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If we’re in a sim...

AdeleneDawnerJul 5, 2011, 9:22 PM

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Basics of Animal Reinforcement

Scott AlexanderJul 5, 2011, 8:42 PM

73 points

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[SEQ RERUN] You Can Face Reality

Tyrrell_McAllisterJul 5, 2011, 3:25 PM

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Dark Arts: Schopenhauer wrote The Book on How To Troll

Raw_PowerJul 5, 2011, 1:13 PM

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Meetup : Research Triangle Less Wrong Meetup

hwcJul 5, 2011, 12:26 PM

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Anyone else going to the WorldFuture 2011 Conference in Vancouver?

michaelkeenanJul 5, 2011, 7:54 AM

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Open Problems

lukeprogJul 5, 2011, 7:25 AM

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Meetup : Marin & SF Less Wrong Make Things Go Boom

Mass_DriverJul 5, 2011, 4:38 AM

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‘Is’ and ‘Ought’ and Rationality

BobTheBobJul 5, 2011, 3:53 AM

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Meetup : Research Triangle Less Wrong Meetup

hwcJul 5, 2011, 2:25 AM

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Is g a measure of ability to absorb information in a non-inductive way?

whpearsonJul 5, 2011, 1:46 AM

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Meetup : Less Wrong Ottawa

CyanJul 5, 2011, 1:19 AM

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The Blue-Minimizing Robot

Scott AlexanderJul 4, 2011, 10:26 PM

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Google+

[deleted]Jul 4, 2011, 9:20 PM

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Behaviorism: Beware Anthropomorphizing Humans

Scott AlexanderJul 4, 2011, 8:40 PM

89 points

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Meetup : Irvine Meetup Wednesday July 6

JGWeissmanJul 4, 2011, 7:07 PM

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Richard Dawkins on vivisection: “But can they suffer?”

XiXiDuJul 4, 2011, 4:56 PM

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[LINK] “The Limits of Intelligence”

Richard_KennawayJul 4, 2011, 4:29 PM

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Personal Examples of using Bayes’ Theorem

RaemonJul 4, 2011, 3:56 PM

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Meetup : Melbourne’s first Friday of the month meetup

mattJul 4, 2011, 7:43 AM

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Recent site changes, Mon 4th July

mattJul 4, 2011, 7:25 AM

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Hype Aversion/Backlash as an Immune Response?

lucidfoxJul 4, 2011, 5:58 AM

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Are search engines perpetuating our biases?

TCBJul 4, 2011, 1:29 AM

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Triangle NC Meetup July 6th

curiousepicJul 4, 2011, 12:36 AM

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What are LessWrong’s thoughts on Venkatesh Rao, Gregory Rader, and Daniel Lemire?

InquilineKeaJul 3, 2011, 11:00 PM

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[SEQ RERUN] The Virtue of Narrowness

Tyrrell_McAllisterJul 3, 2011, 7:47 PM

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Has SIAI/FHI considered putting up prizes for contributions to important problems?

jsalvatierJul 3, 2011, 5:26 PM

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Hanson Debating Yudkowsky, Jun 2011

XiXiDuJul 3, 2011, 4:59 PM

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Gender and Libido

NancyLebovitzJul 3, 2011, 2:20 PM

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Consequences of increased ability to kill

DataPacRatJul 3, 2011, 6:52 AM

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Rationality Quotes July 2011

Normal_AnomalyJul 3, 2011, 6:41 AM

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Volunteers needed to work on LessWrong’s public goods problem

jsalvatierJul 3, 2011, 1:08 AM

29 points

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Is it cool if I post responses/thoughts as I read through the sequences?

MrHenJul 2, 2011, 11:31 PM

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Not for the Sake of Selfishness Alone

lukeprogJul 2, 2011, 5:37 PM

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“The True Rejection Challenge”—Thread 2

Armok_GoBJul 2, 2011, 11:49 AM

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People neglect small probability events

XiXiDuJul 2, 2011, 10:54 AM

17 points

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Khan Academy: Introduction to programming and computer science

XiXiDuJul 2, 2011, 9:44 AM

15 points

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[SEQ RERUN] The Proper Use of Doubt

Tyrrell_McAllisterJul 1, 2011, 11:54 PM

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[LINK] Charlie Stross: Federov’s Rapture

jfmJul 1, 2011, 5:18 PM

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Reasons for being rational

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Jul 1, 2011, 3:28 PM

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Meta: “Less Wrong” connotations?

Will_NewsomeJul 1, 2011, 6:57 AM

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Those who can’t admit they’re wrong

ZedJul 1, 2011, 5:09 AM

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Introducing… The Less Wrong Forum!

Normal_AnomalyJul 1, 2011, 1:46 AM

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Algorithm detects multiple authors in of the Old Testament [link]

Dr_ManhattanJun 30, 2011, 7:16 PM

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I’m becoming intolerant. Help.

loup-vaillantJun 30, 2011, 3:30 PM

34 points

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Meetup : Edinburgh Tiny Meetup Reminder

sarkJun 30, 2011, 10:58 AM

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Index of Yvain’s (Excellent) Articles

lukeprogJun 30, 2011, 9:57 AM

36 points

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[SEQ RERUN] Focus Your Uncertainty

Tyrrell_McAllisterJun 30, 2011, 5:21 AM

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Please vote—What topic would be best for an investigation and brief post?

Nic_SmithJun 30, 2011, 4:50 AM

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Making an Amanda Knox prediction market

KevinJun 30, 2011, 12:53 AM

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24 comments1 min readLW link

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