[SEQ RERUN] Ab­stract/​Dis­tant Fu­ture Bias

MinibearRexNov 25, 2012, 4:20 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cry­onic re­s­ur­rec­tion—an eth­i­cal hypothetical

ialdabaothNov 25, 2012, 12:44 AM
16 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup

AxelNov 24, 2012, 6:31 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Math­e­mat­i­cal Mea­sures of Op­ti­miza­tion Power

Alex_AltairNov 24, 2012, 10:55 AM
8 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] …Re­cur­sion, Magic

MinibearRexNov 24, 2012, 5:54 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Over­con­fi­dent Pessimism

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

Ex­am­ple of neu­rons use­fully com­mu­ni­cat­ing with­out synapses found in flies [LINK]

SniffnoyNov 23, 2012, 11:25 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] 12 Myths about Hunger

CuriouskidNov 23, 2012, 10:25 PM
−19 points
9 comments7 min readLW link

Musk, Mars and x-risk

KawoombaNov 23, 2012, 8:32 PM
14 points
65 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Phoenix, AZ: Sto­icism and Visi­tors: 6 De­cem­ber 6:00PM

Danny_HintzeNov 23, 2012, 7:08 PM
3 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Chicago, Cinc­in­nati/​Colum­bus, Cleve­land/​Akron, Durham, Lon­don, Moscow, Pader­born, Salt Lake City, Wash­ing­ton DC

FrankAdamekNov 23, 2012, 5:18 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Re­quest for com­mu­nity insight

CaerbannogNov 23, 2012, 2:20 PM
−4 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Break­down of ex­is­ten­tial risks

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

Meetup : Meetup : Bielefeld Meetup, De­cem­ber 5th

Just_existingNov 23, 2012, 11:50 AM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tual self-defense

MrMindNov 23, 2012, 10:15 AM
2 points
9 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

Play­ing the stu­dent: at­ti­tudes to learn­ing as so­cial roles

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Nov 23, 2012, 2:56 AM
10 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

The wan­der­ing ra­tio­nal­ist: an update

DespardNov 22, 2012, 8:55 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

“Op­ti­mal” mam­mog­ra­phy?

ShmiNov 22, 2012, 8:02 PM
9 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

AGI-12 and AGI-Im­pacts—late places available

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 22, 2012, 12:53 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : First meetup in Inns­bruck

David AlthausNov 21, 2012, 10:31 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] IBM simu­late a “brain” with 500 billion neu­rons and 100 trillion synapses

drnickboneNov 21, 2012, 10:23 PM
7 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Tech­ni­cal Univer­si­ties in Europe: a Recom­men­da­tion Thread

RitalinNov 21, 2012, 6:25 PM
−9 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LessWrong Mon­treal—Ad­vanced Episte­mol­ogy 101

Paul_GNov 21, 2012, 4:05 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ideas needed for a Psy­chol­ogy ex­per­i­ment in­volv­ing pop­u­lar fic­tion (Movies mainly) and bi­ases and heuristics

TenokeNov 21, 2012, 2:34 PM
−1 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Stop learn­ing, start think­ing [LINK]

NancyLebovitzNov 21, 2012, 2:32 PM
8 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

mattNov 21, 2012, 12:44 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : At­lanta—Prac­ti­cal Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Session

hankx7787Nov 20, 2012, 11:01 PM
3 points
1 comment1 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

Mir­a­cle Min­eral Supplement

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

The Evil AI Over­lord List

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

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup

blobNov 20, 2012, 4:32 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Pitts­burgh: af­fect­ing the far future

KatjaGraceNov 20, 2012, 4:25 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Case against Killer Robots (link)

D_AlexNov 20, 2012, 7:47 AM
12 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

[Pro­posed Paper] Pre­dict­ing Ma­chine Su­per Intelligence

JaySwartzNov 20, 2012, 7:15 AM
2 points
11 comments6 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] When Life is Cheap, Death is Cheap

MinibearRexNov 20, 2012, 5:10 AM
4 points
0 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

GiveWell and the Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altru­ism are recruiting

PabloNov 19, 2012, 11:53 PM
14 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Col­lat­ing widely available time/​money trades

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

[SEQ RERUN] Cas­cades, Cy­cles, In­sight...

MinibearRexNov 19, 2012, 4:58 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Aus­tralian Ra­tion­al­ist in America

shokwaveNov 19, 2012, 2:56 AM
10 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

On­line Meetup: The High Im­pact Network

RyanCareyNov 19, 2012, 2:55 AM
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup

AxelNov 18, 2012, 10:45 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­tory Short Videos

daenerysNov 18, 2012, 7:13 PM
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Novem­ber 16–30, 2012

VincentYuNov 18, 2012, 1:59 PM
7 points
215 comments1 min readLW link

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

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

[SEQ RERUN] “Evict­ing” brain emulations

MinibearRexNov 18, 2012, 6:15 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

If you could take it with you, what would you take?

DataPacRatNov 18, 2012, 12:12 AM
4 points
35 comments1 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

Room for more fund­ing at the Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity Institute

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