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Why We Should Abandon Weak Arguments (Religious)
Bound_up
Jan 20, 2017, 10:30 PM
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(atheistkit.wordpress.com)
The Quaker and the Parselmouth
Vaniver
Jan 20, 2017, 9:24 PM
13
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Weekly Meetup
iarwain1
Jan 20, 2017, 6:26 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Art is Long and Nerdy
Jacob Falkovich
Jan 20, 2017, 5:49 PM
1
point
0
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Jan 20, 2017, 4:56 PM
2
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?
Gunnar_Zarncke
Jan 20, 2017, 12:40 PM
16
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(journals.plos.org)
Willpower duality
Gyrodiot
Jan 20, 2017, 9:56 AM
10
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jrmyp.net)
Infinite Summations: A Rationality Litmus Test
shev
Jan 20, 2017, 9:31 AM
38
points
23
comments
5
min read
LW
link
An impossibility result for doing without good priors
jessicata
Jan 20, 2017, 5:44 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Instrumental Rationality: Overriding Defaults
lifelonglearner
Jan 20, 2017, 5:14 AM
4
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Optimizing Styles
TheSinceriousOne
Jan 20, 2017, 1:48 AM
5
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
On Arrogance
casebash
Jan 20, 2017, 1:04 AM
8
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What would you like to see posts about?
shev
Jan 19, 2017, 11:39 PM
9
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
If rationality is purely winning there is a minimal shared art
whpearson
Jan 19, 2017, 9:39 PM
2
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on “Operation Make Less Wrong the single conversational locus”, Month 1
Raemon
Jan 19, 2017, 5:16 PM
25
points
158
comments
1
min read
LW
link
In-depth description of a quite strict, quite successful government program against teen substance abuse, spreading from Iceland
chaosmage
Jan 19, 2017, 12:04 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(mosaicscience.com)
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Board Games
rocurley
Jan 19, 2017, 5:39 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games
RobinZ
Jan 19, 2017, 4:41 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Instrumental Rationality and Overriding Defaults
lifelonglearner
Jan 19, 2017, 4:34 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(mindlevelup.wordpress.com)
Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: FallacyMania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery
Alexander230
Jan 18, 2017, 8:36 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Project Hufflepuff
Raemon
Jan 18, 2017, 6:57 PM
51
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Universal Hate
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Jan 18, 2017, 6:32 PM
9
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
Marginal Revolution Thoughts on Black Lives Matter Movement
scarcegreengrass
Jan 18, 2017, 6:12 PM
5
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(marginalrevolution.com)
Corrigibility thoughts III: manipulating versus deceiving
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 18, 2017, 3:57 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Corrigibility thoughts II: the robot operator
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 18, 2017, 3:52 PM
3
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Corrigibility thoughts I: caring about multiple things
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 18, 2017, 3:39 PM
7
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Neural nets designing neural nets
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 18, 2017, 3:28 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Neural nets designing neural nets
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 18, 2017, 3:27 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Neural nets designing neural nets
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 18, 2017, 2:43 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
A measure-theoretic generalization of logical induction
Vanessa Kosoy
Jan 18, 2017, 1:56 PM
6
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Dodging a bullet: “the price of insufficient medical vigilance can be very high.”
James_Miller
Jan 18, 2017, 4:11 AM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(westhunt.wordpress.com)
Please Help: How to make a big improvement in the alignment of political parties’ incentives with the public interest?
interstice
Jan 18, 2017, 12:51 AM
7
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(dominiccummings.wordpress.com)
Meetup : LW Sao Paulo—Meetup de janeiro
leohmarruda
Jan 18, 2017, 12:12 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Choosing prediction over explanation in psychology: Lessons from machine learning
Kaj_Sotala
Jan 17, 2017, 9:23 PM
5
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(figshare.com)
The substance of money
MrMind
Jan 17, 2017, 2:51 PM
5
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A note on misunderstanding the boundaries of models
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 17, 2017, 12:29 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Honesty and perjury
Benquo
Jan 17, 2017, 8:08 AM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
John Nash’s Ideal Money: The Motivations of Savings and Thrift
Flinter
Jan 17, 2017, 3:58 AM
0
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(sites.stat.psu.edu)
Fear or fear? (A Meteuphoric post on distinguishing feelings from considered positions.)
ProofOfLogic
Jan 17, 2017, 3:26 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)
Disgust and Politics
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Jan 17, 2017, 12:19 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
Deep Learning twitter list
morganism
Jan 16, 2017, 11:59 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.reddit.com)
Welcome to Less Wrong! (11th thread, January 2017) (Thread B)
Richard Korzekwa
Jan 16, 2017, 10:25 PM
2
points
152
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Mind of an Octopus,Adapted from Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
morganism
Jan 16, 2017, 9:07 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.scientificamerican.com)
Do we Share a Definition for the word “ideal”?
Flinter
Jan 16, 2017, 8:45 PM
0
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The trolleycar dilemma, an MIT moral problem app
morganism
Jan 16, 2017, 7:32 PM
1
point
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(moralmachine.mit.edu)
A Proposal for a Simpler Solution To All These Difficult Observations and Problems
Flinter
Jan 16, 2017, 6:13 PM
1
point
82
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Tragedy of the free time commons
KatjaGrace
Jan 16, 2017, 9:29 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Jan. 16 - Jan. 22, 2016
MrMind
Jan 16, 2017, 7:52 AM
4
points
133
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup: January
Maelin
Jan 16, 2017, 4:09 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Be someone – be recognized by the system and promoted – or do something
James_Miller
Jan 15, 2017, 9:22 PM
8
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(dnipogo.org)
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