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Overcoming Clinginess in Impact Measures
TurnTrout
Jun 30, 2018, 10:51 PM
30
points
9
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Values-to-Actions Decision Chain
Remmelt
Jun 30, 2018, 9:52 PM
29
points
6
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Meta: IAFF vs LessWrong
Vanessa Kosoy
Jun 30, 2018, 9:15 PM
1
point
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox, and what reflection it provides
Jan_Kulveit
Jun 30, 2018, 4:35 PM
28
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
“Cheating Death in Damascus” Solution to the Fermi Paradox
avturchin
Jun 30, 2018, 12:00 PM
14
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Effective Altruism Summer Reading List
krishkhubchand
Jun 30, 2018, 6:34 AM
1
point
0
comments
LW
link
(krishlearns.com)
Applied Rationality MUD
rlp10
Jun 30, 2018, 3:14 AM
37
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Policy Alignment
abramdemski
Jun 30, 2018, 12:24 AM
54
points
25
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Shaping economic incentives for collaborative AGI
Kaj_Sotala
Jun 29, 2018, 4:26 PM
45
points
15
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Final Report
ChristianKl
Jun 29, 2018, 11:09 AM
15
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.rand.org)
FHI Research Scholars Programme
habryka
Jun 29, 2018, 2:31 AM
28
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)
The Power of Letting Go Part I: Examples
johnswentworth
Jun 29, 2018, 1:19 AM
34
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Machine Learning Analogy for Meditation (illustrated)
abramdemski
Jun 28, 2018, 10:51 PM
100
points
48
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to formalize predictors
cousin_it
Jun 28, 2018, 1:08 PM
12
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
spaced repetition & Darwin’s golden rule
Paperclip Minimizer
Jun 28, 2018, 10:54 AM
7
points
3
comments
LW
link
(mindhacks.com)
Washington, D.C.: Positive and Negative Liberty
RobinZ
Jun 28, 2018, 3:15 AM
15
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Last Chance to Fund the Berkeley REACH
decodyng
Jun 27, 2018, 9:38 PM
110
points
52
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Sun Arise, Roll out the Chorus of the Dawn
DSCyprus
Jun 27, 2018, 7:23 PM
4
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Optimization Amplifies
Scott Garrabrant
Jun 27, 2018, 1:51 AM
114
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
OpenAI releases functional Dota 5v5 bot, aims to beat world champions by August
habryka
Jun 26, 2018, 10:40 PM
53
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(blog.openai.com)
Sydney Rationality Dojo—July
luminosity
Jun 26, 2018, 10:36 PM
12
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Beauty and the Prince
Chris_Leong
Jun 26, 2018, 1:10 PM
8
points
40
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What could be done with RNA and DNA sequencing that’s 1000x cheaper than it’s now?
ChristianKl
Jun 26, 2018, 12:24 PM
16
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Logical uncertainty and Mathematical uncertainty
AlexMennen
Jun 26, 2018, 1:08 AM
35
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Book Review: Why Honor Matters
ryan_b
Jun 25, 2018, 8:53 PM
33
points
9
comments
12
min read
LW
link
The Alignment Newsletter #12: 06/25/18
Rohin Shah
Jun 25, 2018, 4:00 PM
15
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
UDT can learn anthropic probabilities
cousin_it
Jun 24, 2018, 6:04 PM
54
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Conceptual issues in AI safety: the paradigmatic gap
vedevazz
Jun 24, 2018, 3:09 PM
33
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.foldl.me)
Open Thread
Bound_up
Jun 23, 2018, 10:49 PM
8
points
17
comments
LW
link
What am I? A bit of poetic prose.
AureliusGray
Jun 23, 2018, 5:19 PM
−10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Informational hazards and the cost-effectiveness of open discussion of catastrophic risks
avturchin
Jun 23, 2018, 1:31 PM
−2
points
11
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(effective-altruism.com)
Extending the Private Language Argument
Ashwin Kumar
Jun 23, 2018, 9:07 AM
−4
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Dojo: Algorithmic Creativity—Chapter 2
Chriswaterguy
Jun 23, 2018, 5:42 AM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Two prescriptions for fixing a procedural/declarative knowledge mismatch.
Andrew Quinn
Jun 22, 2018, 10:17 PM
31
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Anthropics: Where does Less Wrong lie?
Chris_Leong
Jun 22, 2018, 10:27 AM
15
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
CFAR Reunion
CFAR Team
Jun 21, 2018, 8:35 PM
42
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Ben Hoffman’s donor recommendations
Rob Bensinger
Jun 21, 2018, 4:02 PM
41
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Washington, D.C.: Fun & Games
RobinZ
Jun 21, 2018, 3:21 AM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Does anyone use advanced media projects?
ryan_b
Jun 20, 2018, 11:33 PM
33
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Games in Kocherga club: Fallacymania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery
Alexander230
Jun 20, 2018, 10:05 PM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Loss aversion is not what you think it is
Paperclip Minimizer
Jun 20, 2018, 3:56 PM
13
points
14
comments
LW
link
(www.basilhalperin.com)
Anthropics and Fermi
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 20, 2018, 1:04 PM
26
points
20
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Duplication versus probability
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 20, 2018, 12:18 PM
27
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Wirehead your Chickens
Shmi
Jun 20, 2018, 5:49 AM
86
points
53
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Geoffrey Miller on Research and Politics in Psychology
Jacob Falkovich
Jun 19, 2018, 9:03 PM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Paradoxes in all anthropic probabilities
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 19, 2018, 3:31 PM
22
points
26
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Problem Solving with Mazes and Crayon
johnswentworth
Jun 19, 2018, 6:15 AM
152
points
28
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Order from Randomness: Ordering the Universe of Random Numbers
Shmi
Jun 19, 2018, 5:37 AM
15
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Sleeping Beauty Not Resolved
Chris_Leong
Jun 19, 2018, 4:46 AM
18
points
53
comments
8
min read
LW
link
LessWrong is hiring
Raemon
Jun 19, 2018, 1:38 AM
71
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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