Lev­ers, Emo­tions, and Lazy Eval­u­a­tors:

lifelonglearnerFeb 20, 2017, 11:00 PM
9 points
11 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Create & Complete

RobinZFeb 20, 2017, 6:24 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup: February

MaelinFeb 20, 2017, 11:27 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Feb. 20 - Feb 26, 2017

EloFeb 20, 2017, 4:51 AM
6 points
163 comments1 min readLW link

A semi-tech­ni­cal ques­tion about pre­dic­tion mar­kets and pri­vate info

CronoDASFeb 20, 2017, 2:20 AM
14 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Gas hy­drate break­down un­likely to cause clathrate gun—report

morganismFeb 19, 2017, 10:47 PM
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Meetup : SF Meetup: Projects

maiaFeb 19, 2017, 5:51 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell

ZviFeb 18, 2017, 6:43 PM
2 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

Head­lines, meet sparklines: news in context

Brendan LongFeb 18, 2017, 4:00 PM
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(smus.com)

On­tolo­gies are Oper­at­ing Systems

lifelonglearnerFeb 18, 2017, 5:00 AM
6 points
36 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more /​ UMBC Meetup—gen­eral discussion

iarwain1Feb 17, 2017, 5:13 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekFeb 17, 2017, 4:51 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

High­lights From The Com­ments On Cost Disease

Scott AlexanderFeb 17, 2017, 7:28 AM
10 points
2 comments25 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

gwernFeb 17, 2017, 12:59 AM
13 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(dominiccummings.files.wordpress.com)

At­tack­ing ma­chine learn­ing with ad­ver­sar­ial examples

ikeFeb 17, 2017, 12:28 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

In­creas­ing GDP is not growth

PhilGoetzFeb 16, 2017, 6:04 PM
21 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Pub meetup—Fe­bru­ary

EloFeb 16, 2017, 9:14 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Chicago Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group—Lu­minos­ity Part 1

mingyuanFeb 16, 2017, 3:09 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Judge­ment Extrapolations

Gordon Seidoh WorleyFeb 15, 2017, 6:51 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Meetup : Moscow: unconference

Slava MatyukhinFeb 15, 2017, 6:02 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Am­s­ter­dam—Meetup #12 - Friendly AI

nullFeb 15, 2017, 3:08 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­differ­ence and com­pen­satory rewards

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 15, 2017, 2:49 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Gates 2017 An­nual letter

ikeFeb 15, 2017, 2:39 AM
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gatesnotes.com)

Philo­soph­i­cal love poetry

KatjaGraceFeb 14, 2017, 11:26 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­bile users learn­ing faster, in smaller bytes

morganismFeb 14, 2017, 9:03 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.cerego.com)

Is Willpower a Finite Re­source, or a Myth?

BitnotriFeb 14, 2017, 2:02 PM
2 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(nautil.us)

GiveWell and the prob­lem of par­tial funding

BenquoFeb 14, 2017, 10:48 AM
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

How to not earn a delta (Change My View)

ViliamFeb 14, 2017, 10:04 AM
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Nonsense

RobinZFeb 13, 2017, 9:53 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Alle­gory On AI Risk, Game The­ory, and Mithril

James_MillerFeb 13, 2017, 8:41 PM
45 points
57 comments3 min readLW link

CHCAI/​MIRI re­search in­tern­ship in AI safety

Rob BensingerFeb 13, 2017, 6:34 PM
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Open thread, Feb. 13 - Feb. 19, 2017

username2Feb 13, 2017, 10:56 AM
4 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

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

NoSignalNoNoiseFeb 13, 2017, 1:07 AM
8 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

What are you sur­prised peo­ple don’t just buy?

NoSignalNoNoiseFeb 13, 2017, 1:07 AM
10 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Ray­mond Smul­lyan has died

ikeFeb 12, 2017, 2:20 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nytimes.com)

Satis­fac­tion Levers

ig0rFeb 11, 2017, 10:54 PM
7 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

The types of ma­nipu­la­tion on vote-based forums

pepe_primeFeb 11, 2017, 5:09 PM
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

Changes in AI Safety Funding

siIverFeb 11, 2017, 8:36 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

Are dae­mons a prob­lem for ideal agents?

jessicataFeb 11, 2017, 8:29 AM
3 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

How likely is a ran­dom AGI to be hon­est?

jessicataFeb 11, 2017, 3:32 AM
1 point
1 comment3 min readLW link

The Alpha Omega The­o­rem: How to Make an A.I. Friendly with the Fear of God

DarklightFeb 11, 2017, 12:48 AM
−2 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

The types of ma­nipu­la­tion on vote-based forums

pepe_primeFeb 11, 2017, 12:24 AM
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ba­sic In­come. org

morganismFeb 11, 2017, 12:01 AM
1 point
15 comments1 min readLW link
(basicincome.org)

Get Rich Slowly

Jacob FalkovichFeb 10, 2017, 11:02 PM
18 points
1 comment13 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekFeb 10, 2017, 4:51 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Con­sid­er­a­tions On Cost Disease

Scott AlexanderFeb 10, 2017, 4:33 AM
50 points
7 comments22 min readLW link

Stu­pidity as a men­tal illness

PhilGoetzFeb 10, 2017, 3:57 AM
25 points
139 comments2 min readLW link

A Quick Con­fi­dence Heuris­tic; Im­plic­itly Lev­er­ag­ing “The Wis­dom of Crowds”

DavidmanheimFeb 10, 2017, 12:54 AM
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Things that want to be posts

ZviFeb 9, 2017, 10:58 PM
1 point
2 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more /​ UMBC Meetup—use­ful­ness and mean­ing of “truth”

iarwain1Feb 9, 2017, 8:26 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link