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

Gleb_TsipurskyJan 9, 2015, 5:57 PM
10 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Ques­tions of Rea­son­ing un­der Log­i­cal Uncertainty

So8resJan 9, 2015, 5:37 PM
29 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Memes and Ra­tional Decisions

inferentialJan 9, 2015, 6:42 AM
35 points
18 comments10 min readLW link

The Im­por­tance of Sidekicks

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Jan 8, 2015, 11:21 PM
245 points
209 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow LW lec­ture cen­tre meetup: The New Foundation

Alexander230Jan 8, 2015, 8:07 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

2015 Re­pos­i­tory Reruns—Bor­ing Ad­vice Repository

TrEJan 8, 2015, 6:00 PM
24 points
80 comments1 min readLW link

con­trol­ling AI be­hav­ior through un­usual ax­io­matic probabilities

Florian_DietzJan 8, 2015, 5:00 PM
5 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­gram­ming-like ac­tivi­ties?

robot-dreamsJan 8, 2015, 12:37 AM
11 points
77 comments1 min readLW link

Com­ments on “When Bayesian In­fer­ence Shat­ters”?

CrystalistJan 7, 2015, 10:56 PM
12 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

The de­cline of vi­o­lence as a lens for un­der­stand­ing effec­tive altruism

alwhiteJan 7, 2015, 5:16 PM
8 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Some re­cent ev­i­dence against the Big Bang

JStewartJan 7, 2015, 5:06 AM
10 points
66 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­ams and Overfitting

robot-dreamsJan 6, 2015, 7:35 PM
17 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Brus­sels—Mind­ful­ness and men­tal habits

RoxolanJan 6, 2015, 1:39 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Low Hang­ing fruit for buy­ing a bet­ter life

taryneastJan 6, 2015, 10:11 AM
38 points
208 comments1 min readLW link

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

luminosityJan 6, 2015, 7:49 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 17: Mul­tipo­lar scenarios

KatjaGraceJan 6, 2015, 6:44 AM
9 points
38 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Meta Meetup

RobinZJan 6, 2015, 2:34 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Meetup—January

taryneastJan 5, 2015, 10:56 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

SarunasJan 5, 2015, 9:20 PM
3 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

2014 Sur­vey Results

Scott AlexanderJan 5, 2015, 7:36 PM
128 points
283 comments16 min readLW link

How much does con­sump­tion af­fect pro­duc­tion?

Timothy Telleen-LawtonJan 5, 2015, 3:51 PM
7 points
60 comments3 min readLW link

Open thread Jan. 5-11, 2015

polymathwannabeJan 5, 2015, 12:48 PM
5 points
152 comments1 min readLW link

Nega­tive polyamory out­comes?

atormJan 5, 2015, 12:25 PM
27 points
104 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Dal­las, TX

DubiousTwizzlerJan 5, 2015, 4:54 AM
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Nega­tive Polyamory out­comes?

atormJan 5, 2015, 12:33 AM
7 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

Com­part­men­tal­iz­ing: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Abortion

DiasJan 4, 2015, 11:48 PM
36 points
80 comments14 min readLW link

Brag­ging Thread Jan­uary 2015

GondolinianJan 4, 2015, 6:54 PM
6 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

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

NancyLebovitzJan 4, 2015, 3:03 PM
10 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

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

iarwain1Jan 4, 2015, 2:32 PM
14 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

Prob­lems and Solu­tions in In­finite Ethics

XodarapJan 4, 2015, 2:06 PM
13 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : [NYC] New Years Resolutions

RaemonJan 4, 2015, 7:27 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ten­ta­tive Thoughts on the Cost Effec­tive­ness of the SENS Foundation

FluttershyJan 4, 2015, 2:58 AM
8 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Graph­i­cal As­sump­tion Modeling

ozziegooenJan 3, 2015, 8:22 PM
32 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

What are the thoughts of Less Wrong on prop­erty du­al­ism?

casebashJan 3, 2015, 1:24 PM
2 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

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

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

The Su­per­star Effect

Adam ZernerJan 3, 2015, 6:11 AM
12 points
53 comments6 min readLW link

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

RobinZJan 3, 2015, 5:13 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Non-ob­vi­ous skills with highly mea­surable progress?

robot-dreamsJan 3, 2015, 12:23 AM
20 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

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

BT_UytyaJan 2, 2015, 11:46 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

bartimaeusJan 2, 2015, 10:20 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

[deleted]Jan 2, 2015, 8:46 PM
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bos­ton: Antifragile

Anders_HJan 2, 2015, 8:04 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekJan 2, 2015, 4:34 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

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

ESRogsJan 2, 2015, 3:48 PM
24 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Brain-cen­tred­ness and mind uploading

gedyminJan 2, 2015, 12:23 PM
24 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing Who You Really Are

ozziegooenJan 2, 2015, 8:44 AM
10 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup

rocurleyJan 2, 2015, 12:46 AM
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Vienna

AnnaLeptikonJan 1, 2015, 9:09 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Jan­uary 1-15

therufsJan 1, 2015, 5:43 PM
6 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA—What Is FAI?

OpenThreadGuyJan 1, 2015, 5:35 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link