The cor­rect re­sponse to un­cer­tainty is *not* half-speed

AnnaSalamon15 Jan 2016 22:55 UTC
259 points
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[mod­er­a­tor ac­tion] The_Lion and The_Lion2 are banned

Viliam_Bur30 Jan 2016 2:09 UTC
91 points
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Why CFAR’s Mis­sion?

AnnaSalamon2 Jan 2016 23:23 UTC
60 points
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Anx­iety and Rationality

[deleted]19 Jan 2016 18:30 UTC
51 points
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A toy model of the treach­er­ous turn

Stuart_Armstrong8 Jan 2016 12:58 UTC
42 points
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To con­tribute to AI safety, con­sider do­ing AI research

Vika16 Jan 2016 20:42 UTC
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How did my baby die and what is the prob­a­bil­ity that my next one will?

deprimita_patro19 Jan 2016 6:24 UTC
37 points
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What’s wrong with this pic­ture?

CronoDAS28 Jan 2016 13:30 UTC
29 points
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Another view of quan­tiliz­ers: avoid­ing Good­hart’s Law

jessicata9 Jan 2016 4:02 UTC
26 points
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Cel­e­brat­ing All Who Are in Effec­tive Altruism

Gleb_Tsipursky20 Jan 2016 1:31 UTC
25 points
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[link] “The Hap­piness Code”—New York Times on CFAR

Kaj_Sotala15 Jan 2016 6:34 UTC
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[Link] AlphaGo: Mas­ter­ing the an­cient game of Go with Ma­chine Learning

ESRogs27 Jan 2016 21:04 UTC
24 points
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Spread­ing ra­tio­nal­ity through en­gage­ment with sec­u­lar groups

Gleb_Tsipursky19 Jan 2016 23:19 UTC
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Guns And States

Scott Alexander7 Jan 2016 2:29 UTC
23 points
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Be­ware sur­pris­ing and sus­pi­cious convergence

Thrasymachus24 Jan 2016 19:13 UTC
23 points
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Per­haps a bet­ter form fac­tor for Mee­tups vs Main board posts?

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)28 Jan 2016 11:50 UTC
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A note about cal­ibra­tion of confidence

jbay4 Jan 2016 6:57 UTC
18 points
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[Stub] The prob­lem with Ch­ester­ton’s Fence

Stuart_Armstrong5 Jan 2016 17:10 UTC
18 points
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[LINK] How A Lamp Took Away My Read­ing And A Box Brought It Back

CronoDAS30 Jan 2016 16:55 UTC
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Clear­ing An Over­grown Garden

Anders_H29 Jan 2016 22:16 UTC
15 points
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[Stub] On­tolog­i­cal crisis = out of en­vi­ron­ment be­havi­our?

Stuart_Armstrong13 Jan 2016 15:10 UTC
15 points
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Yoshua Ben­gio on AI progress, hype and risks

V_V30 Jan 2016 1:45 UTC
14 points
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In­ten­tional In­sights and the Effec­tive Altru­ism Move­ment – Q & A

Gleb_Tsipursky2 Jan 2016 19:43 UTC
14 points
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Your tran­shu­man copy is of ques­tion­able value to your meat self.

Usul6 Jan 2016 9:03 UTC
14 points
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Ex­tend­ing the stated objectives

Stuart_Armstrong13 Jan 2016 16:20 UTC
13 points
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Desperation

So8res24 Jan 2016 2:00 UTC
13 points
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(mindingourway.com)

[Link] Huffing­ton Post ar­ti­cle about dual pro­cess theory

Gleb_Tsipursky6 Jan 2016 1:44 UTC
13 points
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Con­fi­dence all the way up

So8res17 Jan 2016 2:00 UTC
13 points
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(mindingourway.com)

Con­scious­ness and Sleep

casebash7 Jan 2016 12:04 UTC
12 points
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Think­ing About a Tech­ni­cal Solu­tion to Co­or­di­na­tion Problems

ChaosMote17 Jan 2016 7:16 UTC
12 points
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Wel­come to LessWrong (Jan­uary 2016)

[deleted]13 Jan 2016 21:34 UTC
11 points
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The art of response

So8res3 Jan 2016 2:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

[LINK] Com­mon fal­la­cies in prob­a­bil­ity (when num­bers aren’t used)

Stuart_Armstrong15 Jan 2016 8:29 UTC
10 points
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Open Thread, Jan­uary 4-10, 2016

polymathwannabe4 Jan 2016 13:06 UTC
9 points
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Jan­uary 2016 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Jan 2016 15:16 UTC
9 points
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Goal com­ple­tion: the rocket equations

Stuart_Armstrong20 Jan 2016 13:54 UTC
9 points
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Tack­ling the sub­agent prob­lem: pre­limi­nary analysis

Stuart_Armstrong12 Jan 2016 12:26 UTC
9 points
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Learn­ing Math­e­mat­ics in Context

Crux26 Jan 2016 22:27 UTC
9 points
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[Link] Life­hack ar­ti­cle pro­mot­ing ra­tio­nal­ity-themed ideas, namely long-term ori­en­ta­tion, mere-ex­po­sure effect, con­sider-the-al­ter­na­tive, and agency

Gleb_Tsipursky11 Jan 2016 20:14 UTC
9 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread Jan­uary 2016

elharo1 Jan 2016 16:00 UTC
9 points
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Open thread, Jan. 18 - Jan. 24, 2016

MrMind18 Jan 2016 9:42 UTC
8 points
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Study part­ner match­ing thread

NoSignalNoNoise25 Jan 2016 4:25 UTC
8 points
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The Char­ity Im­pact Calculator

Gleb_Tsipursky26 Jan 2016 5:01 UTC
8 points
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[Link] Video Pre­sen­ta­tion: Ra­tion­al­ity 101 for Sec­u­lar People

Gleb_Tsipursky24 Jan 2016 0:45 UTC
8 points
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Goal com­ple­tion: al­gorithm ideas

Stuart_Armstrong25 Jan 2016 17:36 UTC
8 points
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Monthly Brag­ging Thread Jan­uary 2016

elharo1 Jan 2016 16:14 UTC
8 points
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Study­ing Your Na­tive Language

Crux28 Jan 2016 19:23 UTC
8 points
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Map:Ter­ri­tory::Uncer­tainty::Ran­dom­ness – but that doesn’t mat­ter, value of in­for­ma­tion does.

Davidmanheim22 Jan 2016 19:12 UTC
8 points
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Could a digi­tal in­tel­li­gence be bad at math?

leplen20 Jan 2016 2:38 UTC
7 points
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AI Fic­tion—Crys­tal Society

Gleb_Tsipursky26 Jan 2016 23:51 UTC
7 points
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