TV’s “Ele­men­tary” Tack­les Friendly AI and X-Risk—“Bella” (Pos­si­ble Spoilers)

pjebyNov 22, 2014, 7:51 PM
48 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Mus­ings on the LSAT: “Rea­son­ing Train­ing” and Neuroplasticity

NathaNov 22, 2014, 7:14 PM
7 points
11 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Utrecht: a cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

immasixNov 22, 2014, 7:10 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Utrecht

immasixNov 22, 2014, 7:09 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Utrecht: Ra­tion­al­ity Games

immasixNov 22, 2014, 7:07 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

When should an Effec­tive Altru­ist be veg­e­tar­ian?

KatjaGraceNov 22, 2014, 5:04 AM
35 points
81 comments9 min readLW link

Link: xkcd 1450: AI-Box Experiment

ilzolendeNov 22, 2014, 12:34 AM
−4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Me­mory Im­prove­ment: Mnemon­ics, Tools, or Books on the Topic?

CaplaNov 21, 2014, 6:59 PM
13 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

New LW Meetup: Glasgow

FrankAdamekNov 21, 2014, 6:22 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Cat­e­gories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories

Scott AlexanderNov 21, 2014, 2:34 PM
105 points
9 comments18 min readLW link

Meetup : West LA—The Rel­a­tivity of Wrong

OpenThreadGuyNov 21, 2014, 1:48 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : Tel Aviv Meetup: Rump Session

JoshuaFoxNov 21, 2014, 11:12 AM
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Experimentation

ManfredNov 21, 2014, 9:37 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong on XKCD

EmileNov 21, 2014, 8:32 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

xkcd on the AI box experiment

FiftyTwoNov 21, 2014, 8:26 AM
28 points
234 comments1 min readLW link

Trust­wor­thy au­to­mated philos­o­phy?

Benya_FallensteinNov 21, 2014, 2:57 AM
6 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

How can one change what they con­sider “fun”?

AmagicalFishyNov 21, 2014, 2:04 AM
24 points
45 comments3 min readLW link

Nar­cis­sis­tic Contrarianism

HalMorrisNov 21, 2014, 12:19 AM
2 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Fun & Games

RobinZNov 20, 2014, 11:15 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ir­ra­tional­ism on Cam­pus?

HalMorrisNov 20, 2014, 7:17 PM
−1 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

What do you mean by Pas­cal’s mug­ging?

XiXiDuNov 20, 2014, 4:38 PM
10 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

Link: Si­mu­lat­ing C. Elegans

SniffnoyNov 20, 2014, 9:30 AM
22 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Lon­don so­cial meetup in my flat

philhNov 19, 2014, 11:55 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altru­ism is hiring to fill five roles in re­search, op­er­a­tions and outreach

RobertWiblinNov 19, 2014, 10:41 PM
15 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Bayes Academy: Devel­op­ment re­port 1

Kaj_SotalaNov 19, 2014, 10:35 PM
68 points
28 comments8 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow Meetup: Co­de­name Bilderberg

Alexander230Nov 19, 2014, 9:34 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

I Want To Believe: Ra­tional Edition

27chaosNov 18, 2014, 8:00 PM
4 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Saint Peters­burg, Rus­sia meetup: “Low hang­ing fruit”

efimNov 18, 2014, 6:44 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : MelbLW: Novem­ber So­cial Meetup

MelbourneLWNov 18, 2014, 12:37 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Chalmers on Com­pu­ta­tion: A first step From Physics to Me­taethics?

john_kuNov 18, 2014, 10:39 AM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Fi­nan­cial Effec­tive­ness Repository

Gunnar_ZarnckeNov 18, 2014, 9:57 AM
7 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 10: In­stru­men­tally con­ver­gent goals

KatjaGraceNov 18, 2014, 2:00 AM
13 points
33 comments5 min readLW link

Neo-re­ac­tionar­ies, why are you neo-re­ac­tionary?

CaplaNov 17, 2014, 10:31 PM
4 points
621 comments1 min readLW link

Is this dark arts and if it, is it jus­tified?

Gleb_TsipurskyNov 17, 2014, 7:00 PM
4 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Stable self-im­prove­ment as a re­search problem

paulfchristianoNov 17, 2014, 5:51 PM
8 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

AI caught by a mod­ule that coun­ter­fac­tu­ally doesn’t exist

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 17, 2014, 5:49 PM
19 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Can sci­ence come to un­der­stand con­scious­ness? A prob­lem of philo­soph­i­cal zom­bies (Yes, I know, P-zom­bies again.)

CaplaNov 17, 2014, 5:06 PM
4 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

Sys­temic risk: a moral tale of ten in­surance companies

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 17, 2014, 4:43 PM
37 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

I just in­creased my Altru­is­tic Effec­tive­ness and you should too

AABoylesNov 17, 2014, 3:45 PM
17 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Ly­ing in ne­go­ti­a­tions: a max­i­mally bad problem

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 17, 2014, 3:17 PM
22 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Open thread, Nov. 17 - Nov. 23, 2014

MrMindNov 17, 2014, 8:25 AM
6 points
329 comments1 min readLW link

Musk on AGI Timeframes

ArtaxerxesNov 17, 2014, 1:36 AM
46 points
72 comments1 min readLW link

Approximability

abramdemskiNov 17, 2014, 12:41 AM
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : MIRIxAt­lanta—MIRI Re­search Guide + Corrigibility

Adele_LNov 16, 2014, 10:34 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Novem­ber 16-30

therufsNov 16, 2014, 9:16 PM
5 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Agency and Life Domains

Gleb_TsipurskyNov 16, 2014, 1:38 AM
8 points
68 comments7 min readLW link

Meetup : Toronto: mak­ing hard decisions

GilesNov 15, 2014, 11:41 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to build the skill and the habit of ex­per­i­men­ta­tion?

CaplaNov 15, 2014, 4:08 PM
7 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Belief Chains

ShannonFriedmanNov 15, 2014, 11:09 AM
13 points
13 comments11 min readLW link

My new pa­per: Con­cept learn­ing for safe au­tonomous AI

Kaj_SotalaNov 15, 2014, 7:17 AM
26 points
16 comments1 min readLW link