Open thread, Oct. 03 - Oct. 09, 2016

MrMindOct 3, 2016, 6:59 AM
8 points
166 comments1 min readLW link

80% of data in Chi­nese clini­cal tri­als have been fabricated

DanArmakOct 2, 2016, 7:38 AM
11 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Cryo with mag­net­ics added

morganismOct 1, 2016, 10:27 PM
8 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Fermi para­dox of hu­man past, and cor­re­spond­ing x-risks

turchinOct 1, 2016, 5:01 PM
10 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

Oc­to­ber 2016 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsarisOct 1, 2016, 2:05 PM
10 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekSep 30, 2016, 2:48 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Risk Con­tracts: A Crack­pot Idea to Save the World

SquirrelInHellSep 30, 2016, 2:36 PM
4 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Soft­ware for moral en­hance­ment (ka­j­so­tala.fi)

Kaj_SotalaSep 30, 2016, 12:12 PM
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

An ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the Less Wrong Se­quences (ka­j­so­tala.fi)

Kaj_SotalaSep 30, 2016, 12:11 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

US tech gi­ants found Part­ner­ship on AI to Benefit Peo­ple and So­ciety to en­sure AI is de­vel­oped safely and ethically

Gunnar_ZarnckeSep 29, 2016, 8:39 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.businessinsider.de)

Sam Har­ris—TED Talk on AI

BrillyantSep 29, 2016, 4:44 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.samharris.org)

Tech be­he­moths form ar­tifi­cial-in­tel­li­gence nonprofit

Gleb_TsipurskySep 29, 2016, 4:29 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.seattletimes.com)

Figure­heads, ghost-writ­ers and pseudony­mous quant blog­gers: the re­cent evolu­tion of au­thor­ship in sci­ence publishing

Gram_StoneSep 28, 2016, 11:16 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(medicalhypotheses.blogspot.com)

Poli­tics Is Up­stream of AI

icemanSep 28, 2016, 9:47 PM
6 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(thefutureprimaeval.net)

Street Episte­mol­ogy Ex­am­ples: How to Talk to Peo­ple So They Change Their Minds

Bound_upSep 28, 2016, 9:19 PM
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

My lat­est around of in­ter­net ur­ban leg­end re­search: Deep web secrets

Deku-shrubSep 28, 2016, 7:12 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rationalwiki.org)

SSC: It’s Bayes All The Way Up

HoushalterSep 28, 2016, 6:06 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Pu­tanu­monit—You can’t always tell peo­ple’s be­liefs from ex­plicit be­hav­ior + Trump and blacks

Jacob FalkovichSep 28, 2016, 4:45 PM
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Pu­tanu­monit—Con­vinc­ing peo­ple to read the Se­quences and won­der­ing about “pos­tra­tional­ists”

Jacob FalkovichSep 28, 2016, 4:43 PM
15 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Linkposts now live!

VaniverSep 28, 2016, 3:13 PM
44 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Yud­kowsky’s Guide to Writ­ing In­tel­li­gent Characters

VaniverSep 28, 2016, 2:36 PM
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(yudkowsky.tumblr.com)

A Child’s Petrov Day Speech

James_MillerSep 28, 2016, 2:27 AM
30 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Seek­ing Ad­vice About Ca­reer Paths for Non-USA Citizen

almkglorSep 28, 2016, 12:07 AM
8 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

New Philo­soph­i­cal Work on Solomonoff Induction

vallinderSep 27, 2016, 11:12 AM
5 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

The set of Log­i­cal In­duc­tors is not Convex

Scott GarrabrantSep 27, 2016, 9:05 AM
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Imag­ine paint as chance you spread across the world

BenFRayfieldSep 27, 2016, 2:29 AM
0 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Log­i­cal In­duc­tors con­tain Log­i­cal In­duc­tors over other com­plex­ity classes

Scott GarrabrantSep 26, 2016, 10:17 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Stock­holm: When to stop mak­ing a decision

pepe_primeSep 26, 2016, 5:14 PM
1 point
5 comments1 min readLW link

We have the tech­nol­ogy re­quired to build 3D body scan­ners for con­sumer prices

ChristianKlSep 26, 2016, 3:36 PM
6 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing doesn’t solve philos­o­phy of ethics

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 26, 2016, 12:11 PM
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Model of hu­man (ir)rationality

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 26, 2016, 11:20 AM
0 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Open thread, Sep. 26 - Oct. 02, 2016

MrMindSep 26, 2016, 7:41 AM
5 points
90 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI’s 2016 Fundraiser

So8resSep 25, 2016, 4:55 PM
34 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

The map of nat­u­ral global catas­trophic risks

turchinSep 25, 2016, 1:17 PM
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : LW Melbourne: A Bayesian Guide on How to Read a Scien­tific Paper

ChriswaterguySep 24, 2016, 8:57 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Vari­a­tions of the Garrabrant-inductor

IAFF-User-83Sep 23, 2016, 7:11 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.cs.ucl.ac.uk)

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamekSep 23, 2016, 3:52 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

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

RobinZSep 23, 2016, 3:11 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain1Sep 23, 2016, 1:55 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bay Area Win­ter Sols­tice 2016

ialdabaothSep 22, 2016, 10:12 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : SF Meetup: Mini Talks

maiaSep 22, 2016, 3:23 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Heroin model: AI “ma­nipu­lates” “un­ma­nipu­lat­able” reward

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 22, 2016, 10:27 AM
10 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Heroin model: AI “ma­nipu­lates” “un­ma­nipu­lat­able” reward

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 21, 2016, 6:10 PM
0 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Prob­lems with learn­ing val­ues from observation

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Sep 21, 2016, 12:40 AM
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Log­i­cal In­duc­tors that trust their limits

Scott GarrabrantSep 20, 2016, 11:17 PM
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: Fal­la­cyMa­nia, Zendo, Tower of Chaos

Alexander230Sep 20, 2016, 7:33 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Against Amazement

SquirrelInHellSep 20, 2016, 7:25 PM
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence FAQ

Scott AlexanderSep 20, 2016, 7:00 PM
134 points
38 comments27 min readLW link

Seven Apocalypses

scarcegreengrassSep 20, 2016, 2:59 AM
3 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Ad­ding and re­mov­ing com­plex­ity from models

EloSep 19, 2016, 11:31 PM
11 points
2 comments4 min readLW link