The non­cen­tral fal­lacy—the worst ar­gu­ment in the world?

Scott Alexander27 Aug 2012 3:36 UTC
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Bayes for Schizophren­ics: Rea­son­ing in Delu­sional Disorders

Scott Alexander13 Aug 2012 19:22 UTC
151 points
155 comments11 min readLW link

What are the op­ti­mal bi­ases to over­come?

aaronsw4 Aug 2012 15:04 UTC
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AI timeline pre­dic­tions: are we get­ting bet­ter?

Stuart_Armstrong17 Aug 2012 7:07 UTC
79 points
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“Epiphany ad­dic­tion”

cousin_it3 Aug 2012 17:52 UTC
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LessWrong could grow a lot, but we’re do­ing it wrong.

Epiphany20 Aug 2012 5:21 UTC
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A model of UDT with a con­crete prior over log­i­cal statements

Benya28 Aug 2012 21:45 UTC
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Who Wants To Start An Im­por­tant Startup?

ShannonFriedman16 Aug 2012 20:02 UTC
59 points
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Why Don’t Peo­ple Help Others More?

Peter Wildeford13 Aug 2012 23:34 UTC
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The High Im­pact Net­work (THINK) - Launch­ing Now

Raemon8 Aug 2012 2:29 UTC
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Self-skep­ti­cism: the first prin­ci­ple of rationality

aaronsw6 Aug 2012 0:51 UTC
50 points
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De­ci­sion The­o­ries, Part 3.5: Halt, Melt and Catch Fire

orthonormal26 Aug 2012 22:40 UTC
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An an­gle of at­tack on Open Prob­lem #1

Benya18 Aug 2012 12:08 UTC
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Solv­ing the two en­velopes problem

rstarkov9 Aug 2012 13:42 UTC
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Is­sue 301 shipped: Show par­ent com­ments on /​comments

matt3 Aug 2012 6:14 UTC
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Any­one know of em­piri­cally driven lob­by­ing efforts?

palladias27 Aug 2012 22:02 UTC
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Mike Dar­win on an­i­mal re­search, moral cow­ardice, and rea­son­ing in an un­car­ing universe

Synaptic25 Aug 2012 16:38 UTC
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Let’s be friendly to our allies

JGWeissman15 Aug 2012 4:02 UTC
35 points
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[Link] So­cial in­ter­ven­tions gone wrong

[deleted]20 Aug 2012 9:24 UTC
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Coun­ter­fac­tual re­siliency test for non-causal models

Stuart_Armstrong30 Aug 2012 17:30 UTC
34 points
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Nat­u­ral Laws Are De­scrip­tions, not Rules

pragmatist8 Aug 2012 4:27 UTC
33 points
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Can we teach Ra­tion­al­ity at the Univer­sity of Red­dit?

Lightwave20 Aug 2012 21:59 UTC
32 points
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Cyn­i­cal ex­pla­na­tions of FAI crit­ics (in­clud­ing my­self)

Wei Dai13 Aug 2012 21:19 UTC
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The Fal­lacy of Large Numbers

dspeyer12 Aug 2012 18:39 UTC
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How to get cry­ocras­ti­na­tors to ac­tu­ally sign up for cryonics

JGWeissman18 Aug 2012 17:57 UTC
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A cyn­i­cal ex­pla­na­tion for why ra­tio­nal­ists worry about FAI

aaronsw4 Aug 2012 12:27 UTC
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[META] Karma for last 30 days?

ArisKatsaris30 Aug 2012 10:33 UTC
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What are your ques­tions about mak­ing a differ­ence?

Benjamin_Todd12 Aug 2012 23:14 UTC
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[Link] Red­dit, help me find some peace I’m dy­ing young

[deleted]18 Aug 2012 15:17 UTC
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AI timeline pre­dic­tion data

Stuart_Armstrong22 Aug 2012 11:49 UTC
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Luke is do­ing an AMA on Reddit

Spurlock15 Aug 2012 17:38 UTC
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Friendly AI and the limits of com­pu­ta­tional epistemology

Mitchell_Porter8 Aug 2012 13:16 UTC
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Com­pe­tence in ex­perts: summary

Stuart_Armstrong16 Aug 2012 14:53 UTC
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What’s Wrong with Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion The­ory?

aaronde23 Aug 2012 0:09 UTC
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[LINK] Strong AI Startup Raises $15M

olalonde21 Aug 2012 20:47 UTC
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Pro­posed rewrites of LW home page, about page, and FAQ

John_Maxwell17 Aug 2012 22:41 UTC
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The weak­est ar­gu­ments for and against hu­man level AI

Stuart_Armstrong15 Aug 2012 11:04 UTC
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UPDATE: So­ciety of Ven­tur­ism is spear­head­ing Kim Suozzi’s cry­op­reser­va­tion charity

dblch27 Aug 2012 6:51 UTC
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The Dou­bling Box

Mestroyer6 Aug 2012 5:50 UTC
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[Link] Ad­mit­ting to Bias

GLaDOS10 Aug 2012 8:13 UTC
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Smart non-re­duc­tion­ists, philo­soph­i­cal vs. en­g­ineer­ing mind­sets, and religion

Kaj_Sotala4 Aug 2012 10:48 UTC
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How to cheat Löb’s The­o­rem: my sec­ond try

Benya22 Aug 2012 18:21 UTC
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What is the ev­i­dence in fa­vor of pa­leo?

jsteinhardt27 Aug 2012 7:07 UTC
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Su­ber, “The Ethics of Deep Self-Mod­ifi­ca­tion”

lukeprog6 Aug 2012 6:37 UTC
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Risk aver­sion does not ex­plain peo­ple’s bet­ting behaviours

Stuart_Armstrong20 Aug 2012 12:38 UTC
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A ra­tio­nal­ist My Lit­tle Pony fanfic

DataPacRat10 Aug 2012 20:53 UTC
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PM sys­tem is not work­ing

jsteinhardt2 Aug 2012 16:09 UTC
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Four ma­jor prob­lems with neuroscience

NancyLebovitz22 Aug 2012 5:25 UTC
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What’s the Value of In­for­ma­tion?

johnlawrenceaspden29 Aug 2012 16:20 UTC
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Is felt prefer­ence a use­ful in­di­ca­tor? (A ram­ble)

NancyLebovitz29 Aug 2012 16:07 UTC
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