The Case Against Ed­u­ca­tion: Foundations

Zvi21 Apr 2018 14:30 UTC
28 points
6 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ra­tion­al­ity and Spiritu­al­ity—Sum­mary and Open Thread

Chris_Leong21 Apr 2018 2:37 UTC
13 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

March gw­ern.net link roundup

gwern20 Apr 2018 19:09 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

NYT: A.I. Re­searchers Are Mak­ing More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit

Rain20 Apr 2018 18:33 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nytimes.com)

My con­fu­sions with Paul’s Agenda

Vaniver20 Apr 2018 17:24 UTC
37 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

On Equiv­alence of Supergoals

Alexey Feldgendler20 Apr 2018 15:06 UTC
22 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

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

Alexander23020 Apr 2018 12:01 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Oops Prize update

Benquo20 Apr 2018 9:10 UTC
21 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Weird ques­tion: could we see dis­tant aliens?

paulfchristiano20 Apr 2018 6:40 UTC
34 points
78 comments3 min readLW link

Funeral Ritual

Raemon20 Apr 2018 1:40 UTC
48 points
13 comments7 min readLW link

Some Sim­ple Ob­ser­va­tions Five Years After Start­ing Mind­ful­ness Meditation

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)19 Apr 2018 22:28 UTC
32 points
19 comments7 min readLW link

Hu­mans need places

Benquo19 Apr 2018 19:50 UTC
44 points
6 comments3 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Github Repo and Is­sue Tracker

Raemon19 Apr 2018 18:25 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

An Un­der­grad­u­ate Read­ing Of: Macro­scopic Pre­dic­tion by E.T. Jaynes

ryan_b19 Apr 2018 17:30 UTC
14 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Hon­est Friends Don’t Tell Com­fort­ing Lies

Serpent-Stare19 Apr 2018 16:34 UTC
21 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Meditation

RobinZ19 Apr 2018 2:33 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sentience

David Cooper18 Apr 2018 21:58 UTC
−7 points
90 comments4 min readLW link

Ori­gin of Morality

David Cooper18 Apr 2018 20:46 UTC
−5 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Miti­gate the Loss; Fight for the Living

Serpent-Stare18 Apr 2018 10:23 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing Iter­ated Distil­la­tion and Am­plifi­ca­tion: Claims and Oversight

William_S17 Apr 2018 22:36 UTC
35 points
30 comments9 min readLW link

Multi-win­ner Vot­ing: a ques­tion of Alignment

Jameson Quinn17 Apr 2018 18:51 UTC
43 points
19 comments12 min readLW link

Com­pu­ta­tional Mo­ral­ity (Part 1) - a Pro­posed Solution

David Cooper17 Apr 2018 0:09 UTC
−5 points
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Believ­able Promises

Douglas_Reay16 Apr 2018 16:17 UTC
5 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Good News for Immunostimulants

sarahconstantin16 Apr 2018 16:10 UTC
26 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

The Align­ment Newslet­ter #2: 04/​16/​18

Rohin Shah16 Apr 2018 16:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

[Preprint for com­ment­ing] Fight­ing Aging as an Effec­tive Altru­ism Cause

avturchin16 Apr 2018 13:55 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounce­ment: AI al­ign­ment prize round 2 win­ners and next round

cousin_it16 Apr 2018 3:08 UTC
64 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Re­mem­ber­ing the pass­ing of Kathy Forth.

Elo16 Apr 2018 1:53 UTC
38 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

The Case Against Education

Zvi15 Apr 2018 12:30 UTC
78 points
44 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

You Are Be­ing Underpaid

RobertM15 Apr 2018 6:28 UTC
29 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

Dire Bullshit

Alicorn15 Apr 2018 4:59 UTC
98 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Raven Para­dox Revisited

Chris_Leong15 Apr 2018 0:08 UTC
5 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

A Differ­ent Pri­soner’s Dilemma

Serpent-Stare14 Apr 2018 15:54 UTC
9 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

How Go­ing Meta Can Level Up Your Career

Matt Goldenberg14 Apr 2018 2:13 UTC
24 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Ti­mothy Chu Ori­gins Chap­ter 1

alkjash13 Apr 2018 18:40 UTC
19 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

5 gen­eral vot­ing patholo­gies: lesser names of Moloch

Jameson Quinn13 Apr 2018 18:38 UTC
73 points
16 comments10 min readLW link

Death in Groups II

ryan_b13 Apr 2018 18:12 UTC
14 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Im­plicit extortion

paulfchristiano13 Apr 2018 16:33 UTC
29 points
16 comments6 min readLW link
(ai-alignment.com)

Utility ver­sus Re­ward func­tion: par­tial equivalence

Stuart_Armstrong13 Apr 2018 14:58 UTC
18 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Recom­men­da­tions vs. Guidelines

Scott Alexander13 Apr 2018 4:10 UTC
77 points
18 comments5 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Have you con­sid­ered ei­ther a Kick­starter or a Pa­treon?

Chris_Leong13 Apr 2018 1:09 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Idea: OpenAI Gym en­vi­ron­ments where the AI is a part of the environment

philip_b12 Apr 2018 22:28 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Metamorphosis

Douglas_Reay12 Apr 2018 21:53 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

LW Up­date 4/​12/​2018 – Front­page Meetups

Raemon12 Apr 2018 21:04 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Vienna Meetup, April 2018

Viliam12 Apr 2018 19:41 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

A vot­ing the­ory primer for rationalists

Jameson Quinn12 Apr 2018 15:15 UTC
234 points
98 comments17 min readLW link2 reviews

Com­put­ing an ex­act quan­tilal policy

Vanessa Kosoy12 Apr 2018 9:23 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Quan­tilal con­trol for finite MDPs

Vanessa Kosoy12 Apr 2018 9:21 UTC
14 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Create & Complete

RobinZ12 Apr 2018 3:45 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

I’m go­ing to help you quit Face­book with some science

Elo12 Apr 2018 3:09 UTC
30 points
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