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Rationality Reading Group: Part Y: Challenging the Difficult
Gram_Stone
Apr 20, 2016, 10:32 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Weekly Meetup: How To Actually Change Your Mind (part 2)
iarwain1
Apr 20, 2016, 6:05 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Time hierarchy theorems for distributional estimation problems
paulfchristiano
Apr 20, 2016, 5:13 PM
3
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow: paranoid calibaration, EA criticism, deliberate practice dojo
Slava Matyukhin
Apr 20, 2016, 4:32 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Jose Meetup: Park Day (II)
steven0461
Apr 20, 2016, 6:23 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games
RobinZ
Apr 20, 2016, 2:57 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Gratitude Thread :-)
Gleb_Tsipursky
Apr 19, 2016, 3:11 AM
7
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Less Wrong New Hampshire Meetup
Tuk
Apr 19, 2016, 1:17 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Apr. 18 - Apr. 24, 2016
MrMind
Apr 18, 2016, 7:19 AM
6
points
176
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Monthly Outreach Thread
Gleb_Tsipursky
Apr 17, 2016, 11:18 PM
2
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Does immortality imply eternal existence in linear time?
turchin
Apr 17, 2016, 11:17 PM
2
points
37
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Using humility to counteract shame
Vika
Apr 15, 2016, 6:32 PM
21
points
17
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Apr 15, 2016, 3:26 PM
4
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: What If
RobinZ
Apr 15, 2016, 3:40 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Anthropics and Biased Models
casebash
Apr 15, 2016, 2:18 AM
6
points
14
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Commitments and affordances
KatjaGrace
Apr 14, 2016, 8:56 PM
1
point
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Board Games
rocurley
Apr 14, 2016, 3:32 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Several free CFAR summer programs on rationality and AI safety
AnnaSalamon
Apr 14, 2016, 2:35 AM
29
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : UMBC / Baltimore Weekly Meetup: How To Actually Change Your Mind
iarwain1
Apr 13, 2016, 10:50 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The many counterfactuals of counterfactual mugging
Scott Garrabrant
Apr 12, 2016, 8:04 PM
2
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Goal completion prior art: feature construction
Stuart_Armstrong
Apr 12, 2016, 10:24 AM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(homes.cs.washington.edu)
Meetup : Brisbane Govindas Dinner
Elo
Apr 12, 2016, 7:44 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to provide a simple example to the requirement of falsifiability in the scientific method to a novice audience?
Val
Apr 11, 2016, 9:26 PM
9
points
58
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Science of Effective Fundraising: Four Common Mistakes to Avoid
Gleb_Tsipursky
Apr 11, 2016, 3:19 PM
12
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Sally-Anne fallacy
philh
Apr 11, 2016, 1:06 PM
66
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Projects
rocurley
Apr 11, 2016, 3:16 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread April 11 - April 17, 2016
[deleted]
Apr 10, 2016, 9:01 PM
6
points
135
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Thyroid Madness: Two Apparently Contradictory Studies. Proof?
johnlawrenceaspden
Apr 10, 2016, 8:21 PM
12
points
80
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Rochester Rationalists: Utopia discussion meetup
mare-of-night
Apr 10, 2016, 5:05 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : MelbLW Social Meetup: Apr 2016
Maelin
Apr 10, 2016, 9:59 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—July
luminosity
Apr 10, 2016, 12:31 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—June
luminosity
Apr 10, 2016, 12:29 AM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—May
luminosity
Apr 10, 2016, 12:27 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Meet up LW Sao Paulo
leohmarruda
Apr 9, 2016, 4:57 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Geometric Bayesian Update
SquirrelInHell
Apr 9, 2016, 7:24 AM
19
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)
An approach to the Agent Simulates Predictor problem
AlexMennen
Apr 9, 2016, 6:28 AM
6
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(drive.google.com)
An update on Signal Data Science (an intensive data science training program)
JonahS
Apr 9, 2016, 5:02 AM
9
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An Approximation of a Group’s CEV
IAFF-User-145
Apr 9, 2016, 12:15 AM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.dropbox.com)
Meetup : Role playing game based on HPMOR in Moscow
Alexander230
Apr 8, 2016, 9:45 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Positivity Thread :)
Viliam
Apr 8, 2016, 9:34 PM
40
points
66
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow social meetup: Excercises and games for rationality skills improvement
Alexander230
Apr 8, 2016, 8:32 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: FallacyMania, Tower of Chaos, Training game
Alexander230
Apr 8, 2016, 7:29 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
New LW Meetup: Nairobi
FrankAdamek
Apr 8, 2016, 3:50 PM
6
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Monthly Bragging Thread April 2016
Soothsilver
Apr 8, 2016, 1:26 PM
5
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Utility, probability and false beliefs
Stuart_Armstrong
Apr 8, 2016, 11:15 AM
0
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Update to the list of apps that are useful to me
Elo
Apr 8, 2016, 1:02 AM
12
points
12
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Ann Arbor Meetup
Bound_up
Apr 8, 2016, 12:34 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dissolving Deep Questions: A Decline in Contemporary Controversy
Bound_up
Apr 8, 2016, 12:03 AM
3
points
10
comments
5
min read
LW
link
A brief note on factoring out certain variables
Stuart_Armstrong
Apr 7, 2016, 4:38 PM
3
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How do we know our own desires?
KatjaGrace
Apr 7, 2016, 3:24 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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