| 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
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| A Suite of Pragmatic Considerations in Favor of Niceness
|
|
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
|
|
MichaelGR
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| Rationality Quotes January 2010
|
|
Zack_M_Davis
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| Will reason ever outrun faith?
|
|
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
|
|
byrnema
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| Savulescu: "Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction"
|
|
Roko
|
| 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
|
|
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?
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Outline of a lower bound for consciousness
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Self control may be contagious
|
|
Psy-Kosh
|
| Advice for AI makers
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Comic about the Singularity
|
|
dclayh
|
| Back of the envelope calculations around the singularity.
|
|
whpearson
|
| The Preference Utilitarian’s Time Inconsistency Problem
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| In defense of the outside view
|
|
cousin_it
|
| The Wannabe Rational
|
|
MrHen
|
| Dennett's heterophenomenology
|
|
RichardKennaway
|
| Tips and Tricks for Answering Hard Questions
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Sorting Out Sticky Brains
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Advancing Certainty
|
|
komponisto
|
| The Prediction Hierarchy
|
|
RobinZ
|
| What big goals do we have?
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Normal Cryonics
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| That Magical Click
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Winning the Unwinnable
|
|
JRMayne
|
| Easy Predictor Tests
|
|
MrHen
|
| Costs to (potentially) eternal life
|
|
bgrah449
|
| Privileged Snuff
|
|
rwallace
|
| Far & Near / Runaway Trolleys / The Proximity Of (Fat) Strangers
|
|
botogol
|
| Lists of cognitive biases, common misconceptions, and fallacies
|
|
Kevin
|
| Lesswrong UK planning thread
|
|
whpearson
|
| Value Uncertainty and the Singleton Scenario
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Simon Conway Morris: "Aliens are likely to look and behave like us".
|
|
Roko
|
| Adaptive bias
|
|
Morendil
|
| Welcome to Heaven
|
|
denisbider
|
| You cannot be mistaken about (not) wanting to wirehead
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Bizarre Illusions
|
|
MrHen
|
| Play for a Cause
|
|
brian_jaress
|
| Logical Rudeness
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Complexity of Value != Complexity of Outcome
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Deontology for Consequentialists
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Pascal's Pyramid Scheme
|
|
patrissimo
|
| Strong moral realism, meta-ethics and pseudo-questions.
|
|
Roko
|
| Open Thread: February 2010
|
|
wedrifid
|
| Rationality Quotes: February 2010
|
|
wedrifid
|
| Debunking komponisto on Amanda Knox (long)
|
|
rolf_nelson
|
| The AI in a box boxes you
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| My Failed Situation/Action Belief System
|
|
MrHen
|
| David Pearce on Hedonic Moral realism
|
|
Roko
|
| False Majorities
|
|
JamesAndrix
|
| Applying utility functions to humans considered harmful
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| A Much Better Life?
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
| "Put It To The Test"
|
|
MBlume
|
| A problem with Timeless Decision Theory (TDT)
|
|
Gary_Drescher
|
| Debate tools: an experience report
|
|
Morendil
|
| Ethics has Evidence Too
|
|
Jack
|
| BHTV: Eliezer Yudkowsky & Razib Khan
|
|
MichaelGR
|
| A survey of anti-cryonics writing
|
|
ciphergoth
|
| Epistemic Luck
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Common Errors in History
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Shut Up and Divide?
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks
|
|
Kevin
|
| My Fundamental Question About Omega
|
|
MrHen
|
| How Much Should We Care What the Founding Fathers Thought About Anything?
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
| Shock Levels are Point Estimates
|
|
Peter_de_Blanc
|
| Two Challenges
|
|
Daniel_Burfoot
|
| You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Demands for Particular Proof: Appendices
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Two probabilities
|
|
rwallace
|
| Boo lights: groupthink edition
|
|
Morendil
|
| Hayekian Prediction Markets?
|
|
David_J_Balan
|
| Friendly AI at the NYC Future Salon
|
|
Jasen
|
| Open Thread: February 2010, part 2
|
|
CronoDAS
|
| Things You Can't Countersignal
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Explicit Optimization of Global Strategy (Fixing a Bug in UDT1)
|
|
Wei_Dai
|
| Med Patient Social Networks Are Better Scientific Institutions
|
|
Liron
|
| Study: Making decisions makes you tired
|
|
bgrah449
|
| Conversation Halters
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Akrasia Tactics Review
|
|
orthonormal
|
| Case study: abuse of frequentist statistics
|
|
Cyan
|
| Woo!
