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

MalcolmOceanFeb 20, 2016, 11:25 PM
36 points
14 comments5 min readLW link

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

johnlawrenceaspdenFeb 20, 2016, 11:20 PM
10 points
36 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don ra­tio­nal­ish meetup, 2016-02-21

philhFeb 20, 2016, 2:09 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekFeb 19, 2016, 4:50 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekFeb 19, 2016, 2:46 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

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

AlgernoqFeb 19, 2016, 11:02 AM
6 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup

TukFeb 19, 2016, 5:12 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Post­ing to Main cur­rently disabled

VaniverFeb 19, 2016, 3:55 AM
37 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

LINK: Videogame with a very de­tailed simu­lated universe

polymathwannabeFeb 19, 2016, 3:04 AM
6 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

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

jessicataFeb 19, 2016, 12:42 AM
6 points
50 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : San An­to­nio Meetup

Bryan-sanFeb 18, 2016, 9:52 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 18, 2016, 2:37 PM
10 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow meetup: Ham­ming cir­cle, Fal­la­cy­ma­nia, Tower of Chaos

Slava MatyukhinFeb 18, 2016, 12:06 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area Meetup: Fu­tur­ol­ogy /​ Open Discussion

iarwain1Feb 17, 2016, 8:24 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The ethics of eat­ing meat

[deleted]Feb 17, 2016, 7:03 PM
15 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

A scheme for safely han­dling a mix­ture of good and bad predictors

jessicataFeb 17, 2016, 5:35 AM
0 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Cri­tique on my at­tempt to teach rationality

Bound_upFeb 17, 2016, 4:17 AM
4 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

The Value of Those in Effec­tive Altruism

Gleb_TsipurskyFeb 17, 2016, 12:59 AM
18 points
14 comments13 min readLW link

A pos­si­ble train­ing pro­ce­dure for hu­man-imitators

jessicataFeb 16, 2016, 10:43 PM
4 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

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

Alexander230Feb 16, 2016, 8:41 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow 2nd LW group meetup

Alexander230Feb 16, 2016, 8:34 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Should we ad­mit it when a per­son/​group is “bet­ter” than an­other per­son/​group?

Adam ZernerFeb 16, 2016, 9:43 AM
−3 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : MelbLW So­cial Meetup: Feb 2016

MaelinFeb 16, 2016, 8:27 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Fun & Games

RobinZFeb 16, 2016, 2:48 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Cologne meetup

EGIFeb 15, 2016, 11:49 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Unoffi­cial Canon on Ap­plied Rationality

ScottLFeb 15, 2016, 1:03 PM
65 points
32 comments23 min readLW link

Less Wrong Karma Chart Website

ScottLFeb 15, 2016, 12:36 PM
36 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread Feb 16 - Feb 23, 2016

EloFeb 15, 2016, 2:12 AM
10 points
105 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Vienna

AnnaLeptikonFeb 14, 2016, 1:47 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Med­i­cal Mys­tery: Thy­roid Hor­mones, Chronic Fa­tigue and Fibromyalgia

johnlawrenceaspdenFeb 14, 2016, 1:14 PM
43 points
166 comments23 min readLW link

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

contravariantFeb 14, 2016, 8:38 AM
7 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Fe­bru­ary 2016

NoSignalNoNoiseFeb 14, 2016, 1:55 AM
7 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Cheer­ful one-lin­ers and dis­jointed anecdotes

[deleted]Feb 13, 2016, 7:40 PM
10 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Defiance

So8resFeb 13, 2016, 8:00 AM
19 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

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

Gram_StoneFeb 13, 2016, 6:04 AM
15 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekFeb 12, 2016, 4:41 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Where does our com­mu­nity dis­agree about mean­ingful is­sues?

ChristianKlFeb 12, 2016, 11:34 AM
28 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Na­tional Por­trait Gallery/​Amer­i­can Art Museum

RobinZFeb 11, 2016, 7:17 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Things that can go wrong with de­com­posed modules

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 11, 2016, 12:29 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—March

luminosityFeb 11, 2016, 9:24 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Projects

rocurleyFeb 11, 2016, 6:13 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LessWrong Sao Paulo monthly meetup

leohmarrudaFeb 11, 2016, 1:39 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ann Ar­bor Meetup, 2/​19/​16

Bound_upFeb 11, 2016, 12:28 AM
2 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part T: Science and Rationality

Gram_StoneFeb 10, 2016, 11:40 PM
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Proof Length and Log­i­cal Coun­ter­fac­tu­als Revisited

orthonormalFeb 10, 2016, 6:56 PM
3 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

this is a test

_rpdFeb 10, 2016, 1:16 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Brain Preser­va­tion Foun­da­tion’s Small Mam­malian Brain Prize won

gwernFeb 9, 2016, 9:02 PM
71 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

Reli­gious and Ra­tional?

Gleb_TsipurskyFeb 9, 2016, 8:12 PM
1 point
86 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : Quan­tum Homeschooling

JoshuaFoxFeb 9, 2016, 9:30 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Is Spiritu­al­ity Ir­ra­tional?

lisperFeb 9, 2016, 1:42 AM
1 point
430 comments3 min readLW link