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AI indifference through utility manipulation

by Stuart_Armstrong | 2

Rationality quotes: September 2010

by Morendil | 4

Berkeley LW Meet-up Sunday September 5

by LucasSloan | 5

Less Wrong: Open Thread, September 2010

by matt | 2

Dreams of AIXI

by jacob_cannell | 2

Morality as Parfitian-filtered Decision Theory?

by SilasBarta | 19

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 3

by Unnamed | 5

Exploitation and cooperation in ecology, government, business, and AI

by PhilGoetz | 14

Cryonics Questions

by James_Miller | 9

Self-fulfilling correlations

by PhilGoetz | 72

Criteria for Rational Political Conversation

by woozle | -6

The prior of a hypothesis does not depend on its complexity

by cousin_it | 19

Luminosity (Twilight fanfic) discussion thread

by FAWS | 9

Burning Man Meetup: Bayes Camp

by Larks | 14

Minimum computation and data requirements for consciousness.

by daedalus2u | -13

The Smoking Lesion: A problem for evidential decision theory

by AdamBell | 3

Justifying Induction

by Unknowns | 0

Consciousness of simulations & uploads: a reductio

by simplicio | 0

Rationality Lessons in the Game of Go

by GreenRoot | 37

Transparency and Accountability

by multifoliaterose | 13

The Importance of Self-Doubt

by multifoliaterose | 12

Positioning oneself to make a difference

by Mitchell_Porter | 7

Transhumanism and the denotation-connotation gap

by PhilGoetz | 17

How can we compare decision theories?

by bentarm | 6

Other Existential Risks

by multifoliaterose | 28

What a reduction of "probability" probably looks like

by cousin_it | 8

Should humanity give birth to a galactic civilization?

by XiXiDu | -11

Desirable Dispositions and Rational Actions

by RichardChappell | 9

Newcomb's Problem: A problem for Causal Decision Theories

by AdamBell | 5

Kevin T. Kelly's Ockham Efficiency Theorem

by Johnicholas | 27

Existential Risk and Public Relations

by multifoliaterose | 32

Problems in evolutionary psychology

by Kaj_Sotala | 42

Taking Ideas Seriously

by Will_Newsome | 29

An introduction to decision theory

by AdamBell | 13

What a reduction of "could" could look like

by cousin_it | 30

Should I believe what the SIAI claims?

by XiXiDu | 11

What should I have for dinner? (A case study in decision making)

by bentarm | 21

Welcome to Less Wrong! (2010)

by orthonormal | 25

Singularity Summit 2010 Less Wrong Meetup

by Mycroft65536 | 7

Is it rational to be religious? Simulations are required for answer.

by Aleksei_Riikonen | -13

A Proof of Occam's Razor

by Unknowns | -1

Against Cryonics & For Cost-Effective Charity

by multifoliaterose | 6

Five-minute rationality techniques

by sketerpot | 49

Open Thread, August 2010-- part 2

by NancyLebovitz | 3

Book Recommendations

by NancyLebovitz | 24

Two straw men fighting

by JanetK | -2

Extraterrestrial paperclip maximizers

by multifoliaterose | 1

Christopher Hitchens and Cryonics

by James_Miller | 8

Purposefulness on Mars

by JamesAndrix | 8

Bloggingheads: Robert Wright and Eliezer Yudkowsky

by Liron | 6

Interested in a European lesswrong meetup

by MartinB | 7

Conflicts Between Mental Subagents: Expanding Wei Dai's Master-Slave Model

by Yvain | 34

The Threat of Cryonics

by lsparrish | 34

Rationality quotes: August 2010

by Cyan | 5

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 2

by dclayh | 13

Open Thread, August 2010

by NancyLebovitz | 4

AI cooperation in practice

by cousin_it | 23

Forager Anthropology

by WrongBot | 7

Alien parasite technical guy

by PhilGoetz | 46

Chicago Meetup: Sunday, August 1 at 2:00 pm

by Airedale | 6

Metaphilosophical Mysteries

by Wei_Dai | 24

Madison meetup: Wednesday, July 28th, 6PM

by Kevin | 10

Bay Area Events Roundup

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 5

Contrived infinite-torture scenarios: July 2010

by PlaidX | 13

Against the standard narrative of human sexual evolution

by WrongBot | 7

Simplified Humanism, Positive Futurism & How to Prevent the Universe From Being Turned Into Paper Clips

by Kevin | 5

Book Review: The Root of Thought

by Yvain | 41

Missed opportunities for doing well by doing good

by multifoliaterose | 10

Floating Festival Jul 22-25

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 8

A speculation on Near and Far Modes

by MichaelVassar | 11

(One reason) why capitalism is much maligned

by multifoliaterose | 2

Fight Zero-Sum Bias

by multifoliaterose | 19

Book Club Update, Chapter 3 of Probability Theory

by Morendil | 4

Chicago/Madison Meetup

by steven0461 | 9

So You Think You're a Bayesian? The Natural Mode of Probabilistic Reasoning

by Matt_Simpson | 45

The Instrumental Value of Your Own Time

by Mass_Driver | 21

Room for rent in North Berkeley house

by Kevin | 2

Some Thoughts Are Too Dangerous For Brains to Think

by WrongBot | 13

Singularity Institute Call for Volunteers

by tommccabe | 12

The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is soliciting ideas

by Kevin | 9

The red paperclip theory of status

by Morendil | 37

A Rational Identity

by Kaj_Sotala | 21

What Intelligence Tests Miss: The psychology of rational thought

by Kaj_Sotala | 28

Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2

by Alicorn | 6

A Taxonomy of Bias: Mindware Problems

by Kaj_Sotala | 12

July 2010 Southern California Meetup

by JenniferRM | 7

Assuming Nails

by Psychohistorian | 5

Cryonics Wants To Be Big

by lsparrish | 23

A Taxonomy of Bias: The Cognitive Miser

by Kaj_Sotala | 45

Rationality Quotes: July 2010

by komponisto | 4

Open Thread: July 2010

by komponisto | 6

What Cost for Irrationality?

by Kaj_Sotala | 38

Applied Bayes' Theorem: Reading People

by Kaj_Sotala | 17

A Challenge for LessWrong

by simplicio | 16

Book Club Update, Chapter 2 of Probability Theory

by Morendil | 8

Unknown knowns: Why did you choose to be monogamous?

by WrongBot | 34

Spaced Repetition Database for the Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions Sequence

by divia | 37

Is cryonics necessary?: Writing yourself into the future

by gworley | 5

A Rational Education

by wedrifid | 12

Rationality & Criminal Law: Some Questions

by simplicio | 13

Applying Behavioral Psychology on Myself

by John_Maxwell_IV | 45

What if AI doesn't quite go FOOM?

by Mass_Driver | 8

Defeating Ugh Fields In Practice

by Psychohistorian | 45

Surface syllogisms and the sin-based model of causation

by PhilGoetz | 14

Open Thread June 2010, Part 4

by Will_Newsome | 6

Cambridge Less Wrong meetup Sunday 27 June

by jimrandomh | 5

Book Club Update and Chapter 1

by Morendil | 15

Open Thread June 2010, Part 3

by Kevin | 6

How to always have interesting conversations

by Kaj_Sotala | 35

H+ Summit Meetup Harvard 6/12

by thomblake | 4

UDT agents as deontologists

by Tyrrell_McAllister | 8

Your intuitions are not magic

by Kaj_Sotala | 36

Bay Area Meetup Saturday 6/12

by Nick_Tarleton | 3

Less Wrong Book Club and Study Group

by Morendil | 33

Open Thread June 2010, Part 2

by komponisto | 7

Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists

by Will_Newsome | 23

Hacking the CEV for Fun and Profit

by Wei_Dai | 33

Bayes' Theorem Illustrated (My Way)

by komponisto | 74

Singularity Summit 2010 on Aug. 14-15 in San Francisco

by tommccabe | 7

Rationality quotes: June 2010

by Morendil | 4

Open Thread: June 2010

by Morendil | 5

Seven Shiny Stories

by Alicorn | 72

Cultivating our own gardens

by SarahC | 6

London UK, Saturday 2010-07-03: "How to think rationally about the future"

