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[Paper] The Global Catastrophic Risks of the Possibility of Finding Alien AI During SETI
avturchin
Aug 28, 2018, 9:32 PM
13
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Corrigibility doesn’t always have a good action to take
Stuart_Armstrong
Aug 28, 2018, 8:30 PM
19
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Effective Altruism & Rationality Hangout
Orpheus
Aug 28, 2018, 1:59 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Unknown Knowns
Zvi
Aug 28, 2018, 1:20 PM
120
points
17
comments
2
min read
LW
link
1
review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Alignment Newsletter #21
Rohin Shah
Aug 27, 2018, 4:20 PM
25
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Reference Post: Formal vs. Effective Pre-Commitment
Chris_Leong
Aug 27, 2018, 12:04 PM
16
points
44
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Aumann’s Agreement Revisited
agilecaveman
Aug 27, 2018, 6:21 AM
6
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
Using expected utility for Good(hart)
Stuart_Armstrong
Aug 27, 2018, 3:32 AM
42
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Zetetic explanation
Benquo
Aug 27, 2018, 12:12 AM
95
points
138
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Rationality Tuebingen Meetup
Yannick_Muehlhaeuser
Aug 26, 2018, 10:36 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Theories of Pain
mingyuan
Aug 26, 2018, 10:05 PM
35
points
10
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Kansas City SSC Meetup
Todd326
Aug 25, 2018, 1:32 PM
2
points
2
comments
LW
link
Unrolling social metacognition: Three levels of meta are not enough.
Academian
Aug 25, 2018, 12:00 PM
191
points
44
comments
7
min read
LW
link
1
review
Rationalist Community Hub in Moscow: 3 Years Retrospective
Slava Matyukhin
Aug 25, 2018, 12:28 AM
172
points
25
comments
16
min read
LW
link
REACH Panel Nomination Form
stardust
Aug 24, 2018, 11:57 PM
16
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Changing main content font to Valkyrie?
habryka
Aug 24, 2018, 11:05 PM
24
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Turning Up the Heat: Insights from Tao’s ‘Analysis II’
TurnTrout
Aug 24, 2018, 5:54 PM
36
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
I am Sailor Vulcan!
Sailor Vulcan
Aug 24, 2018, 5:47 PM
23
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LW Update 2018-08-23 – Performance Improvements
Raemon
Aug 24, 2018, 2:02 AM
20
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reading Our World in Data together
Orpheus
Aug 23, 2018, 2:20 PM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Isolating Content can Create Affordances
Davis_Kingsley
Aug 23, 2018, 8:28 AM
49
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Chris Pikula Belongs in the Magic Hall of Fame
Zvi
Aug 22, 2018, 9:10 PM
25
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Games in Kocherga club: Fallacymania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery
Alexander230
Aug 22, 2018, 10:39 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Decision Theory with F@#!ed-Up Reference Classes
Chris_Leong
Aug 22, 2018, 10:10 AM
9
points
30
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Large Research Report on Attitudes to Genetic Technologies
ole.koksvik
Aug 22, 2018, 4:20 AM
13
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(royalsociety.org)
Four kinds of problems
Bird Concept
Aug 21, 2018, 11:01 PM
35
points
11
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Jobs Inside the API
Jacob Falkovich
Aug 21, 2018, 9:45 PM
70
points
5
comments
8
min read
LW
link
SSC Board Games Afternoon
Noah Sloan
Aug 21, 2018, 9:39 PM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Feature Idea] Epistemic Status
Raemon
Aug 21, 2018, 8:22 PM
44
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book Review: AI Safety and Security
Michaël Trazzi
Aug 21, 2018, 10:23 AM
52
points
2
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Historical mathematicians exhibit a birth order effect too
Eli Tyre
Aug 21, 2018, 1:52 AM
146
points
20
comments
6
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Alignment Newsletter #20
Rohin Shah
Aug 20, 2018, 4:00 PM
12
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Reducing collective rationality to individual optimization in common-payoff games using MCMC
jessicata
Aug 20, 2018, 12:51 AM
59
points
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
A future for neuroscience
Mike Johnson
Aug 19, 2018, 11:58 PM
22
points
12
comments
19
min read
LW
link
Amy Hoy’s How To Master New Skills
cedric
Aug 19, 2018, 5:13 PM
9
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(stackingthebricks.com)
Y Couchinator
Alicorn
Aug 18, 2018, 3:41 AM
113
points
33
comments
4
min read
LW
link
A developmentally-situated approach to teaching normative behavior to AI
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Aug 17, 2018, 6:44 PM
13
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Subsidizing Prediction Markets
Zvi
Aug 17, 2018, 3:40 PM
97
points
8
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
The “semiosis reply” to the Chinese Room Argument
Valerio
Aug 16, 2018, 7:23 PM
−9
points
13
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(www.valeriotargon.org)
One night, without sleep
Mitchell_Porter
Aug 16, 2018, 5:50 PM
27
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Tidying One’s Room
Zvi
Aug 16, 2018, 1:50 PM
36
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Entropic Regret I: Deterministic MDPs
Vanessa Kosoy
Aug 16, 2018, 1:08 PM
14
points
3
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Request for input on multiverse-wide superrationality (MSR)
Johannes Treutlein
Aug 14, 2018, 5:29 PM
18
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(effective-altruism.com)
Logical Counterfactuals & the Cooperation Game
Chris_Leong
Aug 14, 2018, 2:00 PM
16
points
26
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Alignment Newsletter #19
Rohin Shah
Aug 14, 2018, 2:10 AM
18
points
0
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Preliminary thoughts on moral weight
lukeprog
Aug 13, 2018, 11:45 PM
93
points
49
comments
8
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Chennai SSC Meetup
mingyuan
Aug 13, 2018, 10:34 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Role playing game based on HPMOR in Moscow
Alexander230
Aug 13, 2018, 9:13 PM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality Retreat in Europe: Gauging Interest
ZeitPolizei
Aug 13, 2018, 8:33 PM
9
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cause Awareness as a Factor against Cause Neutrality
Darmani
Aug 13, 2018, 8:00 PM
39
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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