Original Research on Less Wrong
Hundreds of Less Wrong posts summarize or repackage work previously published in professional books and journals, but Less Wrong also hosts lots of original research in philosophy, decision theory, mathematical logic, and other fields. This post serves as a curated index of Less Wrong posts containing significant original research.
Obviously, there is much fuzziness about what counts as "significant" or "original." I'll be making lots of subjective judgment calls about which suggestions to add to this post. One clear rule is: I won't be linking anything that merely summarizes previous work (e.g. Stuart's summary of his earlier work on utility indifference).
Update 09/20/2013: Added Notes on logical priors from the MIRI workshop, Cooperating with agents with different ideas of fairness, while resisting exploitation, Do Earths with slower economic growth have a better chance at FAI?
Update 11/03/2013: Added Bayesian probability as an approximate theory of uncertainty?, On the importance of taking limits: Infinite Spheres of Utility, Of all the SIA-doomsdays in the all the worlds...
Update 01/22/2014: Added Change the labels, undo infinitely good, Reduced impact AI: no back channels, International cooperation vs. AI arms race, Naturalistic trust among AIs: The parable of the thesis advisor’s theorem
General philosophy
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Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners. Eliezer's bottom-up guide to truth, reference, meaningfulness, and epistemology. Includes practical applications and puzzling meditations.
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Seeing Red, A Study of Scarlet, Nature: Red in Tooth and Qualia. Orthonormal dissolves Mary's room and qualia.
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Counterfactual resiliency test for non-causal models. Stuart Armstrong suggests testing non-causal models for "counterfactual resiliency."
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Thoughts and problems with Eliezer's measure of optimization power. Stuart Armstrong examines some potential problems with Eliezer's concept of optimization power.
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Free will. Eliezer's particular compatibilist-style solution to the free will problem from reductionist viewpoint.
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The absolute Self-Selection Assumption. A clarification on anthropic reasoning, focused on Wei Dai s UDASSA framework.
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SIA, conditional probability, and Jaan Tallinn s simulation tree. Stuart Armstrong makes the bridge between Nick Bostrom s Self-Indication Assumption (SIA) and Jann Tallinn s of superintelligence reproduction.
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Mathematical Measures of Optimization Power. Alex Altair tackles one approach to mathematically formalizing Yudkowsky s Optimization Power concept.
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Caught in the glare of two anthropic shadows. Stuart_Armstrong provides a detailed analysis of the "anthrophic shadow" concept and its implications.
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Bayesian probability as an approximate theory of uncertainty?. Vladimir Slepnev argues that Bayesian probability is an imperfect approximation of what we want from a theory of uncertainty.
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Of all the SIA-doomsdays in the all the worlds.... Stuart_Armstrong on the doomsday argument, the self-sampling assumption and the self-indication assumption.
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