Sugges­tions needed: good ar­ti­cles for a meetup discussion

AShepardApr 14, 2012, 10:31 PM
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Should “lat­est in­sights” ap­pear in the front page blurb?

Mark_EichenlaubApr 14, 2012, 9:58 PM
38 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Should the front page in­clude the phrase “lat­est in­sights”?

Mark_EichenlaubApr 14, 2012, 9:40 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Our Phyg Is Not Ex­clu­sive Enough

[deleted]Apr 14, 2012, 9:08 PM
43 points
518 comments3 min readLW link

Are Mag­i­cal Cat­e­gories Rel­a­tively Sim­ple?

jacobtApr 14, 2012, 8:59 PM
5 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­o­ries: A Semi-For­mal Anal­y­sis, Part III

orthonormalApr 14, 2012, 7:34 PM
36 points
55 comments9 min readLW link

Meetup : Fort Lauderdale

gabrahamApr 14, 2012, 7:07 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Fort Lauderdale

FrankAdamekApr 14, 2012, 5:12 PM
2 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] The So-Called Heisen­berg Uncer­tainty Principle

MinibearRexApr 14, 2012, 5:38 AM
5 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Pitts­burgh—Pre­sen­ta­tion on Anthropics

thejashApr 13, 2012, 11:16 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cen­ter for Modern Ra­tion­al­ity cur­rently hiring: Ex­ec­u­tive as­sis­tants, Teach­ers, Re­search as­sis­tants, Con­sul­tants.

AnnaSalamonApr 13, 2012, 8:28 PM
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Mee­tups: At­lanta, Austin, Madi­son, Melbourne, Salt Lake City, Vancouver

FrankAdamekApr 13, 2012, 4:45 PM
4 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence risk and dis­tance to endgame

KyreApr 13, 2012, 9:16 AM
−3 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Why I Moved from AI to Neu­ro­science, or: Upload­ing Worms

davidadApr 13, 2012, 7:10 AM
67 points
58 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Decoherence

MinibearRexApr 13, 2012, 5:15 AM
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­po­nen­tial Economist Meets Finite Physi­cist [link]

Dreaded_AnomalyApr 13, 2012, 3:55 AM
10 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Needed: A large database of state­ments for true/​false exercises

AcademianApr 13, 2012, 2:26 AM
7 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

New­comblike prob­lem: Coun­ter­fac­tual Informant

ClippyApr 12, 2012, 8:25 PM
−3 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Refram­ing the Prob­lem of AI Progress

Wei DaiApr 12, 2012, 7:31 PM
32 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

“Drink­ing Al­co­hol May Sig­nifi­cantly En­hance Prob­lem Solv­ing Skills”

duckduckMOOApr 12, 2012, 5:24 PM
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup

shokwaveApr 12, 2012, 4:06 PM
2 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Men­tal Clar­ity; or How to Read Real­ity Accurately

HicquodiamApr 12, 2012, 6:18 AM
−17 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Weekly Chicago Meetups

UnnamedApr 12, 2012, 6:14 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Three Dialogues on Identity

MinibearRexApr 12, 2012, 1:41 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How does long-term use of caf­feine af­fect pro­duc­tivity?

quartzApr 11, 2012, 11:09 PM
20 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

against “AI risk”

Wei DaiApr 11, 2012, 10:46 PM
35 points
91 comments1 min readLW link

Cracked wrote an Ar­ti­cle about Life-Extension

Joshua HobbesApr 11, 2012, 6:43 PM
−1 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Help me teach Bayes’

tommeApr 11, 2012, 5:56 PM
5 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

How does re­mote Joule heat­ing of car­bon nan­otubes ad­vance sin­gu­lar­ity timelines?

keefeApr 11, 2012, 4:15 PM
−3 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Small Berkeley meetup

NisanApr 11, 2012, 10:20 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 15, chap­ter 84

FAWSApr 11, 2012, 3:39 AM
4 points
1,238 comments1 min readLW link

At­ten­tion con­trol is crit­i­cal for chang­ing/​in­creas­ing/​al­ter­ing motivation

kalla724Apr 11, 2012, 12:48 AM
284 points
91 comments7 min readLW link

Left-wing Alarmism vs. Right-wing Op­ti­mism: ev­i­dence on which is cor­rect?

loup-vaillantApr 10, 2012, 10:35 PM
−30 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

School es­say: out­sourc­ing some brain work

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Apr 10, 2012, 8:14 PM
7 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA Meetup—The Re­sis­tance (Game)

[deleted]Apr 10, 2012, 7:41 AM
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s cre­ate a mar­ket for cryonics

[deleted]Apr 10, 2012, 6:36 AM
61 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Robots ate my job [links]

torekpApr 10, 2012, 1:57 AM
9 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

In Defense of Ayn Rand

ryjmApr 10, 2012, 1:53 AM
1 point
35 comments9 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Zom­bies: The Movie

MinibearRexApr 10, 2012, 1:45 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity predictions

gwernApr 9, 2012, 9:49 PM
8 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

In­fluence of sci­en­tific research

alex_zag_alApr 9, 2012, 7:06 AM
7 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute STILL needs re­mote re­searchers (may ap­ply again; writ­ing skill not re­quired)

lukeprogApr 9, 2012, 3:47 AM
14 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Iden­tity Isn’t In Spe­cific Atoms

MinibearRexApr 9, 2012, 3:21 AM
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Al­cor vs. Cry­on­ics Institute

prespectiveCryonautApr 9, 2012, 1:49 AM
50 points
125 comments2 min readLW link

The prin­ci­ple of ‘al­tru­is­tic ar­bi­trage’

RobertWiblinApr 9, 2012, 1:29 AM
27 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

“Big Sur­prise”—the fa­mous athe­ists are ac­tu­ally Bayesi­ans [link]

Dr_ManhattanApr 8, 2012, 4:11 PM
−12 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Two ar­ti­cles about fu­tur­ism [LINKS]

NancyLebovitzApr 8, 2012, 12:59 PM
2 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing the Idea Space Efficiently

ElithrionApr 8, 2012, 4:28 AM
28 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

[link] Is Alu Life?

ec429Apr 7, 2012, 9:24 PM
−9 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

AI risk bibliog­ra­phy (draft)

lukeprogApr 7, 2012, 6:46 PM
8 points
3 comments7 min readLW link