[Refer­ence re­quest] Ar­ti­cle by sci­en­tist giv­ing lower and up­per bounds on the prob­a­bil­ity of superintelligence

multifoliaterose8 May 2011 22:16 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Shane Legg’s Th­e­sis: Ma­chine Su­per­in­tel­li­gence, Opinions?

Zetetic8 May 2011 20:04 UTC
16 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] The Scales of Jus­tice, the Note­book of Rationality

Tyrrell_McAllister8 May 2011 17:43 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Death Note, Anonymity, and In­for­ma­tion Theory

gwern8 May 2011 15:44 UTC
58 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Save the Date: DC Meetup May 15th

atucker8 May 2011 15:22 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Pre­dictably Ir­ra­tional by Dan Ariely

erratio8 May 2011 8:13 UTC
46 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

[POLL] Slutwalk

magfrump8 May 2011 7:00 UTC
−18 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

Reli­gious Behaviorism

PhilGoetz8 May 2011 0:11 UTC
−3 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

[Altru­ist Sup­port] Fix the SIAI’s web­site (EDIT: or not. I’ll do it)

Giles7 May 2011 18:36 UTC
15 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Shift­ing Load to Ex­plicit Reasoning

Vladimir_Nesov7 May 2011 18:00 UTC
25 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Bias and Nat­u­ral­ism: a Challenge

BobTheBob7 May 2011 15:30 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Karma Bub­ble Fix (Grease­mon­key script)

Vladimir_Nesov7 May 2011 13:14 UTC
36 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Begin­ning re­sources for CEV research

lukeprog7 May 2011 5:28 UTC
20 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

The 5-Se­cond Level

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 May 2011 4:51 UTC
231 points
328 comments8 min readLW link

The Power of Agency

lukeprog7 May 2011 1:38 UTC
110 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

What causes peo­ple to be­lieve in con­spir­acy the­o­ries?

Servant7 May 2011 0:06 UTC
10 points
48 comments2 min readLW link

Who are the LW ed­i­tors?

saliency6 May 2011 21:34 UTC
7 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Burch’s Law

Tyrrell_McAllister6 May 2011 21:15 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Mutable Levels Are Path-Dependent

XFrequentist6 May 2011 20:47 UTC
3 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Add “Mee­tups” to top nav­i­ga­tion bar?

saliency6 May 2011 20:03 UTC
3 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

In­tu­ition and Un­con­scious Learning

lukeprog6 May 2011 18:47 UTC
44 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Why is my sister re­lated to me only 50%?

TimFreeman6 May 2011 18:17 UTC
3 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ment Idea Thread - Spring 2011

Psychohistorian6 May 2011 18:10 UTC
35 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­treme Altru­is­tic Per­son­al­ity Type

XFrequentist6 May 2011 14:13 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Re­quest­ing Advice

Carinthium6 May 2011 10:59 UTC
7 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Cli­mate change: ex­is­ten­tial risk?

katydee6 May 2011 6:19 UTC
8 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Lead­er­ship and Self De­cep­tion, Anatomy of Peace

TimFreeman6 May 2011 3:56 UTC
15 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

[Altru­ist Sup­port] The Plan

Giles6 May 2011 3:53 UTC
13 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

Helsinki meetup on May 13, spe­cial guest star Pa­tri Fried­man (pa­tris­simo)

Kaj_Sotala6 May 2011 0:03 UTC
10 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

GiveWell.org in­ter­views SIAI

Paul Crowley5 May 2011 16:29 UTC
38 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Your Evolved Intuitions

lukeprog5 May 2011 16:21 UTC
22 points
106 comments10 min readLW link

Ed­in­burgh LW meetup, Satur­day May 7, 2pm

sark5 May 2011 13:55 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

San Fran­cisco Meetup ev­ery Tues 5/​10, 7 pm

Mass_Driver5 May 2011 6:28 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Hol­low Adjectives

Psychohistorian5 May 2011 3:44 UTC
13 points
45 comments3 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tion, in­sight, and ra­tio­nal­ity. (Part 2 of 3)

DavidM4 May 2011 22:38 UTC
35 points
190 comments26 min readLW link

Apol­ogy for de­lay and [link] ra­tio­nal­ity comic

Skatche4 May 2011 19:08 UTC
4 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

No coin­duc­tive datatype of integers

cousin_it4 May 2011 16:37 UTC
8 points
147 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes: May 2011

DSimon4 May 2011 16:13 UTC
3 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK, TED video] Kathryn Schulz on Be­ing Wrong

bogus4 May 2011 15:52 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Skep­tics Stack Exchange

Wilka4 May 2011 12:53 UTC
7 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

CFAI doc in SIAI FAQ

Dr_Manhattan4 May 2011 12:49 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

A De­layed Epiphany on Motivation

LucasSloan4 May 2011 4:27 UTC
26 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Track Your Happiness

Matt_Simpson4 May 2011 2:59 UTC
9 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

The im­por­tance of open-source cryp­tog­ra­phy for Sin­gle­ton prevention

snarles4 May 2011 2:25 UTC
−6 points
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Offi­cial Less Wrong Redesign: View de­faults for new users

matt4 May 2011 2:21 UTC
6 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Plea­sure, De­sire, and Ar­gu­ing about Definitions

lukeprog4 May 2011 1:02 UTC
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Whole Brain Emu­la­tion and the Evolu­tion of Superorganisms

Wei Dai3 May 2011 23:38 UTC
25 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Bruce Sch­neier on Cog­ni­tive Bi­ases in Risk Analysis

Alex Flint3 May 2011 18:37 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Policy De­bates Should Not Ap­pear One-Sided

Tyrrell_McAllister3 May 2011 18:13 UTC
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Ter­ror­ist lead­ers are not about Terror

gwern3 May 2011 17:57 UTC
4 points
29 comments1 min readLW link