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The Use and Abuse of Witch­doc­tors for Life

lifelonglearnerJun 24, 2017, 8:59 PM
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On Dragon Army

ZviJun 24, 2017, 10:44 AM
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Bi-Weekly Ra­tional Feed

sapphireJun 24, 2017, 12:07 AM
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Idea for LessWrong: Video Tutoring

Adam ZernerJun 23, 2017, 9:40 PM
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Coal­i­tion Dy­nam­ics as Morality

abramdemskiJun 23, 2017, 6:00 PM
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The evolu­tion of su­per­sti­tious and su­per­sti­tion-like behaviour

c0rw1nJun 23, 2017, 4:14 PM
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[Clas­sifieds] What are you do­ing to make the world a bet­ter place and how can we help?

namespaceJun 22, 2017, 12:44 AM
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Pair De­bug to Un­der­stand, not Fix

VaniverJun 21, 2017, 11:25 PM
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Pu­tanu­monit: What statis­ti­cal power means, and why I’m ter­rified about psychology

Jacob FalkovichJun 21, 2017, 6:29 PM
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Epistemic Spot Check: The De­mon Un­der the Micro­scope (Thomas Hager)

ElizabethJun 21, 2017, 4:00 PM
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Three Re­sponses to In­cor­rect Folk Ontologies

J Thomas MorosJun 21, 2017, 2:26 PM
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Pri­ors Are Useless

DragonGodJun 21, 2017, 11:42 AM
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The Bat­tle for Psychology

Jacob FalkovichJun 21, 2017, 3:51 AM
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Distinc­tions of the Moment

abramdemskiJun 20, 2017, 2:38 PM
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S-risks: Why they are the worst ex­is­ten­tial risks, and how to pre­vent them

Kaj_SotalaJun 20, 2017, 12:34 PM
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Angst, En­nui, and Guilt in Effec­tive Altruism

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJun 19, 2017, 8:38 PM
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Mo­men­tum, Reflec­tive­ness, Peace | Otium

sarah.constantinJun 19, 2017, 6:16 PM
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Closed Beta Users: What would make you in­ter­ested in us­ing LessWrong 2.0?

HabrykaJun 19, 2017, 6:28 AM
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Open thread, June. 19 - June. 25, 2017

EloJun 18, 2017, 11:10 PM
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In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity 1: Start­ing Advice

lifelonglearnerJun 18, 2017, 6:43 PM
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Wel­come to Less­wrong 2.0

habrykaJun 18, 2017, 5:23 PM
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LessWrong 2.0 Fea­ture Roadmap & Fea­ture Suggestions

habrykaJun 17, 2017, 10:18 PM
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Con­crete Ways You Can Help Make the Com­mu­nity Better

sapphireJun 17, 2017, 3:03 AM
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An­nounc­ing AASAA—Ac­cel­er­at­ing AI Safety Adop­tion in Academia (and el­se­where)

nullJun 15, 2017, 6:55 PM
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An­nounc­ing AASAA—Ac­cel­er­at­ing AI Safety Adop­tion in Academia (and el­se­where)

nullJun 15, 2017, 6:50 PM
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An­nounc­ing AASAA—Ac­cel­er­at­ing AI Safety Adop­tion in Academia (and el­se­where)

nullJun 15, 2017, 6:45 PM
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Thought ex­per­i­ment: coarse-grained VR utopia

cousin_itJun 14, 2017, 8:03 AM
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Lloyd’s of Lon­don and less-than-catas­trophic risk

fortyeridaniaJun 14, 2017, 2:49 AM
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Per­sona 5: Spoiler-Free Review

ZviJun 13, 2017, 10:32 PM
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Learn­ing from Hu­man Prefer­ences—from OpenAI (in­clud­ing Chris­ti­ano, Amodei & Legg)

Dr_ManhattanJun 13, 2017, 3:52 PM
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Math­e­mat­i­cal Sys­tem For Calibration

DragonGodJun 13, 2017, 12:01 PM
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The Ra­tion­al­ist­sphere and the Less Wrong wiki

Deku-shrubJun 12, 2017, 11:29 PM
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Am I/​Was I a Cul­tist?

DragonGodJun 12, 2017, 11:21 PM
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Any Chris­ti­ans Here?

DragonGodJun 12, 2017, 11:18 PM
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Open thread, June. 12 - June. 18, 2017

ThomasJun 12, 2017, 5:36 AM
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Re­cov­er­ing from Failure

lifelonglearnerJun 11, 2017, 9:57 PM
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Why I think worse than death out­comes are not a good rea­son for most peo­ple to avoid cryonics

SynapticJun 11, 2017, 3:55 PM
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We are the Athe­ni­ans, not the Spartans

wubblesJun 11, 2017, 5:53 AM
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Where do hy­pothe­ses come from?

c0rw1nJun 11, 2017, 4:05 AM
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Bi-Weekly Ra­tional Feed

sapphireJun 10, 2017, 9:56 PM
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Stupid Ques­tions June 2017

gilchJun 10, 2017, 6:32 PM
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Two Ma­jor Ob­sta­cles for Log­i­cal In­duc­tor De­ci­sion Theory

endoselfJun 10, 2017, 5:48 AM
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Episte­mol­ogy vs Crit­i­cal Thinking

OnemorenicknameJun 10, 2017, 2:41 AM
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Sum­mer Pro­gram­ming Notice

Jacob FalkovichJun 9, 2017, 5:37 PM
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Hu­mans are not agents: short vs long term

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 9, 2017, 11:16 AM
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SSC Jour­nal Club: AI Timelines

Scott AlexanderJun 8, 2017, 7:00 PM
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Bring up Genius

ViliamJun 8, 2017, 5:44 PM
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Re­search As­sis­tant po­si­tions at the Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute and Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altruism

crmflynnJun 8, 2017, 5:20 PM
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De­stroy­ing the Utility Mon­ster—An Alter­na­tive For­ma­tion of Utility

DragonGodJun 8, 2017, 12:37 PM
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Bet or up­date: fix­ing the will-to-wa­ger assumption

cousin_itJun 7, 2017, 3:03 PM
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