In mem­ory of Thomas Schelling

Qiaochu_Yuan13 Dec 2016 22:17 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(publicpolicy.umd.edu)

Canons (What are they good for?)

Benquo13 Dec 2016 21:34 UTC
18 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

The Strat­egy of Sub­ver­sive Conflict

Gordon Seidoh Worley12 Dec 2016 19:41 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.ribbonfarm.com)

De­bate and Dialectic

Gordon Seidoh Worley12 Dec 2016 19:40 UTC
9 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Fur­ther dis­cus­sion of CFAR’s fo­cus on AI safety, and the good things folks wanted from “cause neu­tral­ity”

AnnaSalamon12 Dec 2016 19:39 UTC
65 points
38 comments5 min readLW link

Sane Think­ing about Men­tal Problems

sarahconstantin12 Dec 2016 19:32 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Open thread, Dec. 12 - Dec. 18, 2016

MrMind12 Dec 2016 7:56 UTC
9 points
141 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : SF Meetup: Projects

maia11 Dec 2016 20:18 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup: December

Maelin11 Dec 2016 11:33 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Min­i­max and dy­namic (in)consistency

Vanessa Kosoy11 Dec 2016 10:42 UTC
0 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

2016: a year in re­view in science

Elo11 Dec 2016 5:01 UTC
29 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

This one equa­tion may be the root of intelligence

morganism10 Dec 2016 23:23 UTC
8 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(singularityhub.com)

Meetup : Syd­ney Solstice

Elo10 Dec 2016 22:16 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Map­ping the Move­ments of the Mind Pt. 1

Bound_up10 Dec 2016 16:53 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(secondinsight.wordpress.com)

CFAR’s new mis­sion state­ment (on our web­site)

AnnaSalamon10 Dec 2016 8:37 UTC
15 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(www.rationality.org)

Be se­cretly wrong

Benquo10 Dec 2016 7:06 UTC
66 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

Tra­di­tions and Ra­tion­al­ity.

NatashaRostova10 Dec 2016 5:08 UTC
11 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

Suggested solu­tion to The Nat­u­ral­ized In­duc­tion Problem

10 Dec 2016 0:21 UTC
2 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Take the Ra­tion­al­ity Test to de­ter­mine your ra­tio­nal think­ing style

Gunnar_Zarncke9 Dec 2016 23:10 UTC
4 points
16 comments1 min readLW link
(programs.clearerthinking.org)

Refram­ing Aver­age Utilitarianism

Halfwitz9 Dec 2016 18:45 UTC
3 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek9 Dec 2016 18:11 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Is Caviar a Risk Fac­tor For Be­ing a Million­aire?

Anders_H9 Dec 2016 16:27 UTC
67 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Can­berra Sec­u­lar Solstice

Calien9 Dec 2016 13:10 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain19 Dec 2016 12:14 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : De­cem­ber Meetup in Munich

Valeriy9 Dec 2016 10:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Se­cond In­sight: Re­pairing My “Re­pairs” or Aspiring to Ra­tion­al­ity in­stead of “Ra­tion­al­ity”

Bound_up9 Dec 2016 2:27 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(secondinsight.wordpress.com)

Meetup : Moscow: ped­a­gogy goals, willpower re­search, com­mu­nity growth

berekuk8 Dec 2016 21:05 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Fer­rett: “The Day I Real­ized My Un­cle Hung Around With Gay Guys”

CronoDAS8 Dec 2016 16:26 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(theferrett.livejournal.com)

Meetup : AI safety Berlin

blob8 Dec 2016 14:36 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mak­ing noth­ing out of a big deal

KatjaGrace8 Dec 2016 3:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

“What is Wrong With our Thoughts” -David Stove (1991)

NatashaRostova8 Dec 2016 1:27 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(web.maths.unsw.edu.au)

Self-Blackmail

Jack_LaSota8 Dec 2016 1:15 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(sinceriously.fyi)

Com­bin­ing Pre­dic­tion Tech­nolo­gies to Help Moder­ate Discussions

Wei Dai8 Dec 2016 0:19 UTC
21 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion of LW in Ezra Klein pod­cast [starts 47:40]

Scott Alexander7 Dec 2016 23:22 UTC
17 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(itunes.apple.com)

How I use Anki to learn mathematics

Arthur Milchior7 Dec 2016 22:29 UTC
41 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

OpenAI re­leases Uni­verse an in­ter­face be­tween AI agents and the real world

Gunnar_Zarncke7 Dec 2016 22:04 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

If Pri­son Were a Disease, How Bad Would It Be?

sarahconstantin7 Dec 2016 21:46 UTC
11 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Mic-Ra-fi­nance and the illu­sion of control

Benquo7 Dec 2016 20:00 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Land war in Asia

Apprentice7 Dec 2016 19:31 UTC
26 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Sols­tice Day-After Megameetup

Raemon7 Dec 2016 17:42 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Un­speak­able conversations

casebash7 Dec 2016 15:24 UTC
2 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : De­cem­ber Ra­tion­al­ity meetup fea­tur­ing Dou­ble Crux

Marko7 Dec 2016 8:05 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Philoso­phers Against Malaria

Benquo7 Dec 2016 2:03 UTC
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The Distri­bu­tion of Users’ Com­puter Skills: Worse Than You Think

morganism6 Dec 2016 22:42 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nngroup.com)

Mea­sur­ing the San­ity Waterline

moridinamael6 Dec 2016 20:38 UTC
9 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

My prob­lems with For­mal Friendly Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence work

whpearson6 Dec 2016 20:31 UTC
8 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

The In­ter­nal Lawyer

ProofOfLogic6 Dec 2016 17:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(weird.solar)

Un­for­tu­nate Information

NatashaRostova6 Dec 2016 5:31 UTC
11 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Statistics

RobinZ5 Dec 2016 22:37 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meetup #8 - Re­v­ersed stu­pidity is not intelligence

null5 Dec 2016 19:59 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link