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Against willpower as a scientific or otherwise useful concept (Nautilus Magazine)

Kaj_SotalaFeb 4, 2017, 10:11 PM

3 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(nautil.us)

Does UDT really get counter-factually mugged?

IAFF-User-111Feb 4, 2017, 9:46 PM

0 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Learning Impact in RL

IAFF-User-111Feb 4, 2017, 9:42 PM

1 point

6 comments1 min readLW link

An idea for creating safe AI

IAFF-User-211Feb 4, 2017, 11:16 AM

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Effective diversity

KatjaGraceFeb 3, 2017, 11:10 PM

1 point

0 comments7 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekFeb 3, 2017, 4:53 PM

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

Why is the surprisingly popular answer correct?

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 3, 2017, 4:24 PM

43 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Planning 101: Debiasing and Research

lifelonglearnerFeb 3, 2017, 3:01 PM

25 points

10 comments12 min readLW link

Meetup : Chicago Rationality Reading Group

mingyuanFeb 3, 2017, 2:56 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : SF Meetup: Stories

maiaFeb 3, 2017, 1:21 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Meetup—trying something new!

iarwain1Feb 3, 2017, 12:09 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

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 Althaus28 Jan 2017 10:16 UTC

5 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(casparoesterheld.com)

Emergency learning

Stuart_Armstrong28 Jan 2017 10:05 UTC

13 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness

ChristianKl28 Jan 2017 8:58 UTC

13 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(neurosciencenews.com)

Performance Trends in AI

sarahconstantin28 Jan 2017 8:36 UTC

14 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Nothing is Forbidden, but Some Things are Good

Gordon Seidoh Worley27 Jan 2017 23:53 UTC

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?

phl4327 Jan 2017 21:01 UTC

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?

phl4327 Jan 2017 21:00 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link