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Kelly Criteria and Two Envelopes
Wei Dai
Aug 16, 2012, 9:57 PM
11
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Who Wants To Start An Important Startup?
ShannonFriedman
Aug 16, 2012, 8:02 PM
59
points
413
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Competence in experts: summary
Stuart_Armstrong
Aug 16, 2012, 2:53 PM
25
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Towards Safe Robots: Approaching Asimov’s 1st Law
Utopiah
Aug 16, 2012, 8:53 AM
−12
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[LINK] SMBC comics: Existential Crisis Sally on “Is forgotten torture real?”
Shmi
Aug 16, 2012, 6:53 AM
2
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Against Modal Logics
MinibearRex
Aug 16, 2012, 5:26 AM
7
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC TED talks Meetup
rocurley
Aug 15, 2012, 9:36 PM
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Luke is doing an AMA on Reddit
Spurlock
Aug 15, 2012, 5:38 PM
26
points
41
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The weakest arguments for and against human level AI
Stuart_Armstrong
Aug 15, 2012, 11:04 AM
22
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Dreams of AI Design
MinibearRex
Aug 15, 2012, 4:06 AM
6
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Let’s be friendly to our allies
JGWeissman
Aug 15, 2012, 4:02 AM
35
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, August 16-31, 2012
OpenThreadGuy
Aug 15, 2012, 3:25 AM
5
points
316
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Idle speculation about anchoring and the Facebook IPO
RolfAndreassen
Aug 15, 2012, 1:00 AM
0
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Discussion about startups
Nisan
Aug 14, 2012, 5:09 PM
3
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness
David_Gerard
Aug 14, 2012, 1:40 PM
7
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Three Fallacies of Teleology
MinibearRex
Aug 14, 2012, 7:45 AM
6
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Melbourne social meetup
toner
Aug 14, 2012, 5:26 AM
3
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : West LA Meetup—Career Optimization (Emphasis on Software)
[deleted]
Aug 14, 2012, 4:14 AM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Why Don’t People Help Others More?
Peter Wildeford
Aug 13, 2012, 11:34 PM
54
points
85
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Longmont Colorado Meetup
EvelynM
Aug 13, 2012, 11:13 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Meetup: Southwestern Ohio
dugancm
Aug 13, 2012, 10:27 PM
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Cynical explanations of FAI critics (including myself)
Wei Dai
Aug 13, 2012, 9:19 PM
31
points
49
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bayes for Schizophrenics: Reasoning in Delusional Disorders
Scott Alexander
Aug 13, 2012, 7:22 PM
153
points
155
comments
11
min read
LW
link
[Link] The perils of “reason”
GLaDOS
Aug 13, 2012, 6:37 AM
3
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Magical Categories
MinibearRex
Aug 13, 2012, 5:19 AM
6
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What are your questions about making a difference?
Benjamin_Todd
Aug 12, 2012, 11:14 PM
28
points
43
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Fallacy of Large Numbers
dspeyer
Aug 12, 2012, 6:39 PM
30
points
31
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Unnatural Categories
MinibearRex
Aug 12, 2012, 5:27 AM
6
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What is moral foundation theory good for?
novalis
Aug 12, 2012, 5:03 AM
11
points
300
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Magical Healing Powers
jefftk
Aug 12, 2012, 3:19 AM
2
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : NYC. Joint Meetup With Another Rationality Community
Raemon
Aug 11, 2012, 3:25 PM
4
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Berlin Meetup
blob
Aug 11, 2012, 9:59 AM
2
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Mirrors and Paintings
MinibearRex
Aug 11, 2012, 5:17 AM
6
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A rationalist My Little Pony fanfic
DataPacRat
Aug 10, 2012, 8:53 PM
20
points
102
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Subsuming Purpose, Part 1
OrphanWilde
Aug 10, 2012, 6:45 PM
−1
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Opinions on Boltzmann brain arguments constraining modern multiverse theories
Dr_Manhattan
Aug 10, 2012, 6:05 PM
2
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups: Austin, Cambridge UK, Copenhagen, Dublin, Pittsburgh, Washington DC
FrankAdamek
Aug 10, 2012, 2:44 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Admitting to Bias
GLaDOS
Aug 10, 2012, 8:13 AM
22
points
131
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Invisible Frameworks
MinibearRex
Aug 10, 2012, 6:07 AM
6
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Board Games “Seattle”
SarahNibs
Aug 10, 2012, 2:55 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Solving the two envelopes problem
rstarkov
Aug 9, 2012, 1:42 PM
45
points
33
comments
4
min read
LW
link
From the “weird math questions” department...
CronoDAS
Aug 9, 2012, 7:19 AM
7
points
50
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mentioning cryonics to a dying person
DanielH
Aug 9, 2012, 6:48 AM
11
points
73
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Longmont Colorado Meetup
EvelynM
Aug 9, 2012, 2:50 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Seeking advice on using evolutionary methods to solve the 3-body problem
Troshen
Aug 8, 2012, 11:43 PM
−4
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is lossless information transfer possible?
kirpi
Aug 8, 2012, 8:02 PM
−12
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Vancouver Big Public Meetup
Arkanj3l
Aug 8, 2012, 7:10 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Biohacking in New York, Cybernetics and first Cyborg Hate Crime: theverge.com
MatthewBaker
Aug 8, 2012, 6:00 PM
4
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Less Wrong Sydney: 20th August
Oklord
Aug 8, 2012, 5:44 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] “Proxy measures, sunk costs, and Chesterton’s fence”, or: the sunk cost heuristic
kpreid
Aug 8, 2012, 2:39 PM
13
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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