What use­ful skills can be learned in three months?

nebulousMay 25, 2012, 7:37 AM
17 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Shav­ing: Less Long

Bart119May 20, 2012, 2:52 PM
17 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

I Stand by the Sequences

GrognorMay 15, 2012, 10:21 AM
16 points
250 comments2 min readLW link

How can we en­sure that a Friendly AI team will be sane enough?

Wei DaiMay 16, 2012, 9:24 PM
16 points
65 comments1 min readLW link

Muehlhauser-Go­ertzel Dialogue, Part 2

lukeprogMay 5, 2012, 12:21 AM
16 points
51 comments7 min readLW link

How to deal with non-re­al­ism?

loup-vaillantMay 22, 2012, 1:58 PM
16 points
168 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup Feed­back: Topic se­lec­tion and precommittments

Joanna MorningstarMay 6, 2012, 4:14 PM
16 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Fic­tion: A Set­ting Jus­tify­ing the Epistemic Ag­gres­sive­ness Of A Reli­gion Stand-in

[deleted]May 3, 2012, 3:33 PM
16 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

2 An­thropic Questions

abramdemskiMay 26, 2012, 10:51 PM
15 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

Low hang­ing fruit: an­a­lyz­ing your nutrition

AlexeiMay 5, 2012, 5:20 AM
15 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[META] Re­cent Posts for Dis­cus­sion and Main

Oscar_CunninghamMay 13, 2012, 10:42 AM
15 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

A novel ap­proach to ax­io­matic de­ci­sion theory

lukeprogMay 26, 2012, 9:18 PM
15 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

AI risk: the five minute pitch

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 8, 2012, 4:28 PM
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

When is Win­ning not Win­ning?

EneaszMay 22, 2012, 4:25 PM
15 points
60 comments2 min readLW link

Com­ments on Pas­cal’s Mugging

[deleted]May 3, 2012, 9:23 PM
15 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

How do you find good schol­arly crit­i­cism of a book?

EmileMay 24, 2012, 10:51 AM
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Re­quest­ing Ad­vice] Ap­ply­ing In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity to Col­lege Course Selec­tion Dilemma

[deleted]May 11, 2012, 5:15 PM
14 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing with Audiobooks

JabberslytheMay 30, 2012, 8:41 PM
14 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Another rea­son why a lot of stud­ies may be wrong

Richard_KennawayMay 3, 2012, 11:17 AM
14 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Another Iter­ated Pri­soner’s Dilemma Tour­na­ment?

Andreas_GigerMay 25, 2012, 2:16 PM
14 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Ques­tion about So­ciopa­thy/​Psy­chopa­thy/​ASPD

MinibearRexMay 21, 2012, 6:18 PM
13 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

Be care­ful with thought experiments

lukeprogMay 18, 2012, 9:54 AM
13 points
98 comments1 min readLW link

One pos­si­ble is­sue with rad­i­cally in­creased lifespan

Spectral_DragonMay 30, 2012, 10:24 PM
13 points
86 comments1 min readLW link

Holden’s Ob­jec­tion 1: Friendli­ness is dangerous

PhilGoetzMay 18, 2012, 12:48 AM
13 points
431 comments6 min readLW link

Zom­bie ex­is­ten­tial angst? (Not p-zom­bies, just the reg­u­lar kind. Me­taphor­i­cally.)

Annie0305May 20, 2012, 10:41 AM
13 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

Quan­tified Self recommendations

Paul CrowleyMay 18, 2012, 10:16 AM
13 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

A sim­ple web app to cre­ate aver­sion to un­healthy food

SolventMay 5, 2012, 6:07 AM
13 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

How to mea­sure op­ti­mi­sa­tion power

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 25, 2012, 11:07 AM
13 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, May 1-15, 2012

OpenThreadGuyMay 1, 2012, 4:14 AM
12 points
266 comments1 min readLW link

Sneaky Strate­gies for TDT

drnickboneMay 25, 2012, 4:13 PM
12 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 5/​21/​12

cataMay 22, 2012, 2:21 AM
12 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

No in­de­pen­dence of ir­rele­vant al­ter­na­tives (pic­ture proof)

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 3, 2012, 5:48 PM
12 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Holden Karnofsky’s Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute Ob­jec­tion 1

Paul CrowleyMay 11, 2012, 7:16 AM
12 points
61 comments3 min readLW link

[POLL] Do You Feel Op­pressed?

maiaMay 3, 2012, 2:42 AM
12 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Au­dio in­ter­view with Judea Pearl [link]

Dr_ManhattanMay 10, 2012, 12:47 PM
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Book Sugges­tions] Sum­mer Read­ing for Younglings.

KarmakaiserMay 12, 2012, 4:57 PM
11 points
80 comments1 min readLW link

On what ra­tio­nal­ity-re­lated topic should I give a school pre­sen­ta­tion?

bramflakesMay 7, 2012, 7:00 PM
11 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

[link] Nine Ways to Bias Open-Source AGI Toward Friendliness

Kaj_SotalaMay 22, 2012, 9:56 AM
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[SEQ RERUN] Science Doesn’t Trust Your Rationality

MinibearRexMay 5, 2012, 6:37 AM
11 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Find­ing Re­search Papers

GoldenWolfMay 13, 2012, 5:13 PM
11 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Mory Buck­man: a case study of mod­el­ing your­self as mul­ti­ple agents

VaniverMay 29, 2012, 8:40 PM
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Mega Meetup : Sum­mer Fes­ti­val, hosted by New York

RaemonMay 15, 2012, 2:33 AM
10 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] In­ter­na­tional vari­a­tion in IQ – the role of parasites

David_GerardMay 14, 2012, 12:08 PM
10 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes May 2012

OpenThreadGuyMay 1, 2012, 11:37 PM
10 points
694 comments1 min readLW link

Brain Preser­va­tion Foun­da­tion [link]

CronoDASMay 11, 2012, 4:52 AM
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

A digi­tized be­lief net­work?

avichapmanMay 25, 2012, 1:27 AM
9 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Cryonics

bekkerdMay 9, 2012, 3:17 PM
9 points
107 comments1 min readLW link

If epistemic and in­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity strongly conflict

[deleted]May 10, 2012, 1:46 PM
9 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

Learn A New Lan­guage!

[deleted]May 20, 2012, 11:09 PM
9 points
74 comments2 min readLW link

A wild the­ist pla­ton­ist ap­pears, to ask about the path

HangMay 8, 2012, 11:23 AM
9 points
98 comments1 min readLW link