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Attempted Telekinesis

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MIRI's technical agenda: an annotated bibliography, and other updates

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Rationality Quotes Thread February 2015

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The Value Learning Problem

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The Role of Attractiveness in Mate Selection: Individual Variation

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Formalizing Two Problems of Realistic World Models

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Control Theory Commentary

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Behavior: The Control of Perception

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An Introduction to Control Theory

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Respond to what they probably meant

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Vingean Reflection: Reliable Reasoning for Self-Improving Agents

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[meta] New LW moderator: NancyLebovitz

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How subjective is attractiveness?

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Existential Risk and Existential Hope: Definitions

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Questions of Reasoning under Logical Uncertainty

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The Importance of Sidekicks

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2014 Survey Results

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How much does consumption affect production?

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Graphical Assumption Modeling

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The Superstar Effect

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Understanding Who You Really Are

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Rationality Quotes January 2015

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Treating anthropic selfish preferences as an extension of TDT

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Dark Arts 101: Be rigorous, on average

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We Haven't Uploaded Worms

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CFAR in 2014: Continuing to climb out of the startup pit, heading toward a full prototype

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Open and closed mental states

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Factoring cost-effectiveness

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MIRI's technical research agenda

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State of the Solstice 2014

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Understanding Agency

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Using machine learning to predict romantic compatibility: empirical results

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New paper from MIRI: "Toward idealized decision theory"

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Kickstarting the audio version of the upcoming book "The Sequences"

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Welcome to Less Wrong! (7th thread, December 2014)

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Estimating the cost-effectiveness of research

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Rationality Quotes December 2014

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The Bay Area Solstice

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When the uncertainty about the model is higher than the uncertainty in the model

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You have a set amount of "weirdness points". Spend them wisely.

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Meetup : Warsaw December Meetup

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The Hostile Arguer

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Meetup : Utrecht

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Agency and Life Domains

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Belief Chains

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A Cost- Benefit Analysis of Immunizing Healthy Adults Against Influenza

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A List of Nuances

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MIRI Research Guide

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Rationality Quotes November 2014

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Unemployment explanations

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November 2014 Monthly Bragging Thread

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The Truth and Instrumental Rationality

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"Solving" selfishness for UDT

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2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey

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2014 iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament results

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The Future of Humanity Institute could make use of your money

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Logics for Mind-Building Should Have Computational Meaning

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Newcomblike problems are the norm

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