On the Loss and Preser­va­tion of Knowledge

Samo Burja8 Mar 2018 18:40 UTC
71 points
21 comments10 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Why math­e­mat­ics works

Douglas_Reay8 Mar 2018 18:00 UTC
7 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Prize for prob­a­ble problems

paulfchristiano8 Mar 2018 16:58 UTC
60 points
63 comments4 min readLW link

Press Your Luck (3/​3)

Douglas_Reay8 Mar 2018 15:59 UTC
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Press Your Luck (2/​3)

Douglas_Reay8 Mar 2018 15:58 UTC
7 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Mak­ing your­self small

Helen8 Mar 2018 14:26 UTC
129 points
54 comments11 min readLW link

The Steam­punk Aesthetic

Raemon8 Mar 2018 9:06 UTC
73 points
17 comments8 min readLW link

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

Kaj_Sotala8 Mar 2018 7:37 UTC
229 points
138 comments17 min readLW link2 reviews

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 8: False Pentachotomy

alkjash8 Mar 2018 5:30 UTC
18 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Ide­olog­i­cal Tur­ing Test: Playtest report

Joshua_Fox7 Mar 2018 18:22 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to Dis­solve It

TurnTrout7 Mar 2018 6:19 UTC
24 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 7: Out­side the Box

alkjash7 Mar 2018 5:50 UTC
19 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 6: Per­verse Incentives

alkjash7 Mar 2018 3:50 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Per­son-mo­ment af­fect­ing views

KatjaGrace7 Mar 2018 2:30 UTC
17 points
8 comments5 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

[de­funct] Moder­a­tion Ac­tion List (warn­ings and bans)

Ben Pace6 Mar 2018 19:18 UTC
29 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

In­tu­itive ex­am­ples of re­ward func­tion learn­ing?

Stuart_Armstrong6 Mar 2018 16:55 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.lesserwrong.com)

In­tu­itive ex­am­ples of re­ward func­tion learn­ing?

Stuart_Armstrong6 Mar 2018 16:54 UTC
7 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 5: Fail Gracefully

alkjash6 Mar 2018 5:10 UTC
15 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Book Re­view: Con­scious­ness Explained

Charlie Steiner6 Mar 2018 3:32 UTC
48 points
20 comments21 min readLW link

set of cards

November H5 Mar 2018 22:37 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

An­cient So­cial Pat­terns: Comitatus

ryan_b5 Mar 2018 18:28 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Take­off Speed: Sim­ple Asymp­totics in a Toy Model.

Aaron Roth5 Mar 2018 17:07 UTC
21 points
21 comments9 min readLW link
(aaronsadventures.blogspot.com)

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 4: Notic­ing Confusion

alkjash5 Mar 2018 7:20 UTC
20 points
8 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

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

Scott Alexander5 Mar 2018 6:00 UTC
49 points
43 comments14 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

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

habryka5 Mar 2018 3:10 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(ai-alignment.com)

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 3: Murphyjitsu

alkjash5 Mar 2018 2:40 UTC
17 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Ar­gu­ment, in­tu­ition, and recursion

paulfchristiano5 Mar 2018 1:37 UTC
44 points
13 comments9 min readLW link1 review

On Defense Mechanisms

Quaerendo4 Mar 2018 18:53 UTC
25 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

Cor­rect Models Are Bad

sapphire4 Mar 2018 16:51 UTC
2 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(brianlui.dog)

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

avturchin4 Mar 2018 7:07 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Beta-Beta – Re­cent Discussion

Radmin4 Mar 2018 5:34 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 1: Ex­po­sure Therapy

alkjash4 Mar 2018 4:50 UTC
25 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Mur­phy’s Quest Ch 2: Empiricism

alkjash4 Mar 2018 4:50 UTC
24 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Is there a Con­nec­tion Between Great­ness in Math and Philos­o­phy?

Scott Garrabrant3 Mar 2018 23:25 UTC
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Fund­ing for AI al­ign­ment research

paulfchristiano3 Mar 2018 21:52 UTC
39 points
24 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Fund­ing for in­de­pen­dent AI al­ign­ment research

paulfchristiano3 Mar 2018 21:44 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

The Jor­dan Peter­son Mask

Jacob Falkovich3 Mar 2018 19:49 UTC
60 points
154 comments12 min readLW link

Sa­cred Cash

Zvi3 Mar 2018 13:20 UTC
29 points
29 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

In­ter­ac­tive Bayes The­o­rem Visualization

Allen Kim3 Mar 2018 4:00 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(allenkim67.github.io)

Monthly Meta: Com­mon Knowledge

Chris_Leong3 Mar 2018 0:05 UTC
17 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

So­cial Technology

Samo Burja2 Mar 2018 19:54 UTC
13 points
3 comments11 min readLW link

Im­proved re­gret bound for DRL

Vanessa Kosoy2 Mar 2018 12:49 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

March 2018 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris2 Mar 2018 1:06 UTC
1 point
15 comments1 min readLW link

Quick Nate/​Eliezer com­ments on discontinuity

Rob Bensinger1 Mar 2018 22:03 UTC
44 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Ham­mer­time In­ter­mis­sion #2

alkjash1 Mar 2018 18:20 UTC
23 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Ms. Blue, meet Mr. Green

alexei1 Mar 2018 13:43 UTC
43 points
30 comments12 min readLW link

Beyond al­gorith­mic equiv­alence: self-modelling

Stuart_Armstrong1 Mar 2018 13:31 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.lesserwrong.com)

Beyond al­gorith­mic equiv­alence: al­gorith­mic noise

Stuart_Armstrong1 Mar 2018 13:31 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.lesserwrong.com)

Friendship

alkjash1 Mar 2018 6:00 UTC
23 points
16 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Kid­neys, trade, sa­cred­ness, and space travel

Benquo1 Mar 2018 5:20 UTC
15 points
34 comments3 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)