Dooms­day Ar­gu­ment with Strong Self-Sam­pling Assumption

Limits on self-optimisation

A Sim­ple Solu­tion to the FAI Problem

A Word to the Resourceful

Crocker’s Rules: How far to take it?

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Port­land, Berkleley, San Diego, Pitts­burgh, Hous­ton, Seat­tle, Madi­son, Fort Col­lins, Syd­ney, Melbourne

Pre­dic­tionBook: Fea­ture Re­quest and Bug Report

[SEQ RERUN] Feel the Meaning

Break­ing the chain of akrasia

[META] ajax.googleapis.com

Quixey Challenge—Fix a bug in 1 minute, win $100. Refer a win­ner, win $50.

Zeck­hauser’s roulette

Q&A with ex­perts on risks from AI #4

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A call for solu­tions and a tease of mine

The MIT Mys­tery Hunt and the Illu­sion of Transparency

POSITION: De­sign and Write Ra­tion­al­ity Curriculum

How to un-kill your mind—maybe.

[SEQ RERUN] Disput­ing Definitions

The prob­lem with too many ra­tio­nal memes

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute’s Ar­ro­gance Problem

[Meta] No LessWrong Black­out?

Meetup : Austin, TX

[SEQ RERUN] How An Al­gorithm Feels From Inside

Ethics of piracy

Group Funding

His­toc­racy: Open, Effec­tive Group De­ci­sion-Mak­ing With Weighted Voting

[Link] Five ways to clas­sify be­lief sys­tems

Gam­bler’s Re­ward: Op­ti­mal Bet­ting Size

[Place­holder] Against dystopia, rally be­fore Kant

Level­ing Up in Ra­tion­al­ity: A Per­sonal Journey

Q&A with Abram Dem­ski on risks from AI

[SEQ RERUN] Neu­ral Categories

ICONN 2012 nan­otech­nol­ogy con­fer­ence in Perth

Ran­dom thought: What is the op­ti­mal PD strat­egy un­der im­perfect in­for­ma­tion?

What would you do with a fi­nan­cial safety net?

[LINK] Be­ing No One (~50 min talk on the self-model in your brain)

link to a Feyn­man video (and a 2nd (dis­tantly re­lated) video)

My in­ter­view with Nikola Danay­lov for ‘Sin­gu­lar­ity 1 on 1’ [link]

Com­plete­ness, in­com­plete­ness, and what it all means: first ver­sus sec­ond or­der logic

The les­sons of a world with­out Hitler

[LINK]The Edge’s yearly question

[SEQ RERUN] Dis­guised Queries

Open Thread, Jan­uary 15-31, 2012

Who’s in the AI busi­ness?

Idea: Add books to an SRS with­out split­ting them into facts

The Sav­age the­o­rem and the Ells­berg paradox

Meetup : Austin LW Meetup

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

Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup