Epistemic and Instrumental Tradeoffs

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:49:00 +0000

Submitted by katydee 7 comments

New LW Meetups: Bristol, Tel Aviv

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:15:17 +0000

Submitted by FrankAdamek 0 comments

The flawed Turing test: language, understanding, and partial p-zombies

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:02:48 +0000

Submitted by Stuart_Armstrong 101 comments

To Inspire People to Give, Be Public About Your Giving

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:58:09 +0000

Submitted by peter_hurford 14 comments

Post ridiculous munchkin ideas!

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:27:19 +0000

Submitted by D_Malik 847 comments

How to Build a Community

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:43:05 +0000

Submitted by peter_hurford 177 comments

The Power of Pomodoros

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:36:25 +0000

Submitted by elharo 44 comments

Pascal's Muggle: Infinitesimal Priors and Strong Evidence

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:43:17 +1000

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 353 comments

Maximizing Your Donations via a Job

Sun, 05 May 2013 23:19:05 +0000

Submitted by Alexei 43 comments

Estimates vs. head-to-head comparisons

Sat, 04 May 2013 06:45:37 +0000

Submitted by paulfchristiano 32 comments

Rationality Quotes May 2013

Sat, 04 May 2013 06:02:50 +1000

Submitted by katydee 315 comments

New report: Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:14:58 +1000

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 223 comments

Problems in Education

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:00:15 +0000

Submitted by ThinkOfTheChildren 7 comments

Privileging the Question

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:30:35 +1000

Submitted by Qiaochu_Yuan 281 comments

Rocket science and big money - a cautionary tale of math gone wrong

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:11:01 +1000

Submitted by Morendil 10 comments

Ritual Report: Schelling Day

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:46:53 +0000

Submitted by ModusPonies 113 comments

Fermi Estimates

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:52:28 +1000

Submitted by lukeprog 105 comments

New applied rationality workshops (April, May, and July)

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:58:58 +1000

Submitted by Julia_Galef 71 comments

Willing gamblers, spherical cows, and AIs

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:30:24 +0000

Submitted by ChrisHallquist 39 comments

Rationality Quotes April 2013

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:00:38 +1000

Submitted by Vaniver 279 comments

Anybody want to join a Math Club?

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:36:56 +1100

Submitted by smoofra 38 comments

A Call for Constant Vigilance

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:52:06 +1100

Submitted by katydee 32 comments

We Don't Have a Utility Function

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:49:10 +0000

Submitted by nyan_sandwich 123 comments

Welcome to Less Wrong! (5th thread, March 2013)

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:19:17 +1100

Submitted by orthonormal 1325 comments

Schelling Day: A Rationalist Holiday

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:18:16 +0000

Submitted by ModusPonies 18 comments

Reflection in Probabilistic Logic

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:37:36 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 161 comments

How to Not Get Offended

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:12:26 +0000

Submitted by katydee 12 comments

Recent updates to gwern.net (2012-2013)

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:54:30 +1100

Submitted by gwern 32 comments

Bayesian Adjustment Does Not Defeat Existential Risk Charity

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:50:02 +1100

Submitted by steven0461 86 comments

Programming the LW Study Hall

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 05:28:10 +1100

Submitted by ShannonFriedman 53 comments

Co-Working Collaboration to Combat Akrasia

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 05:17:04 +1100

Submitted by ShannonFriedman 95 comments

Don't Get Offended

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:11:37 +1100

Submitted by katydee 588 comments

MetaMed: Evidence-Based Healthcare

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:16:45 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 167 comments

