191 points

108 comments12 min readLW link

Project Hufflepuff

Raemon18 Jan 2017 18:57 UTC

51 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

80,000 Hours: EA and Highly Political Causes

The_Jaded_One26 Jan 2017 21:44 UTC

45 points

25 comments7 min readLW link

Infinite Summations: A Rationality Litmus Test

shev20 Jan 2017 9:31 UTC

38 points

23 comments5 min readLW link

On motivations for MIRI’s highly reliable agent design research

jessicata29 Jan 2017 19:34 UTC

35 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Dominic Cummings: how the Brexit referendum was won

The_Jaded_One12 Jan 2017 21:26 UTC

30 points

69 comments1 min readLW link

(blogs.spectator.co.uk)

Yudkowsky’s ‘Four Layers of Intellectual Conversation’

Gram_Stone8 Jan 2017 21:47 UTC

29 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(rationalconspiracy.com)

Planning the Enemy’s Retreat

Gram_Stone11 Jan 2017 5:44 UTC

28 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

[LINK] EA Has A Lying Problem

Benquo11 Jan 2017 22:31 UTC

28 points

34 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

0.999...=1: Another Rationality Litmus Test

shev21 Jan 2017 2:16 UTC

27 points

59 comments7 min readLW link

2017: An Actual Plan to Actually Improve

[deleted]27 Jan 2017 18:42 UTC

26 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

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

Raemon19 Jan 2017 17:16 UTC

25 points

158 comments1 min readLW link

Value Journaling

ProofOfLogic25 Jan 2017 6:10 UTC

24 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

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

jessicata29 Jan 2017 20:52 UTC

24 points

43 comments10 min readLW link

Buckets and memetic immune disorders

Tyrrell_McAllister3 Jan 2017 23:51 UTC

23 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

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

Johannes Treutlein24 Jan 2017 11:43 UTC

22 points

21 comments8 min readLW link

A majority coalition can lose a symmetric zero-sum game

Stuart_Armstrong26 Jan 2017 12:13 UTC

21 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

In Defense of the Obvious

lifelonglearner21 Jan 2017 3:06 UTC

20 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

How often do you check this forum?

JenniferRM30 Jan 2017 16:56 UTC

20 points

64 comments1 min readLW link

Act into Fear and Abandon all Hope

Gordon Seidoh Worley1 Jan 2017 1:39 UTC

18 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

(mapandterritory.org)

How to talk rationally about cults

Viliam8 Jan 2017 20:12 UTC

18 points

40 comments11 min readLW link

Projects-in-Progress Thread

lifelonglearner21 Jan 2017 5:11 UTC

18 points

47 comments1 min readLW link

Funding the Reproducibility Crises as effective giving

morganism24 Jan 2017 23:05 UTC

17 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.wired.com)

Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?

Gunnar_Zarncke20 Jan 2017 12:40 UTC

16 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(journals.plos.org)

AI Safety reading group

SoerenE28 Jan 2017 12:07 UTC

15 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Announcement: Intelligence in Literature Prize

Vaniver4 Jan 2017 20:07 UTC

15 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

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

folkTheory7 Jan 2017 5:43 UTC

15 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

Strategic Thinking: Paradigm Selection

katydee24 Jan 2017 6:24 UTC

15 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Performance Trends in AI

sarahconstantin28 Jan 2017 8:36 UTC

14 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Prediction Calibration—Doing It Right

SquirrelInHell30 Jan 2017 10:05 UTC

14 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Emergency learning

Stuart_Armstrong28 Jan 2017 10:05 UTC

13 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

The Quaker and the Parselmouth

Vaniver20 Jan 2017 21:24 UTC

13 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness

ChristianKl28 Jan 2017 8:58 UTC

13 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(neurosciencenews.com)

Rationality Considered Harmful (In Politics)

The_Jaded_One8 Jan 2017 10:36 UTC

12 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

Life Extension Possibilities

sarahconstantin24 Jan 2017 1:54 UTC

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_Schubert11 Jan 2017 11:51 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

First impressions...

ArisC24 Jan 2017 15:14 UTC

11 points

50 comments1 min readLW link

Actually Practicing Rationality and the 5-Second Level

lifelonglearner6 Jan 2017 6:50 UTC

10 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Willpower duality

Gyrodiot20 Jan 2017 9:56 UTC

10 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jrmyp.net)

Progress and Prizes in AI Alignment

Jacob Falkovich3 Jan 2017 22:15 UTC

10 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

The time you have

Elo5 Jan 2017 2:13 UTC

10 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

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

philosophytorres30 Jan 2017 1:07 UTC

10 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Metaknowledge—Improving on the Wisdom of Crowds

Houshalter1 Jan 2017 21:25 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(aeon.co)

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

Alexandros8 Jan 2017 13:22 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(alexandros.resin.io)

Meetup Discussion

luminosity8 Jan 2017 5:14 UTC

10 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

The Future of Humanity Institute is hiring a project manager

crmflynn26 Jan 2017 18:19 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Universal Hate

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Jan 2017 18:32 UTC

9 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(mapandterritory.org)

Strategies for coalitions in unit-sum games

jessicata23 Jan 2017 4:20 UTC

9 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Putanumonit—Bayesian inference vs. null hypothesis testing

Jacob Falkovich22 Jan 2017 14:31 UTC

9 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Case Studies Highlighting CFAR’s Impact on Existential Risk

Unnamed10 Jan 2017 18:51 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(rationality.org)