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Get Rich Slowly
Jacob Falkovich
Feb 10, 2017, 11:02 PM
18
points
1
comment
13
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Feb 10, 2017, 4:51 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Considerations On Cost Disease
Scott Alexander
Feb 10, 2017, 4:33 AM
50
points
7
comments
22
min read
LW
link
Stupidity as a mental illness
PhilGoetz
Feb 10, 2017, 3:57 AM
25
points
139
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A Quick Confidence Heuristic; Implicitly Leveraging “The Wisdom of Crowds”
Davidmanheim
Feb 10, 2017, 12:54 AM
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Things that want to be posts
Zvi
Feb 9, 2017, 10:58 PM
1
point
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Meetup—usefulness and meaning of “truth”
iarwain1
Feb 9, 2017, 8:26 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: FallacyMania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery
Alexander230
Feb 9, 2017, 7:32 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dan Carlin six hour podcast on history of atomic weapons
James_Miller
Feb 9, 2017, 4:10 PM
7
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.dancarlin.com)
Meetup : [Metro Detroit / Ann Arbor], Michigan
excinera
Feb 9, 2017, 9:19 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Introduction to Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME)
Gunnar_Zarncke
Feb 9, 2017, 8:29 AM
9
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.oreilly.com)
The Social Substrate
the gears to ascension
Feb 9, 2017, 7:22 AM
23
points
15
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Melbourne Rationality Dojo, February—Tai Chi & Lightning Talks
Chriswaterguy
Feb 9, 2017, 6:37 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : SF Meetup: Board Games
maia
Feb 9, 2017, 4:52 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Minimizing Empowerment for Safety
IAFF-User-111
Feb 9, 2017, 4:45 AM
0
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Albion’s Seed, Genotyped
Scott Alexander
Feb 9, 2017, 2:15 AM
17
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Interview with Nassim Taleb ‘Trump makes sense to a grocery store owner’
Gunnar_Zarncke
Feb 8, 2017, 9:52 PM
3
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.thehindu.com)
Meetup : Chicago RRG—Typical Mind Fallacy
mingyuan
Feb 8, 2017, 8:41 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Stupid Questions February 2017
Erfeyah
Feb 8, 2017, 7:51 PM
7
points
105
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Verifier Theory and Unverifiability
turchin
Feb 8, 2017, 10:40 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Meetup : Cologne—Monthly meetup: Saturday Feb 18 2017
caffemacchiavelli
Feb 8, 2017, 7:12 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games
RobinZ
Feb 8, 2017, 2:16 AM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
“Betting on the Past” – a decision problem by Arif Ahmed
Johannes Treutlein
Feb 7, 2017, 9:14 PM
7
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(casparoesterheld.com)
Decision Theory subreddit
gwern
Feb 7, 2017, 6:42 PM
12
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.reddit.com)
Slate Star Codex Notes on the Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI
Gunnar_Zarncke
Feb 7, 2017, 12:14 PM
24
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(slatestarcodex.com)
Worked example of a mnemonic Memory technique
Elo
Feb 7, 2017, 10:22 AM
5
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
UNU swarm intel picks SB exact score
morganism
Feb 6, 2017, 11:38 PM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(unu.ai)
Request for collaborators—Survey on AI risk priorities
whpearson
Feb 6, 2017, 8:14 PM
6
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Selective social policing
KatjaGrace
Feb 6, 2017, 7:00 PM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
True understanding comes from passing exams
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 6, 2017, 11:51 AM
20
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
True understanding comes from passing exams
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 6, 2017, 11:45 AM
1
point
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—March 2017
luminosity
Feb 6, 2017, 9:51 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Feb. 06 - Feb. 12, 2017
MrMind
Feb 6, 2017, 8:34 AM
9
points
115
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Are we running out of new music/movies/art from a metaphysical perspective?
stephen_s
Feb 5, 2017, 5:49 PM
2
points
111
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why I’m working on satisficing intelligence augmentation (and not blogging about it much)
whpearson
Feb 5, 2017, 5:40 PM
6
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The humility argument for honesty
Benquo
Feb 5, 2017, 5:26 PM
17
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
The humility argument for honesty
Benquo
Feb 5, 2017, 5:26 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Kahneman’s checklist to avoid cognitive biases and make better decisions
sleepingthinker
Feb 5, 2017, 11:13 AM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(gainweightjournal.com)
The humility argument for honesty
Benquo
Feb 5, 2017, 6:54 AM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Against willpower as a scientific or otherwise useful concept (Nautilus Magazine)
Kaj_Sotala
Feb 4, 2017, 10:11 PM
3
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(nautil.us)
Does UDT *really* get counter-factually mugged?
IAFF-User-111
Feb 4, 2017, 9:46 PM
0
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Learning Impact in RL
IAFF-User-111
Feb 4, 2017, 9:42 PM
1
point
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An idea for creating safe AI
IAFF-User-211
Feb 4, 2017, 11:16 AM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Effective diversity
KatjaGrace
Feb 3, 2017, 11:10 PM
1
point
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Feb 3, 2017, 4:53 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why is the surprisingly popular answer correct?
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 3, 2017, 4:24 PM
43
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Planning 101: Debiasing and Research
lifelonglearner
Feb 3, 2017, 3:01 PM
25
points
10
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Chicago Rationality Reading Group
mingyuan
Feb 3, 2017, 2:56 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : SF Meetup: Stories
maia
Feb 3, 2017, 1:21 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Meetup—trying something new!
iarwain1
Feb 3, 2017, 12:09 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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