Just for fun: Com­puter game to illus­trate AI takeover con­cepts?

kokotajlod3 Jul 2014 19:30 UTC
19 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

Separat­ing uni­ver­sity ed­u­ca­tion from grad­ing

Stefan_Schubert3 Jul 2014 17:23 UTC
17 points
60 comments2 min readLW link

Steel­man­ning Inefficiency

Stuart_Armstrong3 Jul 2014 12:17 UTC
26 points
27 comments17 min readLW link

[mod­er­a­tor ac­tion] Eug­ine_Nier is now banned for mass down­vote harassment

Kaj_Sotala3 Jul 2014 12:04 UTC
160 points
369 comments2 min readLW link

Ter­minol­ogy Thread (or “name that pat­tern”)

sixes_and_sevens3 Jul 2014 11:47 UTC
16 points
51 comments1 min readLW link

Moder­a­tors, please wake up and start pro­tect­ing this com­mu­nity!

Viliam_Bur3 Jul 2014 9:13 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

How Com­mon Are Science Failures?

Scott Alexander3 Jul 2014 1:36 UTC
22 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Fu­tures stud­ies: the field and the as­so­ci­ated community

VipulNaik2 Jul 2014 23:47 UTC
6 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Sce­nario plan­ning, its util­ity, and its re­la­tion­ship with forecasting

VipulNaik2 Jul 2014 2:32 UTC
10 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

Down­vote stalk­ers: Driv­ing mem­bers away from the LessWrong com­mu­nity?

Ander2 Jul 2014 0:40 UTC
57 points
129 comments2 min readLW link

July 2014 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Jul 2014 22:50 UTC
8 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, July 1-15

therufs1 Jul 2014 15:46 UTC
3 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Can­berra: Para­noid Debating

DanielFilan1 Jul 2014 9:52 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

An an­swer to a pos­si­ble ob­jec­tion to cash-trans­fer charities

B_For_Bandana1 Jul 2014 0:49 UTC
12 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

A Parable of Elites and Takeoffs

gwern30 Jun 2014 23:04 UTC
39 points
98 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Agency

luminosity30 Jun 2014 11:28 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, 30 June 2014- 6 July 2014

DanielDeRossi30 Jun 2014 10:58 UTC
7 points
247 comments1 min readLW link

An At­tempt at Log­i­cal Uncertainty

BenjaminFox30 Jun 2014 6:59 UTC
14 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Up­per Canada LW Megameetup: Ot­tawa, Toronto, Mon­treal, Water­loo, London

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 28 Jun 2014 22:48 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek27 Jun 2014 16:48 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] Neu­roe­co­nomics course on coursera started just this week

IsTheLittleLion26 Jun 2014 18:38 UTC
12 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Hyper­link Superorganism

[deleted]26 Jun 2014 17:00 UTC
−12 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Prac­tice—Be Specific

Benquo26 Jun 2014 14:14 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

R sup­port group and the benefits of ap­plied statistics

sixes_and_sevens26 Jun 2014 14:11 UTC
27 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The silos of ex­per­tise: be­yond heuris­tics and biases

Stuart_Armstrong26 Jun 2014 13:13 UTC
48 points
16 comments9 min readLW link

Set­ting an ex­am­ple too good

KatjaGrace26 Jun 2014 12:21 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Hap­piness and Children

Carinthium26 Jun 2014 7:36 UTC
3 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Gen­eral-pur­pose fore­cast­ing and the as­so­ci­ated community

VipulNaik26 Jun 2014 2:49 UTC
6 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Separat­ing the roles of the­ory and di­rect em­piri­cal ev­i­dence in be­lief for­ma­tion: the ex­am­ples of min­i­mum wage and an­thro­pogenic global warming

VipulNaik25 Jun 2014 21:47 UTC
38 points
66 comments4 min readLW link

Doubt re­gard­ing ba­sic assumptions

KatjaGrace25 Jun 2014 19:05 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

A new deriva­tion of the Born rule

MrMind25 Jun 2014 15:07 UTC
29 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

The rep­re­sen­ta­tional fallacy

DanielDeRossi25 Jun 2014 11:29 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The rep­re­sen­ta­tional fallacy

DanielDeRossi25 Jun 2014 11:28 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­tifi­cial Utility Mon­sters as Effec­tive Altruism

[deleted]25 Jun 2014 9:52 UTC
22 points
13 comments7 min readLW link

[LINK] seL4, se­cure op­er­at­ing sys­tem ker­nel is be­ing open-sourced

Mark_Friedenbach24 Jun 2014 23:02 UTC
6 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

An overview of fore­cast­ing for poli­tics, con­flict, and poli­ti­cal violence

VipulNaik24 Jun 2014 22:10 UTC
10 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

How do you no­tice when you are ig­no­rant of nec­es­sary al­ter­na­tive hy­pothe­ses?

[deleted]24 Jun 2014 18:12 UTC
27 points
69 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Tel Aviv: Choos­ing re­search topics

JoshuaFox24 Jun 2014 8:33 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Tel Aviv Meetup: Choos­ing re­search topics

JoshuaFox24 Jun 2014 8:33 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Tel Aviv Meetup: Choos­ing re­search topics

JoshuaFox24 Jun 2014 8:31 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Vec­tor psychology

[deleted]23 Jun 2014 20:43 UTC
−18 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Utili­tar­i­anism and Rel­a­tivity Realism

TruePath23 Jun 2014 19:12 UTC
−5 points
31 comments5 min readLW link

[LINK] Why Talk to Philoso­phers: Physi­cist Sean Car­roll Dis­cusses “Com­mon Mi­sun­der­stand­ings” about Philosophy

shminux23 Jun 2014 19:09 UTC
18 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Les­sons from weather fore­cast­ing and its his­tory for fore­cast­ing as a domain

VipulNaik23 Jun 2014 17:08 UTC
23 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

Open thread, 23-29 June 2014

David_Gerard23 Jun 2014 7:21 UTC
6 points
194 comments1 min readLW link

How do you take notes?

ChristianKl22 Jun 2014 10:45 UTC
19 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Will AGI sur­prise the world?

lukeprog21 Jun 2014 22:27 UTC
21 points
129 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ti­va­tors: Altru­is­tic Ac­tions for Non-Altru­is­tic Reasons

Ruby21 Jun 2014 16:32 UTC
26 points
20 comments9 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek21 Jun 2014 16:14 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton D.C.: See­ing Off

RobinZ21 Jun 2014 8:23 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link