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Meetup : SF Meetup: Revealed New Year’s Resolutions
maia
Jan 4, 2017, 9:46 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Exploitation as a Turing test
Benquo
Jan 4, 2017, 8:55 PM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Announcement: Intelligence in Literature Prize
Vaniver
Jan 4, 2017, 8:07 PM
15
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.reddit.com)
How do I choose the best metric to measure my calibration?
ChristianKl
Jan 4, 2017, 7:06 PM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(stats.stackexchange.com)
Mysterious Go Master Blitzes Competition, Rattles Game Community
scarcegreengrass
Jan 4, 2017, 5:18 PM
9
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.sixthtone.com)
Lost purposes—Doing what’s easy or what’s important
Elo
Jan 4, 2017, 1:26 AM
5
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Buckets and memetic immune disorders
Tyrrell_McAllister
Jan 3, 2017, 11:51 PM
23
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why I Am Changing My Mind About AI Risk
itaibn0
Jan 3, 2017, 10:57 PM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(itaibn.wordpress.com)
Dares are social signaling at its purest
morganism
Jan 3, 2017, 10:48 PM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.ribbonfarm.com)
Progress and Prizes in AI Alignment
Jacob Falkovich
Jan 3, 2017, 10:15 PM
10
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Rationality Vienna Meetup
AnnaLeptikon
Jan 3, 2017, 8:25 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Conned
Jacob Falkovich
Jan 2, 2017, 8:09 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Rationality Quotes January—March 2017
Sabiola
Jan 2, 2017, 10:48 AM
7
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Jan. 02 - Jan. 08, 2017
MrMind
Jan 2, 2017, 7:50 AM
4
points
37
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Double Crux — A Strategy for Mutual Understanding
Duncan Sabien (Inactive)
Jan 2, 2017, 4:37 AM
193
points
108
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Deconstructing overpopulation for life extensionists
Deku-shrub
Jan 2, 2017, 1:17 AM
5
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Metaknowledge—Improving on the Wisdom of Crowds
Houshalter
Jan 1, 2017, 9:25 PM
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(aeon.co)
From free-energy to embodied valuing: weighted active inference in everyday life
IAFF-User-177
Jan 1, 2017, 7:20 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Meetup : Meetup #9 − 2017 is prime
null
Jan 1, 2017, 4:06 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
January 2017 Media Thread
ArisKatsaris
Jan 1, 2017, 3:06 PM
7
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Act into Fear and Abandon all Hope
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Jan 1, 2017, 1:39 AM
18
points
5
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
Throw a prediction party with your EA/rationality group
eukaryote
Dec 31, 2016, 11:02 PM
14
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Act into Fear and Abandon all Hope
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Dec 31, 2016, 9:05 PM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A review of cryonics/brain preservation in 2016
Andy_McKenzie
Dec 31, 2016, 6:19 PM
36
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Claim explainer: donor lotteries and returns to scale
Benquo
Dec 30, 2016, 7:46 PM
9
points
20
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Dec 30, 2016, 3:44 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Pursuing convergent instrumental subgoals on the user’s behalf doesn’t always require good priors
jessicata
Dec 30, 2016, 2:36 AM
15
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Prediction-based medicine (PBM)
ChristianKl
Dec 29, 2016, 10:49 PM
46
points
14
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Cambridge/Boston Less Wrong: Planning 2017
jimrandomh
Dec 29, 2016, 10:43 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Off-switch for CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system discovered
morganism
Dec 29, 2016, 10:08 PM
5
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(phys.org)
How do you identify complex systems?
NatashaRostova
Dec 29, 2016, 4:39 AM
6
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Bargaining trade-offs in your brain
Elo
Dec 29, 2016, 12:18 AM
3
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
I’m Not An Effective Altruist Because I Prefer...
ozymandias
Dec 28, 2016, 10:39 PM
12
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)
A different argument against Universal Basic Income
chaosmage
Dec 28, 2016, 10:35 PM
27
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
sarahconstantin
Dec 28, 2016, 6:26 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games
RobinZ
Dec 28, 2016, 2:42 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Dec. 26, 2016 - Jan. 1, 2017
username2
Dec 28, 2016, 12:23 PM
4
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
John Ioannidis: Why Most Clinical Research Is Not Useful (2016)
username2
Dec 28, 2016, 3:42 AM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(journals.plos.org)
Exploration-Exploitation problems
Elo
Dec 28, 2016, 1:33 AM
18
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
diabetes medication Metformin and hypertension drug syrosingopine treat cancers.
morganism
Dec 27, 2016, 11:39 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.eurekalert.org)
The engineer and the diplomat
Benquo
Dec 27, 2016, 8:49 PM
35
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Make Putanumonit Great (for the first time)
Jacob Falkovich
Dec 27, 2016, 4:50 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Empirically assess your time use
Elo
Dec 27, 2016, 12:01 AM
10
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Free-energy, reinforcement, and utility
IAFF-User-177
Dec 26, 2016, 11:02 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
50 things I learned at NIPS AI and machine learning conference 2016
morganism
Dec 26, 2016, 8:50 PM
10
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(blog.ought.com)
Wikipedia usage survey results
VipulNaik
Dec 25, 2016, 1:55 PM
14
points
17
comments
35
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Role playing game based on HPMOR in Moscow
Alexander230
Dec 25, 2016, 8:22 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Free-Energy Theory and Precision: can a neural network catch a fly ball?
IAFF-User-177
Dec 25, 2016, 1:10 AM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Treaties vs Fusion
Jack_LaSota
Dec 25, 2016, 12:40 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(sinceriously.fyi)
Expected Error, or how wrong you expect to be
ozziegooen
Dec 24, 2016, 10:49 PM
21
points
8
comments
6
min read
LW
link
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