Meta Decision Theory and Newcomb's Problem

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:29:40 +1100

Submitted by wdcrouch 12 comments

Rationality Quotes March 2013

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:45:48 +1100

Submitted by Jayson_Virissimo 339 comments

Decision Theory FAQ

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:15:55 +1100

Submitted by lukeprog 455 comments

Why Bayes? A Wise Ruling

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:52:40 +1100

Submitted by Vaniver 116 comments

An attempt to dissolve subjective expectation and personal identity

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:44:08 +1100

Submitted by Kaj_Sotala 68 comments

Learning critical thinking: a personal example

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:43:06 +1100

Submitted by Swimmer963 28 comments

Domesticating reduced impact AIs

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:59:13 +1100

Submitted by Stuart_Armstrong 104 comments

Memetic Tribalism

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:03:04 +1100

Submitted by nyan_sandwich 62 comments

A brief history of ethically concerned scientists

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:50:00 +1100

Submitted by Kaj_Sotala 146 comments

Philosophical Landmines

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 08:22:43 +1100

Submitted by nyan_sandwich 144 comments

Rationality Quotes February 2013

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:20:50 +1100

Submitted by arundelo 562 comments

Pinpointing Utility

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:58:00 +1100

Submitted by nyan_sandwich 152 comments

Second major sequence now available in audio format

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:25:03 +1100

Submitted by Rick_from_Castify 6 comments

Best of Rationality Quotes, 2012 Edition

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:03:20 +1100

Submitted by DanielVarga 17 comments

Right for the Wrong Reasons

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:02:50 +1100

Submitted by katydee 65 comments

Value-Focused Thinking: a chapter-by-chapter summary

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:39:38 +1100

Submitted by Vaniver 13 comments

Update Then Forget

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:36:48 +1100

Submitted by royf 11 comments

Assessing Kurzweil: the results

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 03:51:50 +1100

Submitted by Stuart_Armstrong 58 comments

A fungibility theorem

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:27:25 +1100

Submitted by Nisan 66 comments

Don't Build Fallout Shelters

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:38:48 +1100

Submitted by katydee 124 comments

How to Be Oversurprised

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:02:01 +1100

Submitted by royf 14 comments

Morality is Awesome

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:21:30 +1100

Submitted by nyan_sandwich 436 comments

Second-Order Logic: The Controversy

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 06:51:28 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 154 comments

Case Study: the Death Note Script and Bayes

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:33:37 +1100

Submitted by gwern 43 comments

2012: Year in Review

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:56:06 +1100

Submitted by Kaj_Sotala 34 comments

Applied Rationality Workshops: Jan 25-28 and March 1-4

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:00:34 +1100

Submitted by AnnaSalamon 25 comments

How to Disentangle the Past and the Future

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:43:27 +1100

Submitted by royf 11 comments

Rationality Quotes January 2013

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:23:36 +1100

Submitted by katydee 602 comments

You can't signal to rubes

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:40:18 +1100

Submitted by Patrick 115 comments

Ritual 2012: A Moment of Darkness

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:09:16 +1100

Submitted by Raemon 136 comments

Godel's Completeness and Incompleteness Theorems

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 12:16:59 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 84 comments

Ritual Report 2012: Life, Death, Light, Darkness, and Love.

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 05:56:58 +1100

Submitted by Raemon 206 comments

Standard and Nonstandard Numbers

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:23:28 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 83 comments

Narrative, self-image, and self-communication

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:42:16 +1100

Submitted by Academian 51 comments

More Cryonics Probability Estimates

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:59:49 +1100

Submitted by jkaufman 89 comments

Why you must maximize expected utility

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:11:13 +1100

Submitted by Benja 75 comments

New Sequences and General Update From Castify

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:45:12 +1100

Submitted by scott_from_castify 10 comments

By Which It May Be Judged

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:26:23 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 932 comments

2012 Survey Results

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:04:20 +1100

Submitted by Yvain 610 comments

2012 Winter Fundraiser for the Singularity Institute

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:41:32 +1100

Submitted by lukeprog 124 comments

Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:42:47 +1100

Submitted by lukeprog 509 comments

Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:26:24 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 353 comments

Factions, inequality, and social justice

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:37:49 +1100

Submitted by John_Maxwell_IV 162 comments

LessWrong podcasts

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:44:38 +1100

Submitted by Louie 96 comments

Rationality Quotes December 2012

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:33:14 +1100

Submitted by Thomas 226 comments

Philosophy Needs to Trust Your Rationality Even Though It Shouldn't

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:00:29 +1100

Submitted by lukeprog 169 comments

Philosophy by Humans, 3: Intuitions Aren't Shared That Way

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:19:50 +1100

Submitted by lukeprog 237 comments

Causal Universes

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:08:18 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 354 comments

Thoughts on designing policies for oneself

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:27:36 +1100

Submitted by John_Maxwell_IV 55 comments

A definition of wireheading

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:31:51 +1100

Submitted by Anja 80 comments

How minimal is our intelligence?

