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Contra double crux
Thrasymachus
Oct 8, 2017, 4:29 PM
35
points
67
comments
8
min read
LW
link
I Can Tolerate Anything Except Factual Inaccuracies
DragonGod
Oct 8, 2017, 2:59 PM
3
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(greyenlightenment.com)
NSFW Content on LW
ozymandias
Oct 8, 2017, 2:31 PM
16
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Norms For Link Posts
DragonGod
Oct 8, 2017, 2:30 PM
2
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Geeks, Mops, Sociopaths
DragonGod
Oct 8, 2017, 12:16 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(meaningness.com)
HOWTO: Screw Up The LessWrong Survey and Bring Great Shame To Your Family
namespace
Oct 8, 2017, 3:53 AM
13
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(lesswrong.com)
HOWTO: Screw Up The LessWrong Survey and Bring Great Shame To Your Family
namespace
Oct 8, 2017, 3:43 AM
39
points
18
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Stubs of Posts I’d like to Write
Raemon
Oct 7, 2017, 11:27 PM
11
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
RFC on an open problem: how to determine probabilities in the face of social distortion
ialdabaoth
Oct 7, 2017, 10:04 PM
6
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Typical Sex Life Fallacy
ozymandias
Oct 7, 2017, 9:48 PM
44
points
30
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Polling Thread October 2017
Gunnar_Zarncke
Oct 7, 2017, 9:32 PM
4
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ideas to make saving the world easier?
whpearson
Oct 7, 2017, 9:15 PM
−1
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
The Asshole Filter
DragonGod
Oct 7, 2017, 4:51 PM
40
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(siderea.livejournal.com)
Why is trying to save the world (tm) psychologically taxing?
whpearson
Oct 7, 2017, 3:20 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bring Back the Sabbath
Zvi
Oct 7, 2017, 12:10 PM
43
points
16
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Sabbath Commentary
Zvi
Oct 7, 2017, 12:10 PM
28
points
9
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Instrumental Rationality 3: Interlude I
lifelonglearner
Oct 7, 2017, 5:22 AM
13
points
5
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Deleted
Chris_Leong
Oct 7, 2017, 4:21 AM
5
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Social media probably not a deathtrap
eukaryote
Oct 7, 2017, 3:54 AM
5
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Clueless World vs. Loser World
michael_vassar2
Oct 7, 2017, 12:03 AM
12
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Running a Futurist Institute.
fowlertm
Oct 6, 2017, 5:05 PM
6
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Instrumental Rationality 2: Planning 101
lifelonglearner
Oct 6, 2017, 2:23 PM
17
points
4
comments
14
min read
LW
link
10/05/2017: Development update (performance & styles)
habryka
Oct 6, 2017, 7:22 AM
3
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
SSC Survey Results On Trust
Scott Alexander
Oct 6, 2017, 5:40 AM
7
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(slatestarcodex.com)
The Problematic Third Person Perspective
abramdemski
Oct 5, 2017, 8:44 PM
28
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
What is the pipeline?
whpearson
Oct 5, 2017, 7:25 PM
5
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Delegative Reinforcement Learning with a Merely Sane Advisor
Vanessa Kosoy
Oct 5, 2017, 2:15 PM
1
point
2
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Meaningfulness and the scope of experience
Kaj_Sotala
Oct 5, 2017, 11:30 AM
16
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
(kajsotala.fi)
Smoking Lesion Steelman III: Revenge of the Tickle Defense
abramdemski
Oct 5, 2017, 7:28 AM
6
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Instrumental Rationality 1: Starting Advice
lifelonglearner
Oct 5, 2017, 4:37 AM
15
points
8
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Why hive minds might work
whpearson
Oct 4, 2017, 11:51 PM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Infant Mortality and the Argument from Life History
ozymandias
Oct 4, 2017, 11:10 PM
13
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Avoiding Selection Bias
the gears to ascension
Oct 4, 2017, 7:10 PM
20
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Resolving human inconsistency in a simple model
Stuart_Armstrong
Oct 4, 2017, 3:25 PM
5
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Should I post technical ideas here or on LessWrong 2.0?
Stuart_Armstrong
Oct 4, 2017, 3:07 PM
1
point
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Resolving human inconsistency in a simple model
Stuart_Armstrong
Oct 4, 2017, 3:02 PM
1
point
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
2017-10-08 - London Rationalish meetup
philh
Oct 4, 2017, 2:46 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Reality of Emergence
DragonGod
Oct 4, 2017, 8:11 AM
0
points
11
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Writing That Provokes Comments
Raemon
Oct 4, 2017, 2:48 AM
96
points
39
comments
4
min read
LW
link
You Too Can See Suffering
SquirrelInHell
Oct 3, 2017, 7:49 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com.es)
You Too Can See Suffering
SquirrelInHell
Oct 3, 2017, 7:46 PM
6
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com.es)
Placing Yourself as an Instance of a Class
abramdemski
Oct 3, 2017, 7:10 PM
36
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Social Choice Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (paper challenging CEV-like approaches to choosing an AI’s values)
Kaj_Sotala
Oct 3, 2017, 5:39 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(papers.ssrn.com)
Open thread, October 2 - October 8, 2017
root
Oct 3, 2017, 10:46 AM
1
point
52
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Slashdot] We’re Not Living in a Computer Simulation, New Research Shows
Gunnar_Zarncke
3 Oct 2017 10:10 UTC
2
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(science.slashdot.org)
Different Worlds
Scott Alexander
3 Oct 2017 4:10 UTC
73
points
16
comments
14
min read
LW
link
(slatestarcodex.com)
Smoking Lesion Steelman II
abramdemski
2 Oct 2017 22:11 UTC
2
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
Physicists say simulation hypothesis is impossible in principle
polymathwannabe
2 Oct 2017 20:36 UTC
−4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(cosmosmagazine.com)
Catalonia and the Overton Window
Eliezer Yudkowsky
2 Oct 2017 20:23 UTC
30
points
20
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Productive Disagreement Practice Thread: Double Crux
SilentCal
2 Oct 2017 18:25 UTC
7
points
37
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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