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Strategies for coalitions in unit-sum games

jessicataJan 23, 2017, 4:20 AM

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3 comments3 min readLW link

Polling Thread January 2017

Gunnar_ZarnckeJan 22, 2017, 11:26 PM

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8 comments1 min readLW link

Putanumonit—Bayesian inference vs. null hypothesis testing

Jacob FalkovichJan 22, 2017, 2:31 PM

9 points

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6 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Meetup : Denver Area LW February Meetup

PonchoPalJan 22, 2017, 7:33 AM

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Meetup : Denver Area LW February Meetup

PonchoPalJan 22, 2017, 7:29 AM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : First Bogota, Colombia Meetup

jpulgarinJan 22, 2017, 6:02 AM

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Projects-in-Progress Thread

lifelonglearnerJan 21, 2017, 5:11 AM

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47 comments1 min readLW link

In Defense of the Obvious

lifelonglearnerJan 21, 2017, 3:06 AM

20 points

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7 comments2 min readLW link

0.999...=1: Another Rationality Litmus Test

shevJan 21, 2017, 2:16 AM

27 points

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59 comments7 min readLW link

Why We Should Abandon Weak Arguments (Religious)

Bound_upJan 20, 2017, 10:30 PM

8 points

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(atheistkit.wordpress.com)

The Quaker and the Parselmouth

VaniverJan 20, 2017, 9:24 PM

13 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain1Jan 20, 2017, 6:26 PM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

The Art is Long and Nerdy

Jacob FalkovichJan 20, 2017, 5:49 PM

1 point

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0 comments13 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekJan 20, 2017, 4:56 PM

2 points

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?

Gunnar_ZarnckeJan 20, 2017, 12:40 PM

16 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(journals.plos.org)

Willpower duality

GyrodiotJan 20, 2017, 9:56 AM

10 points

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8 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jrmyp.net)

Infinite Summations: A Rationality Litmus Test

shevJan 20, 2017, 9:31 AM

38 points

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23 comments5 min readLW link

An impossibility result for doing without good priors

jessicataJan 20, 2017, 5:44 AM

2 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Instrumental Rationality: Overriding Defaults

lifelonglearnerJan 20, 2017, 5:14 AM

4 points

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5 comments3 min readLW link

Optimizing Styles

TheSinceriousOneJan 20, 2017, 1:48 AM

5 points

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4 comments3 min readLW link

On Arrogance

casebashJan 20, 2017, 1:04 AM

8 points

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13 comments1 min readLW link

What would you like to see posts about?

shevJan 19, 2017, 11:39 PM

9 points

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15 comments2 min readLW link

If rationality is purely winning there is a minimal shared art

whpearsonJan 19, 2017, 9:39 PM

2 points

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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

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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

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(mosaicscience.com)

Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Board Games

rocurleyJan 19, 2017, 5:39 AM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

RobinZJan 19, 2017, 4:41 AM

2 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Instrumental Rationality and Overriding Defaults

lifelonglearnerJan 19, 2017, 4:34 AM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(mindlevelup.wordpress.com)

Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: FallacyMania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery

Alexander230Jan 18, 2017, 8:36 PM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Project Hufflepuff

RaemonJan 18, 2017, 6:57 PM

51 points

34 votes

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35 comments1 min readLW link

Universal Hate

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 18, 2017, 6:32 PM

9 points

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12 comments1 min readLW link

(mapandterritory.org)

Marginal Revolution Thoughts on Black Lives Matter Movement

Commander ZanderJan 18, 2017, 6:12 PM

5 points

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29 comments1 min readLW link

(marginalrevolution.com)

Corrigibility thoughts III: manipulating versus deceiving

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 18, 2017, 3:57 PM

3 points

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Corrigibility thoughts II: the robot operator

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 18, 2017, 3:52 PM

3 points

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Corrigibility thoughts I: caring about multiple things

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 18, 2017, 3:39 PM

7 points

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12 comments3 min readLW link

Neural nets designing neural nets

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 18, 2017, 3:28 PM

5 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Neural nets designing neural nets

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 18, 2017, 3:27 PM

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Neural nets designing neural nets

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 18, 2017, 2:43 PM

2 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

A measure-theoretic generalization of logical induction

Vanessa KosoyJan 18, 2017, 1:56 PM

6 points

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0 comments7 min readLW link

Dodging a bullet: “the price of insufficient medical vigilance can be very high.”

James_MillerJan 18, 2017, 4:11 AM

7 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(westhunt.wordpress.com)

Please Help: How to make a big improvement in the alignment of political parties’ incentives with the public interest?

intersticeJan 18, 2017, 12:51 AM

7 points

4 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

(dominiccummings.wordpress.com)

Meetup : LW Sao Paulo—Meetup de janeiro

leohmarrudaJan 18, 2017, 12:12 AM

3 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Choosing prediction over explanation in psychology: Lessons from machine learning

Kaj_SotalaJan 17, 2017, 9:23 PM

5 points

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6 comments1 min readLW link

(figshare.com)

The substance of money

MrMindJan 17, 2017, 2:51 PM

5 points

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12 comments1 min readLW link

A note on misunderstanding the boundaries of models

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 17, 2017, 12:29 PM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Honesty and perjury

BenquoJan 17, 2017, 8:08 AM

8 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

John Nash’s Ideal Money: The Motivations of Savings and Thrift

FlinterJan 17, 2017, 3:58 AM

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(sites.stat.psu.edu)

Fear or fear? (A Meteuphoric post on distinguishing feelings from considered positions.)

ProofOfLogicJan 17, 2017, 3:26 AM

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(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Disgust and Politics

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 17, 2017, 12:19 AM

2 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(mapandterritory.org)

Deep Learning twitter list

morganismJan 16, 2017, 11:59 PM

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(www.reddit.com)

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