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Should effective altruists care about the US gov’t shutdown and can we do anything?
Ishaan
Oct 1, 2013, 8:24 PM
0
points
112
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What are you working on? October 2013
David_Gerard
Oct 1, 2013, 8:24 PM
5
points
38
comments
1
min read
LW
link
October 2013 Media Thread
ArisKatsaris
Oct 1, 2013, 7:38 PM
8
points
45
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Frankfurt (including effective altruism presentation)
Kendra
Oct 1, 2013, 8:27 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Paris Meetup: Sunday, October 6: New people, games...
Emile
Sep 30, 2013, 10:16 PM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Boulder CO
yakurbe0112
Sep 30, 2013, 8:26 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Group Rationality Diary, October 1-15, plus frequency poll
therufs
Sep 30, 2013, 7:44 PM
3
points
39
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : West LA Meetup: What are the odds?
Scott Garrabrant
Sep 30, 2013, 7:10 PM
2
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book Review: Naïve Set Theory (MIRI course list)
So8res
Sep 30, 2013, 4:09 PM
52
points
21
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Estimation as a game
AnatoliP
Sep 30, 2013, 9:24 AM
15
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, September 30 - October 6, 2013
Scott Garrabrant
Sep 30, 2013, 5:18 AM
8
points
297
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Video: What is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eneasz
Sep 30, 2013, 3:28 AM
10
points
8
comments
12
min read
LW
link
The Ultimate Sleeping Beauty Problem
Scott Garrabrant
Sep 30, 2013, 12:48 AM
9
points
39
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Another question about utilitarianism and selfishness
pragmatist
Sep 29, 2013, 1:24 PM
6
points
22
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Reading habits/techniques/strategies (second post on the topic)
Torello
Sep 29, 2013, 12:55 PM
28
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Melbourne Practical Rationality Meetup
BraydenM
Sep 29, 2013, 11:36 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC fun and games meetup
rocurley
Sep 29, 2013, 3:32 AM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC Epistemic Spring Cleaning Meetup
rocurley
Sep 29, 2013, 3:16 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A question about utilitarianism and selfishness.
abcd_z
Sep 29, 2013, 1:03 AM
−2
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Cambridge, MA Meetup
jimrandomh
Sep 28, 2013, 6:38 PM
8
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Anti-Diarrhea Kits and the Supply Chain
NancyLebovitz
Sep 28, 2013, 9:08 AM
11
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LW Munich Meetup in October
Valeriy
Sep 28, 2013, 7:27 AM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
The Anti-Placebo Effect
ShannonFriedman
Sep 28, 2013, 5:44 AM
65
points
39
comments
3
min read
LW
link
A game of angels and devils
Sophronius
Sep 27, 2013, 4:41 PM
−3
points
63
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Sep 27, 2013, 4:13 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why aren’t there more forum-blogs like LW?
Stabilizer
Sep 27, 2013, 7:28 AM
20
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Question on Medical School and Wage Potential for Earning to Give
eggman
Sep 27, 2013, 5:40 AM
4
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Tempe, AZ (ASU)
Jayson_Virissimo
Sep 27, 2013, 3:58 AM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Making Fun of Things is Easy
katydee
Sep 27, 2013, 3:10 AM
48
points
76
comments
1
min read
LW
link
I played the AI Box Experiment again! (and lost both games)
Tuxedage
Sep 27, 2013, 2:32 AM
62
points
123
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Ketogenic Soylent
LoganStrohl
Sep 27, 2013, 1:17 AM
12
points
101
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Intelligence Amplification and Friendly AI
lukeprog
Sep 27, 2013, 1:09 AM
21
points
26
comments
4
min read
LW
link
AI ebook cover design brainstorming
lukeprog
Sep 26, 2013, 11:49 PM
6
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Atlanta Pre-Meetup Museum Field Trip
Nova_Division
Sep 26, 2013, 8:17 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Montreal LessWrong—Return from summer break
bartimaeus
Sep 26, 2013, 5:49 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Helsinki Meetup
PyryP
Sep 26, 2013, 5:40 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Happy Petrov Day
Eneasz
Sep 26, 2013, 3:08 PM
25
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationalizing: looking for the wrong kind of loopholes
bokov
Sep 26, 2013, 3:05 PM
7
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bayesian probability as an approximate theory of uncertainty?
cousin_it
Sep 26, 2013, 9:16 AM
23
points
37
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What makes us think _any_ of our terminal values aren’t based on a misunderstanding of reality?
bokov
Sep 25, 2013, 11:09 PM
22
points
89
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Doing Important Research on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk?
Peter Wildeford
Sep 25, 2013, 5:04 PM
12
points
49
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Inferential silence
Kaj_Sotala
Sep 25, 2013, 12:45 PM
81
points
58
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Prisoner’s Dilemma vs the Afterlife
DataPacRat
Sep 24, 2013, 4:59 PM
19
points
69
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Durham NC/Triangle Area: Cognitive Biases, Part 3
therufs
Sep 24, 2013, 1:40 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Autism, Watson, the Turing test, and General Intelligence
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 24, 2013, 11:00 AM
11
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, September 23-29, 2013
Mestroyer
Sep 24, 2013, 1:25 AM
8
points
263
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] - No evidence of intelligence improvement after working memory training
pinyaka
Sep 23, 2013, 9:06 PM
6
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow, Beliefs
Yuu
Sep 23, 2013, 6:14 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AAAI 2014 Spring Symposia
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 23, 2013, 6:00 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A map of Bay Area memespace
Julia_Galef
Sep 23, 2013, 5:34 PM
76
points
31
comments
7
min read
LW
link
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