The Virtue of Silence

Scott Alexander14 Jun 2013 19:00 UTC
127 points
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Ro­bust Co­op­er­a­tion in the Pri­soner’s Dilemma

orthonormal7 Jun 2013 8:30 UTC
120 points
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All De­bates Are Brav­ery Debates

Scott Alexander9 Jun 2013 19:00 UTC
110 points
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After crit­i­cal event W hap­pens, they still won’t be­lieve you

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Jun 2013 21:59 UTC
95 points
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Tiling Agents for Self-Mod­ify­ing AI (OPFAI #2)

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Jun 2013 20:24 UTC
88 points
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For FAI: Is “Molec­u­lar Nan­otech­nol­ogy” putting our best foot for­ward?

leplen22 Jun 2013 4:44 UTC
86 points
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How prob­a­ble is Molec­u­lar Nan­otech?

leplen29 Jun 2013 7:06 UTC
75 points
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Pri­soner’s Dilemma (with visi­ble source code) Tournament

AlexMennen7 Jun 2013 8:30 UTC
73 points
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How to Write Deep Characters

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Jun 2013 2:10 UTC
69 points
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Do Earths with slower eco­nomic growth have a bet­ter chance at FAI?

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jun 2013 19:54 UTC
59 points
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Public Ser­vice An­nounce­ment Collection

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Jun 2013 17:20 UTC
56 points
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Start Un­der the Streetlight, then Push into the Shadows

lukeprog24 Jun 2013 0:49 UTC
52 points
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Use­ful Con­cepts Repository

Qiaochu_Yuan10 Jun 2013 6:12 UTC
48 points
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Earn­ing to Give vs. Altru­is­tic Ca­reer Choice Revisited

JonahS2 Jun 2013 2:55 UTC
48 points
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Some reser­va­tions about Singer’s child-in-the-pond argument

JonahS19 Jun 2013 23:54 UTC
40 points
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[link] The Eco­nomics of So­cial Status

Kaj_Sotala6 Jun 2013 8:38 UTC
39 points
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The Use of Many In­de­pen­dent Lines of Ev­i­dence: The Basel Problem

JonahS3 Jun 2013 4:42 UTC
38 points
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Many Weak Ar­gu­ments vs. One Rel­a­tively Strong Argument

JonahS4 Jun 2013 3:32 UTC
35 points
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Ma­hatma Arm­strong: CEVed to death.

Stuart_Armstrong6 Jun 2013 12:50 UTC
33 points
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Bad Con­cepts Repository

moridinamael27 Jun 2013 3:16 UTC
33 points
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How to Have Space Correctly

fowlertm25 Jun 2013 3:47 UTC
33 points
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James Martin’s death

Stuart_Armstrong27 Jun 2013 11:57 UTC
33 points
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[link] Scott Aaron­son on free will

DanielVarga10 Jun 2013 23:24 UTC
32 points
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Quotes and Notes on Scott Aaron­son’s “The Ghost in the Quan­tum Tur­ing Ma­chine”

Shmi17 Jun 2013 5:11 UTC
31 points
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Re­duc­tion­ism se­quence now available in au­dio format

Rick_from_Castify2 Jun 2013 2:55 UTC
31 points
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CFAR work­shop, June 15th, Salt Lake City UT

Julia_Galef6 Jun 2013 16:47 UTC
30 points
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Com­mon failure modes in habit formation

RomeoStevens28 Jun 2013 5:28 UTC
30 points
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Effec­tive Altru­ism Through Ad­ver­tis­ing Vege­tar­i­anism?

Peter Wildeford12 Jun 2013 18:50 UTC
29 points
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An­ti­ci­pat­ing crit­i­cal transitions

PhilGoetz9 Jun 2013 16:28 UTC
29 points
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Why do the­ists, un­der­grads, and Less Wrongers fa­vor one-box­ing on New­comb?

CarlShulman19 Jun 2013 1:55 UTC
28 points
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A per­sonal his­tory of in­volve­ment with effec­tive altruism

JonahS11 Jun 2013 4:49 UTC
25 points
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[META] Make poll re­sults ac­cessible to peo­ple who have not voted

sp423327 Jun 2013 22:15 UTC
24 points
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How should Eliezer and Nick’s ex­tra $20 be split

Scott Garrabrant14 Jun 2013 18:14 UTC
22 points
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Va­cancy at the Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute: Aca­demic Pro­ject Manager

Sean_o_h28 Jun 2013 12:17 UTC
22 points
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Two Weeks of Med­i­ta­tion can Re­duce Mind Wan­der­ing and Im­prove Men­tal Perfor­mance.

fowlertm1 Jun 2013 9:58 UTC
21 points
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How can I strate­gi­cally write a com­plex best­sel­ler? (4HS001)

Neotenic12 Jun 2013 8:47 UTC
19 points
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A dis­claimer about my effec­tive philan­thropy posts (in con­nec­tion with as­tro­nom­i­cal waste)

JonahS1 Jun 2013 2:00 UTC
19 points
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Ini­tial Thoughts on Per­son­ally Find­ing a High-Im­pact Career

Peter Wildeford19 Jun 2013 19:10 UTC
18 points
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Sugges­tions for Ra­tion­al­ity Blogs in the Sidebar

LucasSloan25 Jun 2013 2:36 UTC
18 points
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Other pre­spec­tive on re­solv­ing the Pri­soner’s dilemma

Stuart_Armstrong4 Jun 2013 16:13 UTC
17 points
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Ex­er­cise isn’t nec­es­sar­ily good for people

NancyLebovitz8 Jun 2013 14:32 UTC
17 points
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So­cial Im­pact, Effec­tive Altru­ism, and Mo­ti­vated Cognition

JonahS8 Jun 2013 2:31 UTC
16 points
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Sav­ing lives via bed nets is hard to beat for im­me­di­ate impact

JonahS21 Jun 2013 18:46 UTC
15 points
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Near-Term Risk: Killer Robots a Threat to Free­dom and Democracy

Epiphany14 Jun 2013 6:28 UTC
15 points
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Nor­ma­tive un­cer­tainty in New­comb’s problem

CarlShulman16 Jun 2013 2:16 UTC
14 points
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Elites and AI: Stated Opinions

lukeprog15 Jun 2013 19:52 UTC
14 points
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Weak ev­i­dence that eat­ing veg­eta­bles makes you live longer

jefftk10 Jun 2013 13:09 UTC
14 points
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David Brooks from the NY Times writes on earn­ing-to-give

AnthonyC4 Jun 2013 15:15 UTC
14 points
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Many Weak Ar­gu­ments and the Typ­i­cal Mind

JonahS6 Jun 2013 18:52 UTC
14 points
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Char­ity Effec­tive­ness and Third-World Economics

jimrandomh12 Jun 2013 15:50 UTC
13 points
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