Ap­proval-di­rected agents

paulfchristiano12 Dec 2014 22:38 UTC
15 points
22 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

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek12 Dec 2014 17:06 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Be­ware The Man Of One Study

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

Robin Han­son talk­ing about Bias on Stos­sel tonight

buybuydandavis12 Dec 2014 5:15 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Tet­lock’s “Ex­pert Poli­ti­cal Judg­ment”

RobinZ12 Dec 2014 4:25 UTC
3 points
0 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

Meetup : Saint-Peters­burg Meetup

LizzardWizzard11 Dec 2014 12:48 UTC
4 points
0 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

Es­ti­mat­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of research

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

[link] Etz­ioni: AI will em­power us, not ex­ter­mi­nate us

CBHacking11 Dec 2014 8:51 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Cog­ni­tive dis­tor­tions of founders

Dr_Manhattan11 Dec 2014 3:19 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : At­lanta De­cem­ber Meetup—Game Night!

Adele_L11 Dec 2014 2:56 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Life­hack Ideas De­cem­ber 2014

Gondolinian10 Dec 2014 0:21 UTC
11 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

The Limits of My Rationality

JoshuaMyer9 Dec 2014 21:08 UTC
8 points
54 comments6 min readLW link

Feed­back re­quested by In­ten­tional In­sights on work­book con­vey­ing ra­tio­nal think­ing about mean­ing and pur­pose to a broad audience

Gleb_Tsipursky9 Dec 2014 19:03 UTC
9 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Is­rael Less Wrong Meetup—So­cial and Board Games

Anatoly_Vorobey9 Dec 2014 13:42 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Does util­i­tar­i­anism “re­quire” ex­treme self sac­ri­fice? If not why do peo­ple com­monly say it does?

Princess_Stargirl9 Dec 2014 8:32 UTC
12 points
100 comments1 min readLW link

An in­vest­ment anal­ogy for Pas­cal’s Mugging

[deleted]9 Dec 2014 7:50 UTC
9 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 13: Ca­pa­bil­ity con­trol methods

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

Stupid Ques­tions De­cem­ber 2014

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

[Link] An ex­act map­ping be­tween the Vari­a­tional Renor­mal­iza­tion Group and Deep Learn­ing]

Gunnar_Zarncke8 Dec 2014 14:33 UTC
11 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Dec. 8 - Dec. 15, 2014

Gondolinian8 Dec 2014 0:06 UTC
11 points
293 comments1 min readLW link

PSA: Eug­ine_Nier evad­ing ban?

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

Meetup : Moscow so­cial meetup: co­de­name “Order of In­frared Viola”

Alexander2307 Dec 2014 22:30 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Story With Zombies

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

A bit of word-dis­solv­ing in poli­ti­cal discussion

[deleted]7 Dec 2014 17:05 UTC
7 points
40 comments8 min readLW link

Meetup : Brus­sels—Hope & Self-improvement

Roxolan7 Dec 2014 17:04 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Linked de­ci­sions an a “nice” solu­tion for the Fermi paradox

Beluga7 Dec 2014 14:58 UTC
5 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA—DUMP STAT

OpenThreadGuy7 Dec 2014 5:32 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mov­ing to­wards the goal

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

Meetup : Syd­ney Sum­mer Solstice

luminosity6 Dec 2014 23:37 UTC
2 points
0 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

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek5 Dec 2014 21:20 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[link] On the abun­dance of ex­trater­res­trial life af­ter the Ke­pler mission

Gunnar_Zarncke5 Dec 2014 21:02 UTC
11 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Edit­ing meetups

luminosity5 Dec 2014 9:51 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Brains

RobinZ5 Dec 2014 7:56 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Could you be Prof Nick Bostrom’s side­kick?

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

Meetup : Toronto EA meetup

Giles4 Dec 2014 20:19 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Copen­hagen: De­cem­ber Meetup

Ruby4 Dec 2014 17:25 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Po­ten­tial vs already ex­is­tent peo­ple and aggregation

Stuart_Armstrong4 Dec 2014 13:38 UTC
6 points
21 comments2 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

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes De­cem­ber 2014

Salemicus3 Dec 2014 22:33 UTC
10 points
447 comments1 min readLW link

The Bay Area Solstice

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

Good things to have learned....

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

Au­ton­omy, util­ity, and de­sire; against con­se­quen­tial­ism in AI design

sbenthall3 Dec 2014 17:34 UTC
7 points
5 comments3 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

A hy­po­thet­i­cal ques­tion for in­vestors

bokov3 Dec 2014 16:39 UTC
4 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : De­cem­ber Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—On­line Com­mu­ni­ca­tion: Con­vey­ing Ideas Effectively

MelbourneLW3 Dec 2014 11:49 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Can­berra: End of year party

DanielFilan3 Dec 2014 11:49 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link