by ciphergoth | 8

On Less Wrong traffic and new users -- and how you can help

by Kevin | 19

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

by Yvain | 123

Significance of Compression Rate Method

by Daniel_Burfoot | 3

Composting fruitless debates

by Academian | 13

This is your brain on ambiguity

by Morendil | 16

Beyond Optimization by Proxy

by Alexandros | 10

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread

by Unnamed | 30

Abnormal Cryonics

by Will_Newsome | 49

On Enjoying Disagreeable Company

by Alicorn | 42

LessWrong meetup, London UK, 2010-06-06 16:00

by ciphergoth | 6

30th Soar workshop

by Johnicholas | 17

Link: Strong Inference

by Daniel_Burfoot | 9

To signal effectively, use a non-human, non-stoppable enforcer

by Clippy | 20

LessWrong downtime 2010-05-11, and other recent outages and instability

by matt | 16

Taking the awkwardness out of a Prenup - A Game Theoretic solution

by VijayKrishnan | 24

Chicago Meetup

by Airedale | 12

Open Thread: May 2010, Part 2

by Kevin | 3

Development of Compression Rate Method

by Daniel_Burfoot | 10

Another way to look at consciousness

by JanetK | 1

Summer vs Winter Strategies

by whpearson | -4

Blame Theory

by cousin_it | 9

Backchaining causes wishful thinking

by PhilGoetz | 14

Physicalism: consciousness as the last sense

by Academian | 18

What is Wei Dai's Updateless Decision Theory?

by AlephNeil | 30

Be a Visiting Fellow at the Singularity Institute

by AnnaSalamon | 21

Multiple Choice

by Alicorn | 9

Preface to a Proposal for a New Mode of Inquiry

by Daniel_Burfoot | 4

The Math of When to Self-Improve

by John_Maxwell_IV | 6

Study: Encouraging Obedience Considered Harmful

by MBlume | 18

Bay Area Lesswrong Meet up Sunday May 16

by LucasSloan | 2

Cambridge Less Wrong meetup this Sunday, May 16

by jimrandomh | 3

Blue- and Yellow-Tinted Choices

by Yvain | 36

Updating, part 1: When can you change your mind? The binary model

by PhilGoetz | 9

Conditioning on Observers

by Jonathan_Lee | 6

Q&A with Harpending and Cochran

by MBlume | 21

Is Google Paperclipping the Web? The Perils of Optimization by Proxy in Social Systems

by Alexandros | 31

The Psychological Diversity of Mankind

by Kaj_Sotala | 58

What is bunk?

by SarahC | 19

Beauty quips, "I'd shut up and multiply!"

by neq1 | 2

Cognitive Bias Song

by xamdam | 1

Antagonizing Opioid Receptors for (Prevention of) Fun and Profit

by Yvain | 34

The Cameron Todd Willingham test

by Kevin | 3

But Somebody Would Have Noticed

by Alicorn | 30

Human values differ as much as values can differ

by PhilGoetz | 10

Rationality quotes: May 2010

by ata | 2

Open Thread: May 2010

by Jack | 3

Averaging value systems is worse than choosing one

by PhilGoetz | 4

What are our domains of expertise? A marketplace of insights and issues

by Morendil | 21

Jinnetic Engineering, by Richard Stallman

by MBlume | 0

Possibilities for converting useless fun into utility in Online Gaming

by Aleksei_Riikonen | 2

MathOverflow as an example for LessWrong

by Academian | 35

Attention Less Wrong: We need an FAQ

by Kevin | 10

Proposed New Features for Less Wrong

by tommccabe | 7

Only humans can have human values

by PhilGoetz | 27

Who is your favorite rationalist?

