Title
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Concepts Introduced/Discussed
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Author
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Are wireheads happy?
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Wireheading
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Yvain
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Open Thread: January 2010
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Kaj_Sotala
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Stigmergy and Pickering's Mangle
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Johnicholas
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Drawing Two Aces
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Max Tegmark on our place in history: "We're Not Insignificant After All"
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Roko
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Disclosure vs. Bans: Reply to Robin Hanson
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David_J_Balan
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When does an insight count as evidence?
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alexflint
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TakeOnIt: Database of Expert Opinions
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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A Suite of Pragmatic Considerations in Favor of Niceness
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Alicorn
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Communicating effectively: form and content
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Morendil
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Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Video Answers
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MichaelGR
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Rationality Quotes January 2010
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Zack_M_Davis
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Will reason ever outrun faith?
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ABranco
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Case study: Melatonin
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gwern
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Fictional Evidence vs. Fictional Insight
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Wei_Dai
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Reference class of the unclassreferenceable
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taw
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Consciousness
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Mitchell_Porter
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Hypotheses For Dualism
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byrnema
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Savulescu: "Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction"
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Roko
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Dennett's "Consciousness Explained": Prelude
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PhilGoetz
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Dennett's "Consciousness Explained": Chpt 2
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PhilGoetz
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Consciousness Explained, chapter 3
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PhilGoetz
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The things we know that we know ain't so
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PhilGoetz
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High Status and Stupidity: Why?
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Outline of a lower bound for consciousness
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PhilGoetz
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Self control may be contagious
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Psy-Kosh
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Advice for AI makers
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Comic about the Singularity
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dclayh
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Back of the envelope calculations around the singularity.
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whpearson
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The Preference Utilitarian’s Time Inconsistency Problem
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Wei_Dai
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In defense of the outside view
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cousin_it
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The Wannabe Rational
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MrHen
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Dennett's heterophenomenology
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RichardKennaway
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Tips and Tricks for Answering Hard Questions
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Wei_Dai
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Sorting Out Sticky Brains
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Alicorn
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Advancing Certainty
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komponisto
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The Prediction Hierarchy
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RobinZ
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What big goals do we have?
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cousin_it
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Normal Cryonics
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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That Magical Click
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Winning the Unwinnable
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JRMayne
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Easy Predictor Tests
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MrHen
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Costs to (potentially) eternal life
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bgrah449
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Privileged Snuff
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rwallace
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Far & Near / Runaway Trolleys / The Proximity Of (Fat) Strangers
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botogol
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Lists of cognitive biases, common misconceptions, and fallacies
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Kevin
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Lesswrong UK planning thread
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whpearson
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Value Uncertainty and the Singleton Scenario
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Wei_Dai
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Simon Conway Morris: "Aliens are likely to look and behave like us".
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Roko
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Adaptive bias
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Morendil
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Welcome to Heaven
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denisbider
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You cannot be mistaken about (not) wanting to wirehead
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Kaj_Sotala
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Bizarre Illusions
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MrHen
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Play for a Cause
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brian_jaress
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Logical Rudeness
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Complexity of Value != Complexity of Outcome
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Wei_Dai
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Deontology for Consequentialists
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Alicorn
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Pascal's Pyramid Scheme
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patrissimo
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Strong moral realism, meta-ethics and pseudo-questions.
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Roko
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Open Thread: February 2010
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wedrifid
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Rationality Quotes: February 2010
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wedrifid
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Debunking komponisto on Amanda Knox (long)
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rolf_nelson
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The AI in a box boxes you
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Stuart_Armstrong
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My Failed Situation/Action Belief System
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MrHen
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David Pearce on Hedonic Moral realism
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Roko
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False Majorities
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JamesAndrix
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Applying utility functions to humans considered harmful
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Kaj_Sotala
|
A Much Better Life?
