Yud­kowsky’s brain is the pin­na­cle of evolution

Yudkowsky_is_awesomeAug 24, 2015, 8:56 PM
−63 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

Why peo­ple want to die

PhilGoetzAug 24, 2015, 8:13 PM
94 points
174 comments2 min readLW link

Man­hood of Humanity

ViliamAug 24, 2015, 6:31 PM
17 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

The vir­tual AI within its vir­tual world

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 24, 2015, 4:42 PM
10 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

AI, cure this fake per­son’s fake can­cer!

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 24, 2015, 4:42 PM
14 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: When to trust experts

rocurleyAug 24, 2015, 3:45 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Quo­rum for discourse

ManfredAug 24, 2015, 11:36 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Less Wrong Melbourne Septem­ber Dojo: Vagueness

PatrickAug 24, 2015, 10:45 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread—Aug 24 - Aug 30

EloAug 24, 2015, 8:14 AM
12 points
318 comments1 min readLW link

List of com­mon hu­man goals

EloAug 24, 2015, 7:58 AM
19 points
23 comments7 min readLW link

Asymp­totic Log­i­cal Uncer­tainty: Iter­ated Re­source Bounded Solomonoff Induction

Scott GarrabrantAug 24, 2015, 4:39 AM
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Asymp­totic Log­i­cal Uncer­tainty: Introduction

Scott GarrabrantAug 24, 2015, 4:38 AM
3 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Asymp­totic Log­i­cal Uncer­tainty: Self Reference

Scott GarrabrantAug 24, 2015, 3:22 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Asymp­totic Log­i­cal Uncer­tainty: A Ben­ford Learner

Scott GarrabrantAug 24, 2015, 2:14 AM
4 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

The Sleep­ing Beauty prob­lem and trans­for­ma­tion invariances

asperaAug 23, 2015, 8:57 PM
2 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Asymp­totic Log­i­cal Uncer­tainty: Uniform Co­her­ence 2

Scott GarrabrantAug 23, 2015, 8:50 PM
3 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Asymp­totic Log­i­cal Uncer­tainty: The Mod­ified Dem­ski Prior is Uniformly Coherent

Scott GarrabrantAug 23, 2015, 8:48 PM
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Asymp­totic Log­i­cal Uncer­tainty: A Mod­ifi­ca­tion to the Dem­ski Prior

Scott GarrabrantAug 23, 2015, 8:47 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Magic and the halt­ing problem

kingmakerAug 23, 2015, 7:34 PM
−8 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Can­berra pre­sents: Even More Zendo!

CalienAug 23, 2015, 2:12 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Com­pendium: Prin­ci­ple 1 - A ra­tio­nal agent, given its ca­pa­bil­ities and the situ­a­tion it is in, is one that thinks and acts optimally

ScottLAug 23, 2015, 8:01 AM
9 points
27 comments10 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Compendium

ScottLAug 23, 2015, 8:00 AM
15 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Self-con­fi­dence and status

[deleted]Aug 23, 2015, 7:36 AM
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group (76-80)

SeekingEternityAug 23, 2015, 7:34 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Travel Through Time to In­crease Your Effectiveness

tanagrabeastAug 23, 2015, 1:32 AM
67 points
13 comments10 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity Ques­tions Thread

NoSignalNoNoiseAug 22, 2015, 8:25 PM
21 points
92 comments1 min readLW link

A list of apps that are use­ful to me. (And other phone de­tails)

EloAug 22, 2015, 12:24 PM
18 points
33 comments7 min readLW link

3AM stats quiz

PhilGoetz22 Aug 2015 7:45 UTC
5 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Ch­ester­ton’s Fence

RobinZ22 Aug 2015 2:13 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Two-Up­date Prob­lem, Part 2

abramdemski22 Aug 2015 0:47 UTC
4 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Robert Au­mann on Judaism

iarwain121 Aug 2015 19:13 UTC
3 points
61 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek21 Aug 2015 16:23 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Meetup : San An­to­nio Meetup

Bryan-san21 Aug 2015 16:21 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pro-Con-lists of ar­gu­ments and onesid­ed­ness points

Stefan_Schubert21 Aug 2015 14:15 UTC
6 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Glos­sary of Futurology

mind_bomber21 Aug 2015 5:51 UTC
3 points
7 comments13 min readLW link

Un­learn­ing shoddy thinking

MalcolmOcean21 Aug 2015 3:07 UTC
17 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

On Overconfidence

Scott Alexander21 Aug 2015 2:21 UTC
65 points
7 comments14 min readLW link

[Re­post] My First In­sight After CFAR, or the Art of Not Need­ing to Ask Permission

Ben Pace20 Aug 2015 23:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : MelbLW So­cial Meetup

Maelin20 Aug 2015 11:45 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Vege­tar­ian/​Om­nivore Ide­olog­i­cal Tur­ing Test Judg­ing Round!

Raelifin20 Aug 2015 1:53 UTC
8 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

How to fix academia?

passive_fist20 Aug 2015 0:50 UTC
15 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] First al­most fully-formed hu­man [foe­tus] brain grown in lab, re­searchers claim

ESRogs19 Aug 2015 6:37 UTC
11 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Rochester LessWrong and Transhumanists

mare-of-night19 Aug 2015 3:46 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

MIRI’s 2015 Sum­mer Fundraiser!

So8res19 Aug 2015 0:27 UTC
64 points
44 comments5 min readLW link

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Vienna

AnnaLeptikon18 Aug 2015 20:37 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Oslo Less­wrong meetup, September

FourFire18 Aug 2015 14:15 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dicted cor­rigi­bil­ity: pareto improvements

Stuart_Armstrong18 Aug 2015 11:24 UTC
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Truth seek­ing as an op­ti­miza­tion process

ScottL18 Aug 2015 11:03 UTC
9 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Pre­dicted cor­rigi­bil­ity: pareto improvements

Stuart_Armstrong18 Aug 2015 11:02 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Men­tal Model The­ory—Illu­sion of Pos­si­bil­ity Example

ScottL18 Aug 2015 6:29 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link