The map of agents which may cre­ate x-risks

turchin13 Oct 2016 11:17 UTC
3 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Ra­tion­al­ity Diary

rocurley13 Oct 2016 5:18 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Barack Obama’s opinions on near-fu­ture AI [Fixed]

scarcegreengrass12 Oct 2016 15:46 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wired.com)

Barack Obama on Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Au­tonomous Cars, and the Fu­ture of Humanity

Lightwave12 Oct 2016 14:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wired.com)

An at­tempt in lay­man’s lan­guage to ex­plain the metaethics se­quence in a sin­gle post.

Bound_up12 Oct 2016 13:57 UTC
2 points
93 comments1 min readLW link
(atheistkit.wordpress.com)

Barack Obama’s opinions on near-fu­ture AI

scarcegreengrass12 Oct 2016 13:44 UTC
1 point
9 comments1 min readLW link

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

RobinZ12 Oct 2016 0:02 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI AMA plus updates

Rob Bensinger11 Oct 2016 23:52 UTC
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Recom­men­da­tion] Steven Uni­verse & cryonics

tadrinth11 Oct 2016 16:21 UTC
13 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Rea­son­able Re­quire­ments of any Mo­ral Theory

TheSurvivalMachine10 Oct 2016 20:48 UTC
−2 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(vif.fitnessism.org)

Meetup : St. Peters­burg Weekly /​ Biweekly Meetup

AvImd10 Oct 2016 17:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Oct. 10 - Oct. 16, 2016

MrMind10 Oct 2016 7:00 UTC
7 points
157 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Stock­holm: Trig­ger-Ac­tion Plans

pepe_prime9 Oct 2016 21:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Biofuels a cli­mate mistake

morganism9 Oct 2016 21:16 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(theconversation.com)

Quan­tum Bayesianism

morganism8 Oct 2016 23:27 UTC
2 points
37 comments1 min readLW link
(en.wikipedia.org)

Viruses and DRACOs in the Valley of Death in med­i­cal re­search.

morganism8 Oct 2016 20:36 UTC
−2 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.inverse.com)

Six prin­ci­ples of a truth-friendly discourse

philh8 Oct 2016 16:56 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The map of or­ga­ni­za­tions, sites and peo­ple in­volved in x-risks prevention

turchin7 Oct 2016 12:04 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Projects

rocurley7 Oct 2016 5:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek7 Oct 2016 3:58 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Games Discussion

RobinZ7 Oct 2016 1:08 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain17 Oct 2016 0:30 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Univer­sity of Cam­bridge Cen­tre for the Study of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk (CSER) is hiring!

crmflynn6 Oct 2016 16:53 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Log­i­cal in­duc­tor limits are dense un­der poin­t­wise convergence

SamEisenstat6 Oct 2016 8:07 UTC
5 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Pu­tanu­monit—Dis­card­ing em­pa­thy to save the world

Jacob Falkovich6 Oct 2016 7:03 UTC
14 points
38 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

The­ory of an Im­moral Sentiment

Jacob Falkovich6 Oct 2016 5:55 UTC
6 points
1 comment12 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Meetup : Moscow: ra­tio­nal re­view, bias busters, Kol­mogorov and Jayes probability

berekuk5 Oct 2016 19:32 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Nick Bostrom says Google is win­ning the AI arms race

polymathwannabe5 Oct 2016 18:50 UTC
8 points
32 comments1 min readLW link
(www.newsweek.com)

law as moral guide

IAFF-User-1864 Oct 2016 22:41 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Astro­biol­ogy III: Why Earth?

CellBioGuy4 Oct 2016 21:59 UTC
27 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Astro­biol­ogy III: Why Earth?

CellBioGuy4 Oct 2016 21:44 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Open thread, Oct. 03 - Oct. 09, 2016

MrMind3 Oct 2016 6:59 UTC
8 points
166 comments1 min readLW link

80% of data in Chi­nese clini­cal tri­als have been fabricated

DanArmak2 Oct 2016 7:38 UTC
11 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Cryo with mag­net­ics added

morganism1 Oct 2016 22:27 UTC
8 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Fermi para­dox of hu­man past, and cor­re­spond­ing x-risks

turchin1 Oct 2016 17:01 UTC
10 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

Oc­to­ber 2016 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Oct 2016 14:05 UTC
10 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek30 Sep 2016 14:48 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Risk Con­tracts: A Crack­pot Idea to Save the World

SquirrelInHell30 Sep 2016 14:36 UTC
4 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Soft­ware for moral en­hance­ment (ka­j­so­tala.fi)

Kaj_Sotala30 Sep 2016 12:12 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

An ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the Less Wrong Se­quences (ka­j­so­tala.fi)

Kaj_Sotala30 Sep 2016 12:11 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

US tech gi­ants found Part­ner­ship on AI to Benefit Peo­ple and So­ciety to en­sure AI is de­vel­oped safely and ethically

Gunnar_Zarncke29 Sep 2016 20:39 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.businessinsider.de)

Sam Har­ris—TED Talk on AI

Brillyant29 Sep 2016 16:44 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.samharris.org)

Tech be­he­moths form ar­tifi­cial-in­tel­li­gence nonprofit

Gleb_Tsipursky29 Sep 2016 4:29 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.seattletimes.com)

Figure­heads, ghost-writ­ers and pseudony­mous quant blog­gers: the re­cent evolu­tion of au­thor­ship in sci­ence publishing

Gram_Stone28 Sep 2016 23:16 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(medicalhypotheses.blogspot.com)

Poli­tics Is Up­stream of AI

iceman28 Sep 2016 21:47 UTC
6 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(thefutureprimaeval.net)

Street Episte­mol­ogy Ex­am­ples: How to Talk to Peo­ple So They Change Their Minds

Bound_up28 Sep 2016 21:19 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

My lat­est around of in­ter­net ur­ban leg­end re­search: Deep web secrets

Deku-shrub28 Sep 2016 19:12 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rationalwiki.org)

SSC: It’s Bayes All The Way Up

Houshalter28 Sep 2016 18:06 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Pu­tanu­monit—You can’t always tell peo­ple’s be­liefs from ex­plicit be­hav­ior + Trump and blacks

Jacob Falkovich28 Sep 2016 16:45 UTC
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Pu­tanu­monit—Con­vinc­ing peo­ple to read the Se­quences and won­der­ing about “pos­tra­tional­ists”

Jacob Falkovich28 Sep 2016 16:43 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)