If we live in a simu­la­tion, what does that im­ply?

JoshuaFox25 Oct 2012 21:27 UTC
26 points
59 comments3 min readLW link

A fol­low-up prob­a­bil­ity ques­tion: Data sam­ples with differ­ent priors

PhilGoetz25 Oct 2012 20:07 UTC
7 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Am­bi­tious util­i­tar­i­ans must con­cern them­selves with death

Mitchell_Porter25 Oct 2012 10:41 UTC
8 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Cake, or death!

Stuart_Armstrong25 Oct 2012 10:33 UTC
47 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Fi­nal cause is episte­molog­i­cally pri­mary, but effi­cient cause is meta­phys­i­cally primary

hankx778725 Oct 2012 6:02 UTC
−9 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Sel­ling Nonapples

MinibearRex25 Oct 2012 4:58 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

matt24 Oct 2012 23:11 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Offense 101

Alejandro124 Oct 2012 21:28 UTC
45 points
84 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity ver­sus Short Term Selves

diegocaleiro24 Oct 2012 17:19 UTC
14 points
23 comments4 min readLW link

Equal­ity and na­tal­ism

[deleted]24 Oct 2012 15:53 UTC
18 points
106 comments1 min readLW link

Is Omega Im­pos­si­ble? Can we even ask?

mwengler24 Oct 2012 14:47 UTC
−12 points
52 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Cam­bridge UK Weekly Meeting

Douglas_Reay24 Oct 2012 14:36 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Omega lies

Stuart_Armstrong24 Oct 2012 10:46 UTC
12 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] The Weighted Ma­jor­ity Algorithm

MinibearRex24 Oct 2012 3:22 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Suc­cess stories

Nisan23 Oct 2012 22:10 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Re­cov­er­ing the ‘spark’

ialdabaoth23 Oct 2012 21:50 UTC
14 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Naive TDT, Bayes nets, and coun­ter­fac­tual mugging

Stuart_Armstrong23 Oct 2012 15:58 UTC
26 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Cog­ni­tive Bias Round-Robin

[deleted]23 Oct 2012 5:27 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Value Loading

ryjm23 Oct 2012 4:47 UTC
5 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Pop­u­lar me­dia cov­er­age of Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit -the Verge [link]

Dr_Manhattan23 Oct 2012 3:19 UTC
5 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ment by lex­i­cal over­load­ing, or, Don’t cut your wants with shoulds

PhilGoetz23 Oct 2012 0:03 UTC
15 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Toronto THINK

Giles22 Oct 2012 23:29 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup

blob22 Oct 2012 5:41 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Worse Than Random

MinibearRex22 Oct 2012 5:02 UTC
4 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Ethics meetup

rocurley21 Oct 2012 23:46 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Anti-Groupism

[deleted]21 Oct 2012 19:24 UTC
34 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion the­ory question

bryjnar21 Oct 2012 12:23 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Causal Reference

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Oct 2012 22:12 UTC
68 points
247 comments12 min readLW link

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Fermi Estimation

[deleted]20 Oct 2012 20:17 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

A prob­a­bil­ity question

PhilGoetz19 Oct 2012 22:34 UTC
12 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] blog on cry­on­ics by some­one who freezes things in a cell bio lab

mwengler19 Oct 2012 18:35 UTC
6 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Ber­lin, Brus­sels, Chicago, Madi­son, Melbourne, Wash­ing­ton DC

FrankAdamek19 Oct 2012 15:41 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] AI-box­ing Is News, Somehow

MugaSofer19 Oct 2012 12:34 UTC
9 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Lawful Uncertainty

MinibearRex19 Oct 2012 4:21 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

2012 Less Wrong Cen­sus Sur­vey: Call For Cri­tiques/​Questions

Scott Alexander19 Oct 2012 1:12 UTC
35 points
481 comments1 min readLW link

Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Oct 2012 10:49 UTC
103 points
128 comments9 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Lawful Creativity

MinibearRex18 Oct 2012 5:29 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : DC Meetup: Games and Conversation

maia17 Oct 2012 23:40 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San­ti­ago, Chile

transh17 Oct 2012 22:46 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] The most im­por­tant un­solved prob­lems in ethics

jefftk17 Oct 2012 20:03 UTC
35 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

Re­quest for sym­pa­thy; frus­trated with Dark Side

RolfAndreassen17 Oct 2012 17:22 UTC
−9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Differ­ent lo­ca­tion for Berkeley meetup

Nisan17 Oct 2012 17:19 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

No need for grav­ity?

graviton17 Oct 2012 10:22 UTC
−15 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

How To Have Things Correctly

Alicorn17 Oct 2012 6:10 UTC
101 points
219 comments6 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Rec­og­niz­ing Intelligence

MinibearRex17 Oct 2012 4:44 UTC
5 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham Meetup: Ar­ti­cle discussions

evand16 Oct 2012 23:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Us­ing ex­ist­ing Strong AIs as case studies

ialdabaoth16 Oct 2012 22:59 UTC
−12 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Oc­to­ber 16-31, 2012

OpenThreadGuy16 Oct 2012 22:43 UTC
8 points
280 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham HPMoR Dis­cus­sion group

evand16 Oct 2012 22:34 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Look­ing for al­ter­a­tion sug­ges­tions for the offi­cial Se­quences ebook

alexvermeer16 Oct 2012 22:32 UTC
20 points
73 comments1 min readLW link