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

Johannes Treutlein7 Feb 2017 21:14 UTC
7 points
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(casparoesterheld.com)

De­ci­sion The­ory subreddit

gwern7 Feb 2017 18:42 UTC
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(www.reddit.com)

Slate Star Codex Notes on the Asilo­mar Con­fer­ence on Benefi­cial AI

Gunnar_Zarncke7 Feb 2017 12:14 UTC
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(slatestarcodex.com)

Worked ex­am­ple of a mnemonic Me­mory technique

Elo7 Feb 2017 10:22 UTC
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UNU swarm in­tel picks SB ex­act score

morganism6 Feb 2017 23:38 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link
(unu.ai)

Re­quest for col­lab­o­ra­tors—Sur­vey on AI risk priorities

whpearson6 Feb 2017 20:14 UTC
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Selec­tive so­cial policing

KatjaGrace6 Feb 2017 19:00 UTC
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True un­der­stand­ing comes from pass­ing exams

Stuart_Armstrong6 Feb 2017 11:51 UTC
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True un­der­stand­ing comes from pass­ing exams

Stuart_Armstrong6 Feb 2017 11:45 UTC
1 point
5 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—March 2017

luminosity6 Feb 2017 9:51 UTC
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Open thread, Feb. 06 - Feb. 12, 2017

MrMind6 Feb 2017 8:34 UTC
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Are we run­ning out of new mu­sic/​movies/​art from a meta­phys­i­cal per­spec­tive?

stephen_s5 Feb 2017 17:49 UTC
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Why I’m work­ing on satis­fic­ing in­tel­li­gence aug­men­ta­tion (and not blog­ging about it much)

whpearson5 Feb 2017 17:40 UTC
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

The hu­mil­ity ar­gu­ment for honesty

Benquo5 Feb 2017 17:26 UTC
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(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The hu­mil­ity ar­gu­ment for honesty

Benquo5 Feb 2017 17:26 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

sleepingthinker5 Feb 2017 11:13 UTC
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(gainweightjournal.com)

The hu­mil­ity ar­gu­ment for honesty

Benquo5 Feb 2017 6:54 UTC
2 points
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Against willpower as a sci­en­tific or oth­er­wise use­ful con­cept (Nau­tilus Magaz­ine)

Kaj_Sotala4 Feb 2017 22:11 UTC
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(nautil.us)

Does UDT *re­ally* get counter-fac­tu­ally mugged?

IAFF-User-1114 Feb 2017 21:46 UTC
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Learn­ing Im­pact in RL

IAFF-User-1114 Feb 2017 21:42 UTC
1 point
6 comments1 min readLW link

An idea for cre­at­ing safe AI

IAFF-User-2114 Feb 2017 11:16 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Effec­tive diversity

KatjaGrace3 Feb 2017 23:10 UTC
1 point
0 comments7 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek3 Feb 2017 16:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Why is the sur­pris­ingly pop­u­lar an­swer cor­rect?

Stuart_Armstrong3 Feb 2017 16:24 UTC
43 points
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Plan­ning 101: De­bi­as­ing and Research

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

Meetup : Chicago Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group

mingyuan3 Feb 2017 2:56 UTC
1 point
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Meetup : SF Meetup: Stories

maia3 Feb 2017 1:21 UTC
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Meetup : Bal­ti­more /​ UMBC Meetup—try­ing some­thing new!

iarwain13 Feb 2017 0:09 UTC
1 point
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Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2017

DreamFlasher2 Feb 2017 19:17 UTC
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Civil re­sis­tance and the 3.5% rule

morganism2 Feb 2017 18:53 UTC
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Death—an essay

dglukhov2 Feb 2017 17:25 UTC
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Death—an essay

dglukhov2 Feb 2017 17:01 UTC
1 point
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Is Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion The­ory pre­sump­tu­ous?

Tobias_Baumann2 Feb 2017 13:41 UTC
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Why won’t some peo­ple listen to rea­son?

Bound_up2 Feb 2017 2:50 UTC
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(www.bbc.com)

Yes, poli­tics can make us stupid. But there’s an im­por­tant ex­cep­tion to that rule.

Bound_up2 Feb 2017 1:34 UTC
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(www.vox.com)

A ques­tion about the rules

phl431 Feb 2017 22:55 UTC
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What a Por­tuguese chron­i­cler may teach us about moral relativism

phl431 Feb 2017 22:49 UTC
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(necpluribusimpar.net)

Hu­mans as a truth channel

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2017 16:53 UTC
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Hack­ing humans

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2017 16:08 UTC
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Hack­ing humans

Stuart_Armstrong1 Feb 2017 16:06 UTC
0 points
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Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Fe­bru­ary 2017

Viliam1 Feb 2017 12:11 UTC
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Meetup : Se­quences Read­ing Group

DreamFlasher1 Feb 2017 10:01 UTC
2 points
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Fe­bru­ary 2017 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Feb 2017 8:31 UTC
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Cen­sor­ing out-of-do­main representations

orthonormal1 Feb 2017 4:09 UTC
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The “I Already Get It” Slide

jsalvatier1 Feb 2017 3:11 UTC
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(johnsalvatier.org)

A great ar­tic­u­la­tion of why peo­ple find it hard to adopt a nat­u­ral­is­tic worldview

Stabilizer31 Jan 2017 21:08 UTC
4 points
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(www.youtube.com)

Pu­tanu­monit—A “statis­ti­cal sig­nifi­cance” story in finance

Jacob Falkovich31 Jan 2017 17:54 UTC
2 points
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(putanumonit.com)

“What Hap­pens When Doc­tors Only Take Cash”? Every­body, Espe­cially Pa­tients, Wins

morganism30 Jan 2017 23:57 UTC
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(reason.com)

A cen­tury of re­search fol­low­ing gifted kids.

morganism30 Jan 2017 23:44 UTC
6 points
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(www.psychologytoday.com)

How of­ten do you check this fo­rum?

JenniferRM30 Jan 2017 16:56 UTC
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