On­line Learn­ing 2: Ban­dit learn­ing with catastrophes

RyanCareyOct 29, 2016, 4:53 PM
0 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

On­line Learn­ing 1: Bias-de­tect­ing on­line learners

RyanCareyOct 29, 2016, 4:45 PM
6 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—De­cem­ber 2016

luminosityOct 28, 2016, 11:39 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Novem­ber 2016

luminosityOct 28, 2016, 11:38 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ci­ti­zen sci­en­tist space projects

morganismOct 28, 2016, 9:56 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(spacehack.org)

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain1Oct 28, 2016, 6:36 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meetup #5 - Am­s­ter­dam edi­tion!

nullOct 28, 2016, 5:55 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Philo­soph­i­cal the­ory with an em­piri­cal prediction

mginOct 28, 2016, 4:14 PM
−3 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekOct 28, 2016, 3:47 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Your Truth Is Not My Truth

Bound_upOct 28, 2016, 1:35 PM
1 point
18 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Stock­holm: Bot­tle­necks to trad­ing per­sonal resources

pepe_primeOct 28, 2016, 11:41 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Year 1 Re­dux – Trump

Jacob FalkovichOct 27, 2016, 9:58 PM
1 point
0 comments5 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Meetup : Moscow: ra­tio­nal re­view, sta­tus quo bias, in­ter­per­sonal closeness

Slava MatyukhinOct 27, 2016, 1:58 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tual do-what-I-mean

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 27, 2016, 1:54 PM
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tual do-what-I-mean

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 27, 2016, 1:53 PM
0 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Board Games

rocurleyOct 27, 2016, 2:56 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Garrabrant in­duc­tors to pre­dict counterfactuals

TsviBTOct 27, 2016, 2:41 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Desider­ata for de­ci­sion theory

TsviBTOct 27, 2016, 2:10 AM
2 points
1 comment15 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Hal­loween Party

RobinZOct 26, 2016, 9:37 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Slash­dot: study Finds Lit­tle Lies Lead To Big­ger Ones

Gunnar_ZarnckeOct 26, 2016, 6:53 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(science.slashdot.org)

Scien­tists Create AI Pro­gram That Can Pre­dict Hu­man Rights Tri­als With 79 Per­cent Accuracy

Gunnar_ZarnckeOct 26, 2016, 6:47 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(news.slashdot.org)

Year 1 Re­dux – Ser­ena and Ivan

Jacob FalkovichOct 26, 2016, 1:30 AM
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Try­ing to find a short story

mginOct 25, 2016, 2:27 AM
1 point
5 comments1 min readLW link

How Fea­si­ble Is the Rapid Devel­op­ment of Ar­tifi­cial Su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

Kaj_SotalaOct 24, 2016, 8:43 AM
14 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(foundational-research.org)

Open thread, Oct. 24 - Oct. 30, 2016

MrMindOct 24, 2016, 6:54 AM
6 points
220 comments1 min readLW link

Farm in a Box, per­ma­c­ulte package

morganismOct 23, 2016, 10:40 PM
−6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.farmfromabox.com)

Spec­tral sig­nal in halo stars, ETI sus­pected.

morganismOct 23, 2016, 8:21 PM
−5 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­nal Race Conditions

SquirrelInHellOct 23, 2016, 1:23 PM
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

A Year of Put­ting a Numonit

Jacob FalkovichOct 23, 2016, 7:03 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

What’s the most an­noy­ing part of your life/​job?

LironOct 23, 2016, 3:37 AM
25 points
126 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain1Oct 23, 2016, 12:26 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Try­ing to make poli­tics less ir­ra­tional by cog­ni­tive bias-check­ing the US pres­i­den­tial debates

Gleb_TsipurskyOct 22, 2016, 2:32 AM
−2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(theconversation.com)

Con­scious Ex­ot­ica—struc­ture of the space of pos­si­ble minds

morganismOct 21, 2016, 11:45 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(aeon.co)

New LW Meetup: Zurich

FrankAdamekOct 21, 2016, 10:47 AM
3 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

The Lev­er­hulme Cen­tre for the Fu­ture of In­tel­li­gence offi­cially launches.

ignorancepriorOct 21, 2016, 1:22 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(lcfi.ac.uk)

Tran­si­tive ne­go­ti­a­tions with coun­ter­fac­tual agents

Scott GarrabrantOct 20, 2016, 11:27 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Linked List

wmooreOct 20, 2016, 10:56 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(linkedlist.org)

At­tack­ing the grain of truth prob­lem us­ing Bayes-Sav­age agents

Vanessa KosoyOct 20, 2016, 2:41 PM
11 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

*How* peo­ple shut down thought be­cause of high-sta­tus re­spectable halos

NancyLebovitzOct 20, 2016, 2:09 PM
21 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Stories

rocurleyOct 20, 2016, 4:17 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­gram good ethics into ar­tifi­cial intelligence

XFrequentistOct 19, 2016, 4:28 PM
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nature.com)

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Tech­nol­ogy of Communication

RobinZOct 18, 2016, 11:14 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

AI-ON is an open com­mu­nity ded­i­cated to ad­vanc­ing Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

morganismOct 18, 2016, 10:17 PM
5 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(ai-on.org)

Meetup : Mu­nich Meetup in October

ValeriyOct 18, 2016, 10:10 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: Fal­la­cyMa­nia, Tower of Chaos, Scien­tific Discovery

Alexander230Oct 18, 2016, 9:00 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Stock­holm: Men­tal contrasting

pepe_primeOct 18, 2016, 8:24 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Non-iden­tity Prob­lem—Another ar­gu­ment in favour of clas­si­cal utilitarianism

casebashOct 18, 2016, 1:41 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(plato.stanford.edu)

Meetup : NY Sols­tice 2016 - The Story of Smallpox

RaemonOct 18, 2016, 2:50 AM
0 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Mo­ral Of The Story

Scott AlexanderOct 18, 2016, 2:22 AM
53 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Open thread, Oct. 17 - Oct. 23, 2016

MrMindOct 17, 2016, 7:02 AM
7 points
68 comments1 min readLW link