Col­lab­o­ra­tive Truth-Seeking

Any­thing you can do with n AIs, you can do with two (with di­rectly op­posed ob­jec­tives)

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part Z: The Craft and the Community

LINK: New clini­cal trial will try to re­store dead brains

Link: Thoughts on the ba­sic in­come pi­lot, with hedgehogs

Dou­ble in­differ­ence is bet­ter indifference

Cor­rigi­bil­ity for AIXI via dou­ble indifference

Dou­ble Cor­rigi­bil­ity: bet­ter Corrigibility

La­grangian du­al­ity for con­straints on expectations

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Sur­vivor­ship Bias

[Link] White House an­nounces a se­ries of work­shops on AI, ex­presses in­ter­est in safety

Meetup : May Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo, Melbourne: Stim­u­lat­ing Discussions

Paid re­search as­sis­tant po­si­tion fo­cus­ing on ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence and ex­is­ten­tial risk

My Kind of Mo­ral Responsibility

Meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Projects

Open Thread May 2 - May 8, 2016

A Se­cond Year of Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Soft­ware in the Classroom

May 2016 Me­dia Thread

Hedge drift and ad­vanced motte-and-bailey

The ‘why does it even tell me this’ moment

[LINK] Up­dat­ing Drake’s Equa­tion with val­ues from mod­ern astronomy

Sta­bil­ity of op­ti­mal pre­dic­tor schemes un­der a broader class of reductions

Weekly LW Meetups

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Projects

Dou­ble Cor­rigi­bil­ity: bet­ter Corrigibility

Games for fac­tor­ing out variables

Meetup : Bal­ti­more /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup: How To Ac­tu­ally Change Your Mind (part 3)

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Utopias

JFK was not as­sas­si­nated: prior prob­a­bil­ity zero events

Is the av­er­age eth­i­cal re­view board eth­i­cal from an util­i­tar­ian stand­point?

JFK was not as­sas­si­nated: prior prob­a­bil­ity zero events

Book Re­view: Albion’s Seed

Suggest best book as an in­tro­duc­tion to com­pu­ta­tional neuroscience

Ex­er­cise in ra­tio­nal­ity: pop­u­lar quotes, revisited

‘Science of Re­la­tion­ships’ summarized

Sphere pack­ing and log­i­cal uncertainty

Open Thread April 25 - May 1, 2016

[Link] Salon piece an­a­lyz­ing Don­ald Trump’s ap­peal us­ing rationality

[Link] Mu­tual fund fees

My Cus­tom Spel­ling Dictionary

What is up with car­bon diox­ide and cog­ni­tion? An offer

The Val­idity of the An­thropic Principle

Sleep­walk bias, self-defeat­ing pre­dic­tions and ex­is­ten­tial risk

One weird trick to turn max­imisers into minimisers

One weird trick to turn max­imisers into minimisers

Weekly LW Meetups

[link] Sim­plify­ing the en­vi­ron­ment: a new con­ver­gent in­stru­men­tal goal

The Web Browser is Not Your Client (But You Don’t Need To Know That)

Ex­pect to know bet­ter when you know more