Vanilla and choco­late and prefer­ence judgements

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 18 Apr 2011 22:14 UTC
39 points
32 comments6 min readLW link

Non­super­in­tel­li­gent AI threat

PlaidX18 Apr 2011 21:21 UTC
16 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Learned Blankness

AnnaSalamon18 Apr 2011 18:55 UTC
260 points
188 comments5 min readLW link

Less Wrongers from Austin

MinibearRex18 Apr 2011 14:07 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Austin Less Wrong Meetup, Satur­day April 23rd, 12:00 Noon

NMJablonski18 Apr 2011 3:18 UTC
8 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Build Small Skills in the Right Order

lukeprog17 Apr 2011 23:01 UTC
168 points
219 comments5 min readLW link

Se­quence Ex­er­cise: “Ex­ten­sions and In­ten­sions” from “A Hu­man’s Guide to Words”

Normal_Anomaly17 Apr 2011 20:22 UTC
19 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences): Exercises

RobinZ17 Apr 2011 15:31 UTC
38 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

A con­fused model of the self-in­di­ca­tion assumption

AdeleneDawner17 Apr 2011 13:40 UTC
3 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Shang­hai Less Wrong Meetup April 30th, 2pm

Patrick17 Apr 2011 11:11 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ray Kurzweil on The Colbert Re­port [video em­bed]

Kevin17 Apr 2011 10:32 UTC
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Ray Kurzweil on The Colbert Re­port [video em­bed]

Kevin17 Apr 2011 10:13 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The right kind of fun?

Dorikka16 Apr 2011 23:20 UTC
4 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

“High Value” Karma vs “Reg­u­lar” (i.e. Quir­rell Points)

Raemon16 Apr 2011 22:26 UTC
20 points
83 comments2 min readLW link

Se­quence Ex­er­cise: first 3 posts from “A Hu­man’s Guide to Words”

Normal_Anomaly16 Apr 2011 17:21 UTC
43 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Friendly to who?

TimFreeman16 Apr 2011 11:43 UTC
4 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

wire­less-head­ing, value drift and so on

h-H16 Apr 2011 6:45 UTC
−6 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Offense ver­sus harm minimization

Scott Alexander16 Apr 2011 1:06 UTC
87 points
429 comments9 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics: con­vinc­ing my parents

Axel15 Apr 2011 19:02 UTC
9 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

How Many of Me Are There?

Eneasz15 Apr 2011 19:00 UTC
17 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

DC Meetup: Last Dis­cus­sion Thread

atucker15 Apr 2011 4:48 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

First Tri­an­gle LW Meetup 5/​4 7pm (Raleigh/​Durham/​Chapel Hill)

curiousepic15 Apr 2011 3:54 UTC
6 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

How thor­oughly do you re­search your dreams?

KatjaGrace15 Apr 2011 1:35 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

How You Make Judg­ments: The Elephant and its Rider

lukeprog15 Apr 2011 1:02 UTC
62 points
19 comments13 min readLW link

Say More, Jus­tify Less

paulfchristiano14 Apr 2011 22:41 UTC
28 points
26 comments7 min readLW link

Brief Query- An Idea

Carinthium14 Apr 2011 19:55 UTC
14 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Con­fused about the dooms­day ar­gu­ment, please help

cousin_it14 Apr 2011 18:56 UTC
11 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

First Phoenix, AZ Less Wrong Meetup 4/​17 from 12-2pm

Danny_Hintze14 Apr 2011 18:38 UTC
7 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

The Bias You Didn’t Expect

Psychohistorian14 Apr 2011 16:20 UTC
132 points
91 comments2 min readLW link

Link: Why and how to de­bate charitably

RobinZ14 Apr 2011 16:14 UTC
18 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Book reviews

PhilGoetz14 Apr 2011 13:50 UTC
7 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Three con­sis­tent po­si­tions for computationalists

dfranke14 Apr 2011 13:15 UTC
7 points
183 comments4 min readLW link

Spe­cific Fic­tion Dis­cu­sion (April 2011)

Armok_GoB14 Apr 2011 12:29 UTC
10 points
162 comments1 min readLW link

Might whole brain em­u­la­tion re­quire quan­tum-level em­u­la­tion?

lukeprog14 Apr 2011 6:12 UTC
17 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Gödel and Bayes: quick question

hairyfigment14 Apr 2011 6:12 UTC
2 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

Ara­tional quotes

Dr_Manhattan14 Apr 2011 0:58 UTC
1 point
53 comments1 min readLW link

Levels of Action

alyssavance14 Apr 2011 0:18 UTC
186 points
47 comments9 min readLW link

David Marr on two types of in­for­ma­tion-pro­cess­ing problems

nhamann13 Apr 2011 23:56 UTC
9 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

How not to be a Naïve Computationalist

diegocaleiro13 Apr 2011 19:45 UTC
39 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Cen­tral Penn­syl­va­nia meetup?

[deleted]13 Apr 2011 19:20 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Link: Forbes blog post on Cryonics

lsparrish13 Apr 2011 18:31 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity Podcast

Eneasz13 Apr 2011 17:09 UTC
45 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Hunger can make you stupid

Dorikka13 Apr 2011 16:17 UTC
15 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Econ­talk with An­dresen on BitCoin (some in­ter­est here) - link

Dr_Manhattan13 Apr 2011 15:01 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Eight ques­tions for computationalists

dfranke13 Apr 2011 12:46 UTC
22 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

Melbourne Meetup May 6th, 6pm

Patrick13 Apr 2011 8:32 UTC
4 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

When is it ever ra­tio­nal to en­ter a sweep­stakes where you may have a 1/​10,000 chance of win­ning?

InquilineKea13 Apr 2011 6:43 UTC
1 point
16 comments1 min readLW link

Why death for one­self, suffer­ing for oth­ers?

KatjaGrace13 Apr 2011 2:59 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Best videos in­spiring first in­ter­est in ra­tio­nal­ity or the singularity

Academian13 Apr 2011 2:32 UTC
6 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Oc­cam’s Ra­zor, Com­plex­ity of Ver­bal De­scrip­tions, and Core Concepts

TCB13 Apr 2011 2:12 UTC
8 points
10 comments3 min readLW link