Con­sid­er­a­tions On Cost Disease

Scott Alexander10 Feb 2017 4:33 UTC
49 points
7 comments22 min readLW link

Alle­gory On AI Risk, Game The­ory, and Mithril

James_Miller13 Feb 2017 20:41 UTC
45 points
57 comments3 min readLW link

Why is the sur­pris­ingly pop­u­lar an­swer cor­rect?

Stuart_Armstrong3 Feb 2017 16:24 UTC
43 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

A Modern Myth

Scott Alexander27 Feb 2017 17:29 UTC
40 points
1 comment49 min readLW link

The “I Already Get It” Slide

jsalvatier1 Feb 2017 3:11 UTC
32 points
23 comments1 min readLW link
(johnsalvatier.org)

The Semiotic Fallacy

Stabilizer21 Feb 2017 4:50 UTC
29 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Plan­ning 101: De­bi­as­ing and Research

lifelonglearner3 Feb 2017 15:01 UTC
25 points
10 comments12 min readLW link

Stu­pidity as a men­tal illness

PhilGoetz10 Feb 2017 3:57 UTC
25 points
139 comments2 min readLW link

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2017

DreamFlasher2 Feb 2017 19:17 UTC
24 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Slate Star Codex Notes on the Asilo­mar Con­fer­ence on Benefi­cial AI

Gunnar_Zarncke7 Feb 2017 12:14 UTC
24 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

The So­cial Substrate

the gears to ascension9 Feb 2017 7:22 UTC
23 points
15 comments15 min readLW link

Near­est un­blocked strat­egy ver­sus learn­ing patches

Stuart_Armstrong23 Feb 2017 12:42 UTC
21 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

In­creas­ing GDP is not growth

PhilGoetz16 Feb 2017 18:04 UTC
21 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

True un­der­stand­ing comes from pass­ing exams

Stuart_Armstrong6 Feb 2017 11:51 UTC
20 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Con­crete Take­aways Post-CFAR

lifelonglearner24 Feb 2017 18:31 UTC
20 points
6 comments11 min readLW link

David Chalmers on LessWrong and the ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­nity (from his red­dit AMA)

ignoranceprior22 Feb 2017 19:07 UTC
20 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

Get Rich Slowly

Jacob Falkovich10 Feb 2017 23:02 UTC
18 points
1 comment13 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Albion’s Seed, Genotyped

Scott Alexander9 Feb 2017 2:15 UTC
17 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Mon­key and the Machine

ProofOfLogic23 Feb 2017 21:38 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Pre­dic­tion Based Ro­bust Cooperation

Scott Garrabrant22 Feb 2017 1:52 UTC
17 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

How to not earn a delta (Change My View)

Viliam14 Feb 2017 10:04 UTC
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

The hu­mil­ity ar­gu­ment for honesty

Benquo5 Feb 2017 17:26 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Civil re­sis­tance and the 3.5% rule

morganism2 Feb 2017 18:53 UTC
15 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

A semi-tech­ni­cal ques­tion about pre­dic­tion mar­kets and pri­vate info

CronoDAS20 Feb 2017 2:20 UTC
14 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

“The un­recog­nised sim­plic­i­ties of effec­tive ac­tion #2: ‘Sys­tems en­g­ineer­ing’ and ‘sys­tems man­age­ment’ - ideas from the Apollo pro­gramme for a ‘sys­tems poli­tics’”, Cum­mings 2017

gwern17 Feb 2017 0:59 UTC
13 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(dominiccummings.files.wordpress.com)

Max­i­mally effi­cient agents will prob­a­bly have an anti-dae­mon im­mune system

jessicata23 Feb 2017 0:40 UTC
13 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­ory subreddit

gwern7 Feb 2017 18:42 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

High­lights From The Com­ments On Cost Disease

Scott Alexander17 Feb 2017 7:28 UTC
10 points
2 comments25 min readLW link

The types of ma­nipu­la­tion on vote-based forums

pepe_prime11 Feb 2017 17:09 UTC
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

CHCAI/​MIRI re­search in­tern­ship in AI safety

Rob Bensinger13 Feb 2017 18:34 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

What are you sur­prised peo­ple don’t just buy?

NoSignalNoNoise13 Feb 2017 1:07 UTC
10 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­tion to Lo­cal In­ter­pretable Model-Ag­nos­tic Ex­pla­na­tions (LIME)

Gunnar_Zarncke9 Feb 2017 8:29 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.oreilly.com)

Lev­ers, Emo­tions, and Lazy Eval­u­a­tors:

lifelonglearner20 Feb 2017 23:00 UTC
9 points
11 comments6 min readLW link

Hu­mans as a truth channel

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2017 16:53 UTC
9 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Open thread, Feb. 06 - Feb. 12, 2017

MrMind6 Feb 2017 8:34 UTC
9 points
115 comments1 min readLW link

Gates 2017 An­nual letter

ike15 Feb 2017 2:39 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gatesnotes.com)

Fe­bru­ary 2017 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Feb 2017 8:31 UTC
8 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

What are you sur­prised peo­ple pay for in­stead of do­ing them­selves?

NoSignalNoNoise13 Feb 2017 1:07 UTC
8 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Kah­ne­man’s check­list to avoid cog­ni­tive bi­ases and make bet­ter decisions

sleepingthinker5 Feb 2017 11:13 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(gainweightjournal.com)

Dan Car­lin six hour pod­cast on his­tory of atomic weapons

James_Miller9 Feb 2017 16:10 UTC
7 points
16 comments1 min readLW link
(www.dancarlin.com)

Hack­ing humans

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2017 16:08 UTC
7 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

In­differ­ence and com­pen­satory rewards

Stuart_Armstrong15 Feb 2017 14:49 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Changes in AI Safety Funding

siIver11 Feb 2017 8:36 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

Stupid Ques­tions Fe­bru­ary 2017

Erfeyah8 Feb 2017 19:51 UTC
7 points
105 comments1 min readLW link

“Bet­ting on the Past” – a de­ci­sion prob­lem by Arif Ahmed

Johannes Treutlein7 Feb 2017 21:14 UTC
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(casparoesterheld.com)

Mo­ral Philoso­phers as Eth­i­cal Eng­ineers: Limits of Mo­ral Philos­o­phy and a Prag­ma­tist Alternative

Kaj_Sotala23 Feb 2017 13:02 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Satis­fac­tion Levers

ig0r11 Feb 2017 22:54 UTC
7 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Mo­dal Com­bat for games other than the pris­oner’s dilemma

AlexMennen26 Feb 2017 8:10 UTC
6 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

At­tack­ing ma­chine learn­ing with ad­ver­sar­ial examples

ike17 Feb 2017 0:28 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

On­tolo­gies are Oper­at­ing Systems

lifelonglearner18 Feb 2017 5:00 UTC
6 points
36 comments4 min readLW link