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

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

Meetup Re­port Thread: Septem­ber 2014

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

LessWrong Ham­burg Meetup Notes—Diet

Gunnar_ZarnckeAug 30, 2014, 9:40 AM
7 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Michi­gan Meetup

Scott AlexanderAug 30, 2014, 5:09 AM
3 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Fund­ing can­ni­bal­ism mo­ti­vates con­cern for overheads

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

[ques­tion] Recom­men­da­tions for fasting

Gunnar_ZarnckeAug 30, 2014, 12:36 AM
12 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Con­ver­sa­tion with Paul Chris­ti­ano on Cause Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Research

KatjaGraceAug 29, 2014, 9:28 PM
1 point
0 comments7 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

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekAug 29, 2014, 3:43 PM
4 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Bratislava

Viliam_BurAug 29, 2014, 12:46 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: CFAR Re­lated Dis­cus­sion (Park­our Post­poned)

RobinZAug 29, 2014, 5:17 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup: Light­ning Talks

Scott GarrabrantAug 29, 2014, 2:11 AM
3 points
0 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

Hal Fin­ney has just died.

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

Ra­tion­al­ist house

EloAug 27, 2014, 10:52 PM
11 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don Meetup—Effec­tive Altruism

kerspoonAug 27, 2014, 8:11 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Reg­u­lar Moscow Meetup

Alexander230Aug 27, 2014, 10:42 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Can­berra: Akra­sia-busters!

DanielFilanAug 27, 2014, 2:47 AM
2 points
0 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

Re­v­erse en­g­ineer­ing of be­lief structures

Stefan_SchubertAug 26, 2014, 6:00 PM
13 points
34 comments5 min readLW link

Changes to my workflow

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

Meetup : At­lanta Au­gust meetup—Me­dia representations

Adele_LAug 26, 2014, 3:27 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Knigh­tian un­cer­tainty: a re­jec­tion of the MMEU rule

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

The im­me­di­ate real-world uses of Friendly AI research

ancientcampusAug 26, 2014, 2:47 AM
10 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Per­sis­tent Idealism

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

Open thread, 25-31 Au­gust 2014

jaime2000Aug 25, 2014, 11:14 AM
8 points
229 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing The Effec­tive Altru­ism Forum

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

Meetup : Any one in­ter­ested in Milwau­kee meetup?

zerotimerAug 24, 2014, 4:19 AM
2 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

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Reconstituting

ManfredAug 23, 2014, 4:19 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Study: In giv­ing char­ity, let not your right hand...

homunqAug 22, 2014, 10:23 PM
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Physi­cist Carlo Rovelli on Modern Physics Research

ShmiAug 22, 2014, 9:46 PM
8 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekAug 22, 2014, 3:38 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Jury Probability

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

Me­mory is Every­thing

QwakeAug 22, 2014, 4:48 AM
−5 points
38 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Mu­se­ums Meetup

RobinZAug 22, 2014, 4:17 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fight­ing Bi­ases and Bad Habits like Boggarts

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

Another type of in­tel­li­gence explosion

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

An ex­am­ple of deadly non-gen­eral AI

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

Why we should err in both directions

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

Pro­duc­tivity thoughts from Matt Fallshaw

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

Imag­i­nary queues

KatjaGraceAug 20, 2014, 7:54 PM
1 point
0 comments5 min readLW link

An­throp­ics doesn’t ex­plain why the Cold War stayed Cold

KnaveOfAllTradesAug 20, 2014, 7:23 PM
12 points
34 comments8 min readLW link

Thought ex­per­i­ments on sim­plic­ity in log­i­cal probability

ManfredAug 20, 2014, 5:25 PM
8 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Pol­ling Thread

Gunnar_ZarnckeAug 20, 2014, 2:36 PM
12 points
13 comments1 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

Meetup : Septem­ber Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Fixed and Growth Mindset

MelbourneLWAug 19, 2014, 7:52 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Steel­man­ning MIRI critics

fowlertmAug 19, 2014, 3:14 AM
8 points
67 comments1 min readLW link

Quan­tified Risks of Gay Male Sex

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