A Weird Trick To Man­age Your Identity

Gleb_TsipurskySep 19, 2016, 7:13 PM
15 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

On ‘Why Global Poverty?’ and Ar­gu­ments from Unob­serv­able Impacts

Gram_StoneFeb 13, 2016, 6:04 AM
15 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

CrowdAnki com­pre­hen­sive JSON rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Anki Decks to fa­cil­i­tate col­lab­o­ra­tion

Vlad SitaloSep 18, 2016, 10:59 AM
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Non-Fic­tion Book Reviews

SquirrelInHellAug 11, 2016, 5:05 AM
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

The ethics of eat­ing meat

[deleted]Feb 17, 2016, 7:03 PM
15 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

Time man­age­ment and Do your tasks in a differ­ent order

EloAug 16, 2016, 11:15 PM
15 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Jocko Podcast

moridinamaelSep 6, 2016, 3:38 PM
15 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Pu­tanu­monit—Con­vinc­ing peo­ple to read the Se­quences and won­der­ing about “pos­tra­tional­ists”

Jacob FalkovichSep 28, 2016, 4:43 PM
15 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence via whole brain emulation

AlexMennenAug 17, 2016, 4:11 AM
15 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Thoughts on hack­ing aro­man­ti­cism?

hg00Jun 2, 2016, 11:52 AM
15 points
37 comments3 min readLW link

Iden­tity map

turchinAug 15, 2016, 11:29 AM
15 points
41 comments5 min readLW link

Ex­pert Pre­dic­tion Of Experiments

Scott AlexanderNov 29, 2016, 2:47 AM
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Things Prob­a­bly Matter

Scott AlexanderJul 21, 2016, 2:03 AM
15 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity 101 (An In­tro Post to the Ra­tion­al­ist-Sphere for Friends: Kah­ne­man, LW, etc.)

lifelonglearnerDec 17, 2016, 10:13 PM
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(mindlevelup.wordpress.com)

UC Berkeley launches Cen­ter for Hu­man-Com­pat­i­ble Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

ignorancepriorAug 29, 2016, 10:43 PM
15 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Pur­su­ing con­ver­gent in­stru­men­tal sub­goals on the user’s be­half doesn’t always re­quire good priors

jessicataDec 30, 2016, 2:36 AM
15 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Clear­ing An Over­grown Garden

Anders_HJan 29, 2016, 10:16 PM
15 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Your tran­shu­man copy is of ques­tion­able value to your meat self.

UsulJan 6, 2016, 9:03 AM
14 points
142 comments6 min readLW link

The art of response

So8resJan 3, 2016, 2:00 AM
14 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Men­tal Habits are Procedural

lifelonglearnerNov 7, 2016, 2:53 PM
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

In­dus­try Mat­ters 2: Par­tial Retraction

sarahconstantinNov 23, 2016, 5:08 PM
14 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

In­ten­tional In­sights and the Effec­tive Altru­ism Move­ment – Q & A

Gleb_TsipurskyJan 2, 2016, 7:43 PM
14 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

A model of arguments

EloSep 1, 2016, 12:41 PM
14 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Open thread, June 20 - June 26, 2016

EloJun 21, 2016, 2:45 AM
14 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

Crazy Ideas Thread

James_MillerJun 18, 2016, 12:30 AM
14 points
93 comments1 min readLW link

What is the fu­ture of nootropic drugs? Why can’t there be ones more effec­tive than ones that have ex­isted for 15+ years?

InquilineKeaMar 6, 2016, 6:45 PM
14 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Ter­mi­nally ill teen won his­toric rul­ing to pre­serve body

NancyLebovitzNov 18, 2016, 2:16 PM
14 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.bbc.com)

Pu­tanu­monit—Dis­card­ing em­pa­thy to save the world

Jacob FalkovichOct 6, 2016, 7:03 AM
14 points
38 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Wikipe­dia us­age sur­vey results

VipulNaikDec 25, 2016, 1:55 PM
14 points
17 comments35 min readLW link

How Fea­si­ble Is the Rapid Devel­op­ment of Ar­tifi­cial Su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

Kaj_SotalaOct 24, 2016, 8:43 AM
14 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(foundational-research.org)

Seek­ing bet­ter name for “Effec­tive Ego­ism”

DataPacRatNov 25, 2016, 10:31 PM
14 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing long-run civil­i­sa­tional robustness

RyanCareyMay 10, 2016, 11:15 AM
14 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

Re­but­tal piece by Stu­art Rus­sell and FHI Re­search As­so­ci­ate Allan Dafoe: “Yes, the ex­perts are wor­ried about the ex­is­ten­tial risk of ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence.”

crmflynnNov 3, 2016, 5:54 PM
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.technologyreview.com)

Yoshua Ben­gio on AI progress, hype and risks

V_VJan 30, 2016, 1:45 AM
14 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Ed­u­ca­tion as En­ter­tain­ment and the Down­fall of LessWrong

SquirrelInHellMar 4, 2016, 2:06 PM
14 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

Iden­ti­fy­ing bias. A Bayesian anal­y­sis of sus­pi­cious agree­ment be­tween be­liefs and val­ues.

Stefan_SchubertJan 31, 2016, 11:29 AM
14 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Map and Ter­ri­tory: a new ra­tio­nal­ist group blog

Gordon Seidoh WorleyOct 15, 2016, 5:55 PM
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

2016 AI Risk Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

LarksDec 15, 2016, 12:19 AM
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(effective-altruism.com)

Up­dat­ing to­wards the simu­la­tion hy­poth­e­sis be­cause you think about AI

SoerenMindMar 5, 2016, 10:23 PM
13 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Quick puz­zle about util­ity func­tions un­der af­fine transformations

LironJul 16, 2016, 5:11 PM
13 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Recom­men­da­tion] Steven Uni­verse & cryonics

tadrinthOct 11, 2016, 4:21 PM
13 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Writ­ing Collaboratively

richard_reitzJun 18, 2016, 7:47 PM
13 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

[LINK] Up­dat­ing Drake’s Equa­tion with val­ues from mod­ern astronomy

DanArmakApr 30, 2016, 10:08 PM
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Nas­sim Taleb on Elec­tion Forecasting

NatashaRostovaNov 26, 2016, 7:06 PM
13 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] Huffing­ton Post ar­ti­cle about dual pro­cess theory

Gleb_TsipurskyJan 6, 2016, 1:44 AM
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

What they don’t teach you at STEM school

RomeoStevensNov 30, 2016, 7:20 PM
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(meaningness.com)

Stand-up com­edy as a way to im­prove ra­tio­nal­ity skills

Andy_McKenzieNov 27, 2016, 9:52 PM
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Ge­netic “Na­ture” is cul­tural too

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 18, 2016, 2:33 PM
13 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

Re­duc­ing Risks of Astro­nom­i­cal Suffer­ing (S-Risks): A Ne­glected Global Priority

ignorancepriorOct 14, 2016, 7:58 PM
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(foundational-research.org)

How can peo­ple write good LW ar­ti­cles?

abramdemskiNov 29, 2016, 10:40 AM
13 points
8 comments3 min readLW link