Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2017

DreamFlasherFeb 2, 2017, 7:17 PM
24 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Civil re­sis­tance and the 3.5% rule

morganismFeb 2, 2017, 6:53 PM
15 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Death—an essay

dglukhovFeb 2, 2017, 5:25 PM
3 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Death—an essay

dglukhovFeb 2, 2017, 5:01 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Is Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion The­ory pre­sump­tu­ous?

Tobias_BaumannFeb 2, 2017, 1:41 PM
5 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Why won’t some peo­ple listen to rea­son?

Bound_upFeb 2, 2017, 2:50 AM
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.bbc.com)

Yes, poli­tics can make us stupid. But there’s an im­por­tant ex­cep­tion to that rule.

Bound_upFeb 2, 2017, 1:34 AM
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.vox.com)

A ques­tion about the rules

phl43Feb 1, 2017, 10:55 PM
5 points
66 comments1 min readLW link

What a Por­tuguese chron­i­cler may teach us about moral relativism

phl43Feb 1, 2017, 10:49 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(necpluribusimpar.net)

Hu­mans as a truth channel

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 1, 2017, 4:53 PM
9 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Hack­ing humans

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 1, 2017, 4:08 PM
7 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Hack­ing humans

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 1, 2017, 4:06 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Fe­bru­ary 2017

ViliamFeb 1, 2017, 12:11 PM
5 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Se­quences Read­ing Group

DreamFlasherFeb 1, 2017, 10:01 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fe­bru­ary 2017 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsarisFeb 1, 2017, 8:31 AM
8 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Cen­sor­ing out-of-do­main representations

orthonormalFeb 1, 2017, 4:09 AM
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The “I Already Get It” Slide

jsalvatierFeb 1, 2017, 3:11 AM
33 points
23 comments1 min readLW link
(johnsalvatier.org)

A great ar­tic­u­la­tion of why peo­ple find it hard to adopt a nat­u­ral­is­tic worldview

StabilizerJan 31, 2017, 9:08 PM
4 points
34 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Pu­tanu­monit—A “statis­ti­cal sig­nifi­cance” story in finance

Jacob FalkovichJan 31, 2017, 5:54 PM
2 points
21 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

“What Hap­pens When Doc­tors Only Take Cash”? Every­body, Espe­cially Pa­tients, Wins

morganismJan 30, 2017, 11:57 PM
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(reason.com)

A cen­tury of re­search fol­low­ing gifted kids.

morganismJan 30, 2017, 11:44 PM
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.psychologytoday.com)

How of­ten do you check this fo­rum?

JenniferRMJan 30, 2017, 4:56 PM
21 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Typ­i­cal Mind Fallacy

RobinZJan 30, 2017, 4:21 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion Cal­ibra­tion—Do­ing It Right

SquirrelInHellJan 30, 2017, 10:05 AM
14 points
36 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Open thread, Jan. 30 - Feb. 05, 2017

MrMindJan 30, 2017, 8:31 AM
6 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Er­ror and Ter­ror: Are We Wor­ry­ing about the Wrong Risks?

philosophytorresJan 30, 2017, 1:07 AM
10 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

My cur­rent take on the Paul-MIRI dis­agree­ment on al­ignabil­ity of messy AI

jessicataJan 29, 2017, 8:52 PM
24 points
43 comments10 min readLW link

On mo­ti­va­tions for MIRI’s highly re­li­able agent de­sign research

jessicataJan 29, 2017, 7:34 PM
35 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Sig­nifi­cantly Invested

Jacob FalkovichJan 29, 2017, 5:40 AM
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Why elec­tion mod­els didn’t pre­dict Trump’s vic­tory — A primer on how polls and elec­tion mod­els work

phl43Jan 28, 2017, 7:51 PM
1 point
16 comments1 min readLW link
(necpluribusimpar.net)

AI Safety read­ing group

SoerenEJan 28, 2017, 12:07 PM
15 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Facets of Prob­lems v0.1

whpearsonJan 28, 2017, 12:00 PM
5 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­ory and the Ir­rele­vance of Im­pos­si­ble Outcomes

David AlthausJan 28, 2017, 10:16 AM
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(casparoesterheld.com)

Emer­gency learning

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 28, 2017, 10:05 AM
13 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness

ChristianKlJan 28, 2017, 8:58 AM
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(neurosciencenews.com)

Perfor­mance Trends in AI

sarahconstantinJan 28, 2017, 8:36 AM
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Noth­ing is For­bid­den, but Some Things are Good

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 27, 2017, 11:53 PM
8 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Did slav­ery make the US an eco­nomic su­per­power and would the in­dus­trial rev­olu­tion have hap­pened with­out it?

phl43Jan 27, 2017, 9:01 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(necpluribusimpar.net)

Did slav­ery make the US an eco­nomic su­per­power and would the in­dus­trial rev­olu­tion have hap­pened with­out it?

phl43Jan 27, 2017, 9:00 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Maze of Mo­ral Relativism

StabilizerJan 27, 2017, 7:29 PM
5 points
35 comments1 min readLW link
(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

New LW Meetup: Bogota

FrankAdamekJan 27, 2017, 6:55 PM
2 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

2017: An Ac­tual Plan to Ac­tu­ally Improve

[deleted]Jan 27, 2017, 6:42 PM
26 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain1Jan 27, 2017, 6:29 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

new study finds perfor­mance en­hanc­ing drugs for chess

morganismJan 27, 2017, 12:04 AM
6 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(worldchess.com)

A new blog with analy­ses of var­i­ous top­ics (e. g. slav­ery and cap­i­tal­ism, why elec­tion mod­els didn’t pre­dict Trump’s vic­tory)

phl43Jan 26, 2017, 11:30 PM
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(necpluribusimpar.net)

http://​nec­pluribusim­par.net (a new blog with analy­ses of var­i­ous top­ics, e. g. slav­ery and cap­i­tal­ism, why elec­tion mod­els didn’t pre­dict Trump’s vic­tory)

phl43Jan 26, 2017, 10:50 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

80,000 Hours: EA and Highly Poli­ti­cal Causes

The_Jaded_OneJan 26, 2017, 9:44 PM
45 points
25 comments7 min readLW link

The Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute is hiring a pro­ject manager

crmflynnJan 26, 2017, 6:19 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A ma­jor­ity coal­i­tion can lose a sym­met­ric zero-sum game

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 26, 2017, 12:13 PM
21 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : SF Meetup: Group Debugging

maiaJan 26, 2017, 6:13 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link