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Question on math in “A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation”
Mark_Eichenlaub
Feb 2, 2012, 10:29 PM
6
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Elevator pitches/responses for rationality / AI
lukeprog
Feb 2, 2012, 8:35 PM
24
points
69
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What math should I learn?
Metus
Feb 2, 2012, 7:06 PM
4
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Knowledge ready for Ankification
lukeprog
Feb 2, 2012, 6:58 PM
22
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Two Kinds of Irrationality and How to Avoid One of Them
ChrisHallquist
Feb 2, 2012, 6:13 PM
30
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Teaching rationality made me better (at research and other things)
Academian
Feb 2, 2012, 6:10 PM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Looking for information on cryonics
Metus
Feb 2, 2012, 12:33 PM
23
points
56
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On Saying the Obvious
Grognor
Feb 2, 2012, 5:13 AM
157
points
47
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Categorizing Has Consequences
MinibearRex
Feb 2, 2012, 4:45 AM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mini-Review: ‘The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science’
lukeprog
Feb 1, 2012, 9:48 PM
11
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Rationality Quotes February 2012
[deleted]
Feb 1, 2012, 9:03 PM
10
points
410
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Automatic programming, an example
Thomas
Feb 1, 2012, 8:55 PM
19
points
36
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Mini-review: ‘Proving History: Bayes’ Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus’
lukeprog
Feb 1, 2012, 7:20 PM
26
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
von Neumann probes and Dyson spheres: what exploratory engineering can tell us about the Fermi paradox
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 1, 2012, 1:50 PM
22
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex
[deleted]
Feb 1, 2012, 12:50 PM
13
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Deciding what to think about; is it worthwhile to have universal utility function?
Dmytry
Feb 1, 2012, 9:44 AM
4
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
State your physical account of experienced color
Mitchell_Porter
Feb 1, 2012, 7:00 AM
−6
points
62
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, February 1-14, 2012
OpenThreadGuy
Feb 1, 2012, 4:57 AM
8
points
128
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Writing rationalist fiction: Improving an existing setting?
DataPacRat
Jan 31, 2012, 11:05 PM
0
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Another Real World Example of Cognitive Bias
billswift
Jan 31, 2012, 10:31 PM
6
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Hugo Awards—HP:MoR (part 2)
Eneasz
Jan 31, 2012, 9:11 PM
36
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
“The Conditional Fallacy in Contemporary Philosophy”
gwern
Jan 31, 2012, 9:06 PM
3
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Existential risk for non-consequentialists
vallinder
Jan 31, 2012, 9:03 PM
9
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is risk aversion really irrational ?
kilobug
Jan 31, 2012, 8:34 PM
54
points
65
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Darwin Day: Good Evolution Games?
Raemon
Jan 31, 2012, 7:58 PM
1
point
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
.
[deleted]
Jan 31, 2012, 4:32 PM
2
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Doing Science! Open Thread Experiment Results
daenerys
Jan 31, 2012, 7:57 AM
20
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Risk aversion vs. concave utility function
dvasya
Jan 31, 2012, 6:25 AM
3
points
35
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Against Utilitarianism: Sobel’s attack on judging lives’ goodness
gwern
Jan 31, 2012, 5:45 AM
22
points
16
comments
13
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Fallacies of Compression
MinibearRex
Jan 31, 2012, 5:16 AM
8
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Does functionalism imply dualism?
Mitchell_Porter
Jan 31, 2012, 3:43 AM
−4
points
39
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Cambridge UK
rebellionkid
Jan 30, 2012, 11:36 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Waterfall Ethics
calef
Jan 30, 2012, 9:14 PM
14
points
30
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Terminal Bias
[deleted]
Jan 30, 2012, 9:03 PM
24
points
125
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LessWrong Megameetup
atucker
Jan 30, 2012, 7:33 PM
12
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Hacking Less Wrong made easy: Vagrant edition
Morendil
Jan 30, 2012, 6:51 PM
44
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Repost: Efficient Charity: Cheap Utilons via bone marrow registration
atorm
Jan 30, 2012, 5:42 PM
7
points
17
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Working Through the Controlled Demolition Conspiracy
rysade
Jan 30, 2012, 4:11 PM
−2
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Surviving the World on Vasili Arkhipov Day
RobertLumley
Jan 30, 2012, 3:35 PM
6
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Charity when time isn’t convertible to money?
DataPacRat
Jan 29, 2012, 7:38 PM
7
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cataloging my skills—good idea?
hamnox
Jan 29, 2012, 2:07 PM
9
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
There’s learned philosophers but not philosophical experts
JamesCole
Jan 29, 2012, 10:28 AM
6
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Personal research update
Mitchell_Porter
Jan 29, 2012, 9:32 AM
3
points
32
comments
14
min read
LW
link
The utility of information should almost never be negative
Solvent
Jan 29, 2012, 5:43 AM
9
points
24
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Faustian bargains and discounting
RolfAndreassen
Jan 29, 2012, 5:10 AM
20
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rational vs. real utilities in the cousin_it-Nesov model of UDT
Karl
Jan 29, 2012, 4:43 AM
13
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What are your benchmarks of rationality?
DataPacRat
29 Jan 2012 3:57 UTC
2
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Efficient Charity: Cheap Utilons via bone marrow registration
atorm
29 Jan 2012 3:52 UTC
24
points
46
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Toward “timeless” continuous-time causal models
[deleted]
28 Jan 2012 23:44 UTC
22
points
23
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Self-Indication Assumption—Still Doomed
drnickbone
28 Jan 2012 23:09 UTC
5
points
26
comments
3
min read
LW
link
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