| Title
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Concepts Introduced/Discussed
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Author
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| So You Want to Save the World
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lukeprog
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| New Year's Prediction Thread (2012)
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gwern
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| Rationality quotes January 2012
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Thomas
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| Quantified Health Prize Deadline Extended
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tommccabe
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| What Curiosity Looks Like
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lukeprog
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| Designing Ritual
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Raemon
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| Rationality meditation theory.
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WingedFoe
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| The Gift I Give Tomorrow
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Raemon
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| On accepting an argument if you have limited computational power.
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Dmytry
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| Can the Chain Still Hold You?
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lukeprog
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| The Savage theorem and the Ellsberg paradox
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fool
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| Completeness, incompleteness, and what it all means: first versus second order logic
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Stuart_Armstrong
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| Leveling Up in Rationality: A Personal Journey
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lukeprog
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| Histocracy: Open, Effective Group Decision-Making With Weighted Voting
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HonoreDB
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| The problem with too many rational memes
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Swimmer963
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| POSITION: Design and Write Rationality Curriculum
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| Neurological reality of human thought and decision making; implications for rationalism.
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Dmytry
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| The Human's Hidden Utility Function (Maybe)
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lukeprog
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| How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious
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Swimmer963
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| Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief
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AnnaSalamon
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| The Substitution Principle
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Kaj_Sotala
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| The Neglected Virtue of Curiosity
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vallinder
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| The Ellsberg paradox and money pumps
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fool
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| Efficient Charity: Cheap Utilons via bone marrow registration
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atorm
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| Terminal Bias
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nyan_sandwich
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| Against Utilitarianism: Sobel's attack on judging lives' goodness
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gwern
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| Risk aversion vs. concave utility function
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dvasya
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| Is risk aversion really irrational ?
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kilobug
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| Rationality Quotes February 2012
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GabrielDuquette
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| Is Sunk Cost Fallacy a Fallacy?
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gwern
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| Diseased disciplines: the strange case of the inverted chart
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Morendil
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| Feed the spinoff heuristic!
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CarlShulman
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| My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination
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lukeprog
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| Avoid misinterpreting your emotions
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Kaj_Sotala
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| The mathematics of reduced impact: help needed
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Stuart_Armstrong
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| Hearsay, Double Hearsay, and Bayesian Updates
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Mass_Driver
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| Quantified Health Prize results announced
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Zvi
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| Ambiguity in cognitive bias names; a refresher
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nerfhammer
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| Logic: the science of algorithm evaluating algorithms
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Christian_Szegedy
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| Get Curious
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lukeprog
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| Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists (DC, March 13)
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PhilGoetz
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| Status and Changing your Mind
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jkaufman
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| Heuristics and Biases in Charity
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Kaj_Sotala
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| Rationality Quotes March 2012
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Thomas
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| The kinesthesia switch
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NancyLebovitz
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| Emotional regulation, Part I: a problem summary
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Swimmer963
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| The Fox and the Low-Hanging Grapes
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Strange7
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| How to Fix Science
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lukeprog
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| Using degrees of freedom to change the past for fun and profit
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CarlShulman
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| Causal diagrams and software engineering
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Morendil
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| Rationally Irrational
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HungryTurtle
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| I Was Not Almost Wrong But I Was Almost Right: Close-Call Counterfactuals and Bias
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Kaj_Sotala
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| Decision Theories: A Less Wrong Primer
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orthonormal
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| Biased Pandemic
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freyley
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| Schelling fences on slippery slopes
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Yvain
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| How to avoid dying in a car crash
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michaelcurzi
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| Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence
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Kaj_Sotala
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| 6 Tips for Productive Arguments
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John_Maxwell_IV
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| Emotional regulation Part II: research summary
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Swimmer963
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| Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part I
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orthonormal
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| Fundamentals of kicking anthropic butt
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Manfred
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| Brain Preservation
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jkaufman
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| SotW: Check Consequentialism
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28
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AnnaSalamon
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| Examine your assumptions
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Douglas_Reay
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| Characterizing the superintelligence which we are concerned about
