In­ter­est­ing new Pew Re­search study on Amer­i­can opinions about rad­i­cal life extension

[deleted]9 Aug 2013 17:26 UTC
15 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham NC/​Tri­an­gle Area: “Ra­tion­al­ity is hard! Let’s do math” (Utility Func­tions/​Prospect The­ory)

therufs9 Aug 2013 17:18 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek9 Aug 2013 15:46 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Great­est Philoso­pher in History

Carinthium9 Aug 2013 12:50 UTC
0 points
61 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Con­fess Your Un­pop­u­lar Opinion

OpenThreadGuy9 Aug 2013 6:07 UTC
7 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : At­lanta LessWrong: Games Night

Nova_Division9 Aug 2013 3:19 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ran­dom vari­ables and Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion Theory

twanvl8 Aug 2013 21:48 UTC
−2 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] Bit­coins, “In­vest­ment of Money,” and Law

TimS8 Aug 2013 19:33 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

New ar­ti­cle on in vitro iter­ated em­bryo selection

CarlShulman8 Aug 2013 19:28 UTC
18 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial—The Un­wel­come but Prob­a­ble De­cline and Fall of Direct Sunlight

philh8 Aug 2013 14:08 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Should you work at 80,000 Hours?

Jess_Whittlestone8 Aug 2013 14:04 UTC
26 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

Mo­ti­va­tion and Mer­ciless Com­mit­ment Contracts

peirce8 Aug 2013 0:27 UTC
7 points
68 comments4 min readLW link

What Would it Take to “Prove” a Spec­u­la­tive Cause?

Peter Wildeford7 Aug 2013 20:59 UTC
10 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Van­cou­ver!

[deleted]7 Aug 2013 19:56 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing En­joy­ment and Re­ten­tion Read­ing Tech­ni­cal Literature

sentientplatypus7 Aug 2013 6:29 UTC
45 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : [Bos­ton] Us­ing Causal Graphs to Un­der­stand Bias in the Med­i­cal Literature

Ben_LandauTaylor7 Aug 2013 4:32 UTC
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

How to Mea­sure Anything

lukeprog7 Aug 2013 4:05 UTC
117 points
55 comments22 min readLW link

Meetup : LessWrong Is­rael Septem­ber meetup

DanArmak6 Aug 2013 12:11 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Mu­nich Meetup in August

Valeriy6 Aug 2013 11:58 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Mu­nich Meetup in August

Valeriy6 Aug 2013 11:58 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Au­gust 5-11, 2013

David_Gerard5 Aug 2013 6:50 UTC
6 points
308 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Saska­toon’s First Meetup!

Nicholas_Rutherford5 Aug 2013 5:33 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC books meetup

rocurley5 Aug 2013 2:20 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cross­ing the ex­per­i­ments: a baby

Stuart_Armstrong5 Aug 2013 0:31 UTC
5 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

Seek­ing a reader for LessWrong sequences

Rick_from_Castify4 Aug 2013 10:58 UTC
8 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC fun and games meetup

rocurley4 Aug 2013 3:20 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Al­gorith­mic Progress in Six Domains

lukeprog3 Aug 2013 2:29 UTC
38 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Au­gust 2013 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris2 Aug 2013 21:49 UTC
8 points
122 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Au­gust 2013

Vaniver2 Aug 2013 20:59 UTC
12 points
730 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] AI ad­vances: com­put­ers can be al­most as funny as people

shminux2 Aug 2013 18:41 UTC
12 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Vienna Meetup

Ratcourse2 Aug 2013 17:47 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek2 Aug 2013 15:23 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Au­gust 1-15

therufs1 Aug 2013 20:38 UTC
5 points
61 comments1 min readLW link

The Fermi para­dox as ev­i­dence against the likely­hood of un­friendly AI

chaosmage1 Aug 2013 18:46 UTC
9 points
54 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Pic­nic au Parc de la Tête d’Or

Oriane1 Aug 2013 12:18 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

How does MIRI Know it Has a Medium Prob­a­bil­ity of Suc­cess?

Peter Wildeford1 Aug 2013 11:42 UTC
35 points
146 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Open Discussion

eggman1 Aug 2013 9:43 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

RapGe­nius + Se­quences = ?

Alexandros1 Aug 2013 6:04 UTC
20 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Com­mon Task Time Es­ti­ma­tion Repository

Arkanj3l1 Aug 2013 0:21 UTC
7 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

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