mar 13, 2011, 5:56 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Kantian baby rats
PhilGoetz
Mar 13, 2011, 1:37 AM
9
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bayesianism in the face of unknowns
rstarkov
Mar 12, 2011, 8:54 PM
2
points
36
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Tweetable Rationality
Alexandros
Mar 12, 2011, 8:00 PM
14
points
57
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Making Reasoning Obviously Locally Correct
JGWeissman
Mar 12, 2011, 7:41 PM
28
points
26
comments
4
min read
LW
link
What other causes are relevant to LessWrong?
David_Gerard
Mar 12, 2011, 10:13 AM
22
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cryonics and the importance of body to cognition
lukeprog
Mar 12, 2011, 5:21 AM
8
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Consulting Opportunity for Budding Econometricians
b1shop
Mar 11, 2011, 8:49 PM
19
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Public service announcement—Bay Area tsunami warning!
Dr_Manhattan
Mar 11, 2011, 3:24 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Some Reflections on Branching vs Probability
AlephNeil
Mar 11, 2011, 9:53 AM
1
point
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
A Thought Experiment on Pain as a Moral Disvalue
Wei Dai
Mar 11, 2011, 7:56 AM
23
points
43
comments
2
min read
LW
link
AGI and Friendly AI in the dominant AI textbook
lukeprog
Mar 11, 2011, 4:12 AM
80
points
27
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Off-topic Thread
MBlume
Mar 11, 2011, 1:14 AM
9
points
36
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Columbia University Meetup
Mycroft65536
Mar 10, 2011, 9:44 PM
12
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Non-personal preferences of never-existed people
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 10, 2011, 7:54 PM
19
points
69
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Plant Seeds of Rationality
lukeprog
Mar 10, 2011, 5:51 PM
45
points
77
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Limits of Curiosity
Elizabeth
Mar 10, 2011, 3:20 PM
37
points
49
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Magic Articles I’ve Written
Zvi
Mar 10, 2011, 1:30 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Video] AI Box Experiment on BBC’s “Look Around You”
ata
Mar 10, 2011, 6:36 AM
27
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Agreement on anthropics
KatjaGrace
Mar 10, 2011, 4:38 AM
4
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
[Link] Your genes, your rights – FDA’s Jeffrey Shuren not a fan
[deleted]
Mar 9, 2011, 10:17 PM
6
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
College Selection Advice
atucker
Mar 9, 2011, 10:13 PM
7
points
48
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Better late than never: Toronto meetup March 10
Skatche
Mar 9, 2011, 9:27 PM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How SIAI could publish in mainstream cognitive science journals
lukeprog
Mar 9, 2011, 9:17 PM
87
points
78
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Eliezer passes 100,000 karma points
lukeprog
Mar 9, 2011, 7:59 PM
25
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ben Goertzel on Charity
XiXiDu
Mar 9, 2011, 4:37 PM
2
points
75
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] The New Humanism
curiousepic
Mar 9, 2011, 2:19 PM
3
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
John Baez on Charity
XiXiDu
Mar 9, 2011, 1:39 PM
8
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Lokhorst, ‘Computational Meta-ethics’ (2011)
lukeprog
Mar 9, 2011, 7:13 AM
21
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Less Wrong at Burning Man 2011
Kevin
Mar 9, 2011, 1:17 AM
11
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why not just write failsafe rules into the superintelligent machine?
lukeprog
Mar 8, 2011, 9:07 PM
13
points
81
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How best to show dying is bad
Zvi
8 Mar 2011 15:18 UTC
26
points
73
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How to improve the public perception of the SIAI and LW?
XiXiDu
8 Mar 2011 14:48 UTC
15
points
35
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[link] Why an Intelligence Explosion is Probable
Kaj_Sotala
8 Mar 2011 10:58 UTC
13
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, March 2011
Thomas
8 Mar 2011 8:38 UTC
6
points
64
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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