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JoshuaFox
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| Fictional Bias
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thomblake
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| Rationality Quotes April 2012
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Oscar_Cunningham
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| SotW: Be Specific
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part II
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orthonormal
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| Exploring the Idea Space Efficiently
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Elithrion
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| Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation
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kalla724
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| Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part III
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orthonormal
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| Be Happier
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Klevador
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| To like each other, sing and dance in synchrony
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Kaj_Sotala
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| Crowdsourcing the availability heuristic
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kalla724
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| Recognizing memetic infections and forging resistance memes
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Johnicholas
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| Rationality Quotes May 2012
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OpenThreadGuy
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| Thinking and Deciding: a chapter by chapter review
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|
Vaniver
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| Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)
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HoldenKarnofsky
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| General purpose intelligence: arguing the Orthogonality thesis
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Stuart_Armstrong
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| Holden's Objection 1: Friendliness is dangerous
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PhilGoetz
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| Sneaky Strategies for TDT
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drnickbone
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| SotW: Avoid Motivated Cognition
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| Problematic Problems for TDT
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drnickbone
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| Review: Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
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jsalvatier
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| When None Dare Urge Restraint, pt. 2
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Jay_Schweikert
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| Avoid inflationary use of terms
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lsparrish
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| Rational Toothpaste: A Case Study
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badger
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| Rationality Quotes June 2012
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OpenThreadGuy
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| "Progress"
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PhilGoetz
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| Ask an experimental physicist
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RolfAndreassen
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| Conspiracy Theories as Agency Fictions
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Konkvistador
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| Reply to Holden on 'Tool AI'
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup
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Kaj_Sotala
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| AGI Impacts conference in Oxford in December, with Call for Papers
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Stuart_Armstrong
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| Local Ordinances of Fun
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Alicorn
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| Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Forum
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tommccabe
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| Female Compatriots, Stay For a Week in Berkeley!
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ShannonFriedman
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| Plastination is maturing and needs funding, says Hanson
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Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| The Power of Reinforcement
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lukeprog
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| A (small) critique of total utilitarianism
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Stuart_Armstrong
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| Introduction to Game Theory: Sequence Guide
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|
Yvain
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| Nash Equilibria and Schelling Points
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Yvain
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| Introduction to Prisoners' Dilemma
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Yvain
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| Backward Reasoning Over Decision Trees
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Yvain
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| Thoughts on moral intuitions
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Kaj_Sotala
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| Your existence is informative
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KatjaGrace
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| New York Less Wrong: Expansion Plans
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tommccabe
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| Real World Solutions to Prisoners' Dilemmas
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|
Yvain
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| Rationality Quotes July 2012
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RobertLumley
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| Negative and Positive Selection
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tommccabe
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| Interlude for Behavioral Economics
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|
Yvain
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| To Learn Critical Thinking, Study Critical Thinking
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|
gwern
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| Reply to Holden on The Singularity Institute
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lukeprog
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| An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction
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|
Alex_Altair
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| Kurzweil's predictions: good accuracy, poor self-calibration
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|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| What Is Optimal Philanthropy?
|
|
tommccabe
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| What Is Signaling, Really?
|
|
Yvain
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| Bargaining and Auctions
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|
Yvain
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| Tips for Starting Group Houses
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|
ShannonFriedman
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| Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012)
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|
ciphergoth
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| Imperfect Voting Systems
|
|
Yvain
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| SI's Summer 2012 Matching Drive Ends July 31st
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Game Theory As A Dark Art
|
|
Yvain
|
| Neuroscience basics for LessWrongians
|
|
ChrisHallquist
|
| Reinforcement Learning: A Non-Standard Introduction (Part 1)
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|
royf
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| AGI-12 conference in Oxford in December
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
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| Reinforcement Learning: A Non-Standard Introduction (Part 2)
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|
royf
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| Rationality Quotes August 2012
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|
Alejandro1
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| What are the optimal biases to overcome?
|
|
aaronsw
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| Self-skepticism: the first principle of rationality
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|
aaronsw
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| Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules
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|
pragmatist
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| Reinforcement, Preference and Utility
|
|
royf
|
| Solving the two envelopes problem
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|
rstarkov
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| Bayes for Schizophrenics: Reasoning in Delusional Disorders
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|
Yvain
|
| Why Don't People Help Others More?
|
|
peter_hurford
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| Who Wants To Start An Important Startup?
