Book Reviews

Torello18 Jul 2017 14:19 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

On the com­pu­ta­tional fea­si­bil­ity of fore­cast­ing us­ing gamblers

Vanessa Kosoy18 Jul 2017 14:00 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

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

RyanCarey18 Jul 2017 6:30 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.biorxiv.org)

Open Prob­lems Re­gard­ing Coun­ter­fac­tu­als: An In­tro­duc­tion For Beginners

Diffractor18 Jul 2017 2:21 UTC
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.overleaf.com)

Open thread, Jul. 17 - Jul. 23, 2017

MrMind17 Jul 2017 8:15 UTC
1 point
70 comments1 min readLW link

Cur­rent thoughts on Paul Chris­tano’s re­search agenda

jessicata16 Jul 2017 21:08 UTC
22 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Ma­chine Learn­ing Group

Regex16 Jul 2017 20:58 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

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-word15 Jul 2017 21:35 UTC
16 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

Timeline of Ma­chine In­tel­li­gence Re­search Institute

riceissa15 Jul 2017 16:57 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(timelines.issarice.com)

Ex­am­ples of Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Risk (by Jeff Kauf­man)

Wei Dai15 Jul 2017 16:03 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

“Like this world, but...”

Stuart_Armstrong14 Jul 2017 20:40 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Del­ega­tive In­verse Re­in­force­ment Learning

Vanessa Kosoy12 Jul 2017 12:18 UTC
15 points
13 comments16 min readLW link

90% of prob­lems are recom­men­da­tion and adap­tion problems

casebash12 Jul 2017 4:53 UTC
11 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

On the Seat­tle Min­i­mum Wage Study (part 2)

Zvi11 Jul 2017 23:15 UTC
1 point
0 comments9 min readLW link

His­tory of ATEE

IAFF-User-23911 Jul 2017 18:18 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Be­com­ing stronger together

b4yes_duplicate0.992409072968312811 Jul 2017 13:00 UTC
30 points
39 comments9 min readLW link

In praise of fake frameworks

Valentine11 Jul 2017 2:12 UTC
116 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

In­ter­pret­ing Deep Neu­ral Net­works us­ing Cog­ni­tive Psy­chol­ogy (Deep­Mind)

Gunnar_Zarncke10 Jul 2017 21:09 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link
(deepmind.com)

Best Of Ra­tion­al­ity Blogs RSS Feed

SquirrelInHell10 Jul 2017 11:11 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, July 10 - July 16, 2017

Thomas10 Jul 2017 6:31 UTC
4 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

On the Seat­tle Min­i­mum Wage Study (part 1)

Zvi9 Jul 2017 19:44 UTC
2 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Bi-Weekly Ra­tional Feed

sapphire9 Jul 2017 19:11 UTC
14 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

The In­ter­net as an ex­is­ten­tial threat

Kaj_Sotala9 Jul 2017 11:40 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.raphkoster.com)

Daniel Dewey on MIRI’s Highly Reli­able Agent De­sign Work

lifelonglearner9 Jul 2017 4:35 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(effective-altruism.com)

Mini map of s-risks

turchin8 Jul 2017 12:33 UTC
6 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

New Re­la­tion­ship En­ergy as an Emo­tional Bias

squidious8 Jul 2017 7:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.blogger.com)

Epistemic Laws of Motion

SquirrelInHell7 Jul 2017 21:37 UTC
0 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Epistemic Laws of Motion

SquirrelInHell7 Jul 2017 21:35 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

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

mindspillage7 Jul 2017 18:53 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(techpolicylab.org)

Against lone wolf self-improvement

cousin_it7 Jul 2017 15:31 UTC
46 points
73 comments2 min readLW link

Call to action

Elo7 Jul 2017 9:10 UTC
7 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Red Team­ing Cli­mate Change Re­search—Should some­one be red-team­ing Ra­tion­al­ity/​EA too?

casebash7 Jul 2017 2:16 UTC
1 point
6 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian prob­a­bil­ity the­ory as ex­tended logic—a new result

ksvanhorn6 Jul 2017 19:14 UTC
37 points
40 comments4 min readLW link

Steel­man­ning the Chi­nese Room Argument

cousin_it6 Jul 2017 9:37 UTC
10 points
313 comments1 min readLW link

The Un­rea­son­able Effec­tive­ness of Cer­tain Questions

ig0r4 Jul 2017 3:37 UTC
4 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Less­wrong Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo on zen koans

Elo4 Jul 2017 0:10 UTC
0 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Sub­tle Forms of Con­fir­ma­tion Bias

abramdemski3 Jul 2017 23:00 UTC
19 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Devel­op­men­tal Psy­chol­ogy in The Age of Ems

Gordon Seidoh Worley3 Jul 2017 18:53 UTC
7 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Dis­solv­ing the Fermi Para­dox (Ap­plied Bayesi­anism)

shin_getter3 Jul 2017 9:44 UTC
16 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk)

Open thread, Jul. 03 - Jul. 09, 2017

MrMind3 Jul 2017 7:20 UTC
1 point
24 comments1 min readLW link

Smok­ing Le­sion Steelman

abramdemski2 Jul 2017 2:17 UTC
9 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Some Crit­i­cisms of the Log­i­cal In­duc­tion paper

IAFF-User-101 Jul 2017 21:29 UTC
4 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Res­cu­ing the Ex­tropy Magaz­ine archives

Deku-shrub1 Jul 2017 14:25 UTC
35 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

July 2017 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Jul 2017 6:40 UTC
1 point
17 comments1 min readLW link

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

Elizabeth1 Jul 2017 5:20 UTC
16 points
7 comments5 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Anec­do­tal panic pre­ven­tion strategies

KatjaGrace30 Jun 2017 22:00 UTC
1 point
1 comment4 min readLW link

A cheat­ing ap­proach to the tiling agents problem

cousin_it30 Jun 2017 13:56 UTC
4 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

One-Mag­is­terium Bayes

tristanm29 Jun 2017 23:02 UTC
17 points
108 comments14 min readLW link

What is Wis­dom?

ig0r29 Jun 2017 21:44 UTC
2 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Us­ing Ma­chine Learn­ing to Ex­plore Neu­ral Net­work Ar­chi­tec­ture (Google Re­search Blog)

Gunnar_Zarncke29 Jun 2017 20:42 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(research.googleblog.com)