2012 Sur­vey Results

Scott Alexander7 Dec 2012 21:04 UTC
120 points
653 comments19 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: At­lanta, Austin, Ber­lin, Bielefield, Cam­bridge MA, Inns­bruck, Lon­don, Melbourne, Mon­treal, Phoenix, Seattle

FrankAdamek7 Dec 2012 15:59 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Mini ad­vent cal­en­dar of Xrisks: Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

Stuart_Armstrong7 Dec 2012 11:26 UTC
5 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Test Near, Ap­ply Far

MinibearRex7 Dec 2012 7:10 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Com­ple­ment Luke’s Mega-Course for Aspiring Philosophers

diegocaleiro7 Dec 2012 6:14 UTC
8 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

2012 Win­ter Fundraiser for the Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

lukeprog6 Dec 2012 22:41 UTC
48 points
113 comments3 min readLW link

Pas­cal’s Mug­ging for bounded util­ity functions

Benya6 Dec 2012 22:28 UTC
18 points
49 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] Ir­ra­tional Robot Billion­aire Free­dom Fighters

shminux6 Dec 2012 21:32 UTC
1 point
13 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Toronto THINK

Giles6 Dec 2012 20:49 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Pro­gram­ming Thread

Viliam_Bur6 Dec 2012 19:07 UTC
17 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] How to Win at Fore­cast­ing—a con­ver­sa­tion with Philip Tetlock

Morendil6 Dec 2012 18:13 UTC
7 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Mini ad­vent cal­en­dar of Xrisks: Pandemics

Stuart_Armstrong6 Dec 2012 13:44 UTC
4 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

A solv­able New­comb-like prob­lem—part 3 of 3

Douglas_Reay6 Dec 2012 13:06 UTC
5 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Hard Takeoff

MinibearRex6 Dec 2012 6:49 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Prob­a­bil­ity Question

JMiller6 Dec 2012 5:29 UTC
3 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Less Wrong: Cleveland

Raelifin6 Dec 2012 3:27 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Eleven dog­mas of an­a­lytic philosophy

crazy886 Dec 2012 3:27 UTC
2 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Train Philoso­phers with Pearl and Kah­ne­man, not Plato and Kant

lukeprog6 Dec 2012 0:42 UTC
112 points
515 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : 16/​12 Lon­don Meetup

philh5 Dec 2012 23:51 UTC
4 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

AI “Box­ing” and Utility Functions

nigerweiss5 Dec 2012 23:44 UTC
2 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Berkeley: Boardgames

Nisan5 Dec 2012 18:28 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ab­sent Tran­shu­man­ism and Trans­for­ma­tive Tech­nolo­gies, Which Utopia is Left?

diegocaleiro5 Dec 2012 12:54 UTC
4 points
114 comments1 min readLW link

Mini ad­vent cal­en­dar of Xrisks: nanotechnology

Stuart_Armstrong5 Dec 2012 11:02 UTC
6 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Whither Man­u­fac­tur­ing?

MinibearRex5 Dec 2012 5:10 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC meetup- new se­quence?

rocurley5 Dec 2012 4:55 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to in­cen­tivize LW wiki ed­its?

lukeprog5 Dec 2012 4:39 UTC
13 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

Mixed Refer­ence: The Great Re­duc­tion­ist Project

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Dec 2012 0:26 UTC
61 points
358 comments9 min readLW link

Is Equal­ity Really about Diminish­ing Marginal Utility?

Ghatanathoah4 Dec 2012 23:03 UTC
11 points
45 comments4 min readLW link

How to Avoid the Con­flict Between Fem­i­nism and Evolu­tion­ary Psy­chol­ogy?

diegocaleiro4 Dec 2012 22:22 UTC
9 points
97 comments1 min readLW link

The Worst Prob­lem You’ve Ever En­coun­tered and Solved. And the One You Didn’t, Yet!

diegocaleiro4 Dec 2012 20:43 UTC
5 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Poli­tics Dis­cus­sion Thread De­cem­ber 2012

OrphanWilde4 Dec 2012 20:19 UTC
8 points
137 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Mon­treal LessWrong Meetup—More Bi­ases and Bi­ased Board Gaming

Paul_G4 Dec 2012 19:51 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mini ad­vent cal­en­dar of Xrisks: syn­thetic biology

Stuart_Armstrong4 Dec 2012 11:15 UTC
8 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Mini ad­vent cal­en­dar of Xrisks: nu­clear war

Stuart_Armstrong4 Dec 2012 11:13 UTC
8 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion Sources

lukeprog4 Dec 2012 5:48 UTC
17 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Re­cur­sive Self-Improvement

MinibearRex4 Dec 2012 2:44 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : At­lanta LessWrong Mee­tups REBOOT

Nova_Division3 Dec 2012 23:56 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Two Anki plu­g­ins to re­in­force re­view­ing (up­dated)

D_Malik3 Dec 2012 22:04 UTC
17 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Fac­tions, in­equal­ity, and so­cial justice

John_Maxwell3 Dec 2012 19:37 UTC
44 points
173 comments6 min readLW link

[LINK] AmA by com­pu­ta­tional neu­ro­scien­tists be­hind ‘the world’s largest func­tional brain model’

[deleted]3 Dec 2012 19:35 UTC
12 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Most Likely Cause of an Apoca­lypse on De­cem­ber 21

DeevGrape3 Dec 2012 17:10 UTC
−1 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

A solv­able New­comb-like prob­lem—part 2 of 3

Douglas_Reay3 Dec 2012 16:49 UTC
1 point
1 comment6 min readLW link

A solv­able New­comb-like prob­lem—part 1 of 3

Douglas_Reay3 Dec 2012 9:26 UTC
2 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

LessWrong podcasts

Louie3 Dec 2012 8:44 UTC
53 points
99 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] I Heart CYC

MinibearRex3 Dec 2012 3:32 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Van­cou­ver!

[deleted]3 Dec 2012 2:33 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes De­cem­ber 2012

Thomas3 Dec 2012 2:33 UTC
6 points
230 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Con­test­ing the “Na­ture” Of Con­for­mity: What Mil­gram and Zim­bardo’s Stud­ies Really Show

[deleted]2 Dec 2012 23:45 UTC
16 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

What sci­ence needs

PhilGoetz2 Dec 2012 22:31 UTC
58 points
84 comments7 min readLW link

LessWrong IQ Survey

Blackened2 Dec 2012 21:53 UTC
−2 points
59 comments1 min readLW link