16 types of use­ful predictions

Julia_GalefApr 10, 2015, 3:31 AM
176 points
55 comments8 min readLW link

Sapiens

VaniverApr 8, 2015, 2:56 AM
70 points
12 comments13 min readLW link

Even bet­ter cry­on­ics – be­cause who needs nanites any­way?

maxikovApr 7, 2015, 8:10 PM
69 points
41 comments6 min readLW link

Univer­sal Love, Said The Cac­tus Person

Scott AlexanderApr 22, 2015, 2:42 AM
68 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

How to sign up for Al­cor cryo

ogeApr 26, 2015, 2:51 AM
51 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Con­cept Safety: Pro­duc­ing similar AI-hu­man con­cept spaces

Kaj_SotalaApr 14, 2015, 8:39 PM
51 points
45 comments8 min readLW link

Failing with abandon

So8resApr 12, 2015, 7:00 AM
47 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Think­ing well

VaniverApr 1, 2015, 10:03 PM
46 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Co­op­er­a­tive con­ver­sa­tional threading

philhApr 15, 2015, 6:40 PM
38 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

CFAR-run MIRI Sum­mer Fel­lows pro­gram: July 7-26

AnnaSalamonApr 28, 2015, 7:04 PM
37 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Astron­omy, space ex­plo­ra­tion and the Great Filter

JoshuaZApr 19, 2015, 7:26 PM
37 points
68 comments20 min readLW link

Blind artifacts

So8resApr 7, 2015, 11:23 PM
36 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

De­sire is the di­rec­tion, ra­tio­nal­ity is the magnitude

So8resApr 5, 2015, 5:27 PM
35 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Ephe­meral correspondence

So8resApr 10, 2015, 3:46 AM
35 points
22 comments5 min readLW link

Nick Bostrom’s TED talk on Su­per­in­tel­li­gence is now online

chaosmageApr 27, 2015, 3:15 PM
34 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

The path of the rationalist

So8resApr 12, 2015, 1:44 AM
32 points
30 comments5 min readLW link

A sim­ple ex­er­cise in ra­tio­nal­ity: rephrase an ob­jec­tive state­ment as sub­jec­tive and ex­plore the caveats

ShmiApr 18, 2015, 11:46 PM
32 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Hap­piness and Good­ness as Univer­sal Ter­mi­nal Virtues

[deleted]Apr 21, 2015, 4:42 PM
30 points
71 comments8 min readLW link

Con­cept Safety: What are con­cepts for, and how to deal with alien concepts

Kaj_SotalaApr 19, 2015, 1:44 PM
29 points
18 comments10 min readLW link

Re­plac­ing guilt

So8resApr 19, 2015, 3:00 AM
29 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

How I changed my ex­er­cise habits

Normal_AnomalyApr 13, 2015, 10:19 PM
28 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Con­cept Safety: The prob­lem of alien concepts

Kaj_SotalaApr 17, 2015, 2:09 PM
28 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

A quick sketch on how the Curry-Howard Iso­mor­phism kinda ap­pears to con­nect Al­gorith­mic In­for­ma­tion The­ory with or­di­nal logics

[deleted]Apr 19, 2015, 7:35 PM
26 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Men­tal rep­re­sen­ta­tion and the is-ought distinction

ErrorApr 20, 2015, 6:37 PM
26 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Trans­lat­ing bad advice

SophroniusApr 14, 2015, 9:20 AM
24 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Less Wrong Study Hall—Year Two

ErrorApr 26, 2015, 5:59 PM
23 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

A pair of free in­for­ma­tion se­cu­rity tools I wrote

NanashiApr 11, 2015, 11:03 PM
22 points
99 comments2 min readLW link

He­do­nium’s se­man­tic problem

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 9, 2015, 11:50 AM
22 points
61 comments8 min readLW link

Even when con­trar­i­ans win, they lose: Jeff Hawkins

endoselfApr 8, 2015, 4:54 AM
22 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Re­solv­ing the Fermi Para­dox: New Directions

jacob_cannellApr 18, 2015, 6:00 AM
22 points
59 comments9 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Discrete Math­e­mat­ics and Its Ap­pli­ca­tions (MIRI Course List)

LawrenceCApr 14, 2015, 9:08 AM
21 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

The Effec­tive Altru­ism Handbook

RyanCareyApr 24, 2015, 12:30 AM
21 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

I’d like ad­vice from LW re­gard­ing migraines

AlgonApr 11, 2015, 5:52 PM
20 points
71 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tional dis­cus­sion of politics

cleonidApr 25, 2015, 9:58 PM
20 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Truth is holistic

MrMindApr 23, 2015, 7:26 AM
19 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Futarchy and Un­friendly AI

jefftkApr 3, 2015, 9:45 PM
18 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: In­tro­duc­tion and A: Pre­dictably Wrong

Mark_FriedenbachApr 17, 2015, 1:40 AM
16 points
25 comments5 min readLW link

One week left for CSER re­searcher applications

RyanCareyApr 17, 2015, 12:40 AM
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Limited agents need ap­prox­i­mate induction

Manfred24 Apr 2015 7:42 UTC
16 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

Les­sons from each HPMOR chap­ter in one line [link]

Adam Zerner9 Apr 2015 14:51 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing Optimization

Bound_up28 Apr 2015 1:26 UTC
14 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­dal Bar­gain­ing Agents

orthonormal16 Apr 2015 22:19 UTC
14 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

What level of com­pas­sion do you con­sider nor­mal, ex­pected, manda­tory etc. ?

[deleted]10 Apr 2015 12:57 UTC
13 points
96 comments1 min readLW link

Effec­tive effec­tive al­tru­ism: Get $400 off your next char­ity donation

Baisius17 Apr 2015 5:45 UTC
12 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Lan­guage Learn­ing and the Dark Arts.

Lemmih6 Apr 2015 11:33 UTC
12 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Un-op­ti­mised vs anti-optimised

Stuart_Armstrong14 Apr 2015 18:30 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Scott Adam’s “Ra­tion­al­ity Eng­ine”. Part III: As­sisted Dying

Shmi2 Apr 2015 16:55 UTC
12 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] In­ter­view with “Ex Machina” di­rec­tor Alex Garland

philh2 Apr 2015 13:46 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread April 2015

Vaniver1 Apr 2015 13:35 UTC
11 points
70 comments1 min readLW link

High im­pact from low impact

Stuart_Armstrong17 Apr 2015 16:01 UTC
11 points
12 comments1 min readLW link