The Im­por­tance of Sidekicks

I’m the new moderator

2014 Sur­vey Results

Elon Musk donates $10M to the Fu­ture of Life In­sti­tute to keep AI benefi­cial

Bill Gates: prob­lem of strong AI with con­flict­ing goals “very wor­thy of study and time”

CFAR fundraiser far from filled; 4 days remaining

A Philoso­pher Walks Into A Coffee Shop

An In­tro­duc­tion to Con­trol Theory

Be­hav­ior: The Con­trol of Perception

Im­mor­tal­ity: A Prac­ti­cal Guide

‘Dumb’ AI ob­serves and ma­nipu­lates controllers

Over­pay­ing for hap­piness?

[meta] New LW mod­er­a­tor: NancyLebovitz

Re­search Pri­ori­ties for Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence: An Open Letter

Low Hang­ing fruit for buy­ing a bet­ter life

Vingean Reflec­tion: Reli­able Rea­son­ing for Self-Im­prov­ing Agents

How sub­jec­tive is at­trac­tive­ness?

Com­part­men­tal­iz­ing: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Abortion

Memes and Ra­tional Decisions

New, Brief Pop­u­lar-Level In­tro­duc­tion to AI Risks and Superintelligence

Graph­i­cal As­sump­tion Modeling

[LINK] The P + ep­silon At­tack (Precom­mit­ment in cryp­toe­co­nomics)

For­mal­iz­ing Two Prob­lems of Real­is­tic World Models

Ques­tions of Rea­son­ing un­der Log­i­cal Uncertainty

Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets are Con­founded—Im­pli­ca­tions for the fea­si­bil­ity of Futarchy

The Role of At­trac­tive­ness in Mate Selec­tion: In­di­vi­d­ual Variation

Con­trol The­ory Commentary

Nega­tive polyamory out­comes?

Who are your fa­vorite “hid­den ra­tio­nal­ists”?

[Link] Neu­ral net­works trained on ex­pert Go games have just made a ma­jor leap

Brain-cen­tred­ness and mind uploading

2015 Re­pos­i­tory Reruns—Bor­ing Ad­vice Repository

The Value Learn­ing Problem

How Is­lamic ter­ror­ists re­duced ter­ror­ism in the US

Is there a ra­tio­nal­ist skill tree yet?

… And Every­one Loses Their Minds

[link] Speed is the New Intelligence

Slides on­line from “The Fu­ture of AI: Op­por­tu­ni­ties and Challenges”

Donate to Keep Char­ity Science Running

Non-ob­vi­ous skills with highly mea­surable progress?

Pur­chas­ing re­search effec­tively open thread

Re­spond to what they prob­a­bly meant

Ex­ams and Overfitting

An ex­am­ple and dis­cus­sion of ex­ten­sion neglect

[Link] An ar­gu­ment on colds

Why do you re­ally be­lieve what you be­lieve re­gard­ing con­tro­ver­sial sub­jects?

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Ex­is­ten­tial Hope: Definitions

Prob­lems and Solu­tions in In­finite Ethics

Treat­ing an­thropic self­ish prefer­ences as an ex­ten­sion of TDT

Selfish prefer­ences and self-modification