1hr talk: Intro to AGI safety

18 Jun 2019 21:41 UTC

13 points

0 comments23 min readLW link

Reneging prosocially by Duncan Sabien

18 Jun 2019 18:52 UTC

47 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

[Question] Is the “business cycle” an actual economic principle?

18 Jun 2019 14:52 UTC

29 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Reason isn’t magic

18 Jun 2019 4:04 UTC

88 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

[Question] In physical eschatology, is Aestivation a sound strategy?

17 Jun 2019 7:27 UTC

18 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do policy makers frequently underestimate non-human threats (ie: epidemic, natural disasters, climate change) when compared to threats that are human in nature (ie: military conflict, economic competition, Cold War)?

15 Jun 2019 16:29 UTC

5 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

28 social psychology studies from Experiments With People (Frey & Gregg, 2017)

16 Jun 2019 2:23 UTC

12 points

0 comments26 min readLW link

Research Agenda v0.9: Synthesising a human’s preferences into a utility function

Stuart_Armstrong

17 Jun 2019 17:46 UTC

47 points

4 comments32 min readLW link

On Seeing Through ‘On Seeing Through: A Unified Theory’: A Unified Theory

15 Jun 2019 18:57 UTC

27 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

[Question] Is there a guide to ‘Problems that are too fast to Google’?

17 Jun 2019 5:04 UTC

46 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

ISO: Automated P-Hacking Detection

16 Jun 2019 21:15 UTC

6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The Univariate Fallacy

15 Jun 2019 21:43 UTC

21 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Does scientific productivity correlate with IQ?

16 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC

26 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does the _timing_ of practice, relative to sleep, make a difference for skill consolidation?

16 Jun 2019 19:12 UTC

28 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is “physical nondeterminism” a meaningful concept?

16 Jun 2019 15:55 UTC

24 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Reasonable Explanations

16 Jun 2019 5:29 UTC

62 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Paper on qualitative types or degrees of knowledge, with examples from medicine?

15 Jun 2019 0:31 UTC

5 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Recommendation Features on LessWrong

15 Jun 2019 0:23 UTC

60 points

32 comments4 min readLW link

Welcome to LessWrong!

14 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC

69 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

LessWrong FAQ

14 Jun 2019 19:03 UTC

48 points

7 comments23 min readLW link