Why the tails come apart

ThrasymachusAug 1, 2014, 10:41 PM
328 points
102 comments7 min readLW link

Roles are Mar­tial Arts for Agency

EneaszAug 8, 2014, 3:53 AM
241 points
59 comments3 min readLW link

Six Plau­si­ble Meta-Eth­i­cal Alternatives

Wei DaiAug 6, 2014, 12:04 AM
92 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

[meta] Fu­ture mod­er­a­tion and in­ves­ti­ga­tion of down­vote abuse cases, or, I don’t want to deal with this stuff

Kaj_SotalaAug 17, 2014, 2:40 PM
70 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

Hal Fin­ney has just died.

cousin_itAug 28, 2014, 7:39 PM
64 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

LW client-side com­ment improvements

BakkotAug 7, 2014, 8:40 PM
58 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Mul­ti­ple Fac­tor Ex­pla­na­tions Should Not Ap­pear One-Sided

Stefan_SchubertAug 7, 2014, 2:10 PM
55 points
32 comments6 min readLW link

Quan­tified Risks of Gay Male Sex

pianoforte611Aug 18, 2014, 11:55 PM
54 points
40 comments6 min readLW link

[LINK] Speed su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 14, 2014, 3:57 PM
53 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Changes to my workflow

paulfchristianoAug 26, 2014, 5:29 PM
48 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Fight­ing Bi­ases and Bad Habits like Boggarts

palladiasAug 21, 2014, 5:07 PM
46 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Burdens

Scott AlexanderAug 16, 2014, 7:00 PM
46 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing The Effec­tive Altru­ism Forum

RyanCareyAug 24, 2014, 8:07 AM
44 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

“Fol­low your dreams” as a case study in in­cor­rect thinking

cousin_itAug 20, 2014, 1:18 PM
44 points
53 comments2 min readLW link

Cre­dence Cal­ibra­tion Ice­breaker Game

RubyAug 14, 2014, 9:01 PM
42 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Knigh­tian un­cer­tainty: a re­jec­tion of the MMEU rule

So8resAug 26, 2014, 3:03 AM
41 points
9 comments15 min readLW link

Fund­ing can­ni­bal­ism mo­ti­vates con­cern for overheads

ThrasymachusAug 30, 2014, 12:42 AM
40 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

[link] Why Psy­chol­o­gists’ Food Fight Matters

PabloAug 1, 2014, 7:52 AM
40 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

Moloch: op­ti­mi­sa­tion, “and” vs “or”, in­for­ma­tion, and sac­ri­fi­cial ems

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 6, 2014, 3:57 PM
35 points
59 comments3 min readLW link

The Great Filter is early, or AI is hard

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 29, 2014, 4:17 PM
33 points
81 comments1 min readLW link

Con­nec­tion The­ory Has Less Than No Evidence

WilliamJamesAug 1, 2014, 10:17 AM
30 points
50 comments2 min readLW link

Another type of in­tel­li­gence explosion

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 21, 2014, 2:49 PM
28 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Could a Quan­tum Com­puter Have Sub­jec­tive Ex­pe­rience?

ShmiAug 26, 2014, 6:55 PM
27 points
55 comments1 min readLW link

Cal­ibrat­ing your prob­a­bil­ity es­ti­mates of world events: Rus­sia vs Ukraine, 6 months later.

ShmiAug 28, 2014, 11:37 PM
27 points
165 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Ar­ti­cle in the Guardian about CSER, men­tions MIRI and pa­per­clip AI

SarokraeAug 30, 2014, 2:04 PM
27 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI’s 2014 Sum­mer Match­ing Challenge

lukeprogAug 7, 2014, 8:03 PM
26 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

Knigh­tian Uncer­tainty: Bayesian Agents and the MMEU rule

So8resAug 4, 2014, 2:05 PM
24 points
8 comments12 min readLW link

Ground­work for AGI safety engineering

Rob BensingerAug 6, 2014, 9:29 PM
24 points
8 comments12 min readLW link

Sols­tice 2014 /​ Ra­tional Ri­tual Re­treat—A Call to Arms

RaemonAug 30, 2014, 5:51 PM
23 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

Every Paul needs a Jesus

PhilGoetzAug 10, 2014, 7:13 PM
21 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

An ex­am­ple of deadly non-gen­eral AI

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 21, 2014, 2:15 PM
21 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

What is the differ­ence be­tween ra­tio­nal­ity and in­tel­li­gence?

Wei DaiAug 13, 2014, 11:19 AM
20 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Per­sis­tent Idealism

jefftkAug 26, 2014, 1:38 AM
19 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­duc­tivity thoughts from Matt Fallshaw

John_MaxwellAug 21, 2014, 5:05 AM
19 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Me and M&Ms

coyotespikeAug 2, 2014, 7:06 PM
18 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

The metaphor/​myth of gen­eral intelligence

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 18, 2014, 4:04 PM
18 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tions on Löb’s the­o­rem and prob­a­bil­is­tic logic [LINK]

QuinnAug 10, 2014, 9:41 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Feyn­man lec­tures on physics

Mark_FriedenbachAug 23, 2014, 8:14 PM
17 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Eng­ineer­ing Gen­eral In­tel­li­gence (the OpenCog/​CogPrime book)

Mark_FriedenbachAug 11, 2014, 7:35 PM
17 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI 2014 Sum­mer Match­ing Challenge and one-off op­por­tu­nity to donate *for free*

KnaveOfAllTradesAug 3, 2014, 5:58 PM
17 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

What should a friendly AI do, in this situ­a­tion?

Douglas_ReayAug 8, 2014, 10:19 AM
16 points
72 comments2 min readLW link

Raven para­dox set­tled to my satisfaction

ManfredAug 6, 2014, 2:46 AM
16 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

The dan­gers of dialectic

PhilGoetzAug 5, 2014, 8:02 PM
16 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Maybe we’re not doomed

ManfredAug 2, 2014, 3:22 PM
15 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

Causal In­fer­ence Se­quence Part II: Graph­i­cal Models

Anders_HAug 4, 2014, 11:10 PM
15 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Why we should err in both directions

owencbAug 21, 2014, 11:10 AM
15 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Jury Probability

jefftkAug 22, 2014, 3:25 PM
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup Re­port Thread: Septem­ber 2014

Viliam_BurAug 30, 2014, 12:32 PM
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Why hu­mans suck: Rat­ings of per­son­al­ity con­di­tioned on looks, pro­file, and re­ported match

PhilGoetzAug 9, 2014, 6:48 PM
14 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

FAI PR track­ing well [link]

Dr_ManhattanAug 15, 2014, 9:23 PM
13 points
7 comments1 min readLW link