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Open thread, May 22 - May 28, 2017

ThomasMay 22, 2017, 5:44 AM

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Why Most Intentional Communities Fail (And Some Succeed)

NoSignalNoNoiseMay 22, 2017, 3:04 AM

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8 comments1 min readLW link

(aeon.co)

An Approach to Logically Updateless Decisions

abramdemskiMay 21, 2017, 11:02 PM

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4 comments6 min readLW link

Learning Deep Learning the EASY way, with Keras

morganismMay 21, 2017, 7:48 PM

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(p.migdal.pl)

On-line google hangout on approaches to communication around agi risk (2017/5/27 20:00 UTC)

whpearsonMay 21, 2017, 12:32 PM

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meet up: Stockholm Slate Star Codex

MossPiglet_duplicate0.2150938082486391May 21, 2017, 9:39 AM

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AGI and Mainstream Culture

madhatterMay 21, 2017, 8:35 AM

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10 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Cambridge, MA Sunday meetup: Lightning Talks

jimrandomhMay 20, 2017, 9:10 PM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Qiaochu_YuanMay 20, 2017, 12:18 AM

15 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Board Games and Singing

rocurleyMay 19, 2017, 11:13 PM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

AI safety: three human problems and one AI issue

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 19, 2017, 10:48 AM

16 points

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7 comments3 min readLW link

Instrumental Rationality Sequence Update (Drive Link to Drafts)

lifelonglearnerMay 19, 2017, 4:01 AM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Autism

RobinZMay 18, 2017, 7:14 PM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Chicago Rationality Reading Group

mingyuanMay 18, 2017, 3:47 AM

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Unrunner

Jacob FalkovichMay 18, 2017, 3:38 AM

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(putanumonit.com)

How To Build A Community Full Of Lonely People

maiaMay 17, 2017, 3:25 PM

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15 comments1 min readLW link

(particularvirtue.blogspot.com)

Meetup : First LessWrong meetup in Leipzig!

chaosmageMay 17, 2017, 9:03 AM

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Meetup : Believing and Deciding—Melbourne Rationality Dojo, May 2017

ChriswaterguyMay 17, 2017, 4:49 AM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Denver Area LW June Meetup

PonchoPalMay 17, 2017, 12:14 AM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Acausal trade: conclusion: theory vs practice

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 16, 2017, 7:33 PM

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Reaching out to people with the problems of friendly AI

ValMay 16, 2017, 7:30 PM

8 points

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39 comments1 min readLW link

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

gwernMay 16, 2017, 7:12 PM

6 points

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

Acausal trade: being unusual

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 16, 2017, 6:38 PM

4 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

The robust beauty of improper linear models

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 16, 2017, 3:06 PM

7 points

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16 comments1 min readLW link

A social science without sacred values

ChristianKlMay 16, 2017, 12:26 PM

4 points

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.researchgate.net)

Are causal decision theorists trying to outsmart conditional probabilities?

Caspar OesterheldMay 16, 2017, 8:01 AM

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10 comments3 min readLW link

Reality has a surprising amount of detail

HoushalterMay 16, 2017, 7:14 AM

2 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(johnsalvatier.org)

Repersonalizing the High Status

squidiousMay 16, 2017, 7:00 AM

5 points

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.blogger.com)

Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo—June 2017

luminosityMay 15, 2017, 10:20 PM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Value Learning for Irrational Toy Models

orthonormalMay 15, 2017, 8:55 PM

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Reciprocity Circle

rocurleyMay 15, 2017, 6:12 PM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

sapphireMay 15, 2017, 2:21 PM

21 points

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8 comments13 min readLW link

Acausal trade: full decision algorithms

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 15, 2017, 10:12 AM

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1 comment2 min readLW link

Open thread, May 15 - May 21, 2017

EloMay 15, 2017, 7:06 AM

3 points

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183 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC—Unsong Readalong Edition!

l1nMay 14, 2017, 4:51 PM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Anthropic uncertainty in the Evidential Blackmail problem

Johannes TreutleinMay 14, 2017, 4:43 PM

10 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(casparoesterheld.com)

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

whpearsonMay 13, 2017, 11:18 PM

6 points

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8 comments5 min readLW link

Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind—The Future of Prediction

morganismMay 13, 2017, 8:59 PM

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(www.oxfordscholarship.com)

Reality has a surprising amount of detail

jsalvatierMay 13, 2017, 8:02 PM

110 points

49 votes

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31 comments1 min readLW link

(johnsalvatier.org)

Why do we think most AIs unintentionally created by humans would create a worse world, when the human mind was designed by random mutations and natural selection, and created a better world?

contravariantMay 13, 2017, 8:23 AM

3 points

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12 comments1 min readLW link

Decision Theories in Real Life

lifelonglearnerMay 13, 2017, 1:47 AM

4 points

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(mindlevelup.wordpress.com)

SlateStarCodex Meetups Everywhere: Analysis

mingyuanMay 13, 2017, 12:29 AM

21 points

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Meetup : [Metro Detroit / Ann Arbor], Michigan: LW and SSC meetup where I bring food

excineraMay 12, 2017, 8:51 PM

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Reasoning upon its own dark fiction

Jacob FalkovichMay 12, 2017, 4:40 AM

2 points

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Gears in understanding

ValentineMay 12, 2017, 12:36 AM

198 points

112 votes

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38 comments10 min readLW link

Meetup : Chicago Rationality Reading Group

mingyuanMay 11, 2017, 11:49 PM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Survivorship Bias

RobinZMay 11, 2017, 11:46 PM

2 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Acausal trade: Introduction

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 11, 2017, 12:03 PM

5 points

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2 comments1 min readLW link

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

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 11, 2017, 9:16 AM

21 points

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15 comments1 min readLW link

Hidden universal expansion: stopping runaways

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 11, 2017, 9:01 AM

11 points

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53 comments1 min readLW link

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