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The Importance of Sidekicks
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Jan 8, 2015, 11:21 PM
245
points
209
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow LW lecture centre meetup: The New Foundation
Alexander230
Jan 8, 2015, 8:07 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
2015 Repository Reruns—Boring Advice Repository
TrE
Jan 8, 2015, 6:00 PM
24
points
80
comments
1
min read
LW
link
controlling AI behavior through unusual axiomatic probabilities
Florian_Dietz
Jan 8, 2015, 5:00 PM
5
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Programming-like activities?
robot-dreams
Jan 8, 2015, 12:37 AM
11
points
77
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Comments on “When Bayesian Inference Shatters”?
Crystalist
Jan 7, 2015, 10:56 PM
12
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The decline of violence as a lens for understanding effective altruism
alwhite
Jan 7, 2015, 5:16 PM
8
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Some recent evidence against the Big Bang
JStewart
Jan 7, 2015, 5:06 AM
10
points
66
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Exams and Overfitting
robot-dreams
Jan 6, 2015, 7:35 PM
17
points
47
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Brussels—Mindfulness and mental habits
Roxolan
Jan 6, 2015, 1:39 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Low Hanging fruit for buying a better life
taryneast
Jan 6, 2015, 10:11 AM
38
points
208
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—How bad statistics can ruin your life
luminosity
Jan 6, 2015, 7:49 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Superintelligence 17: Multipolar scenarios
KatjaGrace
Jan 6, 2015, 6:44 AM
9
points
38
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Meta Meetup
RobinZ
Jan 6, 2015, 2:34 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Meetup—January
taryneast
Jan 5, 2015, 10:56 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What does being x% on board with the program of a movement mean?
Sarunas
Jan 5, 2015, 9:20 PM
3
points
15
comments
4
min read
LW
link
2014 Survey Results
Scott Alexander
Jan 5, 2015, 7:36 PM
128
points
283
comments
16
min read
LW
link
How much does consumption affect production?
Timothy Telleen-Lawton
Jan 5, 2015, 3:51 PM
7
points
60
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Open thread Jan. 5-11, 2015
polymathwannabe
Jan 5, 2015, 12:48 PM
5
points
152
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Negative polyamory outcomes?
atorm
Jan 5, 2015, 12:25 PM
27
points
104
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Dallas, TX
DubiousTwizzler
Jan 5, 2015, 4:54 AM
3
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Negative Polyamory outcomes?
atorm
Jan 5, 2015, 12:33 AM
7
points
56
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Compartmentalizing: Effective Altruism and Abortion
Dias
Jan 4, 2015, 11:48 PM
36
points
80
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Bragging Thread January 2015
Gondolinian
Jan 4, 2015, 6:54 PM
6
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Inverse relationship between belief in foom and years worked in commercial software
NancyLebovitz
Jan 4, 2015, 3:03 PM
10
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why do you really believe what you believe regarding controversial subjects?
iarwain1
Jan 4, 2015, 2:32 PM
14
points
38
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Problems and Solutions in Infinite Ethics
Xodarap
Jan 4, 2015, 2:06 PM
13
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Meetup : [NYC] New Years Resolutions
Raemon
Jan 4, 2015, 7:27 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Tentative Thoughts on the Cost Effectiveness of the SENS Foundation
Fluttershy
Jan 4, 2015, 2:58 AM
8
points
21
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Graphical Assumption Modeling
ozziegooen
Jan 3, 2015, 8:22 PM
32
points
23
comments
5
min read
LW
link
What are the thoughts of Less Wrong on property dualism?
casebash
Jan 3, 2015, 1:24 PM
2
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Parsimony as a side dish—a game to play on meetups?
[deleted]
Jan 3, 2015, 9:29 AM
3
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Superstar Effect
Adam Zerner
Jan 3, 2015, 6:11 AM
12
points
53
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Argument from Silence
RobinZ
Jan 3, 2015, 5:13 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Non-obvious skills with highly measurable progress?
robot-dreams
Jan 3, 2015, 12:23 AM
20
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow: bayes, language and psychology, now with homework
BT_Uytya
Jan 2, 2015, 11:46 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Montreal Less Wrong/Effective Altruism − 8, 760 hours: Setting goals for 2015
bartimaeus
Jan 2, 2015, 10:20 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link]How to Achieve Impossible Career Goals (My manifesto on instrumental rationality)
[deleted]
Jan 2, 2015, 8:46 PM
12
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Boston: Antifragile
Anders_H
Jan 2, 2015, 8:04 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Jan 2, 2015, 4:34 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Link] Neural networks trained on expert Go games have just made a major leap
ESRogs
Jan 2, 2015, 3:48 PM
24
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Brain-centredness and mind uploading
gedymin
Jan 2, 2015, 12:23 PM
24
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Understanding Who You Really Are
ozziegooen
Jan 2, 2015, 8:44 AM
10
points
21
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup
rocurley
Jan 2, 2015, 12:46 AM
2
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Rationality Meetup Vienna
AnnaLeptikon
Jan 1, 2015, 9:09 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Group Rationality Diary, January 1-15
therufs
Jan 1, 2015, 5:43 PM
6
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : West LA—What Is FAI?
OpenThreadGuy
1 Jan 2015 17:35 UTC
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Overpaying for happiness?
cousin_it
1 Jan 2015 12:22 UTC
50
points
67
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Paris LW Meetup—LHC Exhibit − 17/01/2015
kilobug
1 Jan 2015 12:22 UTC
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Paris LW Meetup—LHC Exhibit
kilobug
1 Jan 2015 12:17 UTC
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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