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The First Rung: Insights from ‘Linear Algebra Done Right’
TurnTrout
Apr 22, 2018, 5:23 AM
40
points
12
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Modeling Society as a Damped Harmonic Oscillator
pku
Apr 22, 2018, 1:31 AM
3
points
0
comments
LW
link
(shakeddown.wordpress.com)
Fermi Paradox—Reference Class arguments and Other Possibilities
agilecaveman
Apr 22, 2018, 12:56 AM
1
point
0
comments
LW
link
(steemit.com)
The Case Against Education: Foundations
Zvi
Apr 21, 2018, 2:30 PM
28
points
6
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Rationality and Spirituality—Summary and Open Thread
Chris_Leong
Apr 21, 2018, 2:37 AM
13
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
March gwern.net link roundup
gwern
Apr 20, 2018, 7:09 PM
10
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
NYT: A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit
Rain
Apr 20, 2018, 6:33 PM
5
points
3
comments
LW
link
(www.nytimes.com)
My confusions with Paul’s Agenda
Vaniver
Apr 20, 2018, 5:24 PM
37
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
On Equivalence of Supergoals
Alexey Feldgendler
Apr 20, 2018, 3:06 PM
22
points
8
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Games in Kocherga club: Fallacymania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery
Alexander230
Apr 20, 2018, 12:01 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Oops Prize update
Benquo
Apr 20, 2018, 9:10 AM
21
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Weird question: could we see distant aliens?
paulfchristiano
Apr 20, 2018, 6:40 AM
34
points
78
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Funeral Ritual
Raemon
Apr 20, 2018, 1:40 AM
48
points
13
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Some Simple Observations Five Years After Starting Mindfulness Meditation
lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)
Apr 19, 2018, 10:28 PM
32
points
19
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Humans need places
Benquo
Apr 19, 2018, 7:50 PM
44
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Github Repo and Issue Tracker
Raemon
Apr 19, 2018, 6:25 PM
17
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An Undergraduate Reading Of: Macroscopic Prediction by E.T. Jaynes
ryan_b
Apr 19, 2018, 5:30 PM
14
points
13
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Honest Friends Don’t Tell Comforting Lies
Serpent-Stare
Apr 19, 2018, 4:34 PM
21
points
11
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Washington, D.C.: Meditation
RobinZ
Apr 19, 2018, 2:33 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Sentience
David Cooper
Apr 18, 2018, 9:58 PM
−7
points
90
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Origin of Morality
David Cooper
Apr 18, 2018, 8:46 PM
−5
points
23
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Mitigate the Loss; Fight for the Living
Serpent-Stare
Apr 18, 2018, 10:23 AM
5
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Understanding Iterated Distillation and Amplification: Claims and Oversight
William_S
Apr 17, 2018, 10:36 PM
35
points
30
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Multi-winner Voting: a question of Alignment
Jameson Quinn
Apr 17, 2018, 6:51 PM
43
points
19
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Computational Morality (Part 1) - a Proposed Solution
David Cooper
Apr 17, 2018, 12:09 AM
−5
points
47
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Believable Promises
Douglas_Reay
Apr 16, 2018, 4:17 PM
5
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Good News for Immunostimulants
sarahconstantin
Apr 16, 2018, 4:10 PM
26
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
The Alignment Newsletter #2: 04/16/18
Rohin Shah
Apr 16, 2018, 4:00 PM
8
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Preprint for commenting] Fighting Aging as an Effective Altruism Cause
avturchin
Apr 16, 2018, 1:55 PM
9
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Announcement: AI alignment prize round 2 winners and next round
cousin_it
Apr 16, 2018, 3:08 AM
64
points
29
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Remembering the passing of Kathy Forth.
Elo
Apr 16, 2018, 1:53 AM
38
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Case Against Education
Zvi
Apr 15, 2018, 12:30 PM
79
points
44
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
You Are Being Underpaid
RobertM
Apr 15, 2018, 6:28 AM
29
points
16
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Dire Bullshit
Alicorn
Apr 15, 2018, 4:59 AM
98
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Raven Paradox Revisited
Chris_Leong
Apr 15, 2018, 12:08 AM
5
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A Different Prisoner’s Dilemma
Serpent-Stare
Apr 14, 2018, 3:54 PM
9
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
How Going Meta Can Level Up Your Career
Matt Goldenberg
Apr 14, 2018, 2:13 AM
25
points
7
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Timothy Chu Origins Chapter 1
alkjash
13 Apr 2018 18:40 UTC
19
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)
5 general voting pathologies: lesser names of Moloch
Jameson Quinn
13 Apr 2018 18:38 UTC
73
points
16
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Death in Groups II
ryan_b
13 Apr 2018 18:12 UTC
14
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Implicit extortion
paulfchristiano
13 Apr 2018 16:33 UTC
29
points
16
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(ai-alignment.com)
Utility versus Reward function: partial equivalence
Stuart_Armstrong
13 Apr 2018 14:58 UTC
18
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Recommendations vs. Guidelines
Scott Alexander
13 Apr 2018 4:10 UTC
77
points
18
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(slatestarcodex.com)
Have you considered either a Kickstarter or a Patreon?
Chris_Leong
13 Apr 2018 1:09 UTC
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Idea: OpenAI Gym environments where the AI is a part of the environment
philip_b
12 Apr 2018 22:28 UTC
4
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Metamorphosis
Douglas_Reay
12 Apr 2018 21:53 UTC
2
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
LW Update 4/12/2018 – Frontpage Meetups
Raemon
12 Apr 2018 21:04 UTC
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality Vienna Meetup, April 2018
Viliam
12 Apr 2018 19:41 UTC
4
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A voting theory primer for rationalists
Jameson Quinn
12 Apr 2018 15:15 UTC
235
points
99
comments
17
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Computing an exact quantilal policy
Vanessa Kosoy
12 Apr 2018 9:23 UTC
9
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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