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…And I Show You How Deep The Rab­bit Hole Goes

Scott Alexander3 Jun 2015 1:47 UTC
222 points
15 comments21 min readLW link

The Brain as a Univer­sal Learn­ing Machine

jacob_cannell24 Jun 2015 21:45 UTC
188 points
171 comments19 min readLW link

Tak­ing the reins at MIRI

So8res3 Jun 2015 23:52 UTC
95 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Top 9+2 myths about AI risk

Stuart_Armstrong29 Jun 2015 20:41 UTC
68 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Against Tulip Subsidies

Scott Alexander6 Jun 2015 4:19 UTC
54 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Pat­tern-botch­ing: when you for­get you understand

MalcolmOcean15 Jun 2015 22:58 UTC
45 points
18 comments7 min readLW link

Si­mul­ta­neous Over­con­fi­dence and Underconfidence

abramdemski3 Jun 2015 21:04 UTC
37 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

In praise of gullibil­ity?

ahbwramc18 Jun 2015 4:52 UTC
36 points
106 comments5 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing the Twelve Virtues of Rationality

Gleb_Tsipursky9 Jun 2015 3:08 UTC
35 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Are con­se­quen­tial­ism and de­on­tol­ogy not even wrong?

Kaj_Sotala2 Jun 2015 7:49 UTC
34 points
58 comments5 min readLW link

A Pro­posal for Defeat­ing Moloch in the Pri­son In­dus­trial Complex

lululu2 Jun 2015 22:03 UTC
33 points
77 comments4 min readLW link

Sur­pris­ing ex­am­ples of non-hu­man optimization

Jan_Rzymkowski14 Jun 2015 17:05 UTC
31 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Autism, or early iso­la­tion?

JonahS17 Jun 2015 8:52 UTC
31 points
62 comments2 min readLW link

Con­cep­tual Spe­cial­iza­tion of La­bor En­ables Precision

Vaniver8 Jun 2015 2:11 UTC
30 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Two-box­ing, smok­ing and chew­ing gum in Med­i­cal New­comb problems

Caspar Oesterheld29 Jun 2015 10:35 UTC
29 points
93 comments1 min readLW link

In­trin­sic mo­ti­va­tion is cru­cial for over­com­ing akrasia

JonahS17 Jun 2015 22:39 UTC
29 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2015 Im­pres­sions Thread

Gunnar_Zarncke14 Jun 2015 20:21 UTC
29 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Nate Soares is an­swer­ing ques­tions about MIRI at the EA Forum

Rob Bensinger11 Jun 2015 0:27 UTC
28 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

Short Story: Quarantine

Dias10 Jun 2015 1:21 UTC
28 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

When does her­i­ta­ble low fit­ness need to be ex­plained?

DanArmak10 Jun 2015 0:05 UTC
27 points
147 comments2 min readLW link

FAI Re­search Con­straints and AGI Side Effects

JustinShovelain3 Jun 2015 19:25 UTC
27 points
59 comments7 min readLW link

Two Zendo-in­spired games

StephenBarnes22 Jun 2015 15:47 UTC
26 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Philo­soph­i­cal differences

ahbwramc13 Jun 2015 1:16 UTC
25 points
29 comments12 min readLW link

Rest in motion

So8res28 Jun 2015 3:00 UTC
25 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Beyond Statis­tics 101

JonahS26 Jun 2015 10:24 UTC
25 points
129 comments2 min readLW link

Con­fes­sion Thread: Mis­takes as an as­piring rationalist

diegocaleiro2 Jun 2015 18:10 UTC
25 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic Trust: Clarification

abramdemski13 Jun 2015 19:29 UTC
24 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Alien neu­rop­unk slaver civilizations

D_Malik15 Jun 2015 6:30 UTC
24 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Seek­ing geeks in­ter­ested in bioinformatics

bokov22 Jun 2015 13:44 UTC
24 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

The Joy of Bias

estimator9 Jun 2015 19:04 UTC
23 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Per­cep­tual En­tropy and Frozen Estimates

Davidmanheim3 Jun 2015 19:27 UTC
23 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

Ac­com­plish­ing things takes a long time

JonahS15 Jun 2015 21:59 UTC
23 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Your “shoulds” are not a duty

So8res7 Jun 2015 3:00 UTC
22 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

[link] Choose your (prefer­ence) util­i­tar­i­anism care­fully – part 1

Kaj_Sotala25 Jun 2015 12:06 UTC
21 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Less­wrong, Effec­tive Altru­ism Fo­rum and Slate Star Codex: Harm Reduction

diegocaleiro8 Jun 2015 16:37 UTC
21 points
153 comments2 min readLW link

Work­ing your­self ragged is not a virtue

So8res21 Jun 2015 3:00 UTC
20 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Par­ent­ing Tech­nique: In­crease Your Child’s Work­ing Memory

James_Miller29 Jun 2015 19:51 UTC
20 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

[link] Baidu cheats in an AI con­test in or­der to gain a 0.24% advantage

Wei Dai6 Jun 2015 6:39 UTC
20 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Agency is bugs and uncertainty

shminux6 Jun 2015 4:53 UTC
20 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

A sur­vey of the top posters on lesswrong

Elo11 Jun 2015 1:47 UTC
20 points
42 comments5 min readLW link

As­so­ci­ated vs Relevant

abramdemski15 Jun 2015 1:12 UTC
19 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[link] Es­say on AI Safety

jsteinhardt26 Jun 2015 7:42 UTC
19 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Roadmap: Plan of Ac­tion to Prevent Hu­man Ex­tinc­tion Risks

turchin1 Jun 2015 9:58 UTC
18 points
88 comments1 min readLW link

The pres­i­dent didn’t die: failures at ex­tend­ing AI behaviour

Stuart_Armstrong10 Jun 2015 16:00 UTC
17 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] Word-vec­tor based DL sys­tem achieves hu­man par­ity in ver­bal IQ tests

jacob_cannell13 Jun 2015 23:38 UTC
17 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

How much do we know about cre­ativity?

NancyLebovitz9 Jun 2015 12:43 UTC
16 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing open-mindedness

cleonid2 Jun 2015 13:35 UTC
15 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part C: Notic­ing Confusion

Gram_Stone18 Jun 2015 1:01 UTC
15 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

A map: Ty­pol­ogy of hu­man ex­tinc­tion risks

turchin23 Jun 2015 17:23 UTC
15 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

[Link]: The Un­rea­son­able Effec­tive­ness of Re­cur­rent Neu­ral Networks

turchin4 Jun 2015 20:47 UTC
13 points
20 comments1 min readLW link