Car­diol­o­gists and Chi­nese Robbers

Scott Alexander16 Sep 2015 19:00 UTC
150 points
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The Library of Scott Alexandria

Rob Bensinger14 Sep 2015 1:38 UTC
126 points
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How To Win The AI Box Ex­per­i­ment (Some­times)

pinkgothic12 Sep 2015 12:34 UTC
55 points
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Flow­sheet Logic and Note­card Logic

moridinamael9 Sep 2015 16:42 UTC
46 points
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Rudi­men­tary Cat­e­go­riza­tion of Less Wrong Topics

ScottL5 Sep 2015 7:32 UTC
39 points
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A toy model of the con­trol problem

Stuart_Armstrong16 Sep 2015 14:59 UTC
36 points
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Find some­one to talk to thread

hg0026 Sep 2015 22:24 UTC
36 points
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The Temp­ta­tion to Bubble

gressettd23 Sep 2015 23:34 UTC
34 points
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Quan­tiliz­ers max­i­mize ex­pected util­ity sub­ject to a con­ser­va­tive cost constraint

jessicata28 Sep 2015 2:17 UTC
33 points
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Prob­a­bil­ities Small Enough To Ig­nore: An at­tack on Pas­cal’s Mugging

Kaj_Sotala16 Sep 2015 10:45 UTC
27 points
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One model of un­der­stand­ing in­de­pen­dent differ­ences in sen­sory perception

Elo20 Sep 2015 21:32 UTC
27 points
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Less­wrong real time chat

Elo4 Sep 2015 2:29 UTC
27 points
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Film about Stanis­lav Petrov

matheist10 Sep 2015 18:43 UTC
25 points
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Ex­am­ples of growth mind­set or prac­tice in fiction

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 28 Sep 2015 21:47 UTC
25 points
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mak­ing notes—an in­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity pro­cess.

Elo5 Sep 2015 22:51 UTC
25 points
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Ul­ti­ma­tums in the Territory

MalcolmOcean28 Sep 2015 22:01 UTC
24 points
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Notes on Ac­tu­ally Trying

NoSignalNoNoise23 Sep 2015 2:53 UTC
23 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

“An­nounc­ing” the “Longevity for All” Short Movie Prize

infotropism11 Sep 2015 13:44 UTC
23 points
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Yud­kowsky, Thiel, de Grey, Vas­sar panel on chang­ing the world

NancyLebovitz1 Sep 2015 15:57 UTC
20 points
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Happy Petrov Day

Eneasz26 Sep 2015 15:41 UTC
19 points
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Typ­i­cal Sneer Fallacy

calef1 Sep 2015 3:13 UTC
16 points
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[Link] 2015 modafinil user survey

gwern26 Sep 2015 17:28 UTC
16 points
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Ac­tu­ally ex­ist­ing pre­dic­tion mar­kets?

Douglas_Knight2 Sep 2015 22:24 UTC
16 points
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[Link] Marek Rosa: An­nounc­ing GoodAI

Gunnar_Zarncke14 Sep 2015 21:48 UTC
14 points
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Match­ing dona­tion funds and the prob­lem of illu­sory match­ing

Stefan_Schubert18 Sep 2015 20:05 UTC
14 points
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FAI and the In­for­ma­tion The­ory of Pleasure

johnsonmx8 Sep 2015 21:16 UTC
14 points
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[LINK] Deep Learn­ing Ma­chine Teaches It­self Chess in 72 Hours

ESRogs14 Sep 2015 19:38 UTC
14 points
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Help me test out my Bayes Academy game

Kaj_Sotala22 Sep 2015 20:02 UTC
13 points
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The sub­agent prob­lem is re­ally hard

Stuart_Armstrong18 Sep 2015 13:06 UTC
13 points
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What is your ra­tio­nal­ist back­story?

Adam Zerner25 Sep 2015 1:25 UTC
13 points
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[LINK] Vladimir Slep­nev talks about log­i­cal counterfactuals

Squark3 Sep 2015 18:29 UTC
13 points
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Choose with­out suffering

So8res27 Sep 2015 3:00 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Poli­ti­cal De­bi­as­ing and the Poli­ti­cal Bias Test

Stefan_Schubert11 Sep 2015 19:04 UTC
13 points
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[Link] Ra­tion­al­ity-in­formed ap­proaches in the me­dia

Gleb_Tsipursky5 Sep 2015 16:09 UTC
13 points
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Dry Ice Cry­on­ics- Pre­limi­nary Thoughts

Fluttershy28 Sep 2015 7:00 UTC
12 points
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Kant’s Multiplication

Vamair019 Sep 2015 14:25 UTC
12 points
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Dooms­day Ar­gu­ment Map

turchin14 Sep 2015 15:04 UTC
11 points
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Re­sid­ing in the mor­tal realm

So8res6 Sep 2015 3:00 UTC
11 points
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(mindingourway.com)

Use­ful Wiki and spe­cial pages

ScottL13 Sep 2015 4:33 UTC
11 points
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Why Don’t Ra­tion­al­ists Win?

Adam Zerner5 Sep 2015 0:57 UTC
11 points
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Be­ing un­able to despair

So8res13 Sep 2015 3:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Me­dian util­ity rather than mean?

Stuart_Armstrong8 Sep 2015 16:35 UTC
10 points
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In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity Ques­tions Thread

NoSignalNoNoise27 Sep 2015 21:22 UTC
10 points
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Ideas for ra­tio­nal­ity slo­gans?

Gleb_Tsipursky19 Sep 2015 23:32 UTC
10 points
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What is the best way to de­velop a strong sense of hav­ing some­thing to protect

ChristianKl6 Sep 2015 21:37 UTC
9 points
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Chat­bots or set an­swers, not WBEs

Stuart_Armstrong8 Sep 2015 17:17 UTC
8 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Brag­ging thread Septem­ber 2015

polymathwannabe2 Sep 2015 18:24 UTC
8 points
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Stupid Ques­tions Septem­ber 2015

polymathwannabe2 Sep 2015 18:26 UTC
8 points
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Open thread 7th septem­ber − 13th september

Elo6 Sep 2015 22:27 UTC
8 points
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Re­duc­ing Catas­trophic Risks, A Prac­ti­cal Introduction

RyanCarey9 Sep 2015 22:39 UTC
8 points
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