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Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: FallacyMania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery
Alexander230
Jan 18, 2017, 8:36 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Project Hufflepuff
Raemon
Jan 18, 2017, 6:57 PM
51
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Universal Hate
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Jan 18, 2017, 6:32 PM
9
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
Marginal Revolution Thoughts on Black Lives Matter Movement
scarcegreengrass
Jan 18, 2017, 6:12 PM
5
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(marginalrevolution.com)
Corrigibility thoughts III: manipulating versus deceiving
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 18, 2017, 3:57 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Corrigibility thoughts II: the robot operator
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 18, 2017, 3:52 PM
3
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Corrigibility thoughts I: caring about multiple things
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 18, 2017, 3:39 PM
7
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Neural nets designing neural nets
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 18, 2017, 3:28 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Neural nets designing neural nets
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 18, 2017, 3:27 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Neural nets designing neural nets
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 18, 2017, 2:43 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
A measure-theoretic generalization of logical induction
Vanessa Kosoy
Jan 18, 2017, 1:56 PM
6
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Dodging a bullet: “the price of insufficient medical vigilance can be very high.”
James_Miller
Jan 18, 2017, 4:11 AM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(westhunt.wordpress.com)
Please Help: How to make a big improvement in the alignment of political parties’ incentives with the public interest?
interstice
Jan 18, 2017, 12:51 AM
7
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(dominiccummings.wordpress.com)
Meetup : LW Sao Paulo—Meetup de janeiro
leohmarruda
Jan 18, 2017, 12:12 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Choosing prediction over explanation in psychology: Lessons from machine learning
Kaj_Sotala
Jan 17, 2017, 9:23 PM
5
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(figshare.com)
The substance of money
MrMind
Jan 17, 2017, 2:51 PM
5
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A note on misunderstanding the boundaries of models
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 17, 2017, 12:29 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Honesty and perjury
Benquo
Jan 17, 2017, 8:08 AM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
John Nash’s Ideal Money: The Motivations of Savings and Thrift
Flinter
Jan 17, 2017, 3:58 AM
0
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(sites.stat.psu.edu)
Fear or fear? (A Meteuphoric post on distinguishing feelings from considered positions.)
ProofOfLogic
Jan 17, 2017, 3:26 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)
Disgust and Politics
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Jan 17, 2017, 12:19 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
Deep Learning twitter list
morganism
Jan 16, 2017, 11:59 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.reddit.com)
Welcome to Less Wrong! (11th thread, January 2017) (Thread B)
Richard Korzekwa
Jan 16, 2017, 10:25 PM
2
points
152
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Mind of an Octopus,Adapted from Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
morganism
Jan 16, 2017, 9:07 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.scientificamerican.com)
Do we Share a Definition for the word “ideal”?
Flinter
Jan 16, 2017, 8:45 PM
0
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The trolleycar dilemma, an MIT moral problem app
morganism
Jan 16, 2017, 7:32 PM
1
point
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(moralmachine.mit.edu)
A Proposal for a Simpler Solution To All These Difficult Observations and Problems
Flinter
Jan 16, 2017, 6:13 PM
1
point
82
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Tragedy of the free time commons
KatjaGrace
Jan 16, 2017, 9:29 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Jan. 16 - Jan. 22, 2016
MrMind
Jan 16, 2017, 7:52 AM
4
points
133
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup: January
Maelin
Jan 16, 2017, 4:09 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Be someone – be recognized by the system and promoted – or do something
James_Miller
Jan 15, 2017, 9:22 PM
8
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(dnipogo.org)
X Is Not About Y: Technological Improvements and Cognitive-Physical Demands
Gram_Stone
Jan 15, 2017, 5:49 PM
4
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech
morganism
Jan 14, 2017, 11:07 PM
5
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.ushmm.org)
Meetup : #10: Making a difference
null
Jan 14, 2017, 5:29 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Offenders’ deadly thoughts may hold answer to reducing crime
morganism
Jan 13, 2017, 11:25 PM
1
point
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.eurekalert.org)
Robotics and AI enabling autonomous defense.Technology Foresight research program
morganism
Jan 13, 2017, 7:15 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(envisioning.io)
Meetup : Baltimore Area / UMBC Weekly Meetup
iarwain1
Jan 13, 2017, 5:32 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Jan 13, 2017, 4:49 PM
3
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Poked
Jacob Falkovich
Jan 13, 2017, 5:15 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Light activates amaglyda triggering hunting in mice
morganism
Jan 12, 2017, 11:44 PM
1
point
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.scientificamerican.com)
Dominic Cummings: how the Brexit referendum was won
The_Jaded_One
Jan 12, 2017, 9:26 PM
30
points
69
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(blogs.spectator.co.uk)
Dominic Cummings: how the Brexit referendum was won
The_Jaded_One
Jan 12, 2017, 9:21 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Kyiv: 14 January 2017 18:15 (+0200)
networked
Jan 12, 2017, 5:05 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Fear or fear?
KatjaGrace
Jan 12, 2017, 3:49 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
pplapi is a virtual database of the entire human population.
morganism
Jan 12, 2017, 2:33 AM
3
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(pplapi.com)
[LINK] EA Has A Lying Problem
Benquo
Jan 11, 2017, 10:31 PM
28
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Open problem: thin logical priors
TsviBT
Jan 11, 2017, 8:00 PM
6
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Rationality 101 videotaped presentation with link to slides in description (from our LessWrong meetup introductory event)
Gleb_Tsipursky
Jan 11, 2017, 7:07 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
Disjunctive AI scenarios: Individual or collective takeoff?
Kaj_Sotala
11 Jan 2017 15:43 UTC
7
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(kajsotala.fi)
Stuart Ritche reviews Keith Stanovich’s book “The rationality quotient: Toward a test of rational thinking”
Stefan_Schubert
11 Jan 2017 11:51 UTC
11
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(twitter.com)
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