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:34:06 +1100

Submitted by Douglas_Reay 214 comments

LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:33:30 +1100

Submitted by daenerys 1254 comments

Overconfident Pessimism

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 11:47:43 +1100

Submitted by lukeprog 38 comments

Playing the student: attitudes to learning as social roles

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:56:20 +1100

Submitted by Swimmer963 23 comments

AGI-12 and AGI-Impacts - late places available

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:53:40 +1100

Submitted by Stuart_Armstrong 1 comment

Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and Meta-Charity

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:34:54 +1100

Submitted by wdcrouch 182 comments

How can I reduce existential risk from AI?

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:56:12 +1100

Submitted by lukeprog 73 comments

Nov 16-18: Rationality for Entrepreneurs

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:15:15 +1100

Submitted by AnnaSalamon 67 comments

Checklist of Rationality Habits

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:19:19 +1100

Submitted by AnnaSalamon 175 comments

Rationality Quotes November 2012

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:38:36 +1100

Submitted by GabrielDuquette 896 comments

Voting is like donating thousands of dollars to charity

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:02:37 +1100

Submitted by Academian 206 comments

2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:00:19 +1100

Submitted by Yvain 733 comments

Sign up to be notified about new LW meetups in your area

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:38:38 +1100

Submitted by Louie 11 comments

Logical Pinpointing

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:33:19 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 322 comments

Beyond Bayesians and Frequentists

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:03:00 +1100

Submitted by jsteinhardt 50 comments

Proofs, Implications, and Models

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:02:20 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 200 comments

Checking Kurzweil's track record

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:07:50 +1100

Submitted by Stuart_Armstrong 53 comments

Original Research on Less Wrong

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:50:35 +1100

Submitted by lukeprog 47 comments

Now I Appreciate Agency

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 04:31:59 +1100

Submitted by ShannonFriedman 134 comments

How to Deal with Depression - The Meta Layers

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 05:44:24 +1100

Submitted by ShannonFriedman 73 comments

Causal Reference

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:12:30 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 241 comments

Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:49:26 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 127 comments

How To Have Things Correctly

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:10:34 +1100

Submitted by Alicorn 218 comments

Causal Diagrams and Causal Models

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:49:16 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 265 comments

Raising the forecasting waterline (part 2)

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:56:44 +1100

Submitted by Morendil 22 comments

The Fabric of Real Things

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:11:13 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 303 comments

Raising the forecasting waterline (part 1)

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:49:57 +1100

Submitted by Morendil 108 comments

Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:01:13 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 338 comments

Point-Based Value Iteration

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:19:34 +1100

Submitted by royf 0 comments

Raising the waterline

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 03:23:05 +1100

Submitted by Morendil 12 comments

Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:59:38 +1000

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 132 comments

Skill: The Map is Not the Territory

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:59:25 +1000

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 171 comments

Rationality Quotes October 2012

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:50:16 +1000

Submitted by MBlume 296 comments

The Useful Idea of Truth

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:16:12 +1000

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 501 comments

Causality: a chapter by chapter review

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:55:32 +1000

Submitted by Vaniver 19 comments

New study on choice blindness in moral positions

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:14:33 +1000

Submitted by nerfhammer 151 comments

Less Wrong Polls in Comments

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:19:36 +1000

Submitted by jimrandomh 300 comments

The Bayesian Agent

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:23:34 +1000

Submitted by royf 19 comments

How about testing our ideas?

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:28:32 +1000

Submitted by Konkvistador 112 comments

Rationality Quotes September 2012

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:18:17 +1000

Submitted by Jayson_Virissimo 1089 comments

Counterfactual resiliency test for non-causal models

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 03:30:45 +1000

Submitted by Stuart_Armstrong 77 comments

The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world?

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:36:08 +1000

Submitted by Yvain 1691 comments

AI timeline prediction data

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:49:51 +1000

Submitted by Stuart_Armstrong 1 comment

How to get cryocrastinators to actually sign up for cryonics

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 03:57:19 +1000

Submitted by JGWeissman 89 comments

AI timeline predictions: are we getting better?

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:07:11 +1000

Submitted by Stuart_Armstrong 78 comments

Who Wants To Start An Important Startup?

