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“3 Reasons It’s Irrational to Demand ‘Rationalism’ in Social Justice Activism”
PhilGoetz
Mar 29, 2016, 3:16 PM
17
points
189
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Cooking
rocurley
Mar 29, 2016, 5:32 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Stories
rocurley
Mar 28, 2016, 3:14 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread March 28 - April 3 , 2016
[deleted]
Mar 28, 2016, 2:06 AM
11
points
70
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Predictor schemes with logarithmic advice
Vanessa Kosoy
Mar 27, 2016, 8:41 AM
2
points
2
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Abuse of Productivity Systems
SquirrelInHell
Mar 27, 2016, 5:32 AM
24
points
53
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)
[Video] The Essential Strategies To Debiasing From Academic Rationality
Gleb_Tsipursky
Mar 27, 2016, 3:04 AM
4
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What can we learn from Microsoft’s Tay, its inflammatory tweets, and its shutdown?
InquilineKea
Mar 26, 2016, 3:41 AM
0
points
41
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Baltimore Area / UMBC: Intro to LW and future of the meetup
iarwain1
Mar 25, 2016, 7:13 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Mar 25, 2016, 3:36 PM
3
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Why Cryonics Makes Sense—Wait But Why
Paul
Mar 25, 2016, 11:41 AM
22
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A most peculiar utility function
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 25, 2016, 10:05 AM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality Reading Group: Part W: Quantified Humanism
Gram_Stone
Mar 24, 2016, 3:48 AM
7
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup
Tuk
Mar 24, 2016, 1:15 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Singing
RobinZ
Mar 24, 2016, 1:11 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Price Of Glee In China
Scott Alexander
Mar 24, 2016, 12:12 AM
19
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
Perception of the Concrete vs Statistical: Corruption
Douglas_Knight
Mar 23, 2016, 1:19 AM
7
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Reflection with optimal predictors
Vanessa Kosoy
Mar 22, 2016, 5:20 PM
2
points
0
comments
14
min read
LW
link
In Defence of Simple Ideas That Explain Everything But Are Wrong
johnlawrenceaspden
Mar 22, 2016, 3:46 PM
16
points
53
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Ann Arbor Meetup—singing
Bound_up
Mar 22, 2016, 3:42 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : “What is the Intelligence Explosion?” (and more...) LW Melbourne dojo
Chriswaterguy
Mar 22, 2016, 1:11 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread March 21 - March 27, 2016
Gunnar_Zarncke
Mar 20, 2016, 7:54 PM
6
points
164
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Common Misconceptions about Dual Process Theories of Human Reasoning
Gram_Stone
Mar 19, 2016, 9:50 PM
23
points
16
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The increasing uselessness of Promoted
PhilGoetz
Mar 19, 2016, 6:23 PM
30
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Lesswrong Potential Changes
Elo
Mar 19, 2016, 12:24 PM
27
points
88
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Mar 18, 2016, 3:37 PM
3
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Genetic “Nature” is cultural too
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 18, 2016, 2:33 PM
13
points
39
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How It Feels to Improve My Rationality
SquirrelInHell
Mar 18, 2016, 9:59 AM
9
points
50
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Conjecture on Addiction to Meta-level Solutions
Gram_Stone
Mar 18, 2016, 4:13 AM
4
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: FallacyMania, Tower of Chaos, Training game
Alexander230
Mar 17, 2016, 7:15 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : MelbLW Social Meetup: Mar 2016
Maelin
Mar 17, 2016, 6:53 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Link: Evidence-Based Medicine Has Been Hijacked
Anders_H
Mar 16, 2016, 7:57 PM
33
points
39
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : London rationalish meetup − 2016-03-20
philh
Mar 16, 2016, 2:39 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How I infiltrated the Raëlians (and was hugged by their leader)
SquirrelInHell
Mar 16, 2016, 5:45 AM
26
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Board Games
maia
Mar 16, 2016, 2:01 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Game Theory
RobinZ
Mar 16, 2016, 1:40 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Newsjacking for Rationality and Effective Altruism
Gleb_Tsipursky
Mar 15, 2016, 9:58 PM
23
points
16
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Rationality Vienna Meetup
AnnaLeptikon
Mar 15, 2016, 7:11 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Group Debugging
maia
Mar 14, 2016, 2:37 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Mar. 14 - Mar. 20, 2016
MrMind
Mar 14, 2016, 8:02 AM
8
points
213
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Thyroid Madness : Core Argument, Evidence, Probabilities and Predictions
johnlawrenceaspden
Mar 14, 2016, 1:41 AM
20
points
137
comments
20
min read
LW
link
Look for Lone Correct Contrarians
Gram_Stone
Mar 13, 2016, 4:11 PM
33
points
27
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Prediction challenge: Zika and birth rates
NancyLebovitz
Mar 12, 2016, 4:55 PM
18
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Mar 11, 2016, 4:18 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Virtual models of virtual AIs in virtual worlds
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 11, 2016, 9:41 AM
3
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup
Tuk
10 Mar 2016 23:34 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
After Go, what games should be next for DeepMind?
InquilineKea
10 Mar 2016 20:49 UTC
5
points
73
comments
1
min read
LW
link
True answers from AI: Summary
Stuart_Armstrong
10 Mar 2016 16:31 UTC
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
True answers from AI: Summary
Stuart_Armstrong
10 Mar 2016 15:56 UTC
7
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow meetup: Aristotle project, reference class practice, order team meeting
Slava Matyukhin
10 Mar 2016 15:36 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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