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making notes—an instrumental rationality process.
Elo
Sep 5, 2015, 10:51 PM
25
points
20
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Link] Rationality-informed approaches in the media
Gleb_Tsipursky
Sep 5, 2015, 4:09 PM
13
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rudimentary Categorization of Less Wrong Topics
ScottL
Sep 5, 2015, 7:32 AM
39
points
4
comments
49
min read
LW
link
Meetup : West LA: Fiction Considered Harmful
abramdemski
Sep 5, 2015, 3:48 AM
2
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Sep 5, 2015, 2:39 AM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why Don’t Rationalists Win?
Adam Zerner
Sep 5, 2015, 12:57 AM
11
points
118
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Lesswrong real time chat
Elo
Sep 4, 2015, 2:29 AM
27
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Boston Meetup
NoSignalNoNoise
Sep 4, 2015, 1:46 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Antidote to Pascal’s Wager
Strange7
Sep 4, 2015, 12:41 AM
−12
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Vladimir Slepnev talks about logical counterfactuals
Squark
Sep 3, 2015, 6:29 PM
13
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Actually existing prediction markets?
Douglas_Knight
Sep 2, 2015, 10:24 PM
16
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Stupid Questions September 2015
polymathwannabe
Sep 2, 2015, 6:26 PM
8
points
175
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bragging thread September 2015
polymathwannabe
Sep 2, 2015, 6:24 PM
8
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rough utility estimates and clarifying questions
[deleted]
Sep 2, 2015, 12:55 PM
4
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Should there be more people on the leaderboard?
casebash
Sep 2, 2015, 11:52 AM
4
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015
elharo
Sep 2, 2015, 9:25 AM
7
points
482
comments
1
min read
LW
link
No Good Logical Conditional Probability
Scott Garrabrant
Sep 2, 2015, 3:25 AM
6
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Antonio Meetup
Bryan-san
Sep 2, 2015, 1:21 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: What If
RobinZ
Sep 2, 2015, 1:01 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
September 2015 Media Thread
ArisKatsaris
Sep 1, 2015, 10:42 PM
6
points
54
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Yudkowsky, Thiel, de Grey, Vassar panel on changing the world
NancyLebovitz
Sep 1, 2015, 3:57 PM
20
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Typical Sneer Fallacy
calef
Sep 1, 2015, 3:13 AM
16
points
44
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meta post: Did something go wrong?
Elo
Aug 31, 2015, 10:58 PM
7
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An accidental experiment in location memory
PhilGoetz
Aug 31, 2015, 4:50 PM
16
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Proper posture for mental arts
Valentine
Aug 31, 2015, 2:29 AM
62
points
42
comments
8
min read
LW
link
My future posts; a table of contents.
Elo
Aug 30, 2015, 10:27 PM
31
points
11
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Open Thread August 31 - September 6
Elo
Aug 30, 2015, 9:26 PM
9
points
326
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Optimal predictor schemes pass a Benford test
Vanessa Kosoy
Aug 30, 2015, 1:25 PM
4
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
online AI solving numerical IQ tests at rate 140IQ
IAFF-User-103
Aug 30, 2015, 11:37 AM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(iqsolver.eu)
Deworming a movement
[deleted]
Aug 30, 2015, 9:25 AM
−9
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Group Rationality Diary, August 30 - September 12
Dahlen
Aug 30, 2015, 6:11 AM
7
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
There are no “bad people”
So8res
Aug 30, 2015, 3:00 AM
21
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(mindingourway.com)
Provability Counterfactuals vs Three Axioms of Galles and Pearl
IAFF-User-52
Aug 30, 2015, 2:48 AM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(epsilonofdoom.blogspot.com)
Work in the Mainstream CS community: Communicating Meaning Under Uncertainty
IAFF-User-90
Aug 29, 2015, 11:22 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(people.csail.mit.edu)
Obstacle to modal optimality when you’re being modalized
orthonormal
Aug 29, 2015, 8:41 PM
4
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Rationality Compendium: Principle 2 - You are implemented on a human brain
ScottL
Aug 29, 2015, 4:24 PM
11
points
5
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Asymptotic Logical Uncertainty: Irreducible Patterns
Scott Garrabrant
Aug 28, 2015, 10:00 PM
4
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Calling references: Rational or irrational?
PhilGoetz
Aug 28, 2015, 9:06 PM
14
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Worst Case Bayes: Open Problems
Scott Garrabrant
Aug 28, 2015, 8:28 PM
0
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Two-Update Problem: Monotonicity
Scott Garrabrant
Aug 28, 2015, 8:28 PM
3
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games
RobinZ
Aug 28, 2015, 8:12 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Maximize Worst Case Bayes Score
Scott Garrabrant
Aug 28, 2015, 6:56 PM
0
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
New LW Meetup: Rochester NY
FrankAdamek
Aug 28, 2015, 4:49 PM
7
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Is my brain a utility minimizer? Or, the mechanics of labeling things as “work” vs. “fun”
contravariant
Aug 28, 2015, 1:12 AM
14
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Projects
maia
Aug 27, 2015, 3:05 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Discussions on Determining Between Right and Wrong
APXAS
Aug 27, 2015, 8:12 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Words per person year and intellectual rigor
PhilGoetz
Aug 27, 2015, 3:31 AM
19
points
26
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Rationality Reading Group: Part H: Against Doublethink
Gram_Stone
Aug 27, 2015, 1:22 AM
13
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Efficient charity: you don’t need to be an altruist to benefit from contributing to charity
Ilverin the Stupid and Offensive
Aug 26, 2015, 10:27 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Regular Moscow meetup: copyright debates, culture keynote, working on beliefs, attribution error
Slava Matyukhin
Aug 26, 2015, 7:15 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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