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

Dentin26 Aug 2016 15:32 UTC
54 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Re­cent up­dates to gw­ern.net (2015-2016)

gwern26 Aug 2016 19:22 UTC
42 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Now is the time to elimi­nate mosquitoes

James_Miller6 Aug 2016 19:10 UTC
33 points
89 comments1 min readLW link

Deep­mind Plans for Rat-Level AI

moridinamael18 Aug 2016 16:26 UTC
33 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

The call of the void

Elo28 Aug 2016 13:17 UTC
28 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

The lad­der of ab­strac­tion and giv­ing ex­am­ples

Elo16 Aug 2016 5:31 UTC
26 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Ineffi­cient Games

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)23 Aug 2016 17:47 UTC
26 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

The Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute is hiring!

crmflynn18 Aug 2016 13:09 UTC
23 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Low hang­ing pro­duc­tivity—im­prov­ing your workspace

Elo9 Aug 2016 12:14 UTC
22 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Hedging

Elo26 Aug 2016 8:34 UTC
21 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Euro­pean Soylent alternatives

ChristianKl15 Aug 2016 20:22 UTC
20 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

The bar­ri­ers to the task

Elo18 Aug 2016 7:22 UTC
19 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

A Re­view of Sig­nal Data Science

The_Jaded_One14 Aug 2016 15:32 UTC
18 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

[link] MIRI’s 2015 in review

Kaj_Sotala3 Aug 2016 12:03 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence and phys­i­cal law

AnthonyC4 Aug 2016 18:49 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Aug 29. - Sept 5. 2016

Elo29 Aug 2016 2:28 UTC
16 points
119 comments1 min readLW link

“Is Science Bro­ken?” is underspecified

NancyLebovitz12 Aug 2016 11:59 UTC
16 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

The Prob­lem (TM) - Part 2

Elo2 Aug 2016 8:01 UTC
16 points
5 comments9 min readLW link

UC Berkeley launches Cen­ter for Hu­man-Com­pat­i­ble Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

ignoranceprior29 Aug 2016 22:43 UTC
15 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Time man­age­ment and Do your tasks in a differ­ent order

Elo16 Aug 2016 23:15 UTC
15 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence via whole brain emulation

AlexMennen17 Aug 2016 4:11 UTC
15 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Iden­tity map

turchin15 Aug 2016 11:29 UTC
15 points
41 comments5 min readLW link

Non-Fic­tion Book Reviews

SquirrelInHell11 Aug 2016 5:05 UTC
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

The map of the risks of aliens

turchin22 Aug 2016 19:05 UTC
12 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

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

Elo12 Aug 2016 7:24 UTC
12 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

The meta-strat­egy

Elo2 Aug 2016 23:08 UTC
12 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

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

Elo15 Aug 2016 0:26 UTC
11 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

Set­ting up my work en­vi­ron­ment—Do­ing the cau­sa­tion back­wards

Elo11 Aug 2016 2:36 UTC
11 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­duc­tivity—List Notch system

Elo23 Aug 2016 4:46 UTC
11 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

DARPA ac­cept­ing pro­pos­als for ex­plain­able AI

morganism22 Aug 2016 0:05 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Wicked Problems

Elo16 Aug 2016 8:35 UTC
10 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Open Thread, Aug. 1 - Aug 7. 2016

Elo1 Aug 2016 0:12 UTC
9 points
83 comments1 min readLW link

Risks from Ap­prox­i­mate Value Learning

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)27 Aug 2016 19:34 UTC
9 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Aug. 8 - Aug 14. 2016

Elo7 Aug 2016 23:07 UTC
9 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

A Con­ver­sa­tion with GoD

Jacob Falkovich23 Aug 2016 7:59 UTC
9 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Willpower Thermodynamics

Fluttershy16 Aug 2016 3:00 UTC
9 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Willpower Schedule

SquirrelInHell22 Aug 2016 13:05 UTC
9 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Ir­ra­tional­ity Quotes Au­gust 2016

PhilGoetz1 Aug 2016 19:12 UTC
8 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Cor­rigi­bil­ity through strat­ified indifference

Stuart_Armstrong19 Aug 2016 16:11 UTC
8 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Help with Bayesian priors

WikiLogicOrg14 Aug 2016 10:24 UTC
8 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ti­vated Thinking

Bound_up3 Aug 2016 23:27 UTC
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Men­tal mod­els—giv­ing peo­ple per­son­hood and tak­ing it away

Elo11 Aug 2016 8:32 UTC
7 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

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

The_Jaded_One11 Aug 2016 17:29 UTC
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_up16 Aug 2016 1:03 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Causal graphs and counterfactuals

Stuart_Armstrong30 Aug 2016 16:12 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ad­den­dum to ap­pli­ca­ble advice

Elo16 Aug 2016 0:59 UTC
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