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Thought experiment: coarse-grained VR utopia
cousin_it
Jun 14, 2017, 8:03 AM
27
points
48
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Lloyd’s of London and less-than-catastrophic risk
fortyeridania
Jun 14, 2017, 2:49 AM
2
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Persona 5: Spoiler-Free Review
Zvi
Jun 13, 2017, 10:32 PM
1
point
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Learning from Human Preferences—from OpenAI (including Christiano, Amodei & Legg)
Dr_Manhattan
Jun 13, 2017, 3:52 PM
17
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(blog.openai.com)
Mathematical System For Calibration
DragonGod
Jun 13, 2017, 12:01 PM
0
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Rationalistsphere and the Less Wrong wiki
Deku-shrub
Jun 12, 2017, 11:29 PM
19
points
36
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Am I/Was I a Cultist?
DragonGod
Jun 12, 2017, 11:21 PM
−1
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Any Christians Here?
DragonGod
Jun 12, 2017, 11:18 PM
4
points
77
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Open thread, June. 12 - June. 18, 2017
Thomas
Jun 12, 2017, 5:36 AM
1
point
101
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Recovering from Failure
lifelonglearner
Jun 11, 2017, 9:57 PM
0
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(mindlevelup.wordpress.com)
Why I think worse than death outcomes are not a good reason for most people to avoid cryonics
Synaptic
Jun 11, 2017, 3:55 PM
15
points
29
comments
5
min read
LW
link
We are the Athenians, not the Spartans
wubbles
Jun 11, 2017, 5:53 AM
29
points
42
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Where do hypotheses come from?
c0rw1n
Jun 11, 2017, 4:05 AM
5
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(gershmanlab.webfactional.com)
Bi-Weekly Rational Feed
sapphire
Jun 10, 2017, 9:56 PM
17
points
1
comment
11
min read
LW
link
Stupid Questions June 2017
gilch
Jun 10, 2017, 6:32 PM
3
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Two Major Obstacles for Logical Inductor Decision Theory
endoself
Jun 10, 2017, 5:48 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(agentfoundations.org)
Epistemology vs Critical Thinking
Onemorenickname
Jun 10, 2017, 2:41 AM
0
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Summer Programming Notice
Jacob Falkovich
Jun 9, 2017, 5:37 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Humans are not agents: short vs long term
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 9, 2017, 11:16 AM
8
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
SSC Journal Club: AI Timelines
Scott Alexander
Jun 8, 2017, 7:00 PM
15
points
16
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Bring up Genius
Viliam
Jun 8, 2017, 5:44 PM
104
points
62
comments
20
min read
LW
link
Research Assistant positions at the Future of Humanity Institute and Centre for Effective Altruism
crmflynn
Jun 8, 2017, 5:20 PM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Destroying the Utility Monster—An Alternative Formation of Utility
DragonGod
Jun 8, 2017, 12:37 PM
2
points
40
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Bet or update: fixing the will-to-wager assumption
cousin_it
Jun 7, 2017, 3:03 PM
62
points
61
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New circumstances, new values?
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 6, 2017, 8:20 AM
11
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New circumstances, new values?
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 6, 2017, 8:18 AM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Becoming a Better Community
Sable
Jun 6, 2017, 7:11 AM
11
points
16
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Argument From Infinity
DragonGod
Jun 5, 2017, 9:33 PM
0
points
19
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Mode Collapse and the Norm One Principle
tristanm
Jun 5, 2017, 9:30 PM
28
points
13
comments
11
min read
LW
link
The Simple World Hypothesis
DragonGod
Jun 5, 2017, 7:34 PM
4
points
15
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Cognitive Science/Psychology As a Neglected Approach to AI Safety
Kaj_Sotala
Jun 5, 2017, 1:55 PM
8
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(effective-altruism.com)
Open thread, June 5 - June 11, 2017
Elo
Jun 5, 2017, 4:23 AM
2
points
97
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Birth of a Stereotype
DragonGod
Jun 5, 2017, 3:29 AM
0
points
13
comments
6
min read
LW
link
A Comment on Expected Utility Theory
DragonGod
Jun 5, 2017, 3:26 AM
0
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Rationality as A Value Decider
DragonGod
Jun 5, 2017, 3:21 AM
1
point
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction
Zvi
Jun 4, 2017, 9:20 PM
1
point
0
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Rationalist Seder: Dayenu, Lo Dayenu
Raemon
Jun 4, 2017, 8:55 PM
7
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Personal Growth Cycle
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Jun 4, 2017, 5:20 PM
8
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
A new, better way to read the Sequences
Said Achmiz
Jun 4, 2017, 5:10 AM
20
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationalist Seder: A Story of War
Raemon
Jun 3, 2017, 8:17 PM
12
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Cooperative Oracles: Nonexploited Bargaining
Scott Garrabrant
Jun 3, 2017, 12:39 AM
6
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Cooperative Oracles: Stratified Pareto Optima and Almost Stratified Pareto Optima
Scott Garrabrant
Jun 3, 2017, 12:38 AM
5
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Cooperative Oracles: Introduction
Scott Garrabrant
Jun 3, 2017, 12:36 AM
18
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Entangled Equilibria and the Twin Prisoners’ Dilemma
Scott Garrabrant
Jun 2, 2017, 10:09 PM
5
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
An algorithm with preferences: from zero to one variable
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:35 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reward/value learning for reinforcement learning
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:34 PM
0
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The best value indifference method (so far)
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:33 PM
0
points
9
comments
5
min read
LW
link
How to judge moral learning failure
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:32 PM
0
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Counterfactuals on POMDP
Stuart_Armstrong
2 Jun 2017 16:30 UTC
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Uninfluenceable learning agents
Stuart_Armstrong
2 Jun 2017 16:30 UTC
3
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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