Bring up Genius

Viliam8 Jun 2017 17:44 UTC
104 points
62 comments20 min readLW link

Bet or up­date: fix­ing the will-to-wa­ger assumption

cousin_it7 Jun 2017 15:03 UTC
62 points
61 comments1 min readLW link

Bi-Weekly Ra­tional Feed

sapphire24 Jun 2017 0:07 UTC
35 points
3 comments12 min readLW link

Con­crete Ways You Can Help Make the Com­mu­nity Better

sapphire17 Jun 2017 3:03 UTC
33 points
37 comments5 min readLW link

S-risks: Why they are the worst ex­is­ten­tial risks, and how to pre­vent them

Kaj_Sotala20 Jun 2017 12:34 UTC
31 points
106 comments1 min readLW link
(foundational-research.org)

We are the Athe­ni­ans, not the Spartans

wubbles11 Jun 2017 5:53 UTC
29 points
42 comments2 min readLW link

Why I am not cur­rently work­ing on the AAMLS agenda

jessicata1 Jun 2017 17:57 UTC
28 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Mode Col­lapse and the Norm One Principle

tristanm5 Jun 2017 21:30 UTC
28 points
13 comments11 min readLW link

Thought ex­per­i­ment: coarse-grained VR utopia

cousin_it14 Jun 2017 8:03 UTC
27 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

Why Are Trans­gen­der Peo­ple Im­mune To Op­ti­cal Illu­sions?

Scott Alexander28 Jun 2017 19:00 UTC
23 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing AASAA—Ac­cel­er­at­ing AI Safety Adop­tion in Academia (and el­se­where)

null15 Jun 2017 18:55 UTC
23 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

The Ra­tion­al­ist­sphere and the Less Wrong wiki

Deku-shrub12 Jun 2017 23:29 UTC
19 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Wel­come to Less­wrong 2.0

habryka18 Jun 2017 17:23 UTC
19 points
27 comments7 min readLW link

A new, bet­ter way to read the Sequences

Said Achmiz4 Jun 2017 5:10 UTC
19 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Self-mod­ifi­ca­tion as a game the­ory problem

cousin_it26 Jun 2017 20:47 UTC
18 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing from Hu­man Prefer­ences—from OpenAI (in­clud­ing Chris­ti­ano, Amodei & Legg)

Dr_Manhattan13 Jun 2017 15:52 UTC
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(blog.openai.com)

One-Mag­is­terium Bayes

tristanm29 Jun 2017 23:02 UTC
17 points
108 comments14 min readLW link

Pair De­bug to Un­der­stand, not Fix

Vaniver21 Jun 2017 23:25 UTC
17 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity 1: Start­ing Advice

lifelonglearner18 Jun 2017 18:43 UTC
17 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Bi-Weekly Ra­tional Feed

sapphire10 Jun 2017 21:56 UTC
17 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

LessWrong 2.0 Fea­ture Roadmap & Fea­ture Suggestions

habryka17 Jun 2017 22:18 UTC
16 points
115 comments1 min readLW link

Book recom­men­da­tion requests

ChristianKl1 Jun 2017 22:33 UTC
16 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Idea for LessWrong: Video Tutoring

Adam Zerner23 Jun 2017 21:40 UTC
16 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

SSC Jour­nal Club: AI Timelines

Scott Alexander8 Jun 2017 19:00 UTC
15 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

Why I think worse than death out­comes are not a good rea­son for most peo­ple to avoid cryonics

Synaptic11 Jun 2017 15:55 UTC
15 points
29 comments5 min readLW link

Pu­tanu­monit: What statis­ti­cal power means, and why I’m ter­rified about psychology

Jacob Falkovich21 Jun 2017 18:29 UTC
14 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Ra­tion­al­ist Seder: A Story of War

Raemon3 Jun 2017 20:17 UTC
12 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Co­op­er­a­tive Or­a­cles: Introduction

Scott Garrabrant3 Jun 2017 0:36 UTC
12 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

What use­less things did you un­der­stand re­cently?

cousin_it28 Jun 2017 19:32 UTC
11 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tu­ally un­in­fluence­able agents

Stuart_Armstrong2 Jun 2017 16:17 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

New cir­cum­stances, new val­ues?

Stuart_Armstrong6 Jun 2017 8:20 UTC
11 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Three Re­sponses to In­cor­rect Folk Ontologies

J Thomas Moros21 Jun 2017 14:26 UTC
11 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(ferocioustruth.com)

Be­com­ing a Bet­ter Community

Sable6 Jun 2017 7:11 UTC
11 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Acausal trade: dou­ble decrease

Stuart_Armstrong2 Jun 2017 15:33 UTC
10 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Futarchy, Xrisks, and near misses

Stuart_Armstrong2 Jun 2017 8:02 UTC
10 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Distinc­tions of the Moment

abramdemski20 Jun 2017 14:38 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Angst, En­nui, and Guilt in Effec­tive Altruism

Gordon Seidoh Worley19 Jun 2017 20:38 UTC
10 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Just Say­ing What You Mean is Impossible

Zvi28 Jun 2017 0:12 UTC
10 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

On Dragon Army

Zvi24 Jun 2017 10:44 UTC
10 points
0 comments54 min readLW link

Self-con­scious ideology

casebash28 Jun 2017 5:32 UTC
9 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Diver­gent prefer­ences and meta-preferences

Stuart_Armstrong2 Jun 2017 15:51 UTC
9 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Loe­bian co­op­er­a­tion in the tiling agents problem

cousin_it26 Jun 2017 14:52 UTC
8 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Closed Beta Users: What would make you in­ter­ested in us­ing LessWrong 2.0?

Habryka19 Jun 2017 6:28 UTC
8 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Hu­mans are not agents: short vs long term

Stuart_Armstrong9 Jun 2017 11:16 UTC
8 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

The Per­sonal Growth Cycle

Gordon Seidoh Worley4 Jun 2017 17:20 UTC
8 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Cog­ni­tive Science/​Psy­chol­ogy As a Ne­glected Ap­proach to AI Safety

Kaj_Sotala5 Jun 2017 13:55 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(effective-altruism.com)

The Use and Abuse of Witch­doc­tors for Life

lifelonglearner24 Jun 2017 20:59 UTC
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(samzdat.com)

Ra­tion­al­ist Seder: Dayenu, Lo Dayenu

Raemon4 Jun 2017 20:55 UTC
7 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Epistemic Spot Check: The De­mon Un­der the Micro­scope (Thomas Hager)

Elizabeth21 Jun 2017 16:00 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Re­search As­sis­tant po­si­tions at the Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute and Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altruism

crmflynn8 Jun 2017 17:20 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link