The Case Against Ed­u­ca­tion: Foundations

ZviApr 21, 2018, 2:30 PM
28 points
6 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ra­tion­al­ity and Spiritu­al­ity—Sum­mary and Open Thread

Chris_LeongApr 21, 2018, 2:37 AM
13 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

March gw­ern.net link roundup

gwernApr 20, 2018, 7:09 PM
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

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

RainApr 20, 2018, 6:33 PM
5 points
3 commentsLW link
(www.nytimes.com)

My con­fu­sions with Paul’s Agenda

VaniverApr 20, 2018, 5:24 PM
37 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

On Equiv­alence of Supergoals

Alexey FeldgendlerApr 20, 2018, 3:06 PM
22 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

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

Alexander230Apr 20, 2018, 12:01 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Oops Prize update

BenquoApr 20, 2018, 9:10 AM
21 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Weird ques­tion: could we see dis­tant aliens?

paulfchristianoApr 20, 2018, 6:40 AM
34 points
78 comments3 min readLW link

Funeral Ritual

RaemonApr 20, 2018, 1:40 AM
48 points
13 comments7 min readLW link

Some Sim­ple Ob­ser­va­tions Five Years After Start­ing Mind­ful­ness Meditation

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Apr 19, 2018, 10:28 PM
32 points
19 comments7 min readLW link

Hu­mans need places

BenquoApr 19, 2018, 7:50 PM
44 points
6 comments3 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Github Repo and Is­sue Tracker

RaemonApr 19, 2018, 6:25 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

ryan_bApr 19, 2018, 5:30 PM
14 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Hon­est Friends Don’t Tell Com­fort­ing Lies

Serpent-StareApr 19, 2018, 4:34 PM
21 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Meditation

RobinZApr 19, 2018, 2:33 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sentience

David CooperApr 18, 2018, 9:58 PM
−7 points
90 comments4 min readLW link

Ori­gin of Morality

David CooperApr 18, 2018, 8:46 PM
−5 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Miti­gate the Loss; Fight for the Living

Serpent-StareApr 18, 2018, 10:23 AM
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing Iter­ated Distil­la­tion and Am­plifi­ca­tion: Claims and Oversight

William_SApr 17, 2018, 10:36 PM
35 points
30 comments9 min readLW link

Multi-win­ner Vot­ing: a ques­tion of Alignment

Jameson QuinnApr 17, 2018, 6:51 PM
43 points
19 comments12 min readLW link

Com­pu­ta­tional Mo­ral­ity (Part 1) - a Pro­posed Solution

David CooperApr 17, 2018, 12:09 AM
−5 points
47 comments9 min readLW link

Believ­able Promises

Douglas_ReayApr 16, 2018, 4:17 PM
5 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Good News for Immunostimulants

sarahconstantinApr 16, 2018, 4:10 PM
26 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

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

Rohin ShahApr 16, 2018, 4:00 PM
8 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

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

avturchinApr 16, 2018, 1:55 PM
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounce­ment: AI al­ign­ment prize round 2 win­ners and next round

cousin_itApr 16, 2018, 3:08 AM
64 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Re­mem­ber­ing the pass­ing of Kathy Forth.

EloApr 16, 2018, 1:53 AM
38 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

The Case Against Education

ZviApr 15, 2018, 12:30 PM
79 points
44 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

You Are Be­ing Underpaid

RobertMApr 15, 2018, 6:28 AM
29 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

Dire Bullshit

AlicornApr 15, 2018, 4:59 AM
98 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Raven Para­dox Revisited

Chris_LeongApr 15, 2018, 12:08 AM
5 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

A Differ­ent Pri­soner’s Dilemma

Serpent-StareApr 14, 2018, 3:54 PM
9 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

How Go­ing Meta Can Level Up Your Career

Matt GoldenbergApr 14, 2018, 2:13 AM
25 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Ti­mothy Chu Ori­gins Chap­ter 1

alkjashApr 13, 2018, 6:40 PM
19 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

5 gen­eral vot­ing patholo­gies: lesser names of Moloch

Jameson QuinnApr 13, 2018, 6:38 PM
73 points
16 comments10 min readLW link

Death in Groups II

ryan_bApr 13, 2018, 6:12 PM
14 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Im­plicit extortion

paulfchristianoApr 13, 2018, 4:33 PM
29 points
16 comments6 min readLW link
(ai-alignment.com)

Utility ver­sus Re­ward func­tion: par­tial equivalence

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 13, 2018, 2:58 PM
18 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Recom­men­da­tions vs. Guidelines

Scott AlexanderApr 13, 2018, 4:10 AM
77 points
18 comments5 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Have you con­sid­ered ei­ther a Kick­starter or a Pa­treon?

Chris_LeongApr 13, 2018, 1:09 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

philip_bApr 12, 2018, 10:28 PM
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Metamorphosis

Douglas_ReayApr 12, 2018, 9:53 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

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

RaemonApr 12, 2018, 9:04 PM
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Vienna Meetup, April 2018

ViliamApr 12, 2018, 7:41 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

A vot­ing the­ory primer for rationalists

Jameson QuinnApr 12, 2018, 3:15 PM
235 points
99 comments17 min readLW link2 reviews

Com­put­ing an ex­act quan­tilal policy

Vanessa KosoyApr 12, 2018, 9:23 AM
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Quan­tilal con­trol for finite MDPs

Vanessa KosoyApr 12, 2018, 9:21 AM
14 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Create & Complete

RobinZApr 12, 2018, 3:45 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

EloApr 12, 2018, 3:09 AM
30 points
11 comments5 min readLW link