A new blog with analy­ses of var­i­ous top­ics (e. g. slav­ery and cap­i­tal­ism, why elec­tion mod­els didn’t pre­dict Trump’s vic­tory)

phl43Jan 26, 2017, 11:30 PM
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(necpluribusimpar.net)

http://​nec­pluribusim­par.net (a new blog with analy­ses of var­i­ous top­ics, e. g. slav­ery and cap­i­tal­ism, why elec­tion mod­els didn’t pre­dict Trump’s vic­tory)

phl43Jan 26, 2017, 10:50 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

80,000 Hours: EA and Highly Poli­ti­cal Causes

The_Jaded_OneJan 26, 2017, 9:44 PM
45 points
25 comments7 min readLW link

The Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute is hiring a pro­ject manager

crmflynnJan 26, 2017, 6:19 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A ma­jor­ity coal­i­tion can lose a sym­met­ric zero-sum game

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 26, 2017, 12:13 PM
21 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : SF Meetup: Group Debugging

maiaJan 26, 2017, 6:13 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow: unconference

Slava MatyukhinJan 25, 2017, 6:55 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Value Journaling

ProofOfLogicJan 25, 2017, 6:10 AM
24 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Odds ra­tios and con­di­tional risk ratios

Anders_HJan 25, 2017, 3:55 AM
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(andershuitfeldt.net)

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Meta Meetup

RobinZJan 25, 2017, 12:48 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fund­ing the Re­pro­ducibil­ity Crises as effec­tive giving

morganismJan 24, 2017, 11:05 PM
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wired.com)

First im­pres­sions...

ArisCJan 24, 2017, 3:14 PM
11 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Too Much Effort | Too Lit­tle Evidence

ErfeyahJan 24, 2017, 12:37 PM
2 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

Did EDT get it right all along? In­tro­duc­ing yet an­other med­i­cal New­comb problem

Johannes TreutleinJan 24, 2017, 11:43 AM
22 points
21 comments8 min readLW link

Strate­gic Think­ing: Paradigm Selection

katydeeJan 24, 2017, 6:24 AM
15 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Life Ex­ten­sion Possibilities

sarahconstantinJan 24, 2017, 1:54 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Met­rics to eval­u­ate a Presidency

ArisCJan 24, 2017, 1:02 AM
1 point
70 comments1 min readLW link

Self med­i­cat­ing for Schizophre­nia with—cigarettes ?

morganismJan 24, 2017, 12:08 AM
4 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(neurosciencenews.com)

Another UBI ar­ti­cle, this one on costs and benefits to society

morganismJan 23, 2017, 11:21 PM
2 points
16 comments1 min readLW link
(www.weforum.org)

Most em­piri­cal ques­tions are un­re­solve­able; The good, the bad, and the ap­pro­pri­ately un­der-powered

DavidmanheimJan 23, 2017, 8:35 PM
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Meetup : [Metro Detroit /​ Ann Ar­bor], Michigan

excineraJan 23, 2017, 7:35 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

MAD Trollies

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 23, 2017, 6:57 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Quick mod­el­ing: re­solv­ing dis­agree­ments.

ProofOfLogicJan 23, 2017, 6:18 PM
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link
(nthlook.wordpress.com)

Open thread, Jan. 23 - Jan. 29, 2017

MrMindJan 23, 2017, 7:41 AM
5 points
196 comments1 min readLW link

Eval­u­at­ing Mo­ral Theories

ArisCJan 23, 2017, 5:04 AM
5 points
40 comments2 min readLW link

Strate­gies for coal­i­tions in unit-sum games

jessicataJan 23, 2017, 4:20 AM
9 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Pol­ling Thread Jan­uary 2017

Gunnar_ZarnckeJan 22, 2017, 11:26 PM
4 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Pu­tanu­monit—Bayesian in­fer­ence vs. null hy­poth­e­sis testing

Jacob FalkovichJan 22, 2017, 2:31 PM
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Meetup : Den­ver Area LW Fe­bru­ary Meetup

PonchoPalJan 22, 2017, 7:33 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Den­ver Area LW Fe­bru­ary Meetup

PonchoPalJan 22, 2017, 7:29 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : First Bo­gota, Colom­bia Meetup

jpulgarinJan 22, 2017, 6:02 AM
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­jects-in-Progress Thread

lifelonglearnerJan 21, 2017, 5:11 AM
18 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

In Defense of the Obvious

lifelonglearnerJan 21, 2017, 3:06 AM
20 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

0.999...=1: Another Ra­tion­al­ity Lit­mus Test

shevJan 21, 2017, 2:16 AM
27 points
59 comments7 min readLW link

Why We Should Aban­don Weak Ar­gu­ments (Reli­gious)

Bound_upJan 20, 2017, 10:30 PM
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(atheistkit.wordpress.com)

The Quaker and the Parselmouth

VaniverJan 20, 2017, 9:24 PM
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Meetup : Bal­ti­more /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain1Jan 20, 2017, 6:26 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Art is Long and Nerdy

Jacob FalkovichJan 20, 2017, 5:49 PM
1 point
0 comments13 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekJan 20, 2017, 4:56 PM
2 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Could a Neu­ro­scien­tist Un­der­stand a Micro­pro­ces­sor?

Gunnar_ZarnckeJan 20, 2017, 12:40 PM
16 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(journals.plos.org)

Willpower duality

GyrodiotJan 20, 2017, 9:56 AM
10 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jrmyp.net)

In­finite Sum­ma­tions: A Ra­tion­al­ity Lit­mus Test

shevJan 20, 2017, 9:31 AM
38 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

An im­pos­si­bil­ity re­sult for do­ing with­out good priors

jessicataJan 20, 2017, 5:44 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity: Over­rid­ing Defaults

lifelonglearnerJan 20, 2017, 5:14 AM
4 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing Styles

TheSinceriousOneJan 20, 2017, 1:48 AM
5 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

On Arrogance

casebashJan 20, 2017, 1:04 AM
8 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

What would you like to see posts about?

shevJan 19, 2017, 11:39 PM
9 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

If ra­tio­nal­ity is purely win­ning there is a min­i­mal shared art

whpearsonJan 19, 2017, 9:39 PM
2 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Thoughts on “Oper­a­tion Make Less Wrong the sin­gle con­ver­sa­tional lo­cus”, Month 1

RaemonJan 19, 2017, 5:16 PM
25 points
158 comments1 min readLW link

In-depth de­scrip­tion of a quite strict, quite suc­cess­ful gov­ern­ment pro­gram against teen sub­stance abuse, spread­ing from Iceland

chaosmageJan 19, 2017, 12:04 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(mosaicscience.com)