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[Link] The Dominant Life Form In the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots
Gunnar_Zarncke
Dec 20, 2014, 12:28 PM
6
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Velocity of behavioral evolution
Dr_Manhattan
Dec 19, 2014, 5:34 PM
7
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Dec 19, 2014, 5:27 PM
5
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Post Resource Request
Minds_Eye
Dec 19, 2014, 5:04 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Letting it go: when you shouldn’t respond to someone who is wrong
[deleted]
Dec 19, 2014, 3:12 PM
11
points
35
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Munchkining for Fun and Profit, Ideas, Experience, Successes, Failures
Username
Dec 19, 2014, 5:39 AM
12
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable
Scott Alexander
Dec 19, 2014, 5:00 AM
43
points
4
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games
RobinZ
Dec 19, 2014, 4:56 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Short, Meta] Should open threads be more frequent?
Metus
Dec 18, 2014, 11:41 PM
5
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An explanation of the ‘Many Interacting Worlds’ theory of quantum mechanics (by Sean Carroll and Chip Sebens)
Ander
Dec 18, 2014, 11:36 PM
7
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bayes Academy Development Report 2 - improved data visualization
Kaj_Sotala
Dec 18, 2014, 10:11 PM
12
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Rationality Jokes Thread
Gunnar_Zarncke
Dec 18, 2014, 4:17 PM
20
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow Meetup: biology, CBT and something mysterious
Slava Matyukhin
Dec 18, 2014, 3:48 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(Very Short) PSA: Combined Main and Discussion Feed
Gondolinian
Dec 18, 2014, 3:46 PM
21
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How many words do we have and how many distinct concepts do we have?
[deleted]
Dec 17, 2014, 11:04 PM
−6
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Giving What We Can—New Year drive
Smaug123
Dec 17, 2014, 3:26 PM
15
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Entropy and Temperature
spxtr
Dec 17, 2014, 8:04 AM
39
points
96
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Understanding Agency
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Dec 17, 2014, 6:35 AM
−1
points
32
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Using machine learning to predict romantic compatibility: empirical results
JonahS
Dec 17, 2014, 2:54 AM
37
points
18
comments
11
min read
LW
link
“incomparable” outcomes—multiple utility functions?
Emanresu
Dec 17, 2014, 12:06 AM
6
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New paper from MIRI: “Toward idealized decision theory”
So8res
Dec 16, 2014, 10:27 PM
41
points
22
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sandy, UT—Debugging
hamnox
Dec 16, 2014, 7:42 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Superintelligence 14: Motivation selection methods
KatjaGrace
Dec 16, 2014, 2:00 AM
9
points
28
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Kickstarting the audio version of the upcoming book “The Sequences”
Rick_from_Castify
Dec 16, 2014, 1:01 AM
47
points
53
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : London Social Meetup, 21/12/2014
Tenoke
Dec 15, 2014, 11:54 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How many people am I?
Manfred
Dec 15, 2014, 6:11 PM
7
points
27
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Has LessWrong Ever Backfired On You?
Evan_Gaensbauer
Dec 15, 2014, 5:44 AM
36
points
70
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Group Rationality Diary, December 16-31
therufs
Dec 15, 2014, 3:30 AM
6
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Welcome to Less Wrong! (7th thread, December 2014)
Gondolinian
Dec 15, 2014, 2:57 AM
21
points
639
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Dec. 15 - Dec. 21, 2014
Gondolinian
Dec 15, 2014, 12:01 AM
5
points
309
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Podcast: Rationalists in Tech
JoshuaFox
Dec 14, 2014, 4:14 PM
16
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Discussion of AI control over at worldbuilding.stackexchange [LINK]
ike
Dec 14, 2014, 2:59 AM
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Debunked And Well-Refuted
Scott Alexander
Dec 13, 2014, 12:08 PM
49
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Finishing Up
Manfred
Dec 13, 2014, 8:42 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Resolved] Is the SIA doomsday argument wrong?
Brian_Tomasik
Dec 13, 2014, 6:01 AM
10
points
27
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A forum for researchers to publicly discuss safety issues in advanced AI
Rob Bensinger
Dec 13, 2014, 12:33 AM
21
points
72
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Approval-directed agents
paulfchristiano
Dec 12, 2014, 10:38 PM
15
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Harper’s Magazine article on LW/MIRI/CFAR and Ethereum
gwern
Dec 12, 2014, 8:34 PM
76
points
154
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Dec 12, 2014, 5:06 PM
4
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Beware The Man Of One Study
Scott Alexander
Dec 12, 2014, 9:04 AM
70
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Robin Hanson talking about Bias on Stossel tonight
buybuydandavis
Dec 12, 2014, 5:15 AM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Tetlock’s “Expert Political Judgment”
RobinZ
Dec 12, 2014, 4:25 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What Peter Thiel thinks about AI risk
Dr_Manhattan
Dec 11, 2014, 9:22 PM
20
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Saint-Petersburg Meetup
LizzardWizzard
Dec 11, 2014, 12:48 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Make your own cost-effectiveness Fermi estimates for one-off problems
owencb
Dec 11, 2014, 12:00 PM
14
points
15
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Estimating the cost-effectiveness of research
owencb
11 Dec 2014 11:55 UTC
33
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[link] Etzioni: AI will empower us, not exterminate us
SeekingEternity
11 Dec 2014 8:51 UTC
7
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cognitive distortions of founders
Dr_Manhattan
11 Dec 2014 3:19 UTC
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Atlanta December Meetup—Game Night!
Adele_L
11 Dec 2014 2:56 UTC
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Lifehack Ideas December 2014
Gondolinian
10 Dec 2014 0:21 UTC
11
points
44
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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