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Monthly Outreach Thread

Gleb_TsipurskyApr 17, 2016, 11:18 PM

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Does immortality imply eternal existence in linear time?

turchinApr 17, 2016, 11:17 PM

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37 comments2 min readLW link

Using humility to counteract shame

VikaApr 15, 2016, 6:32 PM

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17 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekApr 15, 2016, 3:26 PM

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Meetup : Washington, D.C.: What If

RobinZApr 15, 2016, 3:40 AM

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Anthropics and Biased Models

casebashApr 15, 2016, 2:18 AM

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Commitments and affordances

KatjaGraceApr 14, 2016, 8:56 PM

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Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Board Games

rocurleyApr 14, 2016, 3:32 AM

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Several free CFAR summer programs on rationality and AI safety

AnnaSalamonApr 14, 2016, 2:35 AM

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Meetup : UMBC / Baltimore Weekly Meetup: How To Actually Change Your Mind

iarwain1Apr 13, 2016, 10:50 PM

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The many counterfactuals of counterfactual mugging

Scott GarrabrantApr 12, 2016, 8:04 PM

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Goal completion prior art: feature construction

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 12, 2016, 10:24 AM

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Meetup : Brisbane Govindas Dinner

EloApr 12, 2016, 7:44 AM

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

ValApr 11, 2016, 9:26 PM

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The Science of Effective Fundraising: Four Common Mistakes to Avoid

Gleb_TsipurskyApr 11, 2016, 3:19 PM

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9 comments4 min readLW link

The Sally-Anne fallacy

philhApr 11, 2016, 1:06 PM

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Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Projects

rocurleyApr 11, 2016, 3:16 AM

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Open Thread April 11 - April 17, 2016

[deleted]Apr 10, 2016, 9:01 PM

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The Thyroid Madness: Two Apparently Contradictory Studies. Proof?

johnlawrenceaspdenApr 10, 2016, 8:21 PM

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Meetup : Rochester Rationalists: Utopia discussion meetup

mare-of-nightApr 10, 2016, 5:05 PM

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Meetup : MelbLW Social Meetup: Apr 2016

MaelinApr 10, 2016, 9:59 AM

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Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—July

luminosityApr 10, 2016, 12:31 AM

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Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—June

luminosityApr 10, 2016, 12:29 AM

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Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—May

luminosityApr 10, 2016, 12:27 AM

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Meetup : Meet up LW Sao Paulo

leohmarrudaApr 9, 2016, 4:57 PM

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Geometric Bayesian Update

SquirrelInHellApr 9, 2016, 7:24 AM

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An approach to the Agent Simulates Predictor problem

AlexMennenApr 9, 2016, 6:28 AM

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

JonahSApr 9, 2016, 5:02 AM

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An Approximation of a Group’s CEV

IAFF-User-145Apr 9, 2016, 12:15 AM

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Meetup : Role playing game based on HPMOR in Moscow

Alexander230Apr 8, 2016, 9:45 PM

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Positivity Thread :)

ViliamApr 8, 2016, 9:34 PM

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

Alexander230Apr 8, 2016, 8:32 PM

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

Alexander230Apr 8, 2016, 7:29 PM

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New LW Meetup: Nairobi

FrankAdamekApr 8, 2016, 3:50 PM

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Monthly Bragging Thread April 2016

SoothsilverApr 8, 2016, 1:26 PM

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Utility, probability and false beliefs

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 8, 2016, 11:15 AM

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Update to the list of apps that are useful to me

EloApr 8, 2016, 1:02 AM

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Meetup : Ann Arbor Meetup

Bound_upApr 8, 2016, 12:34 AM

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Dissolving Deep Questions: A Decline in Contemporary Controversy

Bound_upApr 8, 2016, 12:03 AM

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A brief note on factoring out certain variables

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 7, 2016, 4:38 PM

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How do we know our own desires?

KatjaGraceApr 7, 2016, 3:24 PM

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

Gram_StoneApr 6, 2016, 11:05 PM

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My new rationality/futurism podcast

James_MillerApr 6, 2016, 5:36 PM

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Rationality Quotes April 2016

SabiolaApr 6, 2016, 7:01 AM

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Rényi divergence as a secondary objective

jessicataApr 6, 2016, 2:08 AM

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Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Cherry Blossoms

RobinZApr 6, 2016, 1:43 AM

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Talk today at CU Boulder

fowlertmApr 5, 2016, 4:26 PM

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[link] Disjunctive AI Risk Scenarios

Kaj_SotalaApr 5, 2016, 12:51 PM

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

negamuhiaApr 5, 2016, 12:40 PM

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Turning the Technical Crank

ErrorApr 5, 2016, 5:36 AM

74 points

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134 comments6 min readLW link

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