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The correct response to uncertainty is not half-speed

AnnaSalamon15 Jan 2016 22:55 UTC

263 points

46 comments3 min readLW link

[moderator action] The_Lion and The_Lion2 are banned

Viliam_Bur30 Jan 2016 2:09 UTC

90 points

41 comments1 min readLW link

Why CFAR’s Mission?

AnnaSalamon2 Jan 2016 23:23 UTC

59 points

56 comments9 min readLW link

Anxiety and Rationality

[deleted]19 Jan 2016 18:30 UTC

51 points

31 comments4 min readLW link

A toy model of the treacherous turn

Stuart_Armstrong8 Jan 2016 12:58 UTC

43 points

13 comments6 min readLW link

To contribute to AI safety, consider doing AI research

Vika16 Jan 2016 20:42 UTC

39 points

39 comments2 min readLW link

How did my baby die and what is the probability that my next one will?

deprimita_patro19 Jan 2016 6:24 UTC

37 points

23 comments3 min readLW link

What’s wrong with this picture?

CronoDAS28 Jan 2016 13:30 UTC

29 points

81 comments1 min readLW link

Guns And States

Scott Alexander7 Jan 2016 2:29 UTC

26 points

1 comment15 min readLW link

Another view of quantilizers: avoiding Goodhart’s Law

jessicata9 Jan 2016 4:02 UTC

26 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Celebrating All Who Are in Effective Altruism

Gleb_Tsipursky20 Jan 2016 1:31 UTC

25 points

39 comments6 min readLW link

[link] “The Happiness Code”—New York Times on CFAR

Kaj_Sotala15 Jan 2016 6:34 UTC

24 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] AlphaGo: Mastering the ancient game of Go with Machine Learning

ESRogs27 Jan 2016 21:04 UTC

24 points

122 comments1 min readLW link

Spreading rationality through engagement with secular groups

Gleb_Tsipursky19 Jan 2016 23:19 UTC

23 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Beware surprising and suspicious convergence

Thrasymachus24 Jan 2016 19:13 UTC

23 points

6 comments15 min readLW link

Perhaps a better form factor for Meetups vs Main board posts?

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)28 Jan 2016 11:50 UTC

20 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Confidence all the way up

So8res17 Jan 2016 2:00 UTC

20 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(mindingourway.com)

[Stub] The problem with Chesterton’s Fence

Stuart_Armstrong5 Jan 2016 17:10 UTC

19 points

51 comments1 min readLW link

A note about calibration of confidence

jbay4 Jan 2016 6:57 UTC

18 points

35 comments8 min readLW link

[LINK] How A Lamp Took Away My Reading And A Box Brought It Back

CronoDAS30 Jan 2016 16:55 UTC

17 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Stub] Ontological crisis = out of environment behaviour?

Stuart_Armstrong13 Jan 2016 15:10 UTC

15 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Clearing An Overgrown Garden

Anders_H29 Jan 2016 22:16 UTC

15 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

Yoshua Bengio on AI progress, hype and risks

V_V30 Jan 2016 1:45 UTC

14 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Desperation

So8res24 Jan 2016 2:00 UTC

14 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(mindingourway.com)

Your transhuman copy is of questionable value to your meat self.

Usul6 Jan 2016 9:03 UTC

14 points

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Intentional Insights and the Effective Altruism Movement – Q & A

Gleb_Tsipursky2 Jan 2016 19:43 UTC

14 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

Extending the stated objectives

Stuart_Armstrong13 Jan 2016 16:20 UTC

13 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

[Link] Huffington Post article about dual process theory

Gleb_Tsipursky6 Jan 2016 1:44 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Thinking About a Technical Solution to Coordination Problems

ChaosMote17 Jan 2016 7:16 UTC

12 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Consciousness and Sleep

casebash7 Jan 2016 12:04 UTC

12 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

Welcome to LessWrong (January 2016)

[deleted]13 Jan 2016 21:34 UTC

11 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

The art of response

So8res3 Jan 2016 2:00 UTC

11 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(mindingourway.com)

[LINK] Common fallacies in probability (when numbers aren’t used)

Stuart_Armstrong15 Jan 2016 8:29 UTC

10 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Tackling the subagent problem: preliminary analysis

Stuart_Armstrong12 Jan 2016 12:26 UTC

9 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

Goal completion: the rocket equations

Stuart_Armstrong20 Jan 2016 13:54 UTC

9 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

Open Thread, January 4-10, 2016

polymathwannabe4 Jan 2016 13:06 UTC

9 points

426 comments1 min readLW link

Learning Mathematics in Context

Crux26 Jan 2016 22:27 UTC

9 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Lifehack article promoting rationality-themed ideas, namely long-term orientation, mere-exposure effect, consider-the-alternative, and agency

Gleb_Tsipursky11 Jan 2016 20:14 UTC

9 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

January 2016 Media Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Jan 2016 15:16 UTC

9 points

46 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality Quotes Thread January 2016

elharo1 Jan 2016 16:00 UTC

9 points

199 comments1 min readLW link

Study partner matching thread

NoSignalNoNoise25 Jan 2016 4:25 UTC

8 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Monthly Bragging Thread January 2016

elharo1 Jan 2016 16:14 UTC

8 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Goal completion: algorithm ideas

Stuart_Armstrong25 Jan 2016 17:36 UTC

8 points

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Map:Territory::Uncertainty::Randomness – but that doesn’t matter, value of information does.

Davidmanheim22 Jan 2016 19:12 UTC

8 points

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[Link] Video Presentation: Rationality 101 for Secular People

Gleb_Tsipursky24 Jan 2016 0:45 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Charity Impact Calculator

Gleb_Tsipursky26 Jan 2016 5:01 UTC

8 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Open thread, Jan. 18 - Jan. 24, 2016

MrMind18 Jan 2016 9:42 UTC

8 points

199 comments1 min readLW link

Could a digital intelligence be bad at math?

leplen20 Jan 2016 2:38 UTC

7 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

Studying Your Native Language

Crux28 Jan 2016 19:23 UTC

7 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

AI Fiction—Crystal Society

Gleb_Tsipursky26 Jan 2016 23:51 UTC

7 points

21 comments1 min readLW link