The Copen­hagen Letter

chaosmage18 Sep 2017 18:45 UTC
0 points
16 comments1 min readLW link
(copenhagenletter.org)

A Short Ex­pla­na­tion of Blame and Causation

Davidmanheim18 Sep 2017 17:43 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Unusual med­i­cal event led to con­clud­ing I was most likely an AI in a simu­lated world

wMattDodd18 Sep 2017 17:03 UTC
1 point
10 comments4 min readLW link

Open thread, Septem­ber 18 - Septem­ber 24, 2017

Thomas18 Sep 2017 8:30 UTC
3 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Stanis­lav Petrov has died (2017-05-19)

fortyeridania18 Sep 2017 3:13 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.rt.com)

Ra­tional Feed

sapphire17 Sep 2017 22:03 UTC
12 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

David C Denken­berger on Food Pro­duc­tion af­ter a Sun Ob­scur­ing Disaster

JenniferRM17 Sep 2017 21:06 UTC
13 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

The Wed­ding Ceremony

Jacob Falkovich17 Sep 2017 0:54 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

We’ve failed: paid pub­li­ca­tion , pirates win.

morganism16 Sep 2017 21:53 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Per­spec­tive Rea­son­ing’s Counter to The Dooms­day Argument

Xianda_GAO_duplicate0.532150578239571916 Sep 2017 19:39 UTC
4 points
38 comments8 min readLW link

Against Face­book: The Stalking

Zvi16 Sep 2017 12:41 UTC
42 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Stupid Ques­tions Septem­ber 2017

Erfeyah15 Sep 2017 21:21 UTC
2 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Fish oil and the self-crit­i­cal brain loop

Elo15 Sep 2017 9:53 UTC
4 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(bearlamp.com.au)

Gen­eral and Surprising

John_Maxwell15 Sep 2017 6:33 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.paulgraham.com)

LW 2.0 Strate­gic Overview

habryka15 Sep 2017 3:00 UTC
85 points
296 comments23 min readLW link

LW 2.0 Open Beta starts 9/​20

Vaniver15 Sep 2017 2:57 UTC
39 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing Policy Gradients

SquirrelInHell13 Sep 2017 21:13 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

2017 LessWrong Survey

namespace13 Sep 2017 6:26 UTC
29 points
75 comments1 min readLW link

2017 LessWrong Survey

namespace13 Sep 2017 6:18 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Septem­ber 11 - Septem­ber 17, 2017

Thomas11 Sep 2017 7:46 UTC
1 point
47 comments1 min readLW link

Best of Don’t Worry About the Vase

Zvi10 Sep 2017 12:18 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic Spot Check: Ex­er­cise for Mood and Anx­iety (Michael W. Otto, Jasper A.J. Smits)

Elizabeth9 Sep 2017 23:50 UTC
10 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Is Feed­back Suffer­ing?

Gordon Seidoh Worley9 Sep 2017 22:20 UTC
9 points
8 comments5 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Ra­tional Feed

sapphire9 Sep 2017 19:48 UTC
20 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Book Re­views: Zooli­tude and the Void

Jacob Falkovich9 Sep 2017 15:32 UTC
3 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity Se­quence Finished! (w/​ caveats)

lifelonglearner9 Sep 2017 1:49 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

In­con­sis­tent Beliefs and Char­i­ta­ble Giving

Rossin_duplicate0.68981943096413868 Sep 2017 7:33 UTC
4 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

New busi­ness op­por­tu­ni­ties due to self-driv­ing cars

chaosmage6 Sep 2017 20:07 UTC
13 points
68 comments4 min readLW link

Come check out the Boulder Fu­ture Salon this Satur­day!

fowlertm6 Sep 2017 15:49 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Heuris­tics for text­book selection

John_Maxwell6 Sep 2017 4:17 UTC
12 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pand­ing Premium Mediocrity

Zvi5 Sep 2017 23:01 UTC
−1 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

On­line dis­cus­sion is bet­ter than pre-pub­li­ca­tion peer review

Wei Dai5 Sep 2017 13:25 UTC
27 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Septem­ber 4 - Septem­ber 10, 2017

Thomas4 Sep 2017 7:41 UTC
2 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

If It’s Worth Do­ing, It’s Worth Do­ing With Made-Up Statistics

Scott Alexander3 Sep 2017 20:56 UTC
72 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Min­i­miz­ing Mo­ti­vated Beliefs

entirelyuseless3 Sep 2017 15:56 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(entirelyuseless.wordpress.com)

De­bi­as­ing by ra­tio­nal­iz­ing your own motives

Kaj_Sotala3 Sep 2017 12:20 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

In­tel­lec­tual Progress In­side and Out­side Academia

Ben Pace2 Sep 2017 23:08 UTC
40 points
5 comments14 min readLW link

Septem­ber 2017 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris2 Sep 2017 21:17 UTC
1 point
26 comments1 min readLW link

Sim­plified An­thropic Doomsday

Stuart_Armstrong2 Sep 2017 20:37 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Be­ware Iso­lated De­mands For Rigor

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 19:50 UTC
119 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

The Case Of The Suffo­cat­ing Woman

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 19:42 UTC
14 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing Premium Mediocrity

Zvi2 Sep 2017 19:20 UTC
−1 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Learn­ing To Love Scien­tific Consensus

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 8:44 UTC
29 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

I Can Tol­er­ate Any­thing Ex­cept The Outgroup

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 8:22 UTC
88 points
4 comments28 min readLW link

The Dooms­day ar­gu­ment in an­thropic de­ci­sion theory

Stuart_Armstrong31 Aug 2017 13:44 UTC
11 points
58 comments3 min readLW link

The Dooms­day ar­gu­ment in an­thropic de­ci­sion theory

Stuart_Armstrong31 Aug 2017 13:20 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

What you can’t say to a sym­pa­thetic ear

KatjaGrace31 Aug 2017 0:05 UTC
9 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Cri­tiquing other peo­ple’s plans politely

KatjaGrace30 Aug 2017 23:25 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readLW link

In­trin­sic prop­er­ties and Eliezer’s metaethics

Tyrrell_McAllister29 Aug 2017 23:26 UTC
18 points
27 comments6 min readLW link

Is there a flaw in the simu­la­tion ar­gu­ment?

philosophytorres29 Aug 2017 14:34 UTC
2 points
14 comments5 min readLW link