We Haven’t Uploaded Worms

jefftk27 Dec 2014 11:44 UTC
156 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

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

AnnaSalamon26 Dec 2014 15:33 UTC
92 points
61 comments15 min readLW link

Could you be Prof Nick Bostrom’s side­kick?

RobertWiblin5 Dec 2014 1:09 UTC
78 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

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

gwern12 Dec 2014 20:34 UTC
76 points
154 comments14 min readLW link

Be­ware The Man Of One Study

Scott Alexander12 Dec 2014 9:04 UTC
62 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

MIRI’s tech­ni­cal re­search agenda

So8res23 Dec 2014 18:45 UTC
55 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

State of the Sols­tice 2014

Raemon23 Dec 2014 6:18 UTC
54 points
48 comments6 min readLW link

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

Rick_from_Castify16 Dec 2014 1:01 UTC
47 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

De­bunked And Well-Refuted

Scott Alexander13 Dec 2014 12:08 UTC
46 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

No­body Is Perfect, Every­thing Is Commensurable

Scott Alexander19 Dec 2014 5:00 UTC
42 points
4 comments11 min readLW link

New pa­per from MIRI: “Toward ideal­ized de­ci­sion the­ory”

So8res16 Dec 2014 22:27 UTC
41 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing Reflec­tive Attention

LoganStrohl21 Dec 2014 12:53 UTC
41 points
30 comments4 min readLW link

En­tropy and Temperature

spxtr17 Dec 2014 8:04 UTC
39 points
96 comments3 min readLW link

Why “Chang­ing the World” is a Hor­rible Phrase

ozziegooen25 Dec 2014 6:04 UTC
38 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Us­ing ma­chine learn­ing to pre­dict ro­man­tic com­pat­i­bil­ity: em­piri­cal results

JonahS17 Dec 2014 2:54 UTC
37 points
18 comments11 min readLW link

Has LessWrong Ever Back­fired On You?

Evan_Gaensbauer15 Dec 2014 5:44 UTC
36 points
70 comments1 min readLW link

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

philh5 Dec 2014 23:44 UTC
36 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Es­ti­mat­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of research

owencb11 Dec 2014 11:55 UTC
33 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Re­cent AI safety work

paulfchristiano30 Dec 2014 18:19 UTC
32 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Open and closed men­tal states

Vika26 Dec 2014 6:53 UTC
31 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

A Story With Zombies

Scott Alexander7 Dec 2014 20:11 UTC
30 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The Bay Area Solstice

Alex_Altair3 Dec 2014 22:33 UTC
29 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

PSA: Eug­ine_Nier evad­ing ban?

Dahlen7 Dec 2014 23:23 UTC
27 points
70 comments2 min readLW link

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

tog1 Dec 2014 21:20 UTC
27 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Stupid Ques­tions De­cem­ber 2014

Gondolinian8 Dec 2014 15:39 UTC
25 points
342 comments1 min readLW link

Good things to have learned....

NancyLebovitz3 Dec 2014 19:29 UTC
23 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Yud­kowsky’s Abridged Guide to In­tel­li­gent Characters

katydee30 Dec 2014 6:37 UTC
21 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

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

jkadlubo4 Dec 2014 7:26 UTC
21 points
54 comments4 min readLW link

(Very Short) PSA: Com­bined Main and Dis­cus­sion Feed

Gondolinian18 Dec 2014 15:46 UTC
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

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

Gondolinian15 Dec 2014 2:57 UTC
21 points
639 comments6 min readLW link

The Rub­ber Hand Illu­sion and Preach­ing to the Unconverted

Gram_Stone29 Dec 2014 12:56 UTC
21 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

How to Read

Peter Wildeford22 Dec 2014 5:40 UTC
21 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

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

Rob Bensinger13 Dec 2014 0:33 UTC
21 points
72 comments1 min readLW link

What Peter Thiel thinks about AI risk

Dr_Manhattan11 Dec 2014 21:22 UTC
20 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

In­te­gral ver­sus differ­en­tial ethics

Stuart_Armstrong1 Dec 2014 18:04 UTC
20 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Jokes Thread

Gunnar_Zarncke18 Dec 2014 16:17 UTC
20 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

[link] The Philos­o­phy of In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sions and Ad­vanced Robotics

Kaj_Sotala2 Dec 2014 3:44 UTC
19 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

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

James_Miller3 Dec 2014 17:13 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pod­cast: Ra­tion­al­ists in Tech

JoshuaFox14 Dec 2014 16:14 UTC
16 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Giv­ing What We Can—New Year drive

Smaug12317 Dec 2014 15:26 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Steven Hawk­ing warns of the dan­gers of AI

Salemicus2 Dec 2014 15:22 UTC
15 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Po­modoro for Programmers

Peter Wildeford24 Dec 2014 18:26 UTC
15 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 12: Mal­ig­nant failure modes

KatjaGrace2 Dec 2014 2:02 UTC
15 points
51 comments5 min readLW link

Mov­ing to­wards the goal

So8res7 Dec 2014 2:00 UTC
15 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Ap­proval-di­rected agents

paulfchristiano12 Dec 2014 22:38 UTC
15 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

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

owencb11 Dec 2014 12:00 UTC
14 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 13: Ca­pa­bil­ity con­trol methods

KatjaGrace9 Dec 2014 2:00 UTC
14 points
48 comments6 min readLW link

Sig­nal­ling with T-Shirt slo­gans

Gunnar_Zarncke21 Dec 2014 11:37 UTC
14 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

Tachyon neu­trinos (again)

JoshuaZ27 Dec 2014 17:19 UTC
13 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Us­ing Doul­ingo ‘Im­mer­sion’ fea­ture to trans­late HPMOR

efim25 Dec 2014 20:25 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link