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

paulfchristiano26 Nov 2016 22:29 UTC

45 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Nassim Taleb on Election Forecasting

NatashaRostova26 Nov 2016 19:06 UTC

13 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

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