Ad­dress­ing three prob­lems with coun­ter­fac­tual cor­rigi­bil­ity: bad bets, defend­ing against back­stops, and over­con­fi­dence.

RyanCarey21 Oct 2018 12:03 UTC
23 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

South Bay Meetup

DavidFriedman21 Oct 2018 6:21 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Berkeley: be­ing other people

KatjaGrace21 Oct 2018 2:50 UTC
18 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(worldlypositions.tumblr.com)

The Bizarre Be­hav­ior of Berkeley Rationalists

playablecharacter20 Oct 2018 4:13 UTC
−12 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

New GreaterWrong fea­ture: anti-kib­itzer (hides post/​com­ment au­thor names and karma val­ues)

Said Achmiz19 Oct 2018 21:03 UTC
48 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Art of the Overbet

Zvi19 Oct 2018 14:00 UTC
53 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Up­date on Struc­tured Concurrency

Martin Sustrik19 Oct 2018 11:10 UTC
35 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

Book re­view: 23 things they don’t tell you about capitalism

Richard_Ngo18 Oct 2018 23:05 UTC
21 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Pop­u­la­tion Aging as an Im­ped­i­ment to Ad­dress­ing Global Catas­trophic Risks

Michael Flood18 Oct 2018 22:28 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Face­book, The Ro­dents, and The Com­mon Knowl­edge Machine

Regex18 Oct 2018 21:07 UTC
16 points
21 comments1 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

IAS Spe­cial Year on Op­ti­mi­sa­tion, Statis­tics and The­o­ret­i­cal Ma­chine Learning

DragonGod18 Oct 2018 15:43 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.math.ias.edu)

UBI for President

Jacob Falkovich18 Oct 2018 15:09 UTC
45 points
14 comments10 min readLW link

South Bay SSC Meetup

DavidFriedman18 Oct 2018 7:58 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Be­ing a Ro­bust Agent

Raemon18 Oct 2018 7:00 UTC
151 points
32 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

Bos­ton SSC Meetup

Taymon Beal18 Oct 2018 3:43 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Dat­ing book recommendations

Flipnash18 Oct 2018 0:20 UTC
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

New /​r/​gw­ern sub­red­dit for link-sharing

gwern17 Oct 2018 22:49 UTC
45 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

Try­ing for Five Minutes on AI Strategy

Vaughn Papenhausen17 Oct 2018 16:18 UTC
18 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Do An­i­mals Have Rights?

Vizi Andrei17 Oct 2018 15:22 UTC
7 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Policy Beats Morality

Davidmanheim17 Oct 2018 6:39 UTC
15 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

My Hello World

Willa17 Oct 2018 4:47 UTC
9 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

case study: iter­a­tive drawing

brown17 Oct 2018 4:35 UTC
23 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

at­ten­tion and awareness

brown17 Oct 2018 4:09 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

“Now here’s why I’m punch­ing you...”

philh16 Oct 2018 21:30 UTC
28 points
24 comments4 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Is It Mo­rally Wrong To En­force A Sur­ro­gate Mother­hood Con­tract?

Vizi Andrei16 Oct 2018 19:40 UTC
3 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Vienna Meetup, Oc­to­ber 2018

Laszlo_Treszkai16 Oct 2018 14:51 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

notic­ing in­ter­nal ex­pe­riences

brown16 Oct 2018 1:36 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Align­ment Newslet­ter #28

Rohin Shah15 Oct 2018 21:20 UTC
11 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

The Kelly Criterion

Zvi15 Oct 2018 21:20 UTC
97 points
24 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Where is my Fly­ing Car?

PeterMcCluskey15 Oct 2018 18:39 UTC
50 points
10 comments17 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Ex­po­nen­tial Altru­ism: A Strat­egy For A New World

larriant15 Oct 2018 11:57 UTC
−2 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Co­or­di­na­tion Prob­lems in Evolu­tion: The Rise of Eukaryotes

Martin Sustrik15 Oct 2018 6:18 UTC
49 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Coun­ter­fac­tu­als are low-res

Shmi15 Oct 2018 3:36 UTC
23 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(donerkebabphilosophy.wordpress.com)

Effec­tive Altru­ism Book Re­view: Rad­i­cal Abun­dance (Nan­otech­nol­ogy)

Isnasene14 Oct 2018 23:57 UTC
45 points
5 comments19 min readLW link

Out­line of Me­ta­ra­tional­ity, or much less than you wanted to know about postrationality

Gordon Seidoh Worley14 Oct 2018 22:08 UTC
23 points
151 comments2 min readLW link

Oc­to­ber Nashville SSC Meetup

Dude McDude13 Oct 2018 20:00 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Book re­view: The Com­pla­cent Class

Richard_Ngo13 Oct 2018 19:20 UTC
20 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

On Hol­ly­wood Heroism

dragohole12 Oct 2018 21:35 UTC
10 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Co­or­di­na­tion Prob­lems in Evolu­tion: Ei­gen’s Paradox

Martin Sustrik12 Oct 2018 12:40 UTC
105 points
6 comments8 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

Nyoom

Alicorn12 Oct 2018 2:34 UTC
84 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

Ad­di­tional ar­gu­ments for NIMBY

Zvi11 Oct 2018 20:40 UTC
32 points
10 comments13 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Public Po­si­tions and Pri­vate Guts

Vaniver11 Oct 2018 19:38 UTC
85 points
13 comments8 min readLW link

Bay Area: vibes

KatjaGrace11 Oct 2018 19:00 UTC
40 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(worldlypositions.tumblr.com)

Why don’t we treat ge­niuses like pro­fes­sional ath­letes?

ryan_b11 Oct 2018 15:37 UTC
24 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Thinkerly: Gram­marly for writ­ing good thoughts

ryan_b11 Oct 2018 14:57 UTC
5 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Two Kinds of Tech­nol­ogy Change

johnswentworth11 Oct 2018 4:54 UTC
62 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Less to Greater, Book­marklet Edition

Three-Monkey Mind11 Oct 2018 4:21 UTC
19 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.threemonkeymind.com)

Maps of Mean­ing: Abridged and Translated

Vaniver11 Oct 2018 0:27 UTC
53 points
14 comments10 min readLW link

Stan­dard ML Or­a­cles vs Coun­ter­fac­tual ones

Stuart_Armstrong10 Oct 2018 20:01 UTC
18 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

We can all be high status

null10 Oct 2018 16:54 UTC
62 points
24 comments5 min readLW link