The Fic­tion Genome Project

Thwart­ing a Catholic con­ver­sion?

Help me make SI’s ar­gu­ments clear

Low Hang­ing Fruit in Com­puter Hardware

Let’s all learn stats!

IJMC Mind Upload­ing Spe­cial Is­sue published

Peter Thiel’s AGI dis­cus­sion in his star­tups class @ Stan­ford [link]

[Link] Some notes on Ra­tion­al­ity in Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Rationality

Brain­storm­ing ad­di­tional AI risk re­duc­tion ideas

Are the bac­te­ria/​par­a­sites in your gut af­fect­ing your think­ing?

Schol­ar­ship: how to tell good ad­vice from bad ad­vice?

What was your biggest re­cent sur­prise?

Help please!

Seek­ing in­for­ma­tion rele­vant to de­cid­ing whether to try to be­come an AI re­searcher and, if so, how.

Ek­man Train­ing—Re­views and/​or Testing

New Sin­gu­lar­ity.org

For­mal­is­ing cousin_it’s bounded ver­sions of Gödel’s theorem

Global Workspace Theory

[Link] You Should Down­vote Con­trar­ian Anecdotes

How con­fi­dent is your athe­ism?

I think I’ve found the source of what’s been bug­ging me about “Friendly AI”

Ar­ri­son, Vas­sar and de Grey speak­ing at Peter Thiel’s startup class [link]

Sugges­tion: Less Wrong Writ­ing Cir­cle?

[link] Aubrey de Grey an­swers Red­dit AMA in video

Wes Weimer from Udac­ity pre­sents his list of things you should learn

Draft of Ed­win Jaynes’ “Prob­a­bil­ity The­ory: The Logic of Science” on­line, with lost chap­ter 30

Min­i­mum vi­able work­out routine

The Creat­ing Bob the Jerk prob­lem. Is it a real prob­lem in de­ci­sion the­ory?

AGI Im­pacts con­fer­ence in Oxford in De­cem­ber, with Call for Papers

“Where Am I?”, by Daniel Den­nett

Brain­storm­ing help re­quest: teach­ing ra­tio­nal­ity ba­sics in an RPG setting

Strate­gic re­search on AI risk

[Link] SMBC on choos­ing your simu­la­tions carefully

Or­ganic food, con­ven­tional food

Where Fermi Fails: What is hard to es­ti­mate?

[SEQ RERUN] The Mo­ral Void

He­donic vs Prefer­ence Utili­tar­i­anism in the Con­text of Wireheading

Re­gres­sion To The Mean [Draft][Re­quest for Feed­back]

[Link] Nick Bostrom on the Sta­tus Quo Bias

[Link] Why don’t peo­ple like mar­kets?

Brief re­sponse to kalla724 on pre­serv­ing per­sonal iden­tity with vitrification

Ask an X

Reach­ing young math/​comp­sci talent

[SEQ RERUN] Where Re­cur­sive Jus­tifi­ca­tion Hits Bottom

SIAI May report

Less Wrong: The podcast

Phil Zim­bardo an­swer­ing ques­tions on Reddit

Coursera Be­havi­oural Neu­rol­ogy Course

Four Short Sto­ries on Er­ror Checking

Wanted: “The AIs will need hu­mans” arguments