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Willpower Depletion vs Willpower Distraction
Academian
Jun 15, 2014, 6:29 PM
110
points
25
comments
2
min read
LW
link
On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Jun 18, 2014, 4:00 AM
107
points
207
comments
4
min read
LW
link
False Friends and Tone Policing
palladias
Jun 18, 2014, 6:20 PM
71
points
49
comments
3
min read
LW
link
New organization—Future of Life Institute (FLI)
Vika
Jun 14, 2014, 11:00 PM
70
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Against utility functions
Qiaochu_Yuan
Jun 19, 2014, 5:56 AM
67
points
87
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Asches to Asches
Scott Alexander
Jun 4, 2014, 2:16 AM
64
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
[Meta] The Decline of Discussion: Now With Charts!
Gavin
Jun 4, 2014, 10:02 PM
62
points
105
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Power of Noise
jsteinhardt
Jun 16, 2014, 5:26 PM
60
points
80
comments
11
min read
LW
link
What resources have increasing marginal utility?
Qiaochu_Yuan
Jun 14, 2014, 3:43 AM
59
points
63
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mathematics as a lossy compression algorithm gone wild
Shmi
Jun 6, 2014, 11:53 PM
53
points
82
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[meta] Policy for dealing with users suspected/guilty of mass-downvote harassment?
Kaj_Sotala
Jun 6, 2014, 5:46 AM
51
points
240
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Failures of an embodied AIXI
So8res
Jun 15, 2014, 6:29 PM
50
points
47
comments
12
min read
LW
link
The silos of expertise: beyond heuristics and biases
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 26, 2014, 1:13 PM
48
points
16
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Flowers for Algernon
Anatoly_Vorobey
Jun 18, 2014, 9:16 AM
47
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Strategyproof Mechanisms: Possibilities
badger
Jun 2, 2014, 2:26 AM
42
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Separating the roles of theory and direct empirical evidence in belief formation: the examples of minimum wage and anthropogenic global warming
VipulNaik
Jun 25, 2014, 9:47 PM
38
points
66
comments
4
min read
LW
link
A Story of Kings and Spies
Joshua_Blaine
Jun 11, 2014, 11:54 PM
38
points
33
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Scott Aaronson on Google, Breaking Circularity and Eigenmorality
Shmi
Jun 19, 2014, 8:17 PM
31
points
46
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Questioning and Respect
jefftk
Jun 10, 2014, 10:52 AM
31
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reflective Mini-Tasking against Procrastination
Shmi
Jun 6, 2014, 12:20 AM
30
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Some alternatives to “Friendly AI”
lukeprog
Jun 15, 2014, 7:53 PM
30
points
44
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Proper value learning through indifference
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 19, 2014, 9:39 AM
30
points
51
comments
7
min read
LW
link
A new derivation of the Born rule
MrMind
Jun 25, 2014, 3:07 PM
29
points
19
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Managing one’s memory effectively
John_Maxwell
Jun 6, 2014, 5:39 PM
27
points
16
comments
4
min read
LW
link
How do you notice when you are ignorant of necessary alternative hypotheses?
[deleted]
Jun 24, 2014, 6:12 PM
27
points
69
comments
1
min read
LW
link
R support group and the benefits of applied statistics
sixes_and_sevens
Jun 26, 2014, 2:11 PM
27
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
All discussion post titles, points, and dates as an excel sheet
Alexandros
Jun 3, 2014, 2:38 PM
27
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Elon Musk interested in AI safety
[deleted]
Jun 18, 2014, 10:56 PM
27
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Motivators: Altruistic Actions for Non-Altruistic Reasons
Ruby
Jun 21, 2014, 4:32 PM
26
points
20
comments
9
min read
LW
link
The Promoted Posts and the Metaethics sequence now available in audio
Rick_from_Castify
Jun 3, 2014, 2:00 AM
26
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
How has technology changed social skills?
philh
Jun 8, 2014, 12:41 PM
24
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
List a few posts in Main and/or Discussion which actually made you change your mind
Shmi
Jun 13, 2014, 2:42 AM
24
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Will AGI surprise the world?
lukeprog
Jun 21, 2014, 10:27 PM
24
points
129
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Paperclip Maximizer Revisited
Jan_Rzymkowski
Jun 19, 2014, 1:25 AM
23
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Conservation of expected moral evidence, clarified
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 20, 2014, 10:28 AM
23
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Lessons from weather forecasting and its history for forecasting as a domain
VipulNaik
Jun 23, 2014, 5:08 PM
23
points
8
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Relative and Absolute Benefit
jefftk
Jun 18, 2014, 1:56 PM
23
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism
Scott Alexander
Jun 7, 2014, 4:44 PM
23
points
3
comments
22
min read
LW
link
Artificial Utility Monsters as Effective Altruism
[deleted]
Jun 25, 2014, 9:52 AM
22
points
13
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Identification of Force Multipliers for Success
Nick5a1
Jun 21, 2014, 5:15 AM
21
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Value learning: ultra-sophisticated Cake or Death
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 17, 2014, 4:36 PM
21
points
15
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Come up with better Turing Tests
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 10, 2014, 10:47 AM
20
points
44
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Examples of Rationality Techniques adopted by the Masses
edanm
Jun 7, 2014, 2:03 PM
19
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bragging Thread, June 2014
Viliam_Bur
Jun 8, 2014, 10:08 AM
19
points
62
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How do you take notes?
ChristianKl
Jun 22, 2014, 10:45 AM
19
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Why Talk to Philosophers: Physicist Sean Carroll Discusses “Common Misunderstandings” about Philosophy
Shmi
23 Jun 2014 19:09 UTC
18
points
59
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Links!
NancyLebovitz
5 Jun 2014 13:09 UTC
16
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Holden Karnofsky, GiveWell: Sequence Thinking vs. Cluster Thinking
David_Gerard
11 Jun 2014 17:08 UTC
16
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Science/rationality subjects to teach
Axel
13 Jun 2014 12:31 UTC
16
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An AI Takeover Thought Experiment
Gavin
19 Jun 2014 16:59 UTC
16
points
11
comments
8
min read
LW
link
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