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Psychohistorian
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"Put It To The Test"
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MBlume
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A problem with Timeless Decision Theory (TDT)
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Gary_Drescher
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Debate tools: an experience report
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Morendil
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Ethics has Evidence Too
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Jack
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BHTV: Eliezer Yudkowsky & Razib Khan
|
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MichaelGR
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A survey of anti-cryonics writing
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ciphergoth
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Epistemic Luck
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Alicorn
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Common Errors in History
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PhilGoetz
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Shut Up and Divide?
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Wei_Dai
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The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks
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Kevin
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My Fundamental Question About Omega
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MrHen
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How Much Should We Care What the Founding Fathers Thought About Anything?
|
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David_J_Balan
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Shock Levels are Point Estimates
|
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Peter_de_Blanc
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Two Challenges
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Daniel_Burfoot
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You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Demands for Particular Proof: Appendices
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Two probabilities
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rwallace
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Boo lights: groupthink edition
|
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Morendil
|
Hayekian Prediction Markets?
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
Friendly AI at the NYC Future Salon
|
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Jasen
|
Open Thread: February 2010, part 2
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CronoDAS
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Things You Can't Countersignal
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Alicorn
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Explicit Optimization of Global Strategy (Fixing a Bug in UDT1)
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Wei_Dai
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Med Patient Social Networks Are Better Scientific Institutions
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Liron
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Study: Making decisions makes you tired
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bgrah449
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Conversation Halters
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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Akrasia Tactics Review
|
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orthonormal
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Case study: abuse of frequentist statistics
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Cyan
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Woo!
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BenAlbahari
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Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych
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Alicorn
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"Outside View!" as Conversation-Halter
|
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
The Last Days of the Singularity Challenge
|
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
What is Bayesianism?
|
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Kaj_Sotala
|
Creating a Less Wrong prediction market
|
|
Kevin
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Improving The Akrasia Hypothesis
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pjeby
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Superstimuli, setpoints, and obesity
|
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taw
|
Mental Crystallography
|
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Alicorn
|
Splinters and Wooden Beams
|
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knb
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Great Product. Lousy Marketing.
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BenAlbahari
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Hedging our Bets: The Case for Pursuing Whole Brain Emulation to Safeguard Humanity's Future
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inklesspen
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Open Thread: March 2010
|
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AdeleneDawner
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Rationality quotes: March 2010
|
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Morendil
|
For progress to be by accumulation and not by random walk, read great books
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
Individual vs. Group Epistemic Rationality
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Interesting Peter Norvig interview
|
|
xamdam
|
Priors and Surprise
|
|
MichaelVassar
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The Graviton as Aether
|
|
tommccabe
|
The fallacy of work-life compartmentalization
|
|
Morendil
|
Signaling Strategies and Morality
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
TED Talks: Daniel Kahneman
|
|
Cyan
|
The strongest status signals
|
|
pwno
|
Selfishness Signals Status
|
|
Liron
|
Coffee: When it helps, when it hurts
|
|
JustinShovelain
|
The Blackmail Equation
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
Blackmail, Nukes and the Prisoner's Dilemma
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
Deception and Self-Doubt
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
Nature editorial: Do scientists really need a PhD?
|
|
Kevin
|
Spring 2010 Meta Thread
|
|
FAWS
|
Open Thread: March 2010, part 2
|
|
RobinZ
|
Rational feelings: a crucial disambiguation
|
|
Academian
|
The Importance of Goodhart's Law
|
|
blogospheroid
|
Reasoning isn't about logic (it's about arguing)
|
|
Morendil
|
Crunchcourse - a tool for combating learning akrasia
|
|
whpearson
|
Musings on probability
|
|
bogdanb
|
Undiscriminating Skepticism
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Omega's subcontracting to Alpha
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
Overcoming the mind-killer
|
|
woozle
|
Subjective Anticipation and Death
|
|
LucasSloan
|
Living Luminously
|
|
Alicorn
|
You Are Likely To Be Eaten By A Grue
|
|
Alicorn
|
Disconnect between Stated/Implemented Preferences
|
|
Strange7
|
Let There Be Light
|
|
Alicorn
|
Sequential Organization of Thinking: "Six Thinking Hats"
|
|
JustinShovelain
|
"Life Experience" as a Conversation-Halter
|
|
Seth_Goldin
|
The ABC's of Luminosity
|
|
Alicorn
|
Open Thread: March 2010, part 3
|
|
RobinZ
|
Think Before You Speak (And Signal It)
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Information theory and the symmetry of updating beliefs
|
|
Academian
|
Lights, Camera, Action!
