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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
11 Feb 2017 0:24 UTC
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Basic Income. org
morganism
11 Feb 2017 0:01 UTC
1
point
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(basicincome.org)
Get Rich Slowly
Jacob Falkovich
10 Feb 2017 23:02 UTC
18
points
1
comment
13
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
10 Feb 2017 16:51 UTC
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Considerations On Cost Disease
Scott Alexander
10 Feb 2017 4:33 UTC
51
points
7
comments
22
min read
LW
link
Stupidity as a mental illness
PhilGoetz
10 Feb 2017 3:57 UTC
26
points
139
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A Quick Confidence Heuristic; Implicitly Leveraging “The Wisdom of Crowds”
Davidmanheim
10 Feb 2017 0:54 UTC
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Things that want to be posts
Zvi
9 Feb 2017 22:58 UTC
1
point
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Meetup—usefulness and meaning of “truth”
iarwain1
9 Feb 2017 20:26 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: FallacyMania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery
Alexander230
9 Feb 2017 19:32 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dan Carlin six hour podcast on history of atomic weapons
James_Miller
9 Feb 2017 16:10 UTC
7
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.dancarlin.com)
Meetup : [Metro Detroit / Ann Arbor], Michigan
excinera
9 Feb 2017 9:19 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Introduction to Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME)
Gunnar_Zarncke
9 Feb 2017 8:29 UTC
9
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.oreilly.com)
The Social Substrate
the gears to ascension
9 Feb 2017 7:22 UTC
23
points
15
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Melbourne Rationality Dojo, February—Tai Chi & Lightning Talks
Chriswaterguy
9 Feb 2017 6:37 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : SF Meetup: Board Games
maia
9 Feb 2017 4:52 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Minimizing Empowerment for Safety
IAFF-User-111
9 Feb 2017 4:45 UTC
0
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Albion’s Seed, Genotyped
Scott Alexander
9 Feb 2017 2:15 UTC
17
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Interview with Nassim Taleb ‘Trump makes sense to a grocery store owner’
Gunnar_Zarncke
8 Feb 2017 21:52 UTC
3
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.thehindu.com)
Meetup : Chicago RRG—Typical Mind Fallacy
mingyuan
8 Feb 2017 20:41 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Stupid Questions February 2017
Erfeyah
8 Feb 2017 19:51 UTC
7
points
105
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Verifier Theory and Unverifiability
turchin
8 Feb 2017 10:40 UTC
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Meetup : Cologne—Monthly meetup: Saturday Feb 18 2017
caffemacchiavelli
8 Feb 2017 7:12 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games
RobinZ
8 Feb 2017 2:16 UTC
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
“Betting on the Past” – a decision problem by Arif Ahmed
Johannes Treutlein
7 Feb 2017 21:14 UTC
7
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(casparoesterheld.com)
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