Solv­ing the two en­velopes problem

rstarkovAug 9, 2012, 1:42 PM
45 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

From the “weird math ques­tions” de­part­ment...

CronoDASAug 9, 2012, 7:19 AM
7 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Men­tion­ing cry­on­ics to a dy­ing person

DanielHAug 9, 2012, 6:48 AM
11 points
73 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Long­mont Colorado Meetup

EvelynMAug 9, 2012, 2:50 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Seek­ing ad­vice on us­ing evolu­tion­ary meth­ods to solve the 3-body problem

TroshenAug 8, 2012, 11:43 PM
−4 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Is lossless in­for­ma­tion trans­fer pos­si­ble?

kirpiAug 8, 2012, 8:02 PM
−12 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Big Public Meetup

Arkanj3lAug 8, 2012, 7:10 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Bio­hack­ing in New York, Cy­ber­net­ics and first Cy­borg Hate Crime: thev­erge.com

MatthewBakerAug 8, 2012, 6:00 PM
4 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Less Wrong Syd­ney: 20th Au­gust

OklordAug 8, 2012, 5:44 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] “Proxy mea­sures, sunk costs, and Ch­ester­ton’s fence”, or: the sunk cost heuristic

kpreidAug 8, 2012, 2:39 PM
13 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Friendly AI and the limits of com­pu­ta­tional epistemology

Mitchell_PorterAug 8, 2012, 1:16 PM
25 points
148 comments8 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] No Li­cense To Be Human

MinibearRexAug 8, 2012, 7:26 AM
6 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Re­in­force­ment, Prefer­ence and Utility

royfAug 8, 2012, 6:23 AM
14 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 8/​6/​12

cataAug 8, 2012, 5:58 AM
9 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

Nat­u­ral Laws Are De­scrip­tions, not Rules

pragmatistAug 8, 2012, 4:27 AM
33 points
237 comments9 min readLW link

The High Im­pact Net­work (THINK) - Launch­ing Now

RaemonAug 8, 2012, 2:29 AM
51 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC So­cial Meetup

rocurleyAug 8, 2012, 12:37 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC So­cial Meetup

rocurleyAug 8, 2012, 12:37 AM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Tran­script: “Choice Machines, Causal­ity, and Co­op­er­a­tion”

RandalyAug 7, 2012, 10:15 PM
16 points
4 comments14 min readLW link

Depth of Knowledge

billswiftAug 7, 2012, 5:39 PM
−3 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

A ques­tion about Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit 2012

UngnsCobraAug 7, 2012, 12:13 PM
−2 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Draft: Get Lucky

atuckerAug 7, 2012, 6:26 AM
17 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] You Prov­ably Can’t Trust Yourself

MinibearRexAug 7, 2012, 5:06 AM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

SI/​CFAR Are Look­ing for Con­tract Web Developers

MaloAug 6, 2012, 10:47 PM
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bratis­lava, Slo­vakia—the first LW meetup

BarbaraBAug 6, 2012, 10:36 AM
17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Su­ber, “The Ethics of Deep Self-Mod­ifi­ca­tion”

lukeprogAug 6, 2012, 6:37 AM
20 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

The Dou­bling Box

MestroyerAug 6, 2012, 5:50 AM
22 points
84 comments3 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] The Car­toon Guide to Lob’s Theorem

MinibearRexAug 6, 2012, 5:41 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Self-skep­ti­cism: the first prin­ci­ple of rationality

aaronswAug 6, 2012, 12:51 AM
50 points
86 comments2 min readLW link

[video] Robin Han­son: Uploads Eco­nomics 101

mapnoterritoryAug 5, 2012, 9:00 PM
8 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] The Car­toon Guide to Löb’s The­o­rem

Oscar_CunninghamAug 5, 2012, 8:28 AM
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Ran­dom ques­tion about starfish

RaemonAug 5, 2012, 2:31 AM
2 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

What are the op­ti­mal bi­ases to over­come?

aaronswAug 4, 2012, 3:04 PM
103 points
70 comments2 min readLW link

A cyn­i­cal ex­pla­na­tion for why ra­tio­nal­ists worry about FAI

aaronswAug 4, 2012, 12:27 PM
28 points
172 comments1 min readLW link

Smart non-re­duc­tion­ists, philo­soph­i­cal vs. en­g­ineer­ing mind­sets, and religion

Kaj_SotalaAug 4, 2012, 10:48 AM
22 points
48 comments4 min readLW link

The sup­pos­edly hard prob­lem of con­scious­ness and the nonex­is­tence of sense data: Is your dog a con­scious be­ing?

[deleted]Aug 4, 2012, 1:57 AM
−21 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Pitts­burgh: Se­man­tic Stopsigns

KatjaGraceAug 3, 2012, 10:14 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

“Epiphany ad­dic­tion”

cousin_itAug 3, 2012, 5:52 PM
69 points
90 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Au­gust 2012

Alejandro1Aug 3, 2012, 3:33 PM
9 points
432 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Madi­son, NYC

FrankAdamekAug 3, 2012, 3:21 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

What are you work­ing on? Au­gust 2012

RobertLumleyAug 3, 2012, 3:10 PM
13 points
95 comments1 min readLW link

Wel­l­come Col­lec­tion in Lon­don has ex­hi­bi­tion on hu­man augmentation

tawAug 3, 2012, 8:02 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Is­sue 301 shipped: Show par­ent com­ments on /​comments

mattAug 3, 2012, 6:14 AM
43 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Holis­tic learn­ing ebook

John_MaxwellAug 3, 2012, 12:29 AM
14 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

AI 5 minute ex­is­ten­tial risk talk

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 2, 2012, 5:44 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

mattAug 2, 2012, 5:15 PM
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

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

PM sys­tem is not work­ing

jsteinhardtAug 2, 2012, 4:09 PM
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Room­mate in­ter­est and co­or­di­na­tion thread

patrickscottshieldsAug 2, 2012, 9:22 AM
13 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing: A Non-Stan­dard In­tro­duc­tion (Part 2)

royfAug 2, 2012, 8:17 AM
16 points
7 comments3 min readLW link