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Misery Pits

AlicornMar 10, 2018, 11:50 PM

47 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 12: Meta-Contrarianism

alkjashMar 10, 2018, 11:00 PM

12 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The hunt of the Iuventa

NunoSempereMar 10, 2018, 8:12 PM

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 11: Resolve

alkjashMar 10, 2018, 6:40 AM

15 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Unconscious Competence and Counter-Incentives

lifelonglearnerMar 10, 2018, 6:38 AM

13 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Press Your Luck (1/3)

Douglas_ReayMar 10, 2018, 3:42 AM

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 10: Gears-Like Models

alkjashMar 9, 2018, 11:00 PM

18 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Brains and backprop: a key timeline crux

Bird ConceptMar 9, 2018, 10:13 PM

37 points

38 comments7 min readLW link

If rationality skills were Harry Potter spells...

lifelonglearnerMar 9, 2018, 3:36 PM

21 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Is this what FAI outreach success looks like?

Charlie SteinerMar 9, 2018, 1:12 PM

17 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Using accounts as “group accounts”

Chris_LeongMar 9, 2018, 3:44 AM

5 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Macroscale Minds

Evan ClarkMar 9, 2018, 12:56 AM

1 point

9 comments3 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 9: Double Crux

alkjashMar 9, 2018, 12:10 AM

21 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge

Samo BurjaMar 8, 2018, 6:40 PM

71 points

21 comments10 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Why mathematics works

Douglas_ReayMar 8, 2018, 6:00 PM

7 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Prize for probable problems

paulfchristianoMar 8, 2018, 4:58 PM

60 points

63 comments4 min readLW link

Press Your Luck (3/3)

Douglas_ReayMar 8, 2018, 3:59 PM

8 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Press Your Luck (2/3)

Douglas_ReayMar 8, 2018, 3:58 PM

7 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Making yourself small

HelenMar 8, 2018, 2:26 PM

131 points

54 comments11 min readLW link

The Steampunk Aesthetic

RaemonMar 8, 2018, 9:06 AM

73 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

My attempt to explain Looking, insight meditation, and enlightenment in non-mysterious terms

Kaj_SotalaMar 8, 2018, 7:37 AM

237 points

140 comments17 min readLW link 2 reviews

Murphy’s Quest Ch 8: False Pentachotomy

alkjashMar 8, 2018, 5:30 AM

19 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Ideological Turing Test: Playtest report

Joshua_FoxMar 7, 2018, 6:22 PM

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

How to Dissolve It

TurnTroutMar 7, 2018, 6:19 AM

24 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 7: Outside the Box

alkjashMar 7, 2018, 5:50 AM

20 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Murphy’s Quest Ch 6: Perverse Incentives

alkjashMar 7, 2018, 3:50 AM

15 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Person-moment affecting views

KatjaGraceMar 7, 2018, 2:30 AM

17 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

[defunct] Moderation Action List (warnings and bans)

Ben PaceMar 6, 2018, 7:18 PM

29 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Intuitive examples of reward function learning?

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 6, 2018, 4:55 PM

0 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.lesserwrong.com)

Intuitive examples of reward function learning?

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 6, 2018, 4:54 PM

7 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 5: Fail Gracefully

alkjashMar 6, 2018, 5:10 AM

16 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Book Review: Consciousness Explained

Charlie SteinerMar 6, 2018, 3:32 AM

48 points

20 comments21 min readLW link

set of cards

November HMar 5, 2018, 10:37 PM

7 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Ancient Social Patterns: Comitatus

ryan_bMar 5, 2018, 6:28 PM

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Takeoff Speed: Simple Asymptotics in a Toy Model.

Aaron RothMar 5, 2018, 5:07 PM

21 points

21 comments9 min readLW link

(aaronsadventures.blogspot.com)

Murphy’s Quest Ch 4: Noticing Confusion

alkjashMar 5, 2018, 7:20 AM

21 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

God Help Us, Let’s Try To Understand Friston On Free Energy

Scott AlexanderMar 5, 2018, 6:00 AM

54 points

43 comments14 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Explanation of Paul’s AI-Alignment agenda by Ajeya Cotra

habrykaMar 5, 2018, 3:10 AM

20 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Murphy’s Quest Ch 3: Murphyjitsu

alkjashMar 5, 2018, 2:40 AM

18 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Argument, intuition, and recursion

paulfchristianoMar 5, 2018, 1:37 AM

44 points

13 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

On Defense Mechanisms

QuaerendoMar 4, 2018, 6:53 PM

25 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

Correct Models Are Bad

sapphireMar 4, 2018, 4:51 PM

2 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(brianlui.dog)

[Paper] Surviving global risks through the preservation of humanity’s data on the Moon

avturchinMar 4, 2018, 7:07 AM

4 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Beta-Beta – Recent Discussion

RadminMar 4, 2018, 5:34 AM

12 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 1: Exposure Therapy

alkjashMar 4, 2018, 4:50 AM

26 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Murphy’s Quest Ch 2: Empiricism

alkjashMar 4, 2018, 4:50 AM

25 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Is there a Connection Between Greatness in Math and Philosophy?

Scott GarrabrantMar 3, 2018, 11:25 PM

13 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Funding for AI alignment research

paulfchristianoMar 3, 2018, 9:52 PM

39 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Funding for independent AI alignment research

paulfchristianoMar 3, 2018, 9:44 PM

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

The Jordan Peterson Mask

Jacob FalkovichMar 3, 2018, 7:49 PM

61 points

154 comments12 min readLW link

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