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Open thread, June. 19 - June. 25, 2017

EloJun 18, 2017, 11:10 PM

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Instrumental Rationality 1: Starting Advice

lifelonglearnerJun 18, 2017, 6:43 PM

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Welcome to Lesswrong 2.0

habrykaJun 18, 2017, 5:23 PM

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27 comments7 min readLW link

LessWrong 2.0 Feature Roadmap & Feature Suggestions

habrykaJun 17, 2017, 10:18 PM

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Concrete Ways You Can Help Make the Community Better

sapphireJun 17, 2017, 3:03 AM

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37 comments5 min readLW link

Announcing AASAA—Accelerating AI Safety Adoption in Academia (and elsewhere)

nullJun 15, 2017, 6:55 PM

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Announcing AASAA—Accelerating AI Safety Adoption in Academia (and elsewhere)

nullJun 15, 2017, 6:50 PM

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Announcing AASAA—Accelerating AI Safety Adoption in Academia (and elsewhere)

nullJun 15, 2017, 6:45 PM

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Thought experiment: coarse-grained VR utopia

cousin_itJun 14, 2017, 8:03 AM

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48 comments1 min readLW link

Lloyd’s of London and less-than-catastrophic risk

fortyeridaniaJun 14, 2017, 2:49 AM

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7 comments2 min readLW link

Persona 5: Spoiler-Free Review

ZviJun 13, 2017, 10:32 PM

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0 comments9 min readLW link

Learning from Human Preferences—from OpenAI (including Christiano, Amodei & Legg)

Dr_ManhattanJun 13, 2017, 3:52 PM

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12 comments1 min readLW link

(blog.openai.com)

Mathematical System For Calibration

DragonGodJun 13, 2017, 12:01 PM

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8 comments1 min readLW link

The Rationalistsphere and the Less Wrong wiki

Deku-shrubJun 12, 2017, 11:29 PM

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36 comments2 min readLW link

Am I/Was I a Cultist?

DragonGodJun 12, 2017, 11:21 PM

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12 comments2 min readLW link

Any Christians Here?

DragonGodJun 12, 2017, 11:18 PM

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77 comments2 min readLW link

Open thread, June. 12 - June. 18, 2017

ThomasJun 12, 2017, 5:36 AM

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101 comments1 min readLW link

Recovering from Failure

lifelonglearnerJun 11, 2017, 9:57 PM

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(mindlevelup.wordpress.com)

Why I think worse than death outcomes are not a good reason for most people to avoid cryonics

SynapticJun 11, 2017, 3:55 PM

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29 comments5 min readLW link

We are the Athenians, not the Spartans

wubblesJun 11, 2017, 5:53 AM

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42 comments2 min readLW link

Where do hypotheses come from?

c0rw1nJun 11, 2017, 4:05 AM

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9 comments1 min readLW link

(gershmanlab.webfactional.com)

Bi-Weekly Rational Feed

sapphireJun 10, 2017, 9:56 PM

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Stupid Questions June 2017

gilchJun 10, 2017, 6:32 PM

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Two Major Obstacles for Logical Inductor Decision Theory

endoselfJun 10, 2017, 5:48 AM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(agentfoundations.org)

Epistemology vs Critical Thinking

OnemorenicknameJun 10, 2017, 2:41 AM

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12 comments3 min readLW link

Summer Programming Notice

Jacob FalkovichJun 9, 2017, 5:37 PM

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Humans are not agents: short vs long term

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 9, 2017, 11:16 AM

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34 comments1 min readLW link

SSC Journal Club: AI Timelines

Scott AlexanderJun 8, 2017, 7:00 PM

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16 comments8 min readLW link

Bring up Genius

ViliamJun 8, 2017, 5:44 PM

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62 comments20 min readLW link

Research Assistant positions at the Future of Humanity Institute and Centre for Effective Altruism

crmflynnJun 8, 2017, 5:20 PM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Destroying the Utility Monster—An Alternative Formation of Utility

DragonGodJun 8, 2017, 12:37 PM

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40 comments6 min readLW link

Bet or update: fixing the will-to-wager assumption

cousin_itJun 7, 2017, 3:03 PM

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61 comments1 min readLW link

New circumstances, new values?

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 6, 2017, 8:20 AM

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14 comments1 min readLW link

New circumstances, new values?

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 6, 2017, 8:18 AM

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Becoming a Better Community

SableJun 6, 2017, 7:11 AM

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16 comments5 min readLW link

Argument From Infinity

DragonGodJun 5, 2017, 9:33 PM

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19 comments3 min readLW link

Mode Collapse and the Norm One Principle

tristanmJun 5, 2017, 9:30 PM

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13 comments11 min readLW link

The Simple World Hypothesis

DragonGodJun 5, 2017, 7:34 PM

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15 comments8 min readLW link

Cognitive Science/Psychology As a Neglected Approach to AI Safety

Kaj_SotalaJun 5, 2017, 1:55 PM

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(effective-altruism.com)

Open thread, June 5 - June 11, 2017

EloJun 5, 2017, 4:23 AM

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97 comments1 min readLW link

Birth of a Stereotype

DragonGodJun 5, 2017, 3:29 AM

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A Comment on Expected Utility Theory

DragonGodJun 5, 2017, 3:26 AM

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Rationality as A Value Decider

DragonGodJun 5, 2017, 3:21 AM

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0 comments8 min readLW link

Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction

ZviJun 4, 2017, 9:20 PM

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0 comments16 min readLW link

Rationalist Seder: Dayenu, Lo Dayenu

RaemonJun 4, 2017, 8:55 PM

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The Personal Growth Cycle

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJun 4, 2017, 5:20 PM

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4 comments5 min readLW link

(mapandterritory.org)

A new, better way to read the Sequences

Said AchmizJun 4, 2017, 5:10 AM

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13 comments1 min readLW link

Rationalist Seder: A Story of War

RaemonJun 3, 2017, 8:17 PM

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14 comments2 min readLW link

Cooperative Oracles: Nonexploited Bargaining

Scott GarrabrantJun 3, 2017, 12:39 AM

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Cooperative Oracles: Stratified Pareto Optima and Almost Stratified Pareto Optima

Scott GarrabrantJun 3, 2017, 12:38 AM

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8 comments4 min readLW link

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