Sim­ple friendli­ness: Plan B for AI

Cry­oburn—Im­pe­rial Au­di­tor Vorkosi­gan in­ves­ti­gates the cry­on­ics industry

Know thy­self vs. know one another

PhilPapers sur­vey re­sults now in­clude correlations

Sim­ple freindli­ness: plan B for AI

A note on the de­scrip­tion com­plex­ity of phys­i­cal theories

In­for­ma­tion Hazards

Mak­ing the Uni­verse Last For­ever By Throw­ing Away En­tropy Into Base­ment Uni­verses?

This Is How Bill and Hillary Dis­cuss Din­ner Op­tions

Bye Bye Ben­ton: Novem­ber Less Wrong Meetup

Re­cent re­sults on lower bounds in cir­cuit com­plex­ity.

A hy­po­thet­i­cal can­di­date walks into a hy­po­thet­i­cal job in­ter­view...

The value of pre­serv­ing reality

Chicago Meetup 11/​14

Twinkie diet helps nu­tri­tion pro­fes­sor lose 27 pounds

Do we have a tech­nolog­i­cal growth prob­lem?

A writer de­scribes grad­u­ally los­ing language

What are the best de­moable find­ings in cogsci?

An Xtra­nor­mal In­tel­li­gence Explosion

Have no heroes, and no villains

The hard limits of hard nanotech

Vari­a­tion on con­for­mity experiment

Yet Another “Ra­tional Ap­proach To Mo­ral­ity & Friendly AI Se­quence”

What do you read? What would “desk arche­ol­ogy” pro­duce?

Stan­ford his­to­rian on the singularity

Print ready ver­sion of The Sequences

Con­joined twins who share a brain/​ex­pe­rience?

POLL: Real­ism and reductionism

Are the effects of UFAI likely to be seen at as­tro­nom­i­cal dis­tances?

Go­ertzel on Psi in H+ Magazine

Reli­gious/​Wor­ld­view Techniques

Ex­plain­ing in­for­ma­tion the­o­retic vs ther­mo­dy­namic en­tropy?

The Curve of Capability

Speci­fi­ca­tion failure

POLL: Reductionism

Light cone eat­ing AI ex­plo­sions are not filters

Katja Grace’s An­thropic Rea­son­ing in the Great Filter

Re­fut­ing the “iron law of bu­reau­cracy”?

An apology

Con­trol Fraud

Meet-ups, con­tin­u­ing the conversation

Amoral Ap­proaches to Morality

META: Meetup Overload

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes: Novem­ber 2010

Vot­ing is not ra­tio­nal (usu­ally.)

Waser’s 3 Goals of Morality

Oxford (UK) Ra­tion­al­ity & AI Risks Dis­cus­sion Group

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 5

Toy model of hu­man values

South/​Eastern Europe Meet­ing in Ljubl­jana/​Slovenia