Use Your Iden­tity Carefully

Ben_LandauTaylor22 Aug 2013 1:14 UTC
140 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

How to Mea­sure Anything

lukeprog7 Aug 2013 4:05 UTC
118 points
55 comments22 min readLW link

Hu­mans are util­ity monsters

PhilGoetz16 Aug 2013 21:05 UTC
117 points
216 comments2 min readLW link

What Bayesi­anism taught me

Tyrrell_McAllister12 Aug 2013 6:59 UTC
115 points
204 comments3 min readLW link

How I Am Productive

Peter Wildeford27 Aug 2013 13:04 UTC
67 points
34 comments14 min readLW link

Up­date on es­tab­lish­ment of Cam­bridge’s Cen­tre for Study of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Sean_o_h12 Aug 2013 16:11 UTC
60 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Where I’ve Changed My Mind on My Ap­proach to Spec­u­la­tive Causes

Peter Wildeford16 Aug 2013 7:09 UTC
59 points
51 comments4 min readLW link

Com­mon sense as a prior

Nick_Beckstead11 Aug 2013 18:18 UTC
56 points
215 comments27 min readLW link

Real­ity is weirdly normal

Rob Bensinger25 Aug 2013 19:29 UTC
55 points
81 comments5 min readLW link

Rais­ing nu­mer­ate children

Gunnar_Zarncke30 Aug 2013 23:44 UTC
50 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

To what de­gree do you model peo­ple as agents?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 25 Aug 2013 19:29 UTC
47 points
132 comments5 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing En­joy­ment and Re­ten­tion Read­ing Tech­ni­cal Literature

sentientplatypus7 Aug 2013 6:29 UTC
45 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

New Monthly Thread: Bragging

Joshua_Blaine11 Aug 2013 17:50 UTC
39 points
147 comments1 min readLW link

Al­gorith­mic Progress in Six Domains

lukeprog3 Aug 2013 2:29 UTC
38 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

One way to ma­nipu­late your level of ab­strac­tion re­lated to a task

Andy_McKenzie19 Aug 2013 5:47 UTC
36 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How does MIRI Know it Has a Medium Prob­a­bil­ity of Suc­cess?

Peter Wildeford1 Aug 2013 11:42 UTC
35 points
146 comments1 min readLW link

Bi­ases of In­tu­itive and Log­i­cal Thinkers

pwno13 Aug 2013 3:50 UTC
32 points
84 comments7 min readLW link

My daily re­flec­tion routine

Nick_Beckstead18 Aug 2013 11:54 UTC
31 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

En­gag­ing First In­tro­duc­tions to AI Risk

Rob Bensinger19 Aug 2013 6:26 UTC
31 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Should you work at 80,000 Hours?

Jess_Whittlestone8 Aug 2013 14:04 UTC
26 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

How Effi­cient is the Char­i­ta­ble Mar­ket?

lukeprog24 Aug 2013 5:57 UTC
26 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Another Anki deck for Less Wrong content

MondSemmel22 Aug 2013 19:31 UTC
25 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Does Check­ers have sim­pler rules than Go?

jefftk13 Aug 2013 2:09 UTC
23 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­nal and ex­ter­nal criticism

Kaj_Sotala21 Aug 2013 6:35 UTC
22 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

What should a col­lege stu­dent do to max­i­mize fu­ture earn­ings for effec­tive al­tru­ism?

D_Malik27 Aug 2013 19:06 UTC
21 points
76 comments3 min readLW link

LW Melbourne: Re­port on Public Ra­tion­al­ity Lecture

17 Aug 2013 14:17 UTC
21 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Out­side View(s) and MIRI’s FAI Endgame

Wei Dai28 Aug 2013 23:27 UTC
21 points
60 comments2 min readLW link

Ge­nies and Wishes in the con­text of com­puter science

private_messaging30 Aug 2013 12:43 UTC
20 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

RapGe­nius + Se­quences = ?

Alexandros1 Aug 2013 6:04 UTC
20 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Re­but­tal Repository

Peter Wildeford11 Aug 2013 6:59 UTC
19 points
60 comments1 min readLW link

How sure are you that brain em­u­la­tions would be con­scious?

ChrisHallquist26 Aug 2013 6:21 UTC
19 points
177 comments2 min readLW link

New ar­ti­cle on in vitro iter­ated em­bryo selection

CarlShulman8 Aug 2013 19:28 UTC
18 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] EdTech startup hosts AI Hunger Games (cash prize $1k)

MalcolmOcean14 Aug 2013 8:39 UTC
17 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

En­gag­ing In­tel­lec­tual Elites at Less Wrong

lukeprog13 Aug 2013 17:55 UTC
17 points
136 comments1 min readLW link

Why Pro­duc­tivity? Why Grat­i­tude?

feanor160030 Aug 2013 2:28 UTC
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Ma­jor guide to supplements

NancyLebovitz13 Aug 2013 23:13 UTC
16 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­posal: pe­ri­odic re­post of the Best Learn­ing resources

Dr_Manhattan10 Aug 2013 16:21 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­est­ing new Pew Re­search study on Amer­i­can opinions about rad­i­cal life extension

[deleted]9 Aug 2013 17:26 UTC
15 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist house­holds: What can Lon­don learn from its pre­de­ces­sors?

KnaveOfAllTrades23 Aug 2013 7:56 UTC
14 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Less­wrong Philos­o­phy and Per­sonal Identity

Carinthium23 Aug 2013 13:15 UTC
13 points
55 comments1 min readLW link

Some MIRI Work­shop Stuff

abramdemski12 Aug 2013 2:55 UTC
12 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Au­gust 2013

Vaniver2 Aug 2013 20:59 UTC
12 points
730 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] AI ad­vances: com­put­ers can be al­most as funny as people

shminux2 Aug 2013 18:41 UTC
12 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread: How much strate­gic think­ing have you done re­cently?

Emile28 Aug 2013 11:48 UTC
12 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial—The Un­wel­come but Prob­a­ble De­cline and Fall of Direct Sunlight

philh8 Aug 2013 14:08 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Trans­parency in safety-crit­i­cal systems

lukeprog25 Aug 2013 18:52 UTC
10 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

What Would it Take to “Prove” a Spec­u­la­tive Cause?

Peter Wildeford7 Aug 2013 20:59 UTC
10 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : [Bos­ton] Us­ing Causal Graphs to Un­der­stand Bias in the Med­i­cal Literature

Ben_LandauTaylor7 Aug 2013 4:32 UTC
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Prac­ti­cal Limits to Giv­ing Now and The Haste Consideration

Peter Wildeford14 Aug 2013 21:32 UTC
10 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

The Fermi para­dox as ev­i­dence against the likely­hood of un­friendly AI

chaosmage1 Aug 2013 18:46 UTC
9 points
54 comments2 min readLW link