Seek­ing bet­ter name for “Effec­tive Ego­ism”

DataPacRat25 Nov 2016 22:31 UTC
14 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Re­vealed and Stated Identity

Gordon Seidoh Worley25 Nov 2016 20:17 UTC
9 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain125 Nov 2016 18:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek25 Nov 2016 16:56 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Old urine sam­ples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics show mas­sive cheating

James_Miller25 Nov 2016 2:31 UTC
1 point
15 comments1 min readLW link
(www.motherjones.com)

Home­land Se­cu­rity ver­sus En­vi­ron­men­tal Con­ser­va­tion:along the Ari­zona-Mex­ico Border

morganism25 Nov 2016 1:41 UTC
−3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.ajelp.com)

Search­ing for Life Across Space and Time, work­shop, Irv­ine, CA

morganism25 Nov 2016 0:52 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.eventbrite.com)

Can any­one be ra­tio­nal and not ve­gan?

Sophivorus23 Nov 2016 20:16 UTC
−18 points
25 comments1 min readLW link
(en.wikiversity.org)

Po­lariza­tion is the prob­lem, “nor­mal­iza­tion” is the answer

Jacob Falkovich23 Nov 2016 17:40 UTC
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

In­dus­try Mat­ters 2: Par­tial Retraction

sarahconstantin23 Nov 2016 17:08 UTC
14 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Climb­ing the Horseshoe

Jacob Falkovich23 Nov 2016 2:54 UTC
3 points
0 comments13 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Video us­ing hu­mor to spread rationality

Gleb_Tsipursky23 Nov 2016 2:18 UTC
−11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Less costly signaling

paulfchristiano22 Nov 2016 21:11 UTC
29 points
38 comments1 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Syn­thetic su­per­microbe will be re­sis­tant to all known viruses

James_Miller22 Nov 2016 4:40 UTC
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.newscientist.com)

Wire­head­ing Done Right: Stay Pos­i­tive Without Go­ing Insane

9eB122 Nov 2016 3:16 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(qualiacomputing.com)

Stop­ping kil­ler robots, Killer Robots as cul­tural techniques

morganism22 Nov 2016 0:02 UTC
−1 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(ics.sagepub.com)

Mis­matched Vocabularies

Error21 Nov 2016 17:55 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Ir­ra­tional­ity is the worst prob­lem in politics

Gleb_Tsipursky21 Nov 2016 16:53 UTC
−21 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.psychologytoday.com)

Meetup : Meetup #7 - Be­com­ing Less Wrong

null21 Nov 2016 16:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Risk of Viral In­fec­tions from Chlorella

SquirrelInHell21 Nov 2016 12:46 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Open thread, Nov. 21 - Nov. 27 − 2016

MrMind21 Nov 2016 7:47 UTC
4 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

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

Sophivorus20 Nov 2016 21:06 UTC
2 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(en.wikiversity.org)

Sam­ple means, how do they work?

Benquo20 Nov 2016 21:04 UTC
34 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Vestibu­lar Stim­u­la­tion and Fat Loss

sarahconstantin20 Nov 2016 0:23 UTC
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Why Power Women Are Micro-Dos­ing LSD at Work

morganism19 Nov 2016 23:31 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.marieclaire.com)

EM­drive pa­per pub­lished, nearly iden­ti­cal to leaked draft.

morganism19 Nov 2016 21:30 UTC
−1 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

In­dus­try Matters

sarahconstantin19 Nov 2016 7:29 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Meetup : Seat­tle Sec­u­lar Solstice

agilecaveman18 Nov 2016 22:00 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain118 Nov 2016 17:30 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Kid­ney Trade: A Dialectic

Gram_Stone18 Nov 2016 17:19 UTC
9 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek18 Nov 2016 16:55 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Ter­mi­nally ill teen won his­toric rul­ing to pre­serve body

NancyLebovitz18 Nov 2016 14:16 UTC
14 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.bbc.com)

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

rosyatrandom18 Nov 2016 13:44 UTC
5 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Clusters in creationspace

KatjaGrace18 Nov 2016 3:19 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Cooking

RobinZ18 Nov 2016 0:39 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Elderly dis­cov­ered with su­pe­rior mem­ory and Alzheimer’s pathology

morganism17 Nov 2016 20:32 UTC
5 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(sciencebulletin.org)

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

berekuk17 Nov 2016 19:39 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Raemon17 Nov 2016 5:29 UTC
4 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

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

gwern17 Nov 2016 2:51 UTC
17 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Flip Flops, part 1 of ∞

Jacob Falkovich16 Nov 2016 22:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

The Post-Vir­tual-Real­ity Sadness

morganism16 Nov 2016 8:17 UTC
13 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

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

Alexander23016 Nov 2016 4:58 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

rmoehn16 Nov 2016 4:22 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(nbviewer.jupyter.org)

Unify­ing stuff is hard

KatjaGrace16 Nov 2016 1:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

An al­gorithm with prefer­ences: from zero to one variable

Stuart_Armstrong15 Nov 2016 15:14 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

On­line Learn­ing 3: Ad­ver­sar­ial ban­dit learn­ing with catastrophes

RyanCarey14 Nov 2016 22:58 UTC
3 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Maine passes Ranked Choice Voting

morganism14 Nov 2016 20:07 UTC
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(ballotpedia.org)

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

MrMind14 Nov 2016 7:51 UTC
6 points
101 comments1 min readLW link

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion is vi­o­lent by nature

Djini_Hendrix14 Nov 2016 6:36 UTC
−32 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

VARIABILITY OF NUCLEAR DECAY RATES

morganism13 Nov 2016 23:57 UTC
1 point
4 comments2 min readLW link