Check­list of Ra­tion­al­ity Habits

AnnaSalamon7 Nov 2012 21:19 UTC
204 points
189 comments11 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Pinpointing

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Nov 2012 15:33 UTC
128 points
345 comments10 min readLW link

Causal Universes

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Nov 2012 4:08 UTC
125 points
395 comments11 min readLW link

Thoughts on de­sign­ing poli­cies for oneself

John_Maxwell28 Nov 2012 1:27 UTC
112 points
63 comments7 min readLW link

Should cor­re­la­tion co­effi­cients be ex­pressed as an­gles?

Sniffnoy28 Nov 2012 0:05 UTC
101 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

LW Women- Min­i­miz­ing the In­fer­en­tial Distance

daenerys25 Nov 2012 23:33 UTC
97 points
1,261 comments7 min readLW link

2012 Less Wrong Cen­sus/​Survey

Scott Alexander3 Nov 2012 23:00 UTC
94 points
737 comments1 min readLW link

How min­i­mal is our in­tel­li­gence?

Douglas_Reay25 Nov 2012 23:34 UTC
78 points
214 comments6 min readLW link

Launched: Friend­ship is Optimal

iceman15 Nov 2012 4:57 UTC
77 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

How can I re­duce ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI?

lukeprog13 Nov 2012 21:56 UTC
63 points
92 comments8 min readLW link

Giv­ing What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and Meta-Charity

wdmacaskill15 Nov 2012 20:34 UTC
60 points
184 comments4 min readLW link

AI risk-re­lated im­prove­ments to the LW wiki

Kaj_Sotala7 Nov 2012 9:24 UTC
59 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

In­tu­itions Aren’t Shared That Way

lukeprog29 Nov 2012 6:19 UTC
53 points
237 comments4 min readLW link

A defi­ni­tion of wireheading

Anja27 Nov 2012 19:31 UTC
52 points
80 comments5 min readLW link

Sign up to be no­tified about new LW mee­tups in your area

Louie3 Nov 2012 22:38 UTC
48 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

On count­ing and addition

Anatoly_Vorobey9 Nov 2012 3:26 UTC
47 points
23 comments4 min readLW link

The Evil AI Over­lord List

Stuart_Armstrong20 Nov 2012 17:02 UTC
44 points
80 comments1 min readLW link

Nov 16-18: Ra­tion­al­ity for Entrepreneurs

AnnaSalamon8 Nov 2012 18:15 UTC
44 points
58 comments6 min readLW link

Univer­sal agents and util­ity functions

Anja14 Nov 2012 4:05 UTC
43 points
38 comments6 min readLW link

A sum­mary of the Han­son-Yud­kowsky FOOM debate

Kaj_Sotala15 Nov 2012 7:25 UTC
42 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Vot­ing is like donat­ing thou­sands of dol­lars to charity

Academian5 Nov 2012 1:02 UTC
41 points
206 comments5 min readLW link

An­a­lyz­ing FF.net re­views of ‘Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity’

gwern3 Nov 2012 23:47 UTC
41 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy Needs to Trust Your Ra­tion­al­ity Even Though It Shouldn’t

lukeprog29 Nov 2012 21:00 UTC
40 points
169 comments4 min readLW link

Over­con­fi­dent Pessimism

lukeprog24 Nov 2012 0:47 UTC
37 points
38 comments4 min readLW link

What does the world look like, the day be­fore FAI efforts suc­ceed?

[deleted]16 Nov 2012 20:56 UTC
36 points
64 comments6 min readLW link

Re­sponses to ques­tions on donat­ing to 80k, GWWC, EAA and LYCS

wdmacaskill20 Nov 2012 22:41 UTC
34 points
20 comments13 min readLW link

Col­lat­ing widely available time/​money trades

RyanCarey19 Nov 2012 22:57 UTC
34 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

PROPOSAL: LessWrong for Teenagers

[deleted]8 Nov 2012 6:09 UTC
31 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Cen­tre for the Study of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk (CSER) at Cam­bridge makes head­lines.

betterthanwell26 Nov 2012 20:56 UTC
29 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Mir­a­cle Min­eral Supplement

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Nov 2012 21:17 UTC
29 points
82 comments1 min readLW link

Room for more fund­ing at the Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity Institute

John_Maxwell16 Nov 2012 20:45 UTC
26 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] “Mo­ral Machines” ar­ti­cle in the New Yorker links to SI paper

Antisuji28 Nov 2012 1:38 UTC
24 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

XKCD—Fre­quen­tist vs. Bayesians

brilee9 Nov 2012 5:25 UTC
24 points
91 comments1 min readLW link

A place for ca­sual, non-karmic dis­cus­sion for less­wrongers?

[deleted]4 Nov 2012 18:50 UTC
24 points
88 comments1 min readLW link

Cre­dence cal­ibra­tion game FAQ

Academian26 Nov 2012 0:52 UTC
24 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

Break­down of ex­is­ten­tial risks

Stuart_Armstrong23 Nov 2012 14:12 UTC
24 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Does My Vote Mat­ter?

orthonormal5 Nov 2012 1:23 UTC
23 points
77 comments6 min readLW link

SIA fears (ex­pected) infinity

Stuart_Armstrong12 Nov 2012 17:23 UTC
21 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Si­mu­la­tion­ist sym­pa­thetic magic

DataPacRat13 Nov 2012 3:45 UTC
21 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

CFAR and SI MOOCs: a Great Opportunity

Wrongnesslessness13 Nov 2012 10:30 UTC
19 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[draft] Re­sponses to Catas­trophic AGI Risk: A Survey

Kaj_Sotala16 Nov 2012 14:29 UTC
19 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Teach­ing English in Shanghai

ShanghaiTEFLer2 Nov 2012 11:13 UTC
19 points
69 comments5 min readLW link

“How We’re Pre­dict­ing AI — or Failing to”

lukeprog18 Nov 2012 10:52 UTC
19 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

De­sired ar­ti­cles on AI risk?

lukeprog2 Nov 2012 5:39 UTC
19 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

Less Wrong Parents

saliency3 Nov 2012 4:59 UTC
19 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Good Places to Live as a Less Wronger

diegocaleiro20 Nov 2012 3:21 UTC
18 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

SIA, con­di­tional prob­a­bil­ity and Jaan Tal­linn’s simu­la­tion tree

Stuart_Armstrong12 Nov 2012 17:24 UTC
18 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Why is Men­cius Mold­bug so pop­u­lar on Less Wrong? [An­swer: He’s not.]

arborealhominid16 Nov 2012 18:37 UTC
18 points
262 comments1 min readLW link

[POLL] AI-FOOM De­bate in Se­quence Reruns?

MinibearRex1 Nov 2012 4:12 UTC
18 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Mis­in­for­ma­tion and Its Cor­rec­tion: Con­tinued In­fluence and Suc­cess­ful Debiasing

Kaj_Sotala23 Nov 2012 7:58 UTC
18 points
5 comments10 min readLW link