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Can anyone be rational and not vegan?
Sophivorus
Nov 23, 2016, 8:16 PM
−18
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(en.wikiversity.org)
Polarization is the problem, “normalization” is the answer
Jacob Falkovich
Nov 23, 2016, 5:40 PM
10
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Industry Matters 2: Partial Retraction
sarahconstantin
Nov 23, 2016, 5:08 PM
14
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Climbing the Horseshoe
Jacob Falkovich
Nov 23, 2016, 2:54 AM
3
points
0
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Video using humor to spread rationality
Gleb_Tsipursky
Nov 23, 2016, 2:18 AM
−11
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
Less costly signaling
paulfchristiano
Nov 22, 2016, 9:11 PM
30
points
38
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(sideways-view.com)
Synthetic supermicrobe will be resistant to all known viruses
James_Miller
Nov 22, 2016, 4:40 AM
6
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.newscientist.com)
Wireheading Done Right: Stay Positive Without Going Insane
9eB1
Nov 22, 2016, 3:16 AM
10
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(qualiacomputing.com)
Stopping killer robots, Killer Robots as cultural techniques
morganism
Nov 22, 2016, 12:02 AM
−1
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(ics.sagepub.com)
Mismatched Vocabularies
Error
Nov 21, 2016, 5:55 PM
7
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Irrationality is the worst problem in politics
Gleb_Tsipursky
Nov 21, 2016, 4:53 PM
−21
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.psychologytoday.com)
Meetup : Meetup #7 - Becoming Less Wrong
null
Nov 21, 2016, 4:50 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On Risk of Viral Infections from Chlorella
SquirrelInHell
Nov 21, 2016, 12:46 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)
Open thread, Nov. 21 - Nov. 27 − 2016
MrMind
Nov 21, 2016, 7:47 AM
4
points
71
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dialectic algorithm—For calculating if an argument is sustained or refuted
Sophivorus
Nov 20, 2016, 9:06 PM
2
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(en.wikiversity.org)
Sample means, how do they work?
Benquo
Nov 20, 2016, 9:04 PM
34
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Vestibular Stimulation and Fat Loss
sarahconstantin
Nov 20, 2016, 12:23 AM
10
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Why Power Women Are Micro-Dosing LSD at Work
morganism
Nov 19, 2016, 11:31 PM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.marieclaire.com)
EMdrive paper published, nearly identical to leaked draft.
morganism
Nov 19, 2016, 9:30 PM
−1
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Industry Matters
sarahconstantin
Nov 19, 2016, 7:29 AM
9
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Meetup : Seattle Secular Solstice
agilecaveman
Nov 18, 2016, 10:00 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Baltimore Area / UMBC Weekly Meetup
iarwain1
Nov 18, 2016, 5:30 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Kidney Trade: A Dialectic
Gram_Stone
Nov 18, 2016, 5:19 PM
9
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Nov 18, 2016, 4:55 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Terminally ill teen won historic ruling to preserve body
NancyLebovitz
Nov 18, 2016, 2:16 PM
14
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.bbc.com)
Group rationality—bridging the gap in a post-truth world
rosyatrandom
Nov 18, 2016, 1:44 PM
5
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Clusters in creationspace
KatjaGrace
Nov 18, 2016, 3:19 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Cooking
RobinZ
Nov 18, 2016, 12:39 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Elderly discovered with superior memory and Alzheimer’s pathology
morganism
Nov 17, 2016, 8:32 PM
5
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(sciencebulletin.org)
Meetup : Arrow theorem, LW goals and plans, rational review
Slava Matyukhin
Nov 17, 2016, 7:39 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Solstices 2016 in UK (Dec 3rd) Seattle/Boston (Dec 10th) and Bay/NYC (Dec 17th)
Raemon
Nov 17, 2016, 5:29 AM
4
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality Heuristic for Bias Detection: Updating Towards the Net Weight of Evidence
gwern
Nov 17, 2016, 2:51 AM
17
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
Flip Flops, part 1 of ∞
Jacob Falkovich
Nov 16, 2016, 10:53 PM
1
point
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
The Post-Virtual-Reality Sadness
morganism
Nov 16, 2016, 8:17 AM
13
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: FallacyMania, Tower of Chaos, Training Game Party
Alexander230
16 Nov 2016 4:58 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(Non-)Interruptibility of Sarsa(λ) and Q-Learning
rmoehn
16 Nov 2016 4:22 UTC
3
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(nbviewer.jupyter.org)
Unifying stuff is hard
KatjaGrace
16 Nov 2016 1:54 UTC
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
An algorithm with preferences: from zero to one variable
Stuart_Armstrong
15 Nov 2016 15:14 UTC
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Online Learning 3: Adversarial bandit learning with catastrophes
RyanCarey
14 Nov 2016 22:58 UTC
3
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Maine passes Ranked Choice Voting
morganism
14 Nov 2016 20:07 UTC
10
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(ballotpedia.org)
Open thread, Nov. 14 - Nov. 20, 2016
MrMind
14 Nov 2016 7:51 UTC
6
points
101
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Communication is violent by nature
Djini_Hendrix
14 Nov 2016 6:36 UTC
−32
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
VARIABILITY OF NUCLEAR DECAY RATES
morganism
13 Nov 2016 23:57 UTC
1
point
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Embed, encode, attend, predict: The new deep learning formula for state-of-the-art NLP models
morganism
12 Nov 2016 21:33 UTC
9
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(explosion.ai)
How did experiments with lucid dreaming pan out?
listic
12 Nov 2016 20:40 UTC
8
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Matching donation fundraisers can be harmfully dishonest.
Benquo
11 Nov 2016 21:05 UTC
18
points
6
comments
14
min read
LW
link
The Developmental Role of Play
Gordon Seidoh Worley
11 Nov 2016 19:41 UTC
12
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
On Trying Not To Be Wrong
sarahconstantin
11 Nov 2016 19:25 UTC
31
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
11 Nov 2016 18:47 UTC
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Group Debugging
rocurley
11 Nov 2016 17:04 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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