Com­part­men­tal­iz­ing: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Abortion

Op­ti­miz­ing the Twelve Virtues of Rationality

Vege­tar­i­anism Ide­olog­i­cal Tur­ing Test Results

An­nounc­ing LessWrong Digest

De­sire is the di­rec­tion, ra­tio­nal­ity is the magnitude

Ephe­meral correspondence

Should AI Be Open?

Hu­man Minds are Fragile

Clear­erThink­ing’s Fact-Check­ing 2.0

Fu­ture of Life In­sti­tute ex­is­ten­tial risk news site

Re­quest for pro­pos­als for Musk/​FLI grants

Memes and Ra­tional Decisions

[Link] Per­sis­tence of Long-Term Me­mory in Vitrified and Re­vived C. el­e­gans worms

Yvain’s most im­por­tant articles

Fo­rum Digest: Cor­rigi­bil­ity, util­ity in­differ­ence, & re­lated con­trol ideas

Chap­ter 22: The Scien­tific Method

Autism, or early iso­la­tion?

Are con­se­quen­tial­ism and de­on­tol­ogy not even wrong?

Au­mann Agree­ment Game

Re­cent up­dates to gw­ern.net (2014-2015)

Chap­ter 23: Belief in Belief

New(ish) AI con­trol ideas

The Temp­ta­tion to Bubble

Nick Bostrom’s TED talk on Su­per­in­tel­li­gence is now online

[Link] In­tro­duc­ing OpenAI

Cal­ling all Nige­rian ra­tio­nal­ists and effec­tive altruists

New, Brief Pop­u­lar-Level In­tro­duc­tion to AI Risks and Superintelligence

A Pro­posal for Defeat­ing Moloch in the Pri­son In­dus­trial Complex

An­nounc­ing the Sig­nal Data Science In­ten­sive Train­ing Program

Quan­tiliz­ers max­i­mize ex­pected util­ity sub­ject to a con­ser­va­tive cost constraint

For­mal­iz­ing Two Prob­lems of Real­is­tic World Models

Five Wor­lds Col­lide 2015 - un­con­fer­ence in Vienna

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

Graph­i­cal As­sump­tion Modeling

The path of the rationalist

[LINK] The P + ep­silon At­tack (Precom­mit­ment in cryp­toe­co­nomics)

In Praise of Max­i­miz­ing – With Some Caveats

Sur­pris­ing ex­am­ples of non-hu­man optimization

My fu­ture posts; a table of con­tents.

Chap­ter 24: Machi­avel­lian In­tel­li­gence Hypothesis

Chap­ter 27: Empathy

Giv­ing What We Can needs your help!

Su­per­ra­tional­ity in ar­bi­trary games

Ra­tion­al­ity Cardinality

Con­cep­tual Spe­cial­iza­tion of La­bor En­ables Precision

Ver­sions of AIXI can be ar­bi­trar­ily stupid

Chap­ter 47: Per­son­hood Theory

What have we learned from mee­tups?

Sta­tus—is it what we think it is?

Nega­tive vi­su­al­iza­tion, rad­i­cal ac­cep­tance and stoicism