A Se­cond Year of Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Soft­ware in the Classroom

tanagrabeastMay 1, 2016, 10:14 PM
64 points
30 comments21 min readLW link

May 2016 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsarisMay 1, 2016, 9:27 PM
4 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Hedge drift and ad­vanced motte-and-bailey

Stefan_SchubertMay 1, 2016, 2:45 PM
54 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

The ‘why does it even tell me this’ moment

[deleted]May 1, 2016, 8:15 AM
9 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] Up­dat­ing Drake’s Equa­tion with val­ues from mod­ern astronomy

DanArmakApr 30, 2016, 10:08 PM
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Sta­bil­ity of op­ti­mal pre­dic­tor schemes un­der a broader class of reductions

Vanessa KosoyApr 30, 2016, 2:17 PM
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekApr 29, 2016, 3:50 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Projects

rocurleyApr 29, 2016, 2:34 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Dou­ble Cor­rigi­bil­ity: bet­ter Corrigibility

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 28, 2016, 2:46 PM
9 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Games for fac­tor­ing out variables

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 28, 2016, 1:38 PM
3 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup: How To Ac­tu­ally Change Your Mind (part 3)

iarwain1Apr 28, 2016, 12:10 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Utopias

RobinZApr 28, 2016, 1:28 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

JFK was not as­sas­si­nated: prior prob­a­bil­ity zero events

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 27, 2016, 12:50 PM
0 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Is the av­er­age eth­i­cal re­view board eth­i­cal from an util­i­tar­ian stand­point?

ChristianKlApr 27, 2016, 12:11 PM
8 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

JFK was not as­sas­si­nated: prior prob­a­bil­ity zero events

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 27, 2016, 11:47 AM
38 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Albion’s Seed

Scott AlexanderApr 27, 2016, 8:40 AM
34 points
1 comment32 min readLW link

Suggest best book as an in­tro­duc­tion to com­pu­ta­tional neuroscience

BiasedBayesApr 26, 2016, 9:16 PM
5 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­er­cise in ra­tio­nal­ity: pop­u­lar quotes, revisited

[deleted]Apr 25, 2016, 11:35 PM
3 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

‘Science of Re­la­tion­ships’ summarized

[deleted]Apr 25, 2016, 8:25 AM
−16 points
26 comments38 min readLW link

Sphere pack­ing and log­i­cal uncertainty

sanxiynApr 25, 2016, 6:02 AM
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread April 25 - May 1, 2016

EloApr 25, 2016, 6:02 AM
8 points
130 comments1 min readLW link

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

Gleb_TsipurskyApr 24, 2016, 4:36 AM
−13 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Mu­tual fund fees

James_MillerApr 23, 2016, 10:09 PM
7 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

My Cus­tom Spel­ling Dictionary

Gram_StoneApr 23, 2016, 9:56 PM
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

What is up with car­bon diox­ide and cog­ni­tion? An offer

paulfchristianoApr 23, 2016, 5:47 PM
84 points
48 comments2 min readLW link

The Val­idity of the An­thropic Principle

casebashApr 23, 2016, 9:12 AM
2 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Sleep­walk bias, self-defeat­ing pre­dic­tions and ex­is­ten­tial risk

Stefan_SchubertApr 22, 2016, 6:31 PM
56 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

One weird trick to turn max­imisers into minimisers

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 22, 2016, 4:47 PM
5 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

One weird trick to turn max­imisers into minimisers

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 22, 2016, 4:45 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekApr 22, 2016, 3:58 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

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

Kaj_SotalaApr 22, 2016, 6:48 AM
10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

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

ErrorApr 22, 2016, 12:12 AM
44 points
47 comments7 min readLW link

Ex­pect to know bet­ter when you know more

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 21, 2016, 3:47 PM
5 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Roughly you

JDRApr 21, 2016, 3:28 PM
7 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Sup­pose HBD is True

OrphanWildeApr 21, 2016, 1:34 PM
−18 points
153 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : San An­to­nio Meetup

Bryan-sanApr 21, 2016, 1:02 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Short Talks

rocurleyApr 21, 2016, 5:02 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part Y: Challeng­ing the Difficult

Gram_StoneApr 20, 2016, 10:32 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

iarwain1Apr 20, 2016, 6:05 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Time hi­er­ar­chy the­o­rems for dis­tri­bu­tional es­ti­ma­tion problems

paulfchristianoApr 20, 2016, 5:13 PM
3 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

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

Slava MatyukhinApr 20, 2016, 4:32 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Jose Meetup: Park Day (II)

steven0461Apr 20, 2016, 6:23 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

RobinZApr 20, 2016, 2:57 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Grat­i­tude Thread :-)

Gleb_TsipurskyApr 19, 2016, 3:11 AM
7 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Less Wrong New Hamp­shire Meetup

TukApr 19, 2016, 1:17 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

MrMindApr 18, 2016, 7:19 AM
6 points
176 comments1 min readLW link

Monthly Outreach Thread

Gleb_TsipurskyApr 17, 2016, 11:18 PM
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Does im­mor­tal­ity im­ply eter­nal ex­is­tence in lin­ear time?

turchinApr 17, 2016, 11:17 PM
2 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

Us­ing hu­mil­ity to coun­ter­act shame

VikaApr 15, 2016, 6:32 PM
21 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekApr 15, 2016, 3:26 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link