On learn­ing difficult things

So8res11 Nov 2013 23:35 UTC
202 points
47 comments6 min readLW link

AI Policy?

ChrisHallquist11 Nov 2013 19:40 UTC
4 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

Re­duced im­pact AI: no back channels

Stuart_Armstrong11 Nov 2013 14:55 UTC
21 points
42 comments10 min readLW link

Meetup : Berlin

blob11 Nov 2013 12:35 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Saint-Peters­burg: Game Event

efim10 Nov 2013 20:23 UTC
−2 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

De­sign-space traps: map­ping the util­ity-de­sign tra­jec­tory space

joaolkf10 Nov 2013 17:32 UTC
−3 points
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Meetup : DC Meetup: Goals spread­sheet, poli­ti­cal ad­vo­cacy as effec­tive al­tru­ism, scary ra­tio­nal­ist stories

Benquo10 Nov 2013 14:26 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup

Maelin10 Nov 2013 13:59 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A di­a­gram for a sim­ple two-player game

Paul Crowley10 Nov 2013 8:59 UTC
56 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Evolu­tion­ary Heuris­tic and Ra­tion­al­ity Techniques

ChrisHallquist10 Nov 2013 7:30 UTC
19 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : First Meetup in Jack­sonville, FL

rule_and_line10 Nov 2013 0:03 UTC
1 point
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Cry­on­ics Pre­sen­ta­tion [help re­quest]

Mati_Roy9 Nov 2013 20:51 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Non-stan­dard cryo ideas

DataPacRat9 Nov 2013 17:42 UTC
17 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Good movies for ra­tio­nal­ists?

roland9 Nov 2013 8:00 UTC
2 points
66 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC: Goals, Poli­ti­cal Ad­vo­cacy as Effec­tive Altru­ism, and Stories

rocurley9 Nov 2013 6:50 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Bet Your Friends to Be More Right

katydee8 Nov 2013 21:12 UTC
11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Novem­ber 8 − 14, 2013

witzvo8 Nov 2013 20:13 UTC
2 points
141 comments1 min readLW link

[Prize] Es­say Con­test: Cry­on­ics and Effec­tive Altruism

lsparrish8 Nov 2013 19:55 UTC
5 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek8 Nov 2013 16:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Aca­demic Cliques

ChrisHallquist8 Nov 2013 4:27 UTC
35 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA—The Mer­its of Specificity

OpenThreadGuy8 Nov 2013 4:20 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The fu­ture of values

KatjaGrace8 Nov 2013 0:56 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup: Some­where you do not live even close to

Metus7 Nov 2013 11:17 UTC
23 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Yes, Virginia, You Can Be 99.99% (Or More!) Cer­tain That 53 Is Prime

ChrisHallquist7 Nov 2013 7:45 UTC
95 points
70 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Com­fort Zone Ex­pan­sion at Ci­tadel, Boston

Vika6 Nov 2013 21:02 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Frankfurt

Kendra5 Nov 2013 21:16 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Is the or­thog­o­nal­ity the­sis at odds with moral re­al­ism?

ChrisHallquist5 Nov 2013 20:47 UTC
7 points
118 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] “A Long-run Per­spec­tive on Strate­gic Cause Selec­tion and Philan­thropy” by Nick Beck­stead and Carl Shulman

Pablo5 Nov 2013 18:27 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow, Now 2 Sigma More Awesome

berekuk5 Nov 2013 10:33 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

No Univer­sally Com­pel­ling Ar­gu­ments in Math or Science

ChrisHallquist5 Nov 2013 3:32 UTC
49 points
230 comments5 min readLW link

2013 Cen­sus/​Sur­vey: call for changes and additions

Scott Alexander5 Nov 2013 3:10 UTC
47 points
155 comments1 min readLW link

New vs. Busi­ness-as-Usual Future

katydee5 Nov 2013 2:13 UTC
5 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Resched­uled Novem­ber Meetup

Nova_Division5 Nov 2013 1:56 UTC
−1 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham NC/​Tri­an­gle Area Meetup: Pro­duc­tive Other-Optimization

curiousepic4 Nov 2013 23:33 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meetup Bolder CO

yakurbe01124 Nov 2013 17:05 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

From Philos­o­phy to Math to Engineering

lukeprog4 Nov 2013 15:43 UTC
32 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Think­ing Fast and Slow Pages 70-140 Dis­cus­sion Meetup

Mestroyer4 Nov 2013 10:39 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Brus­sels monthly meetup: mem­ory!

Roxolan4 Nov 2013 7:05 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Ineffi­ciency of The­o­ret­i­cal Discovery

lukeprog3 Nov 2013 21:26 UTC
30 points
109 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don so­cial meetup, 10/​11/​13

philh3 Nov 2013 17:27 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Work­flow with Spaced Repetition

Emile3 Nov 2013 15:58 UTC
13 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Saint Peters­burg. Why ra­tio­nal­ity?

efim3 Nov 2013 13:30 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Witch­ing Hour

Scott Alexander3 Nov 2013 7:07 UTC
21 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Kid­nap­ping and the game of Chicken

Manfred3 Nov 2013 6:29 UTC
23 points
21 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Novem­ber 2013

MalcolmOcean2 Nov 2013 20:35 UTC
10 points
390 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Novem­ber 1 − 7, 2013

witzvo2 Nov 2013 16:37 UTC
7 points
301 comments1 min readLW link

How to choose a coun­try/​city?

joaolkf2 Nov 2013 1:48 UTC
15 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

Hal­loween thread—ra­tio­nal­ist’s hor­rors.

wwa1 Nov 2013 22:07 UTC
35 points
123 comments1 min readLW link

“Sin­gu­lar­ity or Bust” full doc­u­men­tary

Torello1 Nov 2013 20:48 UTC
2 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Novem­ber 1-15

therufs1 Nov 2013 20:37 UTC
5 points
9 comments1 min readLW link