All20052006200720082009201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
AllJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
All12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031

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

whpearson13 May 2017 23:18 UTC
6 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Sur­fing Uncer­tainty: Pre­dic­tion, Ac­tion, and the Em­bod­ied Mind—The Fu­ture of Prediction

morganism13 May 2017 20:59 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.oxfordscholarship.com)

Real­ity has a sur­pris­ing amount of detail

jsalvatier13 May 2017 20:02 UTC
82 points
30 comments1 min readLW link
(johnsalvatier.org)

Why do we think most AIs un­in­ten­tion­ally cre­ated by hu­mans would cre­ate a worse world, when the hu­man mind was de­signed by ran­dom mu­ta­tions and nat­u­ral se­lec­tion, and cre­ated a bet­ter world?

contravariant13 May 2017 8:23 UTC
3 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion The­o­ries in Real Life

lifelonglearner13 May 2017 1:47 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(mindlevelup.wordpress.com)

SlateS­tarCodex Mee­tups Every­where: Analysis

mingyuan13 May 2017 0:29 UTC
21 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Meetup : [Metro Detroit /​ Ann Ar­bor], Michi­gan: LW and SSC meetup where I bring food

excinera12 May 2017 20:51 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Rea­son­ing upon its own dark fiction

Jacob Falkovich12 May 2017 4:40 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Gears in understanding

Valentine12 May 2017 0:36 UTC
193 points
38 comments10 min readLW link

Meetup : Chicago Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group

mingyuan11 May 2017 23:49 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Sur­vivor­ship Bias

RobinZ11 May 2017 23:46 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Acausal trade: Introduction

Stuart_Armstrong11 May 2017 12:03 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

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

Stuart_Armstrong11 May 2017 9:16 UTC
21 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Hid­den uni­ver­sal ex­pan­sion: stop­ping runaways

Stuart_Armstrong11 May 2017 9:01 UTC
11 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Syd­ney Pub meetup—May

Elo11 May 2017 1:35 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

WMDs in Iraq and Syria

ChristianKl10 May 2017 21:03 UTC
15 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Su­per­in­tel­li­gence chap­ter 6

pepe_prime10 May 2017 12:55 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Modern port­fo­lio theory

pepe_prime10 May 2017 12:42 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Meetup 17 - Com­fort Zone Ex­pan­sion (CoZE)

null10 May 2017 9:59 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Time Well Spent

Jacob Falkovich9 May 2017 14:46 UTC
0 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

From data to de­ci­sions: Pro­cess­ing in­for­ma­tion, bi­ases, and be­liefs for im­proved man­age­ment of nat­u­ral re­sources and environments

Gunnar_Zarncke8 May 2017 21:47 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Open thread, May 8 - May 14, 2017

Thomas8 May 2017 8:10 UTC
5 points
82 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Stories

rocurley8 May 2017 6:17 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

whpearson7 May 2017 19:13 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Al­gorith­mic tacit collusion

Stefan_Schubert7 May 2017 14:57 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.economist.com)

A cor­re­lated analogue of re­flec­tive oracles

jessicata7 May 2017 7:00 UTC
4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Meetup : Baltimore

l1n6 May 2017 23:51 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Work­ing with mul­ti­ple prob­lems at once

Elo6 May 2017 22:14 UTC
5 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Change

Zack_M_Davis6 May 2017 21:17 UTC
2 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(zackmdavis.net)

Gen­er­al­iz­ing Foun­da­tions of De­ci­sion The­ory II

abramdemski6 May 2017 20:40 UTC
15 points
4 comments19 min readLW link

In­finite ethics comparisons

Stuart_Armstrong6 May 2017 19:24 UTC
1 point
2 comments3 min readLW link

Soft Skills for Run­ning Mee­tups for Beginners

Raemon6 May 2017 16:04 UTC
37 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

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

Kaj_Sotala6 May 2017 12:13 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Nui­sance Noise and Com­pet­ing Ac­cess Needs

Fluttershy4 May 2017 22:07 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

AI arms race

Stuart_Armstrong4 May 2017 10:59 UTC
10 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on civ­i­liza­tion collapse

Stuart_Armstrong4 May 2017 10:41 UTC
28 points
79 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Re­gres­sion to the Mean

RobinZ4 May 2017 2:09 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Chicago Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity Training

mingyuan4 May 2017 1:29 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

From Jonathan Haidt: A site that lets you “ex­pe­rience differ­ent view­points”

fortyeridania3 May 2017 16:01 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(heterodoxacademy.org)

In­terthe­o­retic util­ity com­par­i­son: out­comes, strate­gies and utilities

Stuart_Armstrong3 May 2017 8:37 UTC
0 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

In­terthe­o­retic util­ity com­par­i­son: sim­ple theory

Stuart_Armstrong3 May 2017 8:36 UTC
1 point
8 comments4 min readLW link

Equil­ibria in ad­ver­sar­ial su­per­vised learning

RyanCarey3 May 2017 8:14 UTC
5 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Call for Spe­cial Is­sue on Su­per­in­tel­li­gence—Informatica

RyanCarey3 May 2017 5:08 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.informatica.si)

How I’d In­tro­duce LessWrong to an Outsider

Adam Zerner3 May 2017 4:32 UTC
10 points
25 comments7 min readLW link

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

Elo3 May 2017 0:51 UTC
8 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

De­com­pos­ing the nor­mal com­puter con­trol problem

whpearson2 May 2017 21:47 UTC
4 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Find­ing re­flec­tive or­a­cle dis­tri­bu­tions us­ing a Kaku­tani map

jessicata2 May 2017 2:12 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ments, iter­a­tions and the sci­en­tific method

Elo2 May 2017 0:59 UTC
15 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Open thread, May. 1 - May. 7, 2017

Thomas1 May 2017 15:55 UTC
3 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

May 2017 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 May 2017 10:26 UTC
3 points
39 comments1 min readLW link