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- ...ng rationalists]] have '''a sense that more is possible''': a belief that a much more advanced art of rationality is possible to humans, that simply ha *[http://lesswrong.com/lw/2c/a_sense_that_more_is_possible/ A Sense That More Is Possible]698 bytes (116 words) - 04:30, 15 June 2023
- ...ircumstances, one may be preferable to another, but only by a slim margin. A weapon of [[dark arts]], or an [[belief as attire|attire]] for someone iden1 KB (184 words) - 06:43, 15 June 2023
- this is a post about Gods and knowledge and bias and the world. I haven't a clue as to what to do to cross link it and weave it into the fabric of the388 bytes (76 words) - 04:43, 15 June 2023
- ...there will always be. No matter your age, you can always work on becoming a better person for both yourself and others.3 KB (582 words) - 07:42, 15 June 2023
- ...ory anyway. Please respect this wish and don't mention the authors name in a link to this page. You are free to cite parts of this as per this wiki's li ==Dealing with a Major Personal Crisis==5 KB (804 words) - 05:01, 15 June 2023
- ...ory anyway. Please respect this wish and don't mention the authors name in a link to this page. You are free to cite parts of this as per this wiki's li Back to [[Dealing with a Major Personal Crisis]]4 KB (688 words) - 05:01, 15 June 2023
- ...ory anyway. Please respect this wish and don't mention the authors name in a link to this page. You are free to cite parts of this as per this Wikis lic Back to [[Dealing with a Major Personal Crisis]]12 KB (2,244 words) - 06:48, 20 January 2014
- #REDIRECT [[Dealing with a Major Personal Crisis/Catharsis]]60 bytes (8 words) - 06:30, 20 January 2014
- #REDIRECT [[Dealing with a Major Personal Crisis/Parting]]58 bytes (8 words) - 06:31, 20 January 2014
- ...ory anyway. Please respect this wish and don't mention the authors name in a link to this page. You are free to cite parts of this as per this Wikis lic Back to [[Dealing with a Major Personal Crisis]]3 KB (618 words) - 05:01, 15 June 2023
- #REDIRECT [[Dealing with a Major Personal Crisis/Divorce Pragmatics]]69 bytes (9 words) - 06:34, 20 January 2014
- ...ory anyway. Please respect this wish and don't mention the authors name in a link to this page. You are free to cite parts of this as per this Wikis lic Back to [[Dealing with a Major Personal Crisis]]14 KB (2,536 words) - 22:11, 15 June 2015
- ...ory anyway. Please respect this wish and don't mention the authors name in a link to this page. You are free to cite parts of this as per this Wikis lic Back to [[Dealing with a Major Personal Crisis]]10 KB (1,792 words) - 22:16, 27 April 2014
- How did it become a hub? ..."moved to the Bay Area due to CFAR" is one of the strongest predictors for a CFAR participant having an "increase in expected impact".<ref>Dan Keys. [ht9 KB (1,319 words) - 07:24, 15 June 2023
- ...ow an algorithm feels|how an algorithm feels from inside]], which makes it a basic intro to key elements of the LW zeitgeist. A guide to this sequence is available at [http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_3 KB (470 words) - 06:05, 14 June 2023
- ...ory anyway. Please respect this wish and don't mention the authors name in a link to this page. You are free to cite parts of this as per this Wikis lic Back to [[Dealing with a Major Personal Crisis]]10 KB (1,712 words) - 13:17, 21 January 2014
- Renamed to [[Dealing with a Major Personal Crisis/Crisis]].59 bytes (9 words) - 06:33, 20 January 2014
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- ...experience the life of a “you” that survives, no matter how unlikely such a continuity becomes.928 bytes (132 words) - 07:05, 15 June 2023
- ...hat a particular event will occur in the future in more certain terms than a [[forecast]]. [http://predictionbook.com/ PredictionBook], a website that keeps track of predictions and calibration levels581 bytes (73 words) - 07:01, 15 June 2023
