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First impressions...
ArisC
Jan 24, 2017, 3:14 PM
11
points
50
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Too Much Effort | Too Little Evidence
Erfeyah
Jan 24, 2017, 12:37 PM
2
points
64
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Did EDT get it right all along? Introducing yet another medical Newcomb problem
Johannes Treutlein
Jan 24, 2017, 11:43 AM
22
points
21
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Strategic Thinking: Paradigm Selection
katydee
Jan 24, 2017, 6:24 AM
15
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Life Extension Possibilities
sarahconstantin
Jan 24, 2017, 1:54 AM
12
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Metrics to evaluate a Presidency
ArisC
Jan 24, 2017, 1:02 AM
1
point
70
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Self medicating for Schizophrenia with—cigarettes ?
morganism
Jan 24, 2017, 12:08 AM
4
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(neurosciencenews.com)
Another UBI article, this one on costs and benefits to society
morganism
Jan 23, 2017, 11:21 PM
2
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.weforum.org)
Most empirical questions are unresolveable; The good, the bad, and the appropriately under-powered
Davidmanheim
Jan 23, 2017, 8:35 PM
8
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Meetup : [Metro Detroit / Ann Arbor], Michigan
excinera
Jan 23, 2017, 7:35 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
MAD Trollies
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Jan 23, 2017, 6:57 PM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
Quick modeling: resolving disagreements.
ProofOfLogic
Jan 23, 2017, 6:18 PM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(nthlook.wordpress.com)
Open thread, Jan. 23 - Jan. 29, 2017
MrMind
Jan 23, 2017, 7:41 AM
5
points
196
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Evaluating Moral Theories
ArisC
Jan 23, 2017, 5:04 AM
5
points
40
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Strategies for coalitions in unit-sum games
jessicata
Jan 23, 2017, 4:20 AM
9
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Polling Thread January 2017
Gunnar_Zarncke
Jan 22, 2017, 11:26 PM
4
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Putanumonit—Bayesian inference vs. null hypothesis testing
Jacob Falkovich
Jan 22, 2017, 2:31 PM
9
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Meetup : Denver Area LW February Meetup
PonchoPal
Jan 22, 2017, 7:33 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Denver Area LW February Meetup
PonchoPal
Jan 22, 2017, 7:29 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : First Bogota, Colombia Meetup
jpulgarin
Jan 22, 2017, 6:02 AM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Projects-in-Progress Thread
lifelonglearner
Jan 21, 2017, 5:11 AM
18
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
In Defense of the Obvious
lifelonglearner
Jan 21, 2017, 3:06 AM
20
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
0.999...=1: Another Rationality Litmus Test
shev
Jan 21, 2017, 2:16 AM
27
points
59
comments
7
min read
LW
link
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
Commander Zander
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
18 Jan 2017 15:52 UTC
3
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Corrigibility thoughts I: caring about multiple things
Stuart_Armstrong
18 Jan 2017 15:39 UTC
7
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Neural nets designing neural nets
Stuart_Armstrong
18 Jan 2017 15:28 UTC
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
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