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Some Simple Observations Five Years After Starting Mindfulness Meditation

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Apr 19, 2018, 10:28 PM

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19 comments7 min readLW link

Humans need places

BenquoApr 19, 2018, 7:50 PM

44 points

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6 comments3 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Github Repo and Issue Tracker

RaemonApr 19, 2018, 6:25 PM

17 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

An Undergraduate Reading Of: Macroscopic Prediction by E.T. Jaynes

ryan_bApr 19, 2018, 5:30 PM

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13 comments5 min readLW link

Honest Friends Don’t Tell Comforting Lies

Serpent-StareApr 19, 2018, 4:34 PM

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11 comments5 min readLW link

Washington, D.C.: Meditation

RobinZApr 19, 2018, 2:33 AM

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Sentience

David CooperApr 18, 2018, 9:58 PM

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90 comments4 min readLW link

Origin of Morality

David CooperApr 18, 2018, 8:46 PM

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23 comments2 min readLW link

Mitigate the Loss; Fight for the Living

Serpent-StareApr 18, 2018, 10:23 AM

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Understanding Iterated Distillation and Amplification: Claims and Oversight

William_SApr 17, 2018, 10:36 PM

35 points

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30 comments9 min readLW link

Multi-winner Voting: a question of Alignment

Jameson QuinnApr 17, 2018, 6:51 PM

43 points

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19 comments12 min readLW link

Computational Morality (Part 1) - a Proposed Solution

David CooperApr 17, 2018, 12:09 AM

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47 comments9 min readLW link

Believable Promises

Douglas_ReayApr 16, 2018, 4:17 PM

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0 comments5 min readLW link

Good News for Immunostimulants

sarahconstantinApr 16, 2018, 4:10 PM

26 points

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(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

The Alignment Newsletter #2: 04/16/18

Rohin ShahApr 16, 2018, 4:00 PM

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[Preprint for commenting] Fighting Aging as an Effective Altruism Cause

avturchinApr 16, 2018, 1:55 PM

9 points

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5 comments1 min readLW link

Announcement: AI alignment prize round 2 winners and next round

cousin_itApr 16, 2018, 3:08 AM

64 points

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29 comments2 min readLW link

Remembering the passing of Kathy Forth.

EloApr 16, 2018, 1:53 AM

38 points

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21 comments1 min readLW link

The Case Against Education

ZviApr 15, 2018, 12:30 PM

79 points

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44 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

You Are Being Underpaid

RobertMApr 15, 2018, 6:28 AM

29 points

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16 comments8 min readLW link

Dire Bullshit

AlicornApr 15, 2018, 4:59 AM

98 points

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5 comments2 min readLW link

Raven Paradox Revisited

Chris_LeongApr 15, 2018, 12:08 AM

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12 comments2 min readLW link

A Different Prisoner’s Dilemma

Serpent-StareApr 14, 2018, 3:54 PM

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How Going Meta Can Level Up Your Career

Matt GoldenbergApr 14, 2018, 2:13 AM

25 points

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7 comments7 min readLW link

Timothy Chu Origins Chapter 1

alkjashApr 13, 2018, 6:40 PM

19 points

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2 comments6 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

5 general voting pathologies: lesser names of Moloch

Jameson QuinnApr 13, 2018, 6:38 PM

73 points

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16 comments10 min readLW link

Death in Groups II

ryan_bApr 13, 2018, 6:12 PM

14 points

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4 comments6 min readLW link

Implicit extortion

paulfchristianoApr 13, 2018, 4:33 PM

29 points

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16 comments6 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Utility versus Reward function: partial equivalence

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 13, 2018, 2:58 PM

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5 comments5 min readLW link

Recommendations vs. Guidelines

Scott AlexanderApr 13, 2018, 4:10 AM

77 points

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18 comments5 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Have you considered either a Kickstarter or a Patreon?

Chris_LeongApr 13, 2018, 1:09 AM

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Idea: OpenAI Gym environments where the AI is a part of the environment

philip_bApr 12, 2018, 10:28 PM

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5 comments1 min readLW link

Metamorphosis

Douglas_ReayApr 12, 2018, 9:53 PM

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LW Update 4/12/2018 – Frontpage Meetups

RaemonApr 12, 2018, 9:04 PM

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Rationality Vienna Meetup, April 2018

ViliamApr 12, 2018, 7:41 PM

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A voting theory primer for rationalists

Jameson QuinnApr 12, 2018, 3:15 PM

246 points

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99 comments17 min readLW link 2 reviews

Computing an exact quantilal policy

Vanessa KosoyApr 12, 2018, 9:23 AM

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Quantilal control for finite MDPs

Vanessa KosoyApr 12, 2018, 9:21 AM

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0 comments13 min readLW link

Washington, D.C.: Create & Complete

RobinZApr 12, 2018, 3:45 AM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

I’m going to help you quit Facebook with some science

EloApr 12, 2018, 3:09 AM

30 points

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Two clarifications about “Strategic Background”

Rob BensingerApr 12, 2018, 2:11 AM

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The Chromatic Number of the Plane is at Least 5 - Aubrey de Grey

Scott GarrabrantApr 11, 2018, 6:19 PM

61 points

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

What I got out of ‘Algorithms to Live By’

rkApr 11, 2018, 4:35 PM

28 points

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1 comment19 min readLW link

Using rationality to debug Machine Learning

Dr_ManhattanApr 10, 2018, 8:03 PM

20 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(amid.fish)

The limits of corrigibility

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 10, 2018, 10:49 AM

28 points

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9 comments4 min readLW link

Trustworthy Computing

Douglas_ReayApr 10, 2018, 7:55 AM

9 points

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1 comment6 min readLW link

Announcing the Alignment Newsletter

Rohin ShahApr 9, 2018, 9:16 PM

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3 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI charter

wunanApr 9, 2018, 9:02 PM

17 points

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(blog.openai.com)

Role-playing game based on HPMOR

Alexander230Apr 9, 2018, 6:19 PM

3 points

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The Alignment Newsletter #1: 04/09/18

Rohin ShahApr 9, 2018, 4:00 PM

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3 comments4 min readLW link

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