Gems from the Wiki: Do The Math, Then Burn The Math and Go With Your Gut

17 Sep 2020 22:41 UTC
60 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Let the AI teach you how to flirt

DirectedEvolution17 Sep 2020 19:04 UTC
47 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 9/​17: It’s Worse

Zvi17 Sep 2020 15:10 UTC
54 points
41 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Mak­ing the Monte Hall prob­lem weirder but obvious

dynomight17 Sep 2020 12:10 UTC
15 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(dyno-might.github.io)

[Question] How do you cel­e­brate your birth­day?

Mati_Roy17 Sep 2020 10:00 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Notic­ing Wasted Motion

lynettebye17 Sep 2020 2:30 UTC
21 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence: A Modern Ap­proach (4th edi­tion) on the Align­ment Problem

Zack_M_Davis17 Sep 2020 2:23 UTC
72 points
12 comments5 min readLW link
(aima.cs.berkeley.edu)

[Question] What are ex­am­ples of sim­pler uni­verses that have been de­scribed in or­der to ex­plain a con­cept from our more com­plex uni­verse?

Mati_Roy17 Sep 2020 1:31 UTC
4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Sun­day Septem­ber 20, 12:00PM (PT) — talks by Eric Rogstad, Daniel Koko­ta­jlo and more

habryka17 Sep 2020 0:27 UTC
26 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Ra­tion­al­ity for Kids?

goose00016 Sep 2020 22:58 UTC
51 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

What Does “Sig­nal­ling” Mean?

abramdemski16 Sep 2020 21:19 UTC
38 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #117]: How neu­ral nets would fare un­der the TEVV framework

Rohin Shah16 Sep 2020 17:20 UTC
27 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Spoiler-Free Re­view: Orwell

Zvi16 Sep 2020 13:30 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ap­ply­ing the Coun­ter­fac­tual Pri­soner’s Dilemma to Log­i­cal Uncertainty

Chris_Leong16 Sep 2020 10:34 UTC
9 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Ra­tion­al­ist Philos­o­phy Dis­cus­sion Group

Chris_Leong16 Sep 2020 2:45 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Me­moriz­ing a Deck of Cards

Tofly16 Sep 2020 1:31 UTC
27 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

The Ax­iolog­i­cal Treadmill

eapache15 Sep 2020 18:36 UTC
6 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Low hang­ing fruits (LWCW 2020)

ArthurRainbow15 Sep 2020 18:15 UTC
17 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

God in the Loop: How a Causal Loop Could Shape Existence

ChrisM15 Sep 2020 14:40 UTC
1 point
4 comments17 min readLW link

AI Safety Dis­cus­sion Day

Linda Linsefors15 Sep 2020 14:40 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Gems from the Wiki: Para­noid Debating

15 Sep 2020 3:51 UTC
30 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Book Re­view: Work­ing With Contracts

johnswentworth14 Sep 2020 23:22 UTC
166 points
26 comments11 min readLW link

A case study in simu­lacra lev­els and the Four Chil­dren of the Seder

DirectedEvolution14 Sep 2020 22:31 UTC
32 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Most Pri­soner’s Dilem­mas are Stag Hunts; Most Stag Hunts are Schel­ling Problems

abramdemski14 Sep 2020 22:13 UTC
177 points
36 comments10 min readLW link3 reviews

Com­par­ing Utilities

abramdemski14 Sep 2020 20:56 UTC
70 points
31 comments17 min readLW link

[Question] If Star­ship works, how much would it cost to cre­ate a sys­tem of rotable space mir­rors that re­duces tem­per­a­tures on earth by 1° C?

ChristianKl14 Sep 2020 18:46 UTC
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Out­come Ter­minol­ogy?

Dach14 Sep 2020 18:04 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Nice­ness: Look­ing for Pos­i­tive Externalities

Neel Nanda14 Sep 2020 18:03 UTC
31 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

[Link] Five Years and One Week of Less Wrong

abramdemski14 Sep 2020 16:49 UTC
21 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Free Money at Pre­dic­tIt: 2020 Gen­eral Election

Zvi14 Sep 2020 14:40 UTC
20 points
3 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What hap­pens if you drink ace­tone?

dynomight14 Sep 2020 14:22 UTC
82 points
13 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
(dyno-might.github.io)

My com­pu­ta­tional frame­work for the brain

Steven Byrnes14 Sep 2020 14:19 UTC
150 points
26 comments13 min readLW link1 review

Against boots theory

philh14 Sep 2020 13:20 UTC
42 points
15 comments6 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

SlateS­tarCodex on­line meetup: In­te­grat­ing evolu­tion­ary psy­chol­ogy and behaviorism

Joshua_Fox14 Sep 2020 10:33 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Are there non-AI pro­jects fo­cused on defeat­ing Moloch globally?

eapache14 Sep 2020 2:13 UTC
13 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­ory is multifaceted

Michele Campolo13 Sep 2020 22:30 UTC
9 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Have you tried hiIQpro.com’s cog­ni­tive train­ing or coach­ing?

Randomized, Controlled13 Sep 2020 22:05 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A Brief Chat on World Government

eapache13 Sep 2020 18:33 UTC
4 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Egan’s The­o­rem?

johnswentworth13 Sep 2020 17:47 UTC
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does turn­ing on the shower help re­duce wild­fire smoke in the air?

cauliflower13 Sep 2020 2:39 UTC
1 point
8 comments1 min readLW link

Gems from the Wiki: Acausal Trade

13 Sep 2020 0:23 UTC
42 points
8 comments7 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Progress: Fluke or trend?

jasoncrawford13 Sep 2020 0:21 UTC
16 points
19 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Notes on good judge­ment and how to de­velop it (80,000 Hours)

habryka12 Sep 2020 17:51 UTC
15 points
16 comments2 min readLW link
(80000hours.org)

[Question] The uni­ver­sal­ity of com­pu­ta­tion and mind de­sign space

alanf12 Sep 2020 14:58 UTC
1 point
7 comments1 min readLW link

How Much Com­pu­ta­tional Power Does It Take to Match the Hu­man Brain?

habryka12 Sep 2020 6:38 UTC
44 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Com­par­a­tive ad­van­tage and when to blow up your island

dynomight12 Sep 2020 6:20 UTC
145 points
39 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

Ra­tion­al­ity and playfulness

DirectedEvolution12 Sep 2020 5:14 UTC
42 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

The Wiki is Dead, Long Live the Wiki! [help wanted]

Ruby12 Sep 2020 3:34 UTC
70 points
32 comments3 min readLW link

on “learn­ing to sum­ma­rize”

nostalgebraist12 Sep 2020 3:20 UTC
25 points
13 comments8 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

What’s Wrong with So­cial Science and How to Fix It: Reflec­tions After Read­ing 2578 Papers

habryka12 Sep 2020 1:46 UTC
107 points
22 comments2 min readLW link
(fantasticanachronism.com)