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Meetup : Secular Solstice Celebration! (And the Inauguration of the LW Leipzig Community)
chaosmage
Nov 30, 2013, 12:42 PM
8
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : December Practical Rationality Meetup
BraydenM
Nov 30, 2013, 10:46 AM
1
point
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
According to Dale Carnegie, You Can’t Win an Argument—and He Has a Point
ChrisHallquist
Nov 30, 2013, 6:23 AM
112
points
80
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Will Eating Nuts Save Your Life?
Vaniver
Nov 30, 2013, 3:13 AM
8
points
24
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Utrecht
skizo
Nov 29, 2013, 11:46 PM
6
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New LW Meetup: Mumbai
FrankAdamek
Nov 29, 2013, 7:07 PM
1
point
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco / App Academy meetup [LOCATION CHANGE]
ChrisHallquist
Nov 29, 2013, 5:21 PM
4
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Making the chaff invisible, and getting the wheat ($200 prize too)
diegocaleiro
Nov 29, 2013, 1:19 AM
0
points
29
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : West LA—A Conversation About Conversations
OpenThreadGuy
Nov 29, 2013, 12:01 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Munich Meetup
cadac
Nov 28, 2013, 10:16 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
A model of AI development
lukeprog
Nov 28, 2013, 1:48 PM
26
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Ape Constraint discussion meeting.
Douglas_Reay
Nov 28, 2013, 11:22 AM
12
points
23
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[link] Psychologists strike a blow for reproducibility
Pablo
Nov 28, 2013, 5:26 AM
42
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Relevance of Advanced Vocabulary to Rationality
aletheianink
Nov 28, 2013, 3:08 AM
6
points
41
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How do you tell proto-science from pseudo-science?
DataPacRat
Nov 27, 2013, 7:15 PM
11
points
90
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : London Social Meetup, 01/12/2013
Tenoke
Nov 27, 2013, 4:45 PM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Wait vs Interrupt Culture
Benquo
Nov 27, 2013, 3:38 PM
129
points
72
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Mapping the brain with water
polymathwannabe
Nov 27, 2013, 1:43 PM
−5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mapping the brain with water.
polymathwannabe
Nov 27, 2013, 1:40 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On Walmart, And Who Bears Responsibility For the Poor
ChrisHallquist
Nov 27, 2013, 5:08 AM
23
points
512
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Newcastle-upon-Tyne meetup, December
bramflakes
Nov 26, 2013, 10:00 PM
10
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Noticing something completely absurd about yourself
diegocaleiro
Nov 26, 2013, 7:24 PM
32
points
24
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Stable and Unstable Risks
katydee
Nov 25, 2013, 6:12 PM
10
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Links: so-called “knockout game” a “myth and a “bogus trend.”
ChrisHallquist
Nov 25, 2013, 4:21 PM
−11
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What do we already have right?
EndlessStrategy
Nov 24, 2013, 10:03 PM
10
points
53
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Some thoughts on relations between major ethical systems
[deleted]
Nov 24, 2013, 9:32 PM
11
points
33
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Helsinki Meetup
mikko
Nov 24, 2013, 8:16 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
‘Effective Altruism’ as utilitarian equivocation.
Dias
Nov 24, 2013, 6:35 PM
4
points
81
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Gelman Against Parsimony
lukeprog
Nov 24, 2013, 3:23 PM
10
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What can we learn from freemasonry?
Gunnar_Zarncke
Nov 24, 2013, 3:18 PM
17
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Probability and radical uncertainty
David_Chapman
Nov 23, 2013, 10:34 PM
19
points
71
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Boston / Cambridge—The future of life: a cosmic perspective (Max Tegmark), Dec 1
Vika
Nov 23, 2013, 5:55 PM
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Boston / Cambridge—Systems, Leverage, and Winning at Life
Vika
Nov 23, 2013, 5:48 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Craft And The Community: The Basics: Apologizing
Ritalin
Nov 23, 2013, 4:55 PM
5
points
193
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Classical vs MWI Probability Nomenclature
DataPacRat
Nov 23, 2013, 4:23 PM
6
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, November 23-30, 2013
passive_fist
Nov 23, 2013, 6:04 AM
8
points
301
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Limited But Better Than Nothing Way To Assign Probabilities to Statements of Logic, Arithmetic, etc.
alex_zag_al
Nov 22, 2013, 9:14 PM
10
points
16
comments
3
min read
LW
link
New LW Meetups: Amsterdam, Jacksonville, Milwaukee
FrankAdamek
Nov 22, 2013, 5:01 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The sun reflected off things
polymathwannabe
Nov 22, 2013, 2:59 PM
−6
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Mumbai Meetup
Ronak
Nov 22, 2013, 10:14 AM
6
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
2013 Less Wrong Census/Survey
Scott Alexander
Nov 22, 2013, 9:26 AM
112
points
620
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Probabilistic self-defeat arguments
KatjaGrace
Nov 21, 2013, 8:25 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Saskatoon—Gauging the strength of evidence and Bayesian reasoning.
Nicholas_Rutherford
Nov 21, 2013, 7:33 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book Review: Computability and Logic
So8res
Nov 21, 2013, 1:52 PM
44
points
26
comments
13
min read
LW
link
The dangers of zero and one
PhilGoetz
Nov 21, 2013, 12:21 PM
48
points
68
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Be Skeptical of Correlational Studies
jefftk
Nov 20, 2013, 10:19 PM
17
points
43
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Brain Preservation Foundation ask me anything on Reddit 7:00PM EST Thursday Nov 21
aurellem
Nov 20, 2013, 9:24 PM
11
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Please vote for a title for an upcoming book
listic
Nov 20, 2013, 7:04 PM
6
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv): Quantum Computing
SoftFlare
Nov 20, 2013, 4:46 PM
2
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Q: Correlation often does imply Causation, but does not specify which kind?
[deleted]
Nov 20, 2013, 2:13 PM
2
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
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