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Open thread, 23-29 June 2014
David_Gerard
Jun 23, 2014, 7:21 AM
6
points
194
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How do you take notes?
ChristianKl
Jun 22, 2014, 10:45 AM
19
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Will AGI surprise the world?
lukeprog
Jun 21, 2014, 10:27 PM
21
points
129
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Motivators: Altruistic Actions for Non-Altruistic Reasons
Ruby
Jun 21, 2014, 4:32 PM
26
points
20
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Jun 21, 2014, 4:14 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington D.C.: Seeing Off
RobinZ
Jun 21, 2014, 8:23 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Identification of Force Multipliers for Success
Nick5a1
Jun 21, 2014, 5:15 AM
21
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Bratislava Meetup XIV.
Viliam_Bur
Jun 20, 2014, 6:41 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Conservation of expected moral evidence, clarified
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 20, 2014, 10:28 AM
23
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Moscow meet up
Yuu
Jun 20, 2014, 5:05 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Vienna
Viliam_Bur
Jun 19, 2014, 8:28 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Scott Aaronson on Google, Breaking Circularity and Eigenmorality
Shmi
Jun 19, 2014, 8:17 PM
31
points
46
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An AI Takeover Thought Experiment
Gavin
Jun 19, 2014, 4:59 PM
16
points
11
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Proper value learning through indifference
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 19, 2014, 9:39 AM
30
points
51
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Against utility functions
Qiaochu_Yuan
Jun 19, 2014, 5:56 AM
67
points
87
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Paperclip Maximizer Revisited
Jan_Rzymkowski
Jun 19, 2014, 1:25 AM
23
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Elon Musk interested in AI safety
[deleted]
Jun 18, 2014, 10:56 PM
27
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
False Friends and Tone Policing
palladias
Jun 18, 2014, 6:20 PM
71
points
49
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Relative and Absolute Benefit
jefftk
Jun 18, 2014, 1:56 PM
23
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Flowers for Algernon
Anatoly_Vorobey
Jun 18, 2014, 9:16 AM
47
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Depression’s evolutionary roots
TobyBartels
Jun 18, 2014, 7:37 AM
9
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Salt Lake City, UT: Summer Solstice 2014
hamnox
Jun 18, 2014, 5:30 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Jun 18, 2014, 4:00 AM
107
points
207
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Two kinds of population ethics, and Current-Population Utilitarianism
AlexMennen
Jun 17, 2014, 10:26 PM
12
points
21
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Rationalist Sport
MathiasZaman
Jun 17, 2014, 8:10 PM
9
points
58
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[LINK] Counterfactual Strategies
Strilanc
Jun 17, 2014, 7:29 PM
5
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An extended class of utility functions
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 17, 2014, 4:36 PM
7
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Value learning: ultra-sophisticated Cake or Death
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 17, 2014, 4:36 PM
21
points
15
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[LINK] The errors, insights and lessons of famous AI predictions: preprint
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 17, 2014, 2:32 PM
11
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Canberra: Many Worlds + Paranoid Debating
DanielFilan
Jun 17, 2014, 1:44 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on Structuring AI Thought
[deleted]
Jun 17, 2014, 11:33 AM
−1
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[LINK] The future of the Turing test and intelligence measures
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 17, 2014, 11:12 AM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Maximize Worst Case Bayes Score
Scott Garrabrant
Jun 17, 2014, 9:12 AM
14
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
From “Coulda” and “Woulda” to “Shoulda”: Predicting Decisions to Minimize Regret for Partially Rational Agents
[deleted]
Jun 16, 2014, 9:02 PM
10
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Group Rationality Diary, June 16-30
therufs
Jun 16, 2014, 5:54 PM
4
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Power of Noise
jsteinhardt
Jun 16, 2014, 5:26 PM
60
points
80
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Open thread, 16-22 June 2014
David_Gerard
Jun 16, 2014, 1:12 PM
5
points
174
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Atlanta Movie Night: Introduction to Machine Learning
Adele_L
Jun 15, 2014, 8:42 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Some alternatives to “Friendly AI”
lukeprog
Jun 15, 2014, 7:53 PM
30
points
44
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Failures of an embodied AIXI
So8res
Jun 15, 2014, 6:29 PM
50
points
47
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Willpower Depletion vs Willpower Distraction
Academian
Jun 15, 2014, 6:29 PM
110
points
25
comments
2
min read
LW
link
June Monthly Bragging Thread
elharo
Jun 15, 2014, 1:26 PM
6
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Total Utility is Illusionary
PlatypusNinja
Jun 15, 2014, 2:43 AM
−1
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
New organization—Future of Life Institute (FLI)
Vika
Jun 14, 2014, 11:00 PM
70
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Turing Test and Machine Intelligence
[deleted]
Jun 14, 2014, 3:07 PM
−8
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[tangential] Bitcoin: GHash just hit 51%
David_Gerard
Jun 14, 2014, 8:31 AM
12
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What resources have increasing marginal utility?
Qiaochu_Yuan
14 Jun 2014 3:43 UTC
59
points
63
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New LW Meetup: Bangalore
FrankAdamek
13 Jun 2014 15:49 UTC
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Sugar and motivation
NancyLebovitz
13 Jun 2014 15:46 UTC
14
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Science/rationality subjects to teach
Axel
13 Jun 2014 12:31 UTC
16
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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