GiveWell in­ter­view with ma­jor SIAI donor Jaan Tallinn

jsalvatierJul 19, 2011, 3:10 PM
25 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Hav­ing Use­ful Conversations

paulfchristianoJul 12, 2011, 6:29 AM
24 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Are search en­g­ines per­pet­u­at­ing our bi­ases?

TCBJul 4, 2011, 1:29 AM
23 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

A funny ar­gu­ment for tra­di­tional morality

cousin_itJul 12, 2011, 9:25 PM
23 points
70 comments1 min readLW link

What if sym­pa­thy de­pends on an­thro­po­mor­phiz­ing?

Wei DaiJul 24, 2011, 12:33 PM
22 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Han­son De­bat­ing Yud­kowsky, Jun 2011

XiXiDuJul 3, 2011, 4:59 PM
21 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

MSF The­ory: Another Ex­pla­na­tion of Sub­jec­tively Ob­jec­tive Probability

Ronny FernandezJul 30, 2011, 7:46 PM
20 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

AGI/​FAI The­o­rist for Hire

Peter_de_BlancJul 15, 2011, 3:50 PM
20 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Illus­tra­tor needed: In­tu­itive Bayes 2.0

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 19, 2011, 12:24 AM
20 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

SIAI Logo In SVG For­mat?

[deleted]Jul 26, 2011, 7:29 AM
20 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Richard Dawk­ins on vivi­sec­tion: “But can they suffer?”

XiXiDuJul 4, 2011, 4:56 PM
19 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

I just donated to the SIAI.

PavitraJul 15, 2011, 9:24 AM
19 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Has SIAI/​FHI con­sid­ered putting up prizes for con­tri­bu­tions to im­por­tant prob­lems?

jsalvatierJul 3, 2011, 5:26 PM
18 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

The Se­quences in MP3 Format

r_claypoolJul 8, 2011, 7:40 PM
17 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Devel­op­ing Empathy

falenas108Jul 24, 2011, 1:50 PM
17 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Peo­ple ne­glect small prob­a­bil­ity events

XiXiDuJul 2, 2011, 10:54 AM
17 points
67 comments5 min readLW link

What would you do if AI were dan­ger­ous?

cousin_itJul 26, 2011, 9:11 PM
16 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Gen­der and Libido

NancyLebovitzJul 3, 2011, 2:20 PM
16 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

If your Cry­on­i­cism would be Movie Topic, would you go with it? (Real Is­sue)

diegocaleiroJul 27, 2011, 8:19 AM
15 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Cog­ni­tive Load from sim­ple computations

NancyLebovitzJul 14, 2011, 2:35 PM
15 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Other Use­ful Sites LWers Read

atuckerJul 11, 2011, 7:44 PM
15 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Khan Academy: In­tro­duc­tion to pro­gram­ming and com­puter science

XiXiDuJul 2, 2011, 9:44 AM
15 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Prob­lem with the CAPTCHAS

diegocaleiroJul 6, 2011, 12:50 PM
15 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Those who can’t ad­mit they’re wrong

ZedJul 1, 2011, 5:09 AM
14 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ment: Psy­cho­an­a­lyze Me

Wei DaiJul 17, 2011, 7:54 AM
14 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

ALCOR finances

gwernJul 12, 2011, 4:32 PM
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

AI-Box Ex­per­i­ment—The Acausal Trade Argument

XiXiDuJul 8, 2011, 9:18 AM
14 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

New Post ver­sion 2 (please read this ONLY if your last name be­ings with l–z)

lukeprogJul 27, 2011, 9:57 PM
14 points
186 comments5 min readLW link

Robert Et­tinger, founder of cry­on­ics, now CIs 106th patient

Paul CrowleyJul 25, 2011, 12:11 PM
14 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

“The True Re­jec­tion Challenge”—Thread 2

Armok_GoBJul 2, 2011, 11:49 AM
13 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Up­date Your­self Incrementally

MinibearRexJul 20, 2011, 4:22 AM
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to solve the na­tional debt deadlock

PhilGoetzJul 17, 2011, 4:42 PM
13 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Com­mu­nity norm ques­tion: brief text ad signatures

Kaj_SotalaJul 11, 2011, 8:42 AM
13 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Less Wrong in Other Languages

diegocaleiroJul 21, 2011, 6:14 PM
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Help me tran­si­tion to hu­man so­ciety!

ClippyJul 24, 2011, 4:24 PM
13 points
91 comments1 min readLW link

Think­ing with­out words?

PhilGoetzJul 9, 2011, 6:25 PM
13 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

2011 Buhl Lec­ture, Scott Aaron­son on Quan­tum Complexity

[deleted]Jul 9, 2011, 4:43 AM
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

An ex­pla­na­tion of Au­mann’s agree­ment theorem

Tyrrell_McAllisterJul 7, 2011, 6:22 AM
13 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Dark Arts: Schopen­hauer wrote The Book on How To Troll

Raw_PowerJul 5, 2011, 1:13 PM
12 points
57 comments6 min readLW link

Bayesian Con­spir­acy @ Burn­ing Man 2011

KevinJul 21, 2011, 5:16 AM
12 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Ab­sence of Ev­i­dence Is Ev­i­dence of Absence

MinibearRexJul 17, 2011, 4:08 AM
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Free (old) sci­en­tific pa­pers [Link]

JackEmptyJul 21, 2011, 4:22 PM
12 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Lo­cat­ing emotions

NisanJul 27, 2011, 4:05 PM
12 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

A study in Science on mem­ory conformity

dvasyaJul 15, 2011, 5:30 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Call for vol­un­teers: clean up the LW is­sue tracker

mattJul 12, 2011, 6:15 PM
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Evidence

MinibearRexJul 18, 2011, 2:27 AM
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Hyper­bolic dis­count­ing is rational

twanvlJul 28, 2011, 12:14 PM
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

What do the pat­terns of good and bad be­havi­ours in an on­line world re­veal about the na­ture of hu­man­ity?

XiXiDuJul 6, 2011, 5:36 PM
11 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

LW sys­temic bias: US centrism

lucidfoxJul 19, 2011, 7:21 PM
11 points
58 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Hind­sight Bias

MinibearRexJul 23, 2011, 7:51 PM
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link