|
|
Alicorn
|
The Price of Life
|
|
BenAlbahari
|
The scourge of perverse-mindedness
|
|
simplicio
|
What would you do if blood glucose theory of willpower was true?
|
|
taw
|
Understanding your understanding
|
|
SilasBarta
|
Subtext is not invariant under linear transformations
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Necessary, But Not Sufficient
|
|
pjeby
|
Co-operative Utilitarianism
|
|
RichardChappell
|
Levels of communication
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
There just has to be something more, you know?
|
|
Academian
|
The two insights of materialism
|
|
Academian
|
The "show, don't tell" nature of argument
|
|
Morendil
|
An empirical test of anthropic principle / great filter reasoning
|
|
James_Miller
|
The Spotlight
|
|
Alicorn
|
More thoughts on assertions
|
|
Yvain
|
SIA won't doom you
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
Over-encapsulation
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Maximise Expected Utility, not Expected Perception of Utility
|
|
JGWeissman
|
The mathematical universe: the map that is the territory
|
|
ata
|
Compartmentalization as a passive phenomenon
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
The Shabbos goy
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Newcomb's problem happened to me
|
|
Academian
|
Addresses in the Multiverse
|
|
jimrandomh
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It's not like anything to be a bat
|
|
Yvain
|
Mental Models
|
|
hegemonicon
|
The I-Less Eye
|
|
rwallace
|
Highlights and Shadows
|
|
Alicorn
|
NYC Rationalist Community
|
|
Cosmos
|
Even if you have a nail, not all hammers are the same
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Disambiguating Doom
|
|
steven0461
|
City of Lights
|
|
Alicorn
|
Loleliezers
|
|
dclayh
|
The role of neodeconstructive rationalism in the works of Less Wrong
|
|
thomblake
|
Open Thread: April 2010
|
|
Unnamed
|
The human problem
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Rationality quotes: April 2010
|
|
wnoise
|
Announcing the Less Wrong Sub-Reddit
|
|
tommccabe
|
Bayesian Collaborative Filtering
|
|
JGWeissman
|
Free copy of Feynman's autobiography for best corny rationalist joke
|
|
GreenRoot
|
Late Great Filter Is Not Bad News
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Lampshading
|
|
Alicorn
|
Single Point of Moral Failure
|
|
Alexandros
|
Pain and gain motivation
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Open Thread: April 2010, Part 2
|
|
Unnamed
|
Ureshiku Naritai
|
|
Alicorn
|
Frequentist Magic vs. Bayesian Magic
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Swimming in Reasons
|
|
steven0461
|
The Last Number
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
Singularity Call For Papers
|
|
CarlShulman
|
Self-modification is the correct justification for updateless decision theory
|
|
Roko
|
Ugh Fields
|
|
Benja
|
Preference utilitarian measure of historical welfare
|
|
taw
|
A LessWrong poster for the Humanity+ conference next Saturday
|
|
ciphergoth
|
The many faces of status
|
|
Morendil
|
Self-indication assumption is wrong for interesting reasons
|
|
neq1
|
The Concepts Problem
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Attention Lurkers: Please say hi
|
|
Kevin
|
Eluding Attention Hijacks
|
|
ABranco
|
VNM expected utility theory: uses, abuses, and interpretation
|
|
Academian
|
a meta-anti-akrasia strategy that might just work
|
|
MartinB
|
The Fundamental Question
|
|
MBlume
|
Friendly, but Dumb: Why formal Friendliness proofs may not be as safe as they appear
|
|
apophenia
|
The Red Bias
|
|
Jack
|
CogSci books
|
|
xamdam
|
Eight Short Studies On Excuses
|
|
Yvain
|
Fusing AI with Superstition
|
|
Drahflow
|
Living Large - availability of life
|
|
xamdam
|
Too busy to think about life
|
|
Academian
|
23andme genome analysis - $99 today only
|
|
hegemonicon
|
The role of mathematical truths
|
|
SilasBarta
|
Navigating disagreement: How to keep your eye on the evidence
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
Who is your favorite rationalist?
