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Short Story: Quarantine
Dias
Jun 10, 2015, 1:21 AM
28
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
When does heritable low fitness need to be explained?
DanArmak
Jun 10, 2015, 12:05 AM
27
points
147
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Opinion piece on the Swedish Network for Evidence-Based Policy
Stefan_Schubert
Jun 9, 2015, 9:13 PM
11
points
21
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Joy of Bias
estimator
Jun 9, 2015, 7:04 PM
23
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How much do we know about creativity?
NancyLebovitz
Jun 9, 2015, 12:43 PM
16
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Support for book on finding terminal goals and higher purpose
Gleb_Tsipursky
Jun 9, 2015, 3:38 AM
6
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Optimizing the Twelve Virtues of Rationality
Gleb_Tsipursky
Jun 9, 2015, 3:08 AM
36
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Visit Museums
RobinZ
Jun 9, 2015, 2:32 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : São Paulo, Brazil—Meetup at Base Sociedade Colaborativa
Gust
Jun 9, 2015, 1:47 AM
4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Help needed: nice AIs and presidential deaths
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 8, 2015, 4:47 PM
1
point
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Lesswrong, Effective Altruism Forum and Slate Star Codex: Harm Reduction
diegocaleiro
Jun 8, 2015, 4:37 PM
21
points
153
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Value of Information
rocurley
Jun 8, 2015, 6:14 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Conceptual Specialization of Labor Enables Precision
Vaniver
Jun 8, 2015, 2:11 AM
30
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, Jun. 8 - Jun. 14, 2015
Gondolinian
Jun 8, 2015, 12:04 AM
7
points
156
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reason Poetry: f(me.0)
Philosophist
Jun 7, 2015, 10:12 PM
0
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LW-cologne Meetup
EGI
Jun 7, 2015, 9:14 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LW London regular meetup
Leonhart
Jun 7, 2015, 5:36 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Taking Effective Altruism Seriously
Salemicus
Jun 7, 2015, 6:59 AM
3
points
125
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Structural Risk Minimization
abramdemski
Jun 7, 2015, 3:40 AM
3
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : West LA—Big Numbers
Scott Garrabrant
Jun 7, 2015, 3:39 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Your “shoulds” are not a duty
So8res
Jun 7, 2015, 3:00 AM
25
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
(mindingourway.com)
Measuredly better than measurably worse: tightening methodology reports
[deleted]
Jun 6, 2015, 10:10 PM
6
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Agent Simulates Predictor using Second-Level Oracles
orthonormal
Jun 6, 2015, 10:08 PM
5
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Tel Aviv Meetup: Social & Board Games
JoshuaFox
Jun 6, 2015, 6:32 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[link] Baidu cheats in an AI contest in order to gain a 0.24% advantage
Wei Dai
Jun 6, 2015, 6:39 AM
20
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Agency is bugs and uncertainty
Shmi
Jun 6, 2015, 4:53 AM
20
points
30
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Against Tulip Subsidies
Scott Alexander
Jun 6, 2015, 4:19 AM
60
points
5
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Palatable presentation of rationality to the layperson
Bound_up
Jun 6, 2015, 1:47 AM
5
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Jun 5, 2015, 3:06 PM
4
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LessWrong Scotland
cjb230
Jun 5, 2015, 11:31 AM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The lymphatic system is found to connect to the Central Nervous System
ChristianKl
Jun 5, 2015, 9:32 AM
10
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
SSC Discussion: No Time Like The Present For AI Safety Work
tog
Jun 5, 2015, 2:34 AM
8
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link]: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
turchin
Jun 4, 2015, 8:47 PM
13
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Are conferences an inefficient/terrible discussion forum (in addition to academic papers)?
InquilineKea
Jun 4, 2015, 7:14 PM
7
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Munich June Meetup
jasticE
Jun 4, 2015, 12:27 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Taking the reins at MIRI
So8res
Jun 3, 2015, 11:52 PM
95
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Summary of my Participation in the Good Judgment Project
Gunnar_Zarncke
Jun 3, 2015, 9:51 PM
13
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Simultaneous Overconfidence and Underconfidence
abramdemski
Jun 3, 2015, 9:04 PM
37
points
6
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Perceptual Entropy and Frozen Estimates
Davidmanheim
Jun 3, 2015, 7:27 PM
23
points
22
comments
6
min read
LW
link
FAI Research Constraints and AGI Side Effects
JustinShovelain
Jun 3, 2015, 7:25 PM
27
points
59
comments
7
min read
LW
link
A tractable, interpretable formulation of approximate conditioning for pairwise-specified probability distributions over truth values
János Kramár
Jun 3, 2015, 7:08 PM
3
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
In Defense of the Fundamental Attribution Error
OrphanWilde
Jun 3, 2015, 6:46 PM
13
points
28
comments
3
min read
LW
link
An Oracle standard trick
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 3, 2015, 2:25 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An Oracle standard trick
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 3, 2015, 2:17 PM
7
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Systemic review of antidepressants vs placebo commentary
michael_b
Jun 3, 2015, 12:40 PM
1
point
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
…And I Show You How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes
Scott Alexander
3 Jun 2015 1:47 UTC
255
points
15
comments
21
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Dallas, TX
DubiousTwizzler
3 Jun 2015 0:35 UTC
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Social class amongst the intellectually gifted
JonahS
2 Jun 2015 23:02 UTC
15
points
61
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A Proposal for Defeating Moloch in the Prison Industrial Complex
lululu
2 Jun 2015 22:03 UTC
33
points
77
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games
RobinZ
2 Jun 2015 20:43 UTC
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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