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Keep Your Identity Fluid [LINK]
Peter_McIntyre
Mar 3, 2015, 3:10 AM
12
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[POLL] LessWrong group on YourMorals.org (2015)
gwern
Mar 3, 2015, 3:08 AM
20
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Superintelligence 25: Components list for acquiring values
KatjaGrace
Mar 3, 2015, 2:01 AM
11
points
12
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Announcement: The Sequences eBook will be released in mid-March
Rob Bensinger
Mar 3, 2015, 1:58 AM
69
points
45
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What Scarcity Is and Isn’t
[deleted]
Mar 3, 2015, 1:41 AM
13
points
22
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Proposal: Modeling goal stability in machine learning
orthonormal
Mar 3, 2015, 1:31 AM
2
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Rationality Quotes Thread March 2015
Vaniver
Mar 2, 2015, 11:38 PM
9
points
235
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Announcing the Complice Less Wrong Study Hall
MalcolmOcean
Mar 2, 2015, 11:37 PM
75
points
19
comments
2
min read
LW
link
March 2015 Media Thread
ArisKatsaris
Mar 2, 2015, 6:51 PM
10
points
70
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Towards a theory of nerds… who suffer.
[deleted]
Mar 2, 2015, 5:11 PM
−16
points
116
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Mar. 2 - Mar. 8, 2015
MrMind
Mar 2, 2015, 8:19 AM
6
points
156
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : HPMOR/Other media discussion
rocurley
Mar 2, 2015, 5:35 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : App Academy Discussion
Danny_Hintze
Mar 2, 2015, 4:52 AM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Imagining Scarcity
[deleted]
Mar 2, 2015, 1:43 AM
16
points
56
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Effective Altruism Meetup Vienna
AnnaLeptikon
Mar 1, 2015, 9:33 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Rationality Meetup Vienna
AnnaLeptikon
Mar 1, 2015, 9:29 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Rationality Meetup Vienna
AnnaLeptikon
Mar 1, 2015, 9:27 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—Skill Training Part 2
luminosity
Mar 1, 2015, 9:08 PM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The mystery of pain and pleasure
johnsonmx
Mar 1, 2015, 7:47 PM
6
points
44
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Followup: Sequences book reading group
iarwain1
Mar 1, 2015, 5:37 PM
9
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Death, Existentialism, and AI
BereczFereng
Mar 1, 2015, 5:13 PM
−1
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 113
Gondolinian
Feb 28, 2015, 8:23 PM
12
points
508
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LessWrong Scotland
cjb230
Feb 28, 2015, 7:05 PM
2
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Probability of coming into existence again ?
pzwczzx
Feb 28, 2015, 12:02 PM
8
points
11
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Best of Rationality Quotes, 2014 Edition
DanielVarga
Feb 27, 2015, 10:43 PM
19
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
In memory of Leonard Nimoy, most famous for playing the (straw) rationalist Spock, what are your top 3 ST:TOS episodes with him?
Shmi
Feb 27, 2015, 8:57 PM
14
points
40
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Frankfurt Pub Social
Kendra
Feb 27, 2015, 8:48 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Algorithm aversion
Stefan_Schubert
Feb 27, 2015, 7:26 PM
27
points
31
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Feb 27, 2015, 4:26 PM
5
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What subjects are important to rationality, but not covered in Less Wrong?
casebash
Feb 27, 2015, 11:57 AM
30
points
66
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : West LA: The Substitution Principle
abramdemski
Feb 27, 2015, 8:43 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Seattle Sequences group: Mysterious Answers 3
SeekingEternity
Feb 27, 2015, 7:54 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow meetup: phenomenological analysis, methods of creativity, lightning talks
Slava Matyukhin
Feb 26, 2015, 12:44 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
If you can see the box, you can open the box
ThePrussian
Feb 26, 2015, 10:36 AM
83
points
108
comments
5
min read
LW
link
“Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning”—computer learns 49 different games
skeptical_lurker
Feb 26, 2015, 6:21 AM
19
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: What If Scenarios
RobinZ
Feb 26, 2015, 1:42 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Are Cognitive Biases Design Flaws?
[deleted]
Feb 25, 2015, 9:02 PM
1
point
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 112
Gondolinian
Feb 25, 2015, 9:00 PM
7
points
290
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 111
b_sen
Feb 25, 2015, 6:52 PM
5
points
174
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Journal ‘Basic and Applied Psychology’ bans p<0.05 and 95% confidence intervals
Jonathan_Graehl
Feb 25, 2015, 5:15 PM
19
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Does hormetism work? Opponent process theory.
[deleted]
Feb 25, 2015, 2:00 PM
12
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Umbc meetup
Ronny Fernandez
Feb 25, 2015, 4:00 AM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 110
Gondolinian
Feb 24, 2015, 8:01 PM
5
points
112
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Israel: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Pi Day Wrap Party
JoshuaFox
Feb 24, 2015, 7:07 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Saving for the long term
Adam Zerner
Feb 24, 2015, 3:33 AM
12
points
38
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Superintelligence 24: Morality models and “do what I mean”
KatjaGrace
24 Feb 2015 2:00 UTC
13
points
47
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 109
Gondolinian
23 Feb 2015 20:05 UTC
9
points
162
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A quick heuristic for evaluating elites (or anyone else)
[deleted]
23 Feb 2015 16:22 UTC
6
points
19
comments
4
min read
LW
link
GCRI: Updated Strategy and AMA on EA Forum next Tuesday
RyanCarey
23 Feb 2015 12:35 UTC
9
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Announcing LessWrong Digest
Evan_Gaensbauer
23 Feb 2015 10:41 UTC
35
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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