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LW Update 2018-12-06 – All Posts Page, Questions Page, Posts Item rework
Raemon
Dec 8, 2018, 9:30 PM
18
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
GraphQL tutorial for LessWrong and Effective Altruism Forum
riceissa
Dec 8, 2018, 7:51 PM
95
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is “Social Reality?”
Raemon
Dec 8, 2018, 5:41 PM
38
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Prediction Markets Are About Being Right
Zvi
Dec 8, 2018, 2:00 PM
83
points
7
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
Why should I care about rationality?
TurnTrout
Dec 8, 2018, 3:49 AM
24
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book review: Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security
PeterMcCluskey
Dec 8, 2018, 3:47 AM
27
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)
[Question]
Is the human brain a valid choice for the Universal Turing Machine in Solomonoff Induction?
habryka
Dec 8, 2018, 1:49 AM
22
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LW Update 2018-12-06 – Table of Contents and Q&A
Raemon
Dec 8, 2018, 12:47 AM
55
points
28
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Transhumanists Don’t Need Special Dispositions
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Dec 7, 2018, 10:24 PM
96
points
18
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Is cognitive load a factor in community decline?
ryan_b
Dec 7, 2018, 3:45 PM
18
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Worth keeping
KatjaGrace
Dec 7, 2018, 4:50 AM
51
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(meteuphoric.com)
Trivial Inconvenience Day (December 9th at 12 Noon PST)
namespace
Dec 7, 2018, 1:26 AM
32
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
COEDT Equilibria in Games
Diffractor
Dec 6, 2018, 6:00 PM
15
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Hell Must Be Destroyed
algekalipso
Dec 6, 2018, 4:11 AM
33
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
On Rationalist Solstice and Epistemic Caution
Raemon
Dec 5, 2018, 8:39 PM
68
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Dec 5, 2018, 8:12 PM
179
points
34
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Why we need a *theory* of human values
Stuart_Armstrong
Dec 5, 2018, 4:00 PM
66
points
15
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Factored Cognition
stuhlmueller
Dec 5, 2018, 1:01 AM
45
points
6
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Playing Politics
sarahconstantin
Dec 5, 2018, 12:30 AM
97
points
45
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Open and Welcome Thread December 2018
Ben Pace
Dec 4, 2018, 10:20 PM
26
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Alignment Newsletter #35
Rohin Shah
Dec 4, 2018, 1:10 AM
15
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Peanut Butter
Jacob Falkovich
Dec 3, 2018, 7:30 PM
28
points
3
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Rationality Café No. 7 - Bring and Share
thegreatnick
Dec 3, 2018, 5:26 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
EA Bristol December Social
thegreatnick
Dec 3, 2018, 5:22 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
No option to report spam
Chris_Leong
Dec 3, 2018, 1:40 PM
37
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book Review—Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Vaughn Papenhausen
Dec 3, 2018, 8:00 AM
36
points
18
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Coherence arguments do not entail goal-directed behavior
Rohin Shah
Dec 3, 2018, 3:26 AM
134
points
69
comments
7
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
Benign model-free RL
paulfchristiano
Dec 2, 2018, 4:10 AM
15
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
Anyone use the “read time” on Post Items?
Raemon
Dec 1, 2018, 11:16 PM
19
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
November 2018 gwern.net newsletter
gwern
Dec 1, 2018, 1:57 PM
35
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
Intuitions about goal-directed behavior
Rohin Shah
Dec 1, 2018, 4:25 AM
54
points
15
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Taking vitamin D3 with K2 in the morning
ChristianKl
Nov 30, 2018, 7:00 PM
54
points
47
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Overconfident talking down, humble or hostile talking up
ozziegooen
Nov 30, 2018, 12:41 PM
49
points
19
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Tentatively considering emotional stories (IFS and “getting into Self”)
Kaj_Sotala
Nov 30, 2018, 7:40 AM
40
points
31
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(kajsotala.fi)
Iterated Distillation and Amplification
Ajeya Cotra
Nov 30, 2018, 4:47 AM
47
points
14
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Moving Factward
Tyrrell_McAllister
Nov 29, 2018, 5:54 AM
14
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Formal Open Problem in Decision Theory
Scott Garrabrant
Nov 29, 2018, 3:25 AM
37
points
28
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Reflective oracles as a solution to the converse Lawvere problem
SamEisenstat
Nov 29, 2018, 3:23 AM
35
points
2
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Ubiquitous Converse Lawvere Problem
Scott Garrabrant
Nov 29, 2018, 3:16 AM
23
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Hyperreal Brouwer
Scott Garrabrant
Nov 29, 2018, 3:15 AM
31
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Madison Solstice Gathering
mingyuan
Nov 28, 2018, 9:36 PM
16
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Counterintuitive Comparative Advantage
Wei Dai
Nov 28, 2018, 8:33 PM
85
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Stabilize-Reflect-Execute
ozziegooen
Nov 28, 2018, 5:26 PM
30
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Genetically Modified Humans Born (Allegedly)
ryan_b
Nov 28, 2018, 4:14 PM
29
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Oracle Induction Proofs
Diffractor
Nov 28, 2018, 8:12 AM
5
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Bounded Oracle Induction
Diffractor
Nov 28, 2018, 8:11 AM
25
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Double-Dipping in Dunning—Kruger
isovector
Nov 28, 2018, 3:40 AM
88
points
32
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Winter Solstice 2018 Roundup
Raemon
Nov 28, 2018, 3:09 AM
50
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Corrigibility
paulfchristiano
Nov 27, 2018, 9:50 PM
57
points
8
comments
6
min read
LW
link
SSC Meetup Moscow #2
nikkou
Nov 27, 2018, 6:21 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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