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Elderly discovered with superior memory and Alzheimer’s pathology
morganism
Nov 17, 2016, 8:32 PM
5
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(sciencebulletin.org)
Meetup : Arrow theorem, LW goals and plans, rational review
Slava Matyukhin
Nov 17, 2016, 7:39 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Solstices 2016 in UK (Dec 3rd) Seattle/Boston (Dec 10th) and Bay/NYC (Dec 17th)
Raemon
Nov 17, 2016, 5:29 AM
4
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality Heuristic for Bias Detection: Updating Towards the Net Weight of Evidence
gwern
Nov 17, 2016, 2:51 AM
17
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
Flip Flops, part 1 of ∞
Jacob Falkovich
Nov 16, 2016, 10:53 PM
1
point
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
The Post-Virtual-Reality Sadness
morganism
Nov 16, 2016, 8:17 AM
13
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: FallacyMania, Tower of Chaos, Training Game Party
Alexander230
Nov 16, 2016, 4:58 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(Non-)Interruptibility of Sarsa(λ) and Q-Learning
rmoehn
Nov 16, 2016, 4:22 AM
3
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(nbviewer.jupyter.org)
Unifying stuff is hard
KatjaGrace
Nov 16, 2016, 1:54 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
An algorithm with preferences: from zero to one variable
Stuart_Armstrong
Nov 15, 2016, 3:14 PM
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Online Learning 3: Adversarial bandit learning with catastrophes
RyanCarey
Nov 14, 2016, 10:58 PM
3
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Maine passes Ranked Choice Voting
morganism
Nov 14, 2016, 8:07 PM
10
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(ballotpedia.org)
Open thread, Nov. 14 - Nov. 20, 2016
MrMind
Nov 14, 2016, 7:51 AM
6
points
101
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Communication is violent by nature
Djini_Hendrix
Nov 14, 2016, 6:36 AM
−32
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
VARIABILITY OF NUCLEAR DECAY RATES
morganism
Nov 13, 2016, 11:57 PM
1
point
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Embed, encode, attend, predict: The new deep learning formula for state-of-the-art NLP models
morganism
Nov 12, 2016, 9:33 PM
9
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(explosion.ai)
How did experiments with lucid dreaming pan out?
listic
Nov 12, 2016, 8:40 PM
8
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Matching donation fundraisers can be harmfully dishonest.
Benquo
Nov 11, 2016, 9:05 PM
18
points
6
comments
14
min read
LW
link
The Developmental Role of Play
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Nov 11, 2016, 7:41 PM
12
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
On Trying Not To Be Wrong
sarahconstantin
Nov 11, 2016, 7:25 PM
31
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Nov 11, 2016, 6:47 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Group Debugging
rocurley
Nov 11, 2016, 5:04 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Baltimore Area / UMBC Weekly Meetup
iarwain1
Nov 11, 2016, 1:43 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Yudkowsky vs Trump: the nuclear showdown.
MrMind
Nov 11, 2016, 11:30 AM
27
points
162
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Major Life Course Change: Making Politics Less Irrational
Gleb_Tsipursky
Nov 11, 2016, 3:30 AM
−7
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.facebook.com)
Authenticity vs. factual accuracy
philh
Nov 10, 2016, 10:24 PM
9
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Psychological skills
arunbharatula
Nov 10, 2016, 10:02 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(blogs.unimelb.edu.au)
Did social desirability effects mask Trump’s true support?
katydee
Nov 10, 2016, 9:56 AM
8
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(themiddleofthatzone.wordpress.com)
Meetup : Moscow social meetup: Party games!
Alexander230
Nov 9, 2016, 8:41 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
This is the way the world… is
Jacob Falkovich
Nov 9, 2016, 5:32 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Meetup : Meetup #6 - Still Amsterdam!
null
Nov 8, 2016, 6:02 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Raising the sanity waterline in politics
Gleb_Tsipursky
Nov 8, 2016, 4:10 PM
−17
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(link.rm0002.net)
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Gardening
RobinZ
Nov 8, 2016, 2:45 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Day After Tomorrow
Jacob Falkovich
Nov 7, 2016, 11:47 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
FHI is accepting applications for internships in the area of AI Safety and Reinforcement Learning
crmflynn
Nov 7, 2016, 4:33 PM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)
Mental Habits are Procedural
lifelonglearner
Nov 7, 2016, 2:53 PM
14
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Nov. 7 - Nov. 13, 2016
MrMind
Nov 7, 2016, 8:01 AM
9
points
120
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The New Little Ice Age Has Started (2016)
morganism
Nov 6, 2016, 10:49 PM
−7
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(watchers.news)
postCDT: Decision Theory using post-selected Bayes nets
Scott Garrabrant
Nov 6, 2016, 10:22 PM
5
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
What do you actually do to replenish your willpower?
Sable
Nov 6, 2016, 12:05 AM
5
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Slaves to fashion signaling
KatjaGrace
Nov 5, 2016, 9:45 PM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Year 1 Redux – Friends and Rationalists
Jacob Falkovich
Nov 5, 2016, 4:30 PM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Anyone else reading “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach”?
fowlertm
Nov 5, 2016, 3:22 PM
2
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Pyramid And The Garden
Scott Alexander
Nov 5, 2016, 6:03 AM
58
points
12
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Updatelessness and Son of X
Scott Garrabrant
Nov 4, 2016, 10:58 PM
29
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
New LW Meetup: Amsterdam
FrankAdamek
Nov 4, 2016, 3:55 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Projects
rocurley
Nov 4, 2016, 5:48 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Austin Meetup
math_viking
Nov 4, 2016, 5:32 AM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games
RobinZ
Nov 4, 2016, 12:49 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Baltimore Area / UMBC Weekly Meetup
iarwain1
Nov 3, 2016, 11:56 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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