|
|
xamdam
|
Only humans can have human values
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Proposed New Features for Less Wrong
|
|
tommccabe
|
Attention Less Wrong: We need an FAQ
|
|
Kevin
|
MathOverflow as an example for LessWrong
|
|
Academian
|
Possibilities for converting useless fun into utility in Online Gaming
|
|
Aleksei_Riikonen
|
Jinnetic Engineering, by Richard Stallman
|
|
MBlume
|
What are our domains of expertise? A marketplace of insights and issues
|
|
Morendil
|
Averaging value systems is worse than choosing one
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Open Thread: May 2010
|
|
Jack
|
Rationality quotes: May 2010
|
|
ata
|
Human values differ as much as values can differ
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
But Somebody Would Have Noticed
|
|
Alicorn
|
The Cameron Todd Willingham test
|
|
Kevin
|
Antagonizing Opioid Receptors for (Prevention of) Fun and Profit
|
|
Yvain
|
Cognitive Bias Song
|
|
xamdam
|
Beauty quips, "I'd shut up and multiply!"
|
|
neq1
|
What is bunk?
|
|
SarahC
|
The Psychological Diversity of Mankind
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Is Google Paperclipping the Web? The Perils of Optimization by Proxy in Social Systems
|
|
Alexandros
|
Q&A with Harpending and Cochran
|
|
MBlume
|
Conditioning on Observers
|
|
Jonathan_Lee
|
Updating, part 1: When can you change your mind? The binary model
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Blue- and Yellow-Tinted Choices
|
|
Yvain
|
Bay Area Lesswrong Meet up Sunday May 16
|
|
LucasSloan
|
Study: Encouraging Obedience Considered Harmful
|
|
MBlume
|
The Math of When to Self-Improve
|
|
John_Maxwell_IV
|
Preface to a Proposal for a New Mode of Inquiry
|
|
Daniel_Burfoot
|
Multiple Choice
|
|
Alicorn
|
Be a Visiting Fellow at the Singularity Institute
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
What is Wei Dai's Updateless Decision Theory?
|
|
AlephNeil
|
Physicalism: consciousness as the last sense
|
|
Academian
|
Backchaining causes wishful thinking
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Blame Theory
|
|
cousin_it
|
Summer vs Winter Strategies
|
|
whpearson
|
Another way to look at consciousness
|
|
JanetK
|
Development of Compression Rate Method
|
|
Daniel_Burfoot
|
Open Thread: May 2010, Part 2
|
|
Kevin
|
Taking the awkwardness out of a Prenup - A Game Theoretic solution
|
|
VijayKrishnan
|
LessWrong downtime 2010-05-11, and other recent outages and instability
|
|
matt
|
To signal effectively, use a non-human, non-stoppable enforcer
|
|
Clippy
|
Link: Strong Inference
|
|
Daniel_Burfoot
|
30th Soar workshop
|
|
Johnicholas
|
On Enjoying Disagreeable Company
|
|
Alicorn
|
Abnormal Cryonics
|
|
Will_Newsome
|
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread
|
|
Unnamed
|
Beyond Optimization by Proxy
|
|
Alexandros
|
This is your brain on ambiguity
|
|
Morendil
|
Composting fruitless debates
|
|
Academian
|
Significance of Compression Rate Method
|
|
Daniel_Burfoot
|
Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease
|
|
Yvain
|
On Less Wrong traffic and new users -- and how you can help
|
|
Kevin
|
London UK, Saturday 2010-07-03: "How to think rationally about the future"
|
|
ciphergoth
|
Cultivating our own gardens
|
|
SarahC
|
Seven Shiny Stories
|
|
Alicorn
|
Open Thread: June 2010
|
|
Morendil
|
Rationality quotes: June 2010
|
|
Morendil
|
Singularity Summit 2010 on Aug. 14-15 in San Francisco
|
|
tommccabe
|
Bayes' Theorem Illustrated (My Way)
|
|
komponisto
|
Hacking the CEV for Fun and Profit
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists
|
|
Will_Newsome
|
Open Thread June 2010, Part 2
|
|
komponisto
|
Less Wrong Book Club and Study Group
|
|
Morendil
|
Your intuitions are not magic
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
UDT agents as deontologists
|
|
Tyrrell_McAllister
|
How to always have interesting conversations
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Open Thread June 2010, Part 3
|
|
Kevin
|
Book Club Update and Chapter 1
|
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Morendil
|
Open Thread June 2010, Part 4
|
|
Will_Newsome
|
Surface syllogisms and the sin-based model of causation
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
Defeating Ugh Fields In Practice
|
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Psychohistorian
|
What if AI doesn't quite go FOOM?
|
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Mass_Driver
|
Applying Behavioral Psychology on Myself
|
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John_Maxwell_IV
|
Rationality & Criminal Law: Some Questions
|
|
simplicio
|
A Rational Education
|
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wedrifid
|
Is cryonics necessary?: Writing yourself into the future
|
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gworley
|
Spaced Repetition Database for the Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions Sequence
|
|
divia
|
Unknown knowns: Why did you choose to be monogamous?
|
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WrongBot
|
Book Club Update, Chapter 2 of Probability Theory
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|
Morendil
|
A Challenge for LessWrong
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simplicio
|
Applied Bayes' Theorem: Reading People
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Kaj_Sotala
|
What Cost for Irrationality?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Open Thread: July 2010
|
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komponisto
|
Rationality Quotes: July 2010
|
|
komponisto
|
A Taxonomy of Bias: The Cognitive Miser
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Cryonics Wants To Be Big
|
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lsparrish
|
Assuming Nails
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
A Taxonomy of Bias: Mindware Problems
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2
|
|
Alicorn
|
What Intelligence Tests Miss: The psychology of rational thought
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
A Rational Identity
|
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Kaj_Sotala
|
The red paperclip theory of status
|
|
Morendil
|
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is soliciting ideas
|
|
Kevin
|
Singularity Institute Call for Volunteers
|
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tommccabe
|
Some Thoughts Are Too Dangerous For Brains to Think
|
|
WrongBot
|
Room for rent in North Berkeley house
|
|
Kevin
|
The Instrumental Value of Your Own Time
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|
Mass_Driver
|
So You Think You're a Bayesian? The Natural Mode of Probabilistic Reasoning
|
|
Matt_Simpson
|
Book Club Update, Chapter 3 of Probability Theory
|
|
Morendil
|
Fight Zero-Sum Bias
|
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multifoliaterose
|
(One reason) why capitalism is much maligned
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
A speculation on Near and Far Modes
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
Floating Festival Jul 22-25
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Missed opportunities for doing well by doing good
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
Book Review: The Root of Thought
|
|
Yvain
|
Simplified Humanism, Positive Futurism & How to Prevent the Universe From Being Turned Into Paper Clips
|
|
Kevin
|
Against the standard narrative of human sexual evolution
|
|
WrongBot
|
Contrived infinite-torture scenarios: July 2010
|
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PlaidX
|
Bay Area Events Roundup
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
Metaphilosophical Mysteries
|
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Wei_Dai
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Alien parasite technical guy
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PhilGoetz
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Forager Anthropology
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WrongBot
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AI cooperation in practice
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cousin_it
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Open Thread, August 2010
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NancyLebovitz
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 2
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dclayh
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Rationality quotes: August 2010
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Cyan
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The Threat of Cryonics
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lsparrish
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Conflicts Between Mental Subagents: Expanding Wei Dai's Master-Slave Model
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Yvain
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Interested in a European lesswrong meetup
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MartinB
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Bloggingheads: Robert Wright and Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Liron
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Purposefulness on Mars
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JamesAndrix
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Christopher Hitchens and Cryonics
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James_Miller
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Extraterrestrial paperclip maximizers
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multifoliaterose
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Two straw men fighting
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JanetK
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Book Recommendations
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NancyLebovitz
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Open Thread, August 2010-- part 2
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NancyLebovitz
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Five-minute rationality techniques
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sketerpot
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Against Cryonics & For Cost-Effective Charity
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multifoliaterose
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A Proof of Occam's Razor
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Unknowns
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Is it rational to be religious? Simulations are required for answer.
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Aleksei_Riikonen
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Singularity Summit 2010 Less Wrong Meetup
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Mycroft65536
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Welcome to Less Wrong! (2010)
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orthonormal
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What should I have for dinner? (A case study in decision making)
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bentarm
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Should I believe what the SIAI claims?
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XiXiDu
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What a reduction of "could" could look like
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cousin_it
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An introduction to decision theory
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AdamBell
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Taking Ideas Seriously
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Will_Newsome
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Problems in evolutionary psychology
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Kaj_Sotala
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Existential Risk and Public Relations
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multifoliaterose
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Kevin T. Kelly's Ockham Efficiency Theorem
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Johnicholas
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Newcomb's Problem: A problem for Causal Decision Theories
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AdamBell
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Desirable Dispositions and Rational Actions
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RichardChappell
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Should humanity give birth to a galactic civilization?
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XiXiDu
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What a reduction of "probability" probably looks like
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cousin_it
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Other Existential Risks
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multifoliaterose
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How can we compare decision theories?
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bentarm
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Transhumanism and the denotation-connotation gap
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PhilGoetz
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Positioning oneself to make a difference
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Mitchell_Porter
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The Importance of Self-Doubt
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multifoliaterose
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Transparency and Accountability
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multifoliaterose
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Rationality Lessons in the Game of Go
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GreenRoot
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Consciousness of simulations & uploads: a reductio
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simplicio
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Justifying Induction
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Unknowns
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The Smoking Lesion: A problem for evidential decision theory
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AdamBell
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Minimum computation and data requirements for consciousness.
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daedalus2u
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Burning Man Meetup: Bayes Camp
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Larks
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Luminosity (Twilight fanfic) discussion thread
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FAWS
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The prior of a hypothesis does not depend on its complexity
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cousin_it
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Criteria for Rational Political Conversation
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woozle
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Self-fulfilling correlations
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PhilGoetz
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Cryonics Questions
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James_Miller
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Exploitation and cooperation in ecology, government, business, and AI
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PhilGoetz
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 3
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Unnamed
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Morality as Parfitian-filtered Decision Theory?
