Ex­plain­ing “map and ter­ri­tory” and “fun­da­men­tal at­tri­bu­tion er­ror” to a broad audience

Gleb_Tsipursky9 Jan 2015 17:57 UTC
10 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Ques­tions of Rea­son­ing un­der Log­i­cal Uncertainty

So8res9 Jan 2015 17:37 UTC
29 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Memes and Ra­tional Decisions

inferential9 Jan 2015 6:42 UTC
35 points
18 comments10 min readLW link

The Im­por­tance of Sidekicks

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 8 Jan 2015 23:21 UTC
231 points
209 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow LW lec­ture cen­tre meetup: The New Foundation

Alexander2308 Jan 2015 20:07 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

2015 Re­pos­i­tory Reruns—Bor­ing Ad­vice Repository

TrE8 Jan 2015 18:00 UTC
24 points
80 comments1 min readLW link

con­trol­ling AI be­hav­ior through un­usual ax­io­matic probabilities

Florian_Dietz8 Jan 2015 17:00 UTC
5 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­gram­ming-like ac­tivi­ties?

robot-dreams8 Jan 2015 0:37 UTC
11 points
77 comments1 min readLW link

Com­ments on “When Bayesian In­fer­ence Shat­ters”?

Crystalist7 Jan 2015 22:56 UTC
12 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

The de­cline of vi­o­lence as a lens for un­der­stand­ing effec­tive altruism

alwhite7 Jan 2015 17:16 UTC
8 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Some re­cent ev­i­dence against the Big Bang

JStewart7 Jan 2015 5:06 UTC
10 points
66 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­ams and Overfitting

robot-dreams6 Jan 2015 19:35 UTC
17 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Brus­sels—Mind­ful­ness and men­tal habits

Roxolan6 Jan 2015 13:39 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Low Hang­ing fruit for buy­ing a bet­ter life

taryneast6 Jan 2015 10:11 UTC
38 points
209 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—How bad statis­tics can ruin your life

luminosity6 Jan 2015 7:49 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 17: Mul­tipo­lar scenarios

KatjaGrace6 Jan 2015 6:44 UTC
9 points
38 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Meta Meetup

RobinZ6 Jan 2015 2:34 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Meetup—January

taryneast5 Jan 2015 22:56 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

What does be­ing x% on board with the pro­gram of a move­ment mean?

Sarunas5 Jan 2015 21:20 UTC
3 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

2014 Sur­vey Results

Scott Alexander5 Jan 2015 19:36 UTC
128 points
283 comments16 min readLW link

How much does con­sump­tion af­fect pro­duc­tion?

Timothy Telleen-Lawton5 Jan 2015 15:51 UTC
7 points
60 comments3 min readLW link

Open thread Jan. 5-11, 2015

polymathwannabe5 Jan 2015 12:48 UTC
5 points
152 comments1 min readLW link

Nega­tive polyamory out­comes?

atorm5 Jan 2015 12:25 UTC
26 points
104 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Dal­las, TX

DubiousTwizzler5 Jan 2015 4:54 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Nega­tive Polyamory out­comes?

atorm5 Jan 2015 0:33 UTC
7 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

Com­part­men­tal­iz­ing: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Abortion

Dias4 Jan 2015 23:48 UTC
36 points
80 comments14 min readLW link

Brag­ging Thread Jan­uary 2015

Gondolinian4 Jan 2015 18:54 UTC
6 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

In­verse re­la­tion­ship be­tween be­lief in foom and years worked in com­mer­cial software

NancyLebovitz4 Jan 2015 15:03 UTC
10 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Why do you re­ally be­lieve what you be­lieve re­gard­ing con­tro­ver­sial sub­jects?

iarwain14 Jan 2015 14:32 UTC
14 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

Prob­lems and Solu­tions in In­finite Ethics

Xodarap4 Jan 2015 14:06 UTC
13 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : [NYC] New Years Resolutions

Raemon4 Jan 2015 7:27 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ten­ta­tive Thoughts on the Cost Effec­tive­ness of the SENS Foundation

Fluttershy4 Jan 2015 2:58 UTC
8 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Graph­i­cal As­sump­tion Modeling

ozziegooen3 Jan 2015 20:22 UTC
32 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

What are the thoughts of Less Wrong on prop­erty du­al­ism?

casebash3 Jan 2015 13:24 UTC
2 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Par­si­mony as a side dish—a game to play on mee­tups?

[deleted]3 Jan 2015 9:29 UTC
3 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

The Su­per­star Effect

Adam Zerner3 Jan 2015 6:11 UTC
12 points
53 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Ar­gu­ment from Silence

RobinZ3 Jan 2015 5:13 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Non-ob­vi­ous skills with highly mea­surable progress?

robot-dreams3 Jan 2015 0:23 UTC
21 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow: bayes, lan­guage and psy­chol­ogy, now with homework

BT_Uytya2 Jan 2015 23:46 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Mon­treal Less Wrong/​Effec­tive Altru­ism − 8, 760 hours: Set­ting goals for 2015

bartimaeus2 Jan 2015 22:20 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link]How to Achieve Im­pos­si­ble Ca­reer Goals (My man­i­festo on in­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity)

[deleted]2 Jan 2015 20:46 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bos­ton: Antifragile

Anders_H2 Jan 2015 20:04 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek2 Jan 2015 16:34 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] Neu­ral net­works trained on ex­pert Go games have just made a ma­jor leap

ESRogs2 Jan 2015 15:48 UTC
24 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Brain-cen­tred­ness and mind uploading

gedymin2 Jan 2015 12:23 UTC
24 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing Who You Really Are

ozziegooen2 Jan 2015 8:44 UTC
10 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup

rocurley2 Jan 2015 0:46 UTC
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Vienna

AnnaLeptikon1 Jan 2015 21:09 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Jan­uary 1-15

therufs1 Jan 2015 17:43 UTC
6 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA—What Is FAI?

OpenThreadGuy1 Jan 2015 17:35 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link