The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute’s Ar­ro­gance Problem

lukeprog18 Jan 2012 22:30 UTC
84 points
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[Meta] No LessWrong Black­out?

CaveJohnson18 Jan 2012 19:48 UTC
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Meetup : Austin, TX

Vaniver18 Jan 2012 18:35 UTC
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[SEQ RERUN] How An Al­gorithm Feels From Inside

MinibearRex18 Jan 2012 5:53 UTC
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Ethics of piracy

PuyaSharif18 Jan 2012 1:55 UTC
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Group Funding

jefftk18 Jan 2012 1:45 UTC
4 points
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His­toc­racy: Open, Effec­tive Group De­ci­sion-Mak­ing With Weighted Voting

HonoreDB17 Jan 2012 22:35 UTC
19 points
63 comments5 min readLW link

[Link] Five ways to clas­sify be­lief sys­tems

[deleted]17 Jan 2012 21:08 UTC
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9 comments5 min readLW link

Gam­bler’s Re­ward: Op­ti­mal Bet­ting Size

b1shop17 Jan 2012 20:32 UTC
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[Place­holder] Against dystopia, rally be­fore Kant

Multiheaded17 Jan 2012 13:44 UTC
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Level­ing Up in Ra­tion­al­ity: A Per­sonal Journey

lukeprog17 Jan 2012 11:02 UTC
51 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

Q&A with Abram Dem­ski on risks from AI

XiXiDu17 Jan 2012 9:43 UTC
33 points
71 comments9 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Neu­ral Categories

MinibearRex17 Jan 2012 5:19 UTC
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ICONN 2012 nan­otech­nol­ogy con­fer­ence in Perth

Solvent17 Jan 2012 2:34 UTC
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Ran­dom thought: What is the op­ti­mal PD strat­egy un­der im­perfect in­for­ma­tion?

RolfAndreassen17 Jan 2012 1:06 UTC
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What would you do with a fi­nan­cial safety net?

faul_sname16 Jan 2012 23:38 UTC
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[LINK] Be­ing No One (~50 min talk on the self-model in your brain)

machrider16 Jan 2012 18:18 UTC
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link to a Feyn­man video (and a 2nd (dis­tantly re­lated) video)

Craig_Heldreth16 Jan 2012 18:00 UTC
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My in­ter­view with Nikola Danay­lov for ‘Sin­gu­lar­ity 1 on 1’ [link]

lukeprog16 Jan 2012 17:59 UTC
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Com­plete­ness, in­com­plete­ness, and what it all means: first ver­sus sec­ond or­der logic

Stuart_Armstrong16 Jan 2012 17:38 UTC
79 points
39 comments11 min readLW link

The les­sons of a world with­out Hitler

Stuart_Armstrong16 Jan 2012 16:16 UTC
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[LINK]The Edge’s yearly question

Thomas16 Jan 2012 6:51 UTC
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[SEQ RERUN] Dis­guised Queries

MinibearRex16 Jan 2012 4:47 UTC
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Open Thread, Jan­uary 15-31, 2012

OpenThreadGuy16 Jan 2012 0:56 UTC
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Who’s in the AI busi­ness?

Thomas15 Jan 2012 16:53 UTC
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Idea: Add books to an SRS with­out split­ting them into facts

D_Malik15 Jan 2012 8:05 UTC
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The Sav­age the­o­rem and the Ells­berg paradox

fool14 Jan 2012 19:06 UTC
20 points
54 comments11 min readLW link

Meetup : Austin LW Meetup

Vaniver13 Jan 2012 17:32 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Melbourne, Austin, At­lanta, Seat­tle, Philadelphia, Fort Collins

FrankAdamek13 Jan 2012 16:19 UTC
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Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup

toner13 Jan 2012 7:55 UTC
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New SI pub­li­ca­tions design

lukeprog13 Jan 2012 3:16 UTC
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Can the Chain Still Hold You?

lukeprog13 Jan 2012 1:28 UTC
198 points
361 comments4 min readLW link

Knowl­edge vs Technology

PuyaSharif13 Jan 2012 0:50 UTC
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The Noddy problem

Apprentice12 Jan 2012 22:18 UTC
45 points
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Meetup : Pitts­burgh Meetup: Big Gam­ing Fun 2!

Kenoubi12 Jan 2012 20:26 UTC
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NonGoogleables

Thomas12 Jan 2012 13:23 UTC
−3 points
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Q&A with ex­perts on risks from AI #3

XiXiDu12 Jan 2012 10:45 UTC
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28 comments16 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] The Cluster Struc­ture of Thingspace

MinibearRex12 Jan 2012 8:37 UTC
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Pro­ce­du­ral knowl­edge gap: pub­lic key encryption

Solvent12 Jan 2012 7:35 UTC
4 points
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AI Challenge: Ants—Post Mortem

D_Alex12 Jan 2012 7:23 UTC
14 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Mon­day Madi­son Meetup

fiddlemath12 Jan 2012 7:14 UTC
3 points
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Ideas for ra­tio­nal­ist meetup topics

alyssavance12 Jan 2012 5:04 UTC
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Meetup : First Salt Lake City Meetup: 22 Jan­uary 2012 03:00PM

adamisom12 Jan 2012 2:11 UTC
1 point
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What jobs are safe in an au­to­mated fu­ture?

PuyaSharif11 Jan 2012 20:48 UTC
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Bill Gates asks HS stu­dents “What are most im­por­tant choices the world faces”?

Dr_Manhattan11 Jan 2012 20:34 UTC
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Meetup : Fort Col­lins Meetup

EvelynM11 Jan 2012 17:15 UTC
0 points
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Meetup : Fort Col­lins Meetup

EvelynM11 Jan 2012 17:14 UTC
2 points
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On ac­cept­ing an ar­gu­ment if you have limited com­pu­ta­tional power.

Dmytry11 Jan 2012 17:07 UTC
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Meetup : Seat­tle, Diseased Think­ing and ev­i­dence on parenting

jsalvatier11 Jan 2012 16:33 UTC
5 points
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Utopian hope ver­sus reality

Mitchell_Porter11 Jan 2012 12:55 UTC
31 points
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