In Fa­vor of Nice­ness, Com­mu­nity, and Civilization

Scott Alexander23 Feb 2014 22:24 UTC
82 points
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Bridge Col­lapse: Re­duc­tion­ism as Eng­ineer­ing Problem

Rob Bensinger18 Feb 2014 22:03 UTC
81 points
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A Fer­vent Defense of Fre­quen­tist Statistics

jsteinhardt18 Feb 2014 20:08 UTC
75 points
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A self-ex­per­i­ment in train­ing “notic­ing con­fu­sion”

whales20 Feb 2014 1:55 UTC
63 points
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White Lies

ChrisHallquist8 Feb 2014 1:20 UTC
60 points
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Book Re­view: Lin­ear Alge­bra Done Right (MIRI course list)

So8res17 Feb 2014 20:52 UTC
57 points
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Be­ware Triv­ial Fears

Stabilizer4 Feb 2014 5:40 UTC
57 points
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The Jan­uary 2013 CFAR work­shop: one-year retrospective

Qiaochu_Yuan18 Feb 2014 18:41 UTC
53 points
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L-zom­bies! (L-zom­bies?)

Benya7 Feb 2014 18:30 UTC
52 points
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LINK: In fa­vor of nice­ness, com­mu­nity, and civilisation

Solvent24 Feb 2014 4:13 UTC
42 points
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“Smarter than us” is out!

Stuart_Armstrong25 Feb 2014 15:50 UTC
41 points
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I like sim­plic­ity, but not THAT much

Benya14 Feb 2014 19:51 UTC
38 points
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A few re­marks about mass-downvoting

gjm13 Feb 2014 17:06 UTC
34 points
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Arthur Chu: Jeop­ardy! cham­pion through ex­em­plary rationality

syllogism2 Feb 2014 8:02 UTC
33 points
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Em­brac­ing the “sadis­tic” conclusion

Stuart_Armstrong13 Feb 2014 10:30 UTC
31 points
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The Ra­tion­al­ity Wars

Stefan_Schubert27 Feb 2014 17:08 UTC
30 points
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True num­bers and fake numbers

cousin_it6 Feb 2014 12:29 UTC
29 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity train­ing: aca­demic and clini­cal perspectives

whales19 Feb 2014 7:09 UTC
29 points
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Meth­ods for treat­ing depression

JonahS17 Feb 2014 19:02 UTC
27 points
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SUDT: A toy de­ci­sion the­ory for up­date­less anthropics

Benya23 Feb 2014 23:50 UTC
27 points
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Jobs and in­tern­ships available at the Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altruism

tog7 Feb 2014 12:16 UTC
26 points
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Fi­nance as a ca­reer option

JonahS9 Feb 2014 20:47 UTC
26 points
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Prefer­ences with­out Existence

Scott Garrabrant8 Feb 2014 1:34 UTC
26 points
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Sin­gle player ex­ten­sive-form games as a model of UDT

cousin_it25 Feb 2014 10:43 UTC
25 points
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In­tel­li­gence Met­rics with Nat­u­ral­ized In­duc­tion us­ing UDT

Squark21 Feb 2014 12:23 UTC
24 points
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Meta: so­cial in­fluence bias and the karma system

[deleted]17 Feb 2014 1:07 UTC
24 points
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On Straw Vul­can Rationality

LoganStrohl2 Feb 2014 8:11 UTC
24 points
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How can I spend money to im­prove my life?

Jonathan Paulson2 Feb 2014 10:16 UTC
24 points
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How to teach to mag­i­cal thinkers?

polymathwannabe24 Feb 2014 13:43 UTC
23 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity & Low-IQ People

kokotajlod2 Feb 2014 15:11 UTC
23 points
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17 Rules to Make a Defi­ni­tion that Avoids the 37 Ways of Words Be­ing Wrong

mathnerd31422 Feb 2014 5:16 UTC
21 points
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Don’t rely on the sys­tem to guaran­tee you life satisfaction

JonahS18 Feb 2014 5:48 UTC
21 points
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Publi­ca­tion: the “anti-sci­ence” trope is cul­turally po­lariz­ing and makes peo­ple dis­trust scientists

ancientcampus7 Feb 2014 17:09 UTC
21 points
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[Meta] Open thread even more of­ten?

solipsist12 Feb 2014 21:28 UTC
20 points
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Mind Hacks

RyanCarey3 Feb 2014 19:32 UTC
19 points
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The in­no­va­tion tree, over­shad­owed in the in­no­va­tion forest

Stuart_Armstrong25 Feb 2014 14:11 UTC
19 points
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Au­dio Ver­sion of “How to Ac­tu­ally Change Your Mind”

Rick_from_Castify18 Feb 2014 20:23 UTC
19 points
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Logic as Probability

Manfred8 Feb 2014 6:39 UTC
18 points
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Learn (and Maybe Get a Cre­den­tial in) Data Science

Jayson_Virissimo1 Feb 2014 18:39 UTC
18 points
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Meetup re­port: Lon­don LW para­noid de­bat­ing session

philh16 Feb 2014 23:46 UTC
17 points
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What are some re­lated com­mu­ni­ties on­line?

casebash24 Feb 2014 13:04 UTC
17 points
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Manag­ing your time spent learning

JonahS19 Feb 2014 18:48 UTC
17 points
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Cam­bridge (England) lec­ture: Ex­is­ten­tial Risk: Sur­viv­ing the 21st Cen­tury, 26th Fe­bru­ary

Sean_o_h14 Feb 2014 19:39 UTC
15 points
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LINK-How we make our de­pres­sion worse

polymathwannabe21 Feb 2014 19:02 UTC
14 points
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Brain­storm­ing: chil­dren’s stories

Emile11 Feb 2014 13:23 UTC
14 points
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I love zebras

Apprentice5 Feb 2014 17:47 UTC
14 points
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The ra­tio­nal­ity of split­ting donations

JonahS10 Feb 2014 3:13 UTC
14 points
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Iden­tity and Death

Tenoke18 Feb 2014 11:35 UTC
14 points
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Ap­proach­ing Log­i­cal Probability

Manfred27 Feb 2014 7:44 UTC
13 points
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A medium for more ra­tio­nal discussion

Adam Zerner24 Feb 2014 17:20 UTC
13 points
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