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Gears in understanding

ValentineMay 12, 2017, 12:36 AM
196 points
38 comments10 min readLW link

Real­ity has a sur­pris­ing amount of detail

jsalvatierMay 13, 2017, 8:02 PM
90 points
31 comments1 min readLW link
(johnsalvatier.org)

The Atomic Bomb Con­sid­ered As Hun­gar­ian High School Science Fair Project

Scott AlexanderMay 26, 2017, 9:45 AM
56 points
10 comments14 min readLW link

Soft Skills for Run­ning Mee­tups for Beginners

RaemonMay 6, 2017, 4:04 PM
37 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

Notes from the Hufflepuff Unconference

RaemonMay 23, 2017, 9:04 PM
30 points
6 comments23 min readLW link

Thoughts on civ­i­liza­tion collapse

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 4, 2017, 10:41 AM
28 points
79 comments1 min readLW link

Bad in­tent is a dis­po­si­tion, not a feeling

BenquoMay 1, 2017, 1:28 AM
26 points
74 comments4 min readLW link

Bi-Weekly Ra­tional Feed

sapphireMay 28, 2017, 5:12 PM
21 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

A Month’s Worth of Ra­tional Posts—Feed­back on my Ra­tion­al­ity Feed.

sapphireMay 15, 2017, 2:21 PM
21 points
8 comments13 min readLW link

That is not dead which can eter­nal lie: the aes­ti­va­tion hy­poth­e­sis for re­solv­ing Fermi’s paradox

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 11, 2017, 9:16 AM
21 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

SlateS­tarCodex Mee­tups Every­where: Analysis

mingyuanMay 13, 2017, 12:29 AM
21 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI with­out an in­tel­li­gence explosion

AlexMennenMay 25, 2017, 4:44 PM
20 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Look­ing for ma­chine learn­ing and com­puter sci­ence collaborators

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 26, 2017, 11:53 AM
17 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Reflex­ive Or­a­cles and su­per­ra­tional­ity: Pareto

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 24, 2017, 8:35 AM
16 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

AI safety: three hu­man prob­lems and one AI issue

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 19, 2017, 10:48 AM
16 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­iz­ing Foun­da­tions of De­ci­sion The­ory II

abramdemskiMay 6, 2017, 8:40 PM
15 points
4 comments19 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ments, iter­a­tions and the sci­en­tific method

EloMay 2, 2017, 12:59 AM
15 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

WMDs in Iraq and Syria

ChristianKlMay 10, 2017, 9:03 PM
15 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

CFAR work­shop with new in­struc­tors in Seat­tle, 6/​7-6/​11

Qiaochu_YuanMay 20, 2017, 12:18 AM
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Reflex­ive Or­a­cles and su­per­ra­tional­ity: pris­oner’s dilemma

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 24, 2017, 8:34 AM
14 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

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arunbharatulaMay 28, 2017, 4:22 AM
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

How To Build A Com­mu­nity Full Of Lonely People

maiaMay 17, 2017, 3:25 PM
12 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(particularvirtue.blogspot.com)

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arunbharatulaMay 23, 2017, 4:33 AM
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Why Most In­ten­tional Com­mu­ni­ties Fail (And Some Suc­ceed)

NoSignalNoNoiseMay 22, 2017, 3:04 AM
11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(aeon.co)

Hid­den uni­ver­sal ex­pan­sion: stop­ping runaways

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 11, 2017, 9:01 AM
11 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

An­thropic un­cer­tainty in the Ev­i­den­tial Black­mail problem

Johannes TreutleinMay 14, 2017, 4:43 PM
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(casparoesterheld.com)

Cog­ni­tive Core Sys­tems ex­plain­ing in­tu­itions be­hind be­lief in souls, free will, and cre­ation myths

Kaj_SotalaMay 6, 2017, 12:13 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

How I’d In­tro­duce LessWrong to an Outsider

Adam ZernerMay 3, 2017, 4:32 AM
10 points
25 comments7 min readLW link

AI arms race

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 4, 2017, 10:59 AM
10 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

On “Over­think­ing” Concepts

Bound_upMay 27, 2017, 5:07 PM
9 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

As there are a num­ber of pod­casts by LWers now, I’ve made a wiki page for them

OpenThreadGuyMay 26, 2017, 7:34 AM
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(wiki.lesswrong.com)

Act­ing on your in­tended prefer­ences—What does that look like in prac­tice? (crit­i­cal in­tro­spec­tive ques­tions)

EloMay 3, 2017, 12:51 AM
8 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Reach­ing out to peo­ple with the prob­lems of friendly AI

ValMay 16, 2017, 7:30 PM
8 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Over­com­ing Al­gorithm Aver­sion: Peo­ple Will Use Im­perfect Al­gorithms If They Can (Even Slightly) Mod­ify Them

Stefan_SchubertMay 22, 2017, 6:31 PM
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(pubsonline.informs.org)

Futarchy Fix

abramdemskiMay 30, 2017, 5:46 AM
7 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

Are causal de­ci­sion the­o­rists try­ing to out­smart con­di­tional prob­a­bil­ities?

Caspar OesterheldMay 16, 2017, 8:01 AM
7 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

In­ter­view on IQ, genes, and ge­netic en­g­ineer­ing with ex­pert (Hsu)

James_MillerMay 28, 2017, 10:19 PM
7 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

“AIXIjs: A Soft­ware Demo for Gen­eral Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing”, As­lanides 2017

gwernMay 29, 2017, 9:09 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

The ro­bust beauty of im­proper lin­ear models

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 16, 2017, 3:06 PM
7 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

On-line google hang­out on ap­proaches to the con­trol prob­lem (2017/​6/​13 7PM UTC)

whpearsonMay 7, 2017, 7:13 PM
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Mak­ing de­ci­sions in a real com­puter—an ar­gu­ment for meta-de­ci­sion the­ory research

whpearsonMay 13, 2017, 11:18 PM
6 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Diver­gent prefer­ences and meta-preferences

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 30, 2017, 7:33 AM
6 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

In­vi­ta­tion to com­ment on a draft on mul­ti­verse-wide co­op­er­a­tion via al­ter­na­tives to causal de­ci­sion the­ory (FDT/​UDT/​EDT/​...)

Caspar OesterheldMay 29, 2017, 8:34 AM
6 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Keep­ing up with deep re­in­force­ment learn­ing re­search: /​r/​reinforcementlearning

gwernMay 16, 2017, 7:12 PM
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

AGI and Main­stream Culture

madhatterMay 21, 2017, 8:35 AM
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Reper­son­al­iz­ing the High Status

squidiousMay 16, 2017, 7:00 AM
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.blogger.com)

Work­ing with mul­ti­ple prob­lems at once

EloMay 6, 2017, 10:14 PM
5 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Equil­ibria in ad­ver­sar­ial su­per­vised learning

RyanCareyMay 3, 2017, 8:14 AM
5 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

[brain­storm] - What should the AGIrisk com­mu­nity look like?

whpearsonMay 27, 2017, 1:00 PM
5 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, May 8 - May 14, 2017

ThomasMay 8, 2017, 8:10 AM
5 points
82 comments1 min readLW link