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On the importance of Less Wrong, or another single conversational locus

AnnaSalamon27 Nov 2016 17:13 UTC

173 points

365 comments4 min readLW link

Epistemic Effort

Raemon29 Nov 2016 16:08 UTC

71 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

A Return to Discussion

sarahconstantin27 Nov 2016 13:59 UTC

58 points

32 comments6 min readLW link

The Pyramid And The Garden

Scott Alexander5 Nov 2016 6:03 UTC

49 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

If we can’t lie to others, we will lie to ourselves

paulfchristiano26 Nov 2016 22:29 UTC

45 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Sample means, how do they work?

Benquo20 Nov 2016 21:04 UTC

34 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

On Trying Not To Be Wrong

sarahconstantin11 Nov 2016 19:25 UTC

31 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Less costly signaling

paulfchristiano22 Nov 2016 21:11 UTC

29 points

38 comments1 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Yudkowsky vs Trump: the nuclear showdown.

MrMind11 Nov 2016 11:30 UTC

27 points

162 comments2 min readLW link

Crony Beliefs

plex3 Nov 2016 20:54 UTC

22 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

(www.meltingasphalt.com)

Using a Spreadsheet to Make Good Decisions: Five Examples

Peter Wildeford28 Nov 2016 17:10 UTC

22 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Matching donation fundraisers can be harmfully dishonest.

Benquo11 Nov 2016 21:05 UTC

18 points

6 comments14 min readLW link

Recent AI control posts

paulfchristiano29 Nov 2016 18:53 UTC

18 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality Heuristic for Bias Detection: Updating Towards the Net Weight of Evidence

gwern17 Nov 2016 2:51 UTC

17 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Updatelessness and Son of X

Scott Garrabrant4 Nov 2016 22:58 UTC

17 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Expert Prediction Of Experiments

Scott Alexander29 Nov 2016 2:47 UTC

15 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Mental Habits are Procedural

lifelonglearner7 Nov 2016 14:53 UTC

14 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Terminally ill teen won historic ruling to preserve body

NancyLebovitz18 Nov 2016 14:16 UTC

14 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.bbc.com)

Rebuttal piece by Stuart Russell and FHI Research Associate Allan Dafoe: “Yes, the experts are worried about the existential risk of artificial intelligence.”

crmflynn3 Nov 2016 17:54 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.technologyreview.com)

Industry Matters 2: Partial Retraction

sarahconstantin23 Nov 2016 17:08 UTC

14 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Seeking better name for “Effective Egoism”

DataPacRat25 Nov 2016 22:31 UTC

14 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

How can people write good LW articles?

abramdemski29 Nov 2016 10:40 UTC

13 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

The Post-Virtual-Reality Sadness

morganism16 Nov 2016 8:17 UTC

13 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Stand-up comedy as a way to improve rationality skills

Andy_McKenzie27 Nov 2016 21:52 UTC

13 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Nassim Taleb on Election Forecasting

NatashaRostova26 Nov 2016 19:06 UTC

13 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

The Developmental Role of Play

Gordon Seidoh Worley11 Nov 2016 19:41 UTC

12 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(mapandterritory.org)

Wireheading Done Right: Stay Positive Without Going Insane

9eB122 Nov 2016 3:16 UTC

10 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(qualiacomputing.com)

Finding slices of joy

Kaj_Sotala28 Nov 2016 10:10 UTC

10 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Maine passes Ranked Choice Voting

morganism14 Nov 2016 20:07 UTC

10 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(ballotpedia.org)

Vestibular Stimulation and Fat Loss

sarahconstantin20 Nov 2016 0:23 UTC

10 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Polarization is the problem, “normalization” is the answer

Jacob Falkovich23 Nov 2016 17:40 UTC

10 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

FHI is accepting applications for internships in the area of AI Safety and Reinforcement Learning

crmflynn7 Nov 2016 16:33 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)

Open thread, Nov. 7 - Nov. 13, 2016

MrMind7 Nov 2016 8:01 UTC

9 points

120 comments1 min readLW link

Embed, encode, attend, predict: The new deep learning formula for state-of-the-art NLP models

morganism12 Nov 2016 21:33 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(explosion.ai)

Revealed and Stated Identity

Gordon Seidoh Worley25 Nov 2016 20:17 UTC

9 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(mapandterritory.org)

Kidney Trade: A Dialectic

Gram_Stone18 Nov 2016 17:19 UTC

9 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Industry Matters

sarahconstantin19 Nov 2016 7:29 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Authenticity vs. factual accuracy

philh10 Nov 2016 22:24 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Costs are not benefits

philh3 Nov 2016 21:32 UTC

8 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

How did experiments with lucid dreaming pan out?

listic12 Nov 2016 20:40 UTC

8 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Increase Your Child’s Working Memory

James_Miller27 Nov 2016 21:57 UTC

8 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Did social desirability effects mask Trump’s true support?

katydee10 Nov 2016 9:56 UTC

8 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(themiddleofthatzone.wordpress.com)

Mismatched Vocabularies

Error21 Nov 2016 17:55 UTC

7 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Articles in Main

Vaniver29 Nov 2016 21:35 UTC

7 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

My recent posts

paulfchristiano29 Nov 2016 18:51 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Predicting HCH using expert advice

jessicata28 Nov 2016 3:38 UTC

7 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Synthetic supermicrobe will be resistant to all known viruses

James_Miller22 Nov 2016 4:40 UTC

6 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.newscientist.com)

Open thread, Nov. 14 - Nov. 20, 2016

MrMind14 Nov 2016 7:51 UTC

6 points

101 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Nov. 28 - Dec. 04, 2016

MrMind28 Nov 2016 7:40 UTC

6 points

94 comments1 min readLW link

postCDT: Decision Theory using post-selected Bayes nets

Scott Garrabrant6 Nov 2016 22:22 UTC

5 points

1 comment3 min readLW link