[Question] Is there a stan­dard dis­cus­sion of veg­e­tar­i­anism/​ve­g­anism?

SherrinfordDec 30, 2018, 8:22 PM
4 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounce­ment: A talk about struc­tured con­cur­rency at FOSDEM

Martin SustrikDec 30, 2018, 10:10 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

Con­cep­tual Anal­y­sis for AI Align­ment

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Dec 30, 2018, 12:46 AM
29 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[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 link1 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 commentsLW 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 link1 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_ArmstrongDec 19, 2018, 6:07 PM
19 points
23 comments4 min readLW link

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

Alexander230Dec 18, 2018, 10:12 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Alexander230Dec 18, 2018, 10:10 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sols­tice Album Crowdfunding

RaemonDec 18, 2018, 8:51 PM
39 points
7 comments2 min readLW link