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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
Costs are not benefits
philh
Nov 3, 2016, 9:32 PM
8
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Crony Beliefs
plex
Nov 3, 2016, 8:54 PM
22
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.meltingasphalt.com)
A failed attempt at Updatelessness using Universal Inductors
Scott Garrabrant
Nov 3, 2016, 8:25 PM
7
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Rebuttal piece by Stuart Russell and FHI Research Associate Allan Dafoe: “Yes, the experts are worried about the existential risk of artificial intelligence.”
crmflynn
Nov 3, 2016, 5:54 PM
14
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.technologyreview.com)
Voting is like donating hundreds of thousands to charity
Gleb_Tsipursky
Nov 2, 2016, 9:22 PM
−6
points
45
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(time.com)
Year 1 Redux – Poseur
Jacob Falkovich
Nov 2, 2016, 7:19 AM
1
point
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Meetup : Conflicted Brains & Competing Goals: The Non-Unitary Self
Chriswaterguy
Nov 2, 2016, 6:27 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
November 2016 Media Thread
ArisKatsaris
Nov 1, 2016, 11:40 PM
4
points
44
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup
Tuk
Nov 1, 2016, 9:30 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Jose Meetup: Park Day (IX), 3pm
steven0461
Nov 1, 2016, 3:40 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Rationality Vienna Meetup
AnnaLeptikon
Nov 1, 2016, 3:34 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Rationality Vienna Meetup
AnnaLeptikon
Nov 1, 2016, 3:33 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Vector-Valued Reinforcement Learning
orthonormal
Nov 1, 2016, 12:21 AM
2
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
Wikidebate
Sophivorus
Oct 31, 2016, 11:24 PM
4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(en.wikiversity.org)
Open thread, Oct. 31 - Nov. 6, 2016
Gyrodiot
Oct 31, 2016, 9:24 PM
7
points
83
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The true degree of our emotional disconnect
siIver
Oct 31, 2016, 7:07 PM
7
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Is Global Reinforcement Learning (RL) a Fantasy?
[deleted]
Oct 31, 2016, 1:49 AM
6
points
50
comments
13
min read
LW
link
AI black box for developers to code around, BONSAI
morganism
Oct 30, 2016, 11:08 PM
4
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(bons.ai)
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
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