The Power of Reinforcement

lukeprogJun 21, 2012, 1:42 PM
172 points
474 comments4 min readLW link

Re­ply to Holden on ‘Tool AI’

Eliezer YudkowskyJun 12, 2012, 6:00 PM
152 points
356 comments17 min readLW link

Nash Equil­ibria and Schel­ling Points

Scott AlexanderJun 29, 2012, 2:06 AM
134 points
82 comments7 min readLW link

Plasti­na­tion is ma­tur­ing and needs fund­ing, says Hanson

Eliezer YudkowskyJun 20, 2012, 8:00 PM
105 points
47 comments1 min readLW link
(www.overcomingbias.com)

In­tro­duc­tion to Game The­ory: Se­quence Guide

Scott AlexanderJun 28, 2012, 3:32 AM
85 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Son of Shit Ra­tion­al­ists Say

EneaszJun 1, 2012, 1:47 PM
82 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

How to Run a Suc­cess­ful Less Wrong Meetup

Kaj_SotalaJun 12, 2012, 9:32 PM
81 points
40 comments2 min readLW link

In­tel­lec­tual in­su­lar­ity and pro­duc­tivity

[deleted]Jun 11, 2012, 3:10 PM
80 points
169 comments3 min readLW link

Glenn Beck dis­cusses the Sin­gu­lar­ity, cites SI researchers

BrihaspatiJun 12, 2012, 4:45 PM
73 points
181 comments10 min readLW link

[Link] Can We Re­v­erse The Stan­ford Pri­son Ex­per­i­ment?

daenerysJun 14, 2012, 3:41 AM
66 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

Blogs by LWers

[deleted]Jun 22, 2012, 8:53 AM
63 points
71 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] The Greek He­lio­cen­tric Theory

[deleted]Jun 12, 2012, 5:18 PM
55 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Bounded ver­sions of Gödel’s and Löb’s theorems

cousin_itJun 27, 2012, 6:28 PM
52 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Ask an ex­per­i­men­tal physicist

RolfAndreassenJun 8, 2012, 11:43 PM
49 points
295 comments1 min readLW link

A (small) cri­tique of to­tal utilitarianism

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 26, 2012, 12:36 PM
47 points
237 comments11 min readLW link

Mar­ket­place Trans­ac­tions Open Thread

John_MaxwellJun 2, 2012, 4:31 AM
46 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Open Prob­lems Re­lated to Solomonoff Induction

Wei DaiJun 6, 2012, 12:26 AM
46 points
104 comments2 min readLW link

Con­spir­acy The­o­ries as Agency Fictions

[deleted]Jun 9, 2012, 3:15 PM
44 points
117 comments4 min readLW link

Why Aca­demic Papers Are A Ter­rible Dis­cus­sion Forum

alyssavanceJun 20, 2012, 6:15 PM
44 points
53 comments6 min readLW link

List of Prob­lems That Mo­ti­vated UDT

Wei DaiJun 6, 2012, 12:26 AM
43 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Satire of Jour­nal of Per­son­al­ity and So­cial Psy­chol­ogy’s pub­li­ca­tion bias

CarlShulmanJun 5, 2012, 12:08 AM
43 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Cards Against Rationality

fubarobfuscoJun 16, 2012, 2:23 AM
41 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

Paper: Iter­ated Pri­soner’s Dilemma con­tains strate­gies that dom­i­nate any evolu­tion­ary opponent

mapnoterritoryJun 2, 2012, 8:50 PM
39 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Seek­ing a “Seek­ing Whence ‘Seek Whence’” Sequence

Will_NewsomeJun 25, 2012, 11:10 AM
39 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Have you changed your mind lately? On what?

EmileJun 4, 2012, 7:54 PM
39 points
106 comments1 min readLW link

Build­ing to­ward a Friendly AI team

lukeprogJun 6, 2012, 6:57 PM
39 points
96 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] Thick and thin

[deleted]Jun 6, 2012, 12:08 PM
39 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] Nerds are nuts

[deleted]Jun 7, 2012, 7:48 AM
37 points
44 comments8 min readLW link

Lead­ing Dis­cus­sions: Ad­dress­ing Time Monopolizers

SwingDancerMikeJun 21, 2012, 4:44 PM
36 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

What’s the best way to rest?

[deleted]Jun 15, 2012, 12:45 AM
36 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts and prob­lems with Eliezer’s mea­sure of op­ti­miza­tion power

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 8, 2012, 9:44 AM
36 points
24 comments5 min readLW link

Pro­posal for “Open Prob­lems in Friendly AI”

lukeprogJun 1, 2012, 2:06 AM
33 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Suggest al­ter­nate names for the “Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute”

lukeprogJun 19, 2012, 4:42 AM
33 points
159 comments1 min readLW link

Less Wrong on Twitter

GrognorJun 22, 2012, 3:51 PM
32 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

Web of Trust lists Sin­gu­lar­ity.org as hav­ing a bad reputation

RobertLumleyJun 23, 2012, 4:28 PM
29 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Which cog­ni­tive bi­ases should we trust in?

Andy_McKenzieJun 1, 2012, 6:37 AM
29 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

Fo­cus on rationality

Oscar_CunninghamJun 2, 2012, 7:25 PM
28 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Altru­is­tic Kid­ney Donation

jefftkJun 17, 2012, 8:02 PM
28 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

Min­i­mum Vi­able Work­out Rou­tine is Danger­ously Misinformative

betterthanwellJun 24, 2012, 1:02 PM
27 points
32 comments6 min readLW link

Lo­cal Or­di­nances of Fun

AlicornJun 18, 2012, 3:07 AM
27 points
156 comments4 min readLW link

Less Wrong used to like Bit­coin be­fore it was cool. Time for a re­visit?

betterthanwellJun 20, 2012, 1:40 PM
26 points
72 comments1 min readLW link

Com­pu­ta­tion Hazards

Alex_AltairJun 13, 2012, 9:49 PM
26 points
58 comments7 min readLW link

Build­ing the AI Risk Re­search Community

lukeprogJun 1, 2012, 2:13 AM
26 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Con­sider a robot vac­uum.

BrandonReinhartJun 5, 2012, 8:08 AM
25 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Pro­posal: Show up and down votes separately

witzvoJun 9, 2012, 11:29 PM
24 points
66 comments2 min readLW link

How to Pur­chase AI Risk Reduction

lukeprogJun 1, 2012, 3:13 AM
22 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Call for vol­un­teers: Pub­lish­ing the Sequences

wedrifid28 Jun 2012 15:08 UTC
22 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

[Cry­on­ics News] Aus­tralian cry­on­ics startup: Sta­sis Sys­tems Aus­tralia update

Maelin15 Jun 2012 5:08 UTC
21 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Com­bin­ing causal­ity with al­gorith­mic in­for­ma­tion theory

[deleted]9 Jun 2012 1:31 UTC
21 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Rais­ing safety-con­scious­ness among AGI researchers

lukeprog2 Jun 2012 21:39 UTC
21 points
32 comments1 min readLW link