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Do you fear the rock or the hard place?
Ruby
Jul 20, 2019, 10:01 PM
77
points
10
comments
5
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
Bayesian Model Testing Comparisons
johnswentworth
Jul 20, 2019, 4:40 PM
15
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Book review: The Technology Trap
Richard_Ngo
Jul 20, 2019, 12:40 PM
28
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
The Costs of Reliability
sarahconstantin
Jul 20, 2019, 1:20 AM
154
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Appeal to Consequence, Value Tensions, And Robust Organizations
Matt Goldenberg
Jul 19, 2019, 10:09 PM
45
points
90
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Watch Elon Musk’s Neuralink presentation
Alexei
Jul 19, 2019, 9:48 PM
9
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
[Question]
When does adding food make an organism reliably better?
Slider
Jul 19, 2019, 9:22 PM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Scope Insensitivity Judo
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Jul 19, 2019, 5:33 PM
22
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
From Laplace to BIC
johnswentworth
Jul 19, 2019, 4:52 PM
21
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Against Excessive Apologising
Chris_Leong
Jul 19, 2019, 3:00 PM
7
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Intro to causal inference by Michael Nielsen (2012)
yagudin
Jul 19, 2019, 12:19 PM
29
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
When does adding more people reliably make a system better?
Bird Concept
Jul 19, 2019, 4:21 AM
30
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Robust Agency for People and Organizations
Raemon
Jul 19, 2019, 1:18 AM
65
points
10
comments
12
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What do you think of cognitive types and MBTI? What type are you? What do you think is the percentage of the 16 different personality types on LessWrong?
NikoTM
Jul 18, 2019, 8:20 PM
1
point
6
comments
LW
link
Thoughts on the 5-10 Problem
Tofly
Jul 18, 2019, 6:56 PM
18
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Prereq: Question Substitution
Hazard
Jul 18, 2019, 5:35 PM
28
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Wants You (to submit essays and articles on the future of government AI policy)
quanticle
Jul 18, 2019, 5:21 PM
31
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(warontherocks.com)
Laplace Approximation
johnswentworth
Jul 18, 2019, 3:23 PM
30
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Normalising utility as willingness to pay
Stuart_Armstrong
Jul 18, 2019, 11:44 AM
17
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dialogue on Appeals to Consequences
jessicata
Jul 18, 2019, 2:34 AM
33
points
87
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(unstableontology.com)
Why it feels like everything is a trade-off
Sunny from QAD
Jul 18, 2019, 1:33 AM
35
points
15
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Prereq: Cognitive Fusion
Hazard
Jul 17, 2019, 7:04 PM
18
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
Ruby
Jul 17, 2019, 6:45 PM
47
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
1st Athena Rationality Workshop—Retrospective
Linda Linsefors
Jul 17, 2019, 4:51 PM
26
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Wolf’s Dice II: What Asymmetry?
johnswentworth
Jul 17, 2019, 3:22 PM
37
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Nutrition heuristic: Cycle healthy options
aaq
Jul 17, 2019, 12:44 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Intertheoretic utility comparison: examples
Stuart_Armstrong
Jul 17, 2019, 12:39 PM
12
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
RAISE AI Safety prerequisites map entirely in one post
RAISE
Jul 17, 2019, 8:57 AM
18
points
5
comments
38
min read
LW
link
Doublecrux is for Building Products
Raemon
Jul 17, 2019, 6:50 AM
34
points
14
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Robust Artificial Intelligence and Robust Human Organizations
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Jul 17, 2019, 2:27 AM
17
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
[Question]
What is your Personal Knowledge Management system?
sayan
Jul 16, 2019, 8:20 PM
23
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Wolf’s Dice
johnswentworth
Jul 16, 2019, 7:50 PM
38
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Very Short Introduction to Bayesian Model Comparison
johnswentworth
Jul 16, 2019, 7:48 PM
32
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Economic Thinking
limerott
Jul 16, 2019, 5:33 PM
23
points
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(limerott.com)
Nutrition is Satisficing
aaq
Jul 16, 2019, 4:13 PM
18
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Intellectual Dark Matter
Samo Burja
Jul 16, 2019, 3:20 PM
44
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
[Question]
FAI failure scenario
Teerth Aloke
Jul 16, 2019, 11:49 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Key Power of the President is to Coordinate the Execution of Existing Concrete Plans
Ben Pace
Jul 16, 2019, 5:06 AM
152
points
13
comments
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How Can Rationalists Join Other Communities Interested in Truth-Seeking?
Evan_Gaensbauer
Jul 16, 2019, 3:29 AM
23
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Interview With Diana Fleischman and Geoffrey Miller
Jacob Falkovich
Jul 16, 2019, 1:34 AM
12
points
0
comments
21
min read
LW
link
Why artificial optimism?
jessicata
Jul 15, 2019, 9:41 PM
67
points
29
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(unstableontology.com)
Offering public comment in the Federal rulemaking process
ryan_b
Jul 15, 2019, 8:31 PM
18
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Integrity and accountability are core parts of rationality
habryka
Jul 15, 2019, 8:22 PM
171
points
68
comments
6
min read
LW
link
1
review
Jeff Hawkins on neuromorphic AGI within 20 years
Steven Byrnes
Jul 15, 2019, 7:16 PM
170
points
24
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Commentary On “The Abolition of Man”
Vaniver
Jul 15, 2019, 6:56 PM
64
points
13
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Overcoming Akrasia/Procrastination—Volunteers Wanted
Matt Goldenberg
Jul 15, 2019, 6:29 PM
14
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How Should We Critique Research? A Decision Perspective
gwern
Jul 14, 2019, 10:51 PM
46
points
4
comments
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
Let’s Read: Superhuman AI for multiplayer poker
Yuxi_Liu
Jul 14, 2019, 6:22 AM
56
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Insights from Linear Algebra Done Right
Rafael Harth
Jul 13, 2019, 6:24 PM
54
points
18
comments
9
min read
LW
link
No nonsense version of the “racial algorithm bias”
Yuxi_Liu
Jul 13, 2019, 3:39 PM
115
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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