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)

Linkposts now live!

Vaniver28 Sep 2016 15:13 UTC
43 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Yud­kowsky’s Guide to Writ­ing In­tel­li­gent Characters

Vaniver28 Sep 2016 14:36 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(yudkowsky.tumblr.com)

A Child’s Petrov Day Speech

James_Miller28 Sep 2016 2:27 UTC
30 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Seek­ing Ad­vice About Ca­reer Paths for Non-USA Citizen

almkglor28 Sep 2016 0:07 UTC
8 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

New Philo­soph­i­cal Work on Solomonoff Induction

vallinder27 Sep 2016 11:12 UTC
5 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

The set of Log­i­cal In­duc­tors is not Convex

Scott Garrabrant27 Sep 2016 9:05 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Imag­ine paint as chance you spread across the world

BenFRayfield27 Sep 2016 2:29 UTC
0 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Log­i­cal In­duc­tors con­tain Log­i­cal In­duc­tors over other com­plex­ity classes

Scott Garrabrant26 Sep 2016 22:17 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Stock­holm: When to stop mak­ing a decision

pepe_prime26 Sep 2016 17:14 UTC
1 point
5 comments1 min readLW link

We have the tech­nol­ogy re­quired to build 3D body scan­ners for con­sumer prices

ChristianKl26 Sep 2016 15:36 UTC
6 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing doesn’t solve philos­o­phy of ethics

Stuart_Armstrong26 Sep 2016 12:11 UTC
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Model of hu­man (ir)rationality

Stuart_Armstrong26 Sep 2016 11:20 UTC
0 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Open thread, Sep. 26 - Oct. 02, 2016

MrMind26 Sep 2016 7:41 UTC
5 points
90 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI’s 2016 Fundraiser

So8res25 Sep 2016 16:55 UTC
34 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

The map of nat­u­ral global catas­trophic risks

turchin25 Sep 2016 13:17 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Melbourne: A Bayesian Guide on How to Read a Scien­tific Paper

Chriswaterguy24 Sep 2016 8:57 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Vari­a­tions of the Garrabrant-inductor

IAFF-User-8323 Sep 2016 19:11 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.cs.ucl.ac.uk)