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Major Donation: Long Term Future Fund Application Extended 1 Week
habryka
Feb 16, 2019, 11:30 PM
42
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Games in Kocherga club: Fallacymania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery
Alexander230
Feb 16, 2019, 10:29 PM
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is there a way to hire academics hourly?
Ixiel
Feb 16, 2019, 2:21 PM
6
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Graceful Shutdown
Martin Sustrik
Feb 16, 2019, 11:30 AM
10
points
4
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(250bpm.com)
[Question]
Why didn’t Agoric Computing become popular?
Wei Dai
Feb 16, 2019, 6:19 AM
52
points
22
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Pedagogy as Struggle
lifelonglearner
Feb 16, 2019, 2:12 AM
13
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How the MtG Color Wheel Explains AI Safety
Scott Garrabrant
Feb 15, 2019, 11:42 PM
65
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Some disjunctive reasons for urgency on AI risk
Wei Dai
Feb 15, 2019, 8:43 PM
36
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
So you want to be a wizard
NaiveTortoise
Feb 15, 2019, 3:43 PM
16
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(jvns.ca)
Cooperation is for Winners
Jacob Falkovich
Feb 15, 2019, 2:58 PM
21
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Quantifying anthropic effects on the Fermi paradox
Lukas Finnveden
Feb 15, 2019, 10:51 AM
29
points
5
comments
27
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How does OpenAI’s language model affect our AI timeline estimates?
jimrandomh
Feb 15, 2019, 3:11 AM
50
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Has The Function To Sort Posts By Votes Stopped Working?
Capybasilisk
Feb 14, 2019, 7:14 PM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Who owns OpenAI’s new language model?
ioannes
Feb 14, 2019, 5:51 PM
16
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Prediction Pyramid: Why Fundamental Work is Needed for Prediction Work
ozziegooen
Feb 14, 2019, 4:21 PM
43
points
15
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Short story: An AGI’s Repugnant Physics Experiment
ozziegooen
Feb 14, 2019, 2:46 PM
9
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New York Restaurants I Love: Breakfast
Zvi
Feb 14, 2019, 1:10 PM
10
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
Are there documentaries on rationality?
Yoav Ravid
Feb 14, 2019, 11:34 AM
12
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Alignment Newsletter #45
Rohin Shah
Feb 14, 2019, 2:10 AM
25
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Three Kinds of Research Documents: Exploration, Explanation, Academic
ozziegooen
Feb 13, 2019, 9:25 PM
22
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Humans interpreting humans
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 13, 2019, 7:03 PM
12
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Anchoring vs Taste: a model
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 13, 2019, 7:03 PM
10
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Individual profit-sharing?
ioannes
Feb 13, 2019, 5:58 PM
10
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The RAIN Framework for Informational Effectiveness
ozziegooen
Feb 13, 2019, 12:54 PM
37
points
16
comments
6
min read
LW
link
On Long and Insightful Posts
Qria
Feb 13, 2019, 3:52 AM
19
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Layers of Expertise and the Curse of Curiosity
Gyrodiot
Feb 12, 2019, 11:41 PM
19
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
Nuances with ascription universality
evhub
Feb 12, 2019, 11:38 PM
20
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Learning preferences by looking at the world
Rohin Shah
Feb 12, 2019, 10:25 PM
43
points
10
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(bair.berkeley.edu)
Functional silence: communication that minimizes change of receiver’s beliefs
chaosmage
Feb 12, 2019, 9:32 PM
27
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Arguments for moral indefinability
Richard_Ngo
Feb 12, 2019, 10:40 AM
51
points
10
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
Art: A Rationalist’s Take?
schrodingart
Feb 12, 2019, 5:07 AM
2
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Language, the Key to Everything
chris82179
Feb 12, 2019, 5:06 AM
−2
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Triangle SSC Meetup-February
willbobaggins
Feb 12, 2019, 3:07 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Would I think for ten thousand years?
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 11, 2019, 7:37 PM
25
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Normative assumptions” need not be complex
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 11, 2019, 7:03 PM
11
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Emotional Climate Change—an inconvenient idea
marcus_gabler
Feb 11, 2019, 5:55 PM
−30
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Coherent behaviour in the real world is an incoherent concept
Richard_Ngo
Feb 11, 2019, 5:00 PM
51
points
17
comments
9
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why do you reject negative utilitarianism?
Teo Ajantaival
Feb 11, 2019, 3:38 PM
32
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How important is it that LW has an unlimited supply of karma?
Bird Concept
Feb 11, 2019, 1:41 AM
27
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Minimize Use of Standard Internet Food Delivery
Zvi
Feb 10, 2019, 7:50 PM
−18
points
28
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Propositional Logic, Syntactic Implication
Donald Hobson
Feb 10, 2019, 6:12 PM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Fighting the allure of depressive realism
aaq
Feb 10, 2019, 4:46 PM
19
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Structured Concurrency Cross-language Forum
Martin Sustrik
Feb 10, 2019, 9:20 AM
12
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(250bpm.com)
Probability space has 2 metrics
Donald Hobson
Feb 10, 2019, 12:28 AM
89
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Some Thoughts on Metaphilosophy
Wei Dai
10 Feb 2019 0:28 UTC
82
points
42
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Argument from Philosophical Difficulty
Wei Dai
10 Feb 2019 0:28 UTC
66
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dojo on stress
Elo
9 Feb 2019 22:49 UTC
13
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
When should we expect the education bubble to pop? How can we short it?
Bird Concept
9 Feb 2019 21:39 UTC
35
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Cake is a Lie, Part 2.
IncomprehensibleMane
9 Feb 2019 20:07 UTC
−27
points
7
comments
9
min read
LW
link
The Case for a Bigger Audience
John_Maxwell
9 Feb 2019 7:22 UTC
68
points
58
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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