Open thread, Jan­uary 29 - ∞

Gunslinger28 Jan 2018 22:44 UTC
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All Math­e­mat­i­ci­ans are Trol­lable: Diver­gence of Nat­u­ral­is­tic Log­i­cal Updates

abramdemski28 Jan 2018 14:50 UTC
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Con­flict The­o­rists pre­tend to be Mis­take Theorists

Chris_Leong28 Jan 2018 12:06 UTC
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The differ­ent types (not sizes!) of infinity

Stuart_Armstrong28 Jan 2018 11:14 UTC
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A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy

Scott Alexander28 Jan 2018 9:01 UTC
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Pareto im­prove­ments are rarer than they seem

philh27 Jan 2018 22:23 UTC
27 points
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(reasonableapproximation.net)

Against In­stru­men­tal Convergence

zulupineapple27 Jan 2018 13:17 UTC
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Upvote/​down­vote amounts

gwillen27 Jan 2018 8:00 UTC
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Strat­egy Non­con­vex­ity In­duced by a Choice of Po­ten­tial Oracles

Diffractor27 Jan 2018 0:41 UTC
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What hap­pened with the Slate Star Codex im­port?

ChristianKl26 Jan 2018 19:19 UTC
5 points
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Magic Brain Juice

alkjash26 Jan 2018 17:54 UTC
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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Dogma of Ev­i­dence-based Medicine

ChristianKl25 Jan 2018 21:15 UTC
11 points
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On not get­ting swept away by men­tal content

Kaj_Sotala25 Jan 2018 20:30 UTC
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(kajsotala.fi)

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2018 Announcement

DreamFlasher25 Jan 2018 13:49 UTC
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Shell, Shield, Staff

SquirrelInHell25 Jan 2018 13:22 UTC
11 points
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(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

No­tifi­ca­tion up­date and PM fixes

habryka25 Jan 2018 1:06 UTC
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Form and Feed­back in Phenomenology

Gordon Seidoh Worley24 Jan 2018 19:42 UTC
17 points
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(mapandterritory.org)

Teach­ing Ladders

alkjash24 Jan 2018 19:01 UTC
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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast”

moridinamael24 Jan 2018 16:52 UTC
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What are the Best Ham­mers in the Ra­tion­al­ist Com­mu­nity?

Bound_up24 Jan 2018 14:43 UTC
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Dispel your jus­tifi­ca­tion-mon­key with a “HWA!”

MalcolmOcean24 Jan 2018 4:51 UTC
21 points
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Ther­a­peu­tic Conversation

alkjash24 Jan 2018 3:23 UTC
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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

What Is Love?

Bound_up24 Jan 2018 2:05 UTC
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In­ter­per­sonal Ap­proaches for X-Risk Education

TurnTrout24 Jan 2018 0:47 UTC
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Book Re­view—Prob­a­bil­ity and Fi­nance: It’s Only a Game!

ryan_b23 Jan 2018 18:52 UTC
12 points
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An Un­trol­lable Mathematician

abramdemski23 Jan 2018 18:46 UTC
23 points
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One-Con­scious­ness Universe

adrusi23 Jan 2018 8:46 UTC
0 points
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(practicalontology.com)

Ham­mers and Nails

alkjash23 Jan 2018 1:19 UTC
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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Un­der­stand­ing-1-2-3

Zvi23 Jan 2018 0:10 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ad­e­quacy as Levels of Play

Davis_Kingsley22 Jan 2018 20:57 UTC
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A sim­pler way to think about pos­i­tive test bias

cousin_it22 Jan 2018 9:38 UTC
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Innovanity

alkjash22 Jan 2018 5:05 UTC
8 points
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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Tak­ing it Pri­vate: Short Cir­cuit­ing De­mon Threads (work­ing ex­am­ple)

Raemon22 Jan 2018 0:37 UTC
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The Tallest Pygmy Effect

Elizabeth21 Jan 2018 23:00 UTC
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(acesounderglass.com)

Bugs?

Vanessa Kosoy21 Jan 2018 21:32 UTC
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Jacobcoin

Jacob Falkovich21 Jan 2018 20:50 UTC
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(putanumonit.com)

Book Re­view: The Se­crets of Alchemy

namespace21 Jan 2018 19:01 UTC
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How the LW2.0 front page could be bet­ter at in­cen­tiviz­ing good content

cousin_it21 Jan 2018 16:11 UTC
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Ac­tion­able Eisenhower

SquirrelInHell21 Jan 2018 15:26 UTC
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(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

My­opia and Com­fort Zones

alkjash20 Jan 2018 23:11 UTC
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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The De­sired Response

squidious20 Jan 2018 22:01 UTC
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Safe AIs through en­g­ineer­ing principles

Gerald Monroe20 Jan 2018 17:31 UTC
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Kenshō

Valentine20 Jan 2018 0:12 UTC
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Low Enough To See Your Shadow

alkjash19 Jan 2018 23:50 UTC
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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Fash­ion­able or Fun­da­men­tal Thought in Communities

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)19 Jan 2018 9:03 UTC
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Sin­gu­lar­ity Mindset

alkjash19 Jan 2018 0:32 UTC
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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

A model I use when mak­ing plans to re­duce AI x-risk

Ben Pace19 Jan 2018 0:21 UTC
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Dy­namic Karma & Static Karma

SquirrelInHell18 Jan 2018 20:23 UTC
6 points
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GoodAI an­nounced “AI Race Avoidance” challenge with $15k in prize money

Jan_Kulveit18 Jan 2018 18:05 UTC
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(www.general-ai-challenge.org)

Book Re­view: Life 3.0: Be­ing Hu­man in the Age of Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

J Thomas Moros18 Jan 2018 17:18 UTC
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(ferocioustruth.com)