Opinion piece on the Swedish Net­work for Ev­i­dence-Based Policy

Stefan_SchubertJun 9, 2015, 9:13 PM
11 points
21 comments6 min readLW link

The Joy of Bias

estimatorJun 9, 2015, 7:04 PM
23 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

How much do we know about cre­ativity?

NancyLebovitzJun 9, 2015, 12:43 PM
16 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Sup­port for book on find­ing ter­mi­nal goals and higher purpose

Gleb_TsipurskyJun 9, 2015, 3:38 AM
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing the Twelve Virtues of Rationality

Gleb_TsipurskyJun 9, 2015, 3:08 AM
36 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Visit Museums

RobinZJun 9, 2015, 2:32 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : São Paulo, Brazil—Meetup at Base So­ciedade Colaborativa

GustJun 9, 2015, 1:47 AM
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Help needed: nice AIs and pres­i­den­tial deaths

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 8, 2015, 4:47 PM
1 point
24 comments1 min readLW link

Less­wrong, Effec­tive Altru­ism Fo­rum and Slate Star Codex: Harm Reduction

diegocaleiroJun 8, 2015, 4:37 PM
21 points
153 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Value of Information

rocurleyJun 8, 2015, 6:14 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Con­cep­tual Spe­cial­iza­tion of La­bor En­ables Precision

VaniverJun 8, 2015, 2:11 AM
30 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Open Thread, Jun. 8 - Jun. 14, 2015

GondolinianJun 8, 2015, 12:04 AM
7 points
156 comments1 min readLW link

Rea­son Poetry: f(me.0)

PhilosophistJun 7, 2015, 10:12 PM
0 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LW-cologne Meetup

EGIJun 7, 2015, 9:14 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Lon­don reg­u­lar meetup

LeonhartJun 7, 2015, 5:36 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Tak­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism Seriously

SalemicusJun 7, 2015, 6:59 AM
3 points
125 comments4 min readLW link

Struc­tural Risk Minimization

abramdemskiJun 7, 2015, 3:40 AM
3 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA—Big Numbers

Scott GarrabrantJun 7, 2015, 3:39 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Your “shoulds” are not a duty

So8resJun 7, 2015, 3:00 AM
25 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Mea­suredly bet­ter than mea­surably worse: tight­en­ing method­ol­ogy reports

[deleted]Jun 6, 2015, 10:10 PM
6 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Agent Si­mu­lates Pre­dic­tor us­ing Se­cond-Level Oracles

orthonormalJun 6, 2015, 10:08 PM
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Tel Aviv Meetup: So­cial & Board Games

JoshuaFoxJun 6, 2015, 6:32 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Baidu cheats in an AI con­test in or­der to gain a 0.24% advantage

Wei DaiJun 6, 2015, 6:39 AM
20 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Agency is bugs and uncertainty

ShmiJun 6, 2015, 4:53 AM
20 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

Against Tulip Subsidies

Scott AlexanderJun 6, 2015, 4:19 AM
60 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Palat­able pre­sen­ta­tion of ra­tio­nal­ity to the layperson

Bound_upJun 6, 2015, 1:47 AM
5 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekJun 5, 2015, 3:06 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : LessWrong Scotland

cjb230Jun 5, 2015, 11:31 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The lym­phatic sys­tem is found to con­nect to the Cen­tral Ner­vous System

ChristianKlJun 5, 2015, 9:32 AM
10 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

SSC Dis­cus­sion: No Time Like The Pre­sent For AI Safety Work

togJun 5, 2015, 2:34 AM
8 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[Link]: The Un­rea­son­able Effec­tive­ness of Re­cur­rent Neu­ral Networks

turchinJun 4, 2015, 8:47 PM
13 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Are con­fer­ences an in­effi­cient/​ter­rible dis­cus­sion fo­rum (in ad­di­tion to aca­demic pa­pers)?

InquilineKeaJun 4, 2015, 7:14 PM
7 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Mu­nich June Meetup

jasticEJun 4, 2015, 12:27 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Tak­ing the reins at MIRI

So8resJun 3, 2015, 11:52 PM
95 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Sum­mary of my Par­ti­ci­pa­tion in the Good Judg­ment Project

Gunnar_ZarnckeJun 3, 2015, 9:51 PM
13 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Si­mul­ta­neous Over­con­fi­dence and Underconfidence

abramdemskiJun 3, 2015, 9:04 PM
37 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Per­cep­tual En­tropy and Frozen Estimates

DavidmanheimJun 3, 2015, 7:27 PM
23 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

FAI Re­search Con­straints and AGI Side Effects

JustinShovelainJun 3, 2015, 7:25 PM
27 points
59 comments7 min readLW link

A tractable, in­ter­pretable for­mu­la­tion of ap­prox­i­mate con­di­tion­ing for pair­wise-speci­fied prob­a­bil­ity dis­tri­bu­tions over truth values

János KramárJun 3, 2015, 7:08 PM
3 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

In Defense of the Fun­da­men­tal At­tri­bu­tion Error

OrphanWildeJun 3, 2015, 6:46 PM
13 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

An Or­a­cle stan­dard trick

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 3, 2015, 2:25 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

An Or­a­cle stan­dard trick

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 3, 2015, 2:17 PM
7 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Sys­temic re­view of an­tide­pres­sants vs placebo commentary

michael_bJun 3, 2015, 12:40 PM
1 point
17 comments1 min readLW link

…And I Show You How Deep The Rab­bit Hole Goes

Scott AlexanderJun 3, 2015, 1:47 AM
252 points
15 comments21 min readLW link

Meetup : Dal­las, TX

DubiousTwizzlerJun 3, 2015, 12:35 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

So­cial class amongst the in­tel­lec­tu­ally gifted

JonahSJun 2, 2015, 11:02 PM
15 points
61 comments2 min readLW link

A Pro­posal for Defeat­ing Moloch in the Pri­son In­dus­trial Complex

lululuJun 2, 2015, 10:03 PM
33 points
77 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Fun & Games

RobinZJun 2, 2015, 8:43 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Con­fes­sion Thread: Mis­takes as an as­piring rationalist

diegocaleiroJun 2, 2015, 6:10 PM
25 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

LINK: Com­pe­ti­tion is toxic

polymathwannabeJun 2, 2015, 5:53 PM
−9 points
31 comments1 min readLW link