Steps to Achieve­ment: The Pit­falls, Costs, Re­quire­ments, and Timelines

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Sep 11, 2010, 10:58 PM
21 points
13 comments11 min readLW link

Ig­no­rance of non-ex­is­tent preferences

KatjaGraceSep 11, 2010, 4:03 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Memetic Hazards in Videogames

jimrandomhSep 10, 2010, 2:22 AM
137 points
164 comments3 min readLW link

More art, less stink: Tak­ing the PU out of PUA

XFrequentistSep 10, 2010, 12:25 AM
89 points
639 comments3 min readLW link

Rea­son is not the only means of over­com­ing bias

multifoliateroseSep 9, 2010, 10:59 PM
8 points
30 comments4 min readLW link

My plans

KatjaGraceSep 9, 2010, 2:19 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Hu­mans are not au­to­mat­i­cally strategic

AnnaSalamonSep 8, 2010, 7:02 AM
590 points
278 comments4 min readLW link

Septem­ber Less Wrong Meetup aka Eliezer’s Bayesian Birth­day Bash

JasenSep 8, 2010, 4:51 AM
11 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

A “Failure to Eval­u­ate Re­turn-on-Time” Fallacy

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Sep 7, 2010, 7:01 PM
87 points
110 comments2 min readLW link

Some­thing’s Wrong

[deleted]Sep 5, 2010, 6:08 PM
134 points
164 comments2 min readLW link

Con­trol­ling Con­stant Programs

Vladimir_NesovSep 5, 2010, 1:45 PM
35 points
33 comments5 min readLW link

Rea­son­ably Fun

JohnDavidBustardSep 4, 2010, 12:07 PM
17 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

An­thro­po­mor­phic AI and Sand­boxed Vir­tual Uni­verses

jacob_cannellSep 3, 2010, 7:02 PM
4 points
124 comments5 min readLW link

Fru­gal­ity and work­ing from finite data

SnowyowlSep 3, 2010, 9:37 AM
35 points
47 comments4 min readLW link

Test

Kazuo_ThowSep 2, 2010, 9:45 PM
−4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

AI in­differ­ence through util­ity manipulation

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 2, 2010, 5:06 PM
8 points
54 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity quotes: Septem­ber 2010

MorendilSep 1, 2010, 6:53 AM
7 points
157 comments1 min readLW link

Berkeley LW Meet-up Sun­day Septem­ber 5

LucasSloanSep 1, 2010, 2:47 AM
10 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Less Wrong: Open Thread, Septem­ber 2010

mattSep 1, 2010, 1:40 AM
6 points
628 comments1 min readLW link

Dreams of AIXI

jacob_cannellAug 30, 2010, 10:15 PM
4 points
143 comments6 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity as Parfi­tian-filtered De­ci­sion The­ory?

SilasBartaAug 30, 2010, 9:37 PM
32 points
273 comments8 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 3

UnnamedAug 30, 2010, 5:37 AM
8 points
571 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­ploita­tion and co­op­er­a­tion in ecol­ogy, gov­ern­ment, busi­ness, and AI

PhilGoetzAug 27, 2010, 2:27 PM
24 points
43 comments4 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics Questions

James_MillerAug 26, 2010, 11:19 PM
13 points
168 comments2 min readLW link

Self-fulfilling correlations

PhilGoetzAug 26, 2010, 9:07 PM
151 points
50 comments3 min readLW link

Cri­te­ria for Ra­tional Poli­ti­cal Conversation

woozleAug 26, 2010, 3:53 PM
−10 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

The prior of a hy­poth­e­sis does not de­pend on its complexity

cousin_itAug 26, 2010, 1:20 PM
34 points
69 comments1 min readLW link

Lu­minos­ity (Twilight fan­fic) dis­cus­sion thread

FAWSAug 25, 2010, 8:49 AM
19 points
439 comments1 min readLW link

Burn­ing Man Meetup: Bayes Camp

LarksAug 25, 2010, 6:14 AM
19 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

Why is med­i­cal ad­vice all cau­tion and no info?

KatjaGraceAug 24, 2010, 12:48 PM
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Min­i­mum com­pu­ta­tion and data re­quire­ments for con­scious­ness.

daedalus2uAug 23, 2010, 11:53 PM
−18 points
83 comments7 min readLW link

The Smok­ing Le­sion: A prob­lem for ev­i­den­tial de­ci­sion theory

[deleted]Aug 23, 2010, 9:01 AM
6 points
101 comments1 min readLW link

Who are we?

KatjaGraceAug 23, 2010, 12:35 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Jus­tify­ing Induction

UnknownsAug 22, 2010, 11:13 AM
0 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Con­scious­ness of simu­la­tions & up­loads: a reductio

simplicioAug 21, 2010, 8:02 PM
−1 points
142 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Les­sons in the Game of Go

GreenRootAug 21, 2010, 2:33 PM
50 points
150 comments4 min readLW link

Trans­parency and Accountability

multifoliateroseAug 21, 2010, 1:01 PM
20 points
145 comments5 min readLW link

The Im­por­tance of Self-Doubt

multifoliateroseAug 19, 2010, 10:47 PM
28 points
746 comments10 min readLW link

Po­si­tion­ing one­self to make a difference

Mitchell_PorterAug 18, 2010, 11:54 PM
7 points
52 comments2 min readLW link

Tran­shu­man­ism and the de­no­ta­tion-con­no­ta­tion gap

PhilGoetzAug 18, 2010, 3:33 PM
25 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

How can we com­pare de­ci­sion the­o­ries?

bentarmAug 18, 2010, 1:29 PM
9 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

Other Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

multifoliateroseAug 17, 2010, 9:24 PM
40 points
124 comments11 min readLW link

On be­half of phys­i­cal things

KatjaGraceAug 17, 2010, 3:42 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

What a re­duc­tion of “prob­a­bil­ity” prob­a­bly looks like

cousin_itAug 17, 2010, 2:58 PM
12 points
35 comments3 min readLW link

Should hu­man­ity give birth to a galac­tic civ­i­liza­tion?

XiXiDuAug 17, 2010, 1:07 PM
−11 points
122 comments3 min readLW link

De­sir­able Dis­po­si­tions and Ra­tional Actions

RichardChappellAug 17, 2010, 3:20 AM
18 points
184 comments2 min readLW link

New­comb’s Prob­lem: A prob­lem for Causal De­ci­sion Theories

[deleted]Aug 16, 2010, 11:25 AM
11 points
121 comments4 min readLW link

Kevin T. Kelly’s Ock­ham Effi­ciency Theorem

JohnicholasAug 16, 2010, 4:46 AM
43 points
82 comments5 min readLW link

Statis­ti­cal dis­crim­i­na­tion is ex­ter­nal­ity deliniation

KatjaGraceAug 15, 2010, 10:00 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Public Relations

multifoliateroseAug 15, 2010, 7:16 AM
41 points
629 comments5 min readLW link