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No standard metric for CFAR workshops?

ioannesSep 6, 2018, 6:06 PM

11 points

28 comments2 min readLW link

Quick Thoughts on Generation and Evaluation of Hypotheses in a Community

Ben PaceSep 6, 2018, 1:01 AM

60 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Beauty bias: “Lost in Math” by Sabine Hossenfelder

avturchinSep 5, 2018, 10:19 PM

8 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.amazon.com)

 Interpretive Labor

BenquoSep 5, 2018, 6:36 PM

28 points

41 comments LW link

(acesounderglass.com)

AI Governance: A Research Agenda

habrykaSep 5, 2018, 6:00 PM

25 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)

Counterfactuals and reflective oracles

NisanSep 5, 2018, 8:54 AM

9 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

thought: the problem with less wrong’s epistemic health is that stuff isn’t short form

the gears to ascensionSep 5, 2018, 8:09 AM

0 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Hypothesis about how social stuff works and arises

the gears to ascensionSep 4, 2018, 10:47 PM

32 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

Birth order effect found in Nobel Laureates in Physics

BuckySep 4, 2018, 12:17 PM

61 points

25 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

nostalgebraist—bayes: a kinda-sorta masterpost

Kaj_SotalaSep 4, 2018, 11:08 AM

25 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

What is your relationship with your self?

EloSep 4, 2018, 1:32 AM

6 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Moral realism and AI alignment

Caspar OesterheldSep 3, 2018, 6:46 PM

13 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(casparoesterheld.com)

Alignment Newsletter #22

Rohin ShahSep 3, 2018, 4:10 PM

18 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Resurrection of the dead via multiverse-wide acausual cooperation

avturchinSep 3, 2018, 11:21 AM

24 points

30 comments7 min readLW link

A Process for Dealing with Motivated Reasoning

Vaughn PapenhausenSep 3, 2018, 3:34 AM

15 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Impact Measure Desiderata

TurnTroutSep 2, 2018, 10:21 PM

36 points

41 comments5 min readLW link

When wishful thinking works

AlexMennenSep 1, 2018, 11:43 PM

41 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Cooperative Oracles

DiffractorSep 1, 2018, 8:05 AM

19 points

9 comments12 min readLW link

Why I Don’t Like Scotty Slate Star and His Codex and So Can You

Evan_GaensbauerSep 1, 2018, 7:45 AM

−13 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

On memetic weapons

ioannesSep 1, 2018, 3:25 AM

42 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

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

31 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

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