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Less Wrong Archives

GrognorDec 23, 2011, 1:42 AM
28 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Why I write about the basics

lukeprogDec 10, 2011, 10:49 PM
26 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

The Ma­gi­cian: A Re­duc­tion­ist’s Allegory

Peter WildefordDec 22, 2011, 6:13 AM
25 points
11 comments6 min readLW link

A Brief Sum­mary of Re­cent Hap­pen­ings at the Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

MichaelAnissimovDec 11, 2011, 8:59 PM
24 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

AIXI and Ex­is­ten­tial Despair

paulfchristianoDec 8, 2011, 8:03 PM
24 points
39 comments6 min readLW link

[LINK] How a Com­puter Game is Rein­vent­ing the Science of Ex­per­tise

InquilineKeaDec 5, 2011, 5:06 AM
24 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Q&A with Michael Littman on risks from AI

XiXiDuDec 19, 2011, 9:51 AM
23 points
88 comments3 min readLW link

khan Academy—Ra­tion­al­ity se­ries?

GoobahmanDec 12, 2011, 1:54 AM
23 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity of some­times miss­ing the point of the stated ques­tion, and of cer­tain type of defen­sive reasoning

DmytryDec 29, 2011, 1:09 PM
22 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

What causes burnout?

juliawiseDec 27, 2011, 4:51 AM
22 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Q&A with Richard Car­rier on risks from AI

XiXiDuDec 13, 2011, 10:00 AM
22 points
22 comments10 min readLW link

Vi­sual Map of US LW-ers

daenerysDec 20, 2011, 7:40 AM
21 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Value evolution

PhilGoetzDec 8, 2011, 11:47 PM
21 points
111 comments4 min readLW link

“Vuln­er­a­ble Cy­borgs: Learn­ing to Live with our Dragons”, Mark Coeckelbergh

gwernDec 4, 2011, 10:33 AM
21 points
11 comments10 min readLW link

[Link] Cor­re­la­tion Graphs Re­veal Shock­ing Information

AlicornDec 25, 2011, 2:26 AM
19 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Beyond the Reach of God, Abridged for Spo­ken Word

RaemonDec 6, 2011, 6:49 PM
19 points
29 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­am­ples of the Mind Pro­jec­tion Fal­lacy?

fiddlemathDec 13, 2011, 3:27 PM
19 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

How to get the most out of the next year

alexvermeerDec 22, 2011, 9:23 PM
19 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Build­ing case-stud­ies of akrasia

MercurialDec 14, 2011, 6:42 PM
19 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

K-com­plex­ity of ev­ery­day things

cousin_itDec 4, 2011, 2:54 PM
19 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Is any­one else wor­ried about SOPA? Try­ing to do any­thing about it?

false_vacuumDec 20, 2011, 2:07 PM
19 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

[Ger­man] Wo wohnt ihr?

MetusDec 9, 2011, 1:51 AM
18 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Where do you live? Meetup plan­ners want to know

MetusDec 11, 2011, 9:08 PM
18 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] “Pre­dic­tion Au­dits” for Nate Silver, Dave Weigel

orthonormalDec 30, 2011, 9:07 PM
18 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

What is your ra­tio­nal­ity blind spot?

ShmiDec 20, 2011, 7:18 PM
18 points
81 comments1 min readLW link

Seek­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tor for a Sin­gu­lar­ity Comic Book

James_MillerDec 5, 2011, 4:20 PM
17 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Mea­sures, Risk, Death, and War

VaniverDec 20, 2011, 11:37 PM
17 points
14 comments8 min readLW link

Holi­day giv­ing thread

Kaj_SotalaDec 23, 2011, 11:09 AM
17 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Some thoughts on AI, Philos­o­phy, and Safety

paulfchristianoDec 22, 2011, 1:32 AM
17 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

“Mis­be­hav­ing Machines: The Emu­lated Brains of Tran­shu­man­ist Dreams”, Corry Shores

gwernDec 29, 2011, 10:33 PM
16 points
4 comments15 min readLW link

His­tor­i­cal ex­am­ples of flinch­ing away

lukeprogDec 23, 2011, 9:41 PM
16 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Ad­mit­ting er­rors (in me­te­o­rol­ogy)

fortyeridaniaDec 16, 2011, 5:21 PM
16 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

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[deleted]Dec 6, 2011, 5:52 AM
15 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

New ‘land­ing page’ web­site: Friendly-AI.com

lukeprogDec 12, 2011, 9:45 AM
15 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Eu­topia is Scary—for the author

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 28, 2011, 9:42 AM
15 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Would AIXI pro­tect it­self?

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 9, 2011, 12:29 PM
15 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

[LINK] Lin­coln on Rationality

[deleted]Dec 25, 2011, 6:55 AM
15 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Wel­come to Less Wrong!, part 2?

NancyLebovitzDec 26, 2011, 10:34 AM
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Larry King: I want to be frozen

KevinDec 5, 2011, 2:11 AM
15 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Check­ing Re­cent Upvotes?

RaemonDec 15, 2011, 4:25 PM
14 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Solomonoff Induction

lukeprogDec 1, 2011, 6:56 AM
14 points
31 comments10 min readLW link

Han­dling Emo­tional Appeals

fiddlemathDec 10, 2011, 7:30 AM
14 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

A way of spec­i­fy­ing util­ity func­tions for UDT

cousin_itDec 23, 2011, 12:37 AM
14 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy and Ma­chine Learn­ing Panel on Ethics

jsteinhardtDec 17, 2011, 11:32 PM
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[RESEARCH] Mar­ijuana may pre­vent Alzheimer’s disease

[deleted]Dec 30, 2011, 4:23 PM
14 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Teach­ing a short class on Bayes’ The­o­rem?

TesseractDec 7, 2011, 9:45 PM
13 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

A Film about Tran­sHu­man Enterprises

mwenglerDec 8, 2011, 6:36 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Bostrom, “Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Preven­tion as the Most Im­por­tant Task for Hu­man­ity” (Dec. 2011)

lukeprogDec 11, 2011, 5:52 AM
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

A dis­carded re­view of ‘Godel, Escher Bach: an Eter­nal Golden Braid’

lukeprogDec 16, 2011, 5:51 AM
12 points
30 comments4 min readLW link

Do men have more part­ners than women?

DuncanSDec 16, 2011, 12:11 AM
12 points
29 comments1 min readLW link