Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes With At­tri­bu­tions Hid­den: from Mein Kampf to Men****x

lessdazedSep 28, 2011, 4:50 AM
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70 comments1 min readLW link

9/​11 as mindkiller

NancyLebovitzSep 12, 2011, 5:44 PM
23 points
112 comments1 min readLW link

Timeline of Carl Shul­man publications

lukeprogSep 18, 2011, 6:07 PM
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7 comments1 min readLW link

Liv­ing bias, not think­ing bias

crazy88Sep 23, 2011, 8:30 AM
21 points
57 comments4 min readLW link

Make ev­i­dence charts, not re­view pa­pers? [Link]

XiXiDuSep 4, 2011, 1:26 PM
21 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] New arm of GiveWell Re­search: GiveWell Labs

multifoliateroseSep 8, 2011, 9:23 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ed­ward Nel­son claims proof of in­con­sis­tency in Peano Arithmetic

JoshuaZSep 27, 2011, 12:46 PM
21 points
116 comments1 min readLW link

Liv­ing For­ever is Hard, part 2: Adult Longevity

gwernSep 9, 2011, 6:52 PM
20 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Gen­der differ­ences in spa­tial rea­son­ing ap­pear to be nurture

David_GerardSep 3, 2011, 11:56 AM
20 points
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Blind­sight and Consciousness

atuckerSep 22, 2011, 6:42 PM
20 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

A philos­o­phy pro­fes­sor elic­its col­lege stu­dents’ re­ac­tions to Less Wrong

lukeprogSep 21, 2011, 1:28 AM
20 points
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NIH Solic­i­ta­tion: Ba­sic re­search on de­ci­sion making

PhilGoetzSep 21, 2011, 3:56 PM
20 points
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Ask LW: What are some well-de­signed in­sti­tu­tions?

Will_NewsomeSep 12, 2011, 5:48 AM
19 points
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Cog­ni­tive Style Tends To Pre­dict Reli­gious Con­vic­tion (psy­ch­cen­tral.com)

IncorrectSep 23, 2011, 6:28 PM
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Weak sup­port­ing ev­i­dence can un­der­mine belief

LightwaveSep 29, 2011, 10:11 AM
19 points
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In­ter­view with Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute Re­search Fel­low Luke Muehlhauser

MichaelAnissimovSep 15, 2011, 10:23 AM
19 points
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Which Fields Are Un­der­served?

[deleted]Sep 15, 2011, 1:16 PM
18 points
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Case study: Fold­ing@home

gwernSep 15, 2011, 6:55 PM
18 points
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Mo­ral enhancement

lukeprogSep 16, 2011, 9:26 PM
18 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

July 2011 re­view of ex­per­i­men­tal philosophy

lukeprogSep 4, 2011, 2:51 AM
18 points
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Ma­chine learn­ing and un­in­tended consequences

lukeprogSep 23, 2011, 2:31 AM
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Another ‘prize’ sug­ges­tion.

Dr_ManhattanSep 6, 2011, 7:53 PM
18 points
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Level­ing IRL—followup

cousin_itSep 14, 2011, 10:45 PM
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Pos­si­bil­ities for keep­ing track of long threads

NancyLebovitzSep 16, 2011, 8:48 PM
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4 comments1 min readLW link

Scien­tist vs. philoso­pher on con­cep­tual analysis

lukeprogSep 20, 2011, 3:10 PM
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[Help] Cri­tique my Ad­mis­sions Es­say on HPMoR

ahartellSep 17, 2011, 4:15 PM
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Hu­man con­scious­ness as a tractable sci­en­tific problem

lukeprogSep 9, 2011, 6:39 AM
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My fa­vorite pop­u­lar sci­en­tific self-help books

lukeprogSep 10, 2011, 9:53 PM
17 points
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Old OB re­post: Share like­li­hood ra­tios, not pos­te­rior beliefs

Will_NewsomeSep 10, 2011, 12:56 PM
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Athe­ism & the autism spectrum

gwernSep 17, 2011, 11:59 PM
16 points
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In­for­mal job survey

[deleted]Sep 12, 2011, 5:16 AM
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12 comments2 min readLW link

Video: You Are Not So Smart

XiXiDuSep 8, 2011, 9:43 AM
16 points
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In­tro-level train­ing ma­te­ri­als for ra­tio­nal­ity /​ crit­i­cal thinking

lukeprogSep 20, 2011, 3:03 AM
15 points
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What if we make bet­ter de­ci­sions when we trust our gut in­stincts? [Link]

XiXiDuSep 25, 2011, 12:22 PM
15 points
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Rough calcu­la­tions: Fermi and the art of guessing

XiXiDuSep 8, 2011, 10:39 AM
15 points
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AGI-2011 con­fer­ence videos

Dr_ManhattanSep 22, 2011, 6:55 PM
15 points
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When work is priv­ilege of the rich?

[deleted]Sep 13, 2011, 8:02 PM
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Ra­tion­al­ity Boot [Mini]Camp… night class style?

jwhendySep 8, 2011, 4:35 PM
15 points
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[SEQ RERUN] How to Seem (and Be) Deep

MinibearRexSep 27, 2011, 3:12 AM
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“Friends do not let friends com­pute p val­ues.”

lukeprogSep 9, 2011, 7:10 AM
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JSTOR gives pub­lic ac­cess to pre-1870 publications

sattSep 9, 2011, 2:19 PM
15 points
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How to hack one’s self to want to want to … hack one’s self.

[deleted]Sep 3, 2011, 5:06 PM
15 points
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Con­soli­dated link thread, Septem­ber 2011

Kaj_SotalaSep 19, 2011, 7:04 AM
14 points
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Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 9

Oscar_CunninghamSep 9, 2011, 1:29 PM
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[Help]: So­cial cost of cry­on­ics?

[deleted]Sep 11, 2011, 7:26 PM
14 points
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Schol­ar­ship Booster: My fa­vorite journals

lukeprogSep 9, 2011, 9:41 AM
14 points
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Pres­sure to pub­lish in­creases sci­en­tists’ vuln­er­a­bil­ity to pos­i­tive bias

lukeprog8 Sep 2011 20:49 UTC
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[LINK] Re­port on the Fourth Con­fer­ence on Ar­tifi­cial Gen­eral In­tel­li­gence

Kaj_Sotala3 Sep 2011 16:42 UTC
14 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

[gooey re­quest-for-help] I don’t know what to do.

[deleted]26 Sep 2011 7:07 UTC
14 points
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Par­ti­cles break light-speed limit?

Kevin23 Sep 2011 11:00 UTC
13 points
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