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:02:15 +1000

Submitted by ShannonFriedman 403 comments

Why Don't People Help Others More?

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:34:43 +1000

Submitted by peter_hurford 85 comments

Bayes for Schizophrenics: Reasoning in Delusional Disorders

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 05:22:21 +1000

Submitted by Yvain 151 comments

Solving the two envelopes problem

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:42:19 +1000

Submitted by rstarkov 31 comments

Reinforcement, Preference and Utility

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:23:25 +1000

Submitted by royf 5 comments

Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:27:28 +1000

Submitted by pragmatist 232 comments

Self-skepticism: the first principle of rationality

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:51:32 +1000

Submitted by aaronsw 105 comments

What are the optimal biases to overcome?

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 01:04:14 +1000

Submitted by aaronsw 69 comments

Rationality Quotes August 2012

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 01:33:53 +1000

Submitted by Alejandro1 426 comments

Reinforcement Learning: A Non-Standard Introduction (Part 2)

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:17:08 +1000

Submitted by royf 7 comments

AGI-12 conference in Oxford in December

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:38:58 +1000

Submitted by Stuart_Armstrong 3 comments

Reinforcement Learning: A Non-Standard Introduction (Part 1)

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:13:38 +1000

Submitted by royf 18 comments

Neuroscience basics for LessWrongians

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:10:04 +1000

Submitted by ChrisHallquist 102 comments

Game Theory As A Dark Art

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:27:07 +1000

Submitted by Yvain 96 comments

SI's Summer 2012 Matching Drive Ends July 31st

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:48:12 +1000

Submitted by lukeprog 17 comments

Imperfect Voting Systems

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:07:11 +1000

Submitted by Yvain 86 comments

Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012)

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:24:51 +1000

Submitted by ciphergoth 844 comments

Tips for Starting Group Houses

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:03:51 +1000

Submitted by ShannonFriedman 14 comments

Bargaining and Auctions

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:42 +1000

Submitted by Yvain 70 comments

What Is Signaling, Really?

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 03:43:56 +1000

Submitted by Yvain 153 comments

What Is Optimal Philanthropy?

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:17:00 +1000

Submitted by tommccabe 35 comments

Kurzweil's predictions: good accuracy, poor self-calibration

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:55:11 +1000

Submitted by Stuart_Armstrong 39 comments

An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:05:20 +1000

Submitted by Alex_Altair 205 comments

Reply to Holden on The Singularity Institute

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:20:18 +1000

Submitted by lukeprog 211 comments

To Learn Critical Thinking, Study Critical Thinking

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 09:50:35 +1000

Submitted by gwern 17 comments

Interlude for Behavioral Economics

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 06:12:51 +1000

Submitted by Yvain 49 comments

Negative and Positive Selection

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:34:25 +1000

Submitted by tommccabe 262 comments

Rationality Quotes July 2012

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:29:52 +1000

Submitted by RobertLumley 466 comments

Real World Solutions to Prisoners' Dilemmas

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:25:25 +1000

Submitted by Yvain 82 comments

New York Less Wrong: Expansion Plans

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:20:09 +1000

Submitted by tommccabe 7 comments

Your existence is informative

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:46:35 +1000

Submitted by KatjaGrace 41 comments

Thoughts on moral intuitions

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:01:48 +1000

Submitted by Kaj_Sotala 191 comments

Backward Reasoning Over Decision Trees

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:17:13 +1000

Submitted by Yvain 55 comments

Introduction to Prisoners' Dilemma

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:54:56 +1000

Submitted by Yvain 5 comments

Nash Equilibria and Schelling Points

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:06:13 +1000

Submitted by Yvain 62 comments

Introduction to Game Theory: Sequence Guide

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:32:29 +1000

Submitted by Yvain 6 comments

A (small) critique of total utilitarianism

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:36:38 +1000

Submitted by Stuart_Armstrong 235 comments

The Power of Reinforcement

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:42:29 +1000

Submitted by lukeprog 455 comments

Plastination is maturing and needs funding, says Hanson

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:00:25 +1000

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 46 comments

Female Compatriots, Stay For a Week in Berkeley!

