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As the holiday season approaches, we continue our tradition of celebrating the winter solstice. This event is the offspring of Raemon's Ne

In explorations of AI risk, it is helpful to formalize concepts. One particularly important concept is intelligence. How can we formalize it

In 2007, Legg and Hutter wrote a paper using the AIXI model to define a measure of intelligence. It's pretty great, but I can think of some

This is the completed article that Luke wrote the first half of. My thanks go to the following for reading, editing, and commenting; Luke Mu

LessWrong seems to have two main topics for discussion; rationality and AI. This, of course, is caused by Eliezer Yudkowsky's sequences (and

You've read the introduction to Bayes' theorem. You've read the introduction to Solomonoff induction. Both describe fundamental theories of

This is a summary of material from various posts and discussions. My thanks to Eliezer Yudkowsky, Daniel Dewey, Paul Christiano, Nick Beckst

I'm going to steal Anna's idea and change it to the instrumental side of rationality. In Luke's algorithm for beating procrastination, Step

The New York Times just published this article on how companies use data mining and the psychology of habit formation to effectively target

Article here; http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/brainboosting.html Recent research in Oxford and elsewhere has shown that one type