“What Hap­pens When Doc­tors Only Take Cash”? Every­body, Espe­cially Pa­tients, Wins

morganismJan 30, 2017, 11:57 PM
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(reason.com)

A cen­tury of re­search fol­low­ing gifted kids.

morganismJan 30, 2017, 11:44 PM
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.psychologytoday.com)

How of­ten do you check this fo­rum?

JenniferRMJan 30, 2017, 4:56 PM
21 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Typ­i­cal Mind Fallacy

RobinZJan 30, 2017, 4:21 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion Cal­ibra­tion—Do­ing It Right

SquirrelInHellJan 30, 2017, 10:05 AM
14 points
36 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Open thread, Jan. 30 - Feb. 05, 2017

MrMindJan 30, 2017, 8:31 AM
6 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Er­ror and Ter­ror: Are We Wor­ry­ing about the Wrong Risks?

philosophytorresJan 30, 2017, 1:07 AM
10 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

My cur­rent take on the Paul-MIRI dis­agree­ment on al­ignabil­ity of messy AI

jessicataJan 29, 2017, 8:52 PM
24 points
43 comments10 min readLW link

On mo­ti­va­tions for MIRI’s highly re­li­able agent de­sign research

jessicataJan 29, 2017, 7:34 PM
35 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Sig­nifi­cantly Invested

Jacob FalkovichJan 29, 2017, 5:40 AM
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Why elec­tion mod­els didn’t pre­dict Trump’s vic­tory — A primer on how polls and elec­tion mod­els work

phl43Jan 28, 2017, 7:51 PM
1 point
16 comments1 min readLW link
(necpluribusimpar.net)

AI Safety read­ing group

SoerenEJan 28, 2017, 12:07 PM
15 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Facets of Prob­lems v0.1

whpearsonJan 28, 2017, 12:00 PM
5 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­ory and the Ir­rele­vance of Im­pos­si­ble Outcomes

David AlthausJan 28, 2017, 10:16 AM
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(casparoesterheld.com)

Emer­gency learning

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 28, 2017, 10:05 AM
13 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness

ChristianKlJan 28, 2017, 8:58 AM
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(neurosciencenews.com)

Perfor­mance Trends in AI

sarahconstantinJan 28, 2017, 8:36 AM
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Noth­ing is For­bid­den, but Some Things are Good

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 27, 2017, 11:53 PM
8 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Did slav­ery make the US an eco­nomic su­per­power and would the in­dus­trial rev­olu­tion have hap­pened with­out it?

phl43Jan 27, 2017, 9:01 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(necpluribusimpar.net)

Did slav­ery make the US an eco­nomic su­per­power and would the in­dus­trial rev­olu­tion have hap­pened with­out it?

phl43Jan 27, 2017, 9:00 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Maze of Mo­ral Relativism

StabilizerJan 27, 2017, 7:29 PM
5 points
35 comments1 min readLW link
(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

New LW Meetup: Bogota

FrankAdamekJan 27, 2017, 6:55 PM
2 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

2017: An Ac­tual Plan to Ac­tu­ally Improve

[deleted]Jan 27, 2017, 6:42 PM
26 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain1Jan 27, 2017, 6:29 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

new study finds perfor­mance en­hanc­ing drugs for chess

morganismJan 27, 2017, 12:04 AM
6 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(worldchess.com)

A new blog with analy­ses of var­i­ous top­ics (e. g. slav­ery and cap­i­tal­ism, why elec­tion mod­els didn’t pre­dict Trump’s vic­tory)

phl43Jan 26, 2017, 11:30 PM
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(necpluribusimpar.net)

http://​nec­pluribusim­par.net (a new blog with analy­ses of var­i­ous top­ics, e. g. slav­ery and cap­i­tal­ism, why elec­tion mod­els didn’t pre­dict Trump’s vic­tory)

phl43Jan 26, 2017, 10:50 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

80,000 Hours: EA and Highly Poli­ti­cal Causes

The_Jaded_OneJan 26, 2017, 9:44 PM
45 points
25 comments7 min readLW link

The Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute is hiring a pro­ject manager

crmflynnJan 26, 2017, 6:19 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A ma­jor­ity coal­i­tion can lose a sym­met­ric zero-sum game

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 26, 2017, 12:13 PM
21 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : SF Meetup: Group Debugging

maiaJan 26, 2017, 6:13 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow: unconference

Slava MatyukhinJan 25, 2017, 6:55 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Value Journaling

ProofOfLogicJan 25, 2017, 6:10 AM
24 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Odds ra­tios and con­di­tional risk ratios

Anders_HJan 25, 2017, 3:55 AM
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(andershuitfeldt.net)

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Meta Meetup

RobinZJan 25, 2017, 12:48 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fund­ing the Re­pro­ducibil­ity Crises as effec­tive giving

morganismJan 24, 2017, 11:05 PM
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wired.com)

First im­pres­sions...

ArisCJan 24, 2017, 3:14 PM
11 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Too Much Effort | Too Lit­tle Evidence

ErfeyahJan 24, 2017, 12:37 PM
2 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

Did EDT get it right all along? In­tro­duc­ing yet an­other med­i­cal New­comb problem

Johannes TreutleinJan 24, 2017, 11:43 AM
22 points
21 comments8 min readLW link

Strate­gic Think­ing: Paradigm Selection

katydeeJan 24, 2017, 6:24 AM
15 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Life Ex­ten­sion Possibilities

sarahconstantinJan 24, 2017, 1:54 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Met­rics to eval­u­ate a Presidency

ArisCJan 24, 2017, 1:02 AM
1 point
70 comments1 min readLW link

Self med­i­cat­ing for Schizophre­nia with—cigarettes ?

morganismJan 24, 2017, 12:08 AM
4 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(neurosciencenews.com)

Another UBI ar­ti­cle, this one on costs and benefits to society

morganismJan 23, 2017, 11:21 PM
2 points
16 comments1 min readLW link
(www.weforum.org)

Most em­piri­cal ques­tions are un­re­solve­able; The good, the bad, and the ap­pro­pri­ately un­der-powered

DavidmanheimJan 23, 2017, 8:35 PM
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Meetup : [Metro Detroit /​ Ann Ar­bor], Michigan

excineraJan 23, 2017, 7:35 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

MAD Trollies

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 23, 2017, 6:57 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Quick mod­el­ing: re­solv­ing dis­agree­ments.

ProofOfLogicJan 23, 2017, 6:18 PM
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link
(nthlook.wordpress.com)

Open thread, Jan. 23 - Jan. 29, 2017

MrMindJan 23, 2017, 7:41 AM
5 points
196 comments1 min readLW link

Eval­u­at­ing Mo­ral Theories

ArisCJan 23, 2017, 5:04 AM
5 points
40 comments2 min readLW link