The Fable of the Burn­ing Branch

EphemeralNight8 Feb 2016 15:20 UTC
−41 points
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Re­quire con­tri­bu­tions in advance

Viliam8 Feb 2016 12:55 UTC
93 points
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Altru­is­tic parenting

[deleted]8 Feb 2016 11:57 UTC
3 points
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Less­wrong Sur­vey—in­vi­ta­tion for suggestions

Elo8 Feb 2016 8:07 UTC
17 points
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Open Thread, Feb 8 - Feb 15, 2016

Elo8 Feb 2016 4:47 UTC
9 points
224 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on Log­i­cal Dutch Book Arguments

abramdemski7 Feb 2016 23:10 UTC
4 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Con­vey­ing ra­tio­nal think­ing about long-term goals to youth and young adults

Gleb_Tsipursky7 Feb 2016 1:54 UTC
11 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup

Tuk6 Feb 2016 23:16 UTC
2 points
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AI safety in the age of neu­ral net­works and Stanis­law Lem 1959 prediction

avturchin6 Feb 2016 12:50 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(lesswrong.com)

Re­quest for help with eco­nomic anal­y­sis re­lated to AI forecasting

ESRogs6 Feb 2016 1:27 UTC
9 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek5 Feb 2016 16:40 UTC
2 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Link] How I Es­caped The Dark­ness of Men­tal Illness

Gleb_Tsipursky4 Feb 2016 23:08 UTC
5 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don Ra­tion­al­ish meetup, 7/​2/​16

philh4 Feb 2016 16:34 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Fun and Games

rocurley4 Feb 2016 6:15 UTC
2 points
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Anal­y­sis of Al­gorithms and Par­tial Algorithms

IAFF-User-1314 Feb 2016 0:15 UTC
3 points
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(arxiv.org)

Gam­ify your goals: How turn­ing your life into a game can help help you make bet­ter de­ci­sions and be more productive

BayesianMind3 Feb 2016 22:48 UTC
19 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

A Ra­tion­al­ist Guide to OkCupid

Jacob Falkovich3 Feb 2016 20:50 UTC
41 points
66 comments1 min readLW link

Value learn­ers & wireheading

Manfred3 Feb 2016 9:50 UTC
9 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Up­com­ing LW Changes

Vaniver3 Feb 2016 5:34 UTC
71 points
106 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo: Habits

Calien3 Feb 2016 2:11 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Fermi Estimates

RobinZ2 Feb 2016 21:14 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The AI That Pre­tends To Be Human

Houshalter2 Feb 2016 19:39 UTC
5 points
69 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread Fe­bru­ary 2016

elharo2 Feb 2016 18:17 UTC
10 points
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A Strange Ar­gu­ment about the po­ten­tial Im­por­tance of Mul­ti­verse Theory

mako yass2 Feb 2016 4:22 UTC
1 point
36 comments8 min readLW link

Recklessness

So8res2 Feb 2016 2:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Fe­bru­ary 2016 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris2 Feb 2016 0:20 UTC
6 points
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The Valen­tine’s Day Gift That Saves Lives

Gleb_Tsipursky1 Feb 2016 17:00 UTC
−10 points
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Open thread, Feb. 01 - Feb. 07, 2016

MrMind1 Feb 2016 8:24 UTC
6 points
178 comments1 min readLW link

AI safety in the age of neu­ral net­works and Stanis­law Lem 1959 prediction

turchin31 Jan 2016 19:08 UTC
11 points
9 comments12 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Melb Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo. In­clud­ing: “Crit­i­cal Thoughts on Nutri­tional Recom­men­da­tions”

Chriswaterguy31 Jan 2016 11:42 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Iden­ti­fy­ing bias. A Bayesian anal­y­sis of sus­pi­cious agree­ment be­tween be­liefs and val­ues.

Stefan_Schubert31 Jan 2016 11:29 UTC
14 points
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[LINK] How A Lamp Took Away My Read­ing And A Box Brought It Back

CronoDAS30 Jan 2016 16:55 UTC
17 points
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[mod­er­a­tor ac­tion] The_Lion and The_Lion2 are banned

Viliam_Bur30 Jan 2016 2:09 UTC
90 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Another toy model of the con­trol problem

paulfchristiano30 Jan 2016 1:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Yoshua Ben­gio on AI progress, hype and risks

V_V30 Jan 2016 1:45 UTC
14 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Pos­i­tive util­ity in an in­finite universe

casebash29 Jan 2016 23:40 UTC
3 points
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Meetup : San An­to­nio Meetup Dis­cus­sion (Topic: Pre-Hind­sight)

Bryan-san29 Jan 2016 22:30 UTC
2 points
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Clear­ing An Over­grown Garden

Anders_H29 Jan 2016 22:16 UTC
15 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

My cur­rent take on log­i­cal uncertainty

paulfchristiano29 Jan 2016 21:17 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Meetup : Role play­ing game based on HPMOR in Moscow

Alexander23029 Jan 2016 17:45 UTC
2 points
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Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek29 Jan 2016 16:15 UTC
2 points
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The Num­ber Choos­ing Game: Against the ex­is­tence of perfect the­o­ret­i­cal rationality

casebash29 Jan 2016 1:04 UTC
−5 points
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Another Con­cise Open Problem

Scott Garrabrant28 Jan 2016 23:04 UTC
4 points
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Se­cond Failure of In­duc­tive Learn­ing with a De­lay in Feedback

Scott Garrabrant28 Jan 2016 21:32 UTC
4 points
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Study­ing Your Na­tive Language

Crux28 Jan 2016 19:23 UTC
7 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

What’s wrong with this pic­ture?

CronoDAS28 Jan 2016 13:30 UTC
29 points
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Per­haps a bet­ter form fac­tor for Mee­tups vs Main board posts?

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)28 Jan 2016 11:50 UTC
20 points
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Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Cooking

rocurley28 Jan 2016 6:18 UTC
2 points
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Slack Chat

abramdemski28 Jan 2016 4:25 UTC
2 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part S: Quan­tum Physics and Many Worlds

Gram_Stone28 Jan 2016 1:18 UTC
5 points
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