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Swarm AI (tool)

AlexeiMay 1, 2019, 11:39 PM
17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread May 2019

ryan_bMay 1, 2019, 3:43 PM
10 points
66 comments1 min readLW link

Nash equil­ibriums can be ar­bi­trar­ily bad

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 1, 2019, 2:58 PM
35 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

April 2019 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwernMay 1, 2019, 2:43 PM
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

[Question] Has gov­ern­ment or in­dus­try had greater past suc­cess in main­tain­ing re­ally pow­er­ful tech­nolog­i­cal se­crets?

habrykaMay 1, 2019, 2:24 AM
27 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does the patent sys­tem pre­vent in­dus­try from keep­ing se­crets?

habrykaMay 1, 2019, 2:24 AM
8 points
0 commentsLW link

[Question] What are con­crete his­tor­i­cal ex­am­ples of pow­er­ful tech­nolog­i­cal se­crets?

habrykaMay 1, 2019, 2:22 AM
9 points
7 commentsLW link

A quick map of consciousness

EloMay 1, 2019, 2:17 AM
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why is it im­por­tant whether gov­ern­ments or in­dus­try pro­jects are bet­ter at keep­ing se­crets?

habrykaMay 1, 2019, 2:10 AM
8 points
5 commentsLW link

Nat­u­ral Struc­tures and Con­di­tional Definitions

Chris_LeongMay 1, 2019, 12:05 AM
20 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Change A View: An in­ter­est­ing on­line community

habrykaApr 30, 2019, 6:34 PM
52 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(changeaview.com)

Twin Cities SSC meetup

Drake ThomasApr 30, 2019, 3:07 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Peck­ing Order and Flight Leadership

sarahconstantinApr 29, 2019, 8:30 PM
43 points
18 comments3 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

[Question] Refer­ence re­quest: hu­man as “backup”

Yuxi_LiuApr 29, 2019, 5:13 PM
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Buy­ing Value, not Price

Jacob FalkovichApr 29, 2019, 3:51 PM
32 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

SSC Meetup:Med­i­ta­tions on Moloch

marywangApr 29, 2019, 2:24 PM
1 point
0 commentsLW link

My poorly done at­tempt of for­mu­lat­ing a game with in­com­plete in­for­ma­tion.

RocksBasilApr 29, 2019, 4:36 AM
3 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What is the tran­scen­cion hy­poth­e­sis or sce­nario ? What would a Tran­scended civ­i­liza­tion be ca­pa­ble of ?

Orange Apple JuiceApr 29, 2019, 2:13 AM
−11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity made me less bad at Mario Kart 8

Three-Monkey MindApr 28, 2019, 9:29 PM
12 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Re­cent up­dates to gw­ern.net (2017–2019)

gwernApr 28, 2019, 8:18 PM
35 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

The Forces of Bland­ness and the Disagree­able Majority

sarahconstantinApr 28, 2019, 7:44 PM
132 points
27 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Hull: An al­ter­na­tive to shell that I’ll never have time to implement

Martin SustrikApr 28, 2019, 7:40 AM
15 points
6 comments4 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

Aging re­search and pop­u­la­tion ethics

emanuele ascaniApr 28, 2019, 7:21 AM
15 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

[AN #54] Box­ing a finite-hori­zon AI sys­tem to keep it unambitious

Rohin ShahApr 28, 2019, 5:20 AM
20 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What are some good ex­am­ples of in­cor­rigi­bil­ity?

RyanCareyApr 28, 2019, 12:22 AM
23 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Counterspells

Virgil KurkjianApr 27, 2019, 11:37 PM
100 points
24 comments10 min readLW link

10 Good Things about An­tifrag­ile: a pos­i­tivist book review

SebastianG Apr 27, 2019, 6:22 PM
21 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

“Every­thing is Cor­re­lated”: An An­thol­ogy of the Psy­chol­ogy Debate

gwernApr 27, 2019, 1:48 PM
41 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

[Question] What’s the best ap­proach to cu­rat­ing a news­feed to max­i­mize use­ful con­trast­ing POV?

Ben GoldhaberApr 26, 2019, 5:29 PM
25 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Speak­ing for my­self (re: how the LW2.0 team com­mu­ni­cates)

RubyApr 25, 2019, 10:39 PM
56 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Asym­met­ric Justice

ZviApr 25, 2019, 4:00 PM
236 points
105 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What would Fem­totech­nol­ogy, at­totech­nol­ogy, yoc­totech­nol­ogy and planck level tech­nol­ogy be the­o­ret­i­cally ca­pa­ble of ?

Orange Apple JuiceApr 25, 2019, 7:45 AM
−7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Strate­gic im­pli­ca­tions of AIs’ abil­ity to co­or­di­nate at low cost, for ex­am­ple by merging

Wei DaiApr 25, 2019, 5:08 AM
69 points
46 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Against Street Epistemology

EponymApr 25, 2019, 5:01 AM
17 points
28 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Why does cat­e­gory the­ory ex­ist?

Ben PaceApr 25, 2019, 4:54 AM
37 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

“Tsuyoku Nar­i­tai!” (the ‘be­com­ing stronger’ pod­cast): Epi­sode 2 - Yoda Timers

Bae's TheoremApr 25, 2019, 4:37 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Femtotechnology

Orange Apple JuiceApr 24, 2019, 11:43 PM
−17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

When is ra­tio­nal­ity use­ful?

Richard_NgoApr 24, 2019, 10:40 PM
28 points
26 comments3 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

[Question] What are re­li­able ways to make a state­ment in such a way that I will be able to prove in the fu­ture that I had made that state­ment?

Mati_RoyApr 24, 2019, 4:26 PM
5 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­view with Putanumonit

Jacob FalkovichApr 24, 2019, 2:53 PM
15 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Airportpourri

Jacob FalkovichApr 24, 2019, 2:51 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

[Question] How good are chat­bots?

bipoloApr 24, 2019, 2:17 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Show LW: De­bate on Philos­o­phy be­ing dead

CaiwitzAzariaApr 24, 2019, 1:35 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(youtube.com)

Many maps, Lightly held

EloApr 24, 2019, 2:25 AM
19 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Mo­ral Weight Doesn’t Ac­crue Linearly

bgaesopApr 23, 2019, 10:14 PM
12 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

[An­swer] Why wasn’t sci­ence in­vented in China?

RubyApr 23, 2019, 9:47 PM
96 points
46 comments21 min readLW link1 review

The Prin­ci­ple of Pre­dicted Improvement

Ronny FernandezApr 23, 2019, 9:21 PM
80 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] De­gree of du­pli­ca­tion and co­or­di­na­tion in pro­jects that ex­am­ine com­put­ing prices, AI progress, and re­lated top­ics?

riceissaApr 23, 2019, 12:27 PM
26 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] How to make plans?

Pee DoomApr 23, 2019, 8:29 AM
24 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

1960: The Year The Sin­gu­lar­ity Was Cancelled

Scott Alexander23 Apr 2019 1:30 UTC
104 points
15 comments11 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)