How to provide a sim­ple ex­am­ple to the re­quire­ment of falsifi­a­bil­ity in the sci­en­tific method to a novice au­di­ence?

Val11 Apr 2016 21:26 UTC
9 points
58 comments2 min readLW link

The Science of Effec­tive Fundrais­ing: Four Com­mon Mis­takes to Avoid

Gleb_Tsipursky11 Apr 2016 15:19 UTC
12 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

The Sally-Anne fallacy

philh11 Apr 2016 13:06 UTC
65 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Projects

rocurley11 Apr 2016 3:16 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread April 11 - April 17, 2016

[deleted]10 Apr 2016 21:01 UTC
6 points
135 comments1 min readLW link

The Thy­roid Mad­ness: Two Ap­par­ently Con­tra­dic­tory Stud­ies. Proof?

johnlawrenceaspden10 Apr 2016 20:21 UTC
12 points
80 comments7 min readLW link

Meetup : Rochester Ra­tion­al­ists: Utopia dis­cus­sion meetup

mare-of-night10 Apr 2016 17:05 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : MelbLW So­cial Meetup: Apr 2016

Maelin10 Apr 2016 9:59 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—July

luminosity10 Apr 2016 0:31 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—June

luminosity10 Apr 2016 0:29 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—May

luminosity10 Apr 2016 0:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meet up LW Sao Paulo

leohmarruda9 Apr 2016 16:57 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Geo­met­ric Bayesian Update

SquirrelInHell9 Apr 2016 7:24 UTC
19 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

An ap­proach to the Agent Si­mu­lates Pre­dic­tor problem

AlexMennen9 Apr 2016 6:28 UTC
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(drive.google.com)

An up­date on Sig­nal Data Science (an in­ten­sive data sci­ence train­ing pro­gram)

JonahS9 Apr 2016 5:02 UTC
9 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

An Ap­prox­i­ma­tion of a Group’s CEV

IAFF-User-1459 Apr 2016 0:15 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.dropbox.com)

Meetup : Role play­ing game based on HPMOR in Moscow

Alexander2308 Apr 2016 21:45 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Pos­i­tivity Thread :)

Viliam8 Apr 2016 21:34 UTC
40 points
66 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow so­cial meetup: Ex­cer­cises and games for ra­tio­nal­ity skills improvement

Alexander2308 Apr 2016 20:32 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Alexander2308 Apr 2016 19:29 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

New LW Meetup: Nairobi

FrankAdamek8 Apr 2016 15:50 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Monthly Brag­ging Thread April 2016

Soothsilver8 Apr 2016 13:26 UTC
5 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Utility, prob­a­bil­ity and false beliefs

Stuart_Armstrong8 Apr 2016 11:15 UTC
0 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Up­date to the list of apps that are use­ful to me

Elo8 Apr 2016 1:02 UTC
12 points
12 comments11 min readLW link

Meetup : Ann Ar­bor Meetup

Bound_up8 Apr 2016 0:34 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­solv­ing Deep Ques­tions: A De­cline in Con­tem­po­rary Controversy

Bound_up8 Apr 2016 0:03 UTC
3 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

A brief note on fac­tor­ing out cer­tain variables

Stuart_Armstrong7 Apr 2016 16:38 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How do we know our own de­sires?

KatjaGrace7 Apr 2016 15:24 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part X: Yud­kowsky’s Com­ing of Age

Gram_Stone6 Apr 2016 23:05 UTC
9 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

My new ra­tio­nal­ity/​fu­tur­ism podcast

James_Miller6 Apr 2016 17:36 UTC
18 points
76 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes April 2016

Sabiola6 Apr 2016 7:01 UTC
3 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Rényi di­ver­gence as a sec­ondary objective

jessicata6 Apr 2016 2:08 UTC
3 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Cherry Blossoms

RobinZ6 Apr 2016 1:43 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Talk to­day at CU Boulder

fowlertm5 Apr 2016 16:26 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Disjunc­tive AI Risk Scenarios

Kaj_Sotala5 Apr 2016 12:51 UTC
19 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Nairobi mini-Meetup #1: Dou­ble Crux

negamuhia5 Apr 2016 12:40 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Turn­ing the Tech­ni­cal Crank

Error5 Apr 2016 5:36 UTC
74 points
134 comments6 min readLW link

The Ide­ol­ogy Is Not The Movement

Scott Alexander5 Apr 2016 1:52 UTC
37 points
1 comment24 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—April 2016

luminosity4 Apr 2016 22:30 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : San An­to­nio Meetup

TheAltar4 Apr 2016 15:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread April 4 - April 10, 2016

Elo4 Apr 2016 4:56 UTC
10 points
204 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Vienna Meetup

AnnaLeptikon3 Apr 2016 22:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : UMBC /​ Bal­ti­more: In­tro to LW /​ gen­eral discussion

iarwain13 Apr 2016 22:03 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fake Amnesia

Gram_Stone3 Apr 2016 21:23 UTC
16 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Tonic Judo

Gram_Stone2 Apr 2016 21:19 UTC
29 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] Op-Ed on Brus­sels Attacks

Gleb_Tsipursky2 Apr 2016 17:38 UTC
−5 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

Max­i­miz­ing a quan­tity while ig­nor­ing effect through some channel

jessicata2 Apr 2016 1:20 UTC
13 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

April 2016 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Apr 2016 20:02 UTC
6 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San An­to­nio Meetup

TheAltar1 Apr 2016 17:16 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek1 Apr 2016 16:52 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link