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Domesticating reduced impact AIs

by Stuart_Armstrong | 9v (104c)

Memetic Tribalism

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A brief history of ethically concerned scientists

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Philosophical Landmines

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Rationality Quotes February 2013

by arundelo | 2v (563c)

Pinpointing Utility

by nyan_sandwich | 57v (154c)

Second major sequence now available in audio format

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Best of Rationality Quotes, 2012 Edition

by DanielVarga | 31v (18c)

Right for the Wrong Reasons

by katydee | 14v (66c)

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

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Update Then Forget

by royf | 9v (11c)

Assessing Kurzweil: the results

by Stuart_Armstrong | 45v (59c)

A fungibility theorem

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Don't Build Fallout Shelters

by katydee | 26v (124c)

How to Be Oversurprised

by royf | 13v (14c)

Morality is Awesome

by nyan_sandwich | 86v (437c)

Second-Order Logic: The Controversy

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 24v (188c)

Case Study: the Death Note Script and Bayes

by gwern | 25v (43c)

2012: Year in Review

by Kaj_Sotala | 40v (34c)

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

by AnnaSalamon | 20v (25c)

How to Disentangle the Past and the Future

by royf | 12v (12c)

Rationality Quotes January 2013

by katydee | 6v (604c)

You can't signal to rubes

by Patrick | 7v (115c)

Ritual 2012: A Moment of Darkness

by Raemon | 35v (136c)

Godel's Completeness and Incompleteness Theorems

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 34v (85c)

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

by Raemon | 20v (206c)

Standard and Nonstandard Numbers

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 31v (83c)

Narrative, self-image, and self-communication

by Academian | 32v (51c)

More Cryonics Probability Estimates

by jkaufman | 20v (89c)

Why you must maximize expected utility

by Benja | 20v (75c)

New Sequences and General Update From Castify

by scott_from_castify | 11v (10c)

By Which It May Be Judged

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 35v (934c)

2012 Survey Results

by Yvain | 80v (640c)

2012 Winter Fundraiser for the Singularity Institute

by lukeprog | 31v (126c)

Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant

by lukeprog | 65v (510c)

Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 29v (353c)

LessWrong podcasts

by Louie | 38v (96c)

Rationality Quotes December 2012

by Thomas | 4v (226c)

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

by lukeprog | 27v (169c)

Intuitions Aren't Shared That Way

by lukeprog | 31v (237c)

Causal Universes

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 60v (385c)

Thoughts on designing policies for oneself

by John_Maxwell_IV | 74v (63c)

A definition of wireheading

by Anja | 35v (80c)

How minimal is our intelligence?

by Douglas_Reay | 55v (214c)

LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance

by daenerys | 58v (1254c)

Overconfident Pessimism

by lukeprog | 25v (38c)

Playing the student: attitudes to learning as social roles

by Swimmer963 | 9v (23c)

AGI-12 and AGI-Impacts - late places available

by Stuart_Armstrong | 3v (1c)

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

by wdmacaskill | 44v (182c)

How can I reduce existential risk from AI?

by lukeprog | 46v (92c)

Nov 16-18: Rationality for Entrepreneurs

by AnnaSalamon | 25v (67c)

Checklist of Rationality Habits

by AnnaSalamon | 117v (186c)

Rationality Quotes November 2012

by GabrielDuquette | 6v (898c)

Voting is like donating thousands of dollars to charity

by Academian | 32v (210c)

2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey

by Yvain | 65v (733c)

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

by Louie | 30v (11c)

Logical Pinpointing

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 62v (338c)

Beyond Bayesians and Frequentists

by jsteinhardt | 36v (51c)

Proofs, Implications, and Models

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 58v (209c)

Checking Kurzweil's track record

by Stuart_Armstrong | 12v (53c)

Original Research on Less Wrong

by lukeprog | 21v (47c)

How to Deal with Depression - The Meta Layers

by ShannonFriedman | 26v (73c)

Causal Reference

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 30v (242c)

Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 51v (127c)

How To Have Things Correctly

by Alicorn | 57v (218c)

Causal Diagrams and Causal Models

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 61v (274c)

Raising the forecasting waterline (part 2)

by Morendil | 14v (22c)

The Fabric of Real Things

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 16v (305c)

Raising the forecasting waterline (part 1)

by Morendil | 32v (108c)

Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 86v (339c)

