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Online Learning 2: Bandit learning with catastrophes
RyanCarey
Oct 29, 2016, 4:53 PM
0
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Online Learning 1: Bias-detecting online learners
RyanCarey
Oct 29, 2016, 4:45 PM
6
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—December 2016
luminosity
Oct 28, 2016, 11:39 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—November 2016
luminosity
Oct 28, 2016, 11:38 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Citizen scientist space projects
morganism
Oct 28, 2016, 9:56 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(spacehack.org)
Meetup : Baltimore Area / UMBC Weekly Meetup
iarwain1
Oct 28, 2016, 6:36 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Meetup #5 - Amsterdam edition!
null
Oct 28, 2016, 5:55 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Philosophical theory with an empirical prediction
mgin
Oct 28, 2016, 4:14 PM
−3
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Oct 28, 2016, 3:47 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Your Truth Is Not My Truth
Bound_up
Oct 28, 2016, 1:35 PM
1
point
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Stockholm: Bottlenecks to trading personal resources
pepe_prime
Oct 28, 2016, 11:41 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Year 1 Redux – Trump
Jacob Falkovich
Oct 27, 2016, 9:58 PM
1
point
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Meetup : Moscow: rational review, status quo bias, interpersonal closeness
Slava Matyukhin
Oct 27, 2016, 1:58 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Counterfactual do-what-I-mean
Stuart_Armstrong
Oct 27, 2016, 1:54 PM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Counterfactual do-what-I-mean
Stuart_Armstrong
Oct 27, 2016, 1:53 PM
0
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Board Games
rocurley
Oct 27, 2016, 2:56 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Training Garrabrant inductors to predict counterfactuals
TsviBT
Oct 27, 2016, 2:41 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Desiderata for decision theory
TsviBT
Oct 27, 2016, 2:10 AM
2
points
1
comment
15
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Halloween Party
RobinZ
Oct 26, 2016, 9:37 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Slashdot: study Finds Little Lies Lead To Bigger Ones
Gunnar_Zarncke
Oct 26, 2016, 6:53 AM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(science.slashdot.org)
Scientists Create AI Program That Can Predict Human Rights Trials With 79 Percent Accuracy
Gunnar_Zarncke
Oct 26, 2016, 6:47 AM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(news.slashdot.org)
Year 1 Redux – Serena and Ivan
Jacob Falkovich
Oct 26, 2016, 1:30 AM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Trying to find a short story
mgin
Oct 25, 2016, 2:27 AM
1
point
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How Feasible Is the Rapid Development of Artificial Superintelligence?
Kaj_Sotala
Oct 24, 2016, 8:43 AM
14
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(foundational-research.org)
Open thread, Oct. 24 - Oct. 30, 2016
MrMind
Oct 24, 2016, 6:54 AM
6
points
220
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Farm in a Box, permaculte package
morganism
Oct 23, 2016, 10:40 PM
−6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.farmfromabox.com)
Spectral signal in halo stars, ETI suspected.
morganism
Oct 23, 2016, 8:21 PM
−5
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Internal Race Conditions
SquirrelInHell
Oct 23, 2016, 1:23 PM
3
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)
A Year of Putting a Numonit
Jacob Falkovich
Oct 23, 2016, 7:03 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
What’s the most annoying part of your life/job?
Liron
Oct 23, 2016, 3:37 AM
25
points
126
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Baltimore Area / UMBC Weekly Meetup
iarwain1
Oct 23, 2016, 12:26 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Trying to make politics less irrational by cognitive bias-checking the US presidential debates
Gleb_Tsipursky
Oct 22, 2016, 2:32 AM
−2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(theconversation.com)
Conscious Exotica—structure of the space of possible minds
morganism
Oct 21, 2016, 11:45 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(aeon.co)
New LW Meetup: Zurich
FrankAdamek
Oct 21, 2016, 10:47 AM
3
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence officially launches.
ignoranceprior
Oct 21, 2016, 1:22 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(lcfi.ac.uk)
Transitive negotiations with counterfactual agents
Scott Garrabrant
Oct 20, 2016, 11:27 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Linked List
wmoore
Oct 20, 2016, 10:56 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(linkedlist.org)
Attacking the grain of truth problem using Bayes-Savage agents
Vanessa Kosoy
Oct 20, 2016, 2:41 PM
11
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
*How* people shut down thought because of high-status respectable halos
NancyLebovitz
Oct 20, 2016, 2:09 PM
21
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Stories
rocurley
Oct 20, 2016, 4:17 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Program good ethics into artificial intelligence
XFrequentist
Oct 19, 2016, 4:28 PM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.nature.com)
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Technology of Communication
RobinZ
Oct 18, 2016, 11:14 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AI-ON is an open community dedicated to advancing Artificial Intelligence
morganism
Oct 18, 2016, 10:17 PM
5
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(ai-on.org)
Meetup : Munich Meetup in October
Valeriy
Oct 18, 2016, 10:10 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: FallacyMania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery
Alexander230
Oct 18, 2016, 9:00 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Stockholm: Mental contrasting
pepe_prime
Oct 18, 2016, 8:24 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Non-identity Problem—Another argument in favour of classical utilitarianism
casebash
Oct 18, 2016, 1:41 PM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(plato.stanford.edu)
Meetup : NY Solstice 2016 - The Story of Smallpox
Raemon
Oct 18, 2016, 2:50 AM
0
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Moral Of The Story
Scott Alexander
Oct 18, 2016, 2:22 AM
53
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Oct. 17 - Oct. 23, 2016
MrMind
Oct 17, 2016, 7:02 AM
7
points
68
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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