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Cached Phrases
curiousepic
Aug 15, 2011, 11:50 PM
5
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[link] Friendly AI and Utilitarianism
lukeprog
Aug 15, 2011, 11:34 PM
13
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Scott Aaronson on Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity
DanielVarga
Aug 15, 2011, 10:51 PM
31
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Nozick’s fluff, or Omega the trickster.
Shmi
Aug 15, 2011, 10:08 PM
−2
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Whistleblower
MatthewBaker
Aug 15, 2011, 9:13 PM
−6
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What are you working on?
jsalvatier
Aug 15, 2011, 2:43 PM
11
points
67
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Help! All this new found rationality and room for improvement is causing me to burn out
tetsuo55
Aug 15, 2011, 2:23 PM
2
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Study on Group Intelligence
atucker
Aug 15, 2011, 8:56 AM
16
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Remind Physicalists They’re Physicalists
lukeprog
Aug 15, 2011, 4:36 AM
26
points
76
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Stranger Than History
MinibearRex
Aug 15, 2011, 3:21 AM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Judgment Under Uncertainty summaries, Part 1: Representativeness
Tesseract
Aug 15, 2011, 12:05 AM
42
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Link] Nick Bostrom on the Simulation Argument
Jayson_Virissimo
Aug 14, 2011, 7:15 PM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Doomsday Argument and Self-Sampling Assumption are wrong, but induction is alive and well.
RonPisaturo
Aug 14, 2011, 6:15 PM
10
points
8
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Cryonics is Quantum Suicide (minus the suicide)
KPier
Aug 14, 2011, 6:08 PM
4
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How good an emulation is required?
whpearson
Aug 14, 2011, 1:15 PM
13
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Take heed, for it is a trap
Zed
Aug 14, 2011, 10:23 AM
54
points
189
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Making History Available
MinibearRex
Aug 14, 2011, 3:24 AM
8
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Magic Tricks Revealed: Test Your Rationality
Peter Wildeford
Aug 13, 2011, 5:23 AM
42
points
29
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Does quantum mechanics make simulations negligible?
homunq
Aug 13, 2011, 1:53 AM
0
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Problem with Abbreviations and Acronyms
billswift
Aug 12, 2011, 8:41 PM
7
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Anthropics Does Not Work LIke That
Pavitra
Aug 12, 2011, 6:52 PM
−3
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Meetup” proposal: Google+
[deleted]
Aug 12, 2011, 5:32 PM
28
points
30
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Overcoming bias in others
homunq
Aug 12, 2011, 3:38 PM
11
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Munich Meetup, Saturday September 10th, 2PM
David Althaus
Aug 12, 2011, 2:04 PM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Easy money: Find me a new job, get $1000
Andrew_Taskify
Aug 12, 2011, 1:03 PM
8
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Where to report bugs on the new site?
Sniffnoy
Aug 12, 2011, 8:32 AM
4
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Less Wrong Helsinki meetup
Kellopyy
Aug 11, 2011, 4:25 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
An EPub of Eliezer’s blog posts
Paul Crowley
Aug 11, 2011, 2:20 PM
59
points
38
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Recent popular books on human irrationality to recommend to your friends
lukeprog
Aug 11, 2011, 6:00 AM
17
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why epidemiology will not correct itself
gwern
Aug 11, 2011, 12:54 AM
70
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Strategic ignorance and plausible deniability
Kaj_Sotala
Aug 10, 2011, 9:30 AM
62
points
59
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Houston Hackerspace Meetup
Cog
Aug 10, 2011, 6:18 AM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Madison
fiddlemath
Aug 10, 2011, 4:01 AM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Fiction: Letter from the End
AlexMennen
Aug 9, 2011, 11:04 PM
32
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Theory of Knowledge (rationality outreach)
KPier
Aug 9, 2011, 9:36 PM
86
points
82
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The New York Times: The Mathematics of Changing Your Mind
Incorrect
Aug 9, 2011, 8:27 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Diego social meet-up
Mercurial
Aug 9, 2011, 7:39 PM
5
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Leveling IRL—level 1
cousin_it
Aug 9, 2011, 5:12 PM
28
points
93
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Judging the intent of others favorably
lessdazed
Aug 9, 2011, 5:10 PM
5
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Ottawa LessWrong Weekly Meetup
XFrequentist
Aug 9, 2011, 3:38 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Topic Search Poll Results and Short Reports
Nic_Smith
Aug 9, 2011, 6:28 AM
8
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Failing to Learn from History
Unnamed
Aug 9, 2011, 4:42 AM
9
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Individual Deniability, Statistical Honesty
Alicorn
Aug 9, 2011, 4:17 AM
62
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Real-life observations of the blue eyes puzzle phenomenon?
HonoreDB
Aug 8, 2011, 5:10 PM
6
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Spaced repetition review (my entry)
gwern
Aug 8, 2011, 3:48 PM
28
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Website usability] Scroll to new comments (v0.3)
dbaupp
Aug 8, 2011, 2:08 PM
22
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
‘Complex Value Systems are Required to Realize Valuable Futures’ (Yudkowsky, 2011)
lukeprog
8 Aug 2011 11:32 UTC
22
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Best Textbook List Expansion
magfrump
8 Aug 2011 11:17 UTC
9
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Part 1 On What is a Self Discussion
diegocaleiro
8 Aug 2011 9:55 UTC
2
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Anki Library
atucker
8 Aug 2011 5:00 UTC
6
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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