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Dou­ble Crux — A Strat­egy for Mu­tual Understanding

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Jan 2, 2017, 4:37 AM
193 points
108 comments12 min readLW link

Pro­ject Hufflepuff

RaemonJan 18, 2017, 6:57 PM
51 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

80,000 Hours: EA and Highly Poli­ti­cal Causes

The_Jaded_OneJan 26, 2017, 9:44 PM
45 points
25 comments7 min readLW link

In­finite Sum­ma­tions: A Ra­tion­al­ity Lit­mus Test

shevJan 20, 2017, 9:31 AM
38 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

On mo­ti­va­tions for MIRI’s highly re­li­able agent de­sign research

jessicataJan 29, 2017, 7:34 PM
35 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Do­minic Cum­mings: how the Brexit refer­en­dum was won

The_Jaded_OneJan 12, 2017, 9:26 PM
30 points
69 comments1 min readLW link
(blogs.spectator.co.uk)

Yud­kowsky’s ‘Four Lay­ers of In­tel­lec­tual Con­ver­sa­tion’

Gram_StoneJan 8, 2017, 9:47 PM
29 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(rationalconspiracy.com)

Plan­ning the Enemy’s Retreat

Gram_StoneJan 11, 2017, 5:44 AM
28 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

[LINK] EA Has A Ly­ing Problem

BenquoJan 11, 2017, 10:31 PM
28 points
34 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

0.999...=1: Another Ra­tion­al­ity Lit­mus Test

shevJan 21, 2017, 2:16 AM
27 points
59 comments7 min readLW link

2017: An Ac­tual Plan to Ac­tu­ally Improve

[deleted]Jan 27, 2017, 6:42 PM
26 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on “Oper­a­tion Make Less Wrong the sin­gle con­ver­sa­tional lo­cus”, Month 1

RaemonJan 19, 2017, 5:16 PM
25 points
158 comments1 min readLW link

Value Journaling

ProofOfLogicJan 25, 2017, 6:10 AM
24 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

My cur­rent take on the Paul-MIRI dis­agree­ment on al­ignabil­ity of messy AI

jessicataJan 29, 2017, 8:52 PM
24 points
43 comments10 min readLW link

Buck­ets and memetic im­mune disorders

Tyrrell_McAllisterJan 3, 2017, 11:51 PM
23 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Did EDT get it right all along? In­tro­duc­ing yet an­other med­i­cal New­comb problem

Johannes TreutleinJan 24, 2017, 11:43 AM
22 points
21 comments8 min readLW link

How of­ten do you check this fo­rum?

JenniferRMJan 30, 2017, 4:56 PM
21 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

A ma­jor­ity coal­i­tion can lose a sym­met­ric zero-sum game

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 26, 2017, 12:13 PM
21 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

In Defense of the Obvious

lifelonglearnerJan 21, 2017, 3:06 AM
20 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Act into Fear and Aban­don all Hope

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 1, 2017, 1:39 AM
18 points
5 comments8 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

How to talk ra­tio­nally about cults

ViliamJan 8, 2017, 8:12 PM
18 points
40 comments11 min readLW link

Pro­jects-in-Progress Thread

lifelonglearnerJan 21, 2017, 5:11 AM
18 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Fund­ing the Re­pro­ducibil­ity Crises as effec­tive giving

morganismJan 24, 2017, 11:05 PM
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wired.com)

Could a Neu­ro­scien­tist Un­der­stand a Micro­pro­ces­sor?

Gunnar_ZarnckeJan 20, 2017, 12:40 PM
16 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(journals.plos.org)

AI Safety read­ing group

SoerenEJan 28, 2017, 12:07 PM
15 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounce­ment: In­tel­li­gence in Liter­a­ture Prize

VaniverJan 4, 2017, 8:07 PM
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

Wel­come to LessWrong (10th Thread, Jan­uary 2017) (Thread A)

folkTheoryJan 7, 2017, 5:43 AM
15 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Strate­gic Think­ing: Paradigm Selection

katydeeJan 24, 2017, 6:24 AM
15 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Perfor­mance Trends in AI

sarahconstantinJan 28, 2017, 8:36 AM
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Pre­dic­tion Cal­ibra­tion—Do­ing It Right

SquirrelInHellJan 30, 2017, 10:05 AM
14 points
36 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Emer­gency learning

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 28, 2017, 10:05 AM
13 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

The Quaker and the Parselmouth

VaniverJan 20, 2017, 9:24 PM
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness

ChristianKlJan 28, 2017, 8:58 AM
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(neurosciencenews.com)

Ra­tion­al­ity Con­sid­ered Harm­ful (In Poli­tics)

The_Jaded_OneJan 8, 2017, 10:36 AM
12 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Life Ex­ten­sion Possibilities

sarahconstantinJan 24, 2017, 1:54 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Stu­art Ritche re­views Keith Stanovich’s book “The ra­tio­nal­ity quo­tient: Toward a test of ra­tio­nal think­ing”

Stefan_SchubertJan 11, 2017, 11:51 AM
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

Case Stud­ies High­light­ing CFAR’s Im­pact on Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

UnnamedJan 10, 2017, 6:51 PM
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(rationality.org)

First im­pres­sions...

ArisCJan 24, 2017, 3:14 PM
11 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Ac­tu­ally Prac­tic­ing Ra­tion­al­ity and the 5-Se­cond Level

lifelonglearnerJan 6, 2017, 6:50 AM
10 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Willpower duality

GyrodiotJan 20, 2017, 9:56 AM
10 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jrmyp.net)

Progress and Prizes in AI Alignment

Jacob FalkovichJan 3, 2017, 10:15 PM
10 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

The time you have

EloJan 5, 2017, 2:13 AM
10 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Er­ror and Ter­ror: Are We Wor­ry­ing about the Wrong Risks?

philosophytorresJan 30, 2017, 1:07 AM
10 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Me­ta­knowl­edge—Im­prov­ing on the Wis­dom of Crowds

HoushalterJan 1, 2017, 9:25 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(aeon.co)

Against Com­pro­mise, or, De­cid­ing as a Team with­out Suc­comb­ing to Entropy

AlexandrosJan 8, 2017, 1:22 PM
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(alexandros.resin.io)

Meetup Discussion

luminosityJan 8, 2017, 5:14 AM
10 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

The Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute is hiring a pro­ject manager

crmflynnJan 26, 2017, 6:19 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Univer­sal Hate

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 18, 2017, 6:32 PM
9 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Strate­gies for coal­i­tions in unit-sum games

jessicataJan 23, 2017, 4:20 AM
9 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Pu­tanu­monit—Bayesian in­fer­ence vs. null hy­poth­e­sis testing

Jacob FalkovichJan 22, 2017, 2:31 PM
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)