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Open thread, July 31 - Au­gust 6, 2017

Thomas31 Jul 2017 14:41 UTC
1 point
72 comments1 min readLW link

Should I study hyp­no­sis?

Bound_up30 Jul 2017 17:11 UTC
6 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Models of hu­man re­la­tion­ships—tools to un­der­stand people

Elo29 Jul 2017 3:31 UTC
29 points
27 comments22 min readLW link

Game The­ory & The Golden Rule (From Red­dit)

Brillyant28 Jul 2017 13:54 UTC
22 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(ncase.me)

Type The­ory quick question

Faustus226 Jul 2017 19:57 UTC
0 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

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

Kaj_Sotala26 Jul 2017 12:56 UTC
23 points
21 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

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

Xianda_GAO_duplicate0.532150578239571926 Jul 2017 1:01 UTC
1 point
7 comments5 min readLW link

Ig­no­rant, ir­rele­vant, and in­scrutable (ra­tio­nal­ism cri­tiques)

Gordon Seidoh Worley25 Jul 2017 21:57 UTC
2 points
33 comments1 min readLW link
(meaningness.com)

What Are The Chances of Ac­tu­ally Achiev­ing FAI?

Bound_up25 Jul 2017 20:57 UTC
3 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

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

Bound_up25 Jul 2017 17:41 UTC
15 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

Bayesian statis­tics as epistemic advantage

Dr_Manhattan25 Jul 2017 17:07 UTC
0 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Steel­man­ning as an al­ter­na­tive to Ra­tion­al­ist Taboo

cousin_it25 Jul 2017 16:27 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Com­plex­ity Is Bad

Zvi25 Jul 2017 12:00 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Episte­molog­i­cal Im­pli­ca­tions of a Re­duc­tion of The­o­ret­i­cal Im­plau­si­bil­ity to Cog­ni­tive Dissonance

common_law25 Jul 2017 1:29 UTC
0 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Bi-Weekly Ra­tional Feed

sapphire24 Jul 2017 21:56 UTC
10 points
1 comment15 min readLW link

Write Down Your Process

Zvi24 Jul 2017 21:02 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Is Altru­ism Selfish?

DragonGod24 Jul 2017 7:41 UTC
2 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Open thread, July 24 - July 30, 2017

Thomas24 Jul 2017 7:28 UTC
1 point
15 comments1 min readLW link

War of Wages part 1 – Ap­ples and WalMarts

Jacob Falkovich24 Jul 2017 1:46 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

What is In­tel­li­gence?

DragonGod23 Jul 2017 0:12 UTC
0 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

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

richard_reitz22 Jul 2017 19:26 UTC
22 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

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

Xianda_GAO_duplicate0.532150578239571922 Jul 2017 14:50 UTC
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Choices are Bad

Zvi22 Jul 2017 11:51 UTC
10 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

How long has civil­i­sa­tion been go­ing?

Elo22 Jul 2017 6:41 UTC
11 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

Can any­one re­fute these ar­gu­ments that we live on the in­te­rior of a hol­low Earth?

Fivehundred21 Jul 2017 16:51 UTC
−4 points
96 comments1 min readLW link

MILA gets a grant for AI safety research

Dr_Manhattan21 Jul 2017 15:34 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ways of Seeing

ig0r21 Jul 2017 1:42 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

The dark arts: Ex­am­ples from the Har­ris-Adams conversation

Stabilizer20 Jul 2017 23:42 UTC
22 points
73 comments3 min readLW link

Be my neighbor

KatjaGrace20 Jul 2017 20:16 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

What Value Subagents?

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 Jul 2017 19:19 UTC
7 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Change Is Bad

Zvi20 Jul 2017 0:48 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Sam Har­ris and Scott Adams de­bate Trump: a model ra­tio­nal­ist disagreement

James_Miller20 Jul 2017 0:18 UTC
2 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(www.samharris.org)

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

Xianda_GAO_duplicate0.532150578239571919 Jul 2017 23:00 UTC
5 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

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

Xianda_GAO_duplicate0.532150578239571919 Jul 2017 22:11 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readLW link

Look­ing for ideas about Episte­mol­ogy re­lated topics

Onemorenickname19 Jul 2017 18:56 UTC
1 point
9 comments2 min readLW link

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)