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March 2017 Media Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Mar 2017 22:54 UTC

4 points

43 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : March Rationality meetup

Marko1 Mar 2017 16:59 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t Fear the Reaper: Refuting Bostrom’s Superintelligence Argument

sbenthall1 Mar 2017 14:28 UTC

9 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

[Stub] The wrong philosophical question

Stuart_Armstrong1 Mar 2017 12:31 UTC

7 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charles T. Munger

James_Miller1 Mar 2017 1:34 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.hb.org)

ribbonfarm: A Brief History of Existential Terror

9eB11 Mar 2017 1:18 UTC

4 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.ribbonfarm.com)

Meetup : #13 - Focusing

null28 Feb 2017 20:52 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

The value alignment problem as an interactive game

IAFF-User-21128 Feb 2017 19:40 UTC

0 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

CFAR Workshop Review: February 2017

lifelonglearner28 Feb 2017 3:15 UTC

12 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

Familiar Finance

Jacob Falkovich27 Feb 2017 21:12 UTC

1 point

0 comments4 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Humble Charlie

Benquo27 Feb 2017 19:04 UTC

5 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

A Modern Myth

Scott Alexander27 Feb 2017 17:29 UTC

38 points

1 comment49 min readLW link

Open Thread, Feb. 27 - March 5, 2017

Elo27 Feb 2017 4:32 UTC

6 points

174 comments1 min readLW link

Metrics in Everything: “Human Lives”

Zvi26 Feb 2017 16:18 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 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

What Should the Average EA Do About AI Alignment?

Raemon25 Feb 2017 20:37 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(effective-altruism.com)

“Field Patterns” as a new mathmatical construct.

morganism24 Feb 2017 23:56 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

(unews.utah.edu)

The AI Paper with The Best Title Ever

Zvi24 Feb 2017 22:38 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

First principles thinking and better, more creative solutions to problems

sleepingthinker24 Feb 2017 21:51 UTC

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

(gainweightjournal.com)

First principles thinking and better, more creative solutions to problems

sleepingthinker24 Feb 2017 21:49 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

DEAD THREAD

Halfwitz24 Feb 2017 21:41 UTC

6 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Against neglectedness considerations

Benquo24 Feb 2017 21:41 UTC

4 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Selecting Leaders with Random Sampling and Standardized Testing

Halfwitz24 Feb 2017 21:34 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Selecting Leaders with Random Sampling and Standardized Testing:https://medium.com/@LyleCantor/an-alternative-to-democracy-e4ba2af07a85#.wtdza9jy2

Halfwitz24 Feb 2017 21:31 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Translation “counterfactual”

Stuart_Armstrong24 Feb 2017 18:36 UTC

4 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Concrete Takeaways Post-CFAR

lifelonglearner24 Feb 2017 18:31 UTC

20 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Meetup—general discussion

iarwain124 Feb 2017 17:08 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek24 Feb 2017 16:49 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Group Debugging

rocurley24 Feb 2017 16:29 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

The price you pay for arriving to class on time

alex_zag_al24 Feb 2017 14:11 UTC

1 point

4 comments1 min readLW link

(raginrayguns.tumblr.com)

The Monkey and the Machine

ProofOfLogic23 Feb 2017 21:38 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(sideways-view.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)

Nearest unblocked strategy versus learning patches

Stuart_Armstrong23 Feb 2017 12:42 UTC

21 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Nearest unblocked strategy versus learning patches

Stuart_Armstrong23 Feb 2017 12:33 UTC

1 point

9 comments2 min readLW link

On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflicts

morganism23 Feb 2017 3:46 UTC

1 point

5 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

DARPA Perspective on AI

morganism23 Feb 2017 3:27 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.darpa.mil)

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

jessicata23 Feb 2017 0:40 UTC

13 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Denver Area LW March Meetup (CHANGED TO MONDAY 3/6!)

PonchoPal22 Feb 2017 23:42 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Prescientific Organizational Theory (Ribbonfarm)

Davidmanheim22 Feb 2017 23:00 UTC

4 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

(www.ribbonfarm.com)

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)

Meetup : Chicago Rationality Reading Group—Luminosity Part 2

mingyuan22 Feb 2017 3:05 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Prediction Based Robust Cooperation

Scott Garrabrant22 Feb 2017 1:52 UTC

17 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

The Semiotic Fallacy

Stabilizer21 Feb 2017 4:50 UTC

29 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

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