Point-Based Value Iteration

by royf | 9v (0c)

Raising the waterline

by Morendil | 30v (12c)

Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 37v (134c)

Skill: The Map is Not the Territory

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 49v (174c)

Rationality Quotes October 2012

by MBlume | 8v (298c)

The Useful Idea of Truth

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 77v (513c)

Causality: a chapter by chapter review

by Vaniver | 54v (21c)

New study on choice blindness in moral positions

by nerfhammer | 73v (151c)

Less Wrong Polls in Comments

by jimrandomh | 79v (302c)

The Bayesian Agent

by royf | 11v (19c)

How about testing our ideas?

by Konkvistador | 31v (113c)

Rationality Quotes September 2012

by Jayson_Virissimo | 7v (1088c)

Counterfactual resiliency test for non-causal models

by Stuart_Armstrong | 21v (78c)

The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world?

by Yvain | 157v (1742c)

AI timeline prediction data

by Stuart_Armstrong | 12v (1c)

How to get cryocrastinators to actually sign up for cryonics

by JGWeissman | 19v (94c)

AI timeline predictions: are we getting better?

by Stuart_Armstrong | 54v (78c)

Who Wants To Start An Important Startup?

by ShannonFriedman | 41v (407c)

Why Don't People Help Others More?

by peter_hurford | 36v (85c)

Bayes for Schizophrenics: Reasoning in Delusional Disorders

by Yvain | 88v (154c)

Solving the two envelopes problem

by rstarkov | 32v (33c)

Reinforcement, Preference and Utility

by royf | 7v (5c)

Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules

by pragmatist | 32v (234c)

Self-skepticism: the first principle of rationality

by aaronsw | 36v (105c)

What are the optimal biases to overcome?

by aaronsw | 60v (70c)

Rationality Quotes August 2012

by Alejandro1 | 6v (426c)

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

by royf | 9v (7c)

AGI-12 conference in Oxford in December

by Stuart_Armstrong | 4v (3c)

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

by royf | 20v (18c)

Neuroscience basics for LessWrongians

by ChrisHallquist | 84v (102c)

Game Theory As A Dark Art

by Yvain | 50v (100c)

SI's Summer 2012 Matching Drive Ends July 31st

by lukeprog | 13v (17c)

Imperfect Voting Systems

by Yvain | 34v (87c)

Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012)

by ciphergoth | 20v (843c)

Tips for Starting Group Houses

by ShannonFriedman | 12v (14c)

Bargaining and Auctions

by Yvain | 29v (70c)

What Is Signaling, Really?

by Yvain | 74v (169c)

What Is Optimal Philanthropy?

by alyssavance | 24v (35c)

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

by Stuart_Armstrong | 33v (39c)

An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction

by Alex_Altair | 53v (210c)

Reply to Holden on The Singularity Institute

by lukeprog | 46v (213c)

To Learn Critical Thinking, Study Critical Thinking

by gwern | 26v (17c)

Interlude for Behavioral Economics

by Yvain | 49v (49c)

Negative and Positive Selection

by alyssavance | 71v (262c)

Rationality Quotes July 2012

by RobertLumley | 3v (466c)

Real World Solutions to Prisoners' Dilemmas

by Yvain | 31v (87c)

New York Less Wrong: Expansion Plans

by alyssavance | 13v (7c)

Your existence is informative

by KatjaGrace | 2v (41c)

Thoughts on moral intuitions

by Kaj_Sotala | 39v (199c)

Backward Reasoning Over Decision Trees

by Yvain | 60v (57c)

Introduction to Prisoners' Dilemma

by Yvain | 19v (5c)

Nash Equilibria and Schelling Points

by Yvain | 41v (76c)

Introduction to Game Theory: Sequence Guide

by Yvain | 42v (6c)

A (small) critique of total utilitarianism

by Stuart_Armstrong | 36v (237c)

The Power of Reinforcement

by lukeprog | 96v (467c)

Plastination is maturing and needs funding, says Hanson

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 70v (46c)

Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Forum

by alyssavance | 25v (54c)

Local Ordinances of Fun

by Alicorn | 18v (153c)

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

by Stuart_Armstrong | 9v (2c)

How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup

by Kaj_Sotala | 55v (35c)

Reply to Holden on 'Tool AI'

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 94v (348c)

