Willpower De­ple­tion vs Willpower Distraction

Academian15 Jun 2014 18:29 UTC
110 points
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On Ter­mi­nal Goals and Virtue Ethics

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 18 Jun 2014 4:00 UTC
105 points
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False Friends and Tone Policing

palladias18 Jun 2014 18:20 UTC
71 points
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New or­ga­ni­za­tion—Fu­ture of Life In­sti­tute (FLI)

Vika14 Jun 2014 23:00 UTC
70 points
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Against util­ity functions

Qiaochu_Yuan19 Jun 2014 5:56 UTC
67 points
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[Meta] The De­cline of Dis­cus­sion: Now With Charts!

Gavin4 Jun 2014 22:02 UTC
63 points
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The Power of Noise

jsteinhardt16 Jun 2014 17:26 UTC
60 points
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What re­sources have in­creas­ing marginal util­ity?

Qiaochu_Yuan14 Jun 2014 3:43 UTC
59 points
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Asches to Asches

Scott Alexander4 Jun 2014 2:16 UTC
54 points
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Math­e­mat­ics as a lossy com­pres­sion al­gorithm gone wild

shminux6 Jun 2014 23:53 UTC
53 points
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[meta] Policy for deal­ing with users sus­pected/​guilty of mass-down­vote ha­rass­ment?

Kaj_Sotala6 Jun 2014 5:46 UTC
51 points
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The silos of ex­per­tise: be­yond heuris­tics and biases

Stuart_Armstrong26 Jun 2014 13:13 UTC
48 points
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Failures of an em­bod­ied AIXI

So8res15 Jun 2014 18:29 UTC
48 points
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Flow­ers for Algernon

Anatoly_Vorobey18 Jun 2014 9:16 UTC
47 points
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Strat­e­gyproof Mechanisms: Possibilities

badger2 Jun 2014 2:26 UTC
42 points
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A Story of Kings and Spies

Joshua_Blaine11 Jun 2014 23:54 UTC
38 points
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Separat­ing the roles of the­ory and di­rect em­piri­cal ev­i­dence in be­lief for­ma­tion: the ex­am­ples of min­i­mum wage and an­thro­pogenic global warming

VipulNaik25 Jun 2014 21:47 UTC
38 points
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[LINK] Scott Aaron­son on Google, Break­ing Cir­cu­lar­ity and Eigenmorality

shminux19 Jun 2014 20:17 UTC
31 points
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Proper value learn­ing through indifference

Stuart_Armstrong19 Jun 2014 9:39 UTC
31 points
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Ques­tion­ing and Respect

jefftk10 Jun 2014 10:52 UTC
31 points
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Reflec­tive Mini-Task­ing against Procrastination

shminux6 Jun 2014 0:20 UTC
30 points
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Some al­ter­na­tives to “Friendly AI”

lukeprog15 Jun 2014 19:53 UTC
30 points
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A new deriva­tion of the Born rule

MrMind25 Jun 2014 15:07 UTC
29 points
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R sup­port group and the benefits of ap­plied statistics

sixes_and_sevens26 Jun 2014 14:11 UTC
27 points
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All dis­cus­sion post ti­tles, points, and dates as an ex­cel sheet

Alexandros3 Jun 2014 14:38 UTC
27 points
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[LINK] Elon Musk in­ter­ested in AI safety

[deleted]18 Jun 2014 22:56 UTC
27 points
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How do you no­tice when you are ig­no­rant of nec­es­sary al­ter­na­tive hy­pothe­ses?

[deleted]24 Jun 2014 18:12 UTC
27 points
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Manag­ing one’s mem­ory effectively

John_Maxwell6 Jun 2014 17:39 UTC
26 points
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The Pro­moted Posts and the Me­taethics se­quence now available in audio

Rick_from_Castify3 Jun 2014 2:00 UTC
26 points
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Mo­ti­va­tors: Altru­is­tic Ac­tions for Non-Altru­is­tic Reasons

Ruby21 Jun 2014 16:32 UTC
26 points
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How has tech­nol­ogy changed so­cial skills?

philh8 Jun 2014 12:41 UTC
24 points
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List a few posts in Main and/​or Dis­cus­sion which ac­tu­ally made you change your mind

shminux13 Jun 2014 2:42 UTC
24 points
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Con­ser­va­tion of ex­pected moral ev­i­dence, clarified

Stuart_Armstrong20 Jun 2014 10:28 UTC
23 points
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Les­sons from weather fore­cast­ing and its his­tory for fore­cast­ing as a domain

VipulNaik23 Jun 2014 17:08 UTC
23 points
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Paper­clip Max­i­mizer Re­vis­ited

Jan_Rzymkowski19 Jun 2014 1:25 UTC
23 points
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Rel­a­tive and Ab­solute Benefit

jefftk18 Jun 2014 13:56 UTC
23 points
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Ar­tifi­cial Utility Mon­sters as Effec­tive Altruism

[deleted]25 Jun 2014 9:52 UTC
22 points
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Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of Force Mul­ti­pli­ers for Success

Nick5a121 Jun 2014 5:15 UTC
21 points
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Will AGI sur­prise the world?

lukeprog21 Jun 2014 22:27 UTC
21 points
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Come up with bet­ter Tur­ing Tests

Stuart_Armstrong10 Jun 2014 10:47 UTC
20 points
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How do you take notes?

ChristianKl22 Jun 2014 10:45 UTC
19 points
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Brag­ging Thread, June 2014

Viliam_Bur8 Jun 2014 10:08 UTC
19 points
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Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

Scott Alexander7 Jun 2014 16:44 UTC
19 points
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Ex­am­ples of Ra­tion­al­ity Tech­niques adopted by the Masses

edanm7 Jun 2014 14:03 UTC
19 points
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[LINK] Why Talk to Philoso­phers: Physi­cist Sean Car­roll Dis­cusses “Com­mon Mi­sun­der­stand­ings” about Philosophy

shminux23 Jun 2014 19:09 UTC
18 points
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Value learn­ing: ul­tra-so­phis­ti­cated Cake or Death

Stuart_Armstrong17 Jun 2014 16:36 UTC
18 points
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[LINK] Holden Karnofsky, GiveWell: Se­quence Think­ing vs. Cluster Thinking

David_Gerard11 Jun 2014 17:08 UTC
16 points
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Links!

NancyLebovitz5 Jun 2014 13:09 UTC
16 points
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Science/​ra­tio­nal­ity sub­jects to teach

Axel13 Jun 2014 12:31 UTC
16 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes June 2014

Tyrrell_McAllister1 Jun 2014 20:32 UTC
16 points
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