How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 23 Jan 2012 23:50 UTC
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Can the Chain Still Hold You?

lukeprog13 Jan 2012 1:28 UTC
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Urges vs. Goals: The anal­ogy to an­ti­ci­pa­tion and belief

AnnaSalamon24 Jan 2012 23:57 UTC
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The prob­lem with too many ra­tio­nal memes

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 19 Jan 2012 0:56 UTC
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[Tran­script] Richard Feyn­man on Why Questions

Grognor8 Jan 2012 19:01 UTC
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The Sub­sti­tu­tion Principle

Kaj_Sotala28 Jan 2012 4:20 UTC
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The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute’s Ar­ro­gance Problem

lukeprog18 Jan 2012 22:30 UTC
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Com­plete­ness, in­com­plete­ness, and what it all means: first ver­sus sec­ond or­der logic

Stuart_Armstrong16 Jan 2012 17:38 UTC
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POSITION: De­sign and Write Ra­tion­al­ity Curriculum

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Jan 2012 6:50 UTC
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The Hu­man’s Hid­den Utility Func­tion (Maybe)

lukeprog23 Jan 2012 19:39 UTC
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“Poli­tics is the mind-kil­ler” is the mind-killer

thomblake26 Jan 2012 15:55 UTC
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The Dark Arts: A Begin­ner’s Guide

faul_sname21 Jan 2012 7:05 UTC
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Shit Ra­tion­al­ists Say?

Eneasz25 Jan 2012 21:51 UTC
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So You Want to Save the World

lukeprog1 Jan 2012 7:39 UTC
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[META] My Nega­tive Results

RobertLumley28 Jan 2012 20:44 UTC
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Level­ing Up in Ra­tion­al­ity: A Per­sonal Journey

lukeprog17 Jan 2012 11:02 UTC
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The Noddy problem

Apprentice12 Jan 2012 22:18 UTC
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Q&A with ex­perts on risks from AI #1

XiXiDu8 Jan 2012 11:46 UTC
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Hack­ing Less Wrong made easy: Va­grant edition

Morendil30 Jan 2012 18:51 UTC
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[META] ‘Ra­tional’ vs ‘Op­ti­mized’

TheOtherDave4 Jan 2012 18:58 UTC
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The Per­son­al­ity of (great/​cre­ative) Scien­tists: Open and Conscientious

gwern28 Jan 2012 20:01 UTC
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I’ve had it with those dark ru­mours about our cul­ture rigor­ously sup­press­ing opinions

Multiheaded25 Jan 2012 17:43 UTC
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What Cu­ri­os­ity Looks Like

lukeprog6 Jan 2012 21:28 UTC
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In­tro­duc­ing Lev­er­age Research

lukeprog9 Jan 2012 19:47 UTC
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On Lev­er­age Re­search’s plan for an op­ti­mal world

Mitchell_Porter10 Jan 2012 9:49 UTC
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De­sign­ing Ritual

Raemon11 Jan 2012 1:52 UTC
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More in­tu­itive ex­pla­na­tions!

XiXiDu6 Jan 2012 18:10 UTC
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Sunk Costs Fal­lacy Fallacy

[deleted]24 Jan 2012 21:09 UTC
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Long-Term Tech­nolog­i­cal Forecasting

lukeprog11 Jan 2012 4:13 UTC
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Fic­tion: LW-in­spired scenelet

DataPacRat27 Jan 2012 6:43 UTC
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[Link] The Hy­bo­rian Age

GLaDOS21 Jan 2012 19:00 UTC
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The Gift I Give Tomorrow

Raemon11 Jan 2012 4:02 UTC
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Q&A with Abram Dem­ski on risks from AI

XiXiDu17 Jan 2012 9:43 UTC
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Break­ing the chain of akrasia

lukeprog20 Jan 2012 4:12 UTC
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On ac­cept­ing an ar­gu­ment if you have limited com­pu­ta­tional power.

Dmytry11 Jan 2012 17:07 UTC
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The Ne­glected Virtue of Curiosity

vallinder28 Jan 2012 17:28 UTC
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[META] In­tro­duc­tion thread at­ti­tudes and discussions

Vaniver2 Jan 2012 1:18 UTC
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Utopian hope ver­sus reality

Mitchell_Porter11 Jan 2012 12:55 UTC
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Oc­cam alternatives

selylindi25 Jan 2012 7:50 UTC
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Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute Ex­ec­u­tive Direc­tor Q&A #2

lukeprog6 Jan 2012 3:40 UTC
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Michael Niel­sen ex­plains Judea Pearl’s causality

gwern24 Jan 2012 19:35 UTC
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Help! Name sug­ges­tions needed for Ra­tion­al­ity-Inst!

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jan 2012 2:24 UTC
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Some po­ten­tial dan­gers of ra­tio­nal­ity training

lukeprog21 Jan 2012 4:50 UTC
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New Year’s Pre­dic­tion Thread (2012)

gwern1 Jan 2012 9:35 UTC
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HPMoR.com

lukeprog4 Jan 2012 11:15 UTC
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The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute is hiring an ex­ec­u­tive as­sis­tant near Berkeley

Louie22 Jan 2012 7:47 UTC
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AI Box Log

Dorikka27 Jan 2012 4:47 UTC
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Ter­mi­nal Bias

[deleted]30 Jan 2012 21:03 UTC
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Effi­cient Char­ity: Cheap Utilons via bone mar­row registration

atorm29 Jan 2012 3:52 UTC
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Nick Bostrom TED talk on world’s biggest problems

Dr_Manhattan6 Jan 2012 18:52 UTC
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