Out­line Sum­mary: The Pro­cras­ti­na­tion Equation

iarwain1Mar 26, 2014, 11:55 PM
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Meetup : Is­rael Less Wrong Meetup—So­cial and Board Games

SoftFlareMar 26, 2014, 9:26 PM
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The Prob­lem of “Win-More”

katydeeMar 26, 2014, 6:32 PM
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Meetup : Las Ve­gas/​Hen­der­son, NV

thespymachineMar 26, 2014, 4:31 PM
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Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC: Robin Han­son vis­its to talk about giving

maiaMar 25, 2014, 5:47 PM
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Ra­tion­al­ist fic­tion: a Slice of Life IN HELL

RitalinMar 25, 2014, 5:02 PM
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[Link] Zack Wein­er­smith’s One-Liner Generator

DallasMar 25, 2014, 3:30 PM
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Other minds and bats: the vam­pire Tur­ing test

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 25, 2014, 1:36 PM
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Open thread, 24-30 March 2014

MetusMar 25, 2014, 7:42 AM
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How to trade money and time

KatjaGraceMar 25, 2014, 4:14 AM
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What le­gal ways do peo­ple make a profit that pro­duce the largest net loss in util­ity?

PunoxysmMar 25, 2014, 1:53 AM
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What is the most anti-al­tru­is­tic way to spend a mil­lion dol­lars?

PunoxysmMar 24, 2014, 9:50 PM
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Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

mikkoMar 24, 2014, 1:34 PM
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Meetup : LessWrong Ham­burg − 4

Gunnar_ZarnckeMar 23, 2014, 11:07 PM
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How can Cog­nito Men­tor­ing do the most good?

JonahSMar 23, 2014, 6:06 PM
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What are some sci­ence mis­takes you made in col­lege?

aarongertlerMar 23, 2014, 5:28 AM
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Meetup : Prince­ton NJ Meetup

LarksMar 23, 2014, 12:22 AM
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Agents with Carte­sian child­hood and Phys­i­cal­ist adulthood

SquarkMar 22, 2014, 8:20 PM
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En­trepreneur­ship and col­lege attendance

JonahSMar 22, 2014, 7:32 PM
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Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Games meetup

rocurleyMar 22, 2014, 6:40 PM
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Meetup : First LW Meetup in Warsaw

David AlthausMar 22, 2014, 4:41 PM
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Meetup : Mu­nich Meetup

cadacMar 22, 2014, 2:33 PM
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Meetup : Lon­don So­cial Mee­tups − 23/​03 and 30/​03

TenokeMar 22, 2014, 12:21 PM
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Effec­tive Altru­ism Sum­mit 2014

Ben_LandauTaylorMar 21, 2014, 8:30 PM
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Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekMar 21, 2014, 4:07 PM
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Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekMar 21, 2014, 4:06 PM
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A ca­pa­bil­ities ap­proach to per­sonal development

StabilizerMar 21, 2014, 11:03 AM
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Pro­cras­ti­nat­ing be­cause of uncertainty

JonahSMar 21, 2014, 12:14 AM
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[Link] IBM to set Wat­son loose on can­cer genome data

TylerJayMar 20, 2014, 4:48 PM
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Eng­ineer­ing ar­chae­ol­ogy

NancyLebovitzMar 20, 2014, 4:38 PM
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Thoughts on How Con­scious­ness Can Affect the World

DavidPlumptonMar 20, 2014, 8:32 AM
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To what ex­tent does im­proved ra­tio­nal­ity lead to effec­tive al­tru­ism?

JonahSMar 20, 2014, 7:08 AM
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Meetup: Philadelphia, 1 PM, March 23-- treat­ing mis­takes as though they’re bugs

NancyLebovitzMar 19, 2014, 3:55 PM
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The ecolog­i­cal ra­tio­nal­ity of the bad old fallacies

velisarMar 19, 2014, 11:39 AM
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Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Lose Ar­gu­ments to Win Fab­u­lous Prizes

ManfredMar 19, 2014, 9:46 AM
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Meetup : Berkeley: Beta-test­ing at CFAR

NisanMar 19, 2014, 5:32 AM
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On Ir­ra­tional The­ory of Identity

SilentCalMar 19, 2014, 12:06 AM
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In­for­ma­tion-gen­er­at­ing re­search projects

JonahSMar 18, 2014, 6:53 PM
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Meetup : Durham: Stupid Ra­tion­al­ity Questions

evandMar 18, 2014, 5:11 PM
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One Med­i­cal? Ex­pan­sion of MIRI?

RHollerithMar 18, 2014, 2:38 PM
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Ter­ror­ist baby down the well: a look at in­sti­tu­tional forces

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 18, 2014, 2:30 PM
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Open thread, 18-24 March 2014

David_GerardMar 18, 2014, 12:26 PM
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Dis­cov­er­ing Your Se­cretly Se­cret Sen­sory Experiences

seezMar 18, 2014, 10:12 AM
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FiveThir­tyEight (Nate Silver) rolls out new blog to­day, and at­tempts to teach peo­ple Bayes’ rule.

RomeoStevensMar 18, 2014, 6:37 AM
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Global Ex­is­ten­tial Risks & Rad­i­cal Fu­tures (con­fer­ence June 14)

turchinMar 18, 2014, 3:27 AM
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The Prob­lem with AIXI

Rob BensingerMar 18, 2014, 1:55 AM
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Less Wrong Study Hall—Year 1 Retrospective

ErrorMar 18, 2014, 1:54 AM
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Meetup : Detroit/​Ann Ar­bor—Me­mory Workshop

Scott AlexanderMar 17, 2014, 11:45 PM
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Friendly AI ideas needed: how would you ban porn?

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 17, 2014, 6:00 PM
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Re­duced im­pact in prac­tice: ran­domly sam­pling the future

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 17, 2014, 4:30 PM
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