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Open Thread September 2018

EloAug 31, 2018, 9:38 PM

10 points

72 comments1 min readLW link

Psychology Replication Quiz

Ben PaceAug 31, 2018, 6:54 PM

46 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(80000hours.org)

Bottle Caps Aren’t Optimisers

DanielFilanAug 31, 2018, 6:30 PM

100 points

23 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(danielfilan.com)

VOI is Only Nonnegative When Information is Uncorrelated With Future Action

DiffractorAug 31, 2018, 5:13 AM

28 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Do what we mean vs. do what we say

Rohin ShahAug 30, 2018, 10:03 PM

34 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

You Play to Win the Game

ZviAug 30, 2018, 2:10 PM

27 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Petrov Day Celebration 2018 - Oxford Campsite

jbeshirAug 30, 2018, 3:43 AM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Player of Games

Jacob FalkovichAug 29, 2018, 9:26 PM

67 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

Atlanta SSC Meetup

mingyuanAug 29, 2018, 4:56 PM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Computational complexity of RL with traps

Vanessa KosoyAug 29, 2018, 9:17 AM

16 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Walk the Seawall with Christine Peterson

Evan_GaensbauerAug 29, 2018, 7:28 AM

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

2 Events with Christine Peterson in Vancouver This Week!

Evan_GaensbauerAug 29, 2018, 7:04 AM

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Discussion with Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute

Evan_GaensbauerAug 29, 2018, 6:37 AM

6 points

0 comments LW link

History of the Development of Logical Induction

Scott GarrabrantAug 29, 2018, 3:15 AM

103 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

HLAI 2018 Field Report

Gordon Seidoh WorleyAug 29, 2018, 12:11 AM

48 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

[Paper] The Global Catastrophic Risks of the Possibility of Finding Alien AI During SETI

avturchinAug 28, 2018, 9:32 PM

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Corrigibility doesn’t always have a good action to take

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 28, 2018, 8:30 PM

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Effective Altruism & Rationality Hangout

OrpheusAug 28, 2018, 1:59 PM

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Unknown Knowns

ZviAug 28, 2018, 1:20 PM

120 points

17 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Alignment Newsletter #21

Rohin ShahAug 27, 2018, 4:20 PM

25 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Reference Post: Formal vs. Effective Pre-Commitment

Chris_LeongAug 27, 2018, 12:04 PM

16 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

Aumann’s Agreement Revisited

agilecavemanAug 27, 2018, 6:21 AM

6 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Using expected utility for Good(hart)

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 27, 2018, 3:32 AM

42 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Zetetic explanation

BenquoAug 27, 2018, 12:12 AM

95 points

138 comments6 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Rationality Tuebingen Meetup

Yannick_MuehlhaeuserAug 26, 2018, 10:36 PM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Theories of Pain

mingyuanAug 26, 2018, 10:05 PM

35 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

Kansas City SSC Meetup

Todd326Aug 25, 2018, 1:32 PM

2 points

2 comments LW link

Unrolling social metacognition: Three levels of meta are not enough.

AcademianAug 25, 2018, 12:00 PM

191 points

44 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Rationalist Community Hub in Moscow: 3 Years Retrospective

Slava MatyukhinAug 25, 2018, 12:28 AM

172 points

25 comments16 min readLW link

REACH Panel Nomination Form

stardustAug 24, 2018, 11:57 PM

16 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Changing main content font to Valkyrie?

habrykaAug 24, 2018, 11:05 PM

24 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Turning Up the Heat: Insights from Tao’s ‘Analysis II’

TurnTroutAug 24, 2018, 5:54 PM

36 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

I am Sailor Vulcan!

Sailor VulcanAug 24, 2018, 5:47 PM

23 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

LW Update 2018-08-23 – Performance Improvements

RaemonAug 24, 2018, 2:02 AM

20 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Reading Our World in Data together

OrpheusAug 23, 2018, 2:20 PM

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Isolating Content can Create Affordances

Davis_KingsleyAug 23, 2018, 8:28 AM

49 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Chris Pikula Belongs in the Magic Hall of Fame

ZviAug 22, 2018, 9:10 PM

25 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Alexander230Aug 22, 2018, 10:39 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Decision Theory with F@#!ed-Up Reference Classes

Chris_LeongAug 22, 2018, 10:10 AM

9 points

30 comments8 min readLW link

Large Research Report on Attitudes to Genetic Technologies

ole.koksvikAug 22, 2018, 4:20 AM

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(royalsociety.org)

Four kinds of problems

Bird ConceptAug 21, 2018, 11:01 PM

35 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Jobs Inside the API

Jacob FalkovichAug 21, 2018, 9:45 PM

70 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

SSC Board Games Afternoon

Noah SloanAug 21, 2018, 9:39 PM

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Feature Idea] Epistemic Status

RaemonAug 21, 2018, 8:22 PM

44 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: AI Safety and Security

Michaël TrazziAug 21, 2018, 10:23 AM

52 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

Historical mathematicians exhibit a birth order effect too

Eli TyreAug 21, 2018, 1:52 AM

146 points

20 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

Alignment Newsletter #20

Rohin ShahAug 20, 2018, 4:00 PM

12 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Reducing collective rationality to individual optimization in common-payoff games using MCMC

jessicataAug 20, 2018, 12:51 AM

59 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

A future for neuroscience

Mike JohnsonAug 19, 2018, 11:58 PM

22 points

12 comments19 min readLW link

Amy Hoy’s How To Master New Skills

cedricAug 19, 2018, 5:13 PM

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(stackingthebricks.com)