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

IshaanOct 1, 2013, 8:24 PM
0 points
112 comments1 min readLW link

What are you work­ing on? Oc­to­ber 2013

David_GerardOct 1, 2013, 8:24 PM
5 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Oc­to­ber 2013 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsarisOct 1, 2013, 7:38 PM
8 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Frank­furt (in­clud­ing effec­tive al­tru­ism pre­sen­ta­tion)

KendraOct 1, 2013, 8:27 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Paris Meetup: Sun­day, Oc­to­ber 6: New peo­ple, games...

EmileSep 30, 2013, 10:16 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Boulder CO

yakurbe0112Sep 30, 2013, 8:26 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Oc­to­ber 1-15, plus fre­quency poll

therufsSep 30, 2013, 7:44 PM
3 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup: What are the odds?

Scott GarrabrantSep 30, 2013, 7:10 PM
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Naïve Set The­ory (MIRI course list)

So8resSep 30, 2013, 4:09 PM
52 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

Es­ti­ma­tion as a game

AnatoliPSep 30, 2013, 9:24 AM
15 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Septem­ber 30 - Oc­to­ber 6, 2013

Scott GarrabrantSep 30, 2013, 5:18 AM
8 points
297 comments1 min readLW link

Video: What is Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Rationality

EneaszSep 30, 2013, 3:28 AM
10 points
8 comments12 min readLW link

The Ul­ti­mate Sleep­ing Beauty Problem

Scott GarrabrantSep 30, 2013, 12:48 AM
9 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Another ques­tion about util­i­tar­i­anism and selfishness

pragmatistSep 29, 2013, 1:24 PM
6 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Read­ing habits/​tech­niques/​strate­gies (sec­ond post on the topic)

TorelloSep 29, 2013, 12:55 PM
28 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne Prac­ti­cal Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup

BraydenMSep 29, 2013, 11:36 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC fun and games meetup

rocurleySep 29, 2013, 3:32 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Epistemic Spring Clean­ing Meetup

rocurleySep 29, 2013, 3:16 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A ques­tion about util­i­tar­i­anism and self­ish­ness.

abcd_zSep 29, 2013, 1:03 AM
−2 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Cam­bridge, MA Meetup

jimrandomhSep 28, 2013, 6:38 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[LINK] Anti-Diar­rhea Kits and the Sup­ply Chain

NancyLebovitzSep 28, 2013, 9:08 AM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Mu­nich Meetup in October

ValeriySep 28, 2013, 7:27 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Anti-Placebo Effect

ShannonFriedmanSep 28, 2013, 5:44 AM
65 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

A game of an­gels and devils

SophroniusSep 27, 2013, 4:41 PM
−3 points
63 comments5 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekSep 27, 2013, 4:13 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Why aren’t there more fo­rum-blogs like LW?

StabilizerSep 27, 2013, 7:28 AM
20 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Ques­tion on Med­i­cal School and Wage Po­ten­tial for Earn­ing to Give

eggmanSep 27, 2013, 5:40 AM
4 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Tempe, AZ (ASU)

Jayson_VirissimoSep 27, 2013, 3:58 AM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Mak­ing Fun of Things is Easy

katydeeSep 27, 2013, 3:10 AM
48 points
76 comments1 min readLW link

I played the AI Box Ex­per­i­ment again! (and lost both games)

TuxedageSep 27, 2013, 2:32 AM
62 points
123 comments11 min readLW link

Ke­to­genic Soylent

LoganStrohlSep 27, 2013, 1:17 AM
12 points
101 comments2 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence Am­plifi­ca­tion and Friendly AI

lukeprogSep 27, 2013, 1:09 AM
21 points
26 comments4 min readLW link

AI ebook cover de­sign brainstorming

lukeprogSep 26, 2013, 11:49 PM
6 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : At­lanta Pre-Meetup Mu­seum Field Trip

Nova_DivisionSep 26, 2013, 8:17 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Mon­treal LessWrong—Re­turn from sum­mer break

bartimaeusSep 26, 2013, 5:49 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

PyryPSep 26, 2013, 5:40 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Happy Petrov Day

EneaszSep 26, 2013, 3:08 PM
25 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­iz­ing: look­ing for the wrong kind of loopholes

bokovSep 26, 2013, 3:05 PM
7 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian prob­a­bil­ity as an ap­prox­i­mate the­ory of un­cer­tainty?

cousin_itSep 26, 2013, 9:16 AM
23 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

What makes us think _any_ of our ter­mi­nal val­ues aren’t based on a mi­s­un­der­stand­ing of re­al­ity?

bokovSep 25, 2013, 11:09 PM
22 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

Do­ing Im­por­tant Re­search on Ama­zon’s Me­chan­i­cal Turk?

Peter WildefordSep 25, 2013, 5:04 PM
12 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

In­fer­en­tial silence

Kaj_SotalaSep 25, 2013, 12:45 PM
81 points
58 comments1 min readLW link

Pri­soner’s Dilemma vs the Afterlife

DataPacRatSep 24, 2013, 4:59 PM
19 points
69 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham NC/​Tri­an­gle Area: Cog­ni­tive Bi­ases, Part 3

therufsSep 24, 2013, 1:40 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Autism, Wat­son, the Tur­ing test, and Gen­eral Intelligence

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 24, 2013, 11:00 AM
11 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Septem­ber 23-29, 2013

MestroyerSep 24, 2013, 1:25 AM
8 points
263 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] - No ev­i­dence of in­tel­li­gence im­prove­ment af­ter work­ing mem­ory training

pinyakaSep 23, 2013, 9:06 PM
6 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow, Beliefs

YuuSep 23, 2013, 6:14 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

AAAI 2014 Spring Symposia

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 23, 2013, 6:00 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

A map of Bay Area memespace

Julia_GalefSep 23, 2013, 5:34 PM
76 points
31 comments7 min readLW link