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Win $1 Million For Your Bright Idea To Fix The World

morganismMar 18, 2017, 10:12 PM

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.npr.org)

Self-fulfilling values of time

KatjaGraceMar 18, 2017, 10:00 PM

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0 comments2 min readLW link

LW mentioned in influential 2016 Milo article on the Alt-Right

James_MillerMar 18, 2017, 7:30 PM

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(www.breitbart.com)

Attractor Theory: A Model of Minds and Motivation

lifelonglearnerMar 18, 2017, 3:12 AM

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11 comments7 min readLW link

Restaurant Guide 2: Pizza

ZviMar 17, 2017, 11:22 PM

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0 comments9 min readLW link

Dominant stochastic markets

Vanessa KosoyMar 17, 2017, 12:16 PM

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0 comments16 min readLW link

Meetup : SF Meetup: Projects

maiaMar 17, 2017, 5:31 AM

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I Want To Live In A Baugruppe

AlicornMar 17, 2017, 1:36 AM

110 points

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195 comments3 min readLW link

Announcing: The great bridge

EloMar 17, 2017, 1:11 AM

13 points

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4 comments4 min readLW link

Could utility functions be for narrow AI only, and downright antithetical to AGI?

chaosmageMar 16, 2017, 6:24 PM

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38 comments5 min readLW link

A Problem for the Simulation Hypothesis

philosophytorresMar 16, 2017, 4:02 PM

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11 comments5 min readLW link

In support of Yak Shaving

EloMar 16, 2017, 5:31 AM

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14 comments4 min readLW link

Open Questions in Life-Planning

Ben PaceMar 16, 2017, 12:02 AM

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An early stage project generation model

Ben PaceMar 16, 2017, 12:01 AM

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An early stage prioritisation model

Ben PaceMar 16, 2017, 12:00 AM

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Threat erosion

BenquoMar 15, 2017, 11:32 PM

3 points

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2 comments3 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Meetup : MIRIx workshop on Logical Induction

MarkoMar 15, 2017, 5:54 PM

3 points

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Sufficiently sincere confirmation bias is indistinguishable from science

BenquoMar 15, 2017, 1:19 PM

37 points

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19 comments2 min readLW link

Automoderation System used by Columbus Rationality Community

J Thomas MorosMar 15, 2017, 1:18 PM

11 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(ferocioustruth.com)

[stub] Soliciting help for experimental design

MaryChMar 15, 2017, 11:49 AM

6 points

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1 comment6 min readLW link

Putanumonit: A spreadsheet helps debias decisions, like picking a girl to date

Jacob FalkovichMar 15, 2017, 3:19 AM

17 points

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6 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Meetup : LW Sao Paulo—Meetup de março

leohmarrudaMar 13, 2017, 11:53 PM

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Noble excuses

EloMar 13, 2017, 11:29 PM

5 points

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5 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Cherry Blossoms

RobinZMar 13, 2017, 9:18 PM

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Bindings and assurances

BenquoMar 13, 2017, 5:06 PM

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Bindings and assurances

BenquoMar 13, 2017, 5:06 PM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong Discord

excineraMar 13, 2017, 5:24 AM

6 points

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22 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, March 13 - March 19, 2017

EloMar 13, 2017, 3:46 AM

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106 comments1 min readLW link

Excuses and validity

EloMar 13, 2017, 3:44 AM

4 points

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7 comments4 min readLW link

How to Choose a Goddess (Using a Spreadsheet)

Jacob FalkovichMar 13, 2017, 2:48 AM

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0 comments10 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Meetup : Superintelligence chapter 3

pepe_primeMar 12, 2017, 8:59 PM

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Being useless to show effectiveness

KatjaGraceMar 12, 2017, 3:10 PM

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Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Meetup—general discussion

iarwain1Mar 12, 2017, 3:45 AM

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Meetup : March—pub meetup

EloMar 12, 2017, 2:37 AM

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What is a problem?

EloMar 12, 2017, 2:04 AM

4 points

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4 comments3 min readLW link

Trio Walks, Duo Talks

ZviMar 11, 2017, 11:40 AM

6 points

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Inbox zero—A guide—v2 (Instrumental behaviour)

EloMar 11, 2017, 9:34 AM

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2 comments3 min readLW link

HCH as a measure of manipulation

orthonormalMar 11, 2017, 3:02 AM

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Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system

ig0rMar 10, 2017, 8:40 PM

11 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(donellameadows.org)

Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Board Games

rocurleyMar 10, 2017, 7:57 PM

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[stub] 100-Word Unpolished Insights Thread (3/10-???)

Bound_upMar 10, 2017, 2:12 PM

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25 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ann Arbor Area Amalgam of Rationalist-Adjacent Anthropoids: March 11

SniffnoyMar 10, 2017, 12:41 AM

2 points

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Against Belief-Labels

I_D_SparseMar 9, 2017, 8:01 PM

3 points

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12 comments3 min readLW link

How AI/AGI/Consciousness works—my layman theory

rayalezMar 9, 2017, 9:17 AM

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Meetup : Chicago Rationality Reading Group

mingyuanMar 9, 2017, 3:29 AM

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An Intuition on the Bayes-Structural Justification for Free Speech Norms

Zack_M_DavisMar 9, 2017, 3:15 AM

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(zackmdavis.net)

Index of some decision theory posts

TsviBTMar 8, 2017, 10:30 PM

4 points

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Meetup : Goal factoring

pepe_primeMar 8, 2017, 9:39 PM

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Meetup : Moscow: regular meetups

Slava MatyukhinMar 8, 2017, 6:37 PM

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why people romantice magic over most science.

higurashimerlinMar 8, 2017, 6:29 PM

6 points

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17 comments1 min readLW link

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