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Kalman Filter for Bayesians

SatvikBeriOct 22, 2018, 5:06 PM

51 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Alignment Newsletter #29

Rohin ShahOct 22, 2018, 4:20 PM

15 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Whole Brain Emulation & DL: imitation learning for faster AGI?

gwernOct 22, 2018, 3:07 PM

15 points

0 comments LW link

(www.reddit.com)

Second Atlanta SSC Meetup

Steve FrenchOct 22, 2018, 11:02 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Why do we like stories?

joshuxOct 22, 2018, 5:23 AM

7 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

(steemit.com)

One Doubt About Timeless Decision Theories

Chris_LeongOct 22, 2018, 1:39 AM

13 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

the world is detailed

brownOct 22, 2018, 1:22 AM

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

List of previous prediction market projects

Bird ConceptOct 22, 2018, 12:45 AM

32 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(jacoblagerros.wordpress.com)

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

RyanCareyOct 21, 2018, 12:03 PM

23 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

South Bay Meetup

DavidFriedmanOct 21, 2018, 6:21 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Berkeley: being other people

KatjaGraceOct 21, 2018, 2:50 AM

18 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(worldlypositions.tumblr.com)

The Bizarre Behavior of Berkeley Rationalists

playablecharacterOct 20, 2018, 4:13 AM

−12 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

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

Said AchmizOct 19, 2018, 9:03 PM

48 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

The Art of the Overbet

ZviOct 19, 2018, 2:00 PM

53 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Update on Structured Concurrency

Martin SustrikOct 19, 2018, 11:10 AM

35 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

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

Richard_NgoOct 18, 2018, 11:05 PM

21 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Population Aging as an Impediment to Addressing Global Catastrophic Risks

Michael FloodOct 18, 2018, 10:28 PM

8 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Facebook, The Rodents, and The Common Knowledge Machine

RegexOct 18, 2018, 9:07 PM

16 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

(www.thelastrationalist.com)

IAS Special Year on Optimisation, Statistics and Theoretical Machine Learning

DragonGodOct 18, 2018, 3:43 PM

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.math.ias.edu)

UBI for President

Jacob FalkovichOct 18, 2018, 3:09 PM

45 points

14 comments10 min readLW link

South Bay SSC Meetup

DavidFriedmanOct 18, 2018, 7:58 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Being a Robust Agent

RaemonOct 18, 2018, 7:00 AM

151 points

32 comments7 min readLW link 2 reviews

Boston SSC Meetup

Taymon BealOct 18, 2018, 3:43 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Dating book recommendations

FlipnashOct 18, 2018, 12:20 AM

5 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

New /r/gwern subreddit for link-sharing

gwernOct 17, 2018, 10:49 PM

45 points

0 comments LW link

(www.reddit.com)

Trying for Five Minutes on AI Strategy

Vaughn PapenhausenOct 17, 2018, 4:18 PM

18 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Do Animals Have Rights?

Vizi AndreiOct 17, 2018, 3:22 PM

7 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

Policy Beats Morality

DavidmanheimOct 17, 2018, 6:39 AM

15 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

My Hello World

WillaOct 17, 2018, 4:47 AM

9 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

case study: iterative drawing

brownOct 17, 2018, 4:35 AM

23 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

attention and awareness

brownOct 17, 2018, 4:09 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

“Now here’s why I’m punching you...”

philhOct 16, 2018, 9:30 PM

28 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Is It Morally Wrong To Enforce A Surrogate Motherhood Contract?

Vizi AndreiOct 16, 2018, 7:40 PM

3 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

Rationality Vienna Meetup, October 2018

Laszlo_TreszkaiOct 16, 2018, 2:51 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

noticing internal experiences

brownOct 16, 2018, 1:36 AM

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Alignment Newsletter #28

Rohin ShahOct 15, 2018, 9:20 PM

11 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

The Kelly Criterion

ZviOct 15, 2018, 9:20 PM

99 points

24 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Where is my Flying Car?

PeterMcCluskeyOct 15, 2018, 6:39 PM

50 points

10 comments17 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Exponential Altruism: A Strategy For A New World

larriantOct 15, 2018, 11:57 AM

−2 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Coordination Problems in Evolution: The Rise of Eukaryotes

Martin SustrikOct 15, 2018, 6:18 AM

49 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

Logical Counterfactuals are low-res

ShmiOct 15, 2018, 3:36 AM

23 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(donerkebabphilosophy.wordpress.com)

Effective Altruism Book Review: Radical Abundance (Nanotechnology)

IsnaseneOct 14, 2018, 11:57 PM

45 points

5 comments19 min readLW link

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

Gordon Seidoh WorleyOct 14, 2018, 10:08 PM

23 points

151 comments2 min readLW link

October Nashville SSC Meetup

Dude McDudeOct 13, 2018, 8:00 PM

1 point

1 comment LW link

Book review: The Complacent Class

Richard_NgoOct 13, 2018, 7:20 PM

20 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

On Hollywood Heroism

dragoholeOct 12, 2018, 9:35 PM

10 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Coordination Problems in Evolution: Eigen’s Paradox

Martin SustrikOct 12, 2018, 12:40 PM

105 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

Nyoom

AlicornOct 12, 2018, 2:34 AM

84 points

20 comments5 min readLW link

Additional arguments for NIMBY

ZviOct 11, 2018, 8:40 PM

32 points

10 comments13 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Public Positions and Private Guts

VaniverOct 11, 2018, 7:38 PM

85 points

13 comments8 min readLW link

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