|
|
BenAlbahari
|
| Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych
|
|
Alicorn
|
| "Outside View!" as Conversation-Halter
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| The Last Days of the Singularity Challenge
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| What is Bayesianism?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Creating a Less Wrong prediction market
|
|
Kevin
|
| Improving The Akrasia Hypothesis
|
|
pjeby
|
| Superstimuli, setpoints, and obesity
|
|
taw
|
| Mental Crystallography
|
|
Alicorn
|
| Splinters and Wooden Beams
|
|
knb
|
| Great Product. Lousy Marketing.
|
|
BenAlbahari
|
| Hedging our Bets: The Case for Pursuing Whole Brain Emulation to Safeguard Humanity's Future
|
|
inklesspen
|
| Open Thread: March 2010
|
|
AdeleneDawner
|
| Rationality quotes: March 2010
|
|
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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
|
Morendil
|
| Open Thread June 2010, Part 4
|
|
Will_Newsome
|
| Surface syllogisms and the sin-based model of causation
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Defeating Ugh Fields In Practice
|
|
Psychohistorian
|
| What if AI doesn't quite go FOOM?
|
|
Mass_Driver
|
| Applying Behavioral Psychology on Myself
|
|
John_Maxwell_IV
|
| Rationality & Criminal Law: Some Questions
|
|
simplicio
|
| A Rational Education
|
|
wedrifid
|
| Is cryonics necessary?: Writing yourself into the future
|
|
gworley
|
| Spaced Repetition Database for the Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions Sequence
|
|
divia
|
| Unknown knowns: Why did you choose to be monogamous?
|
|
WrongBot
|
| Book Club Update, Chapter 2 of Probability Theory
|
|
Morendil
|
| A Challenge for LessWrong
|
|
simplicio
|
| Applied Bayes' Theorem: Reading People
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| What Cost for Irrationality?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Open Thread: July 2010
|
|
komponisto
|
| Rationality Quotes: July 2010
|
|
komponisto
|
| A Taxonomy of Bias: The Cognitive Miser
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Cryonics Wants To Be Big
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
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| Fight Zero-Sum Bias
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multifoliaterose
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| (One reason) why capitalism is much maligned
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multifoliaterose
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| A speculation on Near and Far Modes
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MichaelVassar
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| Floating Festival Jul 22-25
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| Missed opportunities for doing well by doing good
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multifoliaterose
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| Book Review: The Root of Thought
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Yvain
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| Simplified Humanism, Positive Futurism & How to Prevent the Universe From Being Turned Into Paper Clips
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Kevin
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| Against the standard narrative of human sexual evolution
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WrongBot
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| Contrived infinite-torture scenarios: July 2010
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PlaidX
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| Bay Area Events Roundup
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| 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
|
|
Mitchell_Porter
|
| (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
|
| Don't judge a skill by its specialists
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|
Academian
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| Anti-akrasia remote monitoring experiment
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Open Thread September, Part 3
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|
LucasSloan
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
|
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
|
| Strategies for dealing with emotional nihilism
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|
SarahC
|
| 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
|
| Vipassana Meditation: Developing Meta-Feeling Skills
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|
Luke_Grecki
|
| How are critical thinking skills acquired? Five perspectives
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|
matt
|
| The Problem With Trolley Problems
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|
lionhearted
|
| Optimism versus cryonics
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lsparrish
|
| Willpower: not a limited resource?
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|
Jess_Riedel
|
| Let's split the cake, lengthwise, upwise and slantwise
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Dealing with the high quantity of scientific error in medicine
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|
NancyLebovitz
|
| Activation Costs
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|
lionhearted
|
| Luminosity (Twilight fanfic) Part 2 Discussion Thread
|
|
JenniferRM
|
| If you don't know the name of the game, just tell me what I mean to you
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Self-empathy as a source of "willpower"
|
|
Academian
|
| Call for Volunteers: Rationalists with Non-Traditional Skills
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|
Jasen
|
| Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Ben Goertzel: The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It)
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|
ciphergoth
|
| Value Deathism
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| Qualia Soup, a rationalist and a skilled You Tube jockey
|
|
Raw_Power
|
| Imagine a world where minds run on physics
|
|
cousin_it
|
| Is cryonics evil because it's cold?
