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The Monkey and the Machine

ProofOfLogicFeb 23, 2017, 9:38 PM

17 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

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

Kaj_SotalaFeb 23, 2017, 1:02 PM

7 points

4 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Nearest unblocked strategy versus learning patches

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 23, 2017, 12:42 PM

21 points

8 votes

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9 comments2 min readLW link

Nearest unblocked strategy versus learning patches

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 23, 2017, 12:33 PM

1 point

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9 comments2 min readLW link

On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflicts

morganismFeb 23, 2017, 3:46 AM

1 point

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

DARPA Perspective on AI

morganismFeb 23, 2017, 3:27 AM

3 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.darpa.mil)

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

jessicataFeb 23, 2017, 12:40 AM

13 points

7 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Denver Area LW March Meetup (CHANGED TO MONDAY 3/6!)

PonchoPalFeb 22, 2017, 11:42 PM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Prescientific Organizational Theory (Ribbonfarm)

DavidmanheimFeb 22, 2017, 11:00 PM

4 points

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17 comments1 min readLW link

(www.ribbonfarm.com)

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

ignorancepriorFeb 22, 2017, 7:07 PM

20 points

15 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

Meetup : Chicago Rationality Reading Group—Luminosity Part 2

mingyuanFeb 22, 2017, 3:05 AM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Prediction Based Robust Cooperation

Scott GarrabrantFeb 22, 2017, 1:52 AM

17 points

4 votes

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1 comment5 min readLW link

The Semiotic Fallacy

StabilizerFeb 21, 2017, 4:50 AM

29 points

20 votes

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15 comments2 min readLW link

Levers, Emotions, and Lazy Evaluators:

lifelonglearnerFeb 20, 2017, 11:00 PM

9 points

13 votes

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11 comments6 min readLW link

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

RobinZFeb 20, 2017, 6:24 PM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup: February

MaelinFeb 20, 2017, 11:27 AM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Feb. 20 - Feb 26, 2017

EloFeb 20, 2017, 4:51 AM

6 points

4 votes

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163 comments1 min readLW link

A semi-technical question about prediction markets and private info

CronoDASFeb 20, 2017, 2:20 AM

14 points

7 votes

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17 comments1 min readLW link

Gas hydrate breakdown unlikely to cause clathrate gun—report

morganismFeb 19, 2017, 10:47 PM

3 points

2 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Meetup : SF Meetup: Projects

maiaFeb 19, 2017, 5:51 PM

2 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell

ZviFeb 18, 2017, 6:43 PM

2 points

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0 comments15 min readLW link

Headlines, meet sparklines: news in context

Brendan LongFeb 18, 2017, 4:00 PM

5 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(smus.com)

Ontologies are Operating Systems

lifelonglearnerFeb 18, 2017, 5:00 AM

7 points

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36 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Meetup—general discussion

iarwain1Feb 17, 2017, 5:13 PM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekFeb 17, 2017, 4:51 PM

1 point

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Highlights From The Comments On Cost Disease

Scott AlexanderFeb 17, 2017, 7:28 AM

12 points

11 votes

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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

8 votes

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18 comments1 min readLW link

(dominiccummings.files.wordpress.com)

Attacking machine learning with adversarial examples

ikeFeb 17, 2017, 12:28 AM

6 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Increasing GDP is not growth

PhilGoetzFeb 16, 2017, 6:04 PM

21 points

14 votes

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24 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Sydney Pub meetup—February

EloFeb 16, 2017, 9:14 AM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Chicago Rationality Reading Group—Luminosity Part 1

mingyuanFeb 16, 2017, 3:09 AM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Judgement Extrapolations

Gordon Seidoh WorleyFeb 15, 2017, 6:51 PM

1 point

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(mapandterritory.org)

Meetup : Moscow: unconference

Slava MatyukhinFeb 15, 2017, 6:02 PM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Amsterdam—Meetup #12 - Friendly AI

nullFeb 15, 2017, 3:08 PM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Indifference and compensatory rewards

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 15, 2017, 2:49 PM

7 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Gates 2017 Annual letter

ikeFeb 15, 2017, 2:39 AM

8 points

5 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gatesnotes.com)

Philosophical love poetry

KatjaGraceFeb 14, 2017, 11:26 PM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Mobile users learning faster, in smaller bytes

morganismFeb 14, 2017, 9:03 PM

3 points

3 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.cerego.com)

Is Willpower a Finite Resource, or a Myth?

BitnotriFeb 14, 2017, 2:02 PM

2 points

2 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

(nautil.us)

GiveWell and the problem of partial funding

BenquoFeb 14, 2017, 10:48 AM

5 points

3 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

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

ViliamFeb 14, 2017, 10:04 AM

17 points

11 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Nonsense

RobinZFeb 13, 2017, 9:53 PM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Allegory On AI Risk, Game Theory, and Mithril

James_MillerFeb 13, 2017, 8:41 PM

45 points

30 votes

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57 comments3 min readLW link

CHCAI/MIRI research internship in AI safety

Rob BensingerFeb 13, 2017, 6:34 PM

10 points

6 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

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

username2Feb 13, 2017, 10:56 AM

4 points

2 votes

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36 comments1 min readLW link

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

NoSignalNoNoiseFeb 13, 2017, 1:07 AM

8 points

4 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

What are you surprised people don’t just buy?

NoSignalNoNoiseFeb 13, 2017, 1:07 AM

10 points

5 votes

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34 comments1 min readLW link

Raymond Smullyan has died

ikeFeb 12, 2017, 2:20 PM

6 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nytimes.com)

Satisfaction Levers

ig0rFeb 11, 2017, 10:54 PM

7 points

5 votes

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5 comments3 min readLW link

The types of manipulation on vote-based forums

pepe_primeFeb 11, 2017, 5:09 PM

10 points

6 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

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