The Neu­ro­science of Mo­ral Mo­ti­va­tion (Part 1)

[deleted]Feb 10, 2012, 3:37 AM
8 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Two phone apps that use Bayes to help doc­tors make bet­ter de­ci­sions [links]

lukeprogFeb 28, 2012, 11:36 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : At the Univer­sity of Chicago

falenas108Feb 17, 2012, 5:27 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

MITx class(es): [LINK] and discussion

[deleted]Feb 19, 2012, 11:29 AM
7 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Words as Men­tal Paint­brush Handles

MinibearRexFeb 16, 2012, 6:19 AM
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2 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Cook­ing for peo­ple who don’t

NancyLebovitzFeb 11, 2012, 9:45 PM
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14 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Qual­i­ta­tively Confused

MinibearRexFeb 28, 2012, 2:59 AM
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0 comments1 min readLW link

Un­able to post ar­ti­cle (prob­a­bly be­cause of ex­ces­sive/​in­com­pat­i­ble for­mat­ting)

diegocaleiroFeb 23, 2012, 12:04 AM
7 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Cu­ri­ous au­thors and ’zines?

lukeprogFeb 5, 2012, 8:47 PM
7 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Sneak­ing in Connotations

MinibearRexFeb 4, 2012, 1:50 AM
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6 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Wrong Questions

MinibearRexFeb 21, 2012, 5:02 AM
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0 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Vari­able Ques­tion Fallacies

MinibearRexFeb 19, 2012, 5:57 AM
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[SEQ RERUN] Cat­e­go­riz­ing Has Consequences

MinibearRexFeb 2, 2012, 4:45 AM
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[SEQ RERUN] Con­di­tional In­de­pen­dence, and Naive Bayes

MinibearRexFeb 15, 2012, 5:09 AM
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0 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Mu­tual In­for­ma­tion, and Den­sity in Thingspace

MinibearRexFeb 8, 2012, 2:07 AM
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Su­per­ex­po­nen­tial Con­ceptspace, and Sim­ple Words

MinibearRexFeb 9, 2012, 4:55 AM
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0 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Search­ing for Bayes-Structure

MinibearRexFeb 14, 2012, 6:46 AM
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4 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] En­tropy, and Short Codes

MinibearRexFeb 7, 2012, 3:40 AM
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0 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Where to Draw the Boundary?

MinibearRexFeb 6, 2012, 12:03 AM
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1 comment1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Leave a Line of Retreat

MinibearRexFeb 10, 2012, 3:39 PM
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

How to mea­sure pro­cras­ti­na­tion?

rlp10Feb 15, 2012, 2:02 PM
7 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Google Solve for X

[deleted]Feb 6, 2012, 10:02 PM
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Bayesian Overconfidence

beoShafferFeb 24, 2012, 11:54 PM
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0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Brus­sels, Hous­ton, Madi­son, Melbourne, Moscow, Philadelphia (2), Sydney

FrankAdamekFeb 18, 2012, 12:07 AM
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1 comment1 min readLW link

How can peo­ple be ac­tu­ally con­verted?

yttriumFeb 5, 2012, 10:13 PM
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94 comments1 min readLW link

East Coast Megameet Google Han­gout, to­day at 3PM

RaemonFeb 4, 2012, 6:06 PM
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22 comments1 min readLW link

Trou­bles With CEV Part1 - CEV Sequence

diegocaleiroFeb 28, 2012, 4:15 AM
6 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

Sub­jec­tive ex­pected util­ity with­out preferences

lukeprogFeb 14, 2012, 3:04 AM
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Univer­sity of Chicago (Again)

falenas108Feb 27, 2012, 7:46 PM
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Fe­bru­ary 15-29, 2012

OpenThreadGuyFeb 15, 2012, 6:00 AM
6 points
196 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] H+ ar­ti­cle Ra­tion­al­ity Train­ing: Call for a Global Approach

beoShafferFeb 22, 2012, 3:21 AM
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21 comments1 min readLW link

Ques­tion on math in “A Tech­ni­cal Ex­pla­na­tion of Tech­ni­cal Ex­pla­na­tion”

Mark_EichenlaubFeb 2, 2012, 10:29 PM
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Mini-re­view: ‘Judg­ment and De­ci­sion Mak­ing as a Skill’

lukeprogFeb 18, 2012, 10:42 AM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Teach­ing ra­tio­nal­ity made me bet­ter (at re­search and other things)

AcademianFeb 2, 2012, 6:10 PM
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic se­cu­rity: ex­am­ple from ex­per­i­men­tal physics

StabilizerFeb 17, 2012, 12:48 AM
5 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Top 5 re­grets of the dy­ing [link]

Dr_ManhattanFeb 4, 2012, 5:56 PM
5 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Trap­ping AIs via util­ity indifference

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 28, 2012, 7:27 PM
5 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Austin, TX TCDS Experiment

VaniverFeb 15, 2012, 5:28 PM
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

What are some cool things a LWer can do at Yale, Brown, and UChicago?

InquilineKeaFeb 5, 2012, 5:00 AM
5 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Re­duc­tion Ca­reer Network

FrankAdamekFeb 21, 2012, 2:07 PM
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Tel Aviv Self-Im­prove­ment Meetup Group

Meni_RosenfeldFeb 16, 2012, 3:37 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

What math should I learn?

MetusFeb 2, 2012, 7:06 PM
4 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Cam­bridge, Hous­ton, Melbourne, Pitts­burgh, Van­cou­ver, Waterloo

FrankAdamekFeb 3, 2012, 4:29 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Rea­son­ing About Evolu­tion­ary Psy­chol­ogy & History

[deleted]Feb 28, 2012, 2:20 AM
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0 comments1 min readLW link

An in­ter­est­ing, novel ap­proach to de­sign­ing com­puter processors

D_AlexFeb 21, 2012, 2:37 AM
4 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Moscow meetup: Satur­day 6 PM

BT_UytyaFeb 8, 2012, 9:25 PM
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0 comments1 min readLW link

De­cid­ing what to think about; is it worth­while to have uni­ver­sal util­ity func­tion?

DmytryFeb 1, 2012, 9:44 AM
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2 comments2 min readLW link

Yet an­other safe or­a­cle AI proposal

jacobtFeb 26, 2012, 11:45 PM
4 points
33 comments12 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Ar­gu­ing “By Defi­ni­tion”

MinibearRexFeb 5, 2012, 3:07 AM
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0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ohio Monthly

daenerysFeb 23, 2012, 11:14 PM
4 points
6 comments1 min readLW link