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|
ShannonFriedman
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| AI timeline predictions: are we getting better?
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|
Stuart_Armstrong
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| How to get cryocrastinators to actually sign up for cryonics
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|
JGWeissman
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| AI timeline prediction data
|
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Stuart_Armstrong
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| The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world?
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|
Yvain
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| Counterfactual resiliency test for non-causal models
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|
Stuart_Armstrong
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| Rationality Quotes September 2012
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|
Jayson_Virissimo
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| How about testing our ideas?
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|
Konkvistador
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| The Bayesian Agent
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|
royf
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| Less Wrong Polls in Comments
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|
jimrandomh
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| New study on choice blindness in moral positions
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|
nerfhammer
|
| Causality: a chapter by chapter review
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|
Vaniver
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| The Useful Idea of Truth
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
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| Rationality Quotes October 2012
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|
MBlume
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| Skill: The Map is Not the Territory
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Raising the waterline
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|
Morendil
|
| Point-Based Value Iteration
|
|
royf
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| Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Raising the forecasting waterline (part 1)
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|
Morendil
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| The Fabric of Real Things
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Raising the forecasting waterline (part 2)
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|
Morendil
|
| Causal Diagrams and Causal Models
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| How To Have Things Correctly
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|
Alicorn
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| Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen
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|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Causal Reference
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| How to Deal with Depression - The Meta Layers
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|
ShannonFriedman
|
| Now I Appreciate Agency
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|
ShannonFriedman
|
| Original Research on Less Wrong
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Checking Kurzweil's track record
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Proofs, Implications, and Models
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Beyond Bayesians and Frequentists
|
|
jsteinhardt
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| Logical Pinpointing
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Sign up to be notified about new LW meetups in your area
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|
Louie
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| 2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey
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|
Yvain
|
| Voting is like donating thousands of dollars to charity
|
|
Academian
|
| Rationality Quotes November 2012
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|
GabrielDuquette
|
| Checklist of Rationality Habits
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|
AnnaSalamon
|
| Nov 16-18: Rationality for Entrepreneurs
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|
AnnaSalamon
|
| How can I reduce existential risk from AI?
|
|
lukeprog
|
| Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and Meta-Charity
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|
wdcrouch
|
| AGI-12 and AGI-Impacts - late places available
|
|
Stuart_Armstrong
|
| Playing the student: attitudes to learning as social roles
|
|
Swimmer963
|
| Overconfident Pessimism
|
|
lukeprog
|
| LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance
|
|
daenerys
|
| How minimal is our intelligence?
|
|
Douglas_Reay
|
| A definition of wireheading
|
|
Anja
|
| Thoughts on designing policies for oneself
|
|
John_Maxwell_IV
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| Causal Universes
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Philosophy by Humans, 3: Intuitions Aren't Shared That Way
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|
lukeprog
|
| Philosophy Needs to Trust Your Rationality Even Though It Shouldn't
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|
lukeprog
|
| Rationality Quotes December 2012
|
|
Thomas
|
| LessWrong podcasts
|
|
Louie
|
| Factions, inequality, and social justice
|
|
John_Maxwell_IV
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| Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant
|
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lukeprog
|
| 2012 Winter Fundraiser for the Singularity Institute
|
|
lukeprog
|
| 2012 Survey Results
|
|
Yvain
|
| By Which It May Be Judged
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| New Sequences and General Update From Castify
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|
scott_from_castify
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| Why you must maximize expected utility
|
|
Benja
|
| More Cryonics Probability Estimates
|
|
jkaufman
|
| Narrative, self-image, and self-communication
|
|
Academian
|
| Standard and Nonstandard Numbers
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Ritual Report 2012: Life, Death, Light, Darkness, and Love.
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|
Raemon
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| Godel's Completeness and Incompleteness Theorems
|
|
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
|
| Ritual 2012: A Moment of Darkness
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|
Raemon
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