has any­one ac­tu­ally got­ten smarter, in the past few years, by study­ing ra­tio­nal­ity?

sboo28 Dec 2015 18:34 UTC
10 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

“The Differ­ence Between Medicine and Poi­son is Dosage” Shirts and Bags

Gleb_Tsipursky27 Dec 2015 22:11 UTC
−6 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Levels of global catas­tro­phes: from mild to extinction

turchin27 Dec 2015 17:26 UTC
7 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Dec. 28 - Jan. 3, 2016

[deleted]27 Dec 2015 14:21 UTC
17 points
143 comments1 min readLW link

Sports

Adam Zerner26 Dec 2015 19:54 UTC
20 points
26 comments6 min readLW link

How to be skeptical

[deleted]26 Dec 2015 6:33 UTC
−4 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek25 Dec 2015 14:55 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Quasi-op­ti­mal predictors

Vanessa Kosoy25 Dec 2015 14:17 UTC
4 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

On Cut­ting Wages

Zvi24 Dec 2015 21:11 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Vienna

AnnaLeptikon24 Dec 2015 6:16 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Why CFAR? The view from 2015

PeteMichaud23 Dec 2015 22:46 UTC
73 points
63 comments17 min readLW link

FHI is hiring re­searchers!

Stuart_Armstrong23 Dec 2015 22:46 UTC
20 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Holi­days & Socialization

RobinZ23 Dec 2015 22:30 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Voice­ofra is banned

NancyLebovitz23 Dec 2015 18:29 UTC
37 points
218 comments1 min readLW link

Giv­ing What We Can pledge cam­paign 2015

Smaug12323 Dec 2015 13:57 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Sur­vey: What’s the most nega­tive*plau­si­ble cry­on­ics-works story that you know?

Academian23 Dec 2015 7:32 UTC
9 points
75 comments2 min readLW link

Stupid Ques­tions, 2nd half of December

Bound_up23 Dec 2015 5:31 UTC
4 points
178 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : MIRIx: Sleep­ing Beauty dis­cus­sion

agilecaveman23 Dec 2015 4:29 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Dona­tion De­ci­sion Day

agilecaveman23 Dec 2015 4:03 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sup­port Pro­mot­ing Effec­tive Giv­ing

Gleb_Tsipursky22 Dec 2015 16:04 UTC
10 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Deadly sins of soft­ware estimation

NancyLebovitz22 Dec 2015 13:38 UTC
19 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

In favour of to­tal util­i­tar­i­anism over average

casebash22 Dec 2015 5:07 UTC
0 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

In defense of philosophy

casebash22 Dec 2015 1:53 UTC
5 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : San An­to­nio Meetup: CFAR Techniques

Bryan-san21 Dec 2015 18:33 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Global catas­trophic risks con­nected with nu­clear weapons and nu­clear energy

turchin21 Dec 2015 12:20 UTC
2 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Dec. 21 - Dec. 27, 2015

MrMind21 Dec 2015 7:56 UTC
6 points
233 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­dal Chicken

Gram_Stone20 Dec 2015 22:10 UTC
7 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

A sketch of a value-learn­ing sovereign

jessicata20 Dec 2015 21:32 UTC
12 points
15 comments13 min readLW link

Im­ple­ment­ing CDT with op­ti­mal pre­dic­tor systems

Vanessa Kosoy20 Dec 2015 12:58 UTC
2 points
2 comments13 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing and re­cur­sive In­hi­bi­tion within a de­ci­sion cycle

[deleted]20 Dec 2015 5:37 UTC
3 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

PSA: even if you don’t usu­ally read Main, there have been sev­eral worth­while posts there recently

Kaj_Sotala19 Dec 2015 12:34 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Sig­nal Data Science In­ten­sive Train­ing Program

JonahS19 Dec 2015 0:30 UTC
33 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

[Link]Ra­tion­al­iza­tion is Su­pe­rior to Rationality

[deleted]18 Dec 2015 20:30 UTC
4 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

New LW Meetup: Baltimore

FrankAdamek18 Dec 2015 17:38 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Some work on con­nect­ing UDT and Re­in­force­ment Learning

IAFF-User-11117 Dec 2015 23:58 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(drive.google.com)

UDT from an RL perspective

IAFF-User-11117 Dec 2015 23:48 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(drive.google.com)

The Art of Law­fare and Liti­ga­tion strategy

[deleted]17 Dec 2015 14:34 UTC
−2 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Should AI Be Open?

Scott Alexander17 Dec 2015 8:25 UTC
35 points
3 comments13 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part P: Re­duc­tion­ism 101

Gram_Stone17 Dec 2015 3:03 UTC
8 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Fun & Games

RobinZ16 Dec 2015 21:29 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­mot­ing Effec­tive Giv­ing Us­ing List-Style Ar­ti­cles

Gleb_Tsipursky16 Dec 2015 20:08 UTC
13 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2016

nino16 Dec 2015 18:25 UTC
26 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] “The cur­rent state of ma­chine in­tel­li­gence”

gjm16 Dec 2015 15:22 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : MelbLW So­cial Meetup

Maelin16 Dec 2015 5:54 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The art of griev­ing well

Valentine15 Dec 2015 19:55 UTC
106 points
23 comments9 min readLW link

Meetup : San An­to­nio Meetup: Seek­ing Strate­gic Updates

Bryan-san15 Dec 2015 16:10 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Agent-Si­mu­lates-Pre­dic­tor Var­i­ant of the Pri­soner’s Dilemma

Gram_Stone15 Dec 2015 7:17 UTC
11 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Coun­ter­fac­tu­als Con­sis­tent Un­der Self-Modification

abramdemski15 Dec 2015 6:38 UTC
3 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Effec­tive Giv­ing vs. Effec­tive Altruism

Gleb_Tsipursky14 Dec 2015 23:49 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] Video of a pre­sen­ta­tion by Hal Arkes, one of the top world ex­perts in de­bi­as­ing, on deal­ing with the hind­sight bias and overconfidence

Gleb_Tsipursky14 Dec 2015 18:16 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link