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Fact Posts: How and Why

sarahconstantin2 Dec 2016 18:55 UTC

257 points

34 comments3 min readLW link

“Flinching away from truth” is often about protecting the epistemology

AnnaSalamon20 Dec 2016 18:39 UTC

222 points

58 comments7 min readLW link

Is Caviar a Risk Factor For Being a Millionaire?

Anders_H9 Dec 2016 16:27 UTC

67 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Making intentions concrete—Trigger-Action Planning

Kaj_Sotala1 Dec 2016 20:34 UTC

67 points

30 comments4 min readLW link

How does personality vary across US cities?

JonahS20 Dec 2016 8:00 UTC

66 points

16 comments6 min readLW link

Be secretly wrong

Benquo10 Dec 2016 7:06 UTC

66 points

46 comments3 min readLW link

Further discussion of CFAR’s focus on AI safety, and the good things folks wanted from “cause neutrality”

AnnaSalamon12 Dec 2016 19:39 UTC

64 points

38 comments5 min readLW link

CFAR’s new focus, and AI Safety

AnnaSalamon3 Dec 2016 18:09 UTC

51 points

88 comments3 min readLW link

Prediction-based medicine (PBM)

ChristianKl29 Dec 2016 22:49 UTC

45 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

How I use Anki to learn mathematics

ArthurRainbow7 Dec 2016 22:29 UTC

39 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

A quick note on weirdness points and Solstices [And also random other Solstice discussion]

Raemon21 Dec 2016 17:29 UTC

38 points

85 comments1 min readLW link

The engineer and the diplomat

Benquo27 Dec 2016 20:49 UTC

35 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Circles of discussion

Paul Crowley16 Dec 2016 4:35 UTC

33 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

2016: a year in review in science

Elo11 Dec 2016 5:01 UTC

29 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

The Partial Control Fallacy

Darmani14 Dec 2016 2:57 UTC

28 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Triaging mental phenomena or: leveling up the stack trace skill

RomeoStevens23 Dec 2016 0:15 UTC

28 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Downvotes temporarily disabled

Vaniver1 Dec 2016 17:31 UTC

27 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Improve comments by tagging claims

Benquo20 Dec 2016 17:04 UTC

26 points

40 comments5 min readLW link

A different argument against Universal Basic Income

chaosmage28 Dec 2016 22:35 UTC

26 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Land war in Asia

Apprentice7 Dec 2016 19:31 UTC

26 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

The challenge of writing Utopia

Stuart_Armstrong24 Dec 2016 17:35 UTC

26 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Feature Wish List for LessWrong

sarahconstantin17 Dec 2016 21:10 UTC

25 points

82 comments1 min readLW link

Extortion and trade negotiations

Stuart_Armstrong17 Dec 2016 21:39 UTC

23 points

28 comments3 min readLW link

Expected Error, or how wrong you expect to be

ozziegooen24 Dec 2016 22:49 UTC

21 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

Combining Prediction Technologies to Help Moderate Discussions

Wei Dai8 Dec 2016 0:19 UTC

21 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Community needs, individual needs, and a model of adult development

Vaniver17 Dec 2016 0:18 UTC

21 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Beware of identifying with schools of thought

ChristianKl5 Dec 2016 0:30 UTC

20 points

32 comments4 min readLW link

Optimizing the news feed

paulfchristiano1 Dec 2016 23:23 UTC

20 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Which areas of rationality are underexplored? - Discussion Thread

casebash1 Dec 2016 22:05 UTC

19 points

69 comments1 min readLW link

Canons (What are they good for?)

Benquo13 Dec 2016 21:34 UTC

18 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

Exploration-Exploitation problems

Elo28 Dec 2016 1:33 UTC

18 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Crowdsourcing moderation without sacrificing quality

paulfchristiano2 Dec 2016 21:47 UTC

18 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Bioelectronic medicine: a very brief overview

sarahconstantin22 Dec 2016 4:03 UTC

18 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Custom games that involve skills related to rationality

Alexander23022 Dec 2016 21:03 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Discussion of LW in Ezra Klein podcast [starts 47:40]

Scott Alexander7 Dec 2016 23:22 UTC

17 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(itunes.apple.com)

“What is Wrong With our Thoughts” -David Stove (1991)

NatashaRostova8 Dec 2016 1:27 UTC

16 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(web.maths.unsw.edu.au)

In memory of Thomas Schelling

Qiaochu_Yuan13 Dec 2016 22:17 UTC

16 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(publicpolicy.umd.edu)

Pursuing convergent instrumental subgoals on the user’s behalf doesn’t always require good priors

jessicata30 Dec 2016 2:36 UTC

15 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

CFAR’s new mission statement (on our website)

AnnaSalamon10 Dec 2016 8:37 UTC

15 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(www.rationality.org)

Rationality 101 (An Intro Post to the Rationalist-Sphere for Friends: Kahneman, LW, etc.)

lifelonglearner17 Dec 2016 22:13 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(mindlevelup.wordpress.com)

Wikipedia usage survey results

VipulNaik25 Dec 2016 13:55 UTC

14 points

17 comments35 min readLW link

2016 AI Risk Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks15 Dec 2016 0:19 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(effective-altruism.com)

I’m Not An Effective Altruist Because I Prefer...

ozymandias28 Dec 2016 22:39 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

Guilt vs Shame, Pride vs Joy?

ProofOfLogic19 Dec 2016 20:00 UTC

12 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

If Prison Were a Disease, How Bad Would It Be?

sarahconstantin7 Dec 2016 21:46 UTC

11 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Unfortunate Information

NatashaRostova6 Dec 2016 5:31 UTC

11 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Traditions and Rationality.

NatashaRostova10 Dec 2016 5:08 UTC

11 points

33 comments4 min readLW link

Are you being p-hacked? Time to hack back.

Jacob Falkovich20 Dec 2016 16:57 UTC

10 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

IEEE released the first draft of their AI ethics guide

c0rw1n14 Dec 2016 13:30 UTC

10 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(standards.ieee.org)

50 things I learned at NIPS AI and machine learning conference 2016

morganism26 Dec 2016 20:50 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(blog.ought.com)