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Community bias in threat evaluation
pianoforte611
Jan 17, 2014, 4:01 AM
9
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC: Potatoes
rocurley
Jan 17, 2014, 3:41 AM
7
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
H+ review of James Miller’s Singularity Rising [link]
Dr_Manhattan
Jan 17, 2014, 2:16 AM
−5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Humanity in Jeopardy—Max Tegmark on AI risk
Vika
Jan 16, 2014, 10:30 PM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Productivity tool: race!
wwa
Jan 16, 2014, 9:53 PM
43
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Boston—Connection Theory
Vika
Jan 16, 2014, 9:09 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Brussels: Morality—also cake
Roxolan
Jan 16, 2014, 4:09 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Group Rationality Diary, January 16-31
therufs
Jan 16, 2014, 1:56 PM
6
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Meet Up: Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv): Uses of Cryptography
SoftFlare
Jan 16, 2014, 11:08 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Division of cognitive labour in accordance with researchers’ ability
Stefan_Schubert
Jan 16, 2014, 9:28 AM
15
points
69
comments
5
min read
LW
link
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
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