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Things I Wish They’d Taught Me When I Was Younger: Why Money Is Awesome
ChrisHallquist
Jan 16, 2014, 7:27 AM
47
points
234
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Dangers of steelmanning / principle of charity
gothgirl420666
Jan 16, 2014, 6:35 AM
149
points
94
comments
2
min read
LW
link
LessWrong Help Desk—free paper downloads and more (2014)
jsalvatier
Jan 16, 2014, 5:51 AM
47
points
335
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The first AI probably won’t be very smart
Jonathan Paulson
Jan 16, 2014, 1:37 AM
−2
points
63
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Results from MIRI’s December workshop
Benya
Jan 15, 2014, 10:29 PM
73
points
43
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Berkeley meetup: 5-minute exercises
Nisan
Jan 15, 2014, 9:02 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Recreational Cryonics
topynate
Jan 15, 2014, 8:21 PM
1
point
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The non-Independence of superficially-Irrelevant Alternatives
roystgnr
Jan 15, 2014, 6:46 PM
16
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
To capture anti-death intuitions, include memory in utilitarianism
Kaj_Sotala
Jan 15, 2014, 6:27 AM
12
points
34
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Thought Crimes
Scott Garrabrant
Jan 15, 2014, 5:23 AM
13
points
50
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Understanding and justifying Solomonoff induction
gedymin
Jan 15, 2014, 1:16 AM
7
points
75
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Functional Side Effects
Scott Garrabrant
Jan 14, 2014, 8:22 PM
14
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Interview with a Scientist.
Baruta07
Jan 14, 2014, 6:18 PM
−2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What rationality material should I teach in my game theory course
James_Miller
Jan 14, 2014, 2:15 AM
11
points
30
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Philosophical Realism and Fairy Dust
HalMorris
Jan 14, 2014, 1:21 AM
3
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Boston—Aversion factoring and calibration
Vika
Jan 13, 2014, 11:24 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Bratislava Meetup IX.
Viliam_Bur
Jan 13, 2014, 2:10 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Karma query
Chrysophylax
Jan 13, 2014, 11:25 AM
−8
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Anthropic Atheism
[deleted]
Jan 13, 2014, 5:00 AM
34
points
54
comments
5
min read
LW
link
On Voting for Third Parties
Scott Garrabrant
Jan 13, 2014, 3:16 AM
10
points
46
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Stupid Questions Thread—January 2014
RomeoStevens
Jan 13, 2014, 2:31 AM
14
points
298
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : West LA Meetup: Democracy
Scott Garrabrant
Jan 13, 2014, 1:07 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Lesswrong Boulder CO
yakurbe0112
Jan 12, 2014, 7:37 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Double-thick transistors and other subjective phenomena
Manfred
Jan 12, 2014, 7:32 PM
14
points
26
comments
3
min read
LW
link
New (proposal for) monthly thread: Meetup Reports
bartimaeus
Jan 12, 2014, 3:50 PM
25
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Popular press account of social benefits of motivated reasoning
Peter Wildeford
Jan 12, 2014, 1:55 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Even Odds
Scott Garrabrant
Jan 12, 2014, 7:24 AM
77
points
48
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Why I haven’t signed up for cryonics
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Jan 12, 2014, 5:16 AM
43
points
252
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Deregulating Distraction, Moving Towards the Goal, and Level Hopping
So8res
Jan 12, 2014, 3:21 AM
102
points
25
comments
8
min read
LW
link
AALWA: Ask any LessWronger anything
Will_Newsome
Jan 12, 2014, 2:18 AM
53
points
636
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Try more things.
whales
Jan 12, 2014, 1:25 AM
88
points
20
comments
7
min read
LW
link
I Will Pay $500 To Anyone Who Can Convince Me To Cancel My Cryonics Subscription
ChrisHallquist
Jan 11, 2014, 10:39 AM
54
points
182
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC Effective Altruism Meetup
rocurley
Jan 11, 2014, 10:15 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Calculating an expected value
polymathwannabe
Jan 11, 2014, 6:41 AM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Free online course: How to Reason and Argue starting Mon. Any interest in study group?
pinyaka
Jan 10, 2014, 7:25 PM
7
points
13
comments
4
min read
LW
link
New LW Meetups: Portland, Sydney
FrankAdamek
Jan 10, 2014, 5:04 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Dr. Jubjub predicts a crisis
Apprentice
Jan 10, 2014, 3:52 PM
74
points
65
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Vancouver Biweekly Sequences Discussion: Politics Is the Mind-killer
eggman
Jan 10, 2014, 10:21 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] People become more utilitarian in VR moral dilemmas as compared to text based.
trifith
Jan 9, 2014, 8:28 PM
6
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Variables in Arguments as a Source of Confusion
kremlin
Jan 9, 2014, 1:16 PM
9
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Habitual Productivity
So8res
Jan 9, 2014, 6:44 AM
90
points
36
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The mechanics of my recent productivity
So8res
Jan 9, 2014, 2:30 AM
203
points
47
comments
9
min read
LW
link
We need new humans, please help
Apprentice
Jan 9, 2014, 12:25 AM
−16
points
57
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Physics grad student: how to build employability in programming & finance
Stabilizer
Jan 8, 2014, 7:36 PM
14
points
51
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Literature-review on cognitive effects of modafinil (my bachelor thesis)
David Althaus
Jan 8, 2014, 7:23 PM
53
points
42
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Link] Consciousness as a State of Matter (Max Tegmark)
Mark_Friedenbach
Jan 8, 2014, 6:11 PM
22
points
30
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Some thoughts on having children
pianoforte611
8 Jan 2014 17:26 UTC
6
points
107
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Meetup : London—The Schelling Point Strategy Game (plus socials)
sixes_and_sevens
8 Jan 2014 13:12 UTC
11
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread for January 8 − 16 2014
tut
8 Jan 2014 12:14 UTC
9
points
347
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A big Singularity-themed Hollywood movie out in April offers many opportunities to talk about AI risk
chaosmage
7 Jan 2014 17:48 UTC
49
points
85
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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