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FiveThirtyEight (Nate Silver) rolls out new blog today, and attempts to teach people Bayes’ rule.
RomeoStevens
Mar 18, 2014, 6:37 AM
9
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Global Existential Risks & Radical Futures (conference June 14)
turchin
Mar 18, 2014, 3:27 AM
3
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Problem with AIXI
Rob Bensinger
Mar 18, 2014, 1:55 AM
44
points
80
comments
23
min read
LW
link
Less Wrong Study Hall—Year 1 Retrospective
Error
Mar 18, 2014, 1:54 AM
69
points
30
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Detroit/Ann Arbor—Memory Workshop
Scott Alexander
Mar 17, 2014, 11:45 PM
10
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Friendly AI ideas needed: how would you ban porn?
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 17, 2014, 6:00 PM
9
points
80
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reduced impact in practice: randomly sampling the future
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 17, 2014, 4:30 PM
4
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
My book: Simulating Dennett—This Wednesday in Sao Paulo
diegocaleiro
Mar 17, 2014, 8:15 AM
6
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow, Chaotic Meet up
Yuu
Mar 17, 2014, 7:59 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Group Rationality Diary, March 16-31
therufs
Mar 16, 2014, 10:47 PM
4
points
37
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Utrecht: Famine, Affluence and Morality
SoerenMind
Mar 16, 2014, 7:56 PM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reference Frames for Expected Value
ozziegooen
Mar 16, 2014, 7:22 PM
8
points
25
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Meta-error: I like therefore I am
KatjaGrace
Mar 16, 2014, 7:10 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Intelligence-disadvantage
casebash
Mar 16, 2014, 7:14 AM
9
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why are Harvard’s alumni so wealthy?
JonahS
Mar 15, 2014, 6:47 PM
19
points
51
comments
1
min read
LW
link
High school students and epistemic rationality
VipulNaik
Mar 15, 2014, 5:40 PM
5
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Democracy and individual liberty; decentralised prediction markets
Chrysophylax
Mar 15, 2014, 12:27 PM
0
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Shoulds can be changed to Cans
Stabilizer
Mar 15, 2014, 9:05 AM
7
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Solutions and Open Problems
Manfred
Mar 15, 2014, 6:53 AM
13
points
8
comments
5
min read
LW
link
What are you working on? March / April 2014
VincentYu
Mar 15, 2014, 3:45 AM
6
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Biomedical research, superstars, and innovation
VipulNaik
Mar 14, 2014, 10:38 PM
2
points
19
comments
5
min read
LW
link
High school students and effective altruism
VipulNaik
Mar 14, 2014, 7:04 PM
17
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Overcoming the Loebian obstacle using evidence logic
Squark
Mar 14, 2014, 6:34 PM
22
points
17
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Can you escape Heat Death with MWI?
DataPacRat
Mar 14, 2014, 6:12 PM
−6
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What attracts people to learning things that they consider neither interesting nor important?
VipulNaik
Mar 14, 2014, 5:32 PM
8
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
On the concept of “talent-constrained” organizations
VipulNaik
Mar 14, 2014, 4:42 PM
21
points
28
comments
3
min read
LW
link
New LW Meetup: Auckland
FrankAdamek
14 Mar 2014 16:02 UTC
1
point
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
How much wealth is produced by high IQ people?
JonahS
14 Mar 2014 8:23 UTC
13
points
39
comments
2
min read
LW
link
On not diversifying charity
DanielLC
14 Mar 2014 5:14 UTC
4
points
73
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington DC Short Talks Meetup
rocurley
13 Mar 2014 23:55 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Making LessWrong notable enough for its own Wikipedia page
VipulNaik
13 Mar 2014 18:17 UTC
11
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Parenting versus career choice thinking in teenagers
VipulNaik
13 Mar 2014 17:56 UTC
9
points
27
comments
3
min read
LW
link
What attracts smart and curious young people to physics? Should this be encouraged?
VipulNaik
13 Mar 2014 17:22 UTC
17
points
37
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup
Maelin
13 Mar 2014 12:00 UTC
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup—Productivity Hacks
SoftFlare
12 Mar 2014 22:07 UTC
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith
Benquo
12 Mar 2014 21:32 UTC
5
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Discussion
Mestroyer
12 Mar 2014 18:33 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Irrationality Game III
CellBioGuy
12 Mar 2014 13:51 UTC
15
points
209
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Helsinki Meetup
mikko
12 Mar 2014 8:00 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Channel factors
benkuhn
12 Mar 2014 4:52 UTC
27
points
17
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Open thread, 11-17 March 2014
David_Gerard
11 Mar 2014 22:45 UTC
6
points
227
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Brussels—all fun and games
Roxolan
11 Mar 2014 21:35 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is my view contrarian?
lukeprog
11 Mar 2014 17:42 UTC
33
points
96
comments
9
min read
LW
link
[Link] First talk by CSER
NoSuchPlace
11 Mar 2014 15:01 UTC
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Frankfurt
Kendra
11 Mar 2014 9:31 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On not getting a job as an option
diegocaleiro
11 Mar 2014 2:44 UTC
51
points
190
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Should one be sad when an opportunity is lost?
diegocaleiro
11 Mar 2014 1:48 UTC
6
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A vote against spaced repetition
ancientcampus
10 Mar 2014 19:27 UTC
75
points
76
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Academia as a career option, its social value, and alternatives
VipulNaik
10 Mar 2014 18:32 UTC
15
points
29
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Salt Lake City, UT: Schelling Day
hamnox
10 Mar 2014 12:38 UTC
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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