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Can anyone be rational and not vegan?

SophivorusNov 23, 2016, 8:16 PM

−18 points

16 votes

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25 comments1 min readLW link

(en.wikiversity.org)

Polarization is the problem, “normalization” is the answer

Jacob FalkovichNov 23, 2016, 5:40 PM

10 points

7 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Industry Matters 2: Partial Retraction

sarahconstantinNov 23, 2016, 5:08 PM

14 points

8 votes

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3 comments5 min readLW link

Climbing the Horseshoe

Jacob FalkovichNov 23, 2016, 2:54 AM

3 points

3 votes

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0 comments13 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Video using humor to spread rationality

Gleb_TsipurskyNov 23, 2016, 2:18 AM

−11 points

9 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Less costly signaling

paulfchristianoNov 22, 2016, 9:11 PM

30 points

19 votes

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38 comments1 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Synthetic supermicrobe will be resistant to all known viruses

James_MillerNov 22, 2016, 4:40 AM

6 points

4 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.newscientist.com)

Wireheading Done Right: Stay Positive Without Going Insane

9eB1Nov 22, 2016, 3:16 AM

10 points

7 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(qualiacomputing.com)

Stopping killer robots, Killer Robots as cultural techniques

morganismNov 22, 2016, 12:02 AM

−1 points

2 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(ics.sagepub.com)

Mismatched Vocabularies

ErrorNov 21, 2016, 5:55 PM

7 points

5 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

Irrationality is the worst problem in politics

Gleb_TsipurskyNov 21, 2016, 4:53 PM

−21 points

15 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.psychologytoday.com)

Meetup : Meetup #7 - Becoming Less Wrong

nullNov 21, 2016, 4:50 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

On Risk of Viral Infections from Chlorella

SquirrelInHellNov 21, 2016, 12:46 PM

4 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Open thread, Nov. 21 - Nov. 27 − 2016

MrMindNov 21, 2016, 7:47 AM

4 points

2 votes

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71 comments1 min readLW link

Dialectic algorithm—For calculating if an argument is sustained or refuted

SophivorusNov 20, 2016, 9:06 PM

2 points

2 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

(en.wikiversity.org)

Sample means, how do they work?

BenquoNov 20, 2016, 9:04 PM

34 points

22 votes

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7 comments3 min readLW link

Vestibular Stimulation and Fat Loss

sarahconstantinNov 20, 2016, 12:23 AM

10 points

6 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Why Power Women Are Micro-Dosing LSD at Work

morganismNov 19, 2016, 11:31 PM

3 points

4 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.marieclaire.com)

EMdrive paper published, nearly identical to leaked draft.

morganismNov 19, 2016, 9:30 PM

−1 points

11 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

Industry Matters

sarahconstantinNov 19, 2016, 7:29 AM

9 points

8 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Meetup : Seattle Secular Solstice

agilecavemanNov 18, 2016, 10:00 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Baltimore Area / UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain1Nov 18, 2016, 5:30 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Kidney Trade: A Dialectic

Gram_StoneNov 18, 2016, 5:19 PM

9 points

6 votes

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3 comments6 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekNov 18, 2016, 4:55 PM

2 points

2 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Terminally ill teen won historic ruling to preserve body

NancyLebovitzNov 18, 2016, 2:16 PM

14 points

8 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.bbc.com)

Group rationality—bridging the gap in a post-truth world

rosyatrandomNov 18, 2016, 1:44 PM

5 points

3 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Clusters in creationspace

KatjaGraceNov 18, 2016, 3:19 AM

1 point

0 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Cooking

RobinZNov 18, 2016, 12:39 AM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Elderly discovered with superior memory and Alzheimer’s pathology

morganismNov 17, 2016, 8:32 PM

5 points

3 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

(sciencebulletin.org)

Meetup : Arrow theorem, LW goals and plans, rational review

Slava MatyukhinNov 17, 2016, 7:39 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Solstices 2016 in UK (Dec 3rd) Seattle/Boston (Dec 10th) and Bay/NYC (Dec 17th)

RaemonNov 17, 2016, 5:29 AM

4 points

2 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

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

gwernNov 17, 2016, 2:51 AM

17 points

11 votes

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1 comment8 min readLW link

Flip Flops, part 1 of ∞

Jacob FalkovichNov 16, 2016, 10:53 PM

1 point

0 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

The Post-Virtual-Reality Sadness

morganismNov 16, 2016, 8:17 AM

13 points

9 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: FallacyMania, Tower of Chaos, Training Game Party

Alexander230Nov 16, 2016, 4:58 AM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(Non-)Interruptibility of Sarsa(λ) and Q-Learning

rmoehnNov 16, 2016, 4:22 AM

3 points

2 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(nbviewer.jupyter.org)

Unifying stuff is hard

KatjaGraceNov 16, 2016, 1:54 AM

1 point

0 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

An algorithm with preferences: from zero to one variable

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 15, 2016, 3:14 PM

3 points

2 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Online Learning 3: Adversarial bandit learning with catastrophes

RyanCareyNov 14, 2016, 10:58 PM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments10 min readLW link

Maine passes Ranked Choice Voting

morganismNov 14, 2016, 8:07 PM

10 points

7 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

(ballotpedia.org)

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

MrMindNov 14, 2016, 7:51 AM

6 points

4 votes

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101 comments1 min readLW link

Communication is violent by nature

Djini_HendrixNov 14, 2016, 6:36 AM

−32 points

22 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

VARIABILITY OF NUCLEAR DECAY RATES

morganismNov 13, 2016, 11:57 PM

1 point

5 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

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

morganismNov 12, 2016, 9:33 PM

9 points

6 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(explosion.ai)

How did experiments with lucid dreaming pan out?

listicNov 12, 2016, 8:40 PM

8 points

5 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

Matching donation fundraisers can be harmfully dishonest.

BenquoNov 11, 2016, 9:05 PM

18 points

15 votes

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6 comments14 min readLW link

The Developmental Role of Play

Gordon Seidoh WorleyNov 11, 2016, 7:41 PM

12 points

5 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

(mapandterritory.org)

On Trying Not To Be Wrong

sarahconstantinNov 11, 2016, 7:25 PM

31 points

19 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekNov 11, 2016, 6:47 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Group Debugging

rocurleyNov 11, 2016, 5:04 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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