Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Polling Thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 09 March 2014 07:51:56PM 5 points [-]

I derived the following list of LessWrong topics and presented in on our LW meetup.

In order of decreasing typicality (most typical for LW first):

  • methods for being less wrong, knowing about biases, fallacies and heuristics

  • methods of self-improvement (if scientifically backed), e.g. living luminiously, winning at life, longevity

  • organization and discussion of meetups

  • dealing with procrastination and akrasia

  • statistics, probability theory, decision theory and related mathematical fields

  • topics of associated or related organizations CFAR, MIRI, GiveWell, CEA

  • advancing specific virtues: altruism, mindfulness, empathy, truthfulness, openness

  • artificial intelligence topics esp. if related to AGI, (U)FAI, AI going FOOM (or not)

  • the singularity and transhumanism (includes cryonics as method to get there) - this had the largest variance

  • rationality applied to social situations in relationships, parenting and small groups - this also had a large variance

  • (moral) philosophical theories, ethics

  • platform to hangout with like-minded smart people