A ques­tion about the rules

phl431 Feb 2017 22:55 UTC
5 points
66 comments1 min readLW link

What a Por­tuguese chron­i­cler may teach us about moral relativism

phl431 Feb 2017 22:49 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(necpluribusimpar.net)

Hu­mans as a truth channel

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2017 16:53 UTC
9 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Hack­ing humans

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2017 16:08 UTC
7 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Hack­ing humans

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2017 16:06 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Fe­bru­ary 2017

Viliam1 Feb 2017 12:11 UTC
5 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Se­quences Read­ing Group

DreamFlasher1 Feb 2017 10:01 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fe­bru­ary 2017 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Feb 2017 8:31 UTC
8 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Cen­sor­ing out-of-do­main representations

orthonormal1 Feb 2017 4:09 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The “I Already Get It” Slide

jsalvatier1 Feb 2017 3:11 UTC
26 points
23 comments1 min readLW link
(johnsalvatier.org)

A great ar­tic­u­la­tion of why peo­ple find it hard to adopt a nat­u­ral­is­tic worldview

Stabilizer31 Jan 2017 21:08 UTC
4 points
34 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Pu­tanu­monit—A “statis­ti­cal sig­nifi­cance” story in finance

Jacob Falkovich31 Jan 2017 17:54 UTC
2 points
21 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

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

morganism30 Jan 2017 23:57 UTC
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(reason.com)

A cen­tury of re­search fol­low­ing gifted kids.

morganism30 Jan 2017 23:44 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.psychologytoday.com)

How of­ten do you check this fo­rum?

JenniferRM30 Jan 2017 16:56 UTC
20 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

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

RobinZ30 Jan 2017 16:21 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion Cal­ibra­tion—Do­ing It Right

SquirrelInHell30 Jan 2017 10:05 UTC
14 points
36 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

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

MrMind30 Jan 2017 8:31 UTC
6 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

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

philosophytorres30 Jan 2017 1:07 UTC
10 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

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

jessicata29 Jan 2017 20:52 UTC
24 points
43 comments10 min readLW link

On mo­ti­va­tions for MIRI’s highly re­li­able agent de­sign research

jessicata29 Jan 2017 19:34 UTC
35 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Sig­nifi­cantly Invested

Jacob Falkovich29 Jan 2017 5:40 UTC
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

phl4328 Jan 2017 19:51 UTC
1 point
16 comments1 min readLW link
(necpluribusimpar.net)

AI Safety read­ing group

SoerenE28 Jan 2017 12:07 UTC
15 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Facets of Prob­lems v0.1

whpearson28 Jan 2017 12:00 UTC
5 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­ory and the Ir­rele­vance of Im­pos­si­ble Outcomes

David Althaus28 Jan 2017 10:16 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(casparoesterheld.com)

Emer­gency learning

Stuart_Armstrong28 Jan 2017 10:05 UTC
13 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness

ChristianKl28 Jan 2017 8:58 UTC
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(neurosciencenews.com)

Perfor­mance Trends in AI

sarahconstantin28 Jan 2017 8:36 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Noth­ing is For­bid­den, but Some Things are Good

Gordon Seidoh Worley27 Jan 2017 23:53 UTC
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?

phl4327 Jan 2017 21:01 UTC
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?

phl4327 Jan 2017 21:00 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Maze of Mo­ral Relativism

Stabilizer27 Jan 2017 19:29 UTC
5 points
35 comments1 min readLW link
(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

New LW Meetup: Bogota

FrankAdamek27 Jan 2017 18:55 UTC
2 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

2017: An Ac­tual Plan to Ac­tu­ally Improve

[deleted]27 Jan 2017 18:42 UTC
26 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain127 Jan 2017 18:29 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

new study finds perfor­mance en­hanc­ing drugs for chess

morganism27 Jan 2017 0:04 UTC
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)

phl4326 Jan 2017 23:30 UTC
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)

phl4326 Jan 2017 22:50 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

80,000 Hours: EA and Highly Poli­ti­cal Causes

The_Jaded_One26 Jan 2017 21:44 UTC
45 points
25 comments7 min readLW link

The Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute is hiring a pro­ject manager

crmflynn26 Jan 2017 18:19 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A ma­jor­ity coal­i­tion can lose a sym­met­ric zero-sum game

Stuart_Armstrong26 Jan 2017 12:13 UTC
21 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : SF Meetup: Group Debugging

maia26 Jan 2017 6:13 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow: unconference

berekuk25 Jan 2017 18:55 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Value Journaling

ProofOfLogic25 Jan 2017 6:10 UTC
23 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

Odds ra­tios and con­di­tional risk ratios

Anders_H25 Jan 2017 3:55 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(andershuitfeldt.net)

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Meta Meetup

RobinZ25 Jan 2017 0:48 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fund­ing the Re­pro­ducibil­ity Crises as effec­tive giving

morganism24 Jan 2017 23:05 UTC
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wired.com)

First im­pres­sions...

ArisC24 Jan 2017 15:14 UTC
11 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Too Much Effort | Too Lit­tle Evidence

Erfeyah24 Jan 2017 12:37 UTC
2 points
64 comments1 min readLW link