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Gas hydrate breakdown unlikely to cause clathrate gun—report
morganism
Feb 19, 2017, 10:47 PM
3
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Meetup : SF Meetup: Projects
maia
Feb 19, 2017, 5:51 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book Review: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell
Zvi
Feb 18, 2017, 6:43 PM
2
points
0
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Headlines, meet sparklines: news in context
Brendan Long
Feb 18, 2017, 4:00 PM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(smus.com)
Ontologies are Operating Systems
lifelonglearner
Feb 18, 2017, 5:00 AM
6
points
36
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Meetup—general discussion
iarwain1
Feb 17, 2017, 5:13 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Feb 17, 2017, 4:51 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Highlights From The Comments On Cost Disease
Scott Alexander
Feb 17, 2017, 7:28 AM
10
points
2
comments
25
min read
LW
link
“The unrecognised simplicities of effective action #2: ‘Systems engineering’ and ‘systems management’ - ideas from the Apollo programme for a ‘systems politics’”, Cummings 2017
gwern
Feb 17, 2017, 12:59 AM
13
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(dominiccummings.files.wordpress.com)
Attacking machine learning with adversarial examples
ike
Feb 17, 2017, 12:28 AM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(openai.com)
Increasing GDP is not growth
PhilGoetz
Feb 16, 2017, 6:04 PM
21
points
24
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Pub meetup—February
Elo
Feb 16, 2017, 9:14 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Chicago Rationality Reading Group—Luminosity Part 1
mingyuan
Feb 16, 2017, 3:09 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Judgement Extrapolations
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Feb 15, 2017, 6:51 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
Meetup : Moscow: unconference
Slava Matyukhin
Feb 15, 2017, 6:02 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Amsterdam—Meetup #12 - Friendly AI
null
Feb 15, 2017, 3:08 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Indifference and compensatory rewards
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 15, 2017, 2:49 PM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Gates 2017 Annual letter
ike
Feb 15, 2017, 2:39 AM
8
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.gatesnotes.com)
Philosophical love poetry
KatjaGrace
Feb 14, 2017, 11:26 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mobile users learning faster, in smaller bytes
morganism
Feb 14, 2017, 9:03 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.cerego.com)
Is Willpower a Finite Resource, or a Myth?
Bitnotri
Feb 14, 2017, 2:02 PM
2
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(nautil.us)
GiveWell and the problem of partial funding
Benquo
Feb 14, 2017, 10:48 AM
5
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
How to not earn a delta (Change My View)
Viliam
Feb 14, 2017, 10:04 AM
17
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.reddit.com)
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Nonsense
RobinZ
Feb 13, 2017, 9:53 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Allegory On AI Risk, Game Theory, and Mithril
James_Miller
Feb 13, 2017, 8:41 PM
45
points
57
comments
3
min read
LW
link
CHCAI/MIRI research internship in AI safety
Rob Bensinger
Feb 13, 2017, 6:34 PM
10
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Open thread, Feb. 13 - Feb. 19, 2017
username2
Feb 13, 2017, 10:56 AM
4
points
36
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What are you surprised people pay for instead of doing themselves?
NoSignalNoNoise
Feb 13, 2017, 1:07 AM
8
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What are you surprised people don’t just buy?
NoSignalNoNoise
Feb 13, 2017, 1:07 AM
10
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Raymond Smullyan has died
ike
Feb 12, 2017, 2:20 PM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.nytimes.com)
Satisfaction Levers
ig0r
Feb 11, 2017, 10:54 PM
7
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The types of manipulation on vote-based forums
pepe_prime
Feb 11, 2017, 5:09 PM
10
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.reddit.com)
Changes in AI Safety Funding
siIver
Feb 11, 2017, 8:36 AM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)
Are daemons a problem for ideal agents?
jessicata
Feb 11, 2017, 8:29 AM
3
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How likely is a random AGI to be honest?
jessicata
Feb 11, 2017, 3:32 AM
1
point
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
The Alpha Omega Theorem: How to Make an A.I. Friendly with the Fear of God
Darklight
Feb 11, 2017, 12:48 AM
−2
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The types of manipulation on vote-based forums
pepe_prime
Feb 11, 2017, 12:24 AM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Basic Income. org
morganism
Feb 11, 2017, 12:01 AM
1
point
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(basicincome.org)
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
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