In praise of fake frameworks

ValentineJul 11, 2017, 2:12 AM
117 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

Against lone wolf self-improvement

cousin_itJul 7, 2017, 3:31 PM
46 points
73 comments2 min readLW link

Bayesian prob­a­bil­ity the­ory as ex­tended logic—a new result

ksvanhornJul 6, 2017, 7:14 PM
37 points
40 comments4 min readLW link

Res­cu­ing the Ex­tropy Magaz­ine archives

Deku-shrubJul 1, 2017, 2:25 PM
35 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Models of hu­man re­la­tion­ships—tools to un­der­stand people

EloJul 29, 2017, 3:31 AM
30 points
27 comments22 min readLW link

Be­com­ing stronger together

b4yes_duplicate0.9924090729683128Jul 11, 2017, 1:00 PM
30 points
39 comments9 min readLW link

How I [Kaj] found & fixed the root prob­lem be­hind my de­pres­sion and anx­iety af­ter 20+ years

Kaj_SotalaJul 26, 2017, 12:56 PM
23 points
21 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Book Re­view: Math­e­mat­ics for Com­puter Science (Sugges­tion for MIRI Re­search Guide)

richard_reitzJul 22, 2017, 7:26 PM
22 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Cur­rent thoughts on Paul Chris­tano’s re­search agenda

jessicataJul 16, 2017, 9:08 PM
22 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Game The­ory & The Golden Rule (From Red­dit)

BrillyantJul 28, 2017, 1:54 PM
22 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(ncase.me)

The dark arts: Ex­am­ples from the Har­ris-Adams conversation

StabilizerJul 20, 2017, 11:42 PM
22 points
72 comments3 min readLW link

Open Prob­lems Re­gard­ing Coun­ter­fac­tu­als: An In­tro­duc­tion For Beginners

DiffractorJul 18, 2017, 2:21 AM
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.overleaf.com)

Sub­tle Forms of Con­fir­ma­tion Bias

abramdemskiJul 3, 2017, 11:00 PM
20 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Epistemic Spot Check: A Guide To Bet­ter Move­ment (Todd Har­grove)

ElizabethJul 1, 2017, 5:20 AM
16 points
7 comments5 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

LessWrong Is Not about Fo­rum Soft­ware, LessWrong Is about Posts (Or: How to Im­ma­nen­tize the LW 2.0 Escha­ton in 2.5 Easy Steps!)

enye-wordJul 15, 2017, 9:35 PM
16 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

Dis­solv­ing the Fermi Para­dox (Ap­plied Bayesi­anism)

shin_getterJul 3, 2017, 9:44 AM
16 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk)

Daniel Dewey on MIRI’s Highly Reli­able Agent De­sign Work

lifelonglearnerJul 9, 2017, 4:35 AM
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(effective-altruism.com)

Del­ega­tive In­verse Re­in­force­ment Learning

Vanessa KosoyJul 12, 2017, 12:18 PM
15 points
13 comments16 min readLW link

Peo­ple don’t have be­liefs any more than they have goals: Beliefs As Body Language

Bound_upJul 25, 2017, 5:41 PM
15 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

Bi-Weekly Ra­tional Feed

sapphireJul 9, 2017, 7:11 PM
14 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

Change Is Bad

ZviJul 20, 2017, 12:48 AM
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

How long has civil­i­sa­tion been go­ing?

EloJul 22, 2017, 6:41 AM
11 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

90% of prob­lems are recom­men­da­tion and adap­tion problems

casebashJul 12, 2017, 4:53 AM
11 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Bi-Weekly Ra­tional Feed

sapphireJul 24, 2017, 9:56 PM
10 points
1 comment15 min readLW link

Steel­man­ning the Chi­nese Room Argument

cousin_itJul 6, 2017, 9:37 AM
10 points
313 comments1 min readLW link

Choices are Bad

ZviJul 22, 2017, 11:51 AM
10 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

MILA gets a grant for AI safety research

Dr_ManhattanJul 21, 2017, 3:34 PM
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ma­chine Learn­ing Group

RegexJul 16, 2017, 8:58 PM
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Smok­ing Le­sion Steelman

abramdemskiJul 2, 2017, 2:17 AM
9 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Timeline of Ma­chine In­tel­li­gence Re­search Institute

riceissaJul 15, 2017, 4:57 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(timelines.issarice.com)

The In­ter­net as an ex­is­ten­tial threat

Kaj_SotalaJul 9, 2017, 11:40 AM
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.raphkoster.com)

Devel­op­men­tal Psy­chol­ogy in The Age of Ems

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJul 3, 2017, 6:53 PM
7 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Call to action

EloJul 7, 2017, 9:10 AM
7 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

On the com­pu­ta­tional fea­si­bil­ity of fore­cast­ing us­ing gamblers

Vanessa KosoyJul 18, 2017, 2:00 PM
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

What Value Subagents?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJul 20, 2017, 7:19 PM
7 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Ex­am­ples of Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Risk (by Jeff Kauf­man)

Wei DaiJul 15, 2017, 4:03 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Should I study hyp­no­sis?

Bound_upJul 30, 2017, 5:11 PM
6 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Com­plex­ity Is Bad

ZviJul 25, 2017, 12:00 PM
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Mini map of s-risks

turchinJul 8, 2017, 12:33 PM
6 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Book Reviews

TorelloJul 18, 2017, 2:19 PM
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Sleep­ing Beauty Prob­lem Can Be Ex­plained by Per­spec­tive Disagree­ment (II)

Xianda_GAO_duplicate0.5321505782395719Jul 19, 2017, 11:00 PM
5 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

The Un­rea­son­able Effec­tive­ness of Cer­tain Questions

ig0rJul 4, 2017, 3:37 AM
4 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Some Crit­i­cisms of the Log­i­cal In­duc­tion paper

IAFF-User-10Jul 1, 2017, 9:29 PM
4 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Open thread, July 10 - July 16, 2017

ThomasJul 10, 2017, 6:31 AM
4 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

Best Of Ra­tion­al­ity Blogs RSS Feed

SquirrelInHellJul 10, 2017, 11:11 AM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

A com­bined anal­y­sis of ge­net­i­cally cor­re­lated traits iden­ti­fies 107 loci as­so­ci­ated with in­tel­li­gence | bioRxiv

RyanCareyJul 18, 2017, 6:30 AM
4 points
1 commentLW link
(www.biorxiv.org)

What Are The Chances of Ac­tu­ally Achiev­ing FAI?

Bound_upJul 25, 2017, 8:57 PM
3 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

New Re­la­tion­ship En­ergy as an Emo­tional Bias

squidiousJul 8, 2017, 7:00 AM
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.blogger.com)

Post­doc open­ing at U. of Wash­ing­ton in AI law and policy

mindspillageJul 7, 2017, 6:53 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(techpolicylab.org)

On the Seat­tle Min­i­mum Wage Study (part 1)

ZviJul 9, 2017, 7:44 PM
2 points
0 comments10 min readLW link