Reason isn’t magic

18 Jun 2019 4:04 UTC

105 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success

Scott Alexander

5 Jun 2019 6:50 UTC

117 points

8 comments25 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Research Agenda v0.9: Synthesising a human’s preferences into a utility function

Stuart_Armstrong

17 Jun 2019 17:46 UTC

61 points

15 comments32 min readLW link

Paternal Formats

9 Jun 2019 1:26 UTC

59 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

Simple Rules of Law

19 May 2019 0:10 UTC

50 points

17 comments28 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Steelmanning Divination

5 Jun 2019 22:53 UTC

137 points

34 comments6 min readLW link

Separation of Concerns

23 May 2019 21:47 UTC

70 points

26 comments6 min readLW link

Coherent decisions imply consistent utilities

Eliezer Yudkowsky

12 May 2019 21:33 UTC

118 points

53 comments26 min readLW link

[Question] What is the evidence for productivity benefits of weightlifting?

2 Jun 2019 19:17 UTC

52 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Mistakes with Conservation of Expected Evidence

8 Jun 2019 23:07 UTC

133 points

14 comments12 min readLW link

Yes Requires the Possibility of No

Scott Garrabrant

17 May 2019 22:39 UTC

126 points

39 comments2 min readLW link

Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness

19 May 2019 18:40 UTC

82 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

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

23 Apr 2019 21:47 UTC

77 points

39 comments21 min readLW link

Integrating disagreeing subagents

14 May 2019 14:06 UTC

82 points

14 comments21 min readLW link

Asymmetric Justice

25 Apr 2019 16:00 UTC

145 points

85 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book review: The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler

23 Apr 2019 0:10 UTC

75 points

26 comments9 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Complex Behavior from Simple (Sub)Agents

10 May 2019 21:44 UTC

92 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What are the open problems in Human Rationality?

13 Jan 2019 4:46 UTC

77 points

61 comments1 min readLW link

mAIry’s room: AI reasoning to solve philosophical problems

Stuart_Armstrong

5 Mar 2019 20:24 UTC

64 points

27 comments6 min readLW link

How To Use Bureaucracies

17 Jul 2018 8:10 UTC

62 points

37 comments8 min readLW link

(medium.com)