Ma­jor Dona­tion: Long Term Fu­ture Fund Ap­pli­ca­tion Ex­tended 1 Week

habrykaFeb 16, 2019, 11:30 PM
42 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

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

Alexander230Feb 16, 2019, 10:29 PM
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a way to hire aca­demics hourly?

IxielFeb 16, 2019, 2:21 PM
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Grace­ful Shutdown

Martin SustrikFeb 16, 2019, 11:30 AM
10 points
4 comments13 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

[Question] Why didn’t Agoric Com­put­ing be­come pop­u­lar?

Wei DaiFeb 16, 2019, 6:19 AM
52 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Ped­a­gogy as Struggle

lifelonglearnerFeb 16, 2019, 2:12 AM
13 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

How the MtG Color Wheel Ex­plains AI Safety

Scott GarrabrantFeb 15, 2019, 11:42 PM
65 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Some dis­junc­tive rea­sons for ur­gency on AI risk

Wei DaiFeb 15, 2019, 8:43 PM
36 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

So you want to be a wizard

NaiveTortoiseFeb 15, 2019, 3:43 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(jvns.ca)

Co­op­er­a­tion is for Winners

Jacob FalkovichFeb 15, 2019, 2:58 PM
21 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Quan­tify­ing an­thropic effects on the Fermi paradox

Lukas FinnvedenFeb 15, 2019, 10:51 AM
29 points
5 comments27 min readLW link

[Question] How does OpenAI’s lan­guage model af­fect our AI timeline es­ti­mates?

jimrandomhFeb 15, 2019, 3:11 AM
50 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Has The Func­tion To Sort Posts By Votes Stopped Work­ing?

CapybasiliskFeb 14, 2019, 7:14 PM
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Who owns OpenAI’s new lan­guage model?

ioannesFeb 14, 2019, 5:51 PM
16 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

The Pre­dic­tion Pyra­mid: Why Fun­da­men­tal Work is Needed for Pre­dic­tion Work

ozziegooenFeb 14, 2019, 4:21 PM
43 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Short story: An AGI’s Repug­nant Physics Experiment

ozziegooenFeb 14, 2019, 2:46 PM
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

New York Res­tau­rants I Love: Breakfast

ZviFeb 14, 2019, 1:10 PM
10 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Are there doc­u­men­taries on ra­tio­nal­ity?

Yoav RavidFeb 14, 2019, 11:34 AM
12 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Align­ment Newslet­ter #45

Rohin ShahFeb 14, 2019, 2:10 AM
25 points
2 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Three Kinds of Re­search Doc­u­ments: Ex­plo­ra­tion, Ex­pla­na­tion, Academic

ozziegooenFeb 13, 2019, 9:25 PM
22 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Hu­mans in­ter­pret­ing humans

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 13, 2019, 7:03 PM
12 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

An­chor­ing vs Taste: a model

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 13, 2019, 7:03 PM
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] In­di­vi­d­ual profit-shar­ing?

ioannesFeb 13, 2019, 5:58 PM
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The RAIN Frame­work for In­for­ma­tional Effectiveness

ozziegooenFeb 13, 2019, 12:54 PM
37 points
16 comments6 min readLW link

On Long and In­sight­ful Posts

QriaFeb 13, 2019, 3:52 AM
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Lay­ers of Ex­per­tise and the Curse of Curiosity

GyrodiotFeb 12, 2019, 11:41 PM
19 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Nuances with as­crip­tion universality

evhubFeb 12, 2019, 11:38 PM
20 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Learn­ing prefer­ences by look­ing at the world

Rohin ShahFeb 12, 2019, 10:25 PM
43 points
10 comments7 min readLW link
(bair.berkeley.edu)

Func­tional silence: com­mu­ni­ca­tion that min­i­mizes change of re­ceiver’s beliefs

chaosmageFeb 12, 2019, 9:32 PM
27 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ments for moral indefinability

Richard_NgoFeb 12, 2019, 10:40 AM
51 points
10 comments7 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Art: A Ra­tion­al­ist’s Take?

schrodingartFeb 12, 2019, 5:07 AM
2 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Lan­guage, the Key to Everything

chris82179Feb 12, 2019, 5:06 AM
−2 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Tri­an­gle SSC Meetup-February

willbobagginsFeb 12, 2019, 3:07 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Would I think for ten thou­sand years?

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 11, 2019, 7:37 PM
25 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

“Nor­ma­tive as­sump­tions” need not be complex

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 11, 2019, 7:03 PM
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Emo­tional Cli­mate Change—an in­con­ve­nient idea

marcus_gablerFeb 11, 2019, 5:55 PM
−30 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Co­her­ent be­havi­our in the real world is an in­co­her­ent concept

Richard_NgoFeb 11, 2019, 5:00 PM
51 points
17 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Why do you re­ject nega­tive util­i­tar­i­anism?

Teo AjantaivalFeb 11, 2019, 3:38 PM
32 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How im­por­tant is it that LW has an un­limited sup­ply of karma?

Bird ConceptFeb 11, 2019, 1:41 AM
27 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Min­i­mize Use of Stan­dard In­ter­net Food Delivery

ZviFeb 10, 2019, 7:50 PM
−18 points
28 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Propo­si­tional Logic, Syn­tac­tic Implication

Donald HobsonFeb 10, 2019, 6:12 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Fight­ing the al­lure of de­pres­sive realism

aaqFeb 10, 2019, 4:46 PM
19 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Struc­tured Con­cur­rency Cross-lan­guage Forum

Martin SustrikFeb 10, 2019, 9:20 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

Prob­a­bil­ity space has 2 metrics

Donald HobsonFeb 10, 2019, 12:28 AM
89 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Some Thoughts on Metaphilosophy

Wei Dai10 Feb 2019 0:28 UTC
82 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

The Ar­gu­ment from Philo­soph­i­cal Difficulty

Wei Dai10 Feb 2019 0:28 UTC
66 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Dojo on stress

Elo9 Feb 2019 22:49 UTC
13 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] When should we ex­pect the ed­u­ca­tion bub­ble to pop? How can we short it?

Bird Concept9 Feb 2019 21:39 UTC
35 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

The Cake is a Lie, Part 2.

IncomprehensibleMane9 Feb 2019 20:07 UTC
−27 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

The Case for a Big­ger Audience

John_Maxwell9 Feb 2019 7:22 UTC
68 points
58 comments2 min readLW link