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Ineffective entrepreneurship: post-mortem of Hippo, the happiness app that never quite was

ElizabethMay 27, 2018, 11:03 PM

11 points

9 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(effective-altruism.com)

The simple picture on AI safety

Alex FlintMay 27, 2018, 7:43 PM

31 points

23 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

Signaling-based observations of (other) students

Rafael HarthMay 27, 2018, 6:12 PM

13 points

5 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Biodiversity for heretics

eukaryoteMay 27, 2018, 1:37 PM

14 points

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4 comments7 min readLW link

Sydney Rationality Dojo—June

luminosityMay 27, 2018, 12:05 PM

1 point

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Questions about the Usefulness of Self-Importance

LeoHolmanMay 27, 2018, 9:20 AM

8 points

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10 comments3 min readLW link

Observer-Based Values

Kenn BrodyMay 27, 2018, 12:25 AM

1 point

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Containment Inversion

travisrm89May 26, 2018, 9:35 PM

8 points

5 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Logical Inductor Lemmas

DiffractorMay 26, 2018, 5:43 PM

0 points

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0 comments8 min readLW link

Two Notions of Best Response

DiffractorMay 26, 2018, 5:14 PM

0 points

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1 comment3 min readLW link

Moderating LessWrong: A Different Take

UnrealMay 26, 2018, 5:51 AM

13 points

11 votes

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25 comments1 min readLW link

(www.objectivelee.com)

Societal Growth Requires Rehabilitation

squidiousMay 26, 2018, 3:00 AM

5 points

10 votes

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12 comments2 min readLW link

(opalsandbonobos.blogspot.com)

Quillette: Outgroups, Bias, and the Dark Web

Jacob FalkovichMay 25, 2018, 8:31 PM

5 points

-10 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(quillette.com)

Sophie Grouchy on A Build-Break Model of Cooperation

weftMay 25, 2018, 2:55 PM

25 points

20 votes

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6 comments8 min readLW link

(sophiegrouchy.wordpress.com)

Inadequate Equilibria vs. Governance of the Commons

Martin SustrikMay 25, 2018, 1:17 PM

191 points

98 votes

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17 comments14 min readLW link 2 reviews

When is unaligned AI morally valuable?

paulfchristianoMay 25, 2018, 1:57 AM

85 points

49 votes

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53 comments10 min readLW link

Duncan Sabien on Moderating LessWrong

Davis_KingsleyMay 24, 2018, 10:12 AM

11 points

18 votes

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110 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Decision theory and zero-sum game theory, NP and PSPACE

jessicataMay 24, 2018, 8:03 AM

56 points

40 votes

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21 comments4 min readLW link

Expressive Vocabulary

AlicornMay 24, 2018, 6:59 AM

155 points

126 votes

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71 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

There is a war.

BenquoMay 24, 2018, 6:44 AM

39 points

29 votes

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31 comments14 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Do Conversations Often Circle Back To The Same Topic?

lifelonglearnerMay 24, 2018, 3:07 AM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(mindlevelup.wordpress.com)

Washington, D.C.: Sharing Pretty Things

RobinZMay 24, 2018, 2:50 AM

3 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Striving vs Cruising

norswapMay 23, 2018, 11:42 PM

3 points

3 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(norswap.com)

Epistemic Circularity

Gordon Seidoh WorleyMay 23, 2018, 9:00 PM

8 points

1 vote

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2 comments1 min readLW link

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

Alexander230May 23, 2018, 7:33 PM

6 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Simulation hypothesis and substrate-independence of mental states

Tiago de VassalMay 23, 2018, 7:07 PM

6 points

6 votes

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6 comments5 min readLW link

Glide #1: Learning Rationality from Absurdity

musicmage4114May 23, 2018, 6:18 PM

9 points

8 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Flagging/reporting spam posts?

KennyMay 23, 2018, 4:14 PM

2 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Melbourne Dojo: Difficult Conversations

ChriswaterguyMay 23, 2018, 5:10 AM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

A Short Celebratory / Appreciation Post

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)May 23, 2018, 12:02 AM

57 points

45 votes

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9 comments2 min readLW link

Confusions Concerning Pre-Rationality

abramdemskiMay 23, 2018, 12:01 AM

15 points

8 votes

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29 comments5 min readLW link

Sleeping Beauty Resolved?

ksvanhornMay 22, 2018, 2:13 PM

16 points

20 votes

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77 comments10 min readLW link

Against Not Reading Math Books Problems-First (If You’ve Found It Helpful Before)

Andrew QuinnMay 22, 2018, 12:59 PM

10 points

11 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Searching for a Second Brain

larriantMay 22, 2018, 12:32 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(julyandavey.com)

Glide Meditations: A Statement of Intent

musicmage4114May 22, 2018, 7:48 AM

7 points

6 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Mini-review: The Book of Why

Brian SlesinskyMay 21, 2018, 11:11 PM

21 points

18 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

Co-Proofs

abramdemskiMay 21, 2018, 9:10 PM

41 points

28 votes

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15 comments1 min readLW link

The Alignment Newsletter #7: 05/21/18

Rohin ShahMay 21, 2018, 4:00 PM

8 points

1 vote

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0 comments5 min readLW link

Imitative Reinforcement Learning as an AGI Approach

TIMUR ZEKI VURALMay 21, 2018, 2:47 PM

2 points

4 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

The Third Circle

ZviMay 21, 2018, 12:10 PM

12 points

10 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Visions of Summer Solstice

RaemonMay 21, 2018, 5:50 AM

23 points

13 votes

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12 comments5 min readLW link

Bay Summer Solstice

RaemonMay 21, 2018, 4:28 AM

13 points

4 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

LINK: Where Humans Meet Machines: Intuition, Expertise and Learning (Brynjolfsson talks to Kahneman)

fortyeridaniaMay 21, 2018, 2:50 AM

2 points

1 vote

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

The Second Circle

ZviMay 20, 2018, 1:40 PM

23 points

17 votes

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12 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Berkeley Community & The Rest Of Us: A Response to Zvi & Benquo

Evan_GaensbauerMay 20, 2018, 7:19 AM

57 points

36 votes

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70 comments12 min readLW link

Can our universe contain a perfect simulation of itself?

HazardMay 20, 2018, 2:08 AM

6 points

5 votes

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6 comments3 min readLW link

Challenges to Christiano’s capability amplification proposal

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 19, 2018, 6:18 PM

124 points

73 votes

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54 comments23 min readLW link 1 review

Dimensional decoupling

brianluiMay 19, 2018, 3:26 PM

3 points

7 votes

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15 comments5 min readLW link

Last chance to participate in the 2018 EA Survey

Peter WildefordMay 19, 2018, 12:37 AM

8 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

[CKC] [May 2018] What subjects are most important for an AI safety researcher to know? (Open Call)

Andrew QuinnMay 18, 2018, 9:11 PM

4 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

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