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Suggest best book as an introduction to computational neuroscience

BiasedBayesApr 26, 2016, 9:16 PM

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Exercise in rationality: popular quotes, revisited

[deleted]Apr 25, 2016, 11:35 PM

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‘Science of Relationships’ summarized

[deleted]Apr 25, 2016, 8:25 AM

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Sphere packing and logical uncertainty

sanxiynApr 25, 2016, 6:02 AM

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Open Thread April 25 - May 1, 2016

EloApr 25, 2016, 6:02 AM

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[Link] Salon piece analyzing Donald Trump’s appeal using rationality

Gleb_TsipurskyApr 24, 2016, 4:36 AM

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[Link] Mutual fund fees

James_MillerApr 23, 2016, 10:09 PM

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My Custom Spelling Dictionary

Gram_StoneApr 23, 2016, 9:56 PM

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What is up with carbon dioxide and cognition? An offer

paulfchristianoApr 23, 2016, 5:47 PM

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The Validity of the Anthropic Principle

casebashApr 23, 2016, 9:12 AM

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Sleepwalk bias, self-defeating predictions and existential risk

Stefan_SchubertApr 22, 2016, 6:31 PM

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One weird trick to turn maximisers into minimisers

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 22, 2016, 4:47 PM

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One weird trick to turn maximisers into minimisers

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 22, 2016, 4:45 PM

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Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekApr 22, 2016, 3:58 PM

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[link] Simplifying the environment: a new convergent instrumental goal

Kaj_SotalaApr 22, 2016, 6:48 AM

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The Web Browser is Not Your Client (But You Don’t Need To Know That)

ErrorApr 22, 2016, 12:12 AM

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47 comments7 min readLW link

Expect to know better when you know more

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 21, 2016, 3:47 PM

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Roughly you

JDRApr 21, 2016, 3:28 PM

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Suppose HBD is True

OrphanWildeApr 21, 2016, 1:34 PM

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Meetup : San Antonio Meetup

Bryan-sanApr 21, 2016, 1:02 PM

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Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Short Talks

rocurleyApr 21, 2016, 5:02 AM

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Rationality Reading Group: Part Y: Challenging the Difficult

Gram_StoneApr 20, 2016, 10:32 PM

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Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Weekly Meetup: How To Actually Change Your Mind (part 2)

iarwain1Apr 20, 2016, 6:05 PM

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Time hierarchy theorems for distributional estimation problems

paulfchristianoApr 20, 2016, 5:13 PM

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Meetup : Moscow: paranoid calibaration, EA criticism, deliberate practice dojo

Slava MatyukhinApr 20, 2016, 4:32 PM

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Meetup : San Jose Meetup: Park Day (II)

steven0461Apr 20, 2016, 6:23 AM

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

RobinZApr 20, 2016, 2:57 AM

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Gratitude Thread :-)

Gleb_TsipurskyApr 19, 2016, 3:11 AM

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Meetup : Less Wrong New Hampshire Meetup

TukApr 19, 2016, 1:17 AM

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Open thread, Apr. 18 - Apr. 24, 2016

MrMindApr 18, 2016, 7:19 AM

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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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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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14 comments6 min readLW link

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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20 comments1 min readLW link

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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