Conspiracy Theories as Agency Fictions

by Konkvistador | 30v (115c)

Ask an experimental physicist

by RolfAndreassen | 35v (294c)

"Progress"

by PhilGoetz | 1v (69c)

Rationality Quotes June 2012

by OpenThreadGuy | 4v (413c)

Rational Toothpaste: A Case Study

by badger | 68v (58c)

Avoid inflationary use of terms

by lsparrish | 74v (90c)

When None Dare Urge Restraint, pt. 2

by Jay_Schweikert | 56v (91c)

Review: Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

by jsalvatier | 17v (257c)

Problematic Problems for TDT

by drnickbone | 36v (298c)

SotW: Avoid Motivated Cognition

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 20v (81c)

Sneaky Strategies for TDT

by drnickbone | 8v (22c)

Holden's Objection 1: Friendliness is dangerous

by PhilGoetz | 11v (428c)

General purpose intelligence: arguing the Orthogonality thesis

by Stuart_Armstrong | 20v (156c)

Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)

by HoldenKarnofsky | 256v (1270c)

Thinking and Deciding: a chapter by chapter review

by Vaniver | 35v (16c)

Rationality Quotes May 2012

by OpenThreadGuy | 6v (696c)

Recognizing memetic infections and forging resistance memes

by Johnicholas | 4v (35c)

Crowdsourcing the availability heuristic

by kalla724 | 31v (40c)

To like each other, sing and dance in synchrony

by Kaj_Sotala | 20v (107c)

Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part III

by orthonormal | 23v (53c)

Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation

by kalla724 | 174v (98c)

Exploring the Idea Space Efficiently

by Elithrion | 22v (27c)

Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part II

by orthonormal | 16v (27c)

SotW: Be Specific

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 37v (306c)

Rationality Quotes April 2012

by Oscar_Cunningham | 4v (858c)

Fictional Bias

by thomblake | 0v (55c)

Characterizing the superintelligence which we are concerned about

by JoshuaFox | 9v (13c)

Examine your assumptions

by Douglas_Reay | 32v (13c)

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

by AnnaSalamon | 24v (239c)

SotW: Check Consequentialism

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 38v (311c)

Brain Preservation

by jkaufman | 22v (108c)

Fundamentals of kicking anthropic butt

by Manfred | 18v (60c)

Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part I

by orthonormal | 21v (90c)

Emotional regulation Part II: research summary

by Swimmer963 | 23v (40c)

6 Tips for Productive Arguments

by John_Maxwell_IV | 30v (121c)

Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence

by Kaj_Sotala | 59v (41c)

How to avoid dying in a car crash

by michaelcurzi | 75v (288c)

Schelling fences on slippery slopes

by Yvain | 179v (189c)

Biased Pandemic

by freyley | 56v (35c)

Decision Theories: A Less Wrong Primer

by orthonormal | 69v (172c)

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

by Kaj_Sotala | 54v (39c)

Causal diagrams and software engineering

by Morendil | 32v (29c)

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

by CarlShulman | 41v (23c)

How to Fix Science

by lukeprog | 50v (141c)

The Fox and the Low-Hanging Grapes

by Strange7 | -2v (34c)

Emotional regulation, Part I: a problem summary

by Swimmer963 | 10v (38c)

The kinesthesia switch

by NancyLebovitz | 7v (24c)

Rationality Quotes March 2012

by Thomas | 4v (525c)

Heuristics and Biases in Charity

by Kaj_Sotala | 21v (55c)

Status and Changing your Mind

by jkaufman | 13v (19c)

Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists (DC, March 13)

by PhilGoetz | 8v (7c)

Get Curious

by lukeprog | 51v (98c)

Logic: the science of algorithm evaluating algorithms

by Christian_Szegedy | 6v (11c)

Ambiguity in cognitive bias names; a refresher

by nerfhammer | 25v (8c)

Quantified Health Prize results announced

by Zvi | 44v (63c)

Hearsay, Double Hearsay, and Bayesian Updates

by Mass_Driver | 47v (105c)

The mathematics of reduced impact: help needed

by Stuart_Armstrong | 10v (94c)

Avoid misinterpreting your emotions

by Kaj_Sotala | 66v (32c)

My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination

by lukeprog | 81v (138c)

Feed the spinoff heuristic!

by CarlShulman | 49v (85c)

Diseased disciplines: the strange case of the inverted chart

by Morendil | 47v (150c)

