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Chapter 12: Impulse Control
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 14, 2015, 7:00 PM
47
points
1
comment
13
min read
LW
link
It Was You Who Made My Blue Eyes Blue
Scott Alexander
Oct 15, 2015, 7:46 PM
47
points
3
comments
20
min read
LW
link
Rationality: From AI to Zombies online reading group
Mark_Friedenbach
Mar 21, 2015, 9:54 AM
46
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Flowsheet Logic and Notecard Logic
moridinamael
Sep 9, 2015, 4:42 PM
46
points
28
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Thinking well
Vaniver
Apr 1, 2015, 10:03 PM
46
points
23
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Stop trying to try and try
So8res
Nov 21, 2015, 8:00 AM
45
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Pattern-botching: when you forget you understand
MalcolmOcean
Jun 15, 2015, 10:58 PM
45
points
18
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Rationality is about pattern recognition, not reasoning
JonahS
May 26, 2015, 7:23 PM
45
points
85
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Chapter 16: Lateral Thinking
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 14, 2015, 7:00 PM
44
points
5
comments
21
min read
LW
link
An alarming fact about the anti-aging community
diegocaleiro
Feb 16, 2015, 5:49 PM
44
points
65
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Chapter 13: Asking the Wrong Questions
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 14, 2015, 7:00 PM
44
points
5
comments
22
min read
LW
link
How to escape from your sandbox and from your hardware host
PhilGoetz
Jul 31, 2015, 5:26 PM
43
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
MIRI’s 2015 Winter Fundraiser!
So8res
Dec 9, 2015, 7:00 PM
43
points
23
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[meta] New LW moderator: NancyLebovitz
Viliam_Bur
Jan 13, 2015, 9:41 PM
43
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Learning takes a long time
JonahS
May 31, 2015, 3:21 AM
42
points
37
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Brainstorming new senses
lululu
May 20, 2015, 7:53 PM
42
points
92
comments
2
min read
LW
link
MIRI Fundraiser: Why now matters
So8res
Jul 24, 2015, 10:38 PM
41
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Chapter 20: Bayes’s Theorem
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 14, 2015, 7:00 PM
41
points
1
comment
20
min read
LW
link
Examples of AI’s behaving badly
Stuart_Armstrong
Jul 16, 2015, 10:01 AM
41
points
41
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Update on the Brain Preservation Foundation Prize
Andy_McKenzie
May 26, 2015, 1:47 AM
41
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Chapter 18: Dominance Hierarchies
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 14, 2015, 7:00 PM
41
points
1
comment
30
min read
LW
link
Chapter 21: Rationalization
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 14, 2015, 7:00 PM
41
points
8
comments
21
min read
LW
link
A toy model of the control problem
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 16, 2015, 2:59 PM
40
points
24
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Vote for MIRI to be donated a share of reddit’s advertising revenue
[deleted]
Feb 19, 2015, 10:07 AM
40
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Chapter 19: Delayed Gratification
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 14, 2015, 7:00 PM
40
points
5
comments
26
min read
LW
link
Less Wrong Study Hall: Now With 100% Less Tinychat
MalcolmOcean
Nov 9, 2015, 12:25 AM
39
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Rudimentary Categorization of Less Wrong Topics
ScottL
Sep 5, 2015, 7:32 AM
39
points
4
comments
49
min read
LW
link
Slate Star Codex: alternative comment threads on LessWrong?
tog
Mar 27, 2015, 9:05 PM
39
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Marketing Rationality
Viliam
Nov 18, 2015, 1:43 PM
39
points
221
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Analogical Reasoning and Creativity
jacob_cannell
Jul 1, 2015, 8:38 PM
39
points
15
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Research Priorities for Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter
jimrandomh
Jan 11, 2015, 7:52 PM
39
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Deliberate Grad School
Academian
Oct 4, 2015, 10:11 AM
38
points
155
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Six Ways To Get Along With People Who Are Totally Wrong*
RobertWiblin
May 27, 2015, 12:37 PM
38
points
43
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Cooperative conversational threading
philh
Apr 15, 2015, 6:40 PM
38
points
25
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Chapter 15: Conscientiousness
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 14, 2015, 7:00 PM
38
points
2
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Low Hanging fruit for buying a better life
taryneast
Jan 6, 2015, 10:11 AM
38
points
208
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Chapter 11: Omake Files 1, 2, 3
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 14, 2015, 7:00 PM
37
points
3
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Chapter 17: Locating the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 14, 2015, 7:00 PM
37
points
3
comments
42
min read
LW
link
Astronomy, space exploration and the Great Filter
JoshuaZ
Apr 19, 2015, 7:26 PM
37
points
68
comments
20
min read
LW
link
CFAR-run MIRI Summer Fellows program: July 7-26
AnnaSalamon
Apr 28, 2015, 7:04 PM
37
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Voiceofra is banned
NancyLebovitz
Dec 23, 2015, 6:29 PM
37
points
218
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Vingean Reflection: Reliable Reasoning for Self-Improving Agents
So8res
Jan 15, 2015, 10:47 PM
37
points
5
comments
9
min read
LW
link
There is no such thing as strength: a parody
ZoltanBerrigomo
Jul 5, 2015, 11:44 PM
37
points
70
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Simultaneous Overconfidence and Underconfidence
abramdemski
Jun 3, 2015, 9:04 PM
37
points
6
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Crazy Ideas Thread
Gunnar_Zarncke
Jul 7, 2015, 9:40 PM
37
points
352
comments
1
min read
LW
link
In praise of gullibility?
ahbwramc
Jun 18, 2015, 4:52 AM
36
points
106
comments
5
min read
LW
link
How subjective is attractiveness?
JonahS
Jan 13, 2015, 12:04 AM
36
points
38
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Find someone to talk to thread
hg00
Sep 26, 2015, 10:24 PM
36
points
21
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Steelmaning AI risk critiques
Stuart_Armstrong
23 Jul 2015 10:01 UTC
36
points
99
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Compartmentalizing: Effective Altruism and Abortion
Dias
4 Jan 2015 23:48 UTC
36
points
80
comments
14
min read
LW
link
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