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How to escape from your sandbox and from your hardware host
PhilGoetz
Jul 31, 2015, 5:26 PM
43
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Jul 31, 2015, 3:54 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How to win the World Food Prize
[deleted]
Jul 31, 2015, 11:12 AM
8
points
30
comments
2
min read
LW
link
MIRI’s Approach
So8res
Jul 30, 2015, 8:03 PM
50
points
59
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Minimal intuitionistic logic as a setting for logical counterfactuals
Quinn
Jul 30, 2015, 6:06 PM
4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.overleaf.com)
Meetup : Australia-wide Online Hangout—August
Calien
Jul 30, 2015, 5:07 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Wear a Helmet While Driving a Car
James_Miller
Jul 30, 2015, 4:36 PM
99
points
118
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The horrifying importance of domain knowledge
NancyLebovitz
Jul 30, 2015, 3:28 PM
24
points
238
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Magnetic rings (the most mediocre superpower) A review.
Elo
Jul 30, 2015, 1:23 PM
52
points
34
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Help Build a Landing Page for Existential Risk?
Mass_Driver
Jul 30, 2015, 6:03 AM
18
points
32
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Don’t You Care If It Works? - Part 2
Jacob Falkovich
Jul 30, 2015, 12:22 AM
24
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Rationality Reading Group: Part F: Politics and Rationality
Gram_Stone
Jul 29, 2015, 10:22 PM
14
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Regular Moscow meetup: effective altruism, debates, hypothesis formulation
Slava Matyukhin
Jul 29, 2015, 10:21 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Don’t You Care If It Works? - Part 1
Jacob Falkovich
Jul 29, 2015, 2:32 PM
8
points
60
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Infinite Modal Combat: some observations
János Kramár
Jul 29, 2015, 4:05 AM
3
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
State-Space of Background Assumptions
algekalipso
Jul 29, 2015, 12:22 AM
15
points
23
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Optical Illusions
RobinZ
Jul 28, 2015, 10:13 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Immortality Roadmap
turchin
Jul 28, 2015, 9:27 PM
20
points
27
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Bi-weekly Frankfurt Meetup
Janko
Jul 28, 2015, 6:53 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
The Dice Room, Human Extinction, and Consistency of Bayesian Probability Theory
ksvanhorn
Jul 28, 2015, 4:27 PM
4
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Short Talks
rocurley
Jul 28, 2015, 4:23 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Canberra: Guilt
DanielFilan
Jul 27, 2015, 9:39 AM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, Jul. 27 - Aug 02, 2015
MrMind
Jul 27, 2015, 7:16 AM
8
points
222
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Rationality Reading Group (65-70)
SeekingEternity
Jul 27, 2015, 5:30 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Logical Counterfactuals, Tel Aviv
JoshuaFox
Jul 27, 2015, 4:39 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Projects
rocurley
Jul 27, 2015, 4:26 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A problem with resource-bounded Solomonoff induction and unpredictable environments
jessicata
Jul 27, 2015, 3:03 AM
3
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Group rationality diary for July 12th—August 1st 2015
Gunnar_Zarncke
Jul 26, 2015, 11:31 PM
8
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
3 classifications of thinking, and a problem.
Elo
Jul 26, 2015, 3:33 PM
4
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : August Rationality Dojo: Decision Making
MelbourneLW
Jul 26, 2015, 8:35 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Astronomy, Astrobiology, & The Fermi Paradox I: Introductions, and Space & Time
CellBioGuy
Jul 26, 2015, 7:38 AM
61
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Be a new homunculus
So8res
Jul 26, 2015, 3:00 AM
20
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(mindingourway.com)
Catastrophe Engines: A possible resolution to the Fermi Paradox
snarles
Jul 25, 2015, 7:00 PM
−2
points
22
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LessWrong Meetup August: Correctness Heuristics
jasticE
Jul 25, 2015, 5:48 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
MIRI Fundraiser: Why now matters
So8res
Jul 24, 2015, 10:38 PM
41
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow LW lecture centre meetup
Alexander230
Jul 24, 2015, 7:46 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Test Driven Thinking
Adam Zerner
Jul 24, 2015, 6:38 PM
7
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New LW Meetups: Indianapolis, Kyiv
FrankAdamek
Jul 24, 2015, 3:27 PM
3
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Bayesian Reasoning—Explained Like You’re Five
Satoshi_Nakamoto
Jul 24, 2015, 3:59 AM
11
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
An example demonstrating how to deduce Bayes’ Theorem
Satoshi_Nakamoto
Jul 24, 2015, 3:58 AM
8
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Anyone in the Madison area who’d attend a talk on Acausal Trade on Sunday?
wobster109
Jul 24, 2015, 3:15 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
does there are any onther Rationalists in Quebec city
mrexpresso
Jul 24, 2015, 1:01 AM
−1
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Meta Meetup
RobinZ
Jul 23, 2015, 10:36 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Steelmaning AI risk critiques
Stuart_Armstrong
Jul 23, 2015, 10:01 AM
36
points
99
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Self-improvement without self-modification
Stuart_Armstrong
Jul 23, 2015, 9:59 AM
7
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(Rational) website design and cognitive aesthetics generally- why no uptake?
TimothyScriven
Jul 23, 2015, 5:32 AM
3
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A closer look at program based UDT
agilecaveman
Jul 23, 2015, 2:46 AM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.overleaf.com)
Asymptotic Logical Uncertainty: Concrete Failure of the Solomonoff Approach
Scott Garrabrant
Jul 22, 2015, 7:27 PM
13
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mathematics for AIXI and Gödel machine
Faustus2
Jul 22, 2015, 6:52 PM
1
point
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Welcome to Less Wrong! (8th thread, July 2015)
Sarunas
Jul 22, 2015, 4:49 PM
19
points
273
comments
6
min read
LW
link
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