Is Sunk Cost Fallacy a Fallacy?

by gwern | 19v (80c)

Rationality Quotes February 2012

by GabrielDuquette | 5v (401c)

Is risk aversion really irrational ?

by kilobug | 41v (65c)

Risk aversion vs. concave utility function

by dvasya | 1v (33c)

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

by gwern | 13v (16c)

Terminal Bias

by nyan_sandwich | 18v (125c)

Efficient Charity: Cheap Utilons via bone marrow registration

by atorm | 17v (46c)

The Ellsberg paradox and money pumps

by fool | 10v (72c)

The Neglected Virtue of Curiosity

by vallinder | 23v (31c)

The Substitution Principle

by Kaj_Sotala | 68v (64c)

Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief

by AnnaSalamon | 80v (71c)

How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious

by Swimmer963 | 113v (237c)

The Human's Hidden Utility Function (Maybe)

by lukeprog | 44v (87c)

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

by Dmytry | 3v (42c)

POSITION: Design and Write Rationality Curriculum

by Eliezer_Yudkowsky | 54v (174c)

The problem with too many rational memes

by Swimmer963 | 80v (339c)

Histocracy: Open, Effective Group Decision-Making With Weighted Voting

by HonoreDB | 14v (62c)

Leveling Up in Rationality: A Personal Journey

by lukeprog | 33v (59c)

Completeness, incompleteness, and what it all means: first versus second order logic

by Stuart_Armstrong | 45v (38c)

The Savage theorem and the Ellsberg paradox

by fool | 13v (55c)

Can the Chain Still Hold You?

by lukeprog | 108v (354c)

On accepting an argument if you have limited computational power.

by Dmytry | 22v (85c)

The Gift I Give Tomorrow

by Raemon | 28v (33c)

Designing Ritual

by Raemon | 25v (75c)

What Curiosity Looks Like

by lukeprog | 31v (283c)

Quantified Health Prize Deadline Extended

by alyssavance | 3v (45c)

Rationality quotes January 2012

by Thomas | 9v (462c)

New Year's Prediction Thread (2012)

by gwern | 20v (339c)

So You Want to Save the World

by lukeprog | 41v (146c)

The bias shield

by PhilGoetz | 18v (65c)

The Value (and Danger) of Ritual

by Raemon | 29v (68c)

For-Profit Rationality Training

by ksvanhorn | 24v (40c)

Best of Rationality Quotes, 2011 Edition

by DanielVarga | 29v (25c)

Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012)

by orthonormal | 25v (1430c)

Just another day in utopia

by Stuart_Armstrong | 78v (116c)

Prediction is hard, especially of medicine

by gwern | 47v (47c)

Spend Money on Ergonomics

by Kevin | 43v (208c)

Decision Analysis Sequence

by Vaniver | 24v (6c)

Measures, Risk, Death, and War

by Vaniver | 11v (14c)

Ritual Report: NYC Less Wrong Solstice Celebration

by Raemon | 83v (179c)

How to label thoughts nonverbally

by eugman | 34v (27c)

Compressing Reality to Math

by Vaniver | 20v (7c)

[Link] A gentle video introduction to game theory

by Konkvistador | 33v (9c)

An akrasia case study

by nyan_sandwich | 31v (29c)

2011 Survey Results

by Yvain | 94v (513c)

Drawing Less Wrong: Technical Skill

by Raemon | 26v (36c)

Funnel plots: the study that didn't bark, or, visualizing regression to the null

by gwern | 47v (40c)

Rationality Quotes December 2011

by Jayson_Virissimo | 4v (577c)

Announcing the Quantified Health Prize

by Zvi | 50v (140c)

5 Axioms of Decision Making

by Vaniver | 35v (60c)

Hack Away at the Edges

by lukeprog | 48v (54c)

Uncertainty

by Vaniver | 20v (16c)

Living Metaphorically

by lukeprog | 24v (76c)

(Subjective Bayesianism vs. Frequentism) VS. Formalism

by potato | 27v (106c)

Value of Information: Four Examples

by Vaniver | 76v (60c)

5-second level case study: Value of information

by Kaj_Sotala | 23v (6c)

Objections to Coherent Extrapolated Volition

by XiXiDu | 11v (56c)

Drawing Less Wrong: Observing Reality

by Raemon | 35v (15c)