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

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 3, 2014, 9:37 PM
76 points
236 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Septem­ber 2014

jaime2000Sep 3, 2014, 9:36 PM
9 points
379 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesi­anism for hu­mans: pro­saic priors

BT_UytyaSep 2, 2014, 9:45 PM
30 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Bayesi­anism for hu­mans: “prob­a­ble enough”

BT_UytyaSep 2, 2014, 9:44 PM
52 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow Meetup: Co­de­name Felix

Alexander230Sep 2, 2014, 6:21 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets and Futarchy

Anders_HSep 2, 2014, 2:13 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Nick Bostrom Talk on Superintelligence

Anders_HSep 2, 2014, 2:09 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Overly con­ve­nient clusters, or: Be­ware sour grapes

KnaveOfAllTradesSep 2, 2014, 4:04 AM
31 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Septem­ber 1-15

therufsSep 2, 2014, 2:47 AM
7 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Truth and the Liar Paradox

casebashSep 2, 2014, 2:05 AM
5 points
45 comments4 min readLW link

Septem­ber 2014 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsarisSep 1, 2014, 5:05 PM
7 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Sept. 1-7, 2014

polymathwannabeSep 1, 2014, 12:18 PM
7 points
162 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Large So­cial Net­works can be Tar­geted for Viral Mar­ket­ing with Small Seed Sets

Gunnar_ZarnckeSep 1, 2014, 10:03 AM
4 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

To­day’s Ex­trem­ist “Rad­i­cal” Pro­fes­sors vs the Old “Red In­tel­lec­tu­als”

HalMorrisSep 1, 2014, 3:13 AM
−14 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Prac­ti­cal Rationality

ManfredAug 31, 2014, 10:43 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Tips for writ­ing philo­soph­i­cal texts

Jan_RzymkowskiAug 31, 2014, 10:38 PM
6 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence read­ing group

KatjaGraceAug 31, 2014, 2:59 PM
31 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

An­nounce­ment: Su­per­in­tel­li­gence read­ing group

KatjaGraceAug 31, 2014, 2:03 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Utrecht: Cli­mate Change

immasixAug 31, 2014, 1:52 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Utrecht: Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

immasixAug 31, 2014, 1:43 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Utrecht: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Politics

immasixAug 31, 2014, 1:40 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Robin Han­son’s “Over­com­ing Bias” posts as an e-book.

Paul CrowleyAug 31, 2014, 1:26 PM
30 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Why ap­pear­ance mat­ters or “to be­have as if”

AnnaLeptikonAug 31, 2014, 10:36 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Habits

luminosityAug 31, 2014, 12:36 AM
2 points
0 comments1 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

[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