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Rationality Quotes May 2012
OpenThreadGuy
May 1, 2012, 11:37 PM
10
points
694
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Big Berkeley Meetup
Thausler
May 1, 2012, 4:10 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality Quotes May 2012
Jayson_Virissimo
May 1, 2012, 7:44 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Phoenix, Arizona
Jayson_Virissimo
May 1, 2012, 6:31 AM
3
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, May 1-15, 2012
OpenThreadGuy
May 1, 2012, 4:14 AM
12
points
266
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] If Many-Worlds Had Come First
MinibearRex
May 1, 2012, 2:18 AM
8
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A few questions on International Rationality
Joshua Hobbes
Apr 30, 2012, 10:27 PM
27
points
86
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Experiment: a good researcher is hard to find
gwern
Apr 30, 2012, 5:13 PM
53
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Vancouver Fake Utility Meetup
[deleted]
Apr 30, 2012, 4:02 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why a Human (Or Group of Humans) Might Create UnFriendly AI Halfway On Purpose
ChrisHallquist
Apr 30, 2012, 3:35 PM
13
points
21
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Non-orthogonality implies uncontrollable superintelligence
Stuart_Armstrong
Apr 30, 2012, 1:53 PM
23
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Adopting others’ opinions
TraderJoe
Apr 30, 2012, 12:30 PM
0
points
30
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Collapse Postulates
MinibearRex
Apr 30, 2012, 6:49 AM
6
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(Almost) every moral theory can be represented by a utility function
lukeprog
Apr 30, 2012, 3:31 AM
5
points
42
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Logical Uncertainty as Probability
gRR
Apr 29, 2012, 10:26 PM
4
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Request for feedback: paper on fine-tuning and the multiverse hypothesis
AlexSchell
Apr 29, 2012, 9:19 PM
9
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Correcting errors and karma
rebellionkid
Apr 29, 2012, 5:03 PM
−8
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Philadelphia Meetup: Introduction to drawing
Michelle_Z
Apr 29, 2012, 4:44 PM
5
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup Formats
Douglas_Reay
Apr 29, 2012, 3:43 PM
3
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Fort Collins, Colorado Meetup Wedneday 7pm
EvelynM
Apr 29, 2012, 3:38 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Pre-commitment and meta at the Cambridge UK meetup
rebellionkid
Apr 29, 2012, 3:17 PM
9
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Get paid to train your rationality (update)
gwern
Apr 29, 2012, 3:01 PM
13
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Losing Your Religion: Analytic Thinking Can Undermine Belief
[deleted]
Apr 29, 2012, 1:07 PM
5
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Stanovich on CEV
lukeprog
Apr 29, 2012, 9:37 AM
19
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Testing how summary break works
Clarity1992
Apr 29, 2012, 7:17 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Value realism
KatjaGrace
Apr 29, 2012, 2:55 AM
1
point
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Quantum Non-Realism
MinibearRex
Apr 29, 2012, 2:40 AM
4
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Quotes about death from the conventional viewpoint [edited for clarity]
[deleted]
Apr 29, 2012, 12:38 AM
3
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What’s wrong with psychology, anyway?
Anatoly_Vorobey
Apr 28, 2012, 11:36 PM
43
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable
MinibearRex
Apr 28, 2012, 10:11 PM
6
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Brussels meetup
Axel
Apr 28, 2012, 9:59 PM
3
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Timeless Physics Question
DanielLC
Apr 28, 2012, 8:33 PM
−6
points
30
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Do people think Less Wrong rationality is parochial?
lukeprog
Apr 28, 2012, 4:18 AM
51
points
197
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Quotes on Existential Risk
lukeprog
Apr 28, 2012, 2:01 AM
3
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LINK: Human Bio-engineering and Coherent Extrapolated Volition
Mass_Driver
Apr 28, 2012, 1:40 AM
4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Robot Programmed To Love Goes Too Far (link)
Alexei
Apr 28, 2012, 1:21 AM
−8
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Thinking in a foreign language reduces risk aversion bias?
orbenn
Apr 27, 2012, 10:29 PM
−13
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Survey of older folks as data about one’s future values and preferences?
Bart119
Apr 27, 2012, 7:42 PM
30
points
44
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups: Budapest, Fort Lauderdale, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Rome, Sao Paulo, Tel Aviv
FrankAdamek
Apr 27, 2012, 5:19 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Dallas—Fort Worth Less Wrong Meetup 4/29/12
jumandtonic
Apr 27, 2012, 3:26 PM
1
point
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Problem of Thinking Too Much [LINK]
gjm
Apr 27, 2012, 2:31 PM
8
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] System 2 thinking decreases religious belief
maia
Apr 27, 2012, 1:36 PM
10
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Extrapolating values without outsourcing
Mitchell_Porter
Apr 27, 2012, 6:39 AM
11
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Decoherence is Simple
MinibearRex
Apr 27, 2012, 4:35 AM
4
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bootstrapping to Friendliness
[deleted]
Apr 26, 2012, 9:54 PM
−3
points
29
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : London
Paul Crowley
Apr 26, 2012, 8:03 PM
7
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Optimizing your Social Network
[deleted]
26 Apr 2012 19:26 UTC
19
points
28
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Recognizing memetic infections and forging resistance memes
Johnicholas
26 Apr 2012 14:40 UTC
6
points
36
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[SEQ RERUN] Spooky Action at a Distance
MinibearRex
26 Apr 2012 4:34 UTC
6
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Formalizing Value Extrapolation
paulfchristiano
26 Apr 2012 0:51 UTC
26
points
50
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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