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We Should Introduce Ourselves Differently
NancyLebovitz
May 18, 2015, 8:48 PM
76
points
80
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mistakes I’ve made part 3: Poor sacrificial accounting
KatjaGrace
May 18, 2015, 7:33 PM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The ganch gamble
[deleted]
May 18, 2015, 6:43 PM
13
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Strategies and tools for getting through a break up
lululu
May 18, 2015, 6:01 PM
63
points
45
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Which ideas from LW would you most like to see spread?
NancyLebovitz
May 18, 2015, 2:12 PM
22
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, May 18 - May 24, 2015
Gondolinian
May 18, 2015, 12:01 AM
7
points
176
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Canberra: Deep Learning
DanielFilan
May 17, 2015, 9:34 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Twelve Virtues of Rationality
Zvi
May 17, 2015, 5:47 PM
2
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
You don’t get to know what you’re fighting for
So8res
May 17, 2015, 3:00 AM
20
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(mindingourway.com)
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Group debugging
rocurley
May 16, 2015, 6:09 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Meetup—September
taryneast
May 16, 2015, 12:17 AM
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Meetup—August
taryneast
May 16, 2015, 12:16 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Meetup—July
taryneast
May 16, 2015, 12:15 AM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Meetup—June
taryneast
May 16, 2015, 12:14 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Meetup—May
taryneast
May 16, 2015, 12:13 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games
RobinZ
May 15, 2015, 9:09 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An Informal Conjecture on Proof Length and Logical Counterfactuals
Scott Garrabrant
May 15, 2015, 8:31 PM
7
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
New LW Meetup: Oslo
FrankAdamek
May 15, 2015, 5:23 PM
7
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
In a world… of venture capital
Zvi
May 15, 2015, 2:02 PM
6
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Los Angeles: Growth Mindset
abramdemski
May 14, 2015, 9:40 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Subsuming Purpose, Part II: Solving the Solution
OrphanWilde
May 14, 2015, 7:25 PM
11
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Trolley Problems: Conveniently Inconvenient Worlds Considered
Zvi
May 14, 2015, 6:51 PM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : ‘The Most Good Good You Can Do’ (Effective Altruism meetup)
SoerenMind
May 14, 2015, 6:32 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mistakes I’ve made, part 2: Father Christmas
KatjaGrace
May 14, 2015, 6:31 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : London meetup
philh
May 14, 2015, 5:35 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to come to a rational believe about whether someone has a crush on yo
[deleted]
May 14, 2015, 12:10 PM
−11
points
94
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Less Wrong Podcast Queries
Cariyaga
May 14, 2015, 11:52 AM
6
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LW survey: Effective Altruists and donations
gwern
May 14, 2015, 12:44 AM
28
points
38
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[link] Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes
Gunnar_Zarncke
May 13, 2015, 9:11 PM
17
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow: game theory, test for solving mind-body problem, brainstorm on rationality exercises
Slava Matyukhin
May 13, 2015, 7:54 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Team New York City
Zvi
May 13, 2015, 6:57 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mistakes I’ve made, part 1: greedy altruism
KatjaGrace
May 13, 2015, 6:14 PM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Link] Promoting rationality in higher education media channels
Gleb_Tsipursky
May 13, 2015, 4:51 PM
8
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Warsaw: Newcomb’s Problem & Decision Theories
mkf
May 13, 2015, 1:52 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LW should go into mainstream academia ?
Marlon
May 13, 2015, 1:23 PM
7
points
57
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Death with Dignity by Scott Adams
Gunnar_Zarncke
May 12, 2015, 9:34 PM
7
points
92
comments
1
min read
LW
link
PA+100 cannot always predict modal UDT
jessicata
May 12, 2015, 8:26 PM
3
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
What is stupid?
Zvi
May 12, 2015, 3:05 PM
1
point
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Wild Moral Dilemmas
sixes_and_sevens
May 12, 2015, 12:56 PM
30
points
106
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on minimizing designer baby drama
John_Maxwell
May 12, 2015, 11:22 AM
26
points
195
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A heuristic for predicting minor depression in others and myself, and related things
[deleted]
May 12, 2015, 8:24 AM
3
points
35
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Optimal and Causal Counterfactual Worlds
Scott Garrabrant
May 12, 2015, 3:16 AM
14
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
A complexity theoretic approach to logical uncertainty (Draft)
Vanessa Kosoy
May 11, 2015, 8:04 PM
7
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.overleaf.com)
Meetup : Rationality Meetup Vienna
AnnaLeptikon
May 11, 2015, 6:26 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : MelbLW Social Meetup—May 2015
Maelin
May 11, 2015, 12:49 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—Intuitive Bayes
luminosity
May 11, 2015, 10:53 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
MIRIx Stanford report
jessicata
May 11, 2015, 6:11 AM
2
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, May 11 - May 17, 2015
Gondolinian
May 11, 2015, 12:16 AM
6
points
247
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bragging Thread May 2015
Morendil
May 10, 2015, 1:25 PM
10
points
42
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Looking to restart Madison LW meetups, in need of regulars
wobster109
May 10, 2015, 3:20 AM
9
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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