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Willpower De­ple­tion vs Willpower Distraction

AcademianJun 15, 2014, 6:29 PM
110 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

On Ter­mi­nal Goals and Virtue Ethics

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Jun 18, 2014, 4:00 AM
107 points
207 comments4 min readLW link

False Friends and Tone Policing

palladiasJun 18, 2014, 6:20 PM
71 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

New or­ga­ni­za­tion—Fu­ture of Life In­sti­tute (FLI)

VikaJun 14, 2014, 11:00 PM
70 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Against util­ity functions

Qiaochu_YuanJun 19, 2014, 5:56 AM
67 points
87 comments1 min readLW link

Asches to Asches

Scott AlexanderJun 4, 2014, 2:16 AM
64 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

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

GavinJun 4, 2014, 10:02 PM
62 points
105 comments2 min readLW link

The Power of Noise

jsteinhardtJun 16, 2014, 5:26 PM
60 points
80 comments11 min readLW link

What re­sources have in­creas­ing marginal util­ity?

Qiaochu_YuanJun 14, 2014, 3:43 AM
59 points
63 comments1 min readLW link

Math­e­mat­ics as a lossy com­pres­sion al­gorithm gone wild

ShmiJun 6, 2014, 11:53 PM
53 points
82 comments5 min readLW link

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

Kaj_SotalaJun 6, 2014, 5:46 AM
51 points
240 comments1 min readLW link

Failures of an em­bod­ied AIXI

So8resJun 15, 2014, 6:29 PM
50 points
47 comments12 min readLW link

The silos of ex­per­tise: be­yond heuris­tics and biases

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 26, 2014, 1:13 PM
48 points
16 comments9 min readLW link

Flow­ers for Algernon

Anatoly_VorobeyJun 18, 2014, 9:16 AM
47 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Strat­e­gyproof Mechanisms: Possibilities

badgerJun 2, 2014, 2:26 AM
42 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

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

VipulNaikJun 25, 2014, 9:47 PM
38 points
66 comments4 min readLW link

A Story of Kings and Spies

Joshua_BlaineJun 11, 2014, 11:54 PM
38 points
33 comments6 min readLW link

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

ShmiJun 19, 2014, 8:17 PM
31 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

Ques­tion­ing and Respect

jefftkJun 10, 2014, 10:52 AM
31 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Reflec­tive Mini-Task­ing against Procrastination

ShmiJun 6, 2014, 12:20 AM
30 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Some al­ter­na­tives to “Friendly AI”

lukeprogJun 15, 2014, 7:53 PM
30 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Proper value learn­ing through indifference

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 19, 2014, 9:39 AM
30 points
51 comments7 min readLW link

A new deriva­tion of the Born rule

MrMindJun 25, 2014, 3:07 PM
29 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

Manag­ing one’s mem­ory effectively

John_MaxwellJun 6, 2014, 5:39 PM
27 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

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

[deleted]Jun 24, 2014, 6:12 PM
27 points
69 comments1 min readLW link

R sup­port group and the benefits of ap­plied statistics

sixes_and_sevensJun 26, 2014, 2:11 PM
27 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

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

AlexandrosJun 3, 2014, 2:38 PM
27 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Elon Musk in­ter­ested in AI safety

[deleted]Jun 18, 2014, 10:56 PM
27 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ti­va­tors: Altru­is­tic Ac­tions for Non-Altru­is­tic Reasons

RubyJun 21, 2014, 4:32 PM
26 points
20 comments9 min readLW link

The Pro­moted Posts and the Me­taethics se­quence now available in audio

Rick_from_CastifyJun 3, 2014, 2:00 AM
26 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

How has tech­nol­ogy changed so­cial skills?

philhJun 8, 2014, 12:41 PM
24 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

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

ShmiJun 13, 2014, 2:42 AM
24 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Will AGI sur­prise the world?

lukeprogJun 21, 2014, 10:27 PM
24 points
129 comments2 min readLW link

Paper­clip Max­i­mizer Re­vis­ited

Jan_RzymkowskiJun 19, 2014, 1:25 AM
23 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Con­ser­va­tion of ex­pected moral ev­i­dence, clarified

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 20, 2014, 10:28 AM
23 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

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

VipulNaikJun 23, 2014, 5:08 PM
23 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

Rel­a­tive and Ab­solute Benefit

jefftkJun 18, 2014, 1:56 PM
23 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

Scott AlexanderJun 7, 2014, 4:44 PM
23 points
3 comments22 min readLW link

Ar­tifi­cial Utility Mon­sters as Effec­tive Altruism

[deleted]Jun 25, 2014, 9:52 AM
22 points
13 comments7 min readLW link

Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of Force Mul­ti­pli­ers for Success

Nick5a1Jun 21, 2014, 5:15 AM
21 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Value learn­ing: ul­tra-so­phis­ti­cated Cake or Death

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 17, 2014, 4:36 PM
21 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Come up with bet­ter Tur­ing Tests

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 10, 2014, 10:47 AM
20 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­am­ples of Ra­tion­al­ity Tech­niques adopted by the Masses

edanmJun 7, 2014, 2:03 PM
19 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Brag­ging Thread, June 2014

Viliam_BurJun 8, 2014, 10:08 AM
19 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

How do you take notes?

ChristianKlJun 22, 2014, 10:45 AM
19 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

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

ShmiJun 23, 2014, 7:09 PM
18 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Links!

NancyLebovitzJun 5, 2014, 1:09 PM
16 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Holden Karnofsky, GiveWell: Se­quence Think­ing vs. Cluster Thinking

David_GerardJun 11, 2014, 5:08 PM
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Science/​ra­tio­nal­ity sub­jects to teach

AxelJun 13, 2014, 12:31 PM
16 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

An AI Takeover Thought Experiment

GavinJun 19, 2014, 4:59 PM
16 points
11 comments8 min readLW link