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Throw a prediction party with your EA/rationality group
eukaryote
Dec 31, 2016, 11:02 PM
14
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Act into Fear and Abandon all Hope
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Dec 31, 2016, 9:05 PM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A review of cryonics/brain preservation in 2016
Andy_McKenzie
Dec 31, 2016, 6:19 PM
36
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Claim explainer: donor lotteries and returns to scale
Benquo
Dec 30, 2016, 7:46 PM
9
points
20
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Dec 30, 2016, 3:44 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Pursuing convergent instrumental subgoals on the user’s behalf doesn’t always require good priors
jessicata
Dec 30, 2016, 2:36 AM
15
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Prediction-based medicine (PBM)
ChristianKl
Dec 29, 2016, 10:49 PM
46
points
14
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Cambridge/Boston Less Wrong: Planning 2017
jimrandomh
Dec 29, 2016, 10:43 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Off-switch for CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system discovered
morganism
Dec 29, 2016, 10:08 PM
5
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(phys.org)
How do you identify complex systems?
NatashaRostova
Dec 29, 2016, 4:39 AM
6
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Bargaining trade-offs in your brain
Elo
Dec 29, 2016, 12:18 AM
3
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
I’m Not An Effective Altruist Because I Prefer...
ozymandias
Dec 28, 2016, 10:39 PM
12
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)
A different argument against Universal Basic Income
chaosmage
Dec 28, 2016, 10:35 PM
27
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
sarahconstantin
Dec 28, 2016, 6:26 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games
RobinZ
Dec 28, 2016, 2:42 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Dec. 26, 2016 - Jan. 1, 2017
username2
Dec 28, 2016, 12:23 PM
4
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
John Ioannidis: Why Most Clinical Research Is Not Useful (2016)
username2
Dec 28, 2016, 3:42 AM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(journals.plos.org)
Exploration-Exploitation problems
Elo
Dec 28, 2016, 1:33 AM
18
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
diabetes medication Metformin and hypertension drug syrosingopine treat cancers.
morganism
Dec 27, 2016, 11:39 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.eurekalert.org)
The engineer and the diplomat
Benquo
Dec 27, 2016, 8:49 PM
35
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Make Putanumonit Great (for the first time)
Jacob Falkovich
Dec 27, 2016, 4:50 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Empirically assess your time use
Elo
Dec 27, 2016, 12:01 AM
10
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Free-energy, reinforcement, and utility
IAFF-User-177
Dec 26, 2016, 11:02 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
50 things I learned at NIPS AI and machine learning conference 2016
morganism
Dec 26, 2016, 8:50 PM
10
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(blog.ought.com)
Wikipedia usage survey results
VipulNaik
Dec 25, 2016, 1:55 PM
14
points
17
comments
35
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Role playing game based on HPMOR in Moscow
Alexander230
Dec 25, 2016, 8:22 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Free-Energy Theory and Precision: can a neural network catch a fly ball?
IAFF-User-177
Dec 25, 2016, 1:10 AM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Treaties vs Fusion
Jack_LaSota
Dec 25, 2016, 12:40 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(sinceriously.fyi)
Expected Error, or how wrong you expect to be
ozziegooen
Dec 24, 2016, 10:49 PM
21
points
8
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The challenge of writing Utopia
Stuart_Armstrong
Dec 24, 2016, 5:35 PM
27
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Suggested solution to The Naturalized Induction Problem
Linda Linsefors
Dec 24, 2016, 4:03 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(lesswrong.com)
Suggested solution to The Naturalized Induction Problem
Linda Linsefors
Dec 24, 2016, 3:55 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(lesswrong.com)
Meetup : Denver Area LW January Meetup
PonchoPal
Dec 24, 2016, 5:52 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Denver Area LW January Meetup
PonchoPal
Dec 24, 2016, 5:48 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Introduction to the Free-Energy Theory of Mind
IAFF-User-177
Dec 24, 2016, 1:15 AM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Inflated Bubbles
Jacob Falkovich
Dec 23, 2016, 4:55 PM
1
point
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
New LW Meetup: Kyiv
FrankAdamek
Dec 23, 2016, 4:44 PM
7
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
username2
Dec 23, 2016, 11:28 AM
4
points
41
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(idlewords.com)
Triaging mental phenomena or: leveling up the stack trace skill
RomeoStevens
Dec 23, 2016, 12:15 AM
32
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Kyiv: 29 December 2016 18:15 (+0200)
networked
Dec 22, 2016, 10:24 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Custom games that involve skills related to rationality
Alexander230
Dec 22, 2016, 9:03 PM
17
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Fractal Discussion Groups
whpearson
Dec 22, 2016, 3:03 PM
4
points
26
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Bioelectronic medicine: a very brief overview
sarahconstantin
Dec 22, 2016, 4:03 AM
18
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A quick note on weirdness points and Solstices [And also random other Solstice discussion]
Raemon
Dec 21, 2016, 5:29 PM
38
points
85
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On Truth, On God, and On Faith (religious (obviously)) (Atheist material for believers instead of other atheists/ attempted use of a spoonful of sugar)
Bound_up
Dec 20, 2016, 11:07 PM
1
point
37
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(atheistkit.wordpress.com)
Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: FallacyMania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery
Alexander230
20 Dec 2016 21:36 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Scott Adams mentions Prediction Markets and explains Cognitive Blindness bias
Gunnar_Zarncke
20 Dec 2016 21:23 UTC
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(blog.dilbert.com)
Meetup : Kyiv: 21 December 2016 18:15 (+0200)
networked
20 Dec 2016 19:36 UTC
1
point
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Flinching away from truth” is often about *protecting* the epistemology
AnnaSalamon
20 Dec 2016 18:39 UTC
235
points
58
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Improve comments by tagging claims
Benquo
20 Dec 2016 17:04 UTC
26
points
40
comments
5
min read
LW
link
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