Re­quire con­tri­bu­tions in advance

Viliam8 Feb 2016 12:55 UTC
92 points
27 comments7 min readLW link

The Brain Preser­va­tion Foun­da­tion’s Small Mam­malian Brain Prize won

gwern9 Feb 2016 21:02 UTC
72 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

Up­com­ing LW Changes

Vaniver3 Feb 2016 5:34 UTC
71 points
106 comments3 min readLW link

Unoffi­cial Canon on Ap­plied Rationality

ScottL15 Feb 2016 13:03 UTC
64 points
32 comments23 min readLW link

A Med­i­cal Mys­tery: Thy­roid Hor­mones, Chronic Fa­tigue and Fibromyalgia

johnlawrenceaspden14 Feb 2016 13:14 UTC
43 points
166 comments23 min readLW link

A Ra­tion­al­ist Guide to OkCupid

Jacob Falkovich3 Feb 2016 20:50 UTC
41 points
67 comments1 min readLW link

Post­ing to Main cur­rently disabled

Vaniver19 Feb 2016 3:55 UTC
37 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Less Wrong Karma Chart Website

ScottL15 Feb 2016 12:36 UTC
36 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

The Pink Sparkly Ball Thing (Use unique, non-ob­vi­ous terms for nu­anced con­cepts)

MalcolmOcean20 Feb 2016 23:25 UTC
36 points
14 comments5 min readLW link

Where does our com­mu­nity dis­agree about mean­ingful is­sues?

ChristianKl12 Feb 2016 11:34 UTC
28 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

Gam­ify your goals: How turn­ing your life into a game can help help you make bet­ter de­ci­sions and be more productive

BayesianMind3 Feb 2016 22:48 UTC
19 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

The Value of Those in Effec­tive Altruism

Gleb_Tsipursky17 Feb 2016 0:59 UTC
18 points
14 comments13 min readLW link

The map of global catas­trophic risks con­nected with biolog­i­cal weapons and ge­netic engineering

turchin22 Feb 2016 11:18 UTC
18 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Defiance

So8res13 Feb 2016 8:00 UTC
17 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Less­wrong Sur­vey—in­vi­ta­tion for suggestions

Elo8 Feb 2016 8:07 UTC
17 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

The ethics of eat­ing meat

[deleted]17 Feb 2016 19:03 UTC
15 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

Toy model: con­ver­gent in­stru­men­tal goals

Stuart_Armstrong25 Feb 2016 14:03 UTC
15 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

On ‘Why Global Poverty?’ and Ar­gu­ments from Unob­serv­able Impacts

Gram_Stone13 Feb 2016 6:04 UTC
15 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

Con­clu­sion of the Re­plac­ing Guilt series

So8res28 Feb 2016 3:00 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Con­vey­ing ra­tio­nal think­ing about long-term goals to youth and young adults

Gleb_Tsipursky7 Feb 2016 1:54 UTC
11 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Recklessness

So8res2 Feb 2016 2:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

How we will be measured

So8res21 Feb 2016 3:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Open Thread Feb 16 - Feb 23, 2016

Elo15 Feb 2016 2:12 UTC
10 points
105 comments1 min readLW link

Thy­roid Hor­mones, Chronic Fa­tigue and Fibromyal­gia: A Hy­poth­e­sis and a Pro­posed Experiment

johnlawrenceaspden20 Feb 2016 23:20 UTC
10 points
36 comments5 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread Fe­bru­ary 2016

elharo2 Feb 2016 18:17 UTC
10 points
97 comments1 min readLW link

Goal com­ple­tion: noise, er­rors, bias, prej­u­dice, prefer­ence and complexity

Stuart_Armstrong18 Feb 2016 14:37 UTC
10 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

Open Thread Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2016

Elo21 Feb 2016 21:14 UTC
10 points
229 comments1 min readLW link

Cheer­ful one-lin­ers and dis­jointed anecdotes

[deleted]13 Feb 2016 19:40 UTC
10 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

The Philo­soph­i­cal Im­pli­ca­tions of Quan­tum In­for­ma­tion Theory

lisper26 Feb 2016 2:00 UTC
9 points
55 comments3 min readLW link

Is al­tru­is­tic de­cep­tion re­ally nec­es­sary? So­cial ac­tivism and the free market

PhilGoetz26 Feb 2016 6:38 UTC
9 points
96 comments2 min readLW link

Open Thread, Feb 8 - Feb 15, 2016

Elo8 Feb 2016 4:47 UTC
9 points
224 comments1 min readLW link

Value learn­ers & wireheading

Manfred3 Feb 2016 9:50 UTC
9 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Open Thread Feb 29 - March 6, 2016

Elo28 Feb 2016 22:11 UTC
9 points
289 comments1 min readLW link

Re­quest for help with eco­nomic anal­y­sis re­lated to AI forecasting

ESRogs6 Feb 2016 1:27 UTC
9 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

If there IS alien su­per-in­teligence in our own galaxy, then what it could be like?

Coacher26 Feb 2016 11:55 UTC
8 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part U: Fake Preferences

Gram_Stone24 Feb 2016 23:29 UTC
8 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part T: Science and Rationality

Gram_Stone10 Feb 2016 23:40 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Fe­bru­ary 2016

NoSignalNoNoise14 Feb 2016 1:55 UTC
7 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Fe­bru­ary 2016 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris2 Feb 2016 0:20 UTC
6 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

Does Kol­mogorov com­plex­ity im­ply a bound on self-im­prov­ing AI?

contravariant14 Feb 2016 8:38 UTC
6 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

LINK: Videogame with a very de­tailed simu­lated universe

polymathwannabe19 Feb 2016 3:04 UTC
6 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Feb. 01 - Feb. 07, 2016

MrMind1 Feb 2016 8:24 UTC
6 points
178 comments1 min readLW link

Notes from a con­ver­sa­tion on act-based and goal-di­rected systems

jessicata19 Feb 2016 0:42 UTC
6 points
50 comments5 min readLW link

Goal set­ting jour­nal (March 2016)

[deleted]27 Feb 2016 9:39 UTC
6 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[spoilers] EY’s “A Girl Cor­rupted...?!” new story is an alle­gor­i­cal study of quan­tum im­mor­tal­ity?

Algernoq19 Feb 2016 11:02 UTC
6 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

If there was one el­e­ment of statis­ti­cal liter­acy that you could mag­i­cally im­plant in ev­ery head, what would it be?

enfascination22 Feb 2016 19:53 UTC
6 points
67 comments1 min readLW link

The AI That Pre­tends To Be Human

Houshalter2 Feb 2016 19:39 UTC
5 points
69 comments4 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion: weight­ing in­side view ver­sus out­side view on ex­tinc­tion events

Ilverin the Stupid and Offensive25 Feb 2016 5:18 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] How I Es­caped The Dark­ness of Men­tal Illness

Gleb_Tsipursky4 Feb 2016 23:08 UTC
5 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on Log­i­cal Dutch Book Arguments

abramdemski7 Feb 2016 23:10 UTC
4 points
0 comments9 min readLW link