The self­ish rea­son to write some­thing for Ada Lovelace Day

sixes_and_sevens10 Oct 2013 22:28 UTC
22 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

A Vot­ing Puz­zle, Some Poli­ti­cal Science, and a Nerd Failure Mode

ChrisHallquist10 Oct 2013 2:10 UTC
141 points
181 comments17 min readLW link

Meetup : Com­plex prob­lems, limited in­for­ma­tion, and ra­tio­nal­ity; How should we make de­ci­sions in real life?

Davidmanheim9 Oct 2013 21:44 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ad­vice for a smart 8-year-old bored with school

James_Miller9 Oct 2013 19:19 UTC
14 points
189 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

mikko9 Oct 2013 16:44 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham NC/​Tri­an­gle Area: Meeetup!

therufs9 Oct 2013 14:03 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow, Beliefs 2

Yuu9 Oct 2013 7:19 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Saint Peters­burg, Russia

efim8 Oct 2013 20:46 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Re­quest­ing ad­vice- A Philos­o­phy Idea

Carinthium8 Oct 2013 11:31 UTC
−16 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Less Wrong Is­rael Meetup (Tel Aviv): Deal­ing with Emo­tional Vampires

SoftFlare8 Oct 2013 10:21 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

CFAR is look­ing for a videog­ra­pher for next Wednesday

Academian8 Oct 2013 5:16 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Rewiring my Brain: (gen­tle) Help Appreciated

JMiller7 Oct 2013 16:13 UTC
7 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Oc­to­ber 7 - Oc­to­ber 12, 2013

Thomas7 Oct 2013 14:52 UTC
8 points
318 comments1 min readLW link

Re­quest­ing clar­ifi­ca­tion- On the Metaethics

Carinthium7 Oct 2013 13:00 UTC
3 points
75 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don social

Paul Crowley7 Oct 2013 11:45 UTC
7 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence fic­tion—“Un­der­stand”, by Ted Chiang

D_Alex7 Oct 2013 3:03 UTC
15 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Un­der the eyes of your betters

Voltairina6 Oct 2013 19:25 UTC
13 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Your role mod­els are watch­ing you...

Voltairina6 Oct 2013 19:09 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Why would evolu­tion fa­vor more bad?

KatjaGrace6 Oct 2013 18:26 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Ur­bana Cham­paign: Me­taethics, Nor­ma­tive Ethics, Ap­plied Ethics

Mestroyer6 Oct 2013 1:39 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Megameetup on De­cem­ber 13-15th, NYC

Raemon5 Oct 2013 21:56 UTC
18 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Oc­to­ber 2013

A1987dM5 Oct 2013 21:02 UTC
12 points
315 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Brus­sels monthly meetup: games!

Roxolan5 Oct 2013 16:47 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Cause of Time

johnswentworth5 Oct 2013 2:56 UTC
0 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

Choos­ing uni­ver­si­ties based on their ma­jor-spe­cific strengths for un­der­grad­u­ate education

VipulNaik5 Oct 2013 0:44 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Gane­sal­ingam and Gow­ers on au­to­mated the­o­rem-proving

VipulNaik5 Oct 2013 0:04 UTC
19 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

How to Learn from Experts

SatvikBeri4 Oct 2013 17:02 UTC
55 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek4 Oct 2013 16:02 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Schel­ling Point Strat­egy Training

sixes_and_sevens4 Oct 2013 15:41 UTC
14 points
56 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] How to in­crease conscientiousness

lincolnquirk4 Oct 2013 15:26 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Philadelphia—What Bayesi­anism taught me

mare-of-night4 Oct 2013 11:50 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup: Ljubljana

Thomas4 Oct 2013 10:32 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Oc­to­ber Monthly Brag­ging Thread

linkhyrule54 Oct 2013 7:06 UTC
14 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Writ­ers as scientists

KatjaGrace4 Oct 2013 5:38 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

How do you say no?

LoganStrohl4 Oct 2013 3:44 UTC
24 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Tuc­son Meetup

[deleted]3 Oct 2013 23:48 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

Fix­ing akra­sia: damna­tion to acausal hell

joaolkf3 Oct 2013 22:34 UTC
1 point
27 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham/​RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, ch. 87-89

therufs3 Oct 2013 16:45 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The best 15 words

apophenia3 Oct 2013 9:08 UTC
16 points
386 comments1 min readLW link

Crush Your Uncertainty

[deleted]3 Oct 2013 5:48 UTC
24 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

PSA: Very im­por­tant policy change at Cry­on­ics Institute

Scott Garrabrant3 Oct 2013 5:47 UTC
26 points
99 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : At­lanta Less­wrong: Oc­to­ber Meetup (First of Two)

Nova_Division3 Oct 2013 4:35 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sys­tem­atic Lucky Breaks

SatvikBeri3 Oct 2013 1:46 UTC
54 points
64 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity, com­pet­i­tive­ness and akrasia

cousin_it2 Oct 2013 13:45 UTC
23 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

How to Be­come a 1000 Year Old Vampire

[deleted]2 Oct 2013 5:07 UTC
140 points
127 comments8 min readLW link

A Mug­gle Stud­ies course

polymathwannabe2 Oct 2013 2:42 UTC
28 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Chicago Open Discussion

Nic_Smith2 Oct 2013 1:58 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Should effec­tive al­tru­ists care about the US gov’t shut­down and can we do any­thing?

Ishaan1 Oct 2013 20:24 UTC
0 points
112 comments1 min readLW link

What are you work­ing on? Oc­to­ber 2013

David_Gerard1 Oct 2013 20:24 UTC
5 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Oc­to­ber 2013 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Oct 2013 19:38 UTC
8 points
45 comments1 min readLW link