|
|
ata
|
| What I would like the SIAI to publish
|
|
XiXiDu
|
| Group selection update
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|
PhilGoetz
|
| What is the group selection debate?
|
|
Academian
|
| South/Eastern Europe Meeting in Ljubljana/Slovenia
|
|
Thomas
|
| Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 5
|
|
NihilCredo
|
| Oxford (UK) Rationality & AI Risks Discussion Group
|
|
Larks
|
| Rationality Quotes: November 2010
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|
jaimeastorga2000
|
| The Curve of Capability
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|
rwallace
|
| The hard limits of hard nanotech
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|
lsparrish
|
| Have no heroes, and no villains
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|
PhilGoetz
|
| An Xtranormal Intelligence Explosion
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|
James_Miller
|
| Information Hazards
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|
apophenia
|
| A note on the description complexity of physical theories
|
|
cousin_it
|
| How to pick your categories
|
|
SarahC
|
| The Strong Occam's Razor
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|
cousin_it
|
| If a tree falls on Sleeping Beauty...
|
|
ata
|
| Outreach opportunity
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|
RichardKennaway
|
| Diplomacy as a Game Theory Laboratory
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|
Yvain
|
| Another attempt to explain UDT
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|
cousin_it
|
| Fixedness From Frailty
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|
Vaniver
|
| The danger of living a story - Singularity Tropes
|
|
patrissimo
|
| Bayesian Nights (Rationalist Story Time)
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|
nickernst
|
| Anti-Akrasia Reprise
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|
dreeves
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| Reference Points
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|
lionhearted
|
| Imperfect Levers
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|
blogospheroid
|
| Goals for which Less Wrong does (and doesn't) help
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|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Yes, a blog.
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|
Academian
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| What I've learned from Less Wrong
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|
Louie
|
| The true prisoner's dilemma with skewed payoff matrix
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|
Jonii
|
| Inherited Improbabilities: Transferring the Burden of Proof
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|
komponisto
|
| Probability and Politics
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|
CarlShulman
|
| Buy Insurance -- Bet Against Yourself
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|
MBlume
|
| Singularity Non-Fiction Compilation to be Written
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|
MichaelVassar
|
| "Nahh, that wouldn't work"
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|
lionhearted
|
| Belief in Belief vs. Internalization
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|
Desrtopa
|
| Unsolved Problems in Philosophy Part 1: The Liar's Paradox
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|
Kevin
|
| The Boundaries of Biases
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|
Vaniver
|
| Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People
|
|
lionhearted
|
| How to Save the World
|
|
Louie
|
| Cheat codes
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|
sketerpot
|
| Rationality Quotes: December 2010
|
|
Tiiba
|
| How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
|
|
Mass_Driver
|
| Efficient Charity
|
|
multifoliaterose
|
| The Trolley Problem: Dodging moral questions
|
|
Desrtopa
|
| The Truth about Scotsmen, or: Dissolving Fallacies
|
|
Tesseract
|
| Best career models for doing research?
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| Were atoms real?
|
|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Unpacking the Concept of "Blackmail"
|
|
Vladimir_Nesov
|
| A sense of logic
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|
NancyLebovitz
|
| Confidence levels inside and outside an argument
|
|
Yvain
|
| Singularity Institute pitch and new project plus other organizations in our ecosystem
|
|
MichaelVassar
|
| Folk grammar and morality
|
|
Emile
|
| Cryptographic Boxes for Unfriendly AI
|
|
paulfchristiano
|
| Best of Rationality Quotes 2009/2010
|
|
DanielVarga
|
| What can you do with an Unfriendly AI?
|
|
paulfchristiano
|
| The Santa deception: how did it affect you?
|
|
Desrtopa
|
| Dutch Books and Decision Theory: An Introduction to a Long Conversation
|
|
Jack
|
| Iterated Sleeping Beauty and Copied Minds
|
|
lucidfox
|
| Newtonmas Meetup, 12/25/2010
|
|
Kevin
|
| Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others...
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|
Yvain
|
| Tallinn-Evans $125,000 Singularity Challenge
|
|
Kaj_Sotala
|
| The Fallacy of Dressing Like a Winner
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|
benelliott
|
| Dark Arts 101: Using presuppositions
|
|
PhilGoetz
|
| Being Rational and Being Productive: Similar Core Skills?
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|
John_Maxwell_IV
|
| Narrow your answer space
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|
Vaniver
|
| Some rationality tweets
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Peter_de_Blanc
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