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Pur­pose and Pragmatism

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Nov 2007 6:51 UTC
25 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Lost Purposes

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Nov 2007 9:01 UTC
183 points
79 comments6 min readLW link

The Hid­den Com­plex­ity of Wishes

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Nov 2007 0:12 UTC
173 points
192 comments8 min readLW link

Leaky Generalizations

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Nov 2007 21:16 UTC
57 points
30 comments3 min readLW link

Not for the Sake of Hap­piness (Alone)

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Nov 2007 3:19 UTC
107 points
108 comments3 min readLW link

Truly Part Of You

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Nov 2007 2:18 UTC
185 points
61 comments4 min readLW link

Ar­tifi­cial Addition

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Nov 2007 7:58 UTC
90 points
128 comments6 min readLW link

Con­jur­ing An Evolu­tion To Serve You

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Nov 2007 5:55 UTC
75 points
26 comments4 min readLW link

The Sim­ple Math of Everything

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Nov 2007 22:42 UTC
94 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

No Evolu­tions for Cor­po­ra­tions or Nanodevices

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Nov 2007 2:24 UTC
102 points
32 comments6 min readLW link

Evolv­ing to Extinction

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Nov 2007 7:18 UTC
132 points
44 comments6 min readLW link

Ter­mi­nal Values and In­stru­men­tal Values

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Nov 2007 7:56 UTC
115 points
45 comments10 min readLW link

Thou Art Godshatter

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Nov 2007 19:38 UTC
235 points
83 comments5 min readLW link

Protein Re­in­force­ment and DNA Consequentialism

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Nov 2007 1:34 UTC
61 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

Evolu­tion­ary Psychology

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Nov 2007 20:41 UTC
103 points
42 comments5 min readLW link

Adap­ta­tion-Ex­e­cuters, not Fit­ness-Maximizers

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Nov 2007 6:39 UTC
156 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Fake Op­ti­miza­tion Criteria

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Nov 2007 0:10 UTC
72 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Why aren’t our prop­erty rights over one an­other more trans­fer­able?

KatjaGrace9 Nov 2007 16:05 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fake Morality

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Nov 2007 21:32 UTC
115 points
105 comments2 min readLW link

Fake Selfishness

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Nov 2007 2:31 UTC
74 points
72 comments2 min readLW link

The Tragedy of Group Selectionism

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Nov 2007 7:47 UTC
121 points
89 comments5 min readLW link

Be­ware of Stephen J. Gould

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Nov 2007 5:22 UTC
60 points
80 comments6 min readLW link

Nat­u­ral Selec­tion’s Speed Limit and Com­plex­ity Bound

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Nov 2007 16:54 UTC
11 points
105 comments5 min readLW link

Cor­po­rate ecology

KatjaGrace3 Nov 2007 22:13 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Evolu­tions Are Stupid (But Work Any­way)

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Nov 2007 15:45 UTC
103 points
68 comments4 min readLW link

Draw­ing lines and tigers

KatjaGrace3 Nov 2007 13:08 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

A way to be more open minded (an ex­per­i­men­tal thought)

KatjaGrace3 Nov 2007 9:43 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Won­der of Evolution

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Nov 2007 20:49 UTC
92 points
85 comments4 min readLW link

Some half-se­ri­ous, half-formed thoughts on ex­ist­ing and so on

KatjaGrace2 Nov 2007 11:20 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link

An Alien God

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Nov 2007 6:57 UTC
213 points
162 comments8 min readLW link

Fake Justification

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Nov 2007 3:57 UTC
124 points
59 comments3 min readLW link

A Ter­rify­ing Hal­loween Costume

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Nov 2007 2:54 UTC
11 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

A Case Study of Mo­ti­vated Continuation

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Oct 2007 1:27 UTC
35 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

Tor­ture vs. Dust Specks

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Oct 2007 2:50 UTC
83 points
629 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ti­vated Stop­ping and Mo­ti­vated Continuation

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Oct 2007 23:10 UTC
91 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Bay Area Bayesi­ans Unite!

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Oct 2007 0:07 UTC
2 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Why Are In­di­vi­d­ual IQ Differ­ences OK?

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Oct 2007 21:50 UTC
74 points
515 comments3 min readLW link

No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Oct 2007 23:47 UTC
91 points
107 comments3 min readLW link

Dou­ble Illu­sion of Transparency

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Oct 2007 23:06 UTC
118 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ers Shoot High. Aim Low!

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Oct 2007 1:13 UTC
100 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pect­ing Short In­fer­en­tial Distances

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Oct 2007 23:42 UTC
368 points
106 comments3 min readLW link

Self-Anchoring

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Oct 2007 6:11 UTC
46 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Illu­sion of Trans­parency: Why No One Un­der­stands You

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Oct 2007 23:49 UTC
170 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

Pas­cal’s Mug­ging: Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Oct 2007 23:37 UTC
112 points
353 comments4 min readLW link

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Paris Hilton

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Oct 2007 0:31 UTC
3 points
97 comments1 min readLW link

“Can’t Say No” Spending

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Oct 2007 2:08 UTC
32 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Hold Off On Propos­ing Solutions

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Oct 2007 3:16 UTC
124 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

The Log­i­cal Fal­lacy of Gen­er­al­iza­tion from Fic­tional Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Oct 2007 3:57 UTC
126 points
62 comments6 min readLW link

The Mean­ing That Im­mor­tal­ity Gives to Life

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Oct 2007 3:02 UTC
71 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

How to Seem (and Be) Deep

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Oct 2007 18:13 UTC
115 points
122 comments4 min readLW link