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Open Thread September 2018

Elo31 Aug 2018 21:38 UTC

10 points

72 comments1 min readLW link

Psychology Replication Quiz

Ben Pace31 Aug 2018 18:54 UTC

46 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(80000hours.org)

Bottle Caps Aren’t Optimisers

DanielFilan31 Aug 2018 18:30 UTC

100 points

23 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(danielfilan.com)

VOI is Only Nonnegative When Information is Uncorrelated With Future Action

Diffractor31 Aug 2018 5:13 UTC

28 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Do what we mean vs. do what we say

Rohin Shah30 Aug 2018 22:03 UTC

34 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

You Play to Win the Game

Zvi30 Aug 2018 14:10 UTC

27 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Petrov Day Celebration 2018 - Oxford Campsite

jbeshir30 Aug 2018 3:43 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Player of Games

Jacob Falkovich29 Aug 2018 21:26 UTC

65 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

Atlanta SSC Meetup

mingyuan29 Aug 2018 16:56 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Computational complexity of RL with traps

Vanessa Kosoy29 Aug 2018 9:17 UTC

16 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Walk the Seawall with Christine Peterson

Evan_Gaensbauer29 Aug 2018 7:28 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

2 Events with Christine Peterson in Vancouver This Week!

Evan_Gaensbauer29 Aug 2018 7:04 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Discussion with Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute

Evan_Gaensbauer29 Aug 2018 6:37 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

History of the Development of Logical Induction

Scott Garrabrant29 Aug 2018 3:15 UTC

100 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

HLAI 2018 Field Report

Gordon Seidoh Worley29 Aug 2018 0:11 UTC

48 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

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

avturchin28 Aug 2018 21:32 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Corrigibility doesn’t always have a good action to take

Stuart_Armstrong28 Aug 2018 20:30 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Effective Altruism & Rationality Hangout

Orpheus28 Aug 2018 13:59 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Unknown Knowns

Zvi28 Aug 2018 13:20 UTC

120 points

17 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Alignment Newsletter #21

Rohin Shah27 Aug 2018 16:20 UTC

25 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Reference Post: Formal vs. Effective Pre-Commitment

Chris_Leong27 Aug 2018 12:04 UTC

16 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

Aumann’s Agreement Revisited

agilecaveman27 Aug 2018 6:21 UTC

4 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Using expected utility for Good(hart)

Stuart_Armstrong27 Aug 2018 3:32 UTC

42 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Zetetic explanation

Benquo27 Aug 2018 0:12 UTC

95 points

138 comments6 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Rationality Tuebingen Meetup

Yannick_Muehlhaeuser26 Aug 2018 22:36 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Theories of Pain

mingyuan26 Aug 2018 22:05 UTC

35 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

Kansas City SSC Meetup

Todd32625 Aug 2018 13:32 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

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

Academian25 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC

191 points

44 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Rationalist Community Hub in Moscow: 3 Years Retrospective

berekuk25 Aug 2018 0:28 UTC

171 points

23 comments16 min readLW link

REACH Panel Nomination Form

stardust24 Aug 2018 23:57 UTC

16 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Changing main content font to Valkyrie?

habryka24 Aug 2018 23:05 UTC

24 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

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

TurnTrout24 Aug 2018 17:54 UTC

36 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

I am Sailor Vulcan!

Sailor Vulcan24 Aug 2018 17:47 UTC

23 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

LW Update 2018-08-23 – Performance Improvements

Raemon24 Aug 2018 2:02 UTC

20 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Reading Our World in Data together

Orpheus23 Aug 2018 14:20 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Isolating Content can Create Affordances

Davis_Kingsley23 Aug 2018 8:28 UTC

49 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Chris Pikula Belongs in the Magic Hall of Fame

Zvi22 Aug 2018 21:10 UTC

25 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Alexander23022 Aug 2018 10:39 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Chris_Leong22 Aug 2018 10:10 UTC

9 points

30 comments8 min readLW link

Large Research Report on Attitudes to Genetic Technologies

ole.koksvik22 Aug 2018 4:20 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(royalsociety.org)

Four kinds of problems

jacobjacob21 Aug 2018 23:01 UTC

35 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Jobs Inside the API

Jacob Falkovich21 Aug 2018 21:45 UTC

70 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

SSC Board Games Afternoon

Noah Sloan21 Aug 2018 21:39 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Feature Idea] Epistemic Status

Raemon21 Aug 2018 20:22 UTC

44 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: AI Safety and Security

Michaël Trazzi21 Aug 2018 10:23 UTC

51 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

Historical mathematicians exhibit a birth order effect too

Eli Tyre21 Aug 2018 1:52 UTC

141 points

19 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

Alignment Newsletter #20

Rohin Shah20 Aug 2018 16:00 UTC

12 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

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

jessicata20 Aug 2018 0:51 UTC

59 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

A future for neuroscience

Mike Johnson19 Aug 2018 23:58 UTC

22 points

12 comments19 min readLW link

Amy Hoy’s How To Master New Skills

cedric19 Aug 2018 17:13 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(stackingthebricks.com)