At­ten­tion con­trol is crit­i­cal for chang­ing/​in­creas­ing/​al­ter­ing motivation

kalla72411 Apr 2012 0:48 UTC
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Be Happier

Klevador16 Apr 2012 1:51 UTC
166 points
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SotW: Be Specific

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Apr 2012 6:11 UTC
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How can we get more and bet­ter LW con­trar­i­ans?

Wei Dai18 Apr 2012 22:01 UTC
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Cry­on­ics with­out freez­ers: re­s­ur­rec­tion pos­si­bil­ities in a Big World

Scott Alexander4 Apr 2012 22:48 UTC
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How ac­cu­rate is the quan­tum physics se­quence?

Paul Crowley17 Apr 2012 6:54 UTC
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Hofs­tadter’s Superrationality

gwern21 Apr 2012 13:33 UTC
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Why I Moved from AI to Neu­ro­science, or: Upload­ing Worms

davidad13 Apr 2012 7:10 UTC
67 points
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LessWrong down­time 2012-03-26, and site speed

matt3 Apr 2012 4:15 UTC
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Let’s cre­ate a mar­ket for cryonics

[deleted]10 Apr 2012 6:36 UTC
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The Quick Bayes Table

farsan18 Apr 2012 18:00 UTC
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Peter Singer and Tyler Cowen transcript

jefftk6 Apr 2012 12:25 UTC
56 points
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A ques­tion about Eliezer

perpetualpeace119 Apr 2012 17:27 UTC
55 points
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Do peo­ple think Less Wrong ra­tio­nal­ity is parochial?

lukeprog28 Apr 2012 4:18 UTC
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Al­cor vs. Cry­on­ics Institute

prespectiveCryonaut9 Apr 2012 1:49 UTC
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Our Phyg Is Not Ex­clu­sive Enough

[deleted]14 Apr 2012 21:08 UTC
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Crowd­sourc­ing the availa­bil­ity heuristic

kalla72425 Apr 2012 6:20 UTC
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What’s wrong with psy­chol­ogy, any­way?

Anatoly_Vorobey28 Apr 2012 23:36 UTC
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[link]Mass repli­ca­tion of Psy­chol­ogy ar­ti­cles planed.

beoShaffer18 Apr 2012 16:13 UTC
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To like each other, sing and dance in synchrony

Kaj_Sotala23 Apr 2012 13:30 UTC
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Please Don’t Fight the Hypothetical

TimS20 Apr 2012 14:29 UTC
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The effi­ciency of prizes

lukeprog3 Apr 2012 21:45 UTC
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Should “lat­est in­sights” ap­pear in the front page blurb?

Mark_Eichenlaub14 Apr 2012 21:58 UTC
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A Kick in the Ra­tion­als: What hurts you in your LessWrong Parts?

sixes_and_sevens25 Apr 2012 12:12 UTC
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De­ci­sion The­o­ries: A Semi-For­mal Anal­y­sis, Part III

orthonormal14 Apr 2012 19:34 UTC
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against “AI risk”

Wei Dai11 Apr 2012 22:46 UTC
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An ex­er­cise in re­ally go­ing through with it

[deleted]23 Apr 2012 23:17 UTC
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In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion vs. Co-op­er­a­tive Explosion

Kaj_Sotala16 Apr 2012 11:01 UTC
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Muehlhauser-Wang Dialogue

lukeprog22 Apr 2012 22:40 UTC
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Refram­ing the Prob­lem of AI Progress

Wei Dai12 Apr 2012 19:31 UTC
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If calorie re­stric­tion works in hu­mans, should we have ob­served it already?

Mark_Eichenlaub24 Apr 2012 4:28 UTC
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[META] Alter­na­tives to rot13 and karma sinks

HonoreDB17 Apr 2012 20:01 UTC
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The Blue School

Voltairina16 Apr 2012 18:15 UTC
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Sur­vey of older folks as data about one’s fu­ture val­ues and prefer­ences?

Bart11927 Apr 2012 19:42 UTC
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A Pois­son pro­cess paradox

nerfhammer6 Apr 2012 5:20 UTC
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April Fools—Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity Joke Chapter

shokwave2 Apr 2012 2:47 UTC
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Ex­plor­ing the Idea Space Efficiently

Elithrion8 Apr 2012 4:28 UTC
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Pri­soner’s Dilemma on game show Golden Balls

atorm21 Apr 2012 0:31 UTC
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Time­less physics breaks T-Rex’s mind [LINK]

orthonormal23 Apr 2012 19:16 UTC
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The prin­ci­ple of ‘al­tru­is­tic ar­bi­trage’

RobertWiblin9 Apr 2012 1:29 UTC
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Who’s afraid of im­pos­si­ble wor­lds?

Stuart_Armstrong17 Apr 2012 12:56 UTC
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For­mal­iz­ing Value Extrapolation

paulfchristiano26 Apr 2012 0:51 UTC
26 points
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De­ci­sion The­o­ries: A Semi-For­mal Anal­y­sis, Part II

orthonormal6 Apr 2012 18:59 UTC
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‘Think­ing, Fast and Slow’ Chap­ter Sum­maries /​ Notes [link]

Lightwave15 Apr 2012 9:14 UTC
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If you can’t be right, at least be relevant

Stuart_Armstrong18 Apr 2012 10:17 UTC
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Generic Modafinil sales be­gin?

jsalvatier2 Apr 2012 15:53 UTC
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Stupid Ques­tions Open Thread Round 2

OpenThreadGuy20 Apr 2012 19:38 UTC
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File Un­der “Keep Your Iden­tity Small”

Matt_Simpson5 Apr 2012 18:36 UTC
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How does long-term use of caf­feine af­fect pro­duc­tivity?

quartz11 Apr 2012 23:09 UTC
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Mind­ful­ness Med­i­ta­tion Thread

[deleted]24 Apr 2012 20:08 UTC
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