Willpower De­ple­tion vs Willpower Distraction

On Ter­mi­nal Goals and Virtue Ethics

False Friends and Tone Policing

New or­ga­ni­za­tion—Fu­ture of Life In­sti­tute (FLI)

Against util­ity functions

[Meta] The De­cline of Dis­cus­sion: Now With Charts!

Asches to Asches

The Power of Noise

What re­sources have in­creas­ing marginal util­ity?

Math­e­mat­ics as a lossy com­pres­sion al­gorithm gone wild

[meta] Policy for deal­ing with users sus­pected/​guilty of mass-down­vote ha­rass­ment?

Failures of an em­bod­ied AIXI

The silos of ex­per­tise: be­yond heuris­tics and biases

Flow­ers for Algernon

Strat­e­gyproof Mechanisms: Possibilities

A Story of Kings and Spies

Separat­ing the roles of the­ory and di­rect em­piri­cal ev­i­dence in be­lief for­ma­tion: the ex­am­ples of min­i­mum wage and an­thro­pogenic global warming

Ques­tion­ing and Respect

[LINK] Scott Aaron­son on Google, Break­ing Cir­cu­lar­ity and Eigenmorality

Some al­ter­na­tives to “Friendly AI”

Reflec­tive Mini-Task­ing against Procrastination

Proper value learn­ing through indifference

A new deriva­tion of the Born rule

Manag­ing one’s mem­ory effectively

How do you no­tice when you are ig­no­rant of nec­es­sary al­ter­na­tive hy­pothe­ses?

R sup­port group and the benefits of ap­plied statistics

[LINK] Elon Musk in­ter­ested in AI safety

All dis­cus­sion post ti­tles, points, and dates as an ex­cel sheet

The Pro­moted Posts and the Me­taethics se­quence now available in audio

Mo­ti­va­tors: Altru­is­tic Ac­tions for Non-Altru­is­tic Reasons

How has tech­nol­ogy changed so­cial skills?

List a few posts in Main and/​or Dis­cus­sion which ac­tu­ally made you change your mind

Paper­clip Max­i­mizer Re­vis­ited

Con­ser­va­tion of ex­pected moral ev­i­dence, clarified

Les­sons from weather fore­cast­ing and its his­tory for fore­cast­ing as a domain

Rel­a­tive and Ab­solute Benefit

Ar­tifi­cial Utility Mon­sters as Effec­tive Altruism

Will AGI sur­prise the world?

Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of Force Mul­ti­pli­ers for Success

Come up with bet­ter Tur­ing Tests

Brag­ging Thread, June 2014

How do you take notes?

Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

Ex­am­ples of Ra­tion­al­ity Tech­niques adopted by the Masses

Value learn­ing: ul­tra-so­phis­ti­cated Cake or Death

[LINK] Why Talk to Philoso­phers: Physi­cist Sean Car­roll Dis­cusses “Com­mon Mi­sun­der­stand­ings” about Philosophy

An AI Takeover Thought Experiment

Science/​ra­tio­nal­ity sub­jects to teach

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes June 2014

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