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SilasBarta
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Dreams of AIXI
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jacob_cannell
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Less Wrong: Open Thread, September 2010
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matt
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Rationality quotes: September 2010
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Morendil
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AI indifference through utility manipulation
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Frugality and working from finite data
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Snowyowl
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Anthropomorphic AI and Sandboxed Virtual Universes
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jacob_cannell
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Reasonably Fun
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JohnDavidBustard
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Controlling Constant Programs
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Vladimir_Nesov
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Something's Wrong
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SarahC
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A "Failure to Evaluate Return-on-Time" Fallacy
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lionhearted
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September Less Wrong Meetup aka Eliezer's Bayesian Birthday Bash
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Jasen
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Humans are not automatically strategic
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AnnaSalamon
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Reason is not the only means of overcoming bias
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multifoliaterose
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More art, less stink: Taking the PU out of PUA
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XFrequentist
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Memetic Hazards in Videogames
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jimrandomh
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Steps to Achievement: The Pitfalls, Costs, Requirements, and Timelines
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lionhearted
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The Science of Cutting Peppers
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Apprentice
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Reminder: Weekly LW meetings in NYC
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tommccabe
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The Effectiveness of Developing World Aid
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multifoliaterose
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Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
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Yvain
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The Affect Heuristic, Sentiment, and Art
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SarahC
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Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
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patrissimo
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Link: "You're Not Being Reasonable"
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CronoDAS
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Intelligence Amplification Open Thread
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Will_Newsome
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Bayes' rule =/= Bayesian inference
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neq1
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LW's first job ad
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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The conscious tape
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PhilGoetz
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Open Thread, September, 2010-- part 2
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NancyLebovitz
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Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality
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AnnaSalamon
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The Meaning of Life
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b1shop
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Rational Health Optimization
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jacob_cannell
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Rationality Power Tools
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Nic_Smith
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Fall 2010 Meta Thread
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Kevin
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Less Wrong Should Confront Wrongness Wherever it Appears
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jimrandomh
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Error detection bias in research
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neq1
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Rationality Case Study - Ad-36
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Perplexed
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Is Rationality Maximization of Expected Value?
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AnlamK
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Let's make a deal
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Mitchell_Porter
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(Virtual) Employment Open Thread
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Will_Newsome
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Politics as Charity
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CarlShulman
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A Player of Games
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Larks
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What Makes My Attempt Special?
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Andy_McKenzie
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Vote Qualifications, Not Issues
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jimrandomh
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Don't judge a skill by its specialists
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Academian
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Anti-akrasia remote monitoring experiment
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cousin_it
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Open Thread September, Part 3
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LucasSloan
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New Discussion section on LessWrong!
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Emile
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Experts vs. parents
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PhilGoetz
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Reflections on a Personal Public Relations Failure: A Lesson in Communication
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multifoliaterose
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Expectation-Based Akrasia Management
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AdeleneDawner
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Coding Rationally - Test Driven Development
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DSimon
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Break your habits: be more empirical
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Academian
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The Irrationality Game
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Will_Newsome
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Slava!
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SarahC
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Understanding vipassana meditation
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Luke_Grecki
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Rationality quotes: October 2010
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Morendil
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 4
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gjm
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Notion of Preference in Ambient Control
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Vladimir_Nesov
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Recommended Reading for Friendly AI Research
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Vladimir_Nesov
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Strategies for dealing with emotional nihilism
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SarahC
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References & Resources for LessWrong
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XiXiDu
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Collecting and hoarding crap, useless information
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lionhearted
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Love and Rationality: Less Wrongers on OKCupid
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Relsqui
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The Dark Arts - Preamble
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Aurini
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Morality and relativistic vertigo
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Academian
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Swords and Armor: A Game Theory Thought Experiment
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nick012000
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Human performance, psychometry, and baseball statistics
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Craig_Heldreth
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Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium
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Meni_Rosenfeld
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Vipassana Meditation: Developing Meta-Feeling Skills
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Luke_Grecki
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How are critical thinking skills acquired? Five perspectives
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matt
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The Problem With Trolley Problems
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lionhearted
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Optimism versus cryonics
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lsparrish
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Willpower: not a limited resource?
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Jess_Riedel
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Let's split the cake, lengthwise, upwise and slantwise
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Dealing with the high quantity of scientific error in medicine
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NancyLebovitz
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Activation Costs
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lionhearted
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Luminosity (Twilight fanfic) Part 2 Discussion Thread
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JenniferRM
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If you don't know the name of the game, just tell me what I mean to you
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Stuart_Armstrong
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Self-empathy as a source of "willpower"
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Academian
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Call for Volunteers: Rationalists with Non-Traditional Skills
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Jasen
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Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
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AnnaSalamon
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Ben Goertzel: The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It)
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ciphergoth
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Value Deathism
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Vladimir_Nesov
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Qualia Soup, a rationalist and a skilled You Tube jockey
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Raw_Power
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Imagine a world where minds run on physics
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cousin_it
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Is cryonics evil because it's cold?
