On the im­por­tance of Less Wrong, or an­other sin­gle con­ver­sa­tional locus

AnnaSalamon27 Nov 2016 17:13 UTC
176 points
365 comments4 min readLW link

Epistemic Effort

Raemon29 Nov 2016 16:08 UTC
72 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

A Re­turn to Discussion

sarahconstantin27 Nov 2016 13:59 UTC
58 points
32 comments6 min readLW link

The Pyra­mid And The Garden

Scott Alexander5 Nov 2016 6:03 UTC
53 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

If we can’t lie to oth­ers, we will lie to ourselves

paulfchristiano26 Nov 2016 22:29 UTC
45 points
24 comments1 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Sam­ple means, how do they work?

Benquo20 Nov 2016 21:04 UTC
34 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

On Try­ing Not To Be Wrong

sarahconstantin11 Nov 2016 19:25 UTC
31 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Less costly signaling

paulfchristiano22 Nov 2016 21:11 UTC
29 points
38 comments1 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Up­date­less­ness and Son of X

Scott Garrabrant4 Nov 2016 22:58 UTC
29 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Yud­kowsky vs Trump: the nu­clear show­down.

MrMind11 Nov 2016 11:30 UTC
27 points
162 comments2 min readLW link

Us­ing a Spread­sheet to Make Good De­ci­sions: Five Examples

Peter Wildeford28 Nov 2016 17:10 UTC
22 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Crony Beliefs

plex3 Nov 2016 20:54 UTC
22 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(www.meltingasphalt.com)

Re­cent AI con­trol posts

paulfchristiano29 Nov 2016 18:53 UTC
18 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Match­ing dona­tion fundraisers can be harm­fully dishon­est.

Benquo11 Nov 2016 21:05 UTC
18 points
6 comments14 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Heuris­tic for Bias De­tec­tion: Up­dat­ing Towards the Net Weight of Evidence

gwern17 Nov 2016 2:51 UTC
17 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Ex­pert Pre­dic­tion Of Experiments

Scott Alexander29 Nov 2016 2:47 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Men­tal Habits are Procedural

lifelonglearner7 Nov 2016 14:53 UTC
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Re­but­tal piece by Stu­art Rus­sell and FHI Re­search As­so­ci­ate Allan Dafoe: “Yes, the ex­perts are wor­ried about the ex­is­ten­tial risk of ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence.”

crmflynn3 Nov 2016 17:54 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.technologyreview.com)

In­dus­try Mat­ters 2: Par­tial Retraction

sarahconstantin23 Nov 2016 17:08 UTC
14 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Ter­mi­nally ill teen won his­toric rul­ing to pre­serve body

NancyLebovitz18 Nov 2016 14:16 UTC
14 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.bbc.com)

Seek­ing bet­ter name for “Effec­tive Ego­ism”

DataPacRat25 Nov 2016 22:31 UTC
14 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

How can peo­ple write good LW ar­ti­cles?

abramdemski29 Nov 2016 10:40 UTC
13 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Nas­sim Taleb on Elec­tion Forecasting

NatashaRostova26 Nov 2016 19:06 UTC
13 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Stand-up com­edy as a way to im­prove ra­tio­nal­ity skills

Andy_McKenzie27 Nov 2016 21:52 UTC
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Post-Vir­tual-Real­ity Sadness

morganism16 Nov 2016 8:17 UTC
13 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

The Devel­op­men­tal Role of Play

Gordon Seidoh Worley11 Nov 2016 19:41 UTC
12 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Vestibu­lar Stim­u­la­tion and Fat Loss

sarahconstantin20 Nov 2016 0:23 UTC
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Find­ing slices of joy

Kaj_Sotala28 Nov 2016 10:10 UTC
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Maine passes Ranked Choice Voting

morganism14 Nov 2016 20:07 UTC
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(ballotpedia.org)

Wire­head­ing Done Right: Stay Pos­i­tive Without Go­ing Insane

9eB122 Nov 2016 3:16 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(qualiacomputing.com)

Po­lariza­tion is the prob­lem, “nor­mal­iza­tion” is the answer

Jacob Falkovich23 Nov 2016 17:40 UTC
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Re­vealed and Stated Identity

Gordon Seidoh Worley25 Nov 2016 20:17 UTC
9 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

In­dus­try Matters

sarahconstantin19 Nov 2016 7:29 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Open thread, Nov. 7 - Nov. 13, 2016

MrMind7 Nov 2016 8:01 UTC
9 points
120 comments1 min readLW link

Kid­ney Trade: A Dialectic

Gram_Stone18 Nov 2016 17:19 UTC
9 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Authen­tic­ity vs. fac­tual accuracy

philh10 Nov 2016 22:24 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Embed, en­code, at­tend, pre­dict: The new deep learn­ing for­mula for state-of-the-art NLP models

morganism12 Nov 2016 21:33 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(explosion.ai)

FHI is ac­cept­ing ap­pli­ca­tions for in­tern­ships in the area of AI Safety and Re­in­force­ment Learning

crmflynn7 Nov 2016 16:33 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)

In­crease Your Child’s Work­ing Memory

James_Miller27 Nov 2016 21:57 UTC
8 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Did so­cial de­sir­a­bil­ity effects mask Trump’s true sup­port?

katydee10 Nov 2016 9:56 UTC
8 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(themiddleofthatzone.wordpress.com)

How did ex­per­i­ments with lu­cid dream­ing pan out?

listic12 Nov 2016 20:40 UTC
8 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Costs are not benefits

philh3 Nov 2016 21:32 UTC
8 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

My re­cent posts

paulfchristiano29 Nov 2016 18:51 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­ti­cles in Main

Vaniver29 Nov 2016 21:35 UTC
7 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dict­ing HCH us­ing ex­pert advice

jessicata28 Nov 2016 3:38 UTC
7 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

A failed at­tempt at Up­date­less­ness us­ing Univer­sal Inductors

Scott Garrabrant3 Nov 2016 20:25 UTC
7 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Mis­matched Vocabularies

Error21 Nov 2016 17:55 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Nov. 14 - Nov. 20, 2016

MrMind14 Nov 2016 7:51 UTC
6 points
101 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Nov. 28 - Dec. 04, 2016

MrMind28 Nov 2016 7:40 UTC
6 points
94 comments1 min readLW link

Syn­thetic su­per­microbe will be re­sis­tant to all known viruses

James_Miller22 Nov 2016 4:40 UTC
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.newscientist.com)