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

Ben PaceDec 29, 2018, 11:37 PM

99 points

17 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] What makes people intellectually active?

abramdemskiDec 29, 2018, 10:29 PM

123 points

72 comments1 min readLW link

Why I expect successful (narrow) alignment

Tobias_BaumannDec 29, 2018, 3:44 PM

8 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(s-risks.org)

Penalizing Impact via Attainable Utility Preservation

TurnTroutDec 28, 2018, 9:46 PM

20 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Akrasia is confusion about what you want

Gordon Seidoh WorleyDec 28, 2018, 9:09 PM

26 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Lesswrong Sydney—Dinner—Scott Aaronson comes to town!

EloDec 28, 2018, 6:33 PM

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Card Balance and Artifact

ZviDec 28, 2018, 1:10 PM

8 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Isaac Asimov’s predictions for 2019 from 1984

Jan_KulveitDec 28, 2018, 9:51 AM

39 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(www.thestar.com)

1987 Sci-Fi Authors Timecapsule Predictions For 2012

namespaceDec 28, 2018, 6:50 AM

20 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(web.archive.org)

Washington, DC: Predictive Power of Science Fiction

rusalkiiDec 28, 2018, 1:24 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] In what ways are holidays good?

DanielFilanDec 28, 2018, 12:42 AM

20 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

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

Viktor RiabtsevDec 27, 2018, 10:04 PM

5 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

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

RaemonDec 27, 2018, 7:53 PM

28 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Reverse Doomsday Argument is hitting preppers hard

avturchinDec 27, 2018, 6:56 PM

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

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

Bae's TheoremDec 27, 2018, 1:28 PM

1 point

13 comments LW link

Card Collection and Ownership

ZviDec 27, 2018, 1:10 PM

19 points

8 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On Disingenuity

Chris_LeongDec 26, 2018, 5:08 PM

28 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Artifact Embraces Card Balance Changes

ZviDec 26, 2018, 1:10 PM

11 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Section for Innovation?

MindeyDec 26, 2018, 12:37 PM

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Bay Area: reading, writing, moving, celebrating

KatjaGraceDec 26, 2018, 3:40 AM

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(worldlypositions.tumblr.com)

Role playing game based on HPMOR in Moscow

Alexander230Dec 25, 2018, 9:22 PM

7 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Reinterpreting “AI and Compute”

habrykaDec 25, 2018, 9:12 PM

30 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

Alignment Newsletter #38

Rohin ShahDec 25, 2018, 4:10 PM

9 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What are the axioms of rationality?

Yoav RavidDec 25, 2018, 6:47 AM

2 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Contrite Strategies and The Need For Standards

sarahconstantinDec 24, 2018, 6:30 PM

131 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Why is CBD everywhere? My Opinion

Richard McGualDec 24, 2018, 12:48 PM

−24 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Testing Rationality Apps for Science

BayesianMindDec 24, 2018, 10:46 AM

26 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

State Machines and the Strange Case of Mutating API

Martin SustrikDec 24, 2018, 5:50 AM

8 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

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

habrykaDec 23, 2018, 9:49 PM

17 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Boston Solstice 2018 Retrospective

jefftkDec 23, 2018, 8:04 PM

44 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Best arguments against worrying about AI risk?

Chris_LeongDec 23, 2018, 2:57 PM

15 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

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

Jacob FalkovichDec 23, 2018, 4:46 AM

42 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Cognitive Bias of AI Researchers?

MindeyDec 22, 2018, 9:20 AM

9 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Spaghetti Towers

eukaryoteDec 22, 2018, 5:29 AM

213 points

38 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Boundaries enable positive material-informational feedback loops

jessicataDec 22, 2018, 2:46 AM

36 points

26 comments5 min readLW link

LessWrong 35c3 meetup

Felix KargDec 21, 2018, 10:18 PM

3 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Anthropic probabilities and cost functions

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 21, 2018, 5:54 PM

16 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Standing on a pile of corpses

JsevillamolDec 21, 2018, 10:36 AM

35 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Systems Engineering and the META Program

ryan_bDec 20, 2018, 8:19 PM

31 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The Pavlov Strategy

sarahconstantinDec 20, 2018, 4:20 PM

280 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

[Question] What self-help has helped you?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyDec 20, 2018, 3:31 AM

39 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

Defining Freedom

pkuDec 20, 2018, 2:41 AM

8 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Reasons compute may not drive AI capabilities growth

Tristan HDec 19, 2018, 10:13 PM

42 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

Anthropic paradoxes transposed into Anthropic Decision Theory

Stuart_Armstrong19 Dec 2018 18:07 UTC

19 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