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:41:27 +1000

Submitted by ShannonFriedman 37 comments

Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Forum

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:15:57 +1000

Submitted by tommccabe 52 comments

Local Ordinances of Fun

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:07:47 +1000

Submitted by Alicorn 153 comments

AGI Impacts conference in Oxford in December, with Call for Papers

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:37:21 +1000

Submitted by Stuart_Armstrong 2 comments

How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:32:42 +1000

Submitted by Kaj_Sotala 33 comments

Reply to Holden on 'Tool AI'

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 04:00:51 +1000

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 320 comments

Conspiracy Theories as Agency Fictions

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 01:15:42 +1000

Submitted by Konkvistador 115 comments

Ask an experimental physicist

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 09:43:03 +1000

Submitted by RolfAndreassen 294 comments

"Progress"

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:51:58 +1000

Submitted by PhilGoetz 69 comments

Rationality Quotes June 2012

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 03:14:39 +1000

Submitted by OpenThreadGuy 406 comments

Rational Toothpaste: A Case Study

Thu, 31 May 2012 10:31:57 +1000

Submitted by badger 56 comments

Avoid inflationary use of terms

Thu, 31 May 2012 06:31:41 +1000

Submitted by lsparrish 89 comments

When None Dare Urge Restraint, pt. 2

Thu, 31 May 2012 01:28:27 +1000

Submitted by Jay_Schweikert 91 comments

Review: Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

Wed, 30 May 2012 04:00:02 +1000

Submitted by jsalvatier 251 comments

Problematic Problems for TDT

Wed, 30 May 2012 01:41:37 +1000

Submitted by drnickbone 297 comments

SotW: Avoid Motivated Cognition

Tue, 29 May 2012 01:57:55 +1000

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 81 comments

Sneaky Strategies for TDT

Sat, 26 May 2012 02:13:13 +1000

Submitted by drnickbone 22 comments

Holden's Objection 1: Friendliness is dangerous

Fri, 18 May 2012 10:48:14 +1000

Submitted by PhilGoetz 428 comments

General purpose intelligence: arguing the Orthogonality thesis

Tue, 15 May 2012 20:23:27 +1000

Submitted by Stuart_Armstrong 144 comments

Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)

Fri, 11 May 2012 14:31:30 +1000

Submitted by HoldenKarnofsky 1256 comments

Thinking and Deciding: a chapter by chapter review

Thu, 10 May 2012 09:52:14 +1000

Submitted by Vaniver 12 comments

Rationality Quotes May 2012

Wed, 02 May 2012 09:37:37 +1000

Submitted by OpenThreadGuy 673 comments

Recognizing memetic infections and forging resistance memes

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:40:40 +1000

Submitted by Johnicholas 32 comments

Crowdsourcing the availability heuristic

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:20:13 +1000

Submitted by kalla724 40 comments

To like each other, sing and dance in synchrony

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:30:25 +1000

Submitted by Kaj_Sotala 105 comments

Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part III

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:34:38 +1000

Submitted by orthonormal 53 comments

Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:48:04 +1000

Submitted by kalla724 91 comments

Exploring the Idea Space Efficiently

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:28:46 +1000

Submitted by Elithrion 26 comments

Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part II

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 04:59:35 +1000

Submitted by orthonormal 27 comments

SotW: Be Specific

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:11:40 +1000

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 302 comments

Rationality Quotes April 2012

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:42:04 +1000

Submitted by Oscar_Cunningham 858 comments

Fictional Bias

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:10:20 +1000

Submitted by thomblake 55 comments

Characterizing the superintelligence which we are concerned about

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:40:21 +1000

Submitted by JoshuaFox 13 comments

Examine your assumptions

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:28:40 +1100

Submitted by Douglas_Reay 13 comments

Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:48:48 +1100

Submitted by AnnaSalamon 239 comments

SotW: Check Consequentialism

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:35:13 +1100

Submitted by Eliezer_Yudkowsky 310 comments

Brain Preservation

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:56:42 +1100

Submitted by jkaufman 108 comments

Fundamentals of kicking anthropic butt

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:43:16 +1100

Submitted by Manfred 60 comments

Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part I

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 03:01:33 +1100

Submitted by orthonormal 90 comments

Emotional regulation Part II: research summary

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:51:24 +1100

Submitted by Swimmer963 40 comments

6 Tips for Productive Arguments

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:02:32 +1100

Submitted by John_Maxwell_IV 120 comments

Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:53:34 +1100

Submitted by Kaj_Sotala 41 comments

How to avoid dying in a car crash

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 06:44:45 +1100

Submitted by michaelcurzi 258 comments

Schelling fences on slippery slopes

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:44:05 +1100

Submitted by Yvain 156 comments

Biased Pandemic

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:32:39 +1100

Submitted by freyley 35 comments

Decision Theories: A Less Wrong Primer

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:31:51 +1100

Submitted by orthonormal 172 comments

I Was Not Almost Wrong But I Was Almost Right: Close-Call Counterfactuals and Bias

