What is the Main/​Dis­cus­sion dis­tinc­tion, and what should it be?

ChrisHallquist30 Dec 2013 5:09 UTC
33 points
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Worse than Worthless

katydee30 Dec 2013 1:47 UTC
22 points
81 comments1 min readLW link

Cri­tiquing Gary Taubes, Part 3: Did the US Govern­ment Give Us Ab­surd Ad­vice About Su­gar?

ChrisHallquist30 Dec 2013 0:58 UTC
8 points
153 comments6 min readLW link

Cri­tiquing Gary Taubes, Part 2: Atk­ins Redux

ChrisHallquist30 Dec 2013 0:58 UTC
7 points
191 comments4 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tion: a self-experiment

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 30 Dec 2013 0:56 UTC
85 points
30 comments8 min readLW link

Why CFAR?

AnnaSalamon28 Dec 2013 23:25 UTC
110 points
117 comments15 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don 2014 Protospective

sixes_and_sevens28 Dec 2013 16:17 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Doubt, Science, and Mag­i­cal Crea­tures—a Child’s Perspective

Benquo28 Dec 2013 15:26 UTC
60 points
54 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC: Birth­day Party/​PD tournament

rocurley28 Dec 2013 7:13 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

On­line vs. Per­sonal Conversations

katydee28 Dec 2013 4:31 UTC
12 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : South­east Michigan

Scott Alexander27 Dec 2013 22:25 UTC
5 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Ri­tual Re­port: Bos­ton Sols­tice Celebration

Vika27 Dec 2013 15:28 UTC
14 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek27 Dec 2013 14:23 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

A pro­posed in­effi­ciency in the Bit­coin markets

Liron27 Dec 2013 3:48 UTC
1 point
140 comments5 min readLW link

Donat­ing to MIRI vs. FHI vs. CEA vs. CFAR

ChrisHallquist27 Dec 2013 3:43 UTC
31 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

CFAR has a matched-dona­tions fundraiser go­ing on [LINK]

Benquo26 Dec 2013 14:38 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sions for information

KatjaGrace25 Dec 2013 20:57 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

One Sided Policy De­bate—The Science of Literature

kremlin25 Dec 2013 20:48 UTC
4 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

How the Grinch Ought to Have Stolen Christmas

Quirinus_Quirrell25 Dec 2013 20:00 UTC
76 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Cri­tiquing Gary Taubes, Part 1: Main­stream Nutri­tion Science on Obesity

ChrisHallquist25 Dec 2013 18:27 UTC
24 points
102 comments2 min readLW link

Think­ing Fast and Slow for Kin­dle $3 at Amazon

buybuydandavis24 Dec 2013 19:53 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread for De­cem­ber 24-31, 2013

NancyLebovitz24 Dec 2013 8:58 UTC
6 points
211 comments1 min readLW link

Re­view of Scott Adams’ “How to Fail at Al­most Every­thing and Still Win Big”

James_Miller23 Dec 2013 20:48 UTC
74 points
39 comments6 min readLW link

Build­ing Phenomenolog­i­cal Bridges

Rob Bensinger23 Dec 2013 19:57 UTC
94 points
115 comments11 min readLW link

[LINK] Up Vs Down is the new Left vs Right

Stabilizer23 Dec 2013 15:33 UTC
−8 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

In praise of pre­tend­ing to re­ally try

KatjaGrace23 Dec 2013 0:50 UTC
4 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

[Link] Anti-age­ing com­pound set for hu­man trials

Gavin22 Dec 2013 20:51 UTC
14 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne Prac­ti­cal Rationality

22 Dec 2013 2:50 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Meta] Post-meetup re­ports and discussion

TylerJay21 Dec 2013 4:11 UTC
23 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton Goals/​Pro­jects (try again!)

rocurley21 Dec 2013 3:04 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bos­ton—Greens Ver­sus Blues

Vika20 Dec 2013 21:07 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Med­i­ta­tion Can De­bias The Mind

JQuinton20 Dec 2013 17:10 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Lo­cal truth

NancyLebovitz20 Dec 2013 17:04 UTC
20 points
76 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek20 Dec 2013 17:02 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Rituals

Mestroyer20 Dec 2013 15:28 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow: Art Ther­apy for Emotions

Yuu19 Dec 2013 6:22 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham: New Years’ Re­s­olu­tions etc.

evand18 Dec 2013 3:02 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Vienna

Ratcourse18 Dec 2013 1:28 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread for De­cem­ber 17-23, 2013

Paul Crowley17 Dec 2013 20:45 UTC
10 points
306 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes De­cem­ber 2013

Cyan17 Dec 2013 20:43 UTC
12 points
464 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI’s Win­ter 2013 Match­ing Challenge

lukeprog17 Dec 2013 20:41 UTC
34 points
37 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Mon­treal—How to Ac­tu­ally Change your Mind

bartimaeus17 Dec 2013 17:49 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial South­ern Sum­mer Sols­tice Celebration

BraydenM17 Dec 2013 15:08 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] David Deutsch on why we don’t have AGI yet “Creative Blocks”

harshhpareek17 Dec 2013 7:03 UTC
4 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Bos­ton Win­ter Solstice

Vika17 Dec 2013 6:56 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, De­cem­ber 16-31

therufs16 Dec 2013 22:44 UTC
6 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West Los An­ge­les—Resolutions

Scott Garrabrant16 Dec 2013 20:34 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow, How Can Vi­sual Image Be Rational

Yuu16 Dec 2013 17:18 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meetup: Less Wrong Is­rael Meetup (Tel Aviv) with spe­cial guest Tomer Kagan

SoftFlare16 Dec 2013 0:00 UTC
3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Luck II: Ex­pect­ing White Swans

fowlertm15 Dec 2013 17:40 UTC
10 points
87 comments7 min readLW link