Against Modest Epistemology

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Nov 2017 20:40 UTC
68 points
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Ra­tion­al­is­ing hu­mans: an­other mug­ging, but not Pas­cal’s

Stuart_Armstrong14 Nov 2017 15:46 UTC
7 points
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Rea­son as At­ten­tional Prosthesis

Gary Basin14 Nov 2017 0:23 UTC
3 points
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Mili­tary AI as a Con­ver­gent Goal of Self-Im­prov­ing AI

avturchin13 Nov 2017 12:17 UTC
5 points
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Mili­tary AI as a Con­ver­gent Goal of Self-Im­prov­ing AI

avturchin13 Nov 2017 12:09 UTC
0 points
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(www.academia.edu)

Mili­tary AI as a Con­ver­gent Goal of Self-Im­prov­ing AI

turchin13 Nov 2017 11:25 UTC
0 points
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(www.academia.edu)

Blind Empiricism

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Nov 2017 22:07 UTC
62 points
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Open thread, Novem­ber 13 - Novem­ber 20, 2017

ChristianKl12 Nov 2017 14:26 UTC
9 points
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If cre­at­ing FAI is easy, it might be automatic

MrRobot11 Nov 2017 19:59 UTC
0 points
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FYI: Here is the RSS link

scarcegreengrass11 Nov 2017 17:21 UTC
8 points
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Con­sider mo­ti­vated snobbery

zlrth11 Nov 2017 15:49 UTC
−3 points
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‘X is not about Y’ is not about psychology

abramdemski11 Nov 2017 2:22 UTC
54 points
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Fables grow around missed nat­u­ral experiments

MaryCh10 Nov 2017 21:42 UTC
1 point
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Lizard Jock­ey­ing for Fun and Profit

ialdabaoth10 Nov 2017 18:51 UTC
24 points
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Mushrooms

moridinamael10 Nov 2017 16:57 UTC
9 points
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On In­con­ve­nient Truth

PDV10 Nov 2017 1:21 UTC
2 points
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The Jour­nal of High Stan­dards

ChristianKl10 Nov 2017 0:59 UTC
9 points
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Some sug­ges­tions (des­per­ate please, even)

Jiro9 Nov 2017 23:14 UTC
9 points
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Set, Game, Match

ryan_b9 Nov 2017 23:06 UTC
2 points
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Pro­duc­tivity: Work­ing to­wards a sum­mary of what we know

Adam Zerner9 Nov 2017 22:04 UTC
79 points
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Liv­ing in an Inad­e­quate World

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Nov 2017 21:23 UTC
88 points
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Read­ing Papers in Undergrad

ryan_b9 Nov 2017 19:24 UTC
17 points
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Bet Pay­off 1: OpenPhil/​MIRI Grant Increase

Ben Pace9 Nov 2017 18:31 UTC
15 points
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Ra­tion­al­ity work­shop Madrid 2015 - Post mortem

Jaime Sevilla9 Nov 2017 11:52 UTC
6 points
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Call for Ideas: In­dus­trial scale ex­is­ten­tial risk re­search

whpearson9 Nov 2017 8:30 UTC
8 points
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Look­ing for Recom­men­da­tions RE UDT vs. bounded com­pu­ta­tion /​ meta-rea­son­ing /​ op­por­tu­nity cost?

IAFF-User-1118 Nov 2017 22:58 UTC
0 points
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Modesty and di­ver­sity: a con­crete suggestion

[deleted]8 Nov 2017 20:42 UTC
30 points
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Less Wrong Lacks Rep­re­sen­ta­tives and Paths Forward

curi8 Nov 2017 19:00 UTC
3 points
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At­tend­ing to Now

ialdabaoth8 Nov 2017 16:53 UTC
27 points
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Mosquito kil­ling begins

polymathwannabe8 Nov 2017 15:46 UTC
7 points
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(qz.com)

Does Age Bring Wis­dom?

Scott Alexander8 Nov 2017 7:20 UTC
37 points
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(slatestarcodex.com)

Link­ing to Other Resources

Chris_Leong8 Nov 2017 6:33 UTC
2 points
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How Pop­per kil­led Par­ti­cle Physics

J Thomas Moros7 Nov 2017 16:55 UTC
7 points
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(backreaction.blogspot.co.uk)

Con­fes­sions of a Slacker

Jacob Falkovich7 Nov 2017 14:20 UTC
31 points
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(putanumonit.com)

Senelda—Re­puted IT train­ing Academy in Chennai

IAFF-User-2717 Nov 2017 13:20 UTC
0 points
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(senelda.com)

11/​07/​2017 Devel­op­ment Up­date: LaTeX!

habryka7 Nov 2017 11:06 UTC
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Clar­ify Your No’s

Chris_Leong7 Nov 2017 7:25 UTC
2 points
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Re­move In­ter­com?

skybrian7 Nov 2017 4:35 UTC
1 point
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Moloch’s Toolbox (2/​2)

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Nov 2017 1:58 UTC
110 points
56 comments24 min readLW link

The Lit­tle Dragon is Dead

SquirrelInHell6 Nov 2017 21:24 UTC
1 point
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(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

The Lit­tle Dragon is Dead

SquirrelInHell6 Nov 2017 21:20 UTC
6 points
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(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Kol­mogorov com­plex­ity makes re­ward learn­ing worse

Stuart_Armstrong6 Nov 2017 20:08 UTC
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Med­i­ta­tion and men­tal space

Kaj_Sotala6 Nov 2017 13:10 UTC
8 points
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(kajsotala.fi)

Bias in ra­tio­nal­ity is much worse than noise

Stuart_Armstrong6 Nov 2017 11:08 UTC
0 points
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Nor­ma­tive as­sump­tions: regret

Stuart_Armstrong6 Nov 2017 10:59 UTC
0 points
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Our val­ues are un­der­defined, change­able, and manipulable

Stuart_Armstrong6 Nov 2017 10:59 UTC
0 points
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Learn­ing val­ues, or defin­ing them?

Stuart_Armstrong6 Nov 2017 10:59 UTC
0 points
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Self-con­fi­dence as a time sav­ing tactic

devas6 Nov 2017 10:37 UTC
1 point
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Ac­knowl­edg­ing Ra­tion­al­ist Angst

Hazard6 Nov 2017 5:26 UTC
10 points
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Para­dox and pedagogy

whales5 Nov 2017 21:01 UTC
8 points
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