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Good Citizenship Is Out Of Date
Ben_LandauTaylor
Sep 10, 2018, 12:15 AM
44
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(benlandautaylor.com)
Comment on decision theory
Rob Bensinger
Sep 9, 2018, 8:13 PM
69
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Advances in Baby Formula
Laura B
Sep 9, 2018, 11:50 AM
60
points
22
comments
2
min read
LW
link
An Ontology of Systemic Failures: Dragons, Bullshit Mountain, and the Cloud of Doom
ialdabaoth
Sep 8, 2018, 6:19 PM
29
points
28
comments
5
min read
LW
link
On Robin Hanson’s Board Game
Zvi
Sep 8, 2018, 5:10 PM
49
points
15
comments
17
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Hammertime Final Exam] Accommodate Yourself; Kindness Is An Epistemic Virtue; Privileging the Future
tcheasdfjkl
Sep 8, 2018, 5:54 AM
49
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Archiving link posts?
Said Achmiz
Sep 8, 2018, 5:45 AM
57
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ask Us Anything: Submit Questions Asking About What We Think SSC is Wrong About, and Why
Evan_Gaensbauer
Sep 7, 2018, 9:49 PM
−22
points
49
comments
2
min read
LW
link
I am the very model of a self-recursive modeler
Jacob Falkovich
Sep 6, 2018, 9:45 PM
46
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
No standard metric for CFAR workshops?
ioannes
Sep 6, 2018, 6:06 PM
11
points
28
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Quick Thoughts on Generation and Evaluation of Hypotheses in a Community
Ben Pace
Sep 6, 2018, 1:01 AM
60
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Beauty bias: “Lost in Math” by Sabine Hossenfelder
avturchin
Sep 5, 2018, 10:19 PM
8
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.amazon.com)
Interpretive Labor
Benquo
Sep 5, 2018, 6:36 PM
28
points
41
comments
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
AI Governance: A Research Agenda
habryka
Sep 5, 2018, 6:00 PM
25
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)
Counterfactuals and reflective oracles
Nisan
Sep 5, 2018, 8:54 AM
9
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
thought: the problem with less wrong’s epistemic health is that stuff isn’t short form
the gears to ascension
Sep 5, 2018, 8:09 AM
0
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Hypothesis about how social stuff works and arises
the gears to ascension
Sep 4, 2018, 10:47 PM
32
points
14
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Birth order effect found in Nobel Laureates in Physics
Bucky
Sep 4, 2018, 12:17 PM
61
points
25
comments
5
min read
LW
link
1
review
nostalgebraist—bayes: a kinda-sorta masterpost
Kaj_Sotala
Sep 4, 2018, 11:08 AM
25
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)
What is your relationship with your self?
Elo
Sep 4, 2018, 1:32 AM
6
points
6
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Moral realism and AI alignment
Caspar Oesterheld
Sep 3, 2018, 6:46 PM
13
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(casparoesterheld.com)
Alignment Newsletter #22
Rohin Shah
Sep 3, 2018, 4:10 PM
18
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Resurrection of the dead via multiverse-wide acausual cooperation
avturchin
Sep 3, 2018, 11:21 AM
24
points
30
comments
7
min read
LW
link
A Process for Dealing with Motivated Reasoning
Vaughn Papenhausen
Sep 3, 2018, 3:34 AM
15
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Impact Measure Desiderata
TurnTrout
Sep 2, 2018, 10:21 PM
36
points
41
comments
5
min read
LW
link
When wishful thinking works
AlexMennen
Sep 1, 2018, 11:43 PM
41
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Cooperative Oracles
Diffractor
Sep 1, 2018, 8:05 AM
19
points
9
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Why I Don’t Like Scotty Slate Star and His Codex and So Can You
Evan_Gaensbauer
Sep 1, 2018, 7:45 AM
−13
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On memetic weapons
ioannes
Sep 1, 2018, 3:25 AM
42
points
28
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Open Thread September 2018
Elo
Aug 31, 2018, 9:38 PM
10
points
72
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Psychology Replication Quiz
Ben Pace
Aug 31, 2018, 6:54 PM
46
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(80000hours.org)
Bottle Caps Aren’t Optimisers
DanielFilan
Aug 31, 2018, 6:30 PM
100
points
23
comments
3
min read
LW
link
1
review
(danielfilan.com)
VOI is Only Nonnegative When Information is Uncorrelated With Future Action
Diffractor
Aug 31, 2018, 5:13 AM
28
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Do what we mean vs. do what we say
Rohin Shah
Aug 30, 2018, 10:03 PM
34
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
You Play to Win the Game
Zvi
Aug 30, 2018, 2:10 PM
27
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Petrov Day Celebration 2018 - Oxford Campsite
jbeshir
Aug 30, 2018, 3:43 AM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Player of Games
Jacob Falkovich
Aug 29, 2018, 9:26 PM
67
points
3
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Atlanta SSC Meetup
mingyuan
Aug 29, 2018, 4:56 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Computational complexity of RL with traps
Vanessa Kosoy
Aug 29, 2018, 9:17 AM
16
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Walk the Seawall with Christine Peterson
Evan_Gaensbauer
Aug 29, 2018, 7:28 AM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
2 Events with Christine Peterson in Vancouver This Week!
Evan_Gaensbauer
Aug 29, 2018, 7:04 AM
11
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Discussion with Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute
Evan_Gaensbauer
Aug 29, 2018, 6:37 AM
6
points
0
comments
LW
link
History of the Development of Logical Induction
Scott Garrabrant
Aug 29, 2018, 3:15 AM
103
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
HLAI 2018 Field Report
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Aug 29, 2018, 12:11 AM
48
points
12
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[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
27 Aug 2018 16:20 UTC
25
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Reference Post: Formal vs. Effective Pre-Commitment
Chris_Leong
27 Aug 2018 12:04 UTC
16
points
44
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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