New pa­per from MIRI: “Toward ideal­ized de­ci­sion the­ory”

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

Meetup : Sandy, UT—Debugging

hamnox16 Dec 2014 19:42 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 14: Mo­ti­va­tion se­lec­tion methods

KatjaGrace16 Dec 2014 2:00 UTC
9 points
28 comments5 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

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial Meetup, 21/​12/​2014

Tenoke15 Dec 2014 23:54 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How many peo­ple am I?

Manfred15 Dec 2014 18:11 UTC
7 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

Has LessWrong Ever Back­fired On You?

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

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, De­cem­ber 16-31

therufs15 Dec 2014 3:30 UTC
6 points
5 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

Open thread, Dec. 15 - Dec. 21, 2014

Gondolinian15 Dec 2014 0:01 UTC
5 points
309 comments1 min readLW link

Pod­cast: Ra­tion­al­ists in Tech

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

Dis­cus­sion of AI con­trol over at wor­ld­build­ing.stack­ex­change [LINK]

ike14 Dec 2014 2:59 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

De­bunked And Well-Refuted

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

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Finish­ing Up

Manfred13 Dec 2014 8:42 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Re­solved] Is the SIA dooms­day ar­gu­ment wrong?

Brian_Tomasik13 Dec 2014 6:01 UTC
10 points
27 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

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