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Considerations On Cost Disease

Scott Alexander10 Feb 2017 4:33 UTC

46 points

7 comments22 min readLW link

Allegory On AI Risk, Game Theory, and Mithril

James_Miller13 Feb 2017 20:41 UTC

45 points

57 comments3 min readLW link

Why is the surprisingly popular answer correct?

Stuart_Armstrong3 Feb 2017 16:24 UTC

43 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

A Modern Myth

Scott Alexander27 Feb 2017 17:29 UTC

36 points

1 comment49 min readLW link

The Semiotic Fallacy

Stabilizer21 Feb 2017 4:50 UTC

29 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

The “I Already Get It” Slide

jsalvatier1 Feb 2017 3:11 UTC

26 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

(johnsalvatier.org)

Planning 101: Debiasing and Research

lifelonglearner3 Feb 2017 15:01 UTC

25 points

10 comments12 min readLW link

Stupidity as a mental illness

PhilGoetz10 Feb 2017 3:57 UTC

25 points

139 comments2 min readLW link

European Community Weekend 2017

DreamFlasher2 Feb 2017 19:17 UTC

24 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Slate Star Codex Notes on the Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI

Gunnar_Zarncke7 Feb 2017 12:14 UTC

24 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

The Social Substrate

the gears to ascension9 Feb 2017 7:22 UTC

23 points

15 comments15 min readLW link

Increasing GDP is not growth

PhilGoetz16 Feb 2017 18:04 UTC

21 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

Nearest unblocked strategy versus learning patches

Stuart_Armstrong23 Feb 2017 12:42 UTC

21 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

David Chalmers on LessWrong and the rationalist community (from his reddit AMA)

ignoranceprior22 Feb 2017 19:07 UTC

20 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

Concrete Takeaways Post-CFAR

lifelonglearner24 Feb 2017 18:31 UTC

20 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

True understanding comes from passing exams

Stuart_Armstrong6 Feb 2017 11:51 UTC

20 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Albion’s Seed, Genotyped

Scott Alexander9 Feb 2017 2:15 UTC

17 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

How to not earn a delta (Change My View)

Viliam14 Feb 2017 10:04 UTC

17 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

The Monkey and the Machine

ProofOfLogic23 Feb 2017 21:38 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

The humility argument for honesty

Benquo5 Feb 2017 17:26 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Get Rich Slowly

Jacob Falkovich10 Feb 2017 23:02 UTC

17 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Civil resistance and the 3.5% rule

morganism2 Feb 2017 18:53 UTC

15 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

A semi-technical question about prediction markets and private info

CronoDAS20 Feb 2017 2:20 UTC

14 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

“The unrecognised simplicities of effective action #2: ‘Systems engineering’ and ‘systems management’ - ideas from the Apollo programme for a ‘systems politics’”, Cummings 2017

gwern17 Feb 2017 0:59 UTC

13 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(dominiccummings.files.wordpress.com)

Decision Theory subreddit

gwern7 Feb 2017 18:42 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

Prediction Based Robust Cooperation

Scott Garrabrant22 Feb 2017 1:52 UTC

12 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

What are you surprised people don’t just buy?

NoSignalNoNoise13 Feb 2017 1:07 UTC

11 points

34 comments1 min readLW link

Highlights From The Comments On Cost Disease

Scott Alexander17 Feb 2017 7:28 UTC

10 points

2 comments25 min readLW link

The types of manipulation on vote-based forums

pepe_prime11 Feb 2017 17:09 UTC

10 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

CHCAI/MIRI research internship in AI safety

Rob Bensinger13 Feb 2017 18:34 UTC

10 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Levers, Emotions, and Lazy Evaluators:

lifelonglearner20 Feb 2017 23:00 UTC

9 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

Humans as a truth channel

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2017 16:53 UTC

9 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Open thread, Feb. 06 - Feb. 12, 2017

MrMind6 Feb 2017 8:34 UTC

9 points

115 comments1 min readLW link

Introduction to Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME)

Gunnar_Zarncke9 Feb 2017 8:29 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.oreilly.com)

Maximally efficient agents will probably have an anti-daemon immune system

jessicata23 Feb 2017 0:40 UTC

8 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

February 2017 Media Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Feb 2017 8:31 UTC

8 points

41 comments1 min readLW link

What are you surprised people pay for instead of doing themselves?

NoSignalNoNoise13 Feb 2017 1:07 UTC

8 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Gates 2017 Annual letter

ike15 Feb 2017 2:39 UTC

8 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gatesnotes.com)

Kahneman’s checklist to avoid cognitive biases and make better decisions

sleepingthinker5 Feb 2017 11:13 UTC

7 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(gainweightjournal.com)

Hacking humans

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2017 16:08 UTC

7 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Changes in AI Safety Funding

siIver11 Feb 2017 8:36 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

Satisfaction Levers

ig0r11 Feb 2017 22:54 UTC

7 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Stupid Questions February 2017

Erfeyah8 Feb 2017 19:51 UTC

7 points

105 comments1 min readLW link

Indifference and compensatory rewards

Stuart_Armstrong15 Feb 2017 14:49 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

“Betting on the Past” – a decision problem by Arif Ahmed

Johannes Treutlein7 Feb 2017 21:14 UTC

7 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(casparoesterheld.com)

Dan Carlin six hour podcast on history of atomic weapons

James_Miller9 Feb 2017 16:10 UTC

7 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

(www.dancarlin.com)

Moral Philosophers as Ethical Engineers: Limits of Moral Philosophy and a Pragmatist Alternative

Kaj_Sotala23 Feb 2017 13:02 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Raymond Smullyan has died

ike12 Feb 2017 14:20 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nytimes.com)

Ontologies are Operating Systems

lifelonglearner18 Feb 2017 5:00 UTC

6 points

36 comments4 min readLW link

Attacking machine learning with adversarial examples

ike17 Feb 2017 0:28 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)