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

[deleted]16 Nov 2012 20:56 UTC
36 points
64 comments6 min readLW link

Room for more fund­ing at the Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity Institute

John_Maxwell16 Nov 2012 20:45 UTC
26 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion: Autism Rate will Stop Increasing

OneLonePrediction16 Nov 2012 19:26 UTC
4 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

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

arborealhominid16 Nov 2012 18:37 UTC
19 points
262 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Mon­treal Mee­tups—Now weekly!

DaFranker16 Nov 2012 18:01 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Cam­bridge, MA third-Sun­days meetup

jimrandomh16 Nov 2012 18:00 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Ber­lin, Cham­paign, Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro, Springfield MO, Wash­ing­ton DC

FrankAdamek16 Nov 2012 17:03 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

[draft] Re­sponses to Catas­trophic AGI Risk: A Survey

Kaj_Sotala16 Nov 2012 14:29 UTC
19 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Sur­prised By Brains

MinibearRex16 Nov 2012 7:33 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : DC Meetup: Boardgames

rocurley16 Nov 2012 3:47 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How well defined is ADHD?

jsalvatier15 Nov 2012 23:34 UTC
15 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

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

wdmacaskill15 Nov 2012 20:34 UTC
62 points
184 comments4 min readLW link

Em­piri­cal claims, prefer­ence claims, and at­ti­tude claims

John_Maxwell15 Nov 2012 19:41 UTC
12 points
126 comments5 min readLW link

A sum­mary of the Han­son-Yud­kowsky FOOM debate

Kaj_Sotala15 Nov 2012 7:25 UTC
42 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Launched: Friend­ship is Optimal

iceman15 Nov 2012 4:57 UTC
77 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Billion Dol­lar Bots

MinibearRex15 Nov 2012 4:43 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Salt Lake City Monthly meetup

hamnox15 Nov 2012 0:46 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sig­nal­ling fal­la­cies: Im­pli­ca­tion vs. Inference

hankx778714 Nov 2012 21:15 UTC
−12 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Cinc­in­nati/​Colum­bus: Me­mori­sa­tion ex­er­cise (NB, time changed)

RolfAndreassen14 Nov 2012 20:38 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham HPMoR Dis­cus­sion, chap­ters 15-17

evand14 Nov 2012 17:52 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Steven Lands­burg “Ac­count­ing for Num­bers”—re­sponse to EY’s “Log­i­cal Pin­point­ing”

David_Gerard14 Nov 2012 12:55 UTC
15 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity for over­com­ing dis­abil­ity and lifestyle failure (a spe­cific case)

CAE_Jones14 Nov 2012 8:46 UTC
13 points
25 comments5 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Brain Emu­la­tion and Hard Takeoff

MinibearRex14 Nov 2012 6:47 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Univer­sal agents and util­ity functions

Anja14 Nov 2012 4:05 UTC
43 points
38 comments6 min readLW link

[Link] “An OKCupid Pro­file of a Ra­tion­al­ist”

Athrelon14 Nov 2012 1:48 UTC
−39 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Chicago Or­ga­ni­za­tional Meet­ing and Open Discussion

Nic_Smith14 Nov 2012 1:45 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: De­liber­ate performance

Nisan13 Nov 2012 23:58 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How can I re­duce ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI?

lukeprog13 Nov 2012 21:56 UTC
63 points
92 comments8 min readLW link

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 11/​13/​12

cata13 Nov 2012 18:39 UTC
4 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

CFAR and SI MOOCs: a Great Opportunity

Wrongnesslessness13 Nov 2012 10:30 UTC
19 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Emu­la­tions Go Foom

MinibearRex13 Nov 2012 5:44 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Short in­tro­duc­tory ma­te­ri­als for a ra­tio­nal­ity meetup

Dolores198413 Nov 2012 5:10 UTC
4 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Si­mu­la­tion­ist sym­pa­thetic magic

DataPacRat13 Nov 2012 3:45 UTC
21 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Coursera course on crit­i­cal thinking

daenerys13 Nov 2012 2:13 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist subreddit

nerfhammer13 Nov 2012 1:17 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

A hy­poth­e­sis con­cern­ing dis­count­ing.

abramdemski12 Nov 2012 21:51 UTC
4 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Gap in un­der­stand­ing of Log­i­cal Pinpointing

Incorrect12 Nov 2012 17:33 UTC
11 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

SIA, con­di­tional prob­a­bil­ity and Jaan Tal­linn’s simu­la­tion tree

Stuart_Armstrong12 Nov 2012 17:24 UTC
18 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

SIA fears (ex­pected) infinity

Stuart_Armstrong12 Nov 2012 17:23 UTC
22 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Dig­ging the Bull’s Horn

Gordon Seidoh Worley12 Nov 2012 16:03 UTC
−10 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Life’s Story Continues

MinibearRex12 Nov 2012 3:08 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Pitts­burgh: Value of Information

KatjaGrace11 Nov 2012 21:09 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ques­tions from po­ten­tial donors to Giv­ing What We Can, 80,000 Hours and EAA

Giles11 Nov 2012 18:54 UTC
17 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Pader­born Meetup, Novem­ber 22th

Just_existing11 Nov 2012 10:43 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Ob­serv­ing Optimization

MinibearRex11 Nov 2012 6:50 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Struck with a be­lief in Alien presence

[deleted]11 Nov 2012 1:20 UTC
−13 points
113 comments1 min readLW link

De­tect­ing Web baloney with your nose?

uzalud10 Nov 2012 15:50 UTC
−4 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics as Charity

jefftk10 Nov 2012 14:21 UTC
6 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

NKCDT: The Big Bang Theory

[deleted]10 Nov 2012 13:15 UTC
−18 points
207 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Eliezer’s Meta-Level Determinism

MinibearRex10 Nov 2012 6:01 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link