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Gears in understanding

Valentine12 May 2017 0:36 UTC
175 points
38 comments10 min readLW link

Real­ity has a sur­pris­ing amount of detail

jsalvatier13 May 2017 20:02 UTC
77 points
28 comments1 min readLW link
(johnsalvatier.org)

The Atomic Bomb Con­sid­ered As Hun­gar­ian High School Science Fair Project

Scott Alexander26 May 2017 9:45 UTC
53 points
9 comments14 min readLW link

Soft Skills for Run­ning Mee­tups for Beginners

Raemon6 May 2017 16:04 UTC
37 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

Notes from the Hufflepuff Unconference

Raemon23 May 2017 21:04 UTC
30 points
6 comments23 min readLW link

Thoughts on civ­i­liza­tion collapse

Stuart_Armstrong4 May 2017 10:41 UTC
28 points
79 comments1 min readLW link

Bad in­tent is a dis­po­si­tion, not a feeling

Benquo1 May 2017 1:28 UTC
26 points
74 comments4 min readLW link

Bi-Weekly Ra­tional Feed

sapphire28 May 2017 17:12 UTC
21 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

A Month’s Worth of Ra­tional Posts—Feed­back on my Ra­tion­al­ity Feed.

sapphire15 May 2017 14:21 UTC
21 points
8 comments13 min readLW link

That is not dead which can eter­nal lie: the aes­ti­va­tion hy­poth­e­sis for re­solv­ing Fermi’s paradox

Stuart_Armstrong11 May 2017 9:16 UTC
21 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI with­out an in­tel­li­gence explosion

AlexMennen25 May 2017 16:44 UTC
20 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

SlateS­tarCodex Mee­tups Every­where: Analysis

mingyuan13 May 2017 0:29 UTC
19 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Look­ing for ma­chine learn­ing and com­puter sci­ence collaborators

Stuart_Armstrong26 May 2017 11:53 UTC
17 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

AI safety: three hu­man prob­lems and one AI issue

Stuart_Armstrong19 May 2017 10:48 UTC
16 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

WMDs in Iraq and Syria

ChristianKl10 May 2017 21:03 UTC
15 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

CFAR work­shop with new in­struc­tors in Seat­tle, 6/​7-6/​11

Qiaochu_Yuan20 May 2017 0:18 UTC
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ments, iter­a­tions and the sci­en­tific method

Elo2 May 2017 0:59 UTC
15 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Reflex­ive Or­a­cles and su­per­ra­tional­ity: Pareto

Stuart_Armstrong24 May 2017 8:35 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Reflex­ive Or­a­cles and su­per­ra­tional­ity: pris­oner’s dilemma

Stuart_Armstrong24 May 2017 8:34 UTC
14 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

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arunbharatula28 May 2017 4:22 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

How To Build A Com­mu­nity Full Of Lonely People

maia17 May 2017 15:25 UTC
12 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(particularvirtue.blogspot.com)

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arunbharatula23 May 2017 4:33 UTC
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Why Most In­ten­tional Com­mu­ni­ties Fail (And Some Suc­ceed)

NoSignalNoNoise22 May 2017 3:04 UTC
11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(aeon.co)

Hid­den uni­ver­sal ex­pan­sion: stop­ping runaways

Stuart_Armstrong11 May 2017 9:01 UTC
11 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

An­thropic un­cer­tainty in the Ev­i­den­tial Black­mail problem

Johannes Treutlein14 May 2017 16:43 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(casparoesterheld.com)

Cog­ni­tive Core Sys­tems ex­plain­ing in­tu­itions be­hind be­lief in souls, free will, and cre­ation myths

Kaj_Sotala6 May 2017 12:13 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

How I’d In­tro­duce LessWrong to an Outsider

Adam Zerner3 May 2017 4:32 UTC
10 points
25 comments7 min readLW link

AI arms race

Stuart_Armstrong4 May 2017 10:59 UTC
10 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

On “Over­think­ing” Concepts

Bound_up27 May 2017 17:07 UTC
9 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

As there are a num­ber of pod­casts by LWers now, I’ve made a wiki page for them

OpenThreadGuy26 May 2017 7:34 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(wiki.lesswrong.com)

Act­ing on your in­tended prefer­ences—What does that look like in prac­tice? (crit­i­cal in­tro­spec­tive ques­tions)

Elo3 May 2017 0:51 UTC
8 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Reach­ing out to peo­ple with the prob­lems of friendly AI

Val16 May 2017 19:30 UTC
8 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Are causal de­ci­sion the­o­rists try­ing to out­smart con­di­tional prob­a­bil­ities?

Caspar Oesterheld16 May 2017 8:01 UTC
7 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Over­com­ing Al­gorithm Aver­sion: Peo­ple Will Use Im­perfect Al­gorithms If They Can (Even Slightly) Mod­ify Them

Stefan_Schubert22 May 2017 18:31 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(pubsonline.informs.org)

Futarchy Fix

abramdemski30 May 2017 5:46 UTC
7 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

In­ter­view on IQ, genes, and ge­netic en­g­ineer­ing with ex­pert (Hsu)

James_Miller28 May 2017 22:19 UTC
7 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

“AIXIjs: A Soft­ware Demo for Gen­eral Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing”, As­lanides 2017

gwern29 May 2017 21:09 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

The ro­bust beauty of im­proper lin­ear models

Stuart_Armstrong16 May 2017 15:06 UTC
7 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

On-line google hang­out on ap­proaches to the con­trol prob­lem (2017/​6/​13 7PM UTC)

whpearson7 May 2017 19:13 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Mak­ing de­ci­sions in a real com­puter—an ar­gu­ment for meta-de­ci­sion the­ory research

whpearson13 May 2017 23:18 UTC
6 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Diver­gent prefer­ences and meta-preferences

Stuart_Armstrong30 May 2017 7:33 UTC
6 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

In­vi­ta­tion to com­ment on a draft on mul­ti­verse-wide co­op­er­a­tion via al­ter­na­tives to causal de­ci­sion the­ory (FDT/​UDT/​EDT/​...)

Caspar Oesterheld29 May 2017 8:34 UTC
6 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Keep­ing up with deep re­in­force­ment learn­ing re­search: /​r/​reinforcementlearning

gwern16 May 2017 19:12 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

AGI and Main­stream Culture

madhatter21 May 2017 8:35 UTC
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[brain­storm] - What should the AGIrisk com­mu­nity look like?

whpearson27 May 2017 13:00 UTC
5 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Work­ing with mul­ti­ple prob­lems at once

Elo6 May 2017 22:14 UTC
5 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Equil­ibria in ad­ver­sar­ial su­per­vised learning

RyanCarey3 May 2017 8:14 UTC
5 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­iz­ing Foun­da­tions of De­ci­sion The­ory II

abramdemski6 May 2017 20:40 UTC
5 points
4 comments19 min readLW link

Open thread, May 8 - May 14, 2017

Thomas8 May 2017 8:10 UTC
5 points
82 comments1 min readLW link

Call for Spe­cial Is­sue on Su­per­in­tel­li­gence—Informatica

RyanCarey3 May 2017 5:08 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.informatica.si)