Si­mu­late and Defer To More Ra­tional Selves

Goal re­ten­tion dis­cus­sion with Eliezer

New­comblike prob­lems are the norm

The Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute could make use of your money

The Oc­to­pus, the Dolphin and Us: a Great Filter tale

What It’s Like to No­tice Things

[meta] New LW mod­er­a­tor: Viliam_Bur

A Guide to Ra­tional Investing

A proof of Löb’s the­o­rem in Haskell

Bayesi­anism for hu­mans: “prob­a­ble enough”

So­ciety Is Fixed, Biol­ogy Is Mutable

Talk­ing to your­self: A use­ful think­ing tool that seems un­der­stud­ied and underdiscussed

Un­pop­u­lar ideas at­tract poor ad­vo­cates: Be charitable

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Read­ing Group—Sec­tion 1: Past Devel­op­ments and Pre­sent Capabilities

I’m hold­ing a birth­day fundraiser

Causal de­ci­sion the­ory is unsatisfactory

Poly­math-style at­tack on the Par­li­a­men­tary Model for moral uncertainty

Log­ics for Mind-Build­ing Should Have Com­pu­ta­tional Meaning

You’re En­ti­tled to Every­one’s Opinion

Petrov Day is Septem­ber 26

Overly con­ve­nient clusters, or: Be­ware sour grapes

Bayesi­anism for hu­mans: pro­saic priors

A rea­son to see the future

Should peo­ple be writ­ing more or fewer LW posts?

[Link] 3 Short Walk­ing Breaks Can Re­v­erse Harm From 3 Hours of Sitting

An in­tro­duc­tion to New­comblike problems

Every­body’s talk­ing about ma­chine ethics

What are your con­trar­ian views?

Assess­ing oneself

CEV: co­her­ence ver­sus extrapolation

Over­com­ing De­ci­sion Anxiety

De­ci­sion the­o­ries as heuristics

Si­mu­la­tion ar­gu­ment meets de­ci­sion theory

What steep learn­ing curve do you wish you’d climbed sooner?

What are you learn­ing?

[Link] Forty Days

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Read­ing Group 2: Fore­cast­ing AI

What’s the right way to think about how much to give to char­ity?

Petrov Day Reminder

Should EA’s be Su­per­ra­tional co­op­er­a­tors?

Link: The trap of “op­ti­mal con­di­tions”

Books on con­scious­ness?

CEV-tropes

A kind or re­verse “tragedy of the com­mons”—any solu­tion ideas?

[Link] Learn­ing how to ex­ert self-control

[ques­tion] What edu­tain­ment apps do you recom­mend?

LessWrong’s at­ti­tude to­wards AI research

Dis­cus­sion of “What are your con­trar­ian views?”

Pro­posal: Use log­i­cal depth rel­a­tive to hu­man his­tory as ob­jec­tive func­tion for superintelligence

Con­sis­tent ex­trap­o­lated be­liefs about math?