Life Ad­vice Repository

Gunnar_Zarncke18 Oct 2015 12:08 UTC
14 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Sur­vey Ar­ti­cles: A justification

casebash18 Oct 2015 10:06 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Sur­vey Ar­ti­cle: How do I be­come a more in­ter­est­ing per­son?

casebash18 Oct 2015 10:04 UTC
11 points
44 comments3 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing the Effec­tive­ness of Effec­tive Altru­ism Outreach

Gleb_Tsipursky18 Oct 2015 3:38 UTC
8 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] Ra­tion­al­ity and Men­tal Ill­ness in the Huffing­ton Post

Gleb_Tsipursky18 Oct 2015 1:24 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Utilitarianism

RobinZ17 Oct 2015 16:08 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Short Talks

rocurley17 Oct 2015 4:19 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Map of Cur­rently Available Life Ex­ten­sion Meth­ods

turchin17 Oct 2015 0:10 UTC
14 points
39 comments5 min readLW link

New LW Meetup: Turku

FrankAdamek16 Oct 2015 16:11 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Non-ex­is­tent mar­kets in ev­ery­thing: anecdotes

KatjaGrace16 Oct 2015 4:48 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

We’ll write you a will for free if you leave a gift to GiveWell’s top charities

Peter Wildeford16 Oct 2015 3:33 UTC
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Se­quen­tial Ex­ten­sions of Causal and Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion Theory

tom4everitt15 Oct 2015 23:45 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

A first look at the hard prob­lem of corrigibility

jessicata15 Oct 2015 20:16 UTC
12 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

It Was You Who Made My Blue Eyes Blue

Scott Alexander15 Oct 2015 19:46 UTC
46 points
1 comment20 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—November

luminosity15 Oct 2015 11:53 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial—October

Maelin15 Oct 2015 7:05 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pas­cal’s Mug­ging, Finite or Un­bounded Re­sources?

Irgy15 Oct 2015 4:01 UTC
0 points
26 comments9 min readLW link

A very long list of sleep main­te­nance suggestions

Elo15 Oct 2015 3:29 UTC
17 points
23 comments13 min readLW link

Vege­tar­i­anism Ide­olog­i­cal Tur­ing Test Results

Raelifin14 Oct 2015 0:34 UTC
35 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] Max Teg­mark and Nick Bostrom Speak About AI Risk at UN In­ter­na­tional Se­cu­rity Event

Gram_Stone13 Oct 2015 23:25 UTC
16 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Stupid ques­tions thread, Oc­to­ber 2015

philh13 Oct 2015 19:39 UTC
7 points
223 comments1 min readLW link

Trust­wor­thy an­swers via indifference

Stuart_Armstrong13 Oct 2015 16:34 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : So­cial­iz­ing and board games

Anatoly_Vorobey13 Oct 2015 13:28 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

New po­si­tions and re­cent hires at the Cen­tre for the Study of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk (Cam­bridge, UK)

Sean_o_h13 Oct 2015 11:11 UTC
14 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Open thread, Oct. 12 - Oct. 18, 2015

MrMind12 Oct 2015 6:57 UTC
8 points
252 comments1 min readLW link

Sub­se­quence In­duc­tion (draft)

Scott Garrabrant12 Oct 2015 6:19 UTC
4 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Gen­eral buy­ing con­sid­er­a­tions?

Elo12 Oct 2015 5:18 UTC
10 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Fermi Estimates

rocurley12 Oct 2015 3:20 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cloth­ing is Hard (A Brief Ad­ven­ture into my Ineffi­cient Brain)

k_ebel12 Oct 2015 1:44 UTC
−5 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Read­ing Weekly Meetups

Acty12 Oct 2015 0:11 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Un­bounded lin­ear util­ity func­tions?

snarles11 Oct 2015 23:30 UTC
0 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Si­mu­la­tions Map: what is the most prob­a­ble type of the simu­la­tion in which we live?

turchin11 Oct 2015 5:10 UTC
10 points
47 comments7 min readLW link

Sim­ply lo­cate yourself

So8res11 Oct 2015 3:00 UTC
16 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Con­flict­ing ad­vice on altruism

leplen11 Oct 2015 0:25 UTC
7 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Au­mann Agree­ment Game

abramdemski9 Oct 2015 17:14 UTC
32 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

New LW Mee­tups: Read­ing, Stock­holm, and Suzhou

FrankAdamek9 Oct 2015 16:11 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Chat­bots or set an­swers, not WBEs

Stuart_Armstrong9 Oct 2015 15:48 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Toy model for wire-head­ing [EDIT: re­moved for im­prove­ment]

Stuart_Armstrong9 Oct 2015 15:45 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A toy model of the con­trol problem

Stuart_Armstrong9 Oct 2015 15:31 UTC
0 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

How the vir­tual AI con­trols itself

Stuart_Armstrong9 Oct 2015 15:05 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Philo­soph­i­cal schools are ap­proaches not positions

casebash9 Oct 2015 9:46 UTC
4 points
41 comments3 min readLW link

Emo­tional tools for the be­gin­ner rationalist

Gleb_Tsipursky9 Oct 2015 5:01 UTC
6 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] Stephen Hawk­ing AMA answers

NoSignalNoNoise8 Oct 2015 23:13 UTC
12 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Fic­tion Con­sid­ered Harmful

abramdemski8 Oct 2015 18:34 UTC
9 points
82 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part K: Let­ting Go

Gram_Stone8 Oct 2015 2:32 UTC
8 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Fun & Games

RobinZ7 Oct 2015 16:49 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Oct. 6-18, 2015

polymathwannabe6 Oct 2015 23:23 UTC
6 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Crazy Ideas Thread—Oc­to­ber 2015

Gunnar_Zarncke6 Oct 2015 22:38 UTC
10 points
115 comments1 min readLW link

Why the Mod­ified Dem­ski Prior is bet­ter than the original

Scott Garrabrant6 Oct 2015 18:50 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Op­ti­mal pre­dic­tors for global prob­a­bil­ity measures

Vanessa Kosoy6 Oct 2015 17:40 UTC
0 points
0 comments11 min readLW link