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Meetup : First Meetup in Hamburg, Germany
Gunnar_Zarncke
Jan 21, 2014, 11:18 PM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Decision Auctions aka “How to fairly assign chores, or decide who gets the last cookie”
daenerys
Jan 21, 2014, 9:13 PM
60
points
59
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Social meetup in Raleigh
evand
Jan 21, 2014, 2:27 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationalists Are Less Credulous But Better At Taking Ideas Seriously
Scott Alexander
Jan 21, 2014, 2:18 AM
108
points
287
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Propagandizing Meta-Ethics in an Essay Contest
[deleted]
Jan 20, 2014, 11:30 PM
2
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Someone who knows how, please fix the horribly broken open thread link.
Shmi
Jan 20, 2014, 9:16 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[link] Why Self-Control Seems (but may not be) Limited
Kaj_Sotala
Jan 20, 2014, 4:55 PM
55
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Why don’t more rationalists start startups?
Adam Zerner
Jan 20, 2014, 7:29 AM
−7
points
99
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Lesswrong Boulder CO
yakurbe0112
Jan 20, 2014, 2:59 AM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Using vs. evaluating (or, Why I don’t come around here no more)
PhilGoetz
Jan 20, 2014, 2:36 AM
25
points
38
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Argue against yourself
Adam Zerner
Jan 20, 2014, 2:03 AM
−2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dealing with a Major Personal Crisis
Gunnar_Zarncke
Jan 20, 2014, 1:36 AM
26
points
59
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book Review: How Learning Works
whales
Jan 19, 2014, 8:45 PM
56
points
16
comments
17
min read
LW
link
2013 Survey Results
Scott Alexander
Jan 19, 2014, 2:51 AM
112
points
560
comments
19
min read
LW
link
Dark Arts of Rationality
So8res
Jan 19, 2014, 2:47 AM
261
points
193
comments
18
min read
LW
link
Meetup : West LA: Surreal Numbers
Scott Garrabrant
Jan 18, 2014, 8:56 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Tell Culture
LoganStrohl
Jan 18, 2014, 8:13 PM
275
points
229
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Onrushing Wave
Douglas_Reay
Jan 18, 2014, 1:10 PM
1
point
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : February Rationality Dojo: Planning Fallacy
Jan 18, 2014, 9:46 AM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Nomic
Mestroyer
Jan 17, 2014, 11:43 PM
4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Pittsburgh Meetup 24 January 2014 06:00 PM
Matt_Duing
Jan 17, 2014, 11:21 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Continuity in Uploading
Error
Jan 17, 2014, 10:57 PM
6
points
88
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Rationality Meetup Ljubljana
Ratcourse
Jan 17, 2014, 8:35 PM
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Less Wrong Montreal—Dissolving Disagreements
bartimaeus
Jan 17, 2014, 5:09 PM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Jan 17, 2014, 5:00 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Cryonics As Untested Medical Procedure
jefftk
Jan 17, 2014, 4:36 PM
20
points
39
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Open Thread for January 17 − 23 2014
niceguyanon
Jan 17, 2014, 1:26 PM
4
points
192
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Write down your basic realizations as a matter of habit. Share this file with the world.
FeepingCreature
Jan 17, 2014, 12:57 PM
23
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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
16 Jan 2014 7:27 UTC
47
points
234
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Dangers of steelmanning / principle of charity
gothgirl420666
16 Jan 2014 6:35 UTC
149
points
94
comments
2
min read
LW
link
LessWrong Help Desk—free paper downloads and more (2014)
jsalvatier
16 Jan 2014 5:51 UTC
47
points
335
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The first AI probably won’t be very smart
Jonathan Paulson
16 Jan 2014 1:37 UTC
−2
points
63
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Results from MIRI’s December workshop
Benya
15 Jan 2014 22:29 UTC
73
points
43
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Berkeley meetup: 5-minute exercises
Nisan
15 Jan 2014 21:02 UTC
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Recreational Cryonics
topynate
15 Jan 2014 20:21 UTC
1
point
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The non-Independence of superficially-Irrelevant Alternatives
roystgnr
15 Jan 2014 18:46 UTC
16
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
To capture anti-death intuitions, include memory in utilitarianism
Kaj_Sotala
15 Jan 2014 6:27 UTC
12
points
34
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Thought Crimes
Scott Garrabrant
15 Jan 2014 5:23 UTC
13
points
50
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Understanding and justifying Solomonoff induction
gedymin
15 Jan 2014 1:16 UTC
7
points
75
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Functional Side Effects
Scott Garrabrant
14 Jan 2014 20:22 UTC
14
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
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