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How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Jan 23, 2012, 11:50 PM
255 points
240 comments10 min readLW link

Can the Chain Still Hold You?

lukeprogJan 13, 2012, 1:28 AM
217 points
361 comments4 min readLW link

Urges vs. Goals: The anal­ogy to an­ti­ci­pa­tion and belief

AnnaSalamonJan 24, 2012, 11:57 PM
126 points
71 comments7 min readLW link

The prob­lem with too many ra­tio­nal memes

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Jan 19, 2012, 12:56 AM
122 points
342 comments3 min readLW link

[Tran­script] Richard Feyn­man on Why Questions

GrognorJan 8, 2012, 7:01 PM
116 points
45 comments5 min readLW link

The Sub­sti­tu­tion Principle

Kaj_SotalaJan 28, 2012, 4:20 AM
112 points
65 comments4 min readLW link

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute’s Ar­ro­gance Problem

lukeprogJan 18, 2012, 10:30 PM
84 points
307 comments1 min readLW link

Com­plete­ness, in­com­plete­ness, and what it all means: first ver­sus sec­ond or­der logic

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 16, 2012, 5:38 PM
79 points
39 comments11 min readLW link

POSITION: De­sign and Write Ra­tion­al­ity Curriculum

Eliezer YudkowskyJan 19, 2012, 6:50 AM
76 points
179 comments5 min readLW link

The Hu­man’s Hid­den Utility Func­tion (Maybe)

lukeprogJan 23, 2012, 7:39 PM
68 points
91 comments3 min readLW link

The Dark Arts: A Begin­ner’s Guide

faul_snameJan 21, 2012, 7:05 AM
62 points
43 comments4 min readLW link

“Poli­tics is the mind-kil­ler” is the mind-killer

thomblakeJan 26, 2012, 3:55 PM
58 points
99 comments1 min readLW link

Shit Ra­tion­al­ists Say?

EneaszJan 25, 2012, 9:51 PM
55 points
119 comments1 min readLW link

[META] My Nega­tive Results

RobertLumleyJan 28, 2012, 8:44 PM
54 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

So You Want to Save the World

lukeprogJan 1, 2012, 7:39 AM
54 points
149 comments12 min readLW link

Level­ing Up in Ra­tion­al­ity: A Per­sonal Journey

lukeprogJan 17, 2012, 11:02 AM
51 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

I’ve had it with those dark ru­mours about our cul­ture rigor­ously sup­press­ing opinions

MultiheadedJan 25, 2012, 5:43 PM
50 points
868 comments2 min readLW link

The Noddy problem

ApprenticeJan 12, 2012, 10:18 PM
45 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

The Per­son­al­ity of (great/​cre­ative) Scien­tists: Open and Conscientious

gwernJan 28, 2012, 8:01 PM
45 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

Q&A with ex­perts on risks from AI #1

XiXiDuJan 8, 2012, 11:46 AM
45 points
67 comments9 min readLW link

[META] ‘Ra­tional’ vs ‘Op­ti­mized’

TheOtherDaveJan 4, 2012, 6:58 PM
44 points
69 comments1 min readLW link

Hack­ing Less Wrong made easy: Va­grant edition

MorendilJan 30, 2012, 6:51 PM
44 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

What Cu­ri­os­ity Looks Like

lukeprogJan 6, 2012, 9:28 PM
44 points
286 comments2 min readLW link

On Lev­er­age Re­search’s plan for an op­ti­mal world

Mitchell_PorterJan 10, 2012, 9:49 AM
41 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing Lev­er­age Research

lukeprogJan 9, 2012, 7:47 PM
41 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

De­sign­ing Ritual

RaemonJan 11, 2012, 1:52 AM
40 points
76 comments14 min readLW link

Sunk Costs Fal­lacy Fallacy

[deleted]Jan 24, 2012, 9:09 PM
38 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

More in­tu­itive ex­pla­na­tions!

XiXiDuJan 6, 2012, 6:10 PM
37 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Long-Term Tech­nolog­i­cal Forecasting

lukeprogJan 11, 2012, 4:13 AM
35 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Gift I Give Tomorrow

RaemonJan 11, 2012, 4:02 AM
35 points
33 comments11 min readLW link

Fic­tion: LW-in­spired scenelet

DataPacRatJan 27, 2012, 6:43 AM
35 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] The Hy­bo­rian Age

GLaDOSJan 21, 2012, 7:00 PM
34 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Q&A with Abram Dem­ski on risks from AI

XiXiDuJan 17, 2012, 9:43 AM
33 points
71 comments9 min readLW link

Break­ing the chain of akrasia

lukeprogJan 20, 2012, 4:12 AM
33 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

On ac­cept­ing an ar­gu­ment if you have limited com­pu­ta­tional power.

DmytryJan 11, 2012, 5:07 PM
32 points
84 comments1 min readLW link

The Ne­glected Virtue of Curiosity

vallinderJan 28, 2012, 5:28 PM
32 points
31 comments7 min readLW link

Utopian hope ver­sus reality

Mitchell_PorterJan 11, 2012, 12:55 PM
31 points
54 comments8 min readLW link

[META] In­tro­duc­tion thread at­ti­tudes and discussions

VaniverJan 2, 2012, 1:18 AM
31 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

Oc­cam alternatives

selylindiJan 25, 2012, 7:50 AM
30 points
51 comments3 min readLW link

Michael Niel­sen ex­plains Judea Pearl’s causality

gwernJan 24, 2012, 7:35 PM
30 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute Ex­ec­u­tive Direc­tor Q&A #2

lukeprogJan 6, 2012, 3:40 AM
30 points
39 comments4 min readLW link

Some po­ten­tial dan­gers of ra­tio­nal­ity training

lukeprogJan 21, 2012, 4:50 AM
28 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

Help! Name sug­ges­tions needed for Ra­tion­al­ity-Inst!

Eliezer YudkowskyJan 28, 2012, 2:24 AM
28 points
299 comments1 min readLW link

New Year’s Pre­dic­tion Thread (2012)

gwernJan 1, 2012, 9:35 AM
27 points
340 comments1 min readLW link

Ter­mi­nal Bias

[deleted]Jan 30, 2012, 9:03 PM
24 points
125 comments6 min readLW link

HPMoR.com

lukeprogJan 4, 2012, 11:15 AM
24 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

AI Box Log

DorikkaJan 27, 2012, 4:47 AM
24 points
30 comments23 min readLW link

Effi­cient Char­ity: Cheap Utilons via bone mar­row registration

atormJan 29, 2012, 3:52 AM
24 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute is hiring an ex­ec­u­tive as­sis­tant near Berkeley

LouieJan 22, 2012, 7:47 AM
24 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Nick Bostrom TED talk on world’s biggest problems

Dr_ManhattanJan 6, 2012, 6:52 PM
23 points
8 comments1 min readLW link