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Agent-Simulates-Predictor Variant of the Prisoner’s Dilemma
Gram_Stone
Dec 15, 2015, 7:17 AM
11
points
34
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Logical Counterfactuals Consistent Under Self-Modification
abramdemski
Dec 15, 2015, 6:38 AM
3
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Effective Giving vs. Effective Altruism
Gleb_Tsipursky
Dec 14, 2015, 11:49 PM
10
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Link] Video of a presentation by Hal Arkes, one of the top world experts in debiasing, on dealing with the hindsight bias and overconfidence
Gleb_Tsipursky
Dec 14, 2015, 6:16 PM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Dec. 14 - Dec. 20, 2015
MrMind
Dec 14, 2015, 8:09 AM
8
points
90
comments
1
min read
LW
link
State of the Solstice (NYC Event upcoming)
Raemon
Dec 14, 2015, 6:33 AM
8
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
State of the Solstice (NY Event Upcoming)
Raemon
Dec 14, 2015, 6:30 AM
15
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Communicating concepts in value learning
Manfred
Dec 14, 2015, 3:06 AM
7
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Board Games
rocurley
Dec 14, 2015, 1:18 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Estimate the Cost of Immortality
Algernoq
Dec 13, 2015, 11:38 AM
−3
points
115
comments
1
min read
LW
link
This year’s biggest scientific achievements
Elo
Dec 13, 2015, 5:26 AM
16
points
29
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Results of a One-Year Longitudinal Study of CFAR Alumni
Unnamed
Dec 12, 2015, 4:39 AM
53
points
35
comments
31
min read
LW
link
Concise Open Problem in Logical Uncertainty
Scott Garrabrant
Dec 12, 2015, 3:03 AM
5
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Introducing OpenAI
Baughn
Dec 11, 2015, 9:54 PM
34
points
49
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Benford Test with Gaps
Scott Garrabrant
Dec 11, 2015, 9:40 PM
4
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Dec 11, 2015, 4:58 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Computable Universal Prior
Ronny Fernandez
Dec 11, 2015, 9:54 AM
0
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
List of techniques to help you remember names
Elo
Dec 11, 2015, 12:41 AM
17
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup
Tuk
Dec 10, 2015, 10:48 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow social meetup: Chaos is back!
Alexander230
Dec 10, 2015, 6:31 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : FallacyMania game in Kocherga club
Alexander230
Dec 10, 2015, 5:47 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Existence of distributions that are expectation-reflective and know it
TsviBT
Dec 10, 2015, 7:35 AM
6
points
0
comments
14
min read
LW
link
[Link] 10 Tips from CFAR: My Business Insider article
James_Miller
Dec 10, 2015, 2:09 AM
29
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
MIRI’s 2015 Winter Fundraiser!
So8res
Dec 9, 2015, 7:00 PM
43
points
23
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Why startup founders have mood swings (and why they may have uses)
AnnaSalamon
Dec 9, 2015, 6:59 PM
105
points
20
comments
5
min read
LW
link
LessWrong 2.0
Vaniver
Dec 9, 2015, 6:59 PM
127
points
313
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Sharing Book Excerpts
RobinZ
Dec 9, 2015, 3:08 PM
2
points
1,913
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Antonio Meetup: Goal Factoring Discussion
Bryan-san
Dec 9, 2015, 3:08 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Meetup Racionalidade São Paulo
leohmarruda
Dec 8, 2015, 2:57 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LINK: Most of EvoPsych is pseudoscience
polymathwannabe
Dec 8, 2015, 12:53 AM
−1
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reflective Probability Distributions and Standard Models of Arithmetic
IAFF-User-4
Dec 7, 2015, 10:04 PM
4
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Rationalist Magic: Initiation into the Cult of Rationatron
wizard
Dec 7, 2015, 9:39 PM
16
points
47
comments
5
min read
LW
link
NIPS 2015
Dr_Manhattan
Dec 7, 2015, 8:31 PM
12
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Maximizing Donations to Effective Charities
Gleb_Tsipursky
Dec 7, 2015, 6:13 PM
9
points
29
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Baltimore Area Meetup
iarwain1
Dec 7, 2015, 4:39 PM
2
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open thread, December 7-13, 2015
polymathwannabe
Dec 7, 2015, 2:47 PM
8
points
224
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Engineering Religion
KevinGrant_duplicate0.2409764628391713
Dec 7, 2015, 1:34 PM
−2
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mark Zuckerberg plans to give away 99% of his facebook wealth over his lifetime
ChristianKl
Dec 7, 2015, 12:28 AM
8
points
50
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New year’s resolutions: Things worth considering for next year
Elo
Dec 7, 2015, 12:09 AM
9
points
41
comments
6
min read
LW
link
timeless quantum immortality
Algernoq
Dec 6, 2015, 4:14 AM
3
points
52
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Obvious advice
So8res
Dec 6, 2015, 2:00 AM
22
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(mindingourway.com)
My research priorities for AI control
paulfchristiano
Dec 6, 2015, 1:57 AM
29
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The map of double scenarios of a global catastrophe
turchin
Dec 5, 2015, 1:36 PM
9
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
EA as offsetting
KatjaGrace
Dec 5, 2015, 3:06 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Dec 4, 2015, 4:37 PM
3
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Rationality Diary
rocurley
Dec 4, 2015, 7:20 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Strict Dominance for the Modified Demski Prior
abramdemski
Dec 4, 2015, 5:57 AM
13
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney solstice
Elo
Dec 4, 2015, 3:19 AM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Huffington Post article promoting Effective Altruist ideas
Gleb_Tsipursky
Dec 4, 2015, 2:02 AM
7
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Social games
KatjaGrace
Dec 4, 2015, 2:00 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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