Mo­ral­ity is Awesome

[deleted]6 Jan 2013 15:21 UTC
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Farewell Aaron Swartz (1986-2013)

Kawoomba12 Jan 2013 10:09 UTC
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Assess­ing Kurzweil: the results

Stuart_Armstrong16 Jan 2013 16:51 UTC
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Course recom­men­da­tions for Friendli­ness researchers

Louie9 Jan 2013 14:33 UTC
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My sim­ple hack for in­creased alert­ness and im­proved cog­ni­tive func­tion­ing: very bright light

chaosmage18 Jan 2013 13:43 UTC
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I at­tempted the AI Box Ex­per­i­ment (and lost)

Tuxedage21 Jan 2013 2:59 UTC
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The Zeroth Skillset

katydee30 Jan 2013 12:46 UTC
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Up­date on Kim Suozzi (can­cer pa­tient in want of cry­on­ics)

ahartell22 Jan 2013 9:15 UTC
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AidGrade—GiveWell fi­nally has some competition

Raemon22 Jan 2013 15:41 UTC
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Just One Sentence

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jan 2013 1:27 UTC
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Se­cond-Order Logic: The Controversy

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Jan 2013 19:51 UTC
64 points
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2012: Year in Review

Kaj_Sotala3 Jan 2013 11:56 UTC
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Don’t Build Fal­lout Shelters

katydee7 Jan 2013 14:38 UTC
46 points
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[minor] Separate Upvotes and Down­votes Implimented

Larks29 Jan 2013 10:31 UTC
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Best of Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes, 2012 Edition

DanielVarga26 Jan 2013 3:03 UTC
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On the Im­por­tance of Sys­tem­atic Bi­ases in Science

gwern20 Jan 2013 21:39 UTC
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Eval­u­at­ing the fea­si­bil­ity of SI’s plan

JoshuaFox10 Jan 2013 8:17 UTC
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Harsanyi’s So­cial Ag­gre­ga­tion The­o­rem and what it means for CEV

AlexMennen5 Jan 2013 21:38 UTC
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[LINK] NYT Ar­ti­cle about Ex­is­ten­tial Risk from AI

[deleted]28 Jan 2013 10:37 UTC
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PSA: Please list your refer­ences, don’t just link them

Benya4 Jan 2013 1:57 UTC
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How to Teach Stu­dents to Not Guess the Teacher’s Pass­word?

Petruchio4 Jan 2013 15:18 UTC
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A fun­gi­bil­ity theorem

Nisan12 Jan 2013 9:27 UTC
35 points
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Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity Work­shops: Jan 25-28 and March 1-4

AnnaSalamon3 Jan 2013 1:00 UTC
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Evolu­tion, Sex, and Gen­der, Not to Men­tion Research

NancyLebovitz14 Jan 2013 14:19 UTC
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Case Study: the Death Note Script and Bayes

gwern4 Jan 2013 4:33 UTC
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Macro, not Micro

jsteinhardt6 Jan 2013 5:29 UTC
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In the be­gin­ning, Dart­mouth cre­ated the AI and the hype

Stuart_Armstrong24 Jan 2013 16:49 UTC
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[LINK] Why tak­ing ideas se­ri­ously is prob­a­bly a bad thing to do

David_Gerard5 Jan 2013 23:37 UTC
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How to sig­nal cu­ri­os­ity?

Wei Dai11 Jan 2013 22:47 UTC
32 points
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CEV: a util­i­tar­ian critique

Pablo26 Jan 2013 16:12 UTC
32 points
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A re­ply to Mark Linsen­mayer about philosophy

lukeprog5 Jan 2013 11:25 UTC
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Notes on Au­tonomous Cars

gwern24 Jan 2013 3:09 UTC
29 points
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Right for the Wrong Reasons

katydee24 Jan 2013 0:02 UTC
28 points
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[Link] Your Elu­sive Fu­ture Self

Richard_Kennaway8 Jan 2013 12:27 UTC
28 points
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Post-col­lege: chang­ing na­ture of friend interactions

calcsam9 Jan 2013 22:26 UTC
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Cryo and So­cial Obligations

DataPacRat27 Jan 2013 7:32 UTC
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Meetup : Love and Sex in Salt Lake City

hamnox27 Jan 2013 16:12 UTC
26 points
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Out­line of Pos­si­ble Sources of Values

Wei Dai18 Jan 2013 0:14 UTC
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False vac­uum: the uni­verse play­ing quan­tum suicide

Stuart_Armstrong9 Jan 2013 17:04 UTC
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Gen­er­al­iz­ing from One Trend

katydee18 Jan 2013 1:21 UTC
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AI box: AI has one shot at avoid­ing de­struc­tion—what might it say?

ancientcampus22 Jan 2013 20:22 UTC
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LW an­chor­ing ex­per­i­ment: maybe

gwern23 Jan 2013 22:41 UTC
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Long-chain cor­re­la­tion: lead paint and crime

ChrisHibbert19 Jan 2013 19:47 UTC
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How to Disen­tan­gle the Past and the Future

royf2 Jan 2013 17:43 UTC
22 points
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Value-Fo­cused Think­ing: a chap­ter-by-chap­ter summary

Vaniver23 Jan 2013 2:39 UTC
22 points
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Michael Vas­sar’s Edge con­tri­bu­tion: summary

Stabilizer19 Jan 2013 3:44 UTC
21 points
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Assess­ing Kurzweil: the gory details

Stuart_Armstrong15 Jan 2013 14:29 UTC
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How to Be Oversurprised

royf7 Jan 2013 4:02 UTC
20 points
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You can’t sig­nal to rubes

Patrick1 Jan 2013 6:40 UTC
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In­ter­per­sonal and in­trap­er­sonal util­ity comparisons

AlexMennen4 Jan 2013 3:05 UTC
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