Ele­va­tor pitches/​re­sponses for ra­tio­nal­ity /​ AI

lukeprogFeb 2, 2012, 8:35 PM
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What math should I learn?

MetusFeb 2, 2012, 7:06 PM
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Knowl­edge ready for Ankification

lukeprogFeb 2, 2012, 6:58 PM
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Two Kinds of Ir­ra­tional­ity and How to Avoid One of Them

ChrisHallquistFeb 2, 2012, 6:13 PM
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Teach­ing ra­tio­nal­ity made me bet­ter (at re­search and other things)

AcademianFeb 2, 2012, 6:10 PM
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Look­ing for in­for­ma­tion on cryonics

MetusFeb 2, 2012, 12:33 PM
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On Say­ing the Obvious

GrognorFeb 2, 2012, 5:13 AM
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[SEQ RERUN] Cat­e­go­riz­ing Has Consequences

MinibearRexFeb 2, 2012, 4:45 AM
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Mini-Re­view: ‘The Oxford Hand­book of Philos­o­phy of Cog­ni­tive Science’

lukeprogFeb 1, 2012, 9:48 PM
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Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Fe­bru­ary 2012

[deleted]Feb 1, 2012, 9:03 PM
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Au­to­matic pro­gram­ming, an example

ThomasFeb 1, 2012, 8:55 PM
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Mini-re­view: ‘Prov­ing His­tory: Bayes’ The­o­rem and the Quest for the His­tor­i­cal Je­sus’

lukeprogFeb 1, 2012, 7:20 PM
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von Neu­mann probes and Dyson spheres: what ex­plo­ra­tory en­g­ineer­ing can tell us about the Fermi paradox

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 1, 2012, 1:50 PM
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[Link] Re­con­struct­ing Speech from Hu­man Au­di­tory Cortex

[deleted]Feb 1, 2012, 12:50 PM
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De­cid­ing what to think about; is it worth­while to have uni­ver­sal util­ity func­tion?

DmytryFeb 1, 2012, 9:44 AM
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State your phys­i­cal ac­count of ex­pe­rienced color

Mitchell_PorterFeb 1, 2012, 7:00 AM
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Open Thread, Fe­bru­ary 1-14, 2012

OpenThreadGuyFeb 1, 2012, 4:57 AM
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Writ­ing ra­tio­nal­ist fic­tion: Im­prov­ing an ex­ist­ing set­ting?

DataPacRatJan 31, 2012, 11:05 PM
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Another Real World Ex­am­ple of Cog­ni­tive Bias

billswiftJan 31, 2012, 10:31 PM
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Hugo Awards—HP:MoR (part 2)

EneaszJan 31, 2012, 9:11 PM
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“The Con­di­tional Fal­lacy in Con­tem­po­rary Philos­o­phy”

gwernJan 31, 2012, 9:06 PM
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Ex­is­ten­tial risk for non-consequentialists

vallinderJan 31, 2012, 9:03 PM
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Is risk aver­sion re­ally ir­ra­tional ?

kilobugJan 31, 2012, 8:34 PM
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Dar­win Day: Good Evolu­tion Games?

RaemonJan 31, 2012, 7:58 PM
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[deleted]Jan 31, 2012, 4:32 PM
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Do­ing Science! Open Thread Ex­per­i­ment Results

daenerysJan 31, 2012, 7:57 AM
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Risk aver­sion vs. con­cave util­ity function

dvasyaJan 31, 2012, 6:25 AM
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Against Utili­tar­i­anism: So­bel’s at­tack on judg­ing lives’ goodness

gwernJan 31, 2012, 5:45 AM
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[SEQ RERUN] Fal­la­cies of Compression

MinibearRexJan 31, 2012, 5:16 AM
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Does func­tion­al­ism im­ply du­al­ism?

Mitchell_PorterJan 31, 2012, 3:43 AM
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Meetup : Cam­bridge UK

rebellionkidJan 30, 2012, 11:36 PM
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Water­fall Ethics

calefJan 30, 2012, 9:14 PM
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Ter­mi­nal Bias

[deleted]Jan 30, 2012, 9:03 PM
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Meetup : LessWrong Megameetup

atuckerJan 30, 2012, 7:33 PM
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Hack­ing Less Wrong made easy: Va­grant edition

MorendilJan 30, 2012, 6:51 PM
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Re­post: Effi­cient Char­ity: Cheap Utilons via bone mar­row registration

atormJan 30, 2012, 5:42 PM
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Work­ing Through the Con­trol­led De­mo­li­tion Conspiracy

rysadeJan 30, 2012, 4:11 PM
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[LINK] Sur­viv­ing the World on Vasili Arkhipov Day

RobertLumleyJan 30, 2012, 3:35 PM
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Char­ity when time isn’t con­vert­ible to money?

DataPacRatJan 29, 2012, 7:38 PM
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Cat­a­loging my skills—good idea?

hamnoxJan 29, 2012, 2:07 PM
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There’s learned philoso­phers but not philo­soph­i­cal experts

JamesColeJan 29, 2012, 10:28 AM
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Per­sonal re­search update

Mitchell_PorterJan 29, 2012, 9:32 AM
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The util­ity of in­for­ma­tion should al­most never be negative

SolventJan 29, 2012, 5:43 AM
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Faus­tian bar­gains and discounting

RolfAndreassenJan 29, 2012, 5:10 AM
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Ra­tional vs. real util­ities in the cousin_it-Nesov model of UDT

KarlJan 29, 2012, 4:43 AM
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What are your bench­marks of ra­tio­nal­ity?

DataPacRatJan 29, 2012, 3:57 AM
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Effi­cient Char­ity: Cheap Utilons via bone mar­row registration

atormJan 29, 2012, 3:52 AM
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Toward “time­less” con­tin­u­ous-time causal models

[deleted]Jan 28, 2012, 11:44 PM
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Self-Indi­ca­tion As­sump­tion—Still Doomed

drnickboneJan 28, 2012, 11:09 PM
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Let’s fix the RSS feed so it doesn’t re-post ar­ti­cles ev­ery time their ti­tles are ed­ited (for­got the hy­phen in “re-post”)

Postal_ScaleJan 28, 2012, 10:17 PM
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