How not to sort by a com­pli­cated fre­quen­tist formula

Meni_Rosenfeld1 Jan 2013 21:58 UTC
4 points
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What is the best pa­per ex­plain­ing the su­pe­ri­or­ity of Bayesi­anism over fre­quen­tism?

Meni_Rosenfeld1 Jan 2013 20:58 UTC
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[Link] TEDx talk of An­ders Sand­berg on the Fermi “para­dox”

Pablo1 Jan 2013 20:52 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Some scary life ex­ten­sion dilemmas

Ghatanathoah1 Jan 2013 18:41 UTC
1 point
38 comments4 min readLW link

New Year’s Pre­dic­tion Thread (2013)

Thomas1 Jan 2013 14:03 UTC
9 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

You can’t sig­nal to rubes

Patrick1 Jan 2013 6:40 UTC
18 points
117 comments6 min readLW link

Gaug­ing of in­ter­est: LW stock pick­ing?

simplicio1 Jan 2013 6:36 UTC
10 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

Open Thread, Jan­uary 1-15, 2013

OpenThreadGuy1 Jan 2013 6:09 UTC
8 points
336 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Economists’ views differ by gender

GLaDOS31 Dec 2012 13:34 UTC
10 points
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[Link] The Col­lapse of Com­plex So­cieties

[deleted]31 Dec 2012 12:11 UTC
13 points
14 comments12 min readLW link

[Link] Statis­ti­cally, Peo­ple Are Not Very Good At Mak­ing Vot­ing Decisions

[deleted]31 Dec 2012 11:50 UTC
25 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] We Agree: Get Froze

MinibearRex31 Dec 2012 5:22 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Stop Us­ing LessWrong: A Prac­ti­cal In­ter­pre­ta­tion of the 2012 Sur­vey Results

aceofspades30 Dec 2012 22:00 UTC
−55 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Should a judge do it’s job or max­i­mize over­all happiness

ChristianKl30 Dec 2012 19:47 UTC
−9 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham LW Meetup: Zendo

evand30 Dec 2012 19:30 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Three kinds of moral uncertainty

Kaj_Sotala30 Dec 2012 10:43 UTC
55 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

A Game for Prob­a­bil­is­tic Thinking

Erdrick30 Dec 2012 8:20 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Defense Against the Dark Arts, Part I

[deleted]30 Dec 2012 6:54 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Not Tak­ing Over the World

MinibearRex30 Dec 2012 5:14 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Brain-in-a-vat Trol­ley Question

nick01200030 Dec 2012 3:22 UTC
−12 points
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Meetup : Fourth Buenos Aires Less Wrong meetup

Pablo29 Dec 2012 22:47 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

In­fer­ring Values from Im­perfect Optimizers

nigerweiss29 Dec 2012 22:22 UTC
5 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

The on­go­ing trans­for­ma­tion of quan­tum field theory

Mitchell_Porter29 Dec 2012 9:45 UTC
32 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] What I Think, If Not Why

MinibearRex29 Dec 2012 6:01 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham HPMoR Dis­cus­sion, chap­ters 24-26

evand28 Dec 2012 23:40 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Is ruth­less­ness in busi­ness ex­ec­u­tives ever use­ful?

Desrtopa28 Dec 2012 19:46 UTC
−5 points
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A cure for akrasia

[deleted]28 Dec 2012 19:11 UTC
1 point
32 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

matt28 Dec 2012 17:08 UTC
4 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Cleve­land, Moscow

FrankAdamek28 Dec 2012 17:00 UTC
2 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Ri­tual 2012: A Mo­ment of Darkness

Raemon28 Dec 2012 9:09 UTC
54 points
136 comments10 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] What Core Ar­gu­ment?

MinibearRex28 Dec 2012 6:11 UTC
6 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Van­cou­ver New Year!

[deleted]28 Dec 2012 4:20 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Re­la­tion Pro­jec­tion Fal­lacy and the pur­pose of life

Academian28 Dec 2012 4:14 UTC
129 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Bielefeld Meetup, Jan­uary 2nd

Just_existing27 Dec 2012 20:28 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

What Hap­pened in the Fort Marcy Park­ing Lot?

Unknowns27 Dec 2012 19:42 UTC
−11 points
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Dona­tion trade­offs in con­scien­tious objection

[deleted]27 Dec 2012 17:23 UTC
0 points
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[SEQ RERUN] The Me­chan­ics of Disagreement

MinibearRex27 Dec 2012 5:46 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion in or­ga­ni­za­tions, or why I’m not wor­ried about the singularity

sbenthall27 Dec 2012 4:32 UTC
13 points
187 comments3 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity Isn’t Logical

Wei Dai26 Dec 2012 23:08 UTC
35 points
86 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity by Other Means

DataPacRat26 Dec 2012 14:52 UTC
−12 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

META: Dele­tion policy

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Dec 2012 1:46 UTC
28 points
92 comments1 min readLW link

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 12/​25/​12

cata25 Dec 2012 21:51 UTC
10 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

Ideal Ad­vi­sor The­o­ries and Per­sonal CEV

lukeprog25 Dec 2012 13:04 UTC
35 points
35 comments10 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Two Vi­sions of Heritage

MinibearRex25 Dec 2012 2:20 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Godel’s Com­plete­ness and In­com­plete­ness Theorems

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Dec 2012 1:16 UTC
80 points
87 comments11 min readLW link

[LINK] Too Soon for Doom Gloom?

shminux24 Dec 2012 21:14 UTC
4 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

What if “sta­tus” IS a ter­mi­nal value for most peo­ple?

handoflixue24 Dec 2012 20:31 UTC
29 points
112 comments2 min readLW link

Li­cens­ing dis­cus­sion for LessWrong Posts

Rick_from_Castify24 Dec 2012 10:00 UTC
4 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Are AIs Homo Eco­nomi­cus?

MinibearRex24 Dec 2012 5:36 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Se­man­tic Space Distributed Through The Brain

diegocaleiro23 Dec 2012 21:50 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link