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

[deleted]Aug 9, 2013, 5:26 PM
15 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

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

therufsAug 9, 2013, 5:18 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekAug 9, 2013, 3:46 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Great­est Philoso­pher in History

CarinthiumAug 9, 2013, 12:50 PM
0 points
61 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Con­fess Your Un­pop­u­lar Opinion

OpenThreadGuyAug 9, 2013, 6:07 AM
7 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : At­lanta LessWrong: Games Night

Nova_DivisionAug 9, 2013, 3:19 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ran­dom vari­ables and Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion Theory

twanvlAug 8, 2013, 9:48 PM
−2 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

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

TimSAug 8, 2013, 7:33 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

New ar­ti­cle on in vitro iter­ated em­bryo selection

CarlShulmanAug 8, 2013, 7:28 PM
18 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

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

philhAug 8, 2013, 2:08 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Should you work at 80,000 Hours?

Jess_WhittlestoneAug 8, 2013, 2:04 PM
26 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

Mo­ti­va­tion and Mer­ciless Com­mit­ment Contracts

peirceAug 8, 2013, 12:27 AM
7 points
68 comments4 min readLW link

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

Peter WildefordAug 7, 2013, 8:59 PM
10 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Van­cou­ver!

[deleted]Aug 7, 2013, 7:56 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing En­joy­ment and Re­ten­tion Read­ing Tech­ni­cal Literature

sentientplatypusAug 7, 2013, 6:29 AM
46 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

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

Ben_LandauTaylorAug 7, 2013, 4:32 AM
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

How to Mea­sure Anything

lukeprogAug 7, 2013, 4:05 AM
121 points
55 comments22 min readLW link

Meetup : LessWrong Is­rael Septem­ber meetup

DanArmakAug 6, 2013, 12:11 PM
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Mu­nich Meetup in August

ValeriyAug 6, 2013, 11:58 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Mu­nich Meetup in August

ValeriyAug 6, 2013, 11:58 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Au­gust 5-11, 2013

David_GerardAug 5, 2013, 6:50 AM
6 points
308 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Saska­toon’s First Meetup!

Nicholas_RutherfordAug 5, 2013, 5:33 AM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC books meetup

rocurleyAug 5, 2013, 2:20 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cross­ing the ex­per­i­ments: a baby

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 5, 2013, 12:31 AM
5 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

Seek­ing a reader for LessWrong sequences

Rick_from_CastifyAug 4, 2013, 10:58 AM
8 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC fun and games meetup

rocurleyAug 4, 2013, 3:20 AM
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

Shmi2 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