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Near-Term Risk: Killer Robots a Threat to Freedom and Democracy

A new TED talk video just came out by Daniel Suarez, author of Daemon, explaining how autonomous combat drones with a capability called "let

Poll - Is endless September a threat to LW and what should be done?

Various people raised concerns that growth might ruin the culture after reading my "LessWrong could grow a lot" thread. There has been some

Female Test Subject - Convince Me To Get Cryo

I heard that women are difficult to convince when it comes to signing up for cryo. In mentioning cryonics to a dying person, there seems to

Elitism isn't necessary for refining rationality.

Note: After writing this post, I realized there's a lot I need to learn about this subject. I've been thinking a lot about how I use the w

Call For Agreement: Should LessWrong have better protection against cultural collapse?

As you are probably already aware, many internet forums experience a phenomenon known as "eternal September". Named after a temporary effec

Preventing discussion from being watered down by an "endless September" user influx.

In the thread "LessWrong could grow a lot, but we're doing it wrong.", I explained why LessWrong has the potential to grow quite a lot faste

LessWrong could grow a lot, but we're doing it wrong.

How do I know this? I got a copy of the website analytics. The bounce rate for LessWrong's home page is 60%! To be clear: Over half the

Enjoy solving "impossible" problems? Group project!

In the Muehlhauser-Hibbard Dialogue on AGI, Hibbard states it will be "impossible to decelerate AI capabilities" but Luke counters with "Per

Number of Members on LessWrong

I was excited to find this site, so I wanted to know how many people had joined LessWrong. Was it what it seemed - that a lot of people had