Help FHI crowd­source a di­rec­tory of re­searchers with high con­se­quen­tial­ist sig­nifi­cance and win a prize

[deleted]Sep 18, 2013, 8:11 PM
6 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing Simp­son’s Paradox

VaniverSep 18, 2013, 7:07 PM
19 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Help CFAR Take Manhattan

palladiasSep 18, 2013, 6:40 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Larry = Harry sans magic? Google vs. Death

ShmiSep 18, 2013, 4:49 PM
36 points
55 comments1 min readLW link

What did gov­ern­ments get right? Gotta list them all!

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 18, 2013, 12:59 PM
13 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Philadelphia—The Sword of Good

mare-of-nightSep 18, 2013, 3:09 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Thought ex­per­i­ment: The tran­shu­man pedophile

PhilGoetzSep 17, 2013, 10:38 PM
8 points
74 comments1 min readLW link

Help us name a short primer on AI risk!

lukeprogSep 17, 2013, 8:35 PM
11 points
75 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bratis­lava Meetup VII.

Viliam_BurSep 17, 2013, 6:06 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham/​RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, ch. 86

therufsSep 17, 2013, 5:38 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Den­nett on the self­ish neu­ron, etc.

NancyLebovitzSep 17, 2013, 5:09 PM
15 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Another way our brains be­tray us

polymathwannabeSep 17, 2013, 1:56 PM
5 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity, knowl­edge, and meta-probability

David_ChapmanSep 17, 2013, 12:02 AM
60 points
73 comments5 min readLW link

Sig­nal­ing of what, pre­cisely?

VipulNaikSep 16, 2013, 5:12 PM
10 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Is hu­man­ity a su­per­hu­man AI?

LocahaSep 16, 2013, 3:35 PM
−12 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Co­op­er­at­ing with agents with differ­ent ideas of fair­ness, while re­sist­ing exploitation

Eliezer YudkowskySep 16, 2013, 8:27 AM
103 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

Open thread, Septem­ber 16-22, 2013

MetusSep 16, 2013, 5:18 AM
9 points
141 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Septem­ber 16-30

therufsSep 16, 2013, 3:51 AM
5 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on log­i­cal pri­ors from the MIRI workshop

cousin_itSep 15, 2013, 10:43 PM
32 points
47 comments7 min readLW link

Meetup : Frankfurt

KendraSep 15, 2013, 11:27 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Win­ter Sols­tice 2013 Kick­starter—The Big One.

RaemonSep 15, 2013, 10:26 AM
42 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Colum­bus, OH MEGA-MEETUP, Oct 11-13

daenerysSep 15, 2013, 6:33 AM
7 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Large in­tro­duc­tory sci­ence classes

VipulNaikSep 15, 2013, 3:38 AM
3 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Help MIRI run its Oxford UK work­shop in November

lukeprogSep 15, 2013, 3:13 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Col­lege courses ver­sus LessWrong

VipulNaikSep 15, 2013, 12:45 AM
12 points
55 comments1 min readLW link

[link] “The Sur­vival of Hu­man­ity”

PabloSep 14, 2013, 3:19 PM
3 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : At­lanta Less­wrong Septem­ber Meetup (2nd of 2)

Nova_DivisionSep 14, 2013, 9:21 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Brain­wash­ing & ‘Cults’

gwernSep 13, 2013, 8:49 PM
80 points
106 comments16 min readLW link

New LW Meetup: Phoenix

FrankAdamekSep 13, 2013, 3:58 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Please share your read­ing habits/​tech­niques/​strate­gies

TorelloSep 13, 2013, 1:41 PM
13 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Be­hind the Shock Ma­chine: book re­ex­am­in­ing Mil­gram obe­di­ence experiments

DanArmakSep 13, 2013, 1:20 PM
14 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA—Talk Like a Pirate Day

OpenThreadGuySep 13, 2013, 10:20 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow: Yet Another Meetup

YuuSep 13, 2013, 6:07 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC fun and games meetup

rocurleySep 13, 2013, 5:54 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign, Illinois Games/​Discussion

MestroyerSep 13, 2013, 3:33 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity Talks: Think­ing in Bayes

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Sep 13, 2013, 1:52 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Games for Rationalists

Gunnar_ZarnckeSep 12, 2013, 5:41 PM
10 points
55 comments11 min readLW link

Pat­ternist friendly AI risk

bokovSep 12, 2013, 1:00 PM
1 point
57 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Brus­sels monthly meetup

RoxolanSep 12, 2013, 8:53 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ber­lin: Fermi para­dox discussion

blobSep 12, 2013, 8:27 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

How well will policy-mak­ers han­dle AGI? (ini­tial find­ings)

lukeprogSep 12, 2013, 7:21 AM
25 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

A con­cise ver­sion of “Twelve Virtues of Ra­tion­al­ity”, with Anki deck

[deleted]Sep 12, 2013, 2:38 AM
6 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

What’s Your Hourly Rate?

katydeeSep 11, 2013, 6:52 PM
11 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

mikkoSep 11, 2013, 5:21 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Defi­ni­tion of AI Friendliness

djmSep 11, 2013, 2:55 PM
−9 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Durham NC/​Tri­an­gle Area: Cog­ni­tive Bi­ases, Continued

therufsSep 10, 2013, 11:26 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The In­ter­rupted Ul­ti­mate New­comb’s Problem

linkhyrule5Sep 10, 2013, 11:04 PM
5 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Two spe­cial CFAR classes in Sept: In­stal­ling Habits and Ra­tion­al­ity for Programmers

palladiasSep 10, 2013, 8:29 PM
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Three ways CFAR has changed my view of rationality

Julia_GalefSep 10, 2013, 6:24 PM
172 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

The Ul­ti­mate New­comb’s Problem

Eliezer YudkowskySep 10, 2013, 2:03 AM
47 points
116 comments1 min readLW link