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Zurich SSC
ssczurich
May 3, 2019, 8:11 PM
1
point
0
comments
LW
link
Totalitarian ethical systems
Benquo
May 3, 2019, 7:35 PM
33
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Authoritarian Empiricism
Benquo
May 3, 2019, 7:34 PM
38
points
10
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
The State of Affairs
Jacob Falkovich
May 3, 2019, 4:18 PM
33
points
0
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Oracles, sequence predictors, and self-confirming predictions
Stuart_Armstrong
May 3, 2019, 2:09 PM
22
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Self-confirming predictions can be arbitrarily bad
Stuart_Armstrong
May 3, 2019, 11:34 AM
49
points
11
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Bay Summer Solstice 2019
Raemon
May 3, 2019, 4:49 AM
26
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Episode 3 of Tsuyoku Naritai! (the ’becoming stronger podcast): Nike Timers
Bae's Theorem
May 3, 2019, 2:53 AM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Functional Decision Theory vs Causal Decision Theory: Expanding on Newcomb’s Problem
Geropy
May 2, 2019, 10:15 PM
2
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is corrigibility? / What are the right background readings on it?
Ruby
May 2, 2019, 8:43 PM
6
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
South Bay SSC Meetup May 11th
DavidFriedman
May 2, 2019, 6:09 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Neural networks for games
bipolo
May 2, 2019, 4:28 AM
0
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Swarm AI (tool)
Alexei
May 1, 2019, 11:39 PM
17
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread May 2019
ryan_b
May 1, 2019, 3:43 PM
10
points
66
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Nash equilibriums can be arbitrarily bad
Stuart_Armstrong
May 1, 2019, 2:58 PM
35
points
24
comments
2
min read
LW
link
April 2019 gwern.net newsletter
gwern
May 1, 2019, 2:43 PM
11
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
[Question]
Has government or industry had greater past success in maintaining really powerful technological secrets?
habryka
May 1, 2019, 2:24 AM
27
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does the patent system prevent industry from keeping secrets?
habryka
May 1, 2019, 2:24 AM
8
points
0
comments
LW
link
[Question]
What are concrete historical examples of powerful technological secrets?
habryka
May 1, 2019, 2:22 AM
9
points
7
comments
LW
link
A quick map of consciousness
Elo
May 1, 2019, 2:17 AM
11
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why is it important whether governments or industry projects are better at keeping secrets?
habryka
May 1, 2019, 2:10 AM
8
points
5
comments
LW
link
Natural Structures and Conditional Definitions
Chris_Leong
May 1, 2019, 12:05 AM
20
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Change A View: An interesting online community
habryka
Apr 30, 2019, 6:34 PM
52
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(changeaview.com)
Twin Cities SSC meetup
Drake Thomas
Apr 30, 2019, 3:07 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Pecking Order and Flight Leadership
sarahconstantin
Apr 29, 2019, 8:30 PM
43
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
[Question]
Reference request: human as “backup”
Yuxi_Liu
Apr 29, 2019, 5:13 PM
6
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Buying Value, not Price
Jacob Falkovich
Apr 29, 2019, 3:51 PM
32
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
SSC Meetup:Meditations on Moloch
marywang
Apr 29, 2019, 2:24 PM
1
point
0
comments
LW
link
My poorly done attempt of formulating a game with incomplete information.
RocksBasil
Apr 29, 2019, 4:36 AM
3
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is the transcencion hypothesis or scenario ? What would a Transcended civilization be capable of ?
Orange Apple Juice
Apr 29, 2019, 2:13 AM
−11
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality made me less bad at Mario Kart 8
Three-Monkey Mind
Apr 28, 2019, 9:29 PM
12
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Recent updates to gwern.net (2017–2019)
gwern
Apr 28, 2019, 8:18 PM
35
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Forces of Blandness and the Disagreeable Majority
sarahconstantin
Apr 28, 2019, 7:44 PM
132
points
27
comments
3
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Hull: An alternative to shell that I’ll never have time to implement
Martin Sustrik
Apr 28, 2019, 7:40 AM
15
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(250bpm.com)
Aging research and population ethics
emanuele ascani
Apr 28, 2019, 7:21 AM
15
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[AN #54] Boxing a finite-horizon AI system to keep it unambitious
Rohin Shah
Apr 28, 2019, 5:20 AM
20
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
[Question]
What are some good examples of incorrigibility?
RyanCarey
Apr 28, 2019, 12:22 AM
23
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Counterspells
Virgil Kurkjian
Apr 27, 2019, 11:37 PM
100
points
24
comments
10
min read
LW
link
10 Good Things about Antifragile: a positivist book review
SebastianG
Apr 27, 2019, 6:22 PM
21
points
4
comments
7
min read
LW
link
“Everything is Correlated”: An Anthology of the Psychology Debate
gwern
Apr 27, 2019, 1:48 PM
41
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
[Question]
What’s the best approach to curating a newsfeed to maximize useful contrasting POV?
Ben Goldhaber
Apr 26, 2019, 5:29 PM
25
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Speaking for myself (re: how the LW2.0 team communicates)
Ruby
Apr 25, 2019, 10:39 PM
56
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Asymmetric Justice
Zvi
Apr 25, 2019, 4:00 PM
236
points
105
comments
5
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
What would Femtotechnology, attotechnology, yoctotechnology and planck level technology be theoretically capable of ?
Orange Apple Juice
Apr 25, 2019, 7:45 AM
−7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Strategic implications of AIs’ ability to coordinate at low cost, for example by merging
Wei Dai
Apr 25, 2019, 5:08 AM
69
points
46
comments
2
min read
LW
link
1
review
Against Street Epistemology
Eponym
Apr 25, 2019, 5:01 AM
17
points
28
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why does category theory exist?
Ben Pace
Apr 25, 2019, 4:54 AM
37
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Tsuyoku Naritai!” (the ‘becoming stronger’ podcast): Episode 2 - Yoda Timers
Bae's Theorem
Apr 25, 2019, 4:37 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Femtotechnology
Orange Apple Juice
Apr 24, 2019, 11:43 PM
−17
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
When is rationality useful?
Richard_Ngo
Apr 24, 2019, 10:40 PM
28
points
26
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
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