Kelly Cri­te­ria and Two Envelopes

Wei DaiAug 16, 2012, 9:57 PM
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Who Wants To Start An Im­por­tant Startup?

ShannonFriedmanAug 16, 2012, 8:02 PM
59 points
413 comments4 min readLW link

Com­pe­tence in ex­perts: summary

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 16, 2012, 2:53 PM
25 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Towards Safe Robots: Ap­proach­ing Asi­mov’s 1st Law

UtopiahAug 16, 2012, 8:53 AM
−12 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] SMBC comics: Ex­is­ten­tial Cri­sis Sally on “Is for­got­ten tor­ture real?”

ShmiAug 16, 2012, 6:53 AM
2 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Against Mo­dal Logics

MinibearRexAug 16, 2012, 5:26 AM
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC TED talks Meetup

rocurleyAug 15, 2012, 9:36 PM
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Luke is do­ing an AMA on Reddit

SpurlockAug 15, 2012, 5:38 PM
26 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

The weak­est ar­gu­ments for and against hu­man level AI

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 15, 2012, 11:04 AM
22 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Dreams of AI Design

MinibearRexAug 15, 2012, 4:06 AM
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s be friendly to our allies

JGWeissmanAug 15, 2012, 4:02 AM
35 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Au­gust 16-31, 2012

OpenThreadGuyAug 15, 2012, 3:25 AM
5 points
316 comments1 min readLW link

Idle spec­u­la­tion about an­chor­ing and the Face­book IPO

RolfAndreassenAug 15, 2012, 1:00 AM
0 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Dis­cus­sion about startups

NisanAug 14, 2012, 5:09 PM
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] The Cam­bridge Dec­la­ra­tion on Consciousness

David_GerardAug 14, 2012, 1:40 PM
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Three Fal­la­cies of Teleology

MinibearRexAug 14, 2012, 7:45 AM
6 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup

tonerAug 14, 2012, 5:26 AM
3 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Ca­reer Op­ti­miza­tion (Em­pha­sis on Soft­ware)

[deleted]Aug 14, 2012, 4:14 AM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Why Don’t Peo­ple Help Others More?

Peter WildefordAug 13, 2012, 11:34 PM
54 points
85 comments10 min readLW link

Meetup : Long­mont Colorado Meetup

EvelynMAug 13, 2012, 11:13 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meetup: South­west­ern Ohio

dugancmAug 13, 2012, 10:27 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Cyn­i­cal ex­pla­na­tions of FAI crit­ics (in­clud­ing my­self)

Wei DaiAug 13, 2012, 9:19 PM
31 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Bayes for Schizophren­ics: Rea­son­ing in Delu­sional Disorders

Scott AlexanderAug 13, 2012, 7:22 PM
153 points
155 comments11 min readLW link

[Link] The per­ils of “rea­son”

GLaDOSAug 13, 2012, 6:37 AM
3 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Mag­i­cal Categories

MinibearRexAug 13, 2012, 5:19 AM
6 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

What are your ques­tions about mak­ing a differ­ence?

Benjamin_ToddAug 12, 2012, 11:14 PM
28 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

The Fal­lacy of Large Numbers

dspeyerAug 12, 2012, 6:39 PM
30 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Un­nat­u­ral Categories

MinibearRexAug 12, 2012, 5:27 AM
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

What is moral foun­da­tion the­ory good for?

novalisAug 12, 2012, 5:03 AM
11 points
300 comments6 min readLW link

Mag­i­cal Heal­ing Powers

jefftkAug 12, 2012, 3:19 AM
2 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : NYC. Joint Meetup With Another Ra­tion­al­ity Community

RaemonAug 11, 2012, 3:25 PM
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup

blobAug 11, 2012, 9:59 AM
2 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Mir­rors and Paintings

MinibearRexAug 11, 2012, 5:17 AM
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

A ra­tio­nal­ist My Lit­tle Pony fanfic

DataPacRatAug 10, 2012, 8:53 PM
20 points
102 comments1 min readLW link

Sub­sum­ing Pur­pose, Part 1

OrphanWildeAug 10, 2012, 6:45 PM
−1 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Opinions on Boltz­mann brain ar­gu­ments con­strain­ing mod­ern mul­ti­verse theories

Dr_ManhattanAug 10, 2012, 6:05 PM
2 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Cam­bridge UK, Copen­hagen, Dublin, Pitts­burgh, Wash­ing­ton DC

FrankAdamekAug 10, 2012, 2:44 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Link] Ad­mit­ting to Bias

GLaDOSAug 10, 2012, 8:13 AM
22 points
131 comments5 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] In­visi­ble Frameworks

MinibearRexAug 10, 2012, 6:07 AM
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Board Games “Seat­tle”

SarahNibsAug 10, 2012, 2:55 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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