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Why I’m working on satisficing intelligence augmentation (and not blogging about it much)
whpearson
Feb 5, 2017, 5:40 PM
6
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ontologies are Operating Systems
lifelonglearner
Feb 18, 2017, 5:00 AM
6
points
36
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Attacking machine learning with adversarial examples
ike
Feb 17, 2017, 12:28 AM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(openai.com)
Yes, politics can make us stupid. But there’s an important exception to that rule.
Bound_up
Feb 2, 2017, 1:34 AM
6
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.vox.com)
Open Thread, Feb. 27 - March 5, 2017
Elo
Feb 27, 2017, 4:32 AM
6
points
174
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Modal Combat for games other than the prisoner’s dilemma
AlexMennen
Feb 26, 2017, 8:10 AM
6
points
1
comment
13
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)
Group Rationality Diary, February 2017
Viliam
Feb 1, 2017, 12:11 PM
5
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why won’t some people listen to reason?
Bound_up
Feb 2, 2017, 2:50 AM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.bbc.com)
What Should the Average EA Do About AI Alignment?
Raemon
Feb 25, 2017, 8:37 PM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(effective-altruism.com)
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)
Humble Charlie
Benquo
Feb 27, 2017, 7:04 PM
5
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Worked example of a mnemonic Memory technique
Elo
Feb 7, 2017, 10:22 AM
5
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Headlines, meet sparklines: news in context
Brendan Long
Feb 18, 2017, 4:00 PM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(smus.com)
Is Evidential Decision Theory presumptuous?
Tobias_Baumann
Feb 2, 2017, 1:41 PM
5
points
39
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A question about the rules
phl43
Feb 1, 2017, 10:55 PM
5
points
66
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Against neglectedness considerations
Benquo
Feb 24, 2017, 9:41 PM
4
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Translation “counterfactual”
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 24, 2017, 6:36 PM
4
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Verifier Theory and Unverifiability
turchin
Feb 8, 2017, 10:40 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Prescientific Organizational Theory (Ribbonfarm)
Davidmanheim
Feb 22, 2017, 11:00 PM
4
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.ribbonfarm.com)
Open thread, Feb. 13 - Feb. 19, 2017
username2
Feb 13, 2017, 10:56 AM
4
points
36
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Against willpower as a scientific or otherwise useful concept (Nautilus Magazine)
Kaj_Sotala
Feb 4, 2017, 10:11 PM
3
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(nautil.us)
What a Portuguese chronicler may teach us about moral relativism
phl43
Feb 1, 2017, 10:49 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(necpluribusimpar.net)
Death—an essay
dglukhov
Feb 2, 2017, 5:25 PM
3
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Gas hydrate breakdown unlikely to cause clathrate gun—report
morganism
Feb 19, 2017, 10:47 PM
3
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
DARPA Perspective on AI
morganism
Feb 23, 2017, 3:27 AM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.darpa.mil)
A Quick Confidence Heuristic; Implicitly Leveraging “The Wisdom of Crowds”
Davidmanheim
Feb 10, 2017, 12:54 AM
3
points
2
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)
Are daemons a problem for ideal agents?
jessicata
Feb 11, 2017, 8:29 AM
3
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Censoring out-of-domain representations
orthonormal
Feb 1, 2017, 4:09 AM
3
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Interview with Nassim Taleb ‘Trump makes sense to a grocery store owner’
Gunnar_Zarncke
Feb 8, 2017, 9:52 PM
3
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.thehindu.com)
Meetup : SF Meetup: Projects
maia
Feb 19, 2017, 5:51 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book Review: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell
Zvi
Feb 18, 2017, 6:43 PM
2
points
0
comments
15
min read
LW
link
The humility argument for honesty
Benquo
Feb 5, 2017, 5:26 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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)
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Nonsense
RobinZ
Feb 13, 2017, 9:53 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Are we running out of new music/movies/art from a metaphysical perspective?
stephen_s
Feb 5, 2017, 5:49 PM
2
points
111
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games
RobinZ
Feb 8, 2017, 2:16 AM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
The humility argument for honesty
Benquo
Feb 5, 2017, 6:54 AM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Create & Complete
RobinZ
Feb 20, 2017, 6:24 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Pub meetup—February
Elo
Feb 16, 2017, 9:14 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : SF Meetup: Stories
maia
Feb 3, 2017, 1:21 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sequences Reading Group
DreamFlasher
Feb 1, 2017, 10:01 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : SF Meetup: Board Games
maia
Feb 9, 2017, 4:52 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—March 2017
luminosity
Feb 6, 2017, 9:51 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Effective diversity
KatjaGrace
Feb 3, 2017, 11:10 PM
1
point
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Feb 10, 2017, 4:51 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup: February
Maelin
Feb 20, 2017, 11:27 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
UNU swarm intel picks SB exact score
morganism
Feb 6, 2017, 11:38 PM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(unu.ai)
Meetup : Chicago Rationality Reading Group—Luminosity Part 2
mingyuan
Feb 22, 2017, 3:05 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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