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Give praise

nullApr 29, 2018, 9:00 PM

77 points

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87 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Does Thinking Hard Hurt Your Brain?

RaemonApr 29, 2018, 6:56 PM

22 points

18 votes

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39 comments1 min readLW link

The Case Against Education: Splitting the Education Premium Pie and Considering IQ

ZviApr 29, 2018, 12:40 PM

7 points

5 votes

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5 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Levels of AI Self-Improvement

avturchinApr 29, 2018, 11:45 AM

11 points

9 votes

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1 comment39 min readLW link

Inefficient Doesn’t Mean Indifferent

ZviApr 29, 2018, 11:30 AM

39 points

29 votes

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17 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

SSC South Bay Meetup

DavidFriedmanApr 29, 2018, 7:22 AM

6 points

4 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Program Search and Incomplete Understanding

DiffractorApr 29, 2018, 4:32 AM

39 points

20 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

Meditations on the Medium

lifelonglearnerApr 29, 2018, 2:21 AM

14 points

12 votes

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7 comments8 min readLW link

Form Your Own Opinions

Ben PaceApr 28, 2018, 7:50 PM

34 points

19 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

Mere Addition Paradox Resolved

David CooperApr 27, 2018, 9:13 PM

−3 points

4 votes

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6 comments3 min readLW link

Noticing the Taste of Lotus

ValentineApr 27, 2018, 8:05 PM

239 points

179 votes

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81 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

Moscow LW meetup in “Nauchka” library

Alexander230Apr 27, 2018, 12:30 PM

6 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Double Cruxing the AI Foom debate

agilecavemanApr 27, 2018, 6:46 AM

17 points

12 votes

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3 comments11 min readLW link

LW Update 4/26/2018 – Images, Events and Recent Discussion

RaemonApr 27, 2018, 4:55 AM

7 points

4 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

The 3% Incline (theferrett.com)

RaemonApr 27, 2018, 12:56 AM

31 points

16 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.theferrett.com)

Computational Morality (Part 4) - Consequentialism

David CooperApr 26, 2018, 11:58 PM

−1 points

3 votes

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3 comments13 min readLW link

The Leading and Trailing Edges of Development

Gordon Seidoh WorleyApr 26, 2018, 6:02 PM

8 points

8 votes

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9 comments2 min readLW link

Washington, D.C.: Science

RobinZApr 26, 2018, 2:27 AM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

The One-Channel Paradigm

Noah WaltonApr 25, 2018, 9:49 PM

3 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Effective Altruism’s Ultimate Goal: Eradicate Human Suffering.

willfranksApr 25, 2018, 12:12 PM

−1 points

14 votes

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11 comments7 min readLW link

Ten Commandments for Aspiring Superforecasters

Evan_GaensbauerApr 25, 2018, 4:55 AM

29 points

22 votes

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6 comments8 min readLW link

Don’t Believe Wrong Things

Jacob FalkovichApr 25, 2018, 3:36 AM

22 points

21 votes

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36 comments13 min readLW link

Follow Standard Incentives

queryApr 25, 2018, 1:09 AM

5 points

4 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Wrongology 101

sarahconstantinApr 25, 2018, 12:00 AM

32 points

22 votes

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5 comments7 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Computational Morality (Part 3) - Similarity of Proposals

David CooperApr 24, 2018, 10:12 PM

−2 points

4 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

[Alert] Running Final Migration (possible downtime)

RaemonApr 24, 2018, 8:23 PM

11 points

7 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Reward function learning: the value function

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 24, 2018, 4:29 PM

10 points

8 votes

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0 comments11 min readLW link

Community Page Mini-Guide

Ben PaceApr 24, 2018, 3:04 PM

5 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Reward function learning: the learning process

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 24, 2018, 12:56 PM

6 points

3 votes

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11 comments8 min readLW link

On Emotional Responsibility & Abuse

devasApr 24, 2018, 12:50 PM

10 points

7 votes

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8 comments3 min readLW link

(landofwindandskyscrapers.tumblr.com)

The many ways AIs behave badly

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 24, 2018, 11:40 AM

10 points

8 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

LW Update 4/23/2018 – Small Fixes

RaemonApr 24, 2018, 3:38 AM

5 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

EA Global SF 2018

epiphiApr 23, 2018, 6:34 PM

19 points

10 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

The Alignment Newsletter #3: 04/23/18

Rohin ShahApr 23, 2018, 4:00 PM

9 points

2 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

Hold On To The Curiosity

Ben PaceApr 23, 2018, 7:32 AM

46 points

37 votes

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14 comments3 min readLW link

The Spousal Chain of Succession

pkuApr 23, 2018, 12:10 AM

3 points

3 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(shakeddown.wordpress.com)

Symbiosis—An Intentional Community For Radical Self-Improvement

Matt GoldenbergApr 22, 2018, 11:15 PM

8 points

7 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Computational Morality (Part 2) - on the Need for a Dynamic League Table of Proposed Solutions

David CooperApr 22, 2018, 10:35 PM

−2 points

4 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

On exact mathematical formulae

daozaichApr 22, 2018, 7:41 PM

63 points

55 votes

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14 comments2 min readLW link

Sydney Rationality Dojo—May

luminosityApr 22, 2018, 12:01 PM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

The First Rung: Insights from ‘Linear Algebra Done Right’

TurnTroutApr 22, 2018, 5:23 AM

40 points

27 votes

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12 comments10 min readLW link

Modeling Society as a Damped Harmonic Oscillator

pkuApr 22, 2018, 1:31 AM

3 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(shakeddown.wordpress.com)

Fermi Paradox—Reference Class arguments and Other Possibilities

agilecavemanApr 22, 2018, 12:56 AM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(steemit.com)

The Case Against Education: Foundations

ZviApr 21, 2018, 2:30 PM

28 points

14 votes

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6 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Rationality and Spirituality—Summary and Open Thread

Chris_LeongApr 21, 2018, 2:37 AM

13 points

12 votes

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27 comments1 min readLW link

March gwern.net link roundup

gwernApr 20, 2018, 7:09 PM

10 points

6 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

NYT: A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit

RainApr 20, 2018, 6:33 PM

5 points

3 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nytimes.com)

My confusions with Paul’s Agenda

VaniverApr 20, 2018, 5:24 PM

37 points

23 votes

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1 comment6 min readLW link

On Equivalence of Supergoals

Alexey FeldgendlerApr 20, 2018, 3:06 PM

22 points

19 votes

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8 comments5 min readLW link

Games in Kocherga club: Fallacymania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery

Alexander230Apr 20, 2018, 12:01 PM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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