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HPMOR and Sartre’s “The Flies”

wMattDoddSep 19, 2017, 8:53 PM

3 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

The Copenhagen Letter

chaosmageSep 18, 2017, 6:45 PM

0 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

(copenhagenletter.org)

A Short Explanation of Blame and Causation

DavidmanheimSep 18, 2017, 5:43 PM

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

wMattDoddSep 18, 2017, 5:03 PM

1 point

10 comments4 min readLW link

Open thread, September 18 - September 24, 2017

ThomasSep 18, 2017, 8:30 AM

3 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Stanislav Petrov has died (2017-05-19)

fortyeridaniaSep 18, 2017, 3:13 AM

14 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.rt.com)

Rational Feed

sapphireSep 17, 2017, 10:03 PM

12 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

David C Denkenberger on Food Production after a Sun Obscuring Disaster

JenniferRMSep 17, 2017, 9:06 PM

13 points

26 comments3 min readLW link

The Wedding Ceremony

Jacob FalkovichSep 17, 2017, 12:54 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

We’ve failed: paid publication , pirates win.

morganismSep 16, 2017, 9:53 PM

7 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Perspective Reasoning’s Counter to The Doomsday Argument

Xianda_GAO_duplicate0.5321505782395719Sep 16, 2017, 7:39 PM

4 points

38 comments8 min readLW link

Against Facebook: The Stalking

ZviSep 16, 2017, 12:41 PM

42 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Stupid Questions September 2017

ErfeyahSep 15, 2017, 9:21 PM

2 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Fish oil and the self-critical brain loop

EloSep 15, 2017, 9:53 AM

5 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(bearlamp.com.au)

General and Surprising

John_MaxwellSep 15, 2017, 6:33 AM

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.paulgraham.com)

LW 2.0 Strategic Overview

habrykaSep 15, 2017, 3:00 AM

85 points

296 comments23 min readLW link

LW 2.0 Open Beta starts 9/20

VaniverSep 15, 2017, 2:57 AM

39 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Understanding Policy Gradients

SquirrelInHellSep 13, 2017, 9:13 PM

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

2017 LessWrong Survey

namespaceSep 13, 2017, 6:26 AM

29 points

75 comments1 min readLW link

2017 LessWrong Survey

namespaceSep 13, 2017, 6:18 AM

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, September 11 - September 17, 2017

ThomasSep 11, 2017, 7:46 AM

1 point

47 comments1 min readLW link

Best of Don’t Worry About the Vase

ZviSep 10, 2017, 12:18 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

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

ElizabethSep 9, 2017, 11:50 PM

12 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Is Feedback Suffering?

Gordon Seidoh WorleySep 9, 2017, 10:20 PM

9 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(mapandterritory.org)

Rational Feed

sapphireSep 9, 2017, 7:48 PM

20 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

Book Reviews: Zoolitude and the Void

Jacob FalkovichSep 9, 2017, 3:32 PM

3 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Instrumental Rationality Sequence Finished! (w/ caveats)

lifelonglearnerSep 9, 2017, 1:49 AM

5 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Inconsistent Beliefs and Charitable Giving

Rossin_duplicate0.6898194309641386Sep 8, 2017, 7:33 AM

4 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

New business opportunities due to self-driving cars

chaosmageSep 6, 2017, 8:07 PM

13 points

68 comments4 min readLW link

Come check out the Boulder Future Salon this Saturday!

fowlertmSep 6, 2017, 3:49 PM

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Heuristics for textbook selection

John_MaxwellSep 6, 2017, 4:17 AM

12 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Expanding Premium Mediocrity

ZviSep 5, 2017, 11:01 PM

−1 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Online discussion is better than pre-publication peer review

Wei DaiSep 5, 2017, 1:25 PM

28 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, September 4 - September 10, 2017

ThomasSep 4, 2017, 7:41 AM

2 points

30 comments1 min readLW link

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

Scott AlexanderSep 3, 2017, 8:56 PM

78 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Minimizing Motivated Beliefs

entirelyuselessSep 3, 2017, 3:56 PM

2 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(entirelyuseless.wordpress.com)

Debiasing by rationalizing your own motives

Kaj_SotalaSep 3, 2017, 12:20 PM

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Intellectual Progress Inside and Outside Academia

Ben PaceSep 2, 2017, 11:08 PM

40 points

5 comments14 min readLW link

September 2017 Media Thread

ArisKatsarisSep 2, 2017, 9:17 PM

1 point

26 comments1 min readLW link

Simplified Anthropic Doomsday

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 2, 2017, 8:37 PM

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor

Scott AlexanderSep 2, 2017, 7:50 PM

127 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

The Case Of The Suffocating Woman

Scott AlexanderSep 2, 2017, 7:42 PM

18 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

Exploring Premium Mediocrity

ZviSep 2, 2017, 7:20 PM

−1 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Learning To Love Scientific Consensus

Scott AlexanderSep 2, 2017, 8:44 AM

31 points

1 comment19 min readLW link

I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

Scott AlexanderSep 2, 2017, 8:22 AM

107 points

5 comments28 min readLW link

The Doomsday argument in anthropic decision theory

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 31, 2017, 1:44 PM

11 points

58 comments3 min readLW link

The Doomsday argument in anthropic decision theory

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 31, 2017, 1:20 PM

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

What you can’t say to a sympathetic ear

KatjaGraceAug 31, 2017, 12:05 AM

9 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Critiquing other people’s plans politely

KatjaGraceAug 30, 2017, 11:25 PM

1 point

0 comments5 min readLW link

Intrinsic properties and Eliezer’s metaethics

Tyrrell_McAllisterAug 29, 2017, 11:26 PM

18 points

27 comments6 min readLW link

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