His­toc­racy: Open, Effec­tive Group De­ci­sion-Mak­ing With Weighted Voting

HonoreDBJan 17, 2012, 10:35 PM
19 points
63 comments5 min readLW link

[Link] Five ways to clas­sify be­lief sys­tems

[deleted]Jan 17, 2012, 9:08 PM
18 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

Gam­bler’s Re­ward: Op­ti­mal Bet­ting Size

b1shopJan 17, 2012, 8:32 PM
12 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Place­holder] Against dystopia, rally be­fore Kant

MultiheadedJan 17, 2012, 1:44 PM
−9 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Level­ing Up in Ra­tion­al­ity: A Per­sonal Journey

lukeprogJan 17, 2012, 11:02 AM
51 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

Q&A with Abram Dem­ski on risks from AI

XiXiDuJan 17, 2012, 9:43 AM
33 points
71 comments9 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Neu­ral Categories

MinibearRexJan 17, 2012, 5:19 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

ICONN 2012 nan­otech­nol­ogy con­fer­ence in Perth

SolventJan 17, 2012, 2:34 AM
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ran­dom thought: What is the op­ti­mal PD strat­egy un­der im­perfect in­for­ma­tion?

RolfAndreassenJan 17, 2012, 1:06 AM
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

What would you do with a fi­nan­cial safety net?

faul_snameJan 16, 2012, 11:38 PM
6 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Be­ing No One (~50 min talk on the self-model in your brain)

machriderJan 16, 2012, 6:18 PM
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

link to a Feyn­man video (and a 2nd (dis­tantly re­lated) video)

Craig_HeldrethJan 16, 2012, 6:00 PM
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

My in­ter­view with Nikola Danay­lov for ‘Sin­gu­lar­ity 1 on 1’ [link]

lukeprogJan 16, 2012, 5:59 PM
1 point
12 comments1 min readLW link

Com­plete­ness, in­com­plete­ness, and what it all means: first ver­sus sec­ond or­der logic

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 16, 2012, 5:38 PM
79 points
39 comments11 min readLW link

The les­sons of a world with­out Hitler

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 16, 2012, 4:16 PM
−4 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK]The Edge’s yearly question

ThomasJan 16, 2012, 6:51 AM
4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Dis­guised Queries

MinibearRexJan 16, 2012, 4:47 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Jan­uary 15-31, 2012

OpenThreadGuyJan 16, 2012, 12:56 AM
16 points
248 comments1 min readLW link

Who’s in the AI busi­ness?

ThomasJan 15, 2012, 4:53 PM
16 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Idea: Add books to an SRS with­out split­ting them into facts

D_MalikJan 15, 2012, 8:05 AM
9 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

The Sav­age the­o­rem and the Ells­berg paradox

foolJan 14, 2012, 7:06 PM
20 points
54 comments11 min readLW link

Meetup : Austin LW Meetup

VaniverJan 13, 2012, 5:32 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Melbourne, Austin, At­lanta, Seat­tle, Philadelphia, Fort Collins

FrankAdamekJan 13, 2012, 4:19 PM
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup

tonerJan 13, 2012, 7:55 AM
3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

New SI pub­li­ca­tions design

lukeprogJan 13, 2012, 3:16 AM
9 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Can the Chain Still Hold You?

lukeprogJan 13, 2012, 1:28 AM
217 points
361 comments4 min readLW link

Knowl­edge vs Technology

PuyaSharifJan 13, 2012, 12:50 AM
−5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Noddy problem

ApprenticeJan 12, 2012, 10:18 PM
45 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Pitts­burgh Meetup: Big Gam­ing Fun 2!

KenoubiJan 12, 2012, 8:26 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

NonGoogleables

ThomasJan 12, 2012, 1:23 PM
−3 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Q&A with ex­perts on risks from AI #3

XiXiDuJan 12, 2012, 10:45 AM
19 points
28 comments16 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] The Cluster Struc­ture of Thingspace

MinibearRexJan 12, 2012, 8:37 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­ce­du­ral knowl­edge gap: pub­lic key encryption

SolventJan 12, 2012, 7:35 AM
4 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

AI Challenge: Ants—Post Mortem

D_AlexJan 12, 2012, 7:23 AM
14 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Mon­day Madi­son Meetup

fiddlemathJan 12, 2012, 7:14 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ideas for ra­tio­nal­ist meetup topics

alyssavanceJan 12, 2012, 5:04 AM
20 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : First Salt Lake City Meetup: 22 Jan­uary 2012 03:00PM

adamisomJan 12, 2012, 2:11 AM
1 point
16 comments1 min readLW link

What jobs are safe in an au­to­mated fu­ture?

PuyaSharifJan 11, 2012, 8:48 PM
10 points
102 comments1 min readLW link

Bill Gates asks HS stu­dents “What are most im­por­tant choices the world faces”?

Dr_ManhattanJan 11, 2012, 8:34 PM
2 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Fort Col­lins Meetup

EvelynMJan 11, 2012, 5:15 PM
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Fort Col­lins Meetup

EvelynMJan 11, 2012, 5:14 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On ac­cept­ing an ar­gu­ment if you have limited com­pu­ta­tional power.

DmytryJan 11, 2012, 5:07 PM
32 points
84 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Seat­tle, Diseased Think­ing and ev­i­dence on parenting

jsalvatier11 Jan 2012 16:33 UTC
5 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Utopian hope ver­sus reality

Mitchell_Porter11 Jan 2012 12:55 UTC
31 points
54 comments8 min readLW link

Meetup : Hous­ton Meetup − 1/​15

Cog11 Jan 2012 5:56 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Typ­i­cal­ity and Asym­met­ri­cal Similarity

MinibearRex11 Jan 2012 4:40 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Long-Term Tech­nolog­i­cal Forecasting

lukeprog11 Jan 2012 4:13 UTC
35 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Gift I Give Tomorrow

Raemon11 Jan 2012 4:02 UTC
35 points
33 comments11 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity med­i­ta­tion the­ory.

[deleted]11 Jan 2012 3:50 UTC
−9 points
32 comments5 min readLW link

De­sign­ing Ritual

Raemon11 Jan 2012 1:52 UTC
40 points
76 comments14 min readLW link