Meetup : Berkeley weekly meetup

NisanAug 31, 2011, 7:56 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Are there bet­ter ways of iden­ti­fy­ing the most cre­ative sci­en­tists?

gwernAug 31, 2011, 7:42 PM
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] The Illu­sion of Asym­met­ric Insight

RobertLumleyAug 31, 2011, 6:09 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ot­tawa Weekly Mon­day LessWrong Meetup

XFrequentistAug 31, 2011, 3:39 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Scien­tifi­cally op­ti­miz­ing ed­u­ca­tion: Hard prob­lem, or solved prob­lem? In­tro­duc­ing the The­ory of Direct Instruction

Owen_RichardsonAug 31, 2011, 5:28 AM
22 points
61 comments18 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Kah­ne­man’s Plan­ning Anecdote

MinibearRexAug 31, 2011, 3:33 AM
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

How likely is Peter Thiel’s in­vest­ment into seast­eading to pay off?

[deleted]Aug 30, 2011, 4:54 PM
18 points
143 comments1 min readLW link

My in­ten­tions for my metaethics sequence

lukeprogAug 30, 2011, 4:52 PM
22 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Fre­quen­tist vs Bayesian break­down: in­ter­pre­ta­tion vs inference

AcademianAug 30, 2011, 3:58 PM
36 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Ask LW: Pre­dic­tionBook.com and log­i­cal uncertainty

Will_NewsomeAug 30, 2011, 1:59 PM
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] “Aca­demic pub­lish­ers make Mur­doch look like a so­cial­ist” says Ge­orge Mon­biot

[deleted]Aug 30, 2011, 12:27 PM
28 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Can You Build a Bet­ter Paper Clip?

tawAug 30, 2011, 12:07 PM
−1 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

That cat: not dead and alive

DavidPlumptonAug 30, 2011, 8:23 AM
3 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

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[deleted]Aug 30, 2011, 3:56 AM
40 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Defrag con­fer­ence scholarships

EvelynMAug 30, 2011, 3:36 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Philo­soph­i­cal apolo­get­ics book sug­gests re­plac­ing Bayes the­o­rem with “In­fer­ence to the Best Ex­pla­na­tion” (IBE)

jwhendyAug 30, 2011, 3:31 AM
4 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

Mak­ing it even eas­ier to find new com­ments in a thread

NancyLebovitzAug 30, 2011, 3:12 AM
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Shang­hai Less Wrong Meetup

PatrickAug 30, 2011, 3:07 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Do you ex­pect a sin­gu­lar­ity within your life time?

[deleted]Aug 30, 2011, 2:38 AM
8 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Michael Jor­dan dis­solves Bayesian vs Fre­quen­tist in­fer­ence de­bate [video lec­ture]

AcademianAug 30, 2011, 1:12 AM
10 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Plan­ning Fallacy

MinibearRexAug 30, 2011, 12:28 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

‘Self-im­prov­ing AI, an anal­y­sis’ [link]

lukeprogAug 29, 2011, 7:33 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

‘Prefer­ences in AI: An Overview’ [link]

lukeprogAug 29, 2011, 7:31 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

An in­tro­duc­tion to Bayesi­anism [links]

lukeprogAug 29, 2011, 7:06 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Call for Per­sonal Volunteers

lukeprogAug 29, 2011, 4:31 PM
27 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

A His­tory of Bayes’ Theorem

lukeprogAug 29, 2011, 7:04 AM
76 points
91 comments15 min readLW link

[LINK] How Hard is Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence? The Evolu­tion­ary Ar­gu­ment and Ob­ser­va­tion Selec­tion Effects

AnnaSalamonAug 29, 2011, 5:27 AM
24 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Book trades with open-minded the­ists—recom­men­da­tions?

MorendilAug 29, 2011, 5:23 AM
13 points
70 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Why I’m Blooking

MinibearRexAug 29, 2011, 3:35 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How you will change the world

KatjaGraceAug 29, 2011, 2:31 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup 09-06-2011

[deleted]Aug 28, 2011, 9:56 PM
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Public Dona­tion List or Put­ting Peer Pres­sure to Good Use

drethelinAug 28, 2011, 8:36 PM
0 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Polyhacking

AlicornAug 28, 2011, 8:35 AM
121 points
603 comments8 min readLW link

List of Donors, Fall 2011

Mass_DriverAug 28, 2011, 7:45 AM
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Dou­ble­think (Choos­ing to be Bi­ased)

MinibearRexAug 28, 2011, 3:24 AM
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

In defence of ig­no­rant thinking

KatjaGraceAug 28, 2011, 2:00 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

How much is karma worth, af­ter all?

[deleted]Aug 27, 2011, 9:23 PM
10 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Less Wrong Meetup

Arkanj3lAug 27, 2011, 9:02 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­ory Para­dox: PD with Three Im­plies Chaos?

orthonormalAug 27, 2011, 7:22 PM
42 points
56 comments4 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Hu­man Evil and Mud­dled Thinking

MinibearRexAug 27, 2011, 3:43 AM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Why we love unim­por­tant things

KatjaGraceAug 27, 2011, 2:12 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tional Home Buying

Scott AlexanderAug 27, 2011, 12:15 AM
169 points
138 comments7 min readLW link

Alzheimer’s vs Cryonics

RobertLumleyAug 26, 2011, 11:59 PM
12 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian Rea­son­ing Ap­plied to House Sel­ling: List­ing Price

byrnemaAug 26, 2011, 11:43 PM
4 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute Strate­gic Plan 2011

MichaelAnissimovAug 26, 2011, 11:34 PM
45 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

New Favicon

AlicornAug 26, 2011, 8:34 PM
14 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Schroed­inger’s cat is always dead

PhilGoetzAug 26, 2011, 5:58 PM
−18 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

Weight training

Alex FlintAug 26, 2011, 3:25 PM
6 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Gen­eral text­book com­par­i­son thread

gjmAug 26, 2011, 1:27 PM
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don Science Mu­seum, Aug. 31

AlexandrosAug 26, 2011, 12:54 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link