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Trigger warning: In a thought experiment in this post, I used a hypothetical torture scenario without thinking, even though it wasn't necess

The best approach I know for thinking about anthropic problems is Wei Dai's Updateless Decision Theory (UDT). We aren't yet able to solve al

Followup to: L-zombies! (L-zombies?) Reply to: Coscott's Preferences without Existence; Paul Christiano's comment on my l-zombies post In

Reply to: Benja2010's Self-modification is the correct justification for updateless decision theory; Wei Dai's Late great filter is not bad

Last week (Dec. 14-20), MIRI ran its 6th research workshop on logic, probability, and reflection. Writing up mathematical results takes time

Eliezer and Marcello's article on tiling agents and the Löbian obstacle discusses several things that you intuitively would expect a rationa

Discussion article for the meetup : Bristol meetup WHEN: 20 October 2013 02:00:00PM (+0100) WHERE: Hodgkin House, 3 Meridian Place, Bri

Discussion article for the meetup : Second Bristol meetup & mailing list for future meetups WHEN: 16 June 2013 03:00:00PM (+0100) W

Discussion article for the meetup : First Bristol meetup WHEN: 25 May 2013 03:00:00PM (+0100) WHERE: Friska Queens Road (on the Cli

In what became 5th most-read new post on LessWrong in 2012, Morendil told us about a study widely cited in its field... except that source c