Philo­soph­i­cal Landmines

[deleted]8 Feb 2013 21:22 UTC
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Imi­ta­tion is the Sincer­est Form of Argument

palladias18 Feb 2013 17:05 UTC
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A brief his­tory of eth­i­cally con­cerned scientists

Kaj_Sotala9 Feb 2013 5:50 UTC
103 points
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Offi­cial LW un­cen­sored thread (on Red­dit)

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Feb 2013 20:04 UTC
97 points
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Pin­point­ing Utility

[deleted]1 Feb 2013 3:58 UTC
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The Sin­gu­lar­ity Wars

JoshuaFox14 Feb 2013 9:44 UTC
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Ra­tion­al­ist Lent

Qiaochu_Yuan14 Feb 2013 6:32 UTC
65 points
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Memetic Tribalism

[deleted]14 Feb 2013 3:03 UTC
62 points
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The Fun­da­men­tal Ques­tion—Ra­tion­al­ity com­puter game design

Kaj_Sotala13 Feb 2013 13:45 UTC
61 points
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Learn­ing crit­i­cal think­ing: a per­sonal example

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 14 Feb 2013 20:43 UTC
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Nat­u­ral­ism ver­sus un­bounded (or un­max­imis­able) util­ity options

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2013 17:45 UTC
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An at­tempt to dis­solve sub­jec­tive ex­pec­ta­tion and per­sonal identity

Kaj_Sotala22 Feb 2013 20:44 UTC
53 points
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S.E.A.R.L.E’s COBOL room

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2013 20:29 UTC
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Three Axes of Prohibitions

daenerys15 Feb 2013 7:34 UTC
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Think Like a Supervillain

Qiaochu_Yuan20 Feb 2013 8:34 UTC
46 points
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LW Women: LW Online

daenerys15 Feb 2013 1:43 UTC
46 points
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Great ra­tio­nal­ity posts by LWers not posted to LW

lukeprog16 Feb 2013 0:31 UTC
40 points
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[Link] Power of Suggestion

GLaDOS6 Feb 2013 10:04 UTC
38 points
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Vi­sual Men­tal Imagery Training

SarahNibs19 Feb 2013 22:21 UTC
36 points
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[Link] The Stan­ford Su­per­man Ex­per­i­ment: An­chor­ing Em­pa­thy?

Shmi1 Feb 2013 17:31 UTC
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[sug­ges­tion] New Meetup Tab

JMiller3 Feb 2013 23:40 UTC
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The Wrong­ness Iceberg

alfredmacdonald4 Feb 2013 9:02 UTC
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What are your rules of thumb?

DataPacRat15 Feb 2013 15:59 UTC
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[Link] False mem­o­ries of fabri­cated poli­ti­cal events

gjm10 Feb 2013 22:25 UTC
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Offer: I’ll match dona­tions to the Against Malaria Foundation

jefftk4 Feb 2013 16:47 UTC
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“What-the-hell” Cog­ni­tive Failure Mode: a Separate Bias or a Com­bi­na­tion of Other Bi­ases?

Shmi22 Feb 2013 21:44 UTC
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VNM agents and lot­ter­ies in­volv­ing an in­finite num­ber of pos­si­ble outcomes

AlexMennen21 Feb 2013 21:58 UTC
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Save the princess: A tale of AIXI and util­ity functions

Anja1 Feb 2013 15:38 UTC
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Me­mory, nu­tri­tion, mo­ti­va­tion, and genes

PhilGoetz26 Feb 2013 5:25 UTC
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[LINK] Open Source Soft­ware Devel­oper with Ter­mi­nal Ill­ness Hopes to Opt Out of Death

lsparrish13 Feb 2013 5:57 UTC
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[LINK] The Cry­op­reser­va­tion of Kim Suozzi

[deleted]1 Feb 2013 5:39 UTC
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Self-as­sess­ment in ex­pert AI predictions

Stuart_Armstrong26 Feb 2013 16:30 UTC
22 points
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Cryo: Le­gal fees of $2500

DataPacRat15 Feb 2013 18:43 UTC
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Link: blog on effec­tive altruism

paulfchristiano8 Feb 2013 6:18 UTC
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[LINK] “Scott and Scurvy”: a re­minder of the messi­ness of sci­en­tific progress

hesperidia14 Feb 2013 2:02 UTC
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[Link] To­masik’s “Quan­tify with Care”

Pablo23 Feb 2013 13:52 UTC
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[LINK] Western­ers may be ter­rible ex­per­i­men­tal psy­chol­ogy subjects

David_Gerard26 Feb 2013 12:46 UTC
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Idea: Self-Im­prov­ing Task Man­age­ment Software

rlp1027 Feb 2013 13:04 UTC
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Why Bayes? A Wise Ruling

Vaniver25 Feb 2013 15:52 UTC
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CEA does not seem to be cred­ibly high impact

Joanna Morningstar21 Feb 2013 10:29 UTC
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Call for dis­cus­sion: Sig­nal­ling and/​vs. accomplishment

NancyLebovitz23 Feb 2013 16:12 UTC
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Does evolu­tion se­lect for mor­tal­ity?

DanArmak23 Feb 2013 19:33 UTC
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A Series of In­creas­ingly Per­verse and Destruc­tive Games

nigerweiss14 Feb 2013 9:22 UTC
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Fea­ture re­quest: Green glow for “con­tinue this thread”

NancyLebovitz27 Feb 2013 18:00 UTC
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Higher than the most high

Stuart_Armstrong13 Feb 2013 16:10 UTC
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How to offend a ra­tio­nal­ist (who hasn’t thought about it yet): a life lesson

mszegedy6 Feb 2013 7:22 UTC
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Hu­mor: GURPS Friendly AI

hankx77874 Feb 2013 16:38 UTC
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Im­prov­ing Hu­man Ra­tion­al­ity Through Cog­ni­tive Change (in­tro)

lukeprog24 Feb 2013 4:49 UTC
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Need help with an MLP fan­fic­tion with a tran­shu­man­ist theme.

Salivanth27 Feb 2013 11:57 UTC
15 points
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Givewell Sur­vey—Op­por­tu­nity to in­fluence their research

Raemon26 Feb 2013 17:20 UTC
14 points
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