Effec­tive Giv­ing vs. Effec­tive Altruism

Gleb_TsipurskyDec 14, 2015, 11:49 PM
10 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] Video of a pre­sen­ta­tion by Hal Arkes, one of the top world ex­perts in de­bi­as­ing, on deal­ing with the hind­sight bias and overconfidence

Gleb_TsipurskyDec 14, 2015, 6:16 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Open thread, Dec. 14 - Dec. 20, 2015

MrMindDec 14, 2015, 8:09 AM
8 points
90 comments1 min readLW link

State of the Sols­tice (NYC Event up­com­ing)

RaemonDec 14, 2015, 6:33 AM
8 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

State of the Sols­tice (NY Event Up­com­ing)

RaemonDec 14, 2015, 6:30 AM
15 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Com­mu­ni­cat­ing con­cepts in value learning

ManfredDec 14, 2015, 3:06 AM
7 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Board Games

rocurleyDec 14, 2015, 1:18 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Es­ti­mate the Cost of Immortality

AlgernoqDec 13, 2015, 11:38 AM
−3 points
115 comments1 min readLW link

This year’s biggest sci­en­tific achievements

EloDec 13, 2015, 5:26 AM
16 points
29 comments3 min readLW link

Re­sults of a One-Year Lon­gi­tu­di­nal Study of CFAR Alumni

UnnamedDec 12, 2015, 4:39 AM
53 points
35 comments31 min readLW link

Con­cise Open Prob­lem in Log­i­cal Uncertainty

Scott GarrabrantDec 12, 2015, 3:03 AM
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] In­tro­duc­ing OpenAI

BaughnDec 11, 2015, 9:54 PM
34 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Ben­ford Test with Gaps

Scott GarrabrantDec 11, 2015, 9:40 PM
4 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekDec 11, 2015, 4:58 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Com­putable Univer­sal Prior

Ronny FernandezDec 11, 2015, 9:54 AM
0 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

List of tech­niques to help you re­mem­ber names

EloDec 11, 2015, 12:41 AM
17 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup

TukDec 10, 2015, 10:48 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow so­cial meetup: Chaos is back!

Alexander230Dec 10, 2015, 6:31 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Fal­la­cyMa­nia game in Kocherga club

Alexander230Dec 10, 2015, 5:47 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­is­tence of dis­tri­bu­tions that are ex­pec­ta­tion-re­flec­tive and know it

TsviBTDec 10, 2015, 7:35 AM
6 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

[Link] 10 Tips from CFAR: My Busi­ness In­sider article

James_MillerDec 10, 2015, 2:09 AM
29 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI’s 2015 Win­ter Fundraiser!

So8resDec 9, 2015, 7:00 PM
43 points
23 comments7 min readLW link

Why startup founders have mood swings (and why they may have uses)

AnnaSalamonDec 9, 2015, 6:59 PM
105 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

LessWrong 2.0

VaniverDec 9, 2015, 6:59 PM
127 points
313 comments8 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Shar­ing Book Excerpts

RobinZDec 9, 2015, 3:08 PM
2 points
1,913 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San An­to­nio Meetup: Goal Fac­tor­ing Discussion

Bryan-sanDec 9, 2015, 3:08 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meetup Ra­cional­i­dade São Paulo

leohmarrudaDec 8, 2015, 2:57 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

LINK: Most of EvoPsych is pseudoscience

polymathwannabeDec 8, 2015, 12:53 AM
−1 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Reflec­tive Prob­a­bil­ity Distri­bu­tions and Stan­dard Models of Arithmetic

IAFF-User-4Dec 7, 2015, 10:04 PM
4 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Magic: Ini­ti­a­tion into the Cult of Rationatron

wizardDec 7, 2015, 9:39 PM
16 points
47 comments5 min readLW link

NIPS 2015

Dr_ManhattanDec 7, 2015, 8:31 PM
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Max­i­miz­ing Dona­tions to Effec­tive Char­i­ties

Gleb_TsipurskyDec 7, 2015, 6:13 PM
9 points
29 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area Meetup

iarwain1Dec 7, 2015, 4:39 PM
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, De­cem­ber 7-13, 2015

polymathwannabeDec 7, 2015, 2:47 PM
8 points
224 comments1 min readLW link

Eng­ineer­ing Religion

KevinGrant_duplicate0.2409764628391713Dec 7, 2015, 1:34 PM
−2 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Mark Zucker­berg plans to give away 99% of his face­book wealth over his lifetime

ChristianKlDec 7, 2015, 12:28 AM
8 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

New year’s re­s­olu­tions: Things worth con­sid­er­ing for next year

EloDec 7, 2015, 12:09 AM
9 points
41 comments6 min readLW link

time­less quan­tum immortality

AlgernoqDec 6, 2015, 4:14 AM
3 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Ob­vi­ous advice

So8resDec 6, 2015, 2:00 AM
21 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

My re­search pri­ori­ties for AI con­trol

paulfchristianoDec 6, 2015, 1:57 AM
29 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The map of dou­ble sce­nar­ios of a global catastrophe

turchinDec 5, 2015, 1:36 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

EA as offsetting

KatjaGraceDec 5, 2015, 3:06 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekDec 4, 2015, 4:37 PM
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Ra­tion­al­ity Diary

rocurleyDec 4, 2015, 7:20 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Strict Dom­i­nance for the Mod­ified Dem­ski Prior

abramdemskiDec 4, 2015, 5:57 AM
13 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney solstice

EloDec 4, 2015, 3:19 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Huffing­ton Post ar­ti­cle pro­mot­ing Effec­tive Altru­ist ideas

Gleb_TsipurskyDec 4, 2015, 2:02 AM
7 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

So­cial games

KatjaGraceDec 4, 2015, 2:00 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Start­ing Univer­sity Ad­vice Repository

Bryan-sanDec 3, 2015, 11:51 PM
17 points
94 comments1 min readLW link

Desider­ata for Normalizers

IAFF-User-4Dec 3, 2015, 8:45 PM
1 point
1 comment5 min readLW link