A Year of Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Soft­ware in the Classroom

tanagrabeastJul 4, 2015, 10:30 PM
174 points
26 comments13 min readLW link

Ex­pe­riences in ap­ply­ing “The Biode­ter­minist’s Guide to Par­ent­ing”

juliawiseJul 17, 2015, 7:19 PM
124 points
34 comments9 min readLW link

Wear a Helmet While Driv­ing a Car

James_MillerJul 30, 2015, 4:36 PM
99 points
118 comments1 min readLW link

The Un­friendly Su­per­in­tel­li­gence next door

jacob_cannellJul 2, 2015, 6:46 PM
67 points
68 comments7 min readLW link

Astron­omy, Astro­biol­ogy, & The Fermi Para­dox I: In­tro­duc­tions, and Space & Time

CellBioGuyJul 26, 2015, 7:38 AM
61 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Mag­netic rings (the most mediocre su­per­power) A re­view.

EloJul 30, 2015, 1:23 PM
52 points
34 comments4 min readLW link

MIRI’s Approach

So8resJul 30, 2015, 8:03 PM
50 points
59 comments16 min readLW link

Re­v­erse Psychology

Scott AlexanderJul 18, 2015, 4:25 AM
48 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Ex­am­ples of AI’s be­hav­ing badly

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 16, 2015, 10:01 AM
41 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI Fundraiser: Why now matters

So8resJul 24, 2015, 10:38 PM
41 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Analog­i­cal Rea­son­ing and Creativity

jacob_cannellJul 1, 2015, 8:38 PM
39 points
15 comments14 min readLW link

Crazy Ideas Thread

Gunnar_ZarnckeJul 7, 2015, 9:40 PM
37 points
352 comments1 min readLW link

There is no such thing as strength: a parody

ZoltanBerrigomoJul 5, 2015, 11:44 PM
37 points
70 comments2 min readLW link

Steel­man­ing AI risk critiques

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 23, 2015, 10:01 AM
36 points
99 comments1 min readLW link

A Fed­eral Judge on Bi­ases in the Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Sys­tem.

CostanzaJul 3, 2015, 3:17 AM
30 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t steer with guilt

So8resJul 12, 2015, 7:00 AM
27 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tional vs Reasonable

abramdemskiJul 11, 2015, 3:31 AM
27 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

[link] FLI’s recom­mended pro­ject grants for AI safety re­search announced

Kaj_SotalaJul 1, 2015, 3:27 PM
26 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

An over­all schema for the friendly AI prob­lems: self-refer­en­tial con­ver­gence criteria

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 13, 2015, 3:34 PM
26 points
110 comments2 min readLW link

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2015 - Followup

LachouetteJul 6, 2015, 9:20 PM
26 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Why you should at­tend EA Global and (some) other conferences

HabrykaJul 16, 2015, 4:50 AM
26 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

The hor­rify­ing im­por­tance of do­main knowledge

NancyLebovitzJul 30, 2015, 3:28 PM
24 points
238 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI needs an Office Man­ager (aka Force Mul­ti­plier)

alexvermeerJul 3, 2015, 1:10 AM
24 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Don’t You Care If It Works? - Part 2

Jacob FalkovichJul 30, 2015, 12:22 AM
24 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

The Other Path—a poem

Jacob FalkovichJul 15, 2015, 1:40 PM
24 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy pro­fes­sors fail on ba­sic philos­o­phy problems

ShmiJul 15, 2015, 6:41 PM
23 points
107 comments2 min readLW link

Harper’s Fish­ing Nets: a re­view of Plato’s Cam­era by Paul Churchland

[deleted]Jul 2, 2015, 2:19 AM
22 points
8 comments35 min readLW link

Up­date from the suckerpunch

So8resJul 19, 2015, 3:00 AM
21 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

The Pre-His­tor­i­cal Fallacy

Tem42Jul 3, 2015, 8:21 PM
20 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

Shift­ing guilt

So8resJul 5, 2015, 3:00 AM
20 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Im­mor­tal­ity Roadmap

turchinJul 28, 2015, 9:27 PM
20 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

Be a new homunculus

So8resJul 26, 2015, 3:00 AM
20 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Wel­come to Less Wrong! (8th thread, July 2015)

SarunasJul 22, 2015, 4:49 PM
19 points
273 comments6 min readLW link

Help Build a Land­ing Page for Ex­is­ten­tial Risk?

Mass_DriverJul 30, 2015, 6:03 AM
18 points
32 comments3 min readLW link

Should you write longer com­ments? (Statis­ti­cal anal­y­sis of the re­la­tion­ship be­tween com­ment length and rat­ings)

cleonidJul 20, 2015, 2:09 PM
18 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Zoom­ing your mind in and out

John_MaxwellJul 6, 2015, 12:30 PM
17 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

How to grow faster

BayesianMindJul 22, 2015, 4:01 AM
16 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

A Roadmap: How to Sur­vive the End of the Universe

turchinJul 2, 2015, 11:01 AM
15 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tional Dis­cus­sion of Con­tro­ver­sial Topics

cleonidJul 1, 2015, 11:15 AM
15 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

List of Fully Gen­eral Counterarguments

Gunnar_ZarnckeJul 18, 2015, 9:49 PM
15 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

The Per­son As Input

EneaszJul 8, 2015, 12:40 AM
15 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part D: Mys­te­ri­ous Answers

Gram_StoneJul 2, 2015, 1:55 AM
15 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

State-Space of Back­ground As­sump­tions

algekalipsoJul 29, 2015, 12:22 AM
15 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ral AI: Options

ManfredJul 11, 2015, 9:46 PM
14 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

A Map: AGI Failures Modes and Levels

turchinJul 10, 2015, 1:48 PM
14 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

AGI Safety Solu­tions Map

turchinJul 21, 2015, 2:41 PM
14 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

LessWrong Ham­burg Meetup July 2015 Summary

Gunnar_ZarnckeJul 18, 2015, 11:13 PM
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part F: Poli­tics and Rationality

Gram_StoneJul 29, 2015, 10:22 PM
14 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Green Emer­alds, Grue Diamonds

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 6, 2015, 11:27 AM
14 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

En­trepreneurial autopsies

[deleted]Jul 13, 2015, 3:27 AM
14 points
21 comments1 min readLW link