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:39:04 +1100

Submitted by Kaj_Sotala 39 comments

Rationally Irrational

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:21:23 +1100

Submitted by HungryTurtle 414 comments

Causal diagrams and software engineering

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:23:57 +1100

Submitted by Morendil 29 comments

Using degrees of freedom to change the past for fun and profit

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:51:55 +1100

Submitted by CarlShulman 23 comments

How to Fix Science

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:51:49 +1100

Submitted by lukeprog 140 comments

The Fox and the Low-Hanging Grapes

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:19:55 +1100

Submitted by Strange7 34 comments

Emotional regulation, Part I: a problem summary

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:10:11 +1100

Submitted by Swimmer963 38 comments

The kinesthesia switch

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:46:11 +1100

Submitted by NancyLebovitz 24 comments

Rationality Quotes March 2012

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:04:55 +1100

Submitted by Thomas 525 comments

Heuristics and Biases in Charity

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:20:23 +1100

Submitted by Kaj_Sotala 55 comments

Status and Changing your Mind

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 06:02:39 +1100

Submitted by jkaufman 19 comments

Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists (DC, March 13)

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:25:48 +1100

Submitted by PhilGoetz 7 comments

Get Curious

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:10:48 +1100

Submitted by lukeprog 98 comments

Logic: the science of algorithm evaluating algorithms

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:13:18 +1100

Submitted by Christian_Szegedy 11 comments

Ambiguity in cognitive bias names; a refresher

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:37:24 +1100

Submitted by nerfhammer 8 comments

Quantified Health Prize results announced

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:10:08 +1100

Submitted by Zvi 56 comments

Hearsay, Double Hearsay, and Bayesian Updates

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:31:53 +1100

Submitted by Mass_Driver 105 comments

The mathematics of reduced impact: help needed

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:23:14 +1100

Submitted by Stuart_Armstrong 94 comments

Avoid misinterpreting your emotions

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:51:32 +1100

Submitted by Kaj_Sotala 29 comments

My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:48:18 +1100

Submitted by lukeprog 130 comments

Feed the spinoff heuristic!

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:41:28 +1100

Submitted by CarlShulman 85 comments

Diseased disciplines: the strange case of the inverted chart

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:38 +1100

Submitted by Morendil 150 comments

Is Sunk Cost Fallacy a Fallacy?

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:33:49 +1100

Submitted by gwern 52 comments

Rationality Quotes February 2012

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:03:56 +1100

Submitted by GabrielDuquette 401 comments

Is risk aversion really irrational ?

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:34:13 +1100

Submitted by kilobug 65 comments

Risk aversion vs. concave utility function

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:25:39 +1100

Submitted by dvasya 33 comments

Against Utilitarianism: Sobel's attack on judging lives' goodness

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:45:35 +1100

Submitted by gwern 16 comments

Terminal Bias

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:03:21 +1100

Submitted by nyan_sandwich 125 comments

Efficient Charity: Cheap Utilons via bone marrow registration

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:52:16 +1100

Submitted by atorm 46 comments

The Ellsberg paradox and money pumps

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:34:32 +1100

Submitted by fool 72 comments

The Neglected Virtue of Curiosity

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:28:34 +1100

Submitted by vallinder 30 comments

The Substitution Principle

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:20:48 +1100

Submitted by Kaj_Sotala 64 comments

Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:57:04 +1100

Submitted by AnnaSalamon 68 comments

How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:50:42 +1100

Submitted by Swimmer963 223 comments

The Human's Hidden Utility Function (Maybe)

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:39:42 +1100

Submitted by lukeprog 87 comments

Neurological reality of human thought and decision making; implications for rationalism.

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