Q for GiveWell: What is GiveDirectly’s mechanism of ac­tion?

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Jul 2013 20:02 UTC
33 points
28 comments8 min readLW link

Mu­tual Worth with­out de­fault point (but with po­ten­tial threats)

Stuart_Armstrong31 Jul 2013 9:52 UTC
12 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

More “Stupid” Questions

NancyLebovitz31 Jul 2013 9:18 UTC
21 points
497 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­net Re­search (with tan­gent on in­tel­li­gence anal­y­sis and col­lapse)

Arkanj3l31 Jul 2013 4:58 UTC
16 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : [Bos­ton] Goal Factoring

Ben_LandauTaylor30 Jul 2013 21:16 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A thought on the value of “ra­tio­nal­ity” as a value

D_Alex30 Jul 2013 9:27 UTC
1 point
11 comments1 min readLW link

Freako­nomics Study In­ves­ti­gates De­ci­sion-Mak­ing and Es­ti­mated Prior Probabilities

telms30 Jul 2013 4:08 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, July 29-Au­gust 4, 2013

David_Gerard29 Jul 2013 22:26 UTC
7 points
389 comments1 min readLW link

Level­ing up...

RobertChange29 Jul 2013 21:38 UTC
14 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Op­ti­mize Your Settings

katydee29 Jul 2013 21:10 UTC
23 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham/​RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, ch. 79-81

therufs29 Jul 2013 19:19 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Book re­view: Mind­meld­ing: Con­scious­ness, Neu­ro­science, and the Mind’s Privacy

Kaj_Sotala29 Jul 2013 13:47 UTC
5 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes from peo­ple as­so­ci­ated with LessWrong

ChristianKl29 Jul 2013 13:19 UTC
35 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

Valu­ing Sen­tience: Can They Suffer?

jefftk29 Jul 2013 12:39 UTC
9 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Why I’m Skep­ti­cal About Un­proven Causes (And You Should Be Too)

Peter Wildeford29 Jul 2013 9:09 UTC
42 points
98 comments11 min readLW link

Re­pos­i­tory repository

pinyaka28 Jul 2013 22:59 UTC
64 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ments Against Speciesism

Lukas_Gloor28 Jul 2013 18:24 UTC
30 points
476 comments9 min readLW link

An­throp­ics and a cos­mic im­mune system

Mitchell_Porter28 Jul 2013 9:07 UTC
−5 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Pareto im­prove­ment in gym norms: Spread the word!

RolfAndreassen28 Jul 2013 2:04 UTC
−13 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Alter­na­tive to Bayesian Score

Scott Garrabrant27 Jul 2013 19:26 UTC
14 points
30 comments3 min readLW link

Nor­bert Wiener on au­toma­tion and unemployment

JonahS27 Jul 2013 18:02 UTC
11 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Is­rael (Tel Aviv) Meetup: Fun and Games with Cog­ni­tive Biases

SoftFlare27 Jul 2013 16:24 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Helsinki Prac­ti­cal Meetup

mikko27 Jul 2013 14:13 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : (Im­prov?) games meetup

rocurley27 Jul 2013 7:20 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meetup: Vancouver

eggman27 Jul 2013 4:51 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

A Call For Ad­vice:

Ambition27 Jul 2013 2:45 UTC
3 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

A Per­sonal Record, and a Call For Ad­vice:

Ambition27 Jul 2013 1:08 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham/​RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, ch. 77-78, Part 2

therufs26 Jul 2013 17:58 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sys­tem Ad­minis­tra­tor Ap­pre­ci­a­tion Day—Thanks Trike!

John_Maxwell26 Jul 2013 17:57 UTC
110 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

New LW Meetup: South­east Michigan

FrankAdamek26 Jul 2013 15:21 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Ar­gu­ment From Marginal Cases

jefftk26 Jul 2013 13:30 UTC
18 points
55 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup

Axel26 Jul 2013 11:08 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Wel­come to Less Wrong! (6th thread, July 2013)

KnaveOfAllTrades26 Jul 2013 2:35 UTC
30 points
518 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup—In­tro­duc­tion to Anthropics

OpenThreadGuy26 Jul 2013 0:51 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : At­lanta LessWrong: Au­gust Meetup

Nova_Division25 Jul 2013 20:29 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Robots, AI, and Unem­ploy­ment Anti-FAQ

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Jul 2013 18:46 UTC
92 points
259 comments22 min readLW link

The differ­ence be­tween Deter­minism & Pre-determination

RogerS25 Jul 2013 11:41 UTC
4 points
29 comments9 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow: Mis­cel­la­neous Rationality

Yuu25 Jul 2013 8:39 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 25, chap­ter 96

NancyLebovitz25 Jul 2013 4:36 UTC
8 points
525 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Chicago: Dis­cuss Think­ing, Fast and Slow

Nic_Smith25 Jul 2013 3:03 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Use­ful Ques­tions Repository

Qiaochu_Yuan25 Jul 2013 2:58 UTC
40 points
67 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Philadelphia in­for­mal meetup

mare-of-night25 Jul 2013 1:31 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don Meetup—Achiev­ing Bet­ter Goals

kerspoon24 Jul 2013 23:39 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Mak­ing Ra­tion­al­ity Gen­eral-Interest

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 24 Jul 2013 22:02 UTC
45 points
114 comments4 min readLW link

An ar­gu­ment against in­di­rect normativity

cousin_it24 Jul 2013 18:35 UTC
5 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

In­fer­en­tial credit history

RyanCarey24 Jul 2013 14:12 UTC
58 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

Fake Ex­pla­na­tions in Modern Science: The Case of Inefficiency

[deleted]24 Jul 2013 13:23 UTC
−15 points
33 comments16 min readLW link

Busi­ness In­sider: “They Fi­nally Tested The ‘Pri­soner’s Dilemma’ On Ac­tual Pri­son­ers — And The Re­sults Were Not What You Would Ex­pect”

chaosmage24 Jul 2013 12:44 UTC
3 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing Fa­mil­iar, a quan­tified rea­son­ing as­sis­tant (feed­back sought!)

jamesf24 Jul 2013 2:36 UTC
24 points
40 comments2 min readLW link

Why Eat Less Meat?

Peter Wildeford23 Jul 2013 21:30 UTC
64 points
505 comments6 min readLW link