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Simulate and Defer To More Rational Selves
LoganStrohl
Sep 17, 2014, 6:11 PM
217
points
114
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Everybody’s talking about machine ethics
sbenthall
Sep 17, 2014, 5:20 PM
24
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : MelbLW: September Social Meetup
MelbourneLW
Sep 17, 2014, 2:28 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
What It’s Like to Notice Things
LoganStrohl
Sep 17, 2014, 2:19 PM
74
points
16
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Link: How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior
Tyrrell_McAllister
Sep 17, 2014, 1:49 PM
7
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Perth, Australia: Games night
[deleted]
Sep 17, 2014, 4:01 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Should EA’s be Superrational cooperators?
diegocaleiro
Sep 16, 2014, 9:41 PM
15
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Warsaw, next week!
[deleted]
Sep 16, 2014, 4:27 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Any LessWrong readers at the University of Michigan?
Asymmetric
Sep 16, 2014, 1:39 PM
9
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Group Rationality Diary, September 16-30
therufs
Sep 16, 2014, 1:33 PM
7
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Tortoises
Jack_LaSota
Sep 16, 2014, 3:14 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Superintelligence Reading Group—Section 1: Past Developments and Present Capabilities
KatjaGrace
Sep 16, 2014, 1:00 AM
43
points
233
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Unpopular ideas attract poor advocates: Be charitable
[deleted]
Sep 15, 2014, 7:30 PM
43
points
61
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Open thread, September 15-21, 2014
gjm
Sep 15, 2014, 12:24 PM
9
points
342
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open thread, September 15-21, 2014
polymathwannabe
Sep 15, 2014, 12:18 PM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What are you learning?
Viliam_Bur
Sep 15, 2014, 10:50 AM
19
points
128
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What are your contrarian views?
Metus
Sep 15, 2014, 9:17 AM
22
points
820
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Bratislava
Viliam_Bur
Sep 15, 2014, 6:41 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Guide to Rational Investing
ColbyDavis
Sep 15, 2014, 2:36 AM
56
points
45
comments
29
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Canberra: More rationalist fun and games!
DanielFilan
Sep 15, 2014, 1:47 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : West LA—The Hierarchy of Requests
OpenThreadGuy
Sep 14, 2014, 11:33 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Learning how to exert self-control
pinyaka
Sep 14, 2014, 11:07 PM
12
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Proposal: Use logical depth relative to human history as objective function for superintelligence
sbenthall
Sep 14, 2014, 8:00 PM
10
points
23
comments
3
min read
LW
link
High ulterior motives
KatjaGrace
Sep 14, 2014, 2:00 PM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Should people be writing more or fewer LW posts?
John_Maxwell
Sep 14, 2014, 7:40 AM
27
points
27
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A kind or reverse “tragedy of the commons”—any solution ideas?
D_Alex
Sep 14, 2014, 4:42 AM
12
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ways to improve LessWrong
Adam Zerner
Sep 14, 2014, 2:25 AM
9
points
104
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Causal decision theory is unsatisfactory
So8res
Sep 13, 2014, 5:05 PM
39
points
162
comments
9
min read
LW
link
[meta] New LW moderator: Viliam_Bur
Kaj_Sotala
Sep 13, 2014, 1:37 PM
62
points
51
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Sep 12, 2014, 3:38 PM
6
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Frankfurt: How to improve your life
Kendra
Sep 12, 2014, 8:12 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How realistic would AI-engineered chatbots be?
kokotajlod
Sep 11, 2014, 11:00 PM
1
point
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington D.C.: Parkour (Backup: Task Management)
RobinZ
Sep 11, 2014, 10:39 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Do Virtual Humans deserve human rights?
cameroncowan
Sep 11, 2014, 7:20 PM
−4
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LessWrong Tel Aviv: Rational Career Development
Squark
Sep 11, 2014, 5:35 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AI surprise research: high value?
KatjaGrace
Sep 11, 2014, 2:00 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Overcoming Decision Anxiety
TimMartin
Sep 11, 2014, 4:22 AM
21
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Society Is Fixed, Biology Is Mutable
Scott Alexander
Sep 11, 2014, 12:27 AM
49
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
[Link] 3 Short Walking Breaks Can Reverse Harm From 3 Hours of Sitting
Gunnar_Zarncke
Sep 10, 2014, 10:26 AM
25
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Portland Teachable Skills Discussion
VAuroch
Sep 10, 2014, 2:26 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Social Skills
Anders_H
Sep 10, 2014, 12:55 AM
3
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Passive Investing and Financial Independence
Anders_H
Sep 10, 2014, 12:53 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Talking to yourself: A useful thinking tool that seems understudied and underdiscussed
chaosmage
Sep 9, 2014, 4:56 PM
45
points
29
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Brussels—September meetup
Roxolan
Sep 9, 2014, 4:44 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Omission vs commission and conservation of expected moral evidence
Stuart_Armstrong
Sep 8, 2014, 2:22 PM
5
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Conversation with Paul Penley of Excellence in Giving
KatjaGrace
Sep 8, 2014, 2:00 PM
1
point
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Open thread, September 8-14, 2014
polymathwannabe
8 Sep 2014 12:31 UTC
7
points
296
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is it a good idea to use Soylent once/twice a day?
Adam Zerner
8 Sep 2014 0:00 UTC
8
points
57
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : London social meetup
philh
7 Sep 2014 11:26 UTC
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : LW Copenhagen—September: This Wavefunction Has Uncollapsed
Ruby
7 Sep 2014 8:19 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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