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Schools Proliferating Without Practicioners
Davis_Kingsley
Oct 26, 2018, 5:25 AM
32
points
46
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)
[Beta] Post-Read-Status on Lessestwrong
Raemon
Oct 25, 2018, 11:13 PM
21
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
In favor of tabooing the word “values” and using only “priorities” instead
chaosmage
Oct 25, 2018, 10:28 PM
21
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Kansas City SSC Meetup
Todd326
Oct 25, 2018, 9:46 AM
2
points
0
comments
LW
link
Remembering names and using Hamming prompts: Rationality Dojo
Chriswaterguy
Oct 25, 2018, 5:50 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
When EDT=CDT, ADT Does Well
Diffractor
Oct 25, 2018, 5:03 AM
13
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
What will the long-term future of employment look like?
Richard_Ngo
Oct 24, 2018, 7:58 PM
10
points
8
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
In praise of heuristics
Bucky
Oct 24, 2018, 3:44 PM
39
points
27
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Starting Meditation
Hazard
Oct 24, 2018, 3:09 PM
26
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Games in Kocherga club: Fallacymania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery
Alexander230
Oct 24, 2018, 2:48 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
play and spinning plates
brown
Oct 23, 2018, 11:17 PM
14
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cognitive Enhancers: Mechanisms And Tradeoffs
Scott Alexander
Oct 23, 2018, 6:40 PM
43
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(slatestarcodex.com)
Thoughts on short timelines
Tobias_Baumann
Oct 23, 2018, 3:54 PM
6
points
11
comments
LW
link
(s-risks.org)
Mark Eichenlaub: How to develop scientific intuition
Kaj_Sotala
Oct 23, 2018, 1:30 PM
78
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(kajsotala.fi)
Unikernels: No Longer an Academic Exercise
Martin Sustrik
Oct 23, 2018, 11:40 AM
27
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
(250bpm.com)
Kansas City SSC Sunday Meetup
Todd326
Oct 23, 2018, 10:47 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Kansas City SSC Meetup
Todd326
Oct 23, 2018, 10:33 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Possible Dangers of the Unrestricted Value Learners
avturchin
Oct 23, 2018, 9:15 AM
11
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
look at the water
brown
Oct 23, 2018, 12:02 AM
13
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Kalman Filter for Bayesians
SatvikBeri
Oct 22, 2018, 5:06 PM
51
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Alignment Newsletter #29
Rohin Shah
Oct 22, 2018, 4:20 PM
15
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Whole Brain Emulation & DL: imitation learning for faster AGI?
gwern
Oct 22, 2018, 3:07 PM
15
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.reddit.com)
Second Atlanta SSC Meetup
Steve French
Oct 22, 2018, 11:02 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why do we like stories?
joshux
Oct 22, 2018, 5:23 AM
7
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(steemit.com)
One Doubt About Timeless Decision Theories
Chris_Leong
Oct 22, 2018, 1:39 AM
13
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
the world is detailed
brown
Oct 22, 2018, 1:22 AM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
List of previous prediction market projects
Bird Concept
Oct 22, 2018, 12:45 AM
32
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(jacoblagerros.wordpress.com)
Addressing three problems with counterfactual corrigibility: bad bets, defending against backstops, and overconfidence.
RyanCarey
Oct 21, 2018, 12:03 PM
23
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
South Bay Meetup
DavidFriedman
Oct 21, 2018, 6:21 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Berkeley: being other people
KatjaGrace
Oct 21, 2018, 2:50 AM
18
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(worldlypositions.tumblr.com)
The Bizarre Behavior of Berkeley Rationalists
playablecharacter
Oct 20, 2018, 4:13 AM
−12
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New GreaterWrong feature: anti-kibitzer (hides post/comment author names and karma values)
Said Achmiz
Oct 19, 2018, 9:03 PM
48
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Art of the Overbet
Zvi
Oct 19, 2018, 2:00 PM
53
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Update on Structured Concurrency
Martin Sustrik
Oct 19, 2018, 11:10 AM
35
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(250bpm.com)
Book review: 23 things they don’t tell you about capitalism
Richard_Ngo
Oct 18, 2018, 11:05 PM
21
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
Population Aging as an Impediment to Addressing Global Catastrophic Risks
Michael Flood
Oct 18, 2018, 10:28 PM
8
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Facebook, The Rodents, and The Common Knowledge Machine
Regex
Oct 18, 2018, 9:07 PM
16
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)
IAS Special Year on Optimisation, Statistics and Theoretical Machine Learning
DragonGod
Oct 18, 2018, 3:43 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.math.ias.edu)
UBI for President
Jacob Falkovich
Oct 18, 2018, 3:09 PM
45
points
14
comments
10
min read
LW
link
South Bay SSC Meetup
DavidFriedman
Oct 18, 2018, 7:58 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Being a Robust Agent
Raemon
Oct 18, 2018, 7:00 AM
151
points
32
comments
7
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Boston SSC Meetup
Taymon Beal
Oct 18, 2018, 3:43 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dating book recommendations
Flipnash
Oct 18, 2018, 12:20 AM
5
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New /r/gwern subreddit for link-sharing
gwern
Oct 17, 2018, 10:49 PM
45
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.reddit.com)
Trying for Five Minutes on AI Strategy
Vaughn Papenhausen
Oct 17, 2018, 4:18 PM
18
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Do Animals Have Rights?
Vizi Andrei
Oct 17, 2018, 3:22 PM
7
points
17
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Policy Beats Morality
Davidmanheim
Oct 17, 2018, 6:39 AM
15
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
My Hello World
Willa
Oct 17, 2018, 4:47 AM
9
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
case study: iterative drawing
brown
Oct 17, 2018, 4:35 AM
23
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
attention and awareness
brown
Oct 17, 2018, 4:09 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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