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How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
23 Jan 2012 23:50 UTC
253
points
240
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Can the Chain Still Hold You?
lukeprog
13 Jan 2012 1:28 UTC
210
points
361
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief
AnnaSalamon
24 Jan 2012 23:57 UTC
126
points
71
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The problem with too many rational memes
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
19 Jan 2012 0:56 UTC
121
points
342
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Transcript] Richard Feynman on Why Questions
Grognor
8 Jan 2012 19:01 UTC
116
points
45
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The Substitution Principle
Kaj_Sotala
28 Jan 2012 4:20 UTC
112
points
65
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Singularity Institute’s Arrogance Problem
lukeprog
18 Jan 2012 22:30 UTC
84
points
307
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Completeness, incompleteness, and what it all means: first versus second order logic
Stuart_Armstrong
16 Jan 2012 17:38 UTC
79
points
39
comments
11
min read
LW
link
POSITION: Design and Write Rationality Curriculum
Eliezer Yudkowsky
19 Jan 2012 6:50 UTC
76
points
179
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The Human’s Hidden Utility Function (Maybe)
lukeprog
23 Jan 2012 19:39 UTC
67
points
90
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Dark Arts: A Beginner’s Guide
faul_sname
21 Jan 2012 7:05 UTC
62
points
43
comments
4
min read
LW
link
“Politics is the mind-killer” is the mind-killer
thomblake
26 Jan 2012 15:55 UTC
58
points
99
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Shit Rationalists Say?
Eneasz
25 Jan 2012 21:51 UTC
55
points
119
comments
1
min read
LW
link
So You Want to Save the World
lukeprog
1 Jan 2012 7:39 UTC
54
points
149
comments
12
min read
LW
link
[META] My Negative Results
RobertLumley
28 Jan 2012 20:44 UTC
54
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Leveling Up in Rationality: A Personal Journey
lukeprog
17 Jan 2012 11:02 UTC
51
points
59
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Q&A with experts on risks from AI #1
XiXiDu
8 Jan 2012 11:46 UTC
45
points
67
comments
9
min read
LW
link
The Noddy problem
Apprentice
12 Jan 2012 22:18 UTC
45
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
I’ve had it with those dark rumours about our culture rigorously suppressing opinions
Multiheaded
25 Jan 2012 17:43 UTC
44
points
868
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Personality of (great/creative) Scientists: Open and Conscientious
gwern
28 Jan 2012 20:01 UTC
44
points
12
comments
8
min read
LW
link
[META] ‘Rational’ vs ‘Optimized’
TheOtherDave
4 Jan 2012 18:58 UTC
44
points
69
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Hacking Less Wrong made easy: Vagrant edition
Morendil
30 Jan 2012 18:51 UTC
44
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What Curiosity Looks Like
lukeprog
6 Jan 2012 21:28 UTC
44
points
286
comments
2
min read
LW
link
On Leverage Research’s plan for an optimal world
Mitchell_Porter
10 Jan 2012 9:49 UTC
41
points
89
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Introducing Leverage Research
lukeprog
9 Jan 2012 19:47 UTC
41
points
34
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Designing Ritual
Raemon
11 Jan 2012 1:52 UTC
39
points
76
comments
14
min read
LW
link
More intuitive explanations!
XiXiDu
6 Jan 2012 18:10 UTC
37
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Sunk Costs Fallacy Fallacy
[deleted]
24 Jan 2012 21:09 UTC
37
points
28
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Long-Term Technological Forecasting
lukeprog
11 Jan 2012 4:13 UTC
35
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Fiction: LW-inspired scenelet
DataPacRat
27 Jan 2012 6:43 UTC
35
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Link] The Hyborian Age
GLaDOS
21 Jan 2012 19:00 UTC
34
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Gift I Give Tomorrow
Raemon
11 Jan 2012 4:02 UTC
34
points
33
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Q&A with Abram Demski on risks from AI
XiXiDu
17 Jan 2012 9:43 UTC
33
points
71
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Breaking the chain of akrasia
lukeprog
20 Jan 2012 4:12 UTC
33
points
45
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Neglected Virtue of Curiosity
vallinder
28 Jan 2012 17:28 UTC
32
points
31
comments
7
min read
LW
link
On accepting an argument if you have limited computational power.
Dmytry
11 Jan 2012 17:07 UTC
32
points
85
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Utopian hope versus reality
Mitchell_Porter
11 Jan 2012 12:55 UTC
31
points
54
comments
8
min read
LW
link
[META] Introduction thread attitudes and discussions
Vaniver
2 Jan 2012 1:18 UTC
31
points
42
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Occam alternatives
selylindi
25 Jan 2012 7:50 UTC
30
points
51
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Michael Nielsen explains Judea Pearl’s causality
gwern
24 Jan 2012 19:35 UTC
30
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Singularity Institute Executive Director Q&A #2
lukeprog
6 Jan 2012 3:40 UTC
30
points
39
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Some potential dangers of rationality training
lukeprog
21 Jan 2012 4:50 UTC
28
points
48
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Help! Name suggestions needed for Rationality-Inst!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
28 Jan 2012 2:24 UTC
28
points
299
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New Year’s Prediction Thread (2012)
gwern
1 Jan 2012 9:35 UTC
27
points
340
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Efficient Charity: Cheap Utilons via bone marrow registration
atorm
29 Jan 2012 3:52 UTC
24
points
46
comments
1
min read
LW
link
HPMoR.com
lukeprog
4 Jan 2012 11:15 UTC
24
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Terminal Bias
[deleted]
30 Jan 2012 21:03 UTC
24
points
125
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Singularity Institute is hiring an executive assistant near Berkeley
Louie
22 Jan 2012 7:47 UTC
24
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Nick Bostrom TED talk on world’s biggest problems
Dr_Manhattan
6 Jan 2012 18:52 UTC
23
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AI Box Log
Dorikka
27 Jan 2012 4:47 UTC
23
points
30
comments
23
min read
LW
link
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