Philo­soph­i­cal Landmines

[deleted]Feb 8, 2013, 9:22 PM
165 points
146 comments3 min readLW link

Imi­ta­tion is the Sincer­est Form of Argument

palladiasFeb 18, 2013, 5:05 PM
124 points
96 comments2 min readLW link

A brief his­tory of eth­i­cally con­cerned scientists

Kaj_SotalaFeb 9, 2013, 5:50 AM
104 points
143 comments14 min readLW link

Offi­cial LW un­cen­sored thread (on Red­dit)

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 5, 2013, 8:04 PM
97 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Pin­point­ing Utility

[deleted]Feb 1, 2013, 3:58 AM
94 points
156 comments13 min readLW link

The Sin­gu­lar­ity Wars

JoshuaFoxFeb 14, 2013, 9:44 AM
82 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Lent

Qiaochu_YuanFeb 14, 2013, 6:32 AM
65 points
82 comments1 min readLW link

Memetic Tribalism

[deleted]Feb 14, 2013, 3:03 AM
62 points
62 comments4 min readLW link

The Fun­da­men­tal Ques­tion—Ra­tion­al­ity com­puter game design

Kaj_SotalaFeb 13, 2013, 1:45 PM
61 points
68 comments9 min readLW link

Learn­ing crit­i­cal think­ing: a per­sonal example

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Feb 14, 2013, 8:43 PM
59 points
28 comments8 min readLW link

Nat­u­ral­ism ver­sus un­bounded (or un­max­imis­able) util­ity options

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 1, 2013, 5:45 PM
55 points
74 comments6 min readLW link

An at­tempt to dis­solve sub­jec­tive ex­pec­ta­tion and per­sonal identity

Kaj_SotalaFeb 22, 2013, 8:44 PM
53 points
69 comments11 min readLW link

S.E.A.R.L.E’s COBOL room

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 1, 2013, 8:29 PM
52 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Three Axes of Prohibitions

daenerysFeb 15, 2013, 7:34 AM
47 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Think Like a Supervillain

Qiaochu_YuanFeb 20, 2013, 8:34 AM
46 points
111 comments2 min readLW link

LW Women: LW Online

daenerysFeb 15, 2013, 1:43 AM
46 points
596 comments6 min readLW link

Great ra­tio­nal­ity posts by LWers not posted to LW

lukeprogFeb 16, 2013, 12:31 AM
40 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Power of Suggestion

GLaDOSFeb 6, 2013, 10:04 AM
38 points
12 comments13 min readLW link

Vi­sual Men­tal Imagery Training

SarahNibsFeb 19, 2013, 10:21 PM
36 points
51 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] The Stan­ford Su­per­man Ex­per­i­ment: An­chor­ing Em­pa­thy?

ShmiFeb 1, 2013, 5:31 PM
32 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[sug­ges­tion] New Meetup Tab

JMillerFeb 3, 2013, 11:40 PM
32 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Wrong­ness Iceberg

alfredmacdonaldFeb 4, 2013, 9:02 AM
30 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

What are your rules of thumb?

DataPacRatFeb 15, 2013, 3:59 PM
29 points
76 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] False mem­o­ries of fabri­cated poli­ti­cal events

gjmFeb 10, 2013, 10:25 PM
28 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Offer: I’ll match dona­tions to the Against Malaria Foundation

jefftkFeb 4, 2013, 4:47 PM
27 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

“What-the-hell” Cog­ni­tive Failure Mode: a Separate Bias or a Com­bi­na­tion of Other Bi­ases?

ShmiFeb 22, 2013, 9:44 PM
27 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

VNM agents and lot­ter­ies in­volv­ing an in­finite num­ber of pos­si­ble outcomes

AlexMennenFeb 21, 2013, 9:58 PM
26 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Save the princess: A tale of AIXI and util­ity functions

AnjaFeb 1, 2013, 3:38 PM
24 points
11 comments6 min readLW link

Me­mory, nu­tri­tion, mo­ti­va­tion, and genes

PhilGoetzFeb 26, 2013, 5:25 AM
24 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] Open Source Soft­ware Devel­oper with Ter­mi­nal Ill­ness Hopes to Opt Out of Death

lsparrishFeb 13, 2013, 5:57 AM
22 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

[LINK] The Cry­op­reser­va­tion of Kim Suozzi

[deleted]Feb 1, 2013, 5:39 AM
22 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Self-as­sess­ment in ex­pert AI predictions

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 26, 2013, 4:30 PM
22 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Cryo: Le­gal fees of $2500

DataPacRatFeb 15, 2013, 6:43 PM
20 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Link: blog on effec­tive altruism

paulfchristianoFeb 8, 2013, 6:18 AM
20 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] “Scott and Scurvy”: a re­minder of the messi­ness of sci­en­tific progress

hesperidiaFeb 14, 2013, 2:02 AM
20 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] To­masik’s “Quan­tify with Care”

PabloFeb 23, 2013, 1:52 PM
20 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Western­ers may be ter­rible ex­per­i­men­tal psy­chol­ogy subjects

David_GerardFeb 26, 2013, 12:46 PM
20 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Idea: Self-Im­prov­ing Task Man­age­ment Software

rlp10Feb 27, 2013, 1:04 PM
19 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Why Bayes? A Wise Ruling

VaniverFeb 25, 2013, 3:52 PM
18 points
117 comments2 min readLW link

CEA does not seem to be cred­ibly high impact

Joanna MorningstarFeb 21, 2013, 10:29 AM
18 points
32 comments8 min readLW link

Call for dis­cus­sion: Sig­nal­ling and/​vs. accomplishment

NancyLebovitzFeb 23, 2013, 4:12 PM
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Does evolu­tion se­lect for mor­tal­ity?

DanArmakFeb 23, 2013, 7:33 PM
17 points
56 comments2 min readLW link

A Series of In­creas­ingly Per­verse and Destruc­tive Games

nigerweissFeb 14, 2013, 9:22 AM
17 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Fea­ture re­quest: Green glow for “con­tinue this thread”

NancyLebovitzFeb 27, 2013, 6:00 PM
17 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Higher than the most high

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 13, 2013, 4:10 PM
17 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

How to offend a ra­tio­nal­ist (who hasn’t thought about it yet): a life lesson

mszegedyFeb 6, 2013, 7:22 AM
17 points
113 comments2 min readLW link

Hu­mor: GURPS Friendly AI

hankx7787Feb 4, 2013, 4:38 PM
16 points
28 comments5 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing Hu­man Ra­tion­al­ity Through Cog­ni­tive Change (in­tro)

lukeprogFeb 24, 2013, 4:49 AM
16 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Need help with an MLP fan­fic­tion with a tran­shu­man­ist theme.

SalivanthFeb 27, 2013, 11:57 AM
15 points
74 comments4 min readLW link

Givewell Sur­vey—Op­por­tu­nity to in­fluence their research

RaemonFeb 26, 2013, 5:20 PM
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link