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Statcheck: Extract statistics from articles and recompute p values
morganism
Apr 24, 2017, 11:07 PM
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(mbnuijten.com)
The 2017 Effective Altruism Survey—Please Take!
Peter Wildeford
Apr 24, 2017, 9:08 PM
9
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Chaos and Consequentialism
ProofOfLogic
Apr 24, 2017, 8:43 PM
3
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(weird.solar)
Open thread, Apr. 24 - Apr. 30, 2017
gilch
Apr 24, 2017, 7:43 PM
5
points
98
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Unstaging Developmental Psychology
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Apr 24, 2017, 3:39 AM
8
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
Help Us Find Your Blog (and others)
Zvi
Apr 23, 2017, 11:53 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future
ESRogs
Apr 23, 2017, 7:27 AM
12
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(waitbutwhy.com)
Against Facebook: Comparison to Alternatives and Call to Action
Zvi
Apr 22, 2017, 4:44 PM
1
point
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Against Facebook
Zvi
Apr 22, 2017, 4:43 PM
19
points
0
comments
27
min read
LW
link
The AI Alignment Problem Has Already Been Solved(?) Once
SquirrelInHell
Apr 22, 2017, 1:24 PM
55
points
45
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)
Book Review – Too Like the Lightning
Jacob Falkovich
Apr 21, 2017, 6:49 PM
7
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Effective altruism is self-recommending
Benquo
Apr 21, 2017, 6:37 PM
100
points
68
comments
27
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Projects
rocurley
Apr 21, 2017, 3:13 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Slate Star Codex
RobinZ
Apr 20, 2017, 2:57 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Chicago Applied Rationality Training
mingyuan
Apr 20, 2017, 1:32 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Don’t Shoot the Messenger
Vaniver
Apr 19, 2017, 10:14 PM
18
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Holy Ghost in the Cloud (review article about christian transhumanism)
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Apr 19, 2017, 6:09 PM
1
point
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(turingchurch.net)
An OpenAI board seat is surprisingly expensive
Benquo
Apr 19, 2017, 9:05 AM
12
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An inquiry into memory of humans
Elo
Apr 19, 2017, 7:02 AM
4
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Review of “The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds,” Michael Lewis’ book about Kahneman & Tversky
fortyeridania
Apr 19, 2017, 5:13 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.nybooks.com)
Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: Fallacymania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery
Alexander230
Apr 18, 2017, 9:46 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Denver Area LW May Meetup
PonchoPal
Apr 18, 2017, 8:13 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
April ’17 I Care About Thread
MaryCh
Apr 18, 2017, 2:08 PM
7
points
56
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Expected utility of control vs expected utility of actions
whpearson
Apr 18, 2017, 8:17 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(github.com)
Deleuze contra Error: Other Misadventures of Thought
ig0r
Apr 18, 2017, 5:45 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(larvalsubjects.wordpress.com)
Open thread, Apr. 17 - Apr. 23, 2017
gilch
Apr 18, 2017, 2:47 AM
2
points
145
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : First Medellin, Colombia Meetup
jpulgarin
Apr 17, 2017, 11:03 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Two Major Obstacles for Logical Inductor Decision Theory
Scott Garrabrant
Apr 17, 2017, 9:10 PM
35
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
New discussion platform for Less Wrong community (Mastodon instance)
rayalez
Apr 17, 2017, 4:00 PM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Utility and Agoric systems—Looking at an expected utility of control rather than specific action
IAFF-User-228
Apr 17, 2017, 2:33 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(github.com)
Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—May 2017
luminosity
Apr 17, 2017, 1:03 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How French intellectuals ruined the West—Postmodernism and its impact, explained
ig0r
Apr 17, 2017, 12:42 AM
3
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(areomagazine.com)
Straw Hufflepuffs and Lone Heroes
Raemon
Apr 16, 2017, 11:48 PM
50
points
63
comments
5
min read
LW
link
LessWrong analytics (February 2009 to January 2017)
riceissa
Apr 16, 2017, 10:45 PM
32
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Towards a More Sophisticated Understanding of Myth and Religion (?)
Erfeyah
Apr 16, 2017, 8:31 PM
8
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
United We Blame
Zvi
Apr 16, 2017, 11:40 AM
2
points
0
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Madrid—Rationality lecture and activities
Pablo Villalobos
Apr 15, 2017, 10:19 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Board Games
rocurley
Apr 15, 2017, 8:19 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Putanumonit: If rationality is a religion, it’s a crappy one.
Jacob Falkovich
Apr 15, 2017, 4:44 PM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Where’s the first benign agent?
IAFF-User-214
Apr 15, 2017, 12:36 PM
4
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(thepdv.wordpress.com)
Bad Religion
Jacob Falkovich
Apr 15, 2017, 5:53 AM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
LessWrong and Miri mentioned in major German newspaper’s article on Neoreactionaries
-necate-
Apr 14, 2017, 8:20 AM
6
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Chicago Rationality Meeting: Applied Rationality Training
mingyuan
Apr 14, 2017, 12:08 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
ALBA: can you be “aligned” at increased “capacity”?
Stuart_Armstrong
Apr 13, 2017, 7:25 PM
0
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
ALBA: can you be “aligned” at increased “capacity”?
Stuart_Armstrong
Apr 13, 2017, 7:23 PM
7
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cheating Omega
gilch
Apr 13, 2017, 3:39 AM
12
points
32
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Escalator Action
Zvi
Apr 12, 2017, 10:25 PM
1
point
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on Automoderation
ProofOfLogic
Apr 12, 2017, 9:29 PM
4
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Visiting Museums
RobinZ
Apr 12, 2017, 2:45 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Meetup 15 (for real this time) - Trigger Action Planning
null
Apr 12, 2017, 12:52 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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