Siren wor­lds and the per­ils of over-op­ti­mised search

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 7, 2014, 11:00 AM
83 points
418 comments7 min readLW link

Bot­world: a cel­lu­lar au­toma­ton for study­ing self-mod­ify­ing agents em­bed­ded in their environment

So8resApr 12, 2014, 12:56 AM
80 points
54 comments7 min readLW link

A brief sum­mary of effec­tive study methods

Arran_StirtonApr 28, 2014, 12:40 PM
73 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

Be com­fortable with hypocrisy

The_DuckApr 8, 2014, 10:03 AM
67 points
80 comments2 min readLW link

The Cow­pox of Doubt

Scott AlexanderApr 16, 2014, 1:04 AM
66 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

The Con­trol Group Is Out Of Control

Scott AlexanderApr 29, 2014, 12:46 AM
51 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

Busi­ness Net­work­ing through LessWrong

JoshuaFoxApr 2, 2014, 5:39 PM
45 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

How long will Al­cor be around?

FroolowApr 17, 2014, 3:28 PM
45 points
52 comments5 min readLW link

Skills and Antiskills

katydeeApr 26, 2014, 6:54 AM
43 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: So Good They Can’t Ig­nore You, by Cal Newport

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Apr 23, 2014, 3:27 AM
43 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Items to Have In Case of Emer­gency...Maybe.

daenerysApr 3, 2014, 12:23 AM
42 points
76 comments3 min readLW link

The Cry­on­ics Strat­egy Space

FroolowApr 24, 2014, 4:11 PM
40 points
47 comments8 min readLW link

The Study of Anglophysics

Scott AlexanderApr 3, 2014, 5:36 PM
38 points
1 comment28 min readLW link

Tapestries of Gold

[deleted]Apr 27, 2014, 7:23 AM
37 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2014 retrospective

blobApr 29, 2014, 2:08 PM
36 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

Hu­man cap­i­tal or sig­nal­ing? No, it’s about do­ing the Right Thing and ac­quiring karma

VipulNaikApr 20, 2014, 9:04 PM
35 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

Re­quest for con­crete AI takeover mechanisms

KatjaGraceApr 28, 2014, 1:04 AM
35 points
123 comments1 min readLW link

The Cold War di­vided Science

Douglas_KnightApr 5, 2014, 11:10 PM
35 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

Why don’t you at­tend your lo­cal LessWrong meetup? /​ Gen­eral meetup feedback

philhApr 27, 2014, 10:17 PM
33 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

South­ern Cal­ifor­nia FAI Workshop

Scott GarrabrantApr 20, 2014, 8:55 AM
32 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI Dona­tion Col­lab­o­ra­tion Station

SkeptitykeApr 29, 2014, 2:11 PM
30 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Hawk­ing/​Rus­sell/​Teg­mark/​Wilczek on dan­gers of Su­per­in­tel­li­gent Machines [link]

Dr_ManhattanApr 21, 2014, 4:55 PM
27 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

AI risk, new ex­ec­u­tive summary

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 18, 2014, 10:45 AM
27 points
76 comments4 min readLW link

How do you ap­proach the prob­lem of so­cial dis­cov­ery?

InquilineKeaApr 21, 2014, 9:05 PM
26 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Recom­men­da­tions for donat­ing to an anti-death cause

fowlertmApr 9, 2014, 2:56 AM
26 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Com­mu­nity overview and re­sources for mod­ern Less Wrong meetup organisers

BraydenMApr 4, 2014, 8:53 PM
26 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Eval­u­at­ing GiveWell as a startup idea based on Paul Gra­ham’s philosophy

VipulNaikApr 12, 2014, 2:04 PM
25 points
4 comments18 min readLW link

The effect of effec­tive­ness in­for­ma­tion on char­i­ta­ble giving

UnnamedApr 15, 2014, 4:43 PM
23 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sup­ply, de­mand, and tech­nolog­i­cal progress: how might the fu­ture un­fold? Should we be­lieve in run­away ex­po­nen­tial growth?

VipulNaikApr 11, 2014, 7:07 PM
22 points
57 comments15 min readLW link

AI risk, ex­ec­u­tive summary

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 7, 2014, 10:33 AM
22 points
51 comments5 min readLW link

LessWrong as so­cial catalyst

JoshuaFoxApr 28, 2014, 2:10 PM
21 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

My Heart­bleed learn­ing ex­pe­rience and al­ter­na­tive to poor qual­ity Heart­bleed in­struc­tions.

aisarkaApr 15, 2014, 8:15 AM
21 points
32 comments9 min readLW link

[Re­quest­ing ad­vice] Prob­lems with op­ti­miz­ing my life as a high school student

OptimalApr 14, 2014, 1:07 PM
21 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Schel­ling Day 2.0

Ben_LandauTaylorApr 9, 2014, 6:58 AM
20 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Ca­reer prospects for physics majors

JonahSApr 4, 2014, 3:02 AM
20 points
32 comments5 min readLW link

Be­ware tech­nolog­i­cal won­der­land, or, why text will dom­i­nate the fu­ture of com­mu­ni­ca­tion and the Internet

VipulNaikApr 13, 2014, 5:34 PM
20 points
24 comments12 min readLW link

Us­ing the log­a­r­ith­mic timeline to un­der­stand the future

VipulNaikApr 16, 2014, 2:00 AM
18 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

SHRDLU, un­der­stand­ing, an­thro­po­mor­phi­sa­tion and hind­sight bias

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 7, 2014, 9:59 AM
18 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

The failed simu­la­tion effect and its im­pli­ca­tions for the op­ti­miza­tion of ex­tracur­ricu­lar activities

VipulNaikApr 8, 2014, 7:27 PM
18 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Ther­mo­dy­nam­ics of In­tel­li­gence and Cog­ni­tive Enhancement

CasioTheSaneApr 3, 2014, 11:17 PM
17 points
71 comments3 min readLW link

LessWrongWiki User Pages Un­deruti­lized; Tag Proposal

Gunnar_ZarnckeApr 23, 2014, 9:50 PM
17 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

How Tim O’Brien gets around the log­i­cal fal­lacy of gen­er­al­iza­tion from fic­tional evidence

mszegedyApr 24, 2014, 9:41 PM
16 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

A sum­mary and broad points of agree­ment and dis­agree­ment with Cal New­port’s book on high school extracurriculars

VipulNaikApr 8, 2014, 1:55 AM
16 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Bostrom ver­sus Transcendence

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 18, 2014, 8:31 AM
16 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes April 2014

elharoApr 7, 2014, 5:25 PM
15 points
659 comments1 min readLW link

Er­gonomics Revisited

diegocaleiroApr 22, 2014, 9:57 PM
15 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end in Ber­lin Im­pres­sions Thread

Gunnar_ZarnckeApr 13, 2014, 8:33 PM
14 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] The er­rors, in­sights and les­sons of fa­mous AI predictions

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 28, 2014, 9:41 AM
13 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

How rele­vant are the les­sons from Megamis­takes to fore­cast­ing to­day?

VipulNaikApr 12, 2014, 4:53 AM
13 points
3 comments11 min readLW link

Cog­nito Men­tor­ing and zero-sum competition

JonahSApr 29, 2014, 11:06 PM
12 points
1 comment3 min readLW link