We Haven’t Uploaded Worms

jefftkDec 27, 2014, 11:44 AM
156 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

CFAR in 2014: Con­tin­u­ing to climb out of the startup pit, head­ing to­ward a full prototype

AnnaSalamonDec 26, 2014, 3:33 PM
92 points
61 comments15 min readLW link

Could you be Prof Nick Bostrom’s side­kick?

RobertWiblinDec 5, 2014, 1:09 AM
78 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Harper’s Magaz­ine ar­ti­cle on LW/​MIRI/​CFAR and Ethereum

gwernDec 12, 2014, 8:34 PM
76 points
154 comments14 min readLW link

Be­ware The Man Of One Study

Scott AlexanderDec 12, 2014, 9:04 AM
70 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

MIRI’s tech­ni­cal re­search agenda

So8resDec 23, 2014, 6:45 PM
55 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

State of the Sols­tice 2014

RaemonDec 23, 2014, 6:18 AM
54 points
48 comments6 min readLW link

De­bunked And Well-Refuted

Scott AlexanderDec 13, 2014, 12:08 PM
49 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Kick­start­ing the au­dio ver­sion of the up­com­ing book “The Se­quences”

Rick_from_CastifyDec 16, 2014, 1:01 AM
47 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

No­body Is Perfect, Every­thing Is Commensurable

Scott AlexanderDec 19, 2014, 5:00 AM
43 points
4 comments11 min readLW link

New pa­per from MIRI: “Toward ideal­ized de­ci­sion the­ory”

So8resDec 16, 2014, 10:27 PM
41 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing Reflec­tive Attention

LoganStrohlDec 21, 2014, 12:53 PM
41 points
30 comments4 min readLW link

Why “Chang­ing the World” is a Hor­rible Phrase

ozziegooenDec 25, 2014, 6:04 AM
39 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

En­tropy and Temperature

spxtrDec 17, 2014, 8:04 AM
39 points
96 comments3 min readLW link

Us­ing ma­chine learn­ing to pre­dict ro­man­tic com­pat­i­bil­ity: em­piri­cal results

JonahSDec 17, 2014, 2:54 AM
37 points
18 comments11 min readLW link

Has LessWrong Ever Back­fired On You?

Evan_GaensbauerDec 15, 2014, 5:44 AM
36 points
70 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Eric S. Ray­mond—Me and Less Wrong

philhDec 5, 2014, 11:44 PM
36 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Es­ti­mat­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of research

owencbDec 11, 2014, 11:55 AM
33 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Re­cent AI safety work

paulfchristianoDec 30, 2014, 6:19 PM
32 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Open and closed men­tal states

VikaDec 26, 2014, 6:53 AM
31 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

A Story With Zombies

Scott AlexanderDec 7, 2014, 8:11 PM
30 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The Bay Area Solstice

Alex_AltairDec 3, 2014, 10:33 PM
29 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

PSA: Eug­ine_Nier evad­ing ban?

DahlenDec 7, 2014, 11:23 PM
27 points
70 comments2 min readLW link

The new GiveWell recom­men­da­tions are out: here’s a sum­mary of the charities

togDec 1, 2014, 9:20 PM
27 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Stupid Ques­tions De­cem­ber 2014

GondolinianDec 8, 2014, 3:39 PM
25 points
342 comments1 min readLW link

Good things to have learned....

NancyLebovitzDec 3, 2014, 7:29 PM
23 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Yud­kowsky’s Abridged Guide to In­tel­li­gent Characters

katydeeDec 30, 2014, 6:37 AM
21 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Where is the line be­tween be­ing a good child and tak­ing care of one­self?

jkadluboDec 4, 2014, 7:26 AM
21 points
54 comments4 min readLW link

(Very Short) PSA: Com­bined Main and Dis­cus­sion Feed

GondolinianDec 18, 2014, 3:46 PM
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Wel­come to Less Wrong! (7th thread, De­cem­ber 2014)

GondolinianDec 15, 2014, 2:57 AM
21 points
639 comments6 min readLW link

The Rub­ber Hand Illu­sion and Preach­ing to the Unconverted

Gram_StoneDec 29, 2014, 12:56 PM
21 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

How to Read

Peter WildefordDec 22, 2014, 5:40 AM
21 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

A fo­rum for re­searchers to pub­li­cly dis­cuss safety is­sues in ad­vanced AI

Rob BensingerDec 13, 2014, 12:33 AM
21 points
72 comments1 min readLW link

What Peter Thiel thinks about AI risk

Dr_ManhattanDec 11, 2014, 9:22 PM
20 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

In­te­gral ver­sus differ­en­tial ethics

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 1, 2014, 6:04 PM
20 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Jokes Thread

Gunnar_ZarnckeDec 18, 2014, 4:17 PM
20 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

[link] The Philos­o­phy of In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sions and Ad­vanced Robotics

Kaj_SotalaDec 2, 2014, 3:44 AM
19 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Link: LessWrong and AI risk men­tioned in a Busi­ness In­sider Article

James_MillerDec 3, 2014, 5:13 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mov­ing to­wards the goal

So8resDec 7, 2014, 2:00 AM
16 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Pod­cast: Ra­tion­al­ists in Tech

JoshuaFoxDec 14, 2014, 4:14 PM
16 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Giv­ing What We Can—New Year drive

Smaug123Dec 17, 2014, 3:26 PM
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Steven Hawk­ing warns of the dan­gers of AI

SalemicusDec 2, 2014, 3:22 PM
15 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Po­modoro for Programmers

Peter WildefordDec 24, 2014, 6:26 PM
15 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 12: Mal­ig­nant failure modes

KatjaGraceDec 2, 2014, 2:02 AM
15 points
51 comments5 min readLW link

Ap­proval-di­rected agents

paulfchristianoDec 12, 2014, 10:38 PM
15 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Make your own cost-effec­tive­ness Fermi es­ti­mates for one-off problems

owencbDec 11, 2014, 12:00 PM
14 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 13: Ca­pa­bil­ity con­trol methods

KatjaGraceDec 9, 2014, 2:00 AM
14 points
48 comments6 min readLW link

Sig­nal­ling with T-Shirt slo­gans

Gunnar_ZarnckeDec 21, 2014, 11:37 AM
14 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

Tachyon neu­trinos (again)

JoshuaZDec 27, 2014, 5:19 PM
13 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Us­ing Doul­ingo ‘Im­mer­sion’ fea­ture to trans­late HPMOR

efimDec 25, 2014, 8:25 PM
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link