Bi­ased Pandemic

freyleyMar 13, 2012, 11:32 PM
82 points
36 comments4 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­o­ries: A Less Wrong Primer

orthonormalMar 13, 2012, 11:31 PM
111 points
174 comments8 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup—De­ci­sion Theory

[deleted]Mar 13, 2012, 6:23 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Risks from AI and Char­i­ta­ble Giving

XiXiDuMar 13, 2012, 1:54 PM
1 point
127 comments15 min readLW link

[Link] Failed repli­ca­tions of the “el­derly walk­ing” prim­ing effect

MorendilMar 13, 2012, 7:55 AM
31 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

What is the best com­pact for­mal­iza­tion of the ar­gu­ment for AI risk from fast take­off?

utilitymonsterMar 13, 2012, 1:44 AM
23 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

LINK: Can in­tel­li­gence ex­plode?

jake987722Mar 13, 2012, 12:03 AM
−4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

TED-Ed Launch

LightwaveMar 12, 2012, 9:20 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Is in­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion nec­es­sary for dooms­day?

SwimmyMar 12, 2012, 9:12 PM
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Real-life ex­pected util­ity max­i­miza­tion [re­sponse to XiXiDu]

[deleted]Mar 12, 2012, 7:03 PM
12 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

The Stable State is Broken

BakkotMar 12, 2012, 6:31 PM
80 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Austin, TX

VaniverMar 12, 2012, 5:03 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Falsification

TheatreAddictMar 12, 2012, 3:59 AM
3 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup

shokwaveMar 11, 2012, 11:02 PM
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The ap­peal of fic­tional conflict

KatjaGraceMar 11, 2012, 8:27 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

On the etiol­ogy of re­li­gious belief

gwernMar 11, 2012, 12:03 AM
16 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Any­one have any ques­tions for David Chalmers?

SolventMar 10, 2012, 9:57 PM
18 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Free Ap­plied In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity Webinar

ksvanhornMar 10, 2012, 8:35 PM
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

New pa­per on Bayesian philos­o­phy of statis­tics from An­drew Gelman

[deleted]Mar 10, 2012, 4:30 PM
16 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Is causal de­ci­sion the­ory plus self-mod­ifi­ca­tion enough?

Mitchell_PorterMar 10, 2012, 8:04 AM
−6 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Is Hu­man­ism A Reli­gion-Sub­sti­tute?

MinibearRexMar 10, 2012, 6:24 AM
7 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Sus­pi­cious ar­gu­ments re­gard­ing cow counting

KatjaGraceMar 10, 2012, 4:58 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Slow­ing Moore’s Law: Why You Might Want To and How You Would Do It

gwernMar 10, 2012, 4:22 AM
34 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Madi­son Mon­day Meetup

fiddlemathMar 10, 2012, 1:29 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to use hu­man his­tory as a nu­tri­tional prior?

CasioTheSaneMar 10, 2012, 12:47 AM
8 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dictabil­ity of De­ci­sions and the Di­ag­o­nal Method

Vladimir_NesovMar 9, 2012, 11:53 PM
30 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

[Link, 2011] Team may be cho­sen to re­ceive $1.4 billion to simu­late hu­man brain

John_MaxwellMar 9, 2012, 9:13 PM
10 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

New cog­ni­tive bias ar­ti­cles on wikipe­dia (up­date)

nerfhammerMar 9, 2012, 8:13 PM
108 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Bet­ter re­sults by chang­ing Bayes’ theorem

XiXiDuMar 9, 2012, 7:38 PM
4 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: At­lanta, Cam­bridge UK, Chicago, Fort Col­lins, Hous­ton, Melbourne, Twin Cities, Vancouver

FrankAdamekMar 9, 2012, 4:32 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Poli­ti­cal philos­o­phy and/​ver­sus poli­ti­cal ac­tion, not to men­tion arguing

NancyLebovitzMar 9, 2012, 1:44 PM
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

How does real world ex­pected util­ity max­i­miza­tion work?

XiXiDuMar 9, 2012, 11:20 AM
17 points
48 comments2 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Amaz­ing Break­through Day: April 1st

MinibearRexMar 9, 2012, 4:58 AM
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Fort Col­lins Meetup Satur­day 17th

EvelynMMar 9, 2012, 3:46 AM
1 point
5 comments1 min readLW link

A tax­on­omy of Or­a­cle AIs

lukeprogMar 8, 2012, 11:14 PM
25 points
53 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Atlanta

hankx7787Mar 8, 2012, 5:35 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Con­junc­tion fal­lacy and prob­a­bil­is­tic risk as­sess­ment.

DmytryMar 8, 2012, 3:07 PM
26 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

James Martin Post­doc­toral Re­search Fel­low­ship: So­cio-eco­nomic Im­pacts of Tech­nolog­i­cal Change

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 8, 2012, 2:54 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Nick Bostrom: Mo­ral un­cer­tainty – to­wards a solu­tion? [link, 2009]

KevinMar 8, 2012, 11:07 AM
−5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Sud­den Fu­ture Sin­gu­lar­ity (SFS) as soon as 8.7 mil­lion years in the fu­ture?

MichaelAnissimovMar 8, 2012, 10:41 AM
2 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

I Was Not Al­most Wrong But I Was Al­most Right: Close-Call Coun­ter­fac­tu­als and Bias

Kaj_SotalaMar 8, 2012, 5:39 AM
86 points
40 comments9 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] The Beauty of Set­tled Science

MinibearRexMar 8, 2012, 4:24 AM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Pitts­burgh Meetup: Big Gam­ing Fun 4!

KenoubiMar 8, 2012, 2:29 AM
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Mak­ing com­puter sys­tems with ex­tended Iden­tity

whpearsonMar 8, 2012, 1:29 AM
−1 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

DAGGRE group fore­cast­ing workshop

Jonathan_GraehlMar 7, 2012, 11:26 PM
7 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Queue­ing and More

SarahNibsMar 7, 2012, 8:44 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Friendly AI Society

Douglas_ReayMar 7, 2012, 7:31 PM
−5 points
13 comments9 min readLW link

Ra­tion­ally Irrational

HungryTurtleMar 7, 2012, 7:21 PM
−21 points
417 comments4 min readLW link

Causal di­a­grams and soft­ware engineering

MorendilMar 7, 2012, 6:23 PM
53 points
29 comments5 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 10

Oscar_CunninghamMar 7, 2012, 4:46 PM
16 points
642 comments1 min readLW link