On the im­por­tance of Less Wrong, or an­other sin­gle con­ver­sa­tional locus

AnnaSalamonNov 27, 2016, 5:13 PM
178 points
365 comments4 min readLW link

Epistemic Effort

RaemonNov 29, 2016, 4:08 PM
72 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

The Pyra­mid And The Garden

Scott AlexanderNov 5, 2016, 6:03 AM
58 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

A Re­turn to Discussion

sarahconstantinNov 27, 2016, 1:59 PM
58 points
32 comments6 min readLW link

If we can’t lie to oth­ers, we will lie to ourselves

paulfchristianoNov 26, 2016, 10:29 PM
45 points
24 comments1 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Sam­ple means, how do they work?

BenquoNov 20, 2016, 9:04 PM
34 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

On Try­ing Not To Be Wrong

sarahconstantinNov 11, 2016, 7:25 PM
31 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Less costly signaling

paulfchristianoNov 22, 2016, 9:11 PM
30 points
38 comments1 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Up­date­less­ness and Son of X

Scott GarrabrantNov 4, 2016, 10:58 PM
29 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Yud­kowsky vs Trump: the nu­clear show­down.

MrMindNov 11, 2016, 11:30 AM
27 points
162 comments2 min readLW link

Crony Beliefs

plexNov 3, 2016, 8:54 PM
22 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(www.meltingasphalt.com)

Us­ing a Spread­sheet to Make Good De­ci­sions: Five Examples

Peter WildefordNov 28, 2016, 5:10 PM
22 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Match­ing dona­tion fundraisers can be harm­fully dishon­est.

BenquoNov 11, 2016, 9:05 PM
18 points
6 comments14 min readLW link

Re­cent AI con­trol posts

paulfchristianoNov 29, 2016, 6:53 PM
18 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Heuris­tic for Bias De­tec­tion: Up­dat­ing Towards the Net Weight of Evidence

gwernNov 17, 2016, 2:51 AM
17 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Ex­pert Pre­dic­tion Of Experiments

Scott AlexanderNov 29, 2016, 2:47 AM
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Men­tal Habits are Procedural

lifelonglearnerNov 7, 2016, 2:53 PM
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

In­dus­try Mat­ters 2: Par­tial Retraction

sarahconstantinNov 23, 2016, 5:08 PM
14 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Ter­mi­nally ill teen won his­toric rul­ing to pre­serve body

NancyLebovitzNov 18, 2016, 2:16 PM
14 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.bbc.com)

Seek­ing bet­ter name for “Effec­tive Ego­ism”

DataPacRatNov 25, 2016, 10:31 PM
14 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Re­but­tal piece by Stu­art Rus­sell and FHI Re­search As­so­ci­ate Allan Dafoe: “Yes, the ex­perts are wor­ried about the ex­is­ten­tial risk of ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence.”

crmflynnNov 3, 2016, 5:54 PM
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.technologyreview.com)

Nas­sim Taleb on Elec­tion Forecasting

NatashaRostovaNov 26, 2016, 7:06 PM
13 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Stand-up com­edy as a way to im­prove ra­tio­nal­ity skills

Andy_McKenzieNov 27, 2016, 9:52 PM
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

How can peo­ple write good LW ar­ti­cles?

abramdemskiNov 29, 2016, 10:40 AM
13 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

The Post-Vir­tual-Real­ity Sadness

morganismNov 16, 2016, 8:17 AM
13 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

The Devel­op­men­tal Role of Play

Gordon Seidoh WorleyNov 11, 2016, 7:41 PM
12 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Po­lariza­tion is the prob­lem, “nor­mal­iza­tion” is the answer

Jacob FalkovichNov 23, 2016, 5:40 PM
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Wire­head­ing Done Right: Stay Pos­i­tive Without Go­ing Insane

9eB1Nov 22, 2016, 3:16 AM
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(qualiacomputing.com)

Maine passes Ranked Choice Voting

morganismNov 14, 2016, 8:07 PM
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(ballotpedia.org)

Vestibu­lar Stim­u­la­tion and Fat Loss

sarahconstantinNov 20, 2016, 12:23 AM
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Find­ing slices of joy

Kaj_SotalaNov 28, 2016, 10:10 AM
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

FHI is ac­cept­ing ap­pli­ca­tions for in­tern­ships in the area of AI Safety and Re­in­force­ment Learning

crmflynnNov 7, 2016, 4:33 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)

Open thread, Nov. 7 - Nov. 13, 2016

MrMindNov 7, 2016, 8:01 AM
9 points
120 comments1 min readLW link

Kid­ney Trade: A Dialectic

Gram_StoneNov 18, 2016, 5:19 PM
9 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Re­vealed and Stated Identity

Gordon Seidoh WorleyNov 25, 2016, 8:17 PM
9 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Embed, en­code, at­tend, pre­dict: The new deep learn­ing for­mula for state-of-the-art NLP models

morganismNov 12, 2016, 9:33 PM
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(explosion.ai)

In­dus­try Matters

sarahconstantinNov 19, 2016, 7:29 AM
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Authen­tic­ity vs. fac­tual accuracy

philhNov 10, 2016, 10:24 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

How did ex­per­i­ments with lu­cid dream­ing pan out?

listicNov 12, 2016, 8:40 PM
8 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Did so­cial de­sir­a­bil­ity effects mask Trump’s true sup­port?

katydeeNov 10, 2016, 9:56 AM
8 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(themiddleofthatzone.wordpress.com)

Costs are not benefits

philhNov 3, 2016, 9:32 PM
8 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

In­crease Your Child’s Work­ing Memory

James_MillerNov 27, 2016, 9:57 PM
8 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Mis­matched Vocabularies

ErrorNov 21, 2016, 5:55 PM
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­ti­cles in Main

VaniverNov 29, 2016, 9:35 PM
7 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

My re­cent posts

paulfchristianoNov 29, 2016, 6:51 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dict­ing HCH us­ing ex­pert advice

jessicataNov 28, 2016, 3:38 AM
7 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

A failed at­tempt at Up­date­less­ness us­ing Univer­sal Inductors

Scott GarrabrantNov 3, 2016, 8:25 PM
7 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Open thread, Nov. 14 - Nov. 20, 2016

MrMindNov 14, 2016, 7:51 AM
6 points
101 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Nov. 28 - Dec. 04, 2016

MrMindNov 28, 2016, 7:40 AM
6 points
94 comments1 min readLW link

Syn­thetic su­per­microbe will be re­sis­tant to all known viruses

James_MillerNov 22, 2016, 4:40 AM
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.newscientist.com)