On Caring

So8res15 Oct 2014 1:59 UTC
238 points
276 comments10 min readLW link

2014 Less Wrong Cen­sus/​Survey

Scott Alexander26 Oct 2014 18:05 UTC
116 points
728 comments1 min readLW link

Is the po­ten­tial as­tro­nom­i­cal waste in our uni­verse too small to care about?

Wei Dai21 Oct 2014 8:44 UTC
88 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

An­thropic sig­na­ture: strange anti-correlations

Stuart_Armstrong21 Oct 2014 16:59 UTC
86 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

A dis­cus­sion of heroic responsibility

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 29 Oct 2014 4:22 UTC
83 points
216 comments7 min readLW link

Maybe you want to max­imise pa­per­clips too

dougclow30 Oct 2014 21:40 UTC
70 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing Cor­rigi­bil­ity (an FAI re­search sub­field)

So8res20 Oct 2014 21:09 UTC
52 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

Cross­ing the His­tory-Les­sons Threshold

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)17 Oct 2014 0:17 UTC
50 points
65 comments6 min readLW link

Fix­ing Mo­ral Hazards In Busi­ness Science

DavidLS18 Oct 2014 21:10 UTC
50 points
97 comments2 min readLW link

A Day Without Defaults

katydee20 Oct 2014 8:07 UTC
49 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

How to write an aca­demic pa­per, ac­cord­ing to me

Stuart_Armstrong15 Oct 2014 12:29 UTC
45 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

What false be­liefs have you held and why were you wrong?

Punoxysm16 Oct 2014 17:58 UTC
43 points
368 comments1 min readLW link

“Solv­ing” self­ish­ness for UDT

Stuart_Armstrong27 Oct 2014 17:51 UTC
39 points
52 comments8 min readLW link

In the grim dark­ness of the far fu­ture there is only war con­tinued by other means

Eneasz21 Oct 2014 19:39 UTC
39 points
48 comments4 min readLW link

Ques­tions on Theism

Aiyen8 Oct 2014 21:02 UTC
34 points
192 comments3 min readLW link

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2015

Lachouette19 Oct 2014 15:02 UTC
34 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Con­trar­ian LW views and their eco­nomic implications

Larks8 Oct 2014 23:48 UTC
30 points
126 comments1 min readLW link

Wikipe­dia ar­ti­cles from the future

snarles29 Oct 2014 12:49 UTC
30 points
86 comments1 min readLW link

Ap­pli­ca­tions of log­i­cal uncertainty

alex_zag_al18 Oct 2014 19:26 UTC
30 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

Log­i­cal un­cer­tainty read­ing list

alex_zag_al18 Oct 2014 19:16 UTC
29 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

2014 Less Wrong Cen­sus/​Sur­vey—Call For Cri­tiques/​Questions

Scott Alexander11 Oct 2014 6:39 UTC
29 points
274 comments1 min readLW link

Sols­tice 2014 - Kick­starter and Megameetup

Raemon10 Oct 2014 17:55 UTC
29 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Fight­ing Mosquitos

ChristianKl16 Oct 2014 11:53 UTC
28 points
74 comments1 min readLW link

Power and difficulty

undermind22 Oct 2014 5:22 UTC
28 points
50 comments4 min readLW link

Up­com­ing CFAR events: Lower-cost bay area in­tro work­shop; EU work­shops; and others

AnnaSalamon2 Oct 2014 0:08 UTC
28 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] An­i­mated Video—The Use­ful Idea of Truth (Part 1/​3)

Joshua_Blaine4 Oct 2014 23:05 UTC
27 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing Effec­tive Altru­ist Profiles

tog3 Oct 2014 23:01 UTC
27 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Hap­piness Log­ging: One Year In

jefftk9 Oct 2014 19:24 UTC
25 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Five Planets In Search Of A Sci-Fi Story

Scott Alexander12 Oct 2014 6:08 UTC
24 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

What math is es­sen­tial to the art of ra­tio­nal­ity?

Capla15 Oct 2014 2:44 UTC
23 points
63 comments1 min readLW link

Things to con­sider when op­ti­miz­ing: Sleep

[deleted]28 Oct 2014 17:26 UTC
23 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] “The Prob­lem With Pos­i­tive Think­ing”

CronoDAS26 Oct 2014 6:50 UTC
23 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics in Europe?

roland10 Oct 2014 14:58 UTC
23 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Stupid Ques­tions (10/​27/​2014)

drethelin27 Oct 2014 21:27 UTC
22 points
263 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 5: Forms of Superintelligence

KatjaGrace14 Oct 2014 1:00 UTC
22 points
114 comments5 min readLW link

What sup­ple­ments do you take, if any?

NancyLebovitz23 Oct 2014 12:36 UTC
21 points
72 comments1 min readLW link

One Year of Goodsearching

katydee21 Oct 2014 1:09 UTC
21 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

Black­mail, con­tinued: com­mu­nal black­mail, un­co­or­di­nated responses

Stuart_Armstrong22 Oct 2014 17:53 UTC
20 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 7: De­ci­sive strate­gic advantage

KatjaGrace28 Oct 2014 1:01 UTC
19 points
60 comments6 min readLW link

ques­tion: the 40 hour work week vs Sili­con Valley?

Florian_Dietz24 Oct 2014 12:09 UTC
18 points
108 comments1 min readLW link

Al­co­holics Anony­mous: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott Alexander26 Oct 2014 6:15 UTC
18 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

Four things ev­ery com­mu­nity should do

Gunnar_Zarncke20 Oct 2014 17:24 UTC
18 points
46 comments2 min readLW link

What is op­ti­miza­tion power, for­mally?

sbenthall18 Oct 2014 18:37 UTC
18 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Is this pa­per for­mally mod­el­ing hu­man (ir)ra­tio­nal de­ci­sion mak­ing worth un­der­stand­ing?

rule_and_line23 Oct 2014 22:11 UTC
17 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Baysian conundrum

Jan_Rzymkowski13 Oct 2014 0:39 UTC
17 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

3-day Sols­tice in Leipzig, Ger­many: small, nice, very low cost, in­cludes ac­com­mo­da­tion, 19th-21st Dec

chaosmage9 Oct 2014 16:38 UTC
17 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Link: Elon Musk wants gov’t over­sight for AI

polymathwannabe28 Oct 2014 2:15 UTC
15 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Link: Ex­otic dis­asters are serious

polymathwannabe6 Oct 2014 18:14 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Pod­casts?

Capla25 Oct 2014 23:42 UTC
15 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing an EA Dona­tion Registry, cov­er­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk donors

tog21 Oct 2014 14:10 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link