A sim­ple ex­er­cise in ra­tio­nal­ity: rephrase an ob­jec­tive state­ment as sub­jec­tive and ex­plore the caveats

shminux18 Apr 2015 23:46 UTC
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[link] The sur­pris­ing down­sides of be­ing clever

Gunnar_Zarncke18 Apr 2015 20:33 UTC
3 points
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How long can you watch this video?

kingmaker18 Apr 2015 15:09 UTC
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Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek18 Apr 2015 6:47 UTC
5 points
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Re­solv­ing the Fermi Para­dox: New Directions

jacob_cannell18 Apr 2015 6:00 UTC
22 points
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High im­pact from low impact

Stuart_Armstrong17 Apr 2015 16:01 UTC
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High im­pact from low impact

Stuart_Armstrong17 Apr 2015 16:01 UTC
11 points
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The Prob­lem of Alien Concepts

Kaj_Sotala17 Apr 2015 14:13 UTC
3 points
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Con­cept Safety: The prob­lem of alien concepts

Kaj_Sotala17 Apr 2015 14:09 UTC
27 points
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Effec­tive effec­tive al­tru­ism: Get $400 off your next char­ity donation

Baisius17 Apr 2015 5:45 UTC
12 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: In­tro­duc­tion and A: Pre­dictably Wrong

Mark_Friedenbach17 Apr 2015 1:40 UTC
16 points
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LessWrong ex­pe­rience on Alcohol

Elo17 Apr 2015 1:19 UTC
4 points
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One week left for CSER re­searcher applications

RyanCarey17 Apr 2015 0:40 UTC
16 points
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Mo­dal Bar­gain­ing Agents

orthonormal16 Apr 2015 22:19 UTC
14 points
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Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Plan­ning and Debugging

luminosity16 Apr 2015 21:57 UTC
2 points
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Can an AI suffer?

kingmaker16 Apr 2015 15:44 UTC
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Can an AI suffer?

kingmaker16 Apr 2015 15:27 UTC
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Meetup : West LA: Im­prov & Rationality

abramdemski16 Apr 2015 8:47 UTC
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Meetup : West LA: Im­prov & Rationality

abramdemski16 Apr 2015 8:46 UTC
1 point
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Why isn’t the fol­low­ing de­ci­sion the­ory op­ti­mal?

Elliot_Olds16 Apr 2015 1:38 UTC
10 points
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Co­op­er­a­tive con­ver­sa­tional threading

philh15 Apr 2015 18:40 UTC
38 points
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Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Sword of Good

RobinZ15 Apr 2015 17:18 UTC
3 points
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Pro­duc­ing similar AI-hu­man con­cept spaces

Kaj_Sotala14 Apr 2015 20:42 UTC
3 points
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Con­cept Safety: Pro­duc­ing similar AI-hu­man con­cept spaces

Kaj_Sotala14 Apr 2015 20:39 UTC
51 points
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Anti-Pas­cal­ine satisficer

Stuart_Armstrong14 Apr 2015 19:13 UTC
0 points
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Anti-Pas­cal­ine satisficer

Stuart_Armstrong14 Apr 2015 18:49 UTC
6 points
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Un-op­ti­mised vs anti-optimised

Stuart_Armstrong14 Apr 2015 18:30 UTC
12 points
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Could you tell me what’s wrong with this?

Algon14 Apr 2015 10:43 UTC
2 points
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Trans­lat­ing bad advice

Sophronius14 Apr 2015 9:20 UTC
24 points
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Maybe we can perform the “Mary’s Room” thought experiment

DavidPlumpton14 Apr 2015 9:19 UTC
10 points
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Book Re­view: Discrete Math­e­mat­ics and Its Ap­pli­ca­tions (MIRI Course List)

LawrenceC14 Apr 2015 9:08 UTC
21 points
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How I changed my ex­er­cise habits

Normal_Anomaly13 Apr 2015 22:19 UTC
28 points
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Are there re­ally no ghosts in the ma­chine?

kingmaker13 Apr 2015 19:54 UTC
−1 points
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Are there re­ally no ghosts in the ma­chine?

kingmaker13 Apr 2015 19:43 UTC
1 point
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Les­son learned from HPMOR, only months af­ter… (spoilers from be­gin­ning to end)

Bound_up13 Apr 2015 18:30 UTC
5 points
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Snape’s knowl­edge of valence shells

Bound_up13 Apr 2015 17:58 UTC
3 points
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Meetup : Austin, TX—Schel­ling Day

Vaniver13 Apr 2015 14:19 UTC
3 points
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Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: The Long Arc of Mo­ral Progress (NOT NORMAL PLACE/​TIME)

rocurley13 Apr 2015 2:50 UTC
2 points
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Open Thread, Apr. 13 - Apr. 19, 2015

Gondolinian13 Apr 2015 0:19 UTC
7 points
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Meetup : Brook­lyn Effec­tive Altru­ism Gathering

Raemon13 Apr 2015 0:06 UTC
1 point
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What are “the re­ally good ideas” that Peter Thiel says are too dan­ger­ous to men­tion?

James_Miller12 Apr 2015 21:07 UTC
5 points
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Friendly-AI is an abomination

kingmaker12 Apr 2015 20:21 UTC
−25 points
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Friendly-AI is an abomination

kingmaker12 Apr 2015 20:17 UTC
1 point
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Is Friendly-AI a good idea?

kingmaker12 Apr 2015 20:14 UTC
−3 points
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Is Friendly-AI a good idea?

kingmaker12 Apr 2015 20:06 UTC
1 point
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Is friendly-AI a good idea?

kingmaker12 Apr 2015 19:58 UTC
1 point
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Meetup : Less Wrong Is­rael Meetup: So­cial and Board Games

DanArmak12 Apr 2015 14:43 UTC
3 points
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Meetup : War­saw April Meetup

mkf12 Apr 2015 14:32 UTC
2 points
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Who are your favourite ra­tio­nal­ist blog­gers?

casebash12 Apr 2015 13:58 UTC
6 points
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Meetup : West LA—R:AZ Part D, Mys­te­ri­ous Answers

OpenThreadGuy12 Apr 2015 8:01 UTC
2 points
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