The Power of Reinforcement

lukeprog21 Jun 2012 13:42 UTC
172 points
474 comments4 min readLW link

Re­ply to Holden on ‘Tool AI’

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jun 2012 18:00 UTC
152 points
356 comments17 min readLW link

Nash Equil­ibria and Schel­ling Points

Scott Alexander29 Jun 2012 2:06 UTC
131 points
82 comments7 min readLW link

Plasti­na­tion is ma­tur­ing and needs fund­ing, says Hanson

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Jun 2012 20:00 UTC
105 points
47 comments1 min readLW link
(www.overcomingbias.com)

In­tro­duc­tion to Game The­ory: Se­quence Guide

Scott Alexander28 Jun 2012 3:32 UTC
84 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Son of Shit Ra­tion­al­ists Say

Eneasz1 Jun 2012 13:47 UTC
82 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

How to Run a Suc­cess­ful Less Wrong Meetup

Kaj_Sotala12 Jun 2012 21:32 UTC
81 points
40 comments2 min readLW link

In­tel­lec­tual in­su­lar­ity and pro­duc­tivity

[deleted]11 Jun 2012 15:10 UTC
80 points
169 comments3 min readLW link

Glenn Beck dis­cusses the Sin­gu­lar­ity, cites SI researchers

Brihaspati12 Jun 2012 16:45 UTC
73 points
181 comments10 min readLW link

[Link] Can We Re­v­erse The Stan­ford Pri­son Ex­per­i­ment?

daenerys14 Jun 2012 3:41 UTC
66 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

Blogs by LWers

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

[Link] The Greek He­lio­cen­tric Theory

[deleted]12 Jun 2012 17:18 UTC
52 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Bounded ver­sions of Gödel’s and Löb’s theorems

cousin_it27 Jun 2012 18:28 UTC
52 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Ask an ex­per­i­men­tal physicist

RolfAndreassen8 Jun 2012 23:43 UTC
49 points
295 comments1 min readLW link

A (small) cri­tique of to­tal utilitarianism

Stuart_Armstrong26 Jun 2012 12:36 UTC
47 points
237 comments11 min readLW link

Mar­ket­place Trans­ac­tions Open Thread

John_Maxwell2 Jun 2012 4:31 UTC
46 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Con­spir­acy The­o­ries as Agency Fictions

[deleted]9 Jun 2012 15:15 UTC
44 points
117 comments4 min readLW link

Why Aca­demic Papers Are A Ter­rible Dis­cus­sion Forum

alyssavance20 Jun 2012 18:15 UTC
44 points
53 comments6 min readLW link

Open Prob­lems Re­lated to Solomonoff Induction

Wei Dai6 Jun 2012 0:26 UTC
44 points
104 comments2 min readLW link

List of Prob­lems That Mo­ti­vated UDT

Wei Dai6 Jun 2012 0:26 UTC
43 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

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

CarlShulman5 Jun 2012 0:08 UTC
43 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Cards Against Rationality

fubarobfusco16 Jun 2012 2:23 UTC
41 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

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

mapnoterritory2 Jun 2012 20:50 UTC
39 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Seek­ing a “Seek­ing Whence ‘Seek Whence’” Sequence

Will_Newsome25 Jun 2012 11:10 UTC
39 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Have you changed your mind lately? On what?

Emile4 Jun 2012 19:54 UTC
39 points
106 comments1 min readLW link

Build­ing to­ward a Friendly AI team

lukeprog6 Jun 2012 18:57 UTC
39 points
96 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] Thick and thin

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

What’s the best way to rest?

[deleted]15 Jun 2012 0:45 UTC
36 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Lead­ing Dis­cus­sions: Ad­dress­ing Time Monopolizers

SwingDancerMike21 Jun 2012 16:44 UTC
36 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Thoughts and prob­lems with Eliezer’s mea­sure of op­ti­miza­tion power

Stuart_Armstrong8 Jun 2012 9:44 UTC
36 points
24 comments5 min readLW link

[Link] Nerds are nuts

[deleted]7 Jun 2012 7:48 UTC
35 points
44 comments8 min readLW link

Pro­posal for “Open Prob­lems in Friendly AI”

lukeprog1 Jun 2012 2:06 UTC
33 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Suggest al­ter­nate names for the “Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute”

lukeprog19 Jun 2012 4:42 UTC
33 points
159 comments1 min readLW link

Less Wrong on Twitter

Grognor22 Jun 2012 15:51 UTC
32 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

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

RobertLumley23 Jun 2012 16:28 UTC
29 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Which cog­ni­tive bi­ases should we trust in?

Andy_McKenzie1 Jun 2012 6:37 UTC
29 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

Fo­cus on rationality

Oscar_Cunningham2 Jun 2012 19:25 UTC
28 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Altru­is­tic Kid­ney Donation

jefftk17 Jun 2012 20:02 UTC
28 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

Min­i­mum Vi­able Work­out Rou­tine is Danger­ously Misinformative

betterthanwell24 Jun 2012 13:02 UTC
27 points
32 comments6 min readLW link

Lo­cal Or­di­nances of Fun

Alicorn18 Jun 2012 3:07 UTC
27 points
156 comments4 min readLW link

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

betterthanwell20 Jun 2012 13:40 UTC
26 points
72 comments1 min readLW link

Com­pu­ta­tion Hazards

Alex_Altair13 Jun 2012 21:49 UTC
26 points
58 comments7 min readLW link

Build­ing the AI Risk Re­search Community

lukeprog1 Jun 2012 2:13 UTC
26 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Con­sider a robot vac­uum.

BrandonReinhart5 Jun 2012 8:08 UTC
25 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Pro­posal: Show up and down votes separately

witzvo9 Jun 2012 23:29 UTC
24 points
66 comments2 min readLW link

How to Pur­chase AI Risk Reduction

lukeprog1 Jun 2012 3:13 UTC
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