Check­list of Ra­tion­al­ity Habits

AnnaSalamonNov 7, 2012, 9:19 PM
212 points
189 comments11 min readLW link

Causal Universes

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 29, 2012, 4:08 AM
134 points
395 comments11 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Pinpointing

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 2, 2012, 3:33 PM
133 points
345 comments10 min readLW link

Thoughts on de­sign­ing poli­cies for oneself

John_MaxwellNov 28, 2012, 1:27 AM
113 points
63 comments7 min readLW link

Should cor­re­la­tion co­effi­cients be ex­pressed as an­gles?

SniffnoyNov 28, 2012, 12:05 AM
101 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

LW Women- Min­i­miz­ing the In­fer­en­tial Distance

daenerysNov 25, 2012, 11:33 PM
99 points
1,261 comments7 min readLW link

2012 Less Wrong Cen­sus/​Survey

Scott AlexanderNov 3, 2012, 11:00 PM
94 points
736 comments1 min readLW link

How min­i­mal is our in­tel­li­gence?

Douglas_ReayNov 25, 2012, 11:34 PM
78 points
214 comments6 min readLW link

Launched: Friend­ship is Optimal

icemanNov 15, 2012, 4:57 AM
77 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

How can I re­duce ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI?

lukeprogNov 13, 2012, 9:56 PM
63 points
92 comments8 min readLW link

Giv­ing What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and Meta-Charity

wdmacaskillNov 15, 2012, 8:34 PM
62 points
184 comments4 min readLW link

AI risk-re­lated im­prove­ments to the LW wiki

Kaj_SotalaNov 7, 2012, 9:24 AM
59 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

In­tu­itions Aren’t Shared That Way

lukeprogNov 29, 2012, 6:19 AM
54 points
237 comments4 min readLW link

A defi­ni­tion of wireheading

AnjaNov 27, 2012, 7:31 PM
52 points
80 comments5 min readLW link

Sign up to be no­tified about new LW mee­tups in your area

LouieNov 3, 2012, 10:38 PM
48 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

On count­ing and addition

Anatoly_VorobeyNov 9, 2012, 3:26 AM
47 points
23 comments4 min readLW link

Nov 16-18: Ra­tion­al­ity for Entrepreneurs

AnnaSalamonNov 8, 2012, 6:15 PM
44 points
58 comments6 min readLW link

The Evil AI Over­lord List

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 20, 2012, 5:02 PM
44 points
80 comments1 min readLW link

Univer­sal agents and util­ity functions

AnjaNov 14, 2012, 4:05 AM
43 points
38 comments6 min readLW link

A sum­mary of the Han­son-Yud­kowsky FOOM debate

Kaj_SotalaNov 15, 2012, 7:25 AM
42 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy Needs to Trust Your Ra­tion­al­ity Even Though It Shouldn’t

lukeprogNov 29, 2012, 9:00 PM
42 points
169 comments4 min readLW link

Vot­ing is like donat­ing thou­sands of dol­lars to charity

AcademianNov 5, 2012, 1:02 AM
41 points
206 comments5 min readLW link

An­a­lyz­ing FF.net re­views of ‘Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity’

gwernNov 3, 2012, 11:47 PM
41 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Over­con­fi­dent Pessimism

lukeprogNov 24, 2012, 12:47 AM
37 points
38 comments4 min readLW link

What does the world look like, the day be­fore FAI efforts suc­ceed?

[deleted]Nov 16, 2012, 8:56 PM
36 points
64 comments6 min readLW link

Col­lat­ing widely available time/​money trades

RyanCareyNov 19, 2012, 10:57 PM
35 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

Re­sponses to ques­tions on donat­ing to 80k, GWWC, EAA and LYCS

wdmacaskillNov 20, 2012, 10:41 PM
34 points
20 comments13 min readLW link

PROPOSAL: LessWrong for Teenagers

[deleted]Nov 8, 2012, 6:09 AM
31 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Cen­tre for the Study of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk (CSER) at Cam­bridge makes head­lines.

betterthanwellNov 26, 2012, 8:56 PM
29 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Mir­a­cle Min­eral Supplement

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 20, 2012, 9:17 PM
29 points
82 comments1 min readLW link

Room for more fund­ing at the Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity Institute

John_MaxwellNov 16, 2012, 8:45 PM
26 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] “Mo­ral Machines” ar­ti­cle in the New Yorker links to SI paper

AntisujiNov 28, 2012, 1:38 AM
24 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

XKCD—Fre­quen­tist vs. Bayesians

brileeNov 9, 2012, 5:25 AM
24 points
91 comments1 min readLW link

A place for ca­sual, non-karmic dis­cus­sion for less­wrongers?

[deleted]Nov 4, 2012, 6:50 PM
24 points
88 comments1 min readLW link

Break­down of ex­is­ten­tial risks

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 23, 2012, 2:12 PM
24 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Cre­dence cal­ibra­tion game FAQ

AcademianNov 26, 2012, 12:52 AM
24 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

Does My Vote Mat­ter?

orthonormalNov 5, 2012, 1:23 AM
23 points
77 comments6 min readLW link

SIA fears (ex­pected) infinity

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 12, 2012, 5:23 PM
22 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Si­mu­la­tion­ist sym­pa­thetic magic

DataPacRatNov 13, 2012, 3:45 AM
21 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

CFAR and SI MOOCs: a Great Opportunity

WrongnesslessnessNov 13, 2012, 10:30 AM
19 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[draft] Re­sponses to Catas­trophic AGI Risk: A Survey

Kaj_SotalaNov 16, 2012, 2:29 PM
19 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Teach­ing English in Shanghai

ShanghaiTEFLerNov 2, 2012, 11:13 AM
19 points
69 comments5 min readLW link

“How We’re Pre­dict­ing AI — or Failing to”

lukeprogNov 18, 2012, 10:52 AM
19 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

De­sired ar­ti­cles on AI risk?

lukeprogNov 2, 2012, 5:39 AM
19 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

Less Wrong Parents

saliencyNov 3, 2012, 4:59 AM
19 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Why is Men­cius Mold­bug so pop­u­lar on Less Wrong? [An­swer: He’s not.]

arborealhominidNov 16, 2012, 6:37 PM
19 points
264 comments1 min readLW link

Good Places to Live as a Less Wronger

diegocaleiroNov 20, 2012, 3:21 AM
18 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

SIA, con­di­tional prob­a­bil­ity and Jaan Tal­linn’s simu­la­tion tree

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 12, 2012, 5:24 PM
18 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

[POLL] AI-FOOM De­bate in Se­quence Reruns?

MinibearRexNov 1, 2012, 4:12 AM
18 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Mis­in­for­ma­tion and Its Cor­rec­tion: Con­tinued In­fluence and Suc­cess­ful Debiasing

Kaj_SotalaNov 23, 2012, 7:58 AM
18 points
5 comments10 min readLW link