In­ter­view with Nas­sim Taleb ‘Trump makes sense to a gro­cery store owner’

Gunnar_ZarnckeFeb 8, 2017, 9:52 PM
3 points
22 comments1 min readLW link
(www.thehindu.com)

Meetup : Chicago RRG—Typ­i­cal Mind Fallacy

mingyuanFeb 8, 2017, 8:41 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Stupid Ques­tions Fe­bru­ary 2017

ErfeyahFeb 8, 2017, 7:51 PM
7 points
105 comments1 min readLW link

Ver­ifier The­ory and Unverifiability

turchinFeb 8, 2017, 10:40 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Meetup : Cologne—Monthly meetup: Satur­day Feb 18 2017

caffemacchiavelliFeb 8, 2017, 7:12 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Fun & Games

RobinZFeb 8, 2017, 2:16 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

“Bet­ting on the Past” – a de­ci­sion prob­lem by Arif Ahmed

Johannes TreutleinFeb 7, 2017, 9:14 PM
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(casparoesterheld.com)

De­ci­sion The­ory subreddit

gwernFeb 7, 2017, 6:42 PM
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

Slate Star Codex Notes on the Asilo­mar Con­fer­ence on Benefi­cial AI

Gunnar_ZarnckeFeb 7, 2017, 12:14 PM
24 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Worked ex­am­ple of a mnemonic Me­mory technique

EloFeb 7, 2017, 10:22 AM
5 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

UNU swarm in­tel picks SB ex­act score

morganismFeb 6, 2017, 11:38 PM
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link
(unu.ai)

Re­quest for col­lab­o­ra­tors—Sur­vey on AI risk priorities

whpearsonFeb 6, 2017, 8:14 PM
6 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Selec­tive so­cial policing

KatjaGraceFeb 6, 2017, 7:00 PM
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

True un­der­stand­ing comes from pass­ing exams

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 6, 2017, 11:51 AM
20 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

True un­der­stand­ing comes from pass­ing exams

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 6, 2017, 11:45 AM
1 point
5 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—March 2017

luminosityFeb 6, 2017, 9:51 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Feb. 06 - Feb. 12, 2017

MrMindFeb 6, 2017, 8:34 AM
9 points
115 comments1 min readLW link

Are we run­ning out of new mu­sic/​movies/​art from a meta­phys­i­cal per­spec­tive?

stephen_sFeb 5, 2017, 5:49 PM
2 points
111 comments1 min readLW link

Why I’m work­ing on satis­fic­ing in­tel­li­gence aug­men­ta­tion (and not blog­ging about it much)

whpearsonFeb 5, 2017, 5:40 PM
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

The hu­mil­ity ar­gu­ment for honesty

BenquoFeb 5, 2017, 5:26 PM
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The hu­mil­ity ar­gu­ment for honesty

BenquoFeb 5, 2017, 5:26 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Kah­ne­man’s check­list to avoid cog­ni­tive bi­ases and make bet­ter decisions

sleepingthinkerFeb 5, 2017, 11:13 AM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(gainweightjournal.com)

The hu­mil­ity ar­gu­ment for honesty

BenquoFeb 5, 2017, 6:54 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

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