Met­rics in Every­thing: “Hu­man Lives”

Zvi26 Feb 2017 16:18 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­dal Com­bat for games other than the pris­oner’s dilemma

AlexMennen26 Feb 2017 8:10 UTC
6 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

What Should the Aver­age EA Do About AI Align­ment?

Raemon25 Feb 2017 20:37 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(effective-altruism.com)

“Field Pat­terns” as a new math­mat­i­cal con­struct.

morganism24 Feb 2017 23:56 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link
(unews.utah.edu)

The AI Paper with The Best Ti­tle Ever

Zvi24 Feb 2017 22:38 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

First prin­ci­ples think­ing and bet­ter, more cre­ative solu­tions to problems

sleepingthinker24 Feb 2017 21:51 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link
(gainweightjournal.com)

First prin­ci­ples think­ing and bet­ter, more cre­ative solu­tions to problems

sleepingthinker24 Feb 2017 21:49 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

DEAD THREAD

Halfwitz24 Feb 2017 21:41 UTC
6 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Against ne­glect­ed­ness considerations

Benquo24 Feb 2017 21:41 UTC
4 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Select­ing Lead­ers with Ran­dom Sam­pling and Stan­dard­ized Testing

Halfwitz24 Feb 2017 21:34 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Select­ing Lead­ers with Ran­dom Sam­pling and Stan­dard­ized Test­ing:https://​medium.com/​@LyleCan­tor/​an-al­ter­na­tive-to-democ­racy-e4ba2af07a85#.wt­dza9jy2

Halfwitz24 Feb 2017 21:31 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Trans­la­tion “coun­ter­fac­tual”

Stuart_Armstrong24 Feb 2017 18:36 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Con­crete Take­aways Post-CFAR

lifelonglearner24 Feb 2017 18:31 UTC
20 points
6 comments11 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more /​ UMBC Meetup—gen­eral discussion

iarwain124 Feb 2017 17:08 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek24 Feb 2017 16:49 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Group Debugging

rocurley24 Feb 2017 16:29 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The price you pay for ar­riv­ing to class on time

alex_zag_al24 Feb 2017 14:11 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link
(raginrayguns.tumblr.com)

The Mon­key and the Machine

ProofOfLogic23 Feb 2017 21:38 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

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

Kaj_Sotala23 Feb 2017 13:02 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Near­est un­blocked strat­egy ver­sus learn­ing patches

Stuart_Armstrong23 Feb 2017 12:42 UTC
21 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Near­est un­blocked strat­egy ver­sus learn­ing patches

Stuart_Armstrong23 Feb 2017 12:33 UTC
1 point
9 comments2 min readLW link

On the statis­ti­cal prop­er­ties and tail risk of vi­o­lent conflicts

morganism23 Feb 2017 3:46 UTC
1 point
5 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

DARPA Per­spec­tive on AI

morganism23 Feb 2017 3:27 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.darpa.mil)

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

jessicata23 Feb 2017 0:40 UTC
8 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

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

PonchoPal22 Feb 2017 23:42 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­scien­tific Or­ga­ni­za­tional The­ory (Rib­bon­farm)

Davidmanheim22 Feb 2017 23:00 UTC
4 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(www.ribbonfarm.com)

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

ignoranceprior22 Feb 2017 19:07 UTC
20 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

Meetup : Chicago Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group—Lu­minos­ity Part 2

mingyuan22 Feb 2017 3:05 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion Based Ro­bust Cooperation

Scott Garrabrant22 Feb 2017 1:52 UTC
12 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

The Semiotic Fallacy

Stabilizer21 Feb 2017 4:50 UTC
28 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Lev­ers, Emo­tions, and Lazy Eval­u­a­tors:

lifelonglearner20 Feb 2017 23:00 UTC
9 points
11 comments6 min readLW link

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

RobinZ20 Feb 2017 18:24 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup: February

Maelin20 Feb 2017 11:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Feb. 20 - Feb 26, 2017

Elo20 Feb 2017 4:51 UTC
6 points
163 comments1 min readLW link

A semi-tech­ni­cal ques­tion about pre­dic­tion mar­kets and pri­vate info

CronoDAS20 Feb 2017 2:20 UTC
14 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Gas hy­drate break­down un­likely to cause clathrate gun—report

morganism19 Feb 2017 22:47 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Meetup : SF Meetup: Projects

maia19 Feb 2017 17:51 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell

Zvi18 Feb 2017 18:43 UTC
2 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

Head­lines, meet sparklines: news in context

Brendan Long18 Feb 2017 16:00 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(smus.com)

On­tolo­gies are Oper­at­ing Systems

lifelonglearner18 Feb 2017 5:00 UTC
6 points
36 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more /​ UMBC Meetup—gen­eral discussion

iarwain117 Feb 2017 17:13 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek17 Feb 2017 16:51 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

High­lights From The Com­ments On Cost Disease

Scott Alexander17 Feb 2017 7:28 UTC
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

gwern17 Feb 2017 0:59 UTC
13 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(dominiccummings.files.wordpress.com)

At­tack­ing ma­chine learn­ing with ad­ver­sar­ial examples

ike17 Feb 2017 0:28 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

In­creas­ing GDP is not growth

PhilGoetz16 Feb 2017 18:04 UTC
21 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Pub meetup—Fe­bru­ary

Elo16 Feb 2017 9:14 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Chicago Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group—Lu­minos­ity Part 1

mingyuan16 Feb 2017 3:09 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Judge­ment Extrapolations

Gordon Seidoh Worley15 Feb 2017 18:51 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Meetup : Moscow: unconference

berekuk15 Feb 2017 18:02 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link