Open Thread June 2018

Elo31 May 2018 22:34 UTC
12 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Toolbox-think­ing and Law-thinking

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 May 2018 21:28 UTC
165 points
49 comments12 min readLW link

Effec­tive Th­e­sis meetup

Jan_Kulveit31 May 2018 19:49 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Monopoly: A Man­i­festo and Fact Post

sarahconstantin31 May 2018 18:40 UTC
33 points
65 comments5 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Paper: “A sim­ple func­tion of one pa­ram­e­ter (θ) can fit any col­lec­tion of or­dered pairs {Xi,Yi} to ar­bi­trary pre­ci­sion”—im­pli­ca­tions for Oc­cam?

fortyeridania31 May 2018 3:23 UTC
4 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(colala.bcs.rochester.edu)

An­nounce­ment: Le­gacy karma imported

habryka31 May 2018 2:53 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Defi­ni­tions/​Labels

RobinZ31 May 2018 0:56 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Episte­molog­i­cal Weight Class

musicmage411430 May 2018 23:43 UTC
0 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Log­i­cal In­duc­tors Con­verge to Cor­re­lated Equil­ibria (Kinda)

Diffractor30 May 2018 20:23 UTC
11 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Safety in Ma­chine Learning

Gordon Seidoh Worley29 May 2018 18:54 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Prin­ci­pled vs. Prag­matic Morality

Chris_Leong29 May 2018 4:31 UTC
6 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Bounded Ra­tion­al­ity: Two Cultures

Ben Pace29 May 2018 3:41 UTC
12 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.tandfonline.com)

Meta-Hon­esty: Firm­ing Up Hon­esty Around Its Edge-Cases

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 May 2018 0:59 UTC
134 points
152 comments27 min readLW link4 reviews

*Another* Dou­ble Crux Framework

Raemon28 May 2018 23:30 UTC
15 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Us­ing the LessWrong API to query for events

habryka28 May 2018 22:41 UTC
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Shared in­ter­ests vs. col­lec­tive interests

Said Achmiz28 May 2018 22:06 UTC
5 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(blog.obormot.net)

The Align­ment Newslet­ter #8: 05/​28/​18

Rohin Shah28 May 2018 16:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing is translation

cousin_it28 May 2018 13:56 UTC
92 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

GreaterWrong—even more new fea­tures & enhancements

Said Achmiz28 May 2018 5:08 UTC
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Kansas City/​Parkville meetup

SlightlyLessWrong28 May 2018 2:11 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

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

Elizabeth27 May 2018 23:03 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(effective-altruism.com)

The sim­ple pic­ture on AI safety

Alex Flint27 May 2018 19:43 UTC
31 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Sig­nal­ing-based ob­ser­va­tions of (other) students

Rafael Harth27 May 2018 18:12 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Bio­di­ver­sity for heretics

eukaryote27 May 2018 13:37 UTC
14 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—June

luminosity27 May 2018 12:05 UTC
1 point
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Ques­tions about the Use­ful­ness of Self-Importance

LeoHolman27 May 2018 9:20 UTC
8 points
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Ob­server-Based Values

Kenn Brody27 May 2018 0:25 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Con­tain­ment Inversion

travisrm8926 May 2018 21:35 UTC
8 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Log­i­cal In­duc­tor Lemmas

Diffractor26 May 2018 17:43 UTC
0 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Two No­tions of Best Response

Diffractor26 May 2018 17:14 UTC
0 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Moder­at­ing LessWrong: A Differ­ent Take

Unreal26 May 2018 5:51 UTC
13 points
25 comments1 min readLW link
(www.objectivelee.com)

So­cietal Growth Re­quires Rehabilitation

squidious26 May 2018 3:00 UTC
5 points
12 comments2 min readLW link
(opalsandbonobos.blogspot.com)

Quillette: Out­groups, Bias, and the Dark Web

Jacob Falkovich25 May 2018 20:31 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(quillette.com)

So­phie Grouchy on A Build-Break Model of Cooperation

weft25 May 2018 14:55 UTC
25 points
6 comments8 min readLW link
(sophiegrouchy.wordpress.com)

Inad­e­quate Equil­ibria vs. Gover­nance of the Commons

Martin Sustrik25 May 2018 13:17 UTC
182 points
17 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

When is un­al­igned AI morally valuable?

paulfchristiano25 May 2018 1:57 UTC
78 points
53 comments10 min readLW link

Dun­can Sa­bien on Moder­at­ing LessWrong

Davis_Kingsley24 May 2018 10:12 UTC
11 points
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(medium.com)

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

jessicata24 May 2018 8:03 UTC
56 points
21 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­pres­sive Vocabulary

Alicorn24 May 2018 6:59 UTC
143 points
71 comments5 min readLW link1 review

There is a war.

Benquo24 May 2018 6:44 UTC
39 points
31 comments14 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Do Con­ver­sa­tions Often Cir­cle Back To The Same Topic?

lifelonglearner24 May 2018 3:07 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(mindlevelup.wordpress.com)

Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Shar­ing Pretty Things

RobinZ24 May 2018 2:50 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Striv­ing vs Cruising

norswap23 May 2018 23:42 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(norswap.com)

Epistemic Circularity

Gordon Seidoh Worley23 May 2018 21:00 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

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

Alexander23023 May 2018 19:33 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Si­mu­la­tion hy­poth­e­sis and sub­strate-in­de­pen­dence of men­tal states

Tiago de Vassal23 May 2018 19:07 UTC
6 points
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Glide #1: Learn­ing Ra­tion­al­ity from Absurdity

musicmage411423 May 2018 18:18 UTC
9 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Flag­ging/​re­port­ing spam *posts*?

Kenny23 May 2018 16:14 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Melbourne Dojo: Difficult Conversations

Chriswaterguy23 May 2018 5:10 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Short Cel­e­bra­tory /​ Ap­pre­ci­a­tion Post

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)23 May 2018 0:02 UTC
57 points
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