Lev­ers, Emo­tions, and Lazy Eval­u­a­tors:

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

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Create & Complete

RobinZ20 Feb 2017 18:24 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup: February

Maelin20 Feb 2017 11:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread, Feb. 20 - Feb 26, 2017

Elo20 Feb 2017 4:51 UTC
6 points
163 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

Gas hy­drate break­down un­likely to cause clathrate gun—report

morganism19 Feb 2017 22:47 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Meetup : SF Meetup: Projects

maia19 Feb 2017 17:51 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell

Zvi18 Feb 2017 18:43 UTC
2 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

Head­lines, meet sparklines: news in context

Brendan Long18 Feb 2017 16:00 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(smus.com)

On­tolo­gies are Oper­at­ing Systems

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

Meetup : Bal­ti­more /​ UMBC Meetup—gen­eral discussion

iarwain117 Feb 2017 17:13 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek17 Feb 2017 16:51 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

High­lights From The Com­ments On Cost Disease

Scott Alexander17 Feb 2017 7:28 UTC
10 points
2 comments25 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)

At­tack­ing ma­chine learn­ing with ad­ver­sar­ial examples

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

In­creas­ing GDP is not growth

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

Meetup : Syd­ney Pub meetup—Fe­bru­ary

Elo16 Feb 2017 9:14 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Chicago Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group—Lu­minos­ity Part 1

mingyuan16 Feb 2017 3:09 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Judge­ment Extrapolations

Gordon Seidoh Worley15 Feb 2017 18:51 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Meetup : Moscow: unconference

berekuk15 Feb 2017 18:02 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Am­s­ter­dam—Meetup #12 - Friendly AI

null15 Feb 2017 15:08 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­differ­ence and com­pen­satory rewards

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

Gates 2017 An­nual letter

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

Philo­soph­i­cal love poetry

KatjaGrace14 Feb 2017 23:26 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­bile users learn­ing faster, in smaller bytes

morganism14 Feb 2017 21:03 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.cerego.com)

Is Willpower a Finite Re­source, or a Myth?

Bitnotri14 Feb 2017 14:02 UTC
2 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(nautil.us)

GiveWell and the prob­lem of par­tial funding

Benquo14 Feb 2017 10:48 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

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)

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Nonsense

RobinZ13 Feb 2017 21:53 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 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

CHCAI/​MIRI re­search in­tern­ship in AI safety

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

Open thread, Feb. 13 - Feb. 19, 2017

username213 Feb 2017 10:56 UTC
4 points
36 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

What are you sur­prised peo­ple don’t just buy?

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

Ray­mond Smul­lyan has died

ike12 Feb 2017 14:20 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nytimes.com)

Satis­fac­tion Levers

ig0r11 Feb 2017 22:54 UTC
7 points
5 comments3 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)

Changes in AI Safety Funding

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

Are dae­mons a prob­lem for ideal agents?

jessicata11 Feb 2017 8:29 UTC
3 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

How likely is a ran­dom AGI to be hon­est?

jessicata11 Feb 2017 3:32 UTC
1 point
1 comment3 min readLW link

The Alpha Omega The­o­rem: How to Make an A.I. Friendly with the Fear of God

Darklight11 Feb 2017 0:48 UTC
−2 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

The types of ma­nipu­la­tion on vote-based forums

pepe_prime11 Feb 2017 0:24 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ba­sic In­come. org

morganism11 Feb 2017 0:01 UTC
1 point
15 comments1 min readLW link
(basicincome.org)

Get Rich Slowly

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

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek10 Feb 2017 16:51 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Con­sid­er­a­tions On Cost Disease

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

Stu­pidity as a men­tal illness

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

A Quick Con­fi­dence Heuris­tic; Im­plic­itly Lev­er­ag­ing “The Wis­dom of Crowds”

Davidmanheim10 Feb 2017 0:54 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Things that want to be posts

Zvi9 Feb 2017 22:58 UTC
1 point
2 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more /​ UMBC Meetup—use­ful­ness and mean­ing of “truth”

iarwain19 Feb 2017 20:26 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link