by xamdam | 2

Navigating disagreement: How to keep your eye on the evidence

by AnnaSalamon | 34

The role of mathematical truths

by SilasBarta | 12

23andme genome analysis - $99 today only

by hegemonicon | 7

Too busy to think about life

by Academian | 39

Living Large - availability of life

by xamdam | 3

Fusing AI with Superstition

by Drahflow | -5

Eight Short Studies On Excuses

by Yvain | 107

CogSci books

by xamdam | 5

The Red Bias

by Jack | 32

Friendly, but Dumb: Why formal Friendliness proofs may not be as safe as they appear

by apophenia | 9

The Fundamental Question

by MBlume | 37

a meta-anti-akrasia strategy that might just work

by MartinB | 17

VNM expected utility theory: uses, abuses, and interpretation

by Academian | 13

Eluding Attention Hijacks

by ABranco | 17

Attention Lurkers: Please say hi

by Kevin | 31

The Concepts Problem

by Kaj_Sotala | 8

Self-indication assumption is wrong for interesting reasons

by neq1 | 6

The many faces of status

by Morendil | 34

A LessWrong poster for the Humanity+ conference next Saturday

by ciphergoth | 8

Preference utilitarian measure of historical welfare

by taw | 6

Self-modification is the correct justification for updateless decision theory

by Benja | 11

Singularity Call For Papers

by CarlShulman | 6

Meetup after Humanity+ , London, Saturday 2010-04-24?

by ciphergoth | 4

The Last Number

by Stuart_Armstrong | 0

Swimming in Reasons

by steven0461 | 7

Boston area meetup April 18

by jimrandomh | 6

Frequentist Magic vs. Bayesian Magic

by Wei_Dai | 26

Ureshiku Naritai

by Alicorn | 67

Open Thread: April 2010, Part 2

by Unnamed | 3

Pain and gain motivation

by Kaj_Sotala | 31

Single Point of Moral Failure

by Alexandros | 14

Lampshading

by Alicorn | 4

Late Great Filter Is Not Bad News

by Wei_Dai | 10

Free copy of Feynman's autobiography for best corny rationalist joke

by GreenRoot | 7

Bayesian Collaborative Filtering

by JGWeissman | 13

Less Wrong London meetup, tomorrow (Sunday 2010-04-04) 16:00

by ciphergoth | 3

Announcing the Less Wrong Sub-Reddit

by tommccabe | 5

Rationality quotes: April 2010

by wnoise | 4

The human problem

by PhilGoetz | 21

Open Thread: April 2010

by Unnamed | 3

The role of neodeconstructive rationalism in the works of Less Wrong

by thomblake | 23

Loleliezers

by dclayh | -1

City of Lights

by Alicorn | 13

Disambiguating Doom

by steven0461 | 14

Even if you have a nail, not all hammers are the same

by PhilGoetz | 65

NYC Rationalist Community

by Cosmos | 15

Highlights and Shadows

by Alicorn | 8

The I-Less Eye

by rwallace | 22

Mental Models

by hegemonicon | 10

It's not like anything to be a bat

by Yvain | 11

Addresses in the Multiverse

by jimrandomh | 4

Newcomb's problem happened to me

by Academian | 31

The Shabbos goy

by PhilGoetz | 28

Compartmentalization as a passive phenomenon

by Kaj_Sotala | 33

The mathematical universe: the map that is the territory

by ata | 35

Maximise Expected Utility, not Expected Perception of Utility

by JGWeissman | 6

Over-encapsulation

by PhilGoetz | 18

SIA won't doom you

by Stuart_Armstrong | 8

More thoughts on assertions

by Yvain | 22

The Spotlight

by Alicorn | 23

An empirical test of anthropic principle / great filter reasoning

by James_Miller | 7

The "show, don't tell" nature of argument

by Morendil | 13

The two insights of materialism

by Academian | 14

There just has to be something more, you know?

by Academian | 10

Levels of communication

by Kaj_Sotala | 42

Co-operative Utilitarianism

by RichardChappell | 3

Necessary, But Not Sufficient

by pjeby | 37

Subtext is not invariant under linear transformations

by PhilGoetz | 35

Understanding your understanding

by SilasBarta | 51

What would you do if blood glucose theory of willpower was true?

by taw | 4

The scourge of perverse-mindedness

by simplicio | 66

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