The Be­hav­ioral Eco­nomics of Welfare

Vanessa Kosoy22 Dec 2017 11:35 UTC
9 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

The es­say “In­ter­stel­lar Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Us­ing Microbes: Im­pli­ca­tions for SETI” has im­pli­ca­tions for The Great Filter.

MakerOfErrors22 Dec 2017 6:05 UTC
16 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Politicians

Bound_up21 Dec 2017 23:29 UTC
9 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

RSS feed crashes my reader app

CronoDAS21 Dec 2017 17:11 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

2018 AI Safety Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks20 Dec 2017 22:04 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(effective-altruism.com)

Hap­piness Is a Chore

SquirrelInHell20 Dec 2017 11:13 UTC
14 points
30 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com.es)

Hap­piness Is a Chore

SquirrelInHell20 Dec 2017 11:11 UTC
0 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Mana

Ziz20 Dec 2017 2:24 UTC
18 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

TSR #6: Strength and Weakness

Hazard19 Dec 2017 22:23 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

CFAR 2017 Retrospective

Valentine19 Dec 2017 19:38 UTC
26 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy of Num­bers (part 2)

Charlie Steiner19 Dec 2017 13:57 UTC
3 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Think­ing as the Crow Flies: Part 3 - To­kens, Syn­tax, and Expressions

Anthony Hart18 Dec 2017 23:38 UTC
3 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

Bay Sols­tice 2017: Thoughts

PDV18 Dec 2017 10:04 UTC
12 points
102 comments3 min readLW link

Books I read 2017 - Part 1. Re­la­tion­ships, Learning

Elo18 Dec 2017 9:38 UTC
17 points
10 comments19 min readLW link

Value learn­ing sub­prob­lem: learn­ing goals of sim­ple agents

AlexMennen18 Dec 2017 2:05 UTC
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Longview Anar­chism: Tran­scend­ing the Ex­is­ten­tial Threat of Freedom

abbeybee17 Dec 2017 22:30 UTC
5 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

I Vouch For MIRI

Zvi17 Dec 2017 17:50 UTC
39 points
9 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Pas­cal’s Mug­gle Pays

Zvi16 Dec 2017 20:40 UTC
25 points
17 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Im­prove­ment Without Superstition

Zachary Jacobi16 Dec 2017 20:01 UTC
40 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

Truth is Symmetric

ErnestScribbler16 Dec 2017 14:52 UTC
10 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

The Ex­tinc­tion Dilemma

DragonGod16 Dec 2017 13:52 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Sim­ler and Han­son on Our Hid­den Mo­ti­va­tions in Every­day Life

Kieran Mccarthy16 Dec 2017 13:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(joyousandswift.org)

Book Re­view: The Com­pla­cent Class

Zvi16 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC
10 points
3 comments17 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A New Se­quence on Rationality

DragonGod16 Dec 2017 11:08 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

End of the Year Match­ing Challenge (Altru­ism)

DragonGod16 Dec 2017 3:23 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(intelligence.org)

Se­cu­rity ser­vices re­la­tion­ship to so­cial movements

whpearson15 Dec 2017 22:56 UTC
3 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Why Bayesi­ans should two-box in a one-shot

PhilGoetz15 Dec 2017 17:39 UTC
0 points
30 comments4 min readLW link

Youtube chan­nel de­voted to the art of rationality

MrMind15 Dec 2017 11:42 UTC
11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

In the pres­ence of dis­in­for­ma­tion, col­lec­tive episte­mol­ogy re­quires lo­cal modeling

jessicata15 Dec 2017 9:54 UTC
77 points
39 comments5 min readLW link

Mean­ing wars

Elo14 Dec 2017 23:17 UTC
11 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Against the Lin­ear Utility Hy­poth­e­sis and the Lev­er­age Penalty

AlexMennen14 Dec 2017 18:38 UTC
41 points
47 comments11 min readLW link

The Per­ils of the Se­cu­rity Mind­set taken too far

whpearson13 Dec 2017 22:34 UTC
2 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Guard­ing Slack vs Substance

Raemon13 Dec 2017 20:58 UTC
42 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Cal­ling Bul­lshit—Lec­tures and Read­ings on Eval­u­at­ing Scien­tific Research

Kyle Hipke13 Dec 2017 20:15 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(callingbullshit.org)

Or­a­cle paper

Stuart_Armstrong13 Dec 2017 15:04 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Or­a­cle paper

Stuart_Armstrong13 Dec 2017 14:59 UTC
12 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Bayes and Paradigm Shifts—or be­ing wrong af

abbeybee13 Dec 2017 4:48 UTC
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

TSR #5 The Na­ture of Operations

Hazard12 Dec 2017 23:37 UTC
7 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

12/​12/​2017 Up­date: Creat­ing Sequences

Raemon12 Dec 2017 22:34 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Quick thoughts on em­pathic metaethics

lukeprog12 Dec 2017 21:46 UTC
29 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

The map of “Levels of defence” in AI safety

avturchin12 Dec 2017 10:45 UTC
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

The map of “Levels of defence” in AI safety

turchin12 Dec 2017 10:44 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

No­tifi­ca­tions bub­ble should look differ­ent when there are notifications

Chris_Leong12 Dec 2017 7:35 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

LDL 9: When Trans­fer Learn­ing Fails

magfrump12 Dec 2017 0:22 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Melt­ing Gold, and Or­ga­ni­za­tional Capacity

Raemon11 Dec 2017 19:16 UTC
73 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

Another Case Study of Inad­e­quate Equil­ibrium in Medicine

AABoyles11 Dec 2017 19:02 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Think­ing as the Crow Flies: Part 2 - Ba­sic Logic via Precommitments

Anthony Hart11 Dec 2017 18:23 UTC
4 points
3 comments18 min readLW link

Some food for thoughts about cli­mate.

mutusfa11 Dec 2017 15:10 UTC
−9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Will IOTA work as promized?

ChristianKl11 Dec 2017 14:55 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: The Cap­tured Economy

Zvi11 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC
14 points
6 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)