Re­searchers study­ing cen­tury-old drug in po­ten­tial new ap­proach to autism

morganism27 May 2017 21:16 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link
(medicalxpress.com)

Strong men are so­cial­ist, re­ports study that pre­vi­ously re­ported the opposite

Jacob Falkovich27 May 2017 20:49 UTC
2 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

On “Over­think­ing” Concepts

Bound_up27 May 2017 17:07 UTC
9 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

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

whpearson27 May 2017 13:00 UTC
5 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Fic­tion advice

madhatter26 May 2017 21:31 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Develop skills, or “dive in” and start a startup?

Adam Zerner26 May 2017 18:07 UTC
4 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Look­ing for ma­chine learn­ing and com­puter sci­ence collaborators

Stuart_Armstrong26 May 2017 11:53 UTC
17 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

The Atomic Bomb Con­sid­ered As Hun­gar­ian High School Science Fair Project

Scott Alexander26 May 2017 9:45 UTC
55 points
10 comments14 min readLW link

Meetup : Su­per­in­tel­li­gence chap­ter 7

pepe_prime26 May 2017 8:11 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

OpenThreadGuy26 May 2017 7:34 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(wiki.lesswrong.com)

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Potluck

Mati_Roy25 May 2017 18:28 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI with­out an in­tel­li­gence explosion

AlexMennen25 May 2017 16:44 UTC
20 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Meetup : Chicago Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group

mingyuan25 May 2017 3:21 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to De­stroy Civilization

Zvi24 May 2017 23:29 UTC
1 point
1 comment6 min readLW link

Im­prob­a­ble Over­sight, An At­tempt at In­formed Oversight

William_S24 May 2017 17:43 UTC
3 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(william-r-s.github.io)

In­formed Over­sight through Gen­er­al­iz­ing Explanations

William_S24 May 2017 17:43 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(william-r-s.github.io)

Pro­posal for an Im­ple­mentable Toy Model of In­formed Oversight

William_S24 May 2017 17:43 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(william-r-s.github.io)

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Fun & Games

RobinZ24 May 2017 14:49 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

AI print­ing the util­ity value it’s maximising

Stuart_Armstrong24 May 2017 9:08 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­am­ple of dou­ble indifference

Stuart_Armstrong24 May 2017 8:58 UTC
2 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

When the AI closes a door, it opens a window

Stuart_Armstrong24 May 2017 8:49 UTC
0 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Reflex­ive Or­a­cles and su­per­ra­tional­ity: Pareto

Stuart_Armstrong24 May 2017 8:35 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Reflex­ive Or­a­cles and su­per­ra­tional­ity: pris­oner’s dilemma

Stuart_Armstrong24 May 2017 8:34 UTC
14 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Goal com­ple­tion: noise, er­rors, bias, prej­u­dice, prefer­ence and complexity

Stuart_Armstrong24 May 2017 8:30 UTC
0 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Re­mov­ing in­ter­rupted his­to­ries doesn’t debias

Stuart_Armstrong24 May 2017 8:23 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing val­ues ver­sus indifference

Stuart_Armstrong24 May 2017 8:20 UTC
2 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

The al­ter­nate hy­poth­e­sis for AIs in vir­tual worlds

Stuart_Armstrong24 May 2017 8:14 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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arunbharatula24 May 2017 4:31 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.google.com)

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arunbharatula24 May 2017 4:30 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Effec­tive learning

arunbharatula24 May 2017 4:28 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.google.com)

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arunbharatula24 May 2017 4:28 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.google.com)

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arunbharatula24 May 2017 4:27 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.google.com)

Notes from the Hufflepuff Unconference

Raemon23 May 2017 21:04 UTC
30 points
6 comments23 min readLW link

Meetup : Moscow LW meetup in “Nauchka” library

Alexander23023 May 2017 20:29 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Guarded learning

Stuart_Armstrong23 May 2017 16:53 UTC
4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Have We Been In­ter­pret­ing Quan­tum Me­chan­ics Wrong This Whole Time?

Brendan Long23 May 2017 16:38 UTC
3 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wired.com)

Sim­plified ex­pla­na­tion of stratification

Stuart_Armstrong23 May 2017 16:37 UTC
2 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Cor­rigi­bil­ity through strat­ified in­differ­ence and learning

Stuart_Armstrong23 May 2017 16:33 UTC
0 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

[LINK] Paper on re­duced im­pact ideas

Stuart_Armstrong23 May 2017 16:29 UTC
0 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: Fal­la­cy­ma­nia, Tower of Chaos, Scien­tific Discovery

Alexander23023 May 2017 16:16 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

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arunbharatula23 May 2017 4:33 UTC
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­is­tic Pro­gram­ming and Bayesian Meth­ods for Hackers

lifelonglearner22 May 2017 21:15 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(nbviewer.jupyter.org)

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

Stefan_Schubert22 May 2017 18:31 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(pubsonline.informs.org)

Con­vex­ity and truth-seeking

Stuart_Armstrong22 May 2017 18:12 UTC
0 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Toy model: con­ver­gent in­stru­men­tal goals

Stuart_Armstrong22 May 2017 18:07 UTC
0 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

A toy model of the treach­er­ous turn

Stuart_Armstrong22 May 2017 18:03 UTC
2 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Open thread, May 22 - May 28, 2017

Thomas22 May 2017 5:44 UTC
3 points
58 comments1 min readLW link

Why Most In­ten­tional Com­mu­ni­ties Fail (And Some Suc­ceed)

NoSignalNoNoise22 May 2017 3:04 UTC
11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(aeon.co)

An Ap­proach to Log­i­cally Up­date­less Decisions

abramdemski21 May 2017 23:02 UTC
3 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Learn­ing Deep Learn­ing the EASY way, with Keras

morganism21 May 2017 19:48 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(p.migdal.pl)