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ata
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What I would like the SIAI to publish
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XiXiDu
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Group selection update
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PhilGoetz
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What is the group selection debate?
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Academian
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South/Eastern Europe Meeting in Ljubljana/Slovenia
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Thomas
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 5
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NihilCredo
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Oxford (UK) Rationality & AI Risks Discussion Group
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Larks
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Rationality Quotes: November 2010
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jaimeastorga2000
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The Curve of Capability
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rwallace
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The hard limits of hard nanotech
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lsparrish
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Have no heroes, and no villains
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PhilGoetz
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An Xtranormal Intelligence Explosion
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James_Miller
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Information Hazards
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apophenia
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A note on the description complexity of physical theories
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cousin_it
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How to pick your categories
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SarahC
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The Strong Occam's Razor
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cousin_it
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If a tree falls on Sleeping Beauty...
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ata
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Outreach opportunity
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RichardKennaway
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Diplomacy as a Game Theory Laboratory
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Yvain
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Another attempt to explain UDT
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cousin_it
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Fixedness From Frailty
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Vaniver
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The danger of living a story - Singularity Tropes
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patrissimo
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Bayesian Nights (Rationalist Story Time)
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nickernst
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Anti-Akrasia Reprise
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dreeves
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Reference Points
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lionhearted
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Imperfect Levers
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blogospheroid
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Goals for which Less Wrong does (and doesn't) help
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AnnaSalamon
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Yes, a blog.
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Academian
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What I've learned from Less Wrong
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Louie
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The true prisoner's dilemma with skewed payoff matrix
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Jonii
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Inherited Improbabilities: Transferring the Burden of Proof
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komponisto
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Probability and Politics
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CarlShulman
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Buy Insurance -- Bet Against Yourself
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MBlume
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Singularity Non-Fiction Compilation to be Written
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MichaelVassar
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"Nahh, that wouldn't work"
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lionhearted
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Belief in Belief vs. Internalization
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Desrtopa
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Unsolved Problems in Philosophy Part 1: The Liar's Paradox
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Kevin
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The Boundaries of Biases
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Vaniver
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Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People
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lionhearted
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How to Save the World
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Louie
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Cheat codes
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sketerpot
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Rationality Quotes: December 2010
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Tiiba
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
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Mass_Driver
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Efficient Charity
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multifoliaterose
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The Trolley Problem: Dodging moral questions
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Desrtopa
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The Truth about Scotsmen, or: Dissolving Fallacies
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Tesseract
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Best career models for doing research?
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Kaj_Sotala
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Were atoms real?
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AnnaSalamon
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Unpacking the Concept of "Blackmail"
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Vladimir_Nesov
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A sense of logic
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NancyLebovitz
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Confidence levels inside and outside an argument
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Yvain
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Singularity Institute pitch and new project plus other organizations in our ecosystem
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MichaelVassar
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Folk grammar and morality
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Emile
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Cryptographic Boxes for Unfriendly AI
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paulfchristiano
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Best of Rationality Quotes 2009/2010
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DanielVarga
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What can you do with an Unfriendly AI?
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paulfchristiano
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The Santa deception: how did it affect you?
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Desrtopa
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Dutch Books and Decision Theory: An Introduction to a Long Conversation
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Jack
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Iterated Sleeping Beauty and Copied Minds
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lucidfox
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Newtonmas Meetup, 12/25/2010
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Kevin
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Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others...
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Yvain
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Tallinn-Evans $125,000 Singularity Challenge
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Kaj_Sotala
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The Fallacy of Dressing Like a Winner
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benelliott
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Dark Arts 101: Using presuppositions
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PhilGoetz
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Being Rational and Being Productive: Similar Core Skills?
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John_Maxwell_IV
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Narrow your answer space
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Vaniver
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Some rationality tweets
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Peter_de_Blanc
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