A Year of Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Soft­ware in the Classroom

tanagrabeast4 Jul 2015 22:30 UTC
174 points
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Ex­pe­riences in ap­ply­ing “The Biode­ter­minist’s Guide to Par­ent­ing”

juliawise17 Jul 2015 19:19 UTC
122 points
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Wear a Helmet While Driv­ing a Car

James_Miller30 Jul 2015 16:36 UTC
98 points
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The Un­friendly Su­per­in­tel­li­gence next door

jacob_cannell2 Jul 2015 18:46 UTC
67 points
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Astron­omy, Astro­biol­ogy, & The Fermi Para­dox I: In­tro­duc­tions, and Space & Time

CellBioGuy26 Jul 2015 7:38 UTC
61 points
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Mag­netic rings (the most mediocre su­per­power) A re­view.

Elo30 Jul 2015 13:23 UTC
52 points
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MIRI’s Approach

So8res30 Jul 2015 20:03 UTC
50 points
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Re­v­erse Psychology

Scott Alexander18 Jul 2015 4:25 UTC
45 points
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Ex­am­ples of AI’s be­hav­ing badly

Stuart_Armstrong16 Jul 2015 10:01 UTC
41 points
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MIRI Fundraiser: Why now matters

So8res24 Jul 2015 22:38 UTC
41 points
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Analog­i­cal Rea­son­ing and Creativity

jacob_cannell1 Jul 2015 20:38 UTC
39 points
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There is no such thing as strength: a parody

ZoltanBerrigomo5 Jul 2015 23:44 UTC
37 points
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Crazy Ideas Thread

Gunnar_Zarncke7 Jul 2015 21:40 UTC
37 points
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Steel­man­ing AI risk critiques

Stuart_Armstrong23 Jul 2015 10:01 UTC
36 points
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A Fed­eral Judge on Bi­ases in the Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Sys­tem.

Costanza3 Jul 2015 3:17 UTC
30 points
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Ra­tional vs Reasonable

abramdemski11 Jul 2015 3:31 UTC
27 points
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Don’t steer with guilt

So8res12 Jul 2015 7:00 UTC
26 points
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[link] FLI’s recom­mended pro­ject grants for AI safety re­search announced

Kaj_Sotala1 Jul 2015 15:27 UTC
26 points
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An over­all schema for the friendly AI prob­lems: self-refer­en­tial con­ver­gence criteria

Stuart_Armstrong13 Jul 2015 15:34 UTC
26 points
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Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2015 - Followup

Lachouette6 Jul 2015 21:20 UTC
26 points
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Why you should at­tend EA Global and (some) other conferences

Habryka16 Jul 2015 4:50 UTC
26 points
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The hor­rify­ing im­por­tance of do­main knowledge

NancyLebovitz30 Jul 2015 15:28 UTC
24 points
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MIRI needs an Office Man­ager (aka Force Mul­ti­plier)

alexvermeer3 Jul 2015 1:10 UTC
24 points
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Don’t You Care If It Works? - Part 2

Jacob Falkovich30 Jul 2015 0:22 UTC
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The Other Path—a poem

Jacob Falkovich15 Jul 2015 13:40 UTC
24 points
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Philos­o­phy pro­fes­sors fail on ba­sic philos­o­phy problems

Shmi15 Jul 2015 18:41 UTC
23 points
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Harper’s Fish­ing Nets: a re­view of Plato’s Cam­era by Paul Churchland

[deleted]2 Jul 2015 2:19 UTC
22 points
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Up­date from the suckerpunch

So8res19 Jul 2015 3:00 UTC
21 points
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(mindingourway.com)

The Pre-His­tor­i­cal Fallacy

Tem423 Jul 2015 20:21 UTC
20 points
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Shift­ing guilt

So8res5 Jul 2015 3:00 UTC
20 points
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(mindingourway.com)

Im­mor­tal­ity Roadmap

turchin28 Jul 2015 21:27 UTC
20 points
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Wel­come to Less Wrong! (8th thread, July 2015)

Sarunas22 Jul 2015 16:49 UTC
19 points
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Be a new homunculus

So8res26 Jul 2015 3:00 UTC
19 points
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(mindingourway.com)

Help Build a Land­ing Page for Ex­is­ten­tial Risk?

Mass_Driver30 Jul 2015 6:03 UTC
18 points
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Should you write longer com­ments? (Statis­ti­cal anal­y­sis of the re­la­tion­ship be­tween com­ment length and rat­ings)

cleonid20 Jul 2015 14:09 UTC
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Zoom­ing your mind in and out

John_Maxwell6 Jul 2015 12:30 UTC
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How to grow faster

BayesianMind22 Jul 2015 4:01 UTC
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A Roadmap: How to Sur­vive the End of the Universe

turchin2 Jul 2015 11:01 UTC
15 points
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Ra­tional Dis­cus­sion of Con­tro­ver­sial Topics

cleonid1 Jul 2015 11:15 UTC
15 points
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List of Fully Gen­eral Counterarguments

Gunnar_Zarncke18 Jul 2015 21:49 UTC
15 points
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The Per­son As Input

Eneasz8 Jul 2015 0:40 UTC
15 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part D: Mys­te­ri­ous Answers

Gram_Stone2 Jul 2015 1:55 UTC
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State-Space of Back­ground As­sump­tions

algekalipso29 Jul 2015 0:22 UTC
15 points
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Mo­ral AI: Options

Manfred11 Jul 2015 21:46 UTC
14 points
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A Map: AGI Failures Modes and Levels

turchin10 Jul 2015 13:48 UTC
14 points
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AGI Safety Solu­tions Map

turchin21 Jul 2015 14:41 UTC
14 points
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LessWrong Ham­burg Meetup July 2015 Summary

Gunnar_Zarncke18 Jul 2015 23:13 UTC
14 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part F: Poli­tics and Rationality

Gram_Stone29 Jul 2015 22:22 UTC
14 points
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Green Emer­alds, Grue Diamonds

Stuart_Armstrong6 Jul 2015 11:27 UTC
14 points
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En­trepreneurial autopsies

[deleted]13 Jul 2015 3:27 UTC
14 points
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