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March 2017 Media Thread

ArisKatsarisMar 1, 2017, 10:54 PM

4 points

43 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : March Rationality meetup

MarkoMar 1, 2017, 4:59 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t Fear the Reaper: Refuting Bostrom’s Superintelligence Argument

sbenthallMar 1, 2017, 2:28 PM

9 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

[Stub] The wrong philosophical question

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 1, 2017, 12:31 PM

7 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charles T. Munger

James_MillerMar 1, 2017, 1:34 AM

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.hb.org)

ribbonfarm: A Brief History of Existential Terror

9eB1Mar 1, 2017, 1:18 AM

4 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.ribbonfarm.com)

Meetup : #13 - Focusing

nullFeb 28, 2017, 8:52 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

The value alignment problem as an interactive game

IAFF-User-211Feb 28, 2017, 7:40 PM

0 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

CFAR Workshop Review: February 2017

lifelonglearnerFeb 28, 2017, 3:15 AM

12 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

Familiar Finance

Jacob FalkovichFeb 27, 2017, 9:12 PM

1 point

0 comments4 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Humble Charlie

BenquoFeb 27, 2017, 7:04 PM

5 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

A Modern Myth

Scott AlexanderFeb 27, 2017, 5:29 PM

40 points

1 comment49 min readLW link

Open Thread, Feb. 27 - March 5, 2017

EloFeb 27, 2017, 4:32 AM

6 points

174 comments1 min readLW link

Metrics in Everything: “Human Lives”

ZviFeb 26, 2017, 4:18 PM

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

Modal Combat for games other than the prisoner’s dilemma

AlexMennenFeb 26, 2017, 8:10 AM

6 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

What Should the Average EA Do About AI Alignment?

RaemonFeb 25, 2017, 8:37 PM

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(effective-altruism.com)

“Field Patterns” as a new mathmatical construct.

morganismFeb 24, 2017, 11:56 PM

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

(unews.utah.edu)

The AI Paper with The Best Title Ever

ZviFeb 24, 2017, 10:38 PM

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

First principles thinking and better, more creative solutions to problems

sleepingthinkerFeb 24, 2017, 9:51 PM

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

(gainweightjournal.com)

First principles thinking and better, more creative solutions to problems

sleepingthinkerFeb 24, 2017, 9:49 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

DEAD THREAD

HalfwitzFeb 24, 2017, 9:41 PM

6 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Against neglectedness considerations

BenquoFeb 24, 2017, 9:41 PM

4 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Selecting Leaders with Random Sampling and Standardized Testing

HalfwitzFeb 24, 2017, 9:34 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Selecting Leaders with Random Sampling and Standardized Testing:https://medium.com/@LyleCantor/an-alternative-to-democracy-e4ba2af07a85#.wtdza9jy2

HalfwitzFeb 24, 2017, 9:31 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Translation “counterfactual”

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 24, 2017, 6:36 PM

4 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Concrete Takeaways Post-CFAR

lifelonglearnerFeb 24, 2017, 6:31 PM

20 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Meetup—general discussion

iarwain1Feb 24, 2017, 5:08 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekFeb 24, 2017, 4:49 PM

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Group Debugging

rocurleyFeb 24, 2017, 4:29 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

The price you pay for arriving to class on time

alex_zag_alFeb 24, 2017, 2:11 PM

1 point

4 comments1 min readLW link

(raginrayguns.tumblr.com)

The Monkey and the Machine

ProofOfLogicFeb 23, 2017, 9:38 PM

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Moral Philosophers as Ethical Engineers: Limits of Moral Philosophy and a Pragmatist Alternative

Kaj_SotalaFeb 23, 2017, 1:02 PM

7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Nearest unblocked strategy versus learning patches

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 23, 2017, 12:42 PM

21 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Nearest unblocked strategy versus learning patches

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 23, 2017, 12:33 PM

1 point

9 comments2 min readLW link

On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflicts

morganismFeb 23, 2017, 3:46 AM

1 point

5 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

DARPA Perspective on AI

morganismFeb 23, 2017, 3:27 AM

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.darpa.mil)

Maximally efficient agents will probably have an anti-daemon immune system

jessicataFeb 23, 2017, 12:40 AM

13 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Denver Area LW March Meetup (CHANGED TO MONDAY 3/6!)

PonchoPalFeb 22, 2017, 11:42 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Prescientific Organizational Theory (Ribbonfarm)

DavidmanheimFeb 22, 2017, 11:00 PM

4 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

(www.ribbonfarm.com)

David Chalmers on LessWrong and the rationalist community (from his reddit AMA)

ignorancepriorFeb 22, 2017, 7:07 PM

20 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

Meetup : Chicago Rationality Reading Group—Luminosity Part 2

mingyuanFeb 22, 2017, 3:05 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Prediction Based Robust Cooperation

Scott GarrabrantFeb 22, 2017, 1:52 AM

17 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

The Semiotic Fallacy

StabilizerFeb 21, 2017, 4:50 AM

29 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Levers, Emotions, and Lazy Evaluators:

lifelonglearnerFeb 20, 2017, 11:00 PM

9 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Create & Complete

RobinZFeb 20, 2017, 6:24 PM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup: February

Maelin20 Feb 2017 11:27 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Feb. 20 - Feb 26, 2017

Elo20 Feb 2017 4:51 UTC

6 points

163 comments1 min readLW link

A semi-technical question about prediction markets and private info

CronoDAS20 Feb 2017 2:20 UTC

14 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Gas hydrate breakdown unlikely to cause clathrate gun—report

morganism19 Feb 2017 22:47 UTC

3 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Meetup : SF Meetup: Projects

maia19 Feb 2017 17:51 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link