- '''Moral divergence''' is a characterization of the current state of [[consequentialism|consequentialis ...tilities. It is then clear that the picture emerging from the field brings a lot of confusion and no clear solution to what kind of utility function to4 KB (557 words) - 06:38, 15 June 2023
- ...ikely that it "filters out" nearly all civilizations before they can reach a space-faring stage. Robin Hanson coined the term in his 1998 essay [http:// The Great Filter might be a step in our evolutionary past, in which case our civilization has already p6 KB (883 words) - 05:40, 15 June 2023
- ...ering how much the hypothesis resembles available data as opposed to using a Bayesian calculation. While often very useful in everyday life, it can also1,008 bytes (134 words) - 07:22, 15 June 2023
- Renamed to [[Dealing with a Major Personal Crisis/Crisis]].59 bytes (9 words) - 06:33, 20 January 2014
- A problem is considered '''AI-complete''' or '''AI-hard''' if solving it is e ...ted, the term is usually used to communicate the qualitative difficulty of a problem.2 KB (267 words) - 06:15, 14 June 2023
- ...their own minds and what is common among everyone or unusually specific to a few. It can be often hard to see the [http://lesswrong.com/lw/jm/the_lens_1 KB (183 words) - 07:41, 15 June 2023
- Math and logic are deductive systems, where the conclusion of a successful argument follows necessarily from its premises, given the axioms1 KB (153 words) - 06:29, 15 June 2023
- ...while still appearing "impossible" to at least some philosophers, it makes a good exercise for aspiring reductionists, which ''they should try on their These posts '''should not be read''' until having made a very serious effort on your own.1 KB (216 words) - 05:31, 15 June 2023
- ...daemons''' are optimizers that result from heavy optimization pressure on a different system. For example, natural selection is an optimization process [[Wei Dai]] brings up a similar idea in an SL4 thread.<ref>Wei Dai. [http://sl4.org/archive/0312/742 KB (331 words) - 06:48, 15 June 2023
- ...t that they correctly correspond to the [[truth]]. A person's knowledge is a subset of their beliefs, namely the beliefs that are also true and justifie960 bytes (132 words) - 04:36, 15 June 2023
- ...on]] of detached facts; it requires ability to see the implications across a variety of possible contexts.700 bytes (91 words) - 07:15, 15 June 2023
- There is also a slack channel as at 2015-09-04. Information can be found here [[Less_Wrong ...n official channel. Actually, my experience tends to indicate that having a regular IRC channel might well be Considered Harmful in terms of how much o898 bytes (140 words) - 18:45, 20 May 2021
- ...ow an algorithm feels|how an algorithm feels from inside]], which makes it a basic intro to key elements of the LW zeitgeist. A guide to this sequence is available at [http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_3 KB (470 words) - 06:05, 14 June 2023
- ...uth itself is not necessarily limited to one's belief about something. For a statement/ideal/proposed fact to be considered "true," you must take it as To understand whether a belief is true, we need (only) to understand what possible states of the wo3 KB (521 words) - 07:42, 15 June 2023
- '''[http://luminous.elcenia.com/ Luminosity]''' is a Twilight fanfiction by [[Alicorn]]. Requires no knowledge of or affection f ...ositions of canon - and Luminosity ''is'' a Bella/Edward story - but she's a distinctly different character.1 KB (210 words) - 06:26, 15 June 2023
- (This page summarizes a discussion on the blog.) A [[Yudkowsky]] post of November 4th, 2007, [http://lesswrong.com/lw/ku/natur7 KB (1,153 words) - 07:31, 15 June 2023
- Persisting in clutching to a hope may be disastrous. Be ready to admit you lost, [[update]] on the data *[http://lesswrong.com/lw/hl/lotteries_a_waste_of_hope/ Lotteries: A Waste of Hope]501 bytes (77 words) - 05:45, 15 June 2023
- There is a list of [http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/d92/less_wrong_on_twitter/ Le208 bytes (30 words) - 07:41, 15 June 2023