Do you want to be like Kuro5hin? Be­cause this is how you get to be like Kuro5hin.

DentinAug 26, 2016, 3:32 PM
54 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Re­cent up­dates to gw­ern.net (2015-2016)

gwernAug 26, 2016, 7:22 PM
42 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Now is the time to elimi­nate mosquitoes

James_MillerAug 6, 2016, 7:10 PM
33 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

Deep­mind Plans for Rat-Level AI

moridinamaelAug 18, 2016, 4:26 PM
33 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

The call of the void

EloAug 28, 2016, 1:17 PM
28 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

The lad­der of ab­strac­tion and giv­ing ex­am­ples

EloAug 16, 2016, 5:31 AM
26 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Ineffi­cient Games

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Aug 23, 2016, 5:47 PM
26 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

The Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute is hiring!

crmflynnAug 18, 2016, 1:09 PM
23 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Low hang­ing pro­duc­tivity—im­prov­ing your workspace

EloAug 9, 2016, 12:14 PM
22 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Hedging

EloAug 26, 2016, 8:34 AM
21 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Euro­pean Soylent alternatives

ChristianKlAug 15, 2016, 8:22 PM
20 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

The bar­ri­ers to the task

EloAug 18, 2016, 7:22 AM
19 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence and phys­i­cal law

AnthonyCAug 4, 2016, 6:49 PM
19 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A Re­view of Sig­nal Data Science

The_Jaded_OneAug 14, 2016, 3:32 PM
18 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

[link] MIRI’s 2015 in review

Kaj_SotalaAug 3, 2016, 12:03 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Aug 29. - Sept 5. 2016

EloAug 29, 2016, 2:28 AM
16 points
119 comments1 min readLW link

“Is Science Bro­ken?” is underspecified

NancyLebovitzAug 12, 2016, 11:59 AM
16 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

The Prob­lem (TM) - Part 2

EloAug 2, 2016, 8:01 AM
16 points
5 comments9 min readLW link

Time man­age­ment and Do your tasks in a differ­ent order

EloAug 16, 2016, 11:15 PM
15 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence via whole brain emulation

AlexMennenAug 17, 2016, 4:11 AM
15 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

UC Berkeley launches Cen­ter for Hu­man-Com­pat­i­ble Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

ignorancepriorAug 29, 2016, 10:43 PM
15 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Iden­tity map

turchinAug 15, 2016, 11:29 AM
15 points
41 comments5 min readLW link

Non-Fic­tion Book Reviews

SquirrelInHellAug 11, 2016, 5:05 AM
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

The map of the risks of aliens

turchinAug 22, 2016, 7:05 PM
12 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

The meta-strat­egy

EloAug 2, 2016, 11:08 PM
12 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Filter on the way in, Filter on the way out...

EloAug 12, 2016, 7:24 AM
12 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

Open Thread, Aug. 15. - Aug 21. 2016

EloAug 15, 2016, 12:26 AM
11 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­duc­tivity—List Notch system

EloAug 23, 2016, 4:46 AM
11 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Set­ting up my work en­vi­ron­ment—Do­ing the cau­sa­tion back­wards

EloAug 11, 2016, 2:36 AM
11 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

DARPA ac­cept­ing pro­pos­als for ex­plain­able AI

morganismAug 22, 2016, 12:05 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Wicked Problems

EloAug 16, 2016, 8:35 AM
10 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Open Thread, Aug. 1 - Aug 7. 2016

EloAug 1, 2016, 12:12 AM
9 points
83 comments1 min readLW link

Risks from Ap­prox­i­mate Value Learning

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Aug 27, 2016, 7:34 PM
9 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Aug. 8 - Aug 14. 2016

EloAug 7, 2016, 11:07 PM
9 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

A Con­ver­sa­tion with GoD

Jacob FalkovichAug 23, 2016, 7:59 AM
9 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Willpower Thermodynamics

FluttershyAug 16, 2016, 3:00 AM
9 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Willpower Schedule

SquirrelInHellAug 22, 2016, 1:05 PM
9 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Ir­ra­tional­ity Quotes Au­gust 2016

PhilGoetzAug 1, 2016, 7:12 PM
8 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Cor­rigi­bil­ity through strat­ified indifference

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 19, 2016, 4:11 PM
8 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Help with Bayesian priors

WikiLogicOrgAug 14, 2016, 10:24 AM
8 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ti­vated Thinking

Bound_upAug 3, 2016, 11:27 PM
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Men­tal mod­els—giv­ing peo­ple per­son­hood and tak­ing it away

EloAug 11, 2016, 8:32 AM
7 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

In­verse cry­on­ics: one weird trick to per­suade any­one to sign up for cry­on­ics to­day!

The_Jaded_OneAug 11, 2016, 5:29 PM
7 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

Seek­ing Op­ti­miza­tion of New Web­site “New Athe­ist Sur­vival Kit,” a go-to site for newly-made atheists

Bound_upAug 16, 2016, 1:03 AM
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Causal graphs and counterfactuals

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 30, 2016, 4:12 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ad­den­dum to ap­pli­ca­ble advice

EloAug 16, 2016, 12:59 AM
6 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Ap­pli­ca­ble advice

Elo12 Aug 2016 8:16 UTC
6 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Open Thread, Aug. 22 − 28, 2016

polymathwannabe22 Aug 2016 16:24 UTC
6 points
67 comments1 min readLW link

Darknet Min­ing for Proac­tive Cy­ber­se­cu­rity Threat Intelligence

morganism6 Aug 2016 1:19 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Avoid­ing col­lapse: Grand challenges for sci­ence and so­ciety to solve by 2050

morganism15 Aug 2016 5:47 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link