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Meetup : Reading Weekly Meetups

ActyOct 12, 2015, 12:11 AM

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Unbounded linear utility functions?

snarlesOct 11, 2015, 11:30 PM

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3 comments3 min readLW link

Simulations Map: what is the most probable type of the simulation in which we live?

turchinOct 11, 2015, 5:10 AM

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47 comments7 min readLW link

Simply locate yourself

So8resOct 11, 2015, 3:00 AM

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(mindingourway.com)

Conflicting advice on altruism

leplenOct 11, 2015, 12:25 AM

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3 comments7 min readLW link

Aumann Agreement Game

abramdemskiOct 9, 2015, 5:14 PM

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17 comments1 min readLW link

New LW Meetups: Reading, Stockholm, and Suzhou

FrankAdamekOct 9, 2015, 4:11 PM

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Chatbots or set answers, not WBEs

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 9, 2015, 3:48 PM

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Toy model for wire-heading [EDIT: removed for improvement]

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 9, 2015, 3:45 PM

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A toy model of the control problem

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 9, 2015, 3:31 PM

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How the virtual AI controls itself

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 9, 2015, 3:05 PM

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Philosophical schools are approaches not positions

casebashOct 9, 2015, 9:46 AM

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Emotional tools for the beginner rationalist

Gleb_TsipurskyOct 9, 2015, 5:01 AM

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[Link] Stephen Hawking AMA answers

NoSignalNoNoiseOct 8, 2015, 11:13 PM

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14 comments1 min readLW link

Fiction Considered Harmful

abramdemskiOct 8, 2015, 6:34 PM

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82 comments2 min readLW link

Rationality Reading Group: Part K: Letting Go

Gram_StoneOct 8, 2015, 2:32 AM

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Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games

RobinZOct 7, 2015, 4:49 PM

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Group Rationality Diary, Oct. 6-18, 2015

polymathwannabeOct 6, 2015, 11:23 PM

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Crazy Ideas Thread—October 2015

Gunnar_ZarnckeOct 6, 2015, 10:38 PM

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Why the Modified Demski Prior is better than the original

Scott GarrabrantOct 6, 2015, 6:50 PM

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Optimal predictors for global probability measures

Vanessa KosoyOct 6, 2015, 5:40 PM

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0 comments11 min readLW link

Meetup : Less Wrong NH Meet-up

TukOct 6, 2015, 3:39 AM

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Meetup : LessWrong Sao Paulo

leohmarrudaOct 6, 2015, 1:54 AM

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A few misconceptions surrounding Roko’s basilisk

Rob BensingerOct 5, 2015, 9:23 PM

92 points

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135 comments5 min readLW link

How could one (and should one) convert someone from pseudoscience?

Vilx-Oct 5, 2015, 11:53 AM

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54 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Oct. 5 - Oct. 11, 2015

MrMindOct 5, 2015, 6:50 AM

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The Bayes Score Meliorizer

Scott GarrabrantOct 5, 2015, 5:50 AM

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Logical predictors cannot dominate their own complexity class

Scott GarrabrantOct 5, 2015, 4:45 AM

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Detach the grim-o-meter

So8resOct 5, 2015, 3:00 AM

33 points

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(mindingourway.com)

Logical counterfactuals using optimal predictor schemes

Vanessa KosoyOct 4, 2015, 7:48 PM

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[Link] Tetlock on the power of precise predictions to counter political polarization

Stefan_SchubertOct 4, 2015, 3:19 PM

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7 comments2 min readLW link

Deliberate Grad School

AcademianOct 4, 2015, 10:11 AM

38 points

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155 comments3 min readLW link

Two Questions about Solomonoff Induction

Scott GarrabrantOct 4, 2015, 5:15 AM

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Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Projects

rocurleyOct 4, 2015, 3:27 AM

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Meetup : Meetup : Turku Meetup—Critique towards Less Wrong and MIRI

[deleted]Oct 3, 2015, 6:11 PM

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Rationality Cardinality

jimrandomhOct 3, 2015, 3:54 PM

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What’s logical coherence for anyway?

PedroCarvalhoOct 3, 2015, 2:07 PM

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(rationalistramble.wordpress.com)

Monthly Bragging Thread October 2015

elharoOct 3, 2015, 1:27 PM

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Rationality Quotes Thread October 2015

elharoOct 3, 2015, 1:23 PM

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Experiment: Changing minds vs. preaching to the choir

cleonidOct 3, 2015, 11:27 AM

19 points

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14 comments2 min readLW link

Digital Immortality Map: How to collect enough information about yourself for future resurrection by AI

turchinOct 2, 2015, 10:21 PM

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33 comments3 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekOct 2, 2015, 4:22 PM

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Donna Capsella and the four applicants, pt.1

[deleted]Oct 2, 2015, 2:15 PM

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4 comments3 min readLW link

Conservative classifiers

jessicataOct 2, 2015, 3:56 AM

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Two Growth Curves

AnnaSalamonOct 2, 2015, 12:59 AM

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Meetup : San Antonio Meetup—Discussion

Bryan-sanOct 1, 2015, 11:55 PM

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October 2015 Media Thread

ArisKatsarisOct 1, 2015, 10:17 PM

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Polling Thread—Tutorial

Gunnar_ZarnckeOct 1, 2015, 9:47 PM

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Meetup : Tel Aviv: Hardware Verification and FAI

SquarkOct 1, 2015, 9:00 PM

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[Link] Differential Technology Development—Some Early Thinking

[deleted]Oct 1, 2015, 2:08 AM

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