[Question] How did academia en­sure pa­pers were cor­rect in the early 20th Cen­tury?

Ben Pace29 Dec 2018 23:37 UTC
99 points
17 comments2 min readLW link1 review

[Question] What makes peo­ple in­tel­lec­tu­ally ac­tive?

abramdemski29 Dec 2018 22:29 UTC
121 points
72 comments1 min readLW link

Why I ex­pect suc­cess­ful (nar­row) alignment

Tobias_Baumann29 Dec 2018 15:44 UTC
8 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(s-risks.org)

Pe­nal­iz­ing Im­pact via At­tain­able Utility Preservation

TurnTrout28 Dec 2018 21:46 UTC
20 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Akra­sia is con­fu­sion about what you want

Gordon Seidoh Worley28 Dec 2018 21:09 UTC
26 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

Less­wrong Syd­ney—Din­ner—Scott Aaron­son comes to town!

Elo28 Dec 2018 18:33 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Card Balance and Artifact

Zvi28 Dec 2018 13:10 UTC
8 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Isaac Asi­mov’s pre­dic­tions for 2019 from 1984

Jan_Kulveit28 Dec 2018 9:51 UTC
39 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.thestar.com)

1987 Sci-Fi Authors Time­cap­sule Pre­dic­tions For 2012

namespace28 Dec 2018 6:50 UTC
20 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(web.archive.org)

Wash­ing­ton, DC: Pre­dic­tive Power of Science Fiction

rusalkii28 Dec 2018 1:24 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] In what ways are holi­days good?

DanielFilan28 Dec 2018 0:42 UTC
20 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Sun­screen. When? Why? Why not?

Viktor Riabtsev27 Dec 2018 22:04 UTC
5 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Can dy­ing peo­ple “hold on” for some­thing they are wait­ing for?

Raemon27 Dec 2018 19:53 UTC
28 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Re­v­erse Dooms­day Ar­gu­ment is hit­ting prep­pers hard

avturchin27 Dec 2018 18:56 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What does it mean to “be­lieve” a thing to be true?

Bae's Theorem27 Dec 2018 13:28 UTC
1 point
13 comments1 min readLW link

Card Col­lec­tion and Ownership

Zvi27 Dec 2018 13:10 UTC
19 points
8 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On Disingenuity

Chris_Leong26 Dec 2018 17:08 UTC
28 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­ti­fact Em­braces Card Balance Changes

Zvi26 Dec 2018 13:10 UTC
11 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Sec­tion for In­no­va­tion?

Mindey26 Dec 2018 12:37 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Bay Area: read­ing, writ­ing, mov­ing, celebrating

KatjaGrace26 Dec 2018 3:40 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(worldlypositions.tumblr.com)

Role play­ing game based on HPMOR in Moscow

Alexander23025 Dec 2018 21:22 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Rein­ter­pret­ing “AI and Com­pute”

habryka25 Dec 2018 21:12 UTC
30 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

Align­ment Newslet­ter #38

Rohin Shah25 Dec 2018 16:10 UTC
9 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What are the ax­ioms of ra­tio­nal­ity?

Yoav Ravid25 Dec 2018 6:47 UTC
2 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Con­trite Strate­gies and The Need For Standards

sarahconstantin24 Dec 2018 18:30 UTC
131 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Why is CBD ev­ery­where? My Opinion

Richard McGual24 Dec 2018 12:48 UTC
−24 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Test­ing Ra­tion­al­ity Apps for Science

BayesianMind24 Dec 2018 10:46 UTC
25 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

State Machines and the Strange Case of Mu­tat­ing API

Martin Sustrik24 Dec 2018 5:50 UTC
8 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

[Video] Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Cor­po­ra­tion? (Robert Miles)

habryka23 Dec 2018 21:49 UTC
17 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Bos­ton Sols­tice 2018 Retrospective

jefftk23 Dec 2018 20:04 UTC
44 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Best ar­gu­ments against wor­ry­ing about AI risk?

Chris_Leong23 Dec 2018 14:57 UTC
15 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why Don’t Creators Switch to their Own Plat­forms?

Jacob Falkovich23 Dec 2018 4:46 UTC
42 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Cog­ni­tive Bias of AI Re­searchers?

Mindey22 Dec 2018 9:20 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Spaghetti Towers

eukaryote22 Dec 2018 5:29 UTC
209 points
36 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Boundaries en­able pos­i­tive ma­te­rial-in­for­ma­tional feed­back loops

jessicata22 Dec 2018 2:46 UTC
36 points
26 comments5 min readLW link

LessWrong 35c3 meetup

Felix Karg21 Dec 2018 22:18 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

An­thropic prob­a­bil­ities and cost functions

Stuart_Armstrong21 Dec 2018 17:54 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Stand­ing on a pile of corpses

Jsevillamol21 Dec 2018 10:36 UTC
35 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Sys­tems Eng­ineer­ing and the META Program

ryan_b20 Dec 2018 20:19 UTC
31 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Pavlov Strategy

sarahconstantin20 Dec 2018 16:20 UTC
273 points
14 comments4 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

[Question] What self-help has helped you?

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 Dec 2018 3:31 UTC
37 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Defin­ing Freedom

pku20 Dec 2018 2:41 UTC
8 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Rea­sons com­pute may not drive AI ca­pa­bil­ities growth

Tristan H19 Dec 2018 22:13 UTC
42 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

An­thropic para­doxes trans­posed into An­thropic De­ci­sion Theory

Stuart_Armstrong19 Dec 2018 18:07 UTC
18 points
23 comments4 min readLW link

Games in Kocherga club: Fal­la­cy­ma­nia, Tower of Chaos, Scien­tific Discovery

Alexander23018 Dec 2018 22:12 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Games in Kocherga club: Fal­la­cy­ma­nia, Tower of Chaos, Scien­tific Discovery

Alexander23018 Dec 2018 22:10 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sols­tice Album Crowdfunding

Raemon18 Dec 2018 20:51 UTC
39 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

18-month fol­low-up on my self-con­cept work

Kaj_Sotala18 Dec 2018 17:40 UTC
62 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Good ar­gu­ments against “cul­tural ap­pro­pri­a­tion”

Tyrrell_McAllister18 Dec 2018 17:23 UTC
24 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Ex­pe­riences of Self-deception

Bucky18 Dec 2018 11:10 UTC
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link