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Bayesian examination

Lê Nguyên Hoang9 Dec 2019 19:50 UTC

86 points

56 comments5 min readLW link

Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?

Jacob Falkovich9 Dec 2019 17:11 UTC

259 points

78 comments11 min readLW link 3 reviews

[Question] Who are some people you met that were the most extreme on some axis?

Mati_Roy9 Dec 2019 16:49 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some things you would do (more) if you were less averse to being/looking weird?

Mati_Roy9 Dec 2019 16:10 UTC

13 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Long Bets by Confidence Level

jefftk9 Dec 2019 14:20 UTC

24 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Dublin SSC Meetup—Death and Self

Dan Valentine9 Dec 2019 7:50 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the best arguments and/or plans for doing work in “AI policy”?

Eli Tyre9 Dec 2019 7:04 UTC

14 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

The Review Phase

Ben Pace9 Dec 2019 0:54 UTC

53 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Books on the zeitgeist of science during Lord Kelvin’s time.

Hazard9 Dec 2019 0:17 UTC

30 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What determines the balance between intelligence signaling and virtue signaling?

Wei Dai9 Dec 2019 0:11 UTC

70 points

37 comments2 min readLW link

Counterfactuals: Smoking Lesion vs. Newcomb’s

Chris_Leong8 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC

9 points

24 comments3 min readLW link

Progress and preservation in IDA

cole_haus8 Dec 2019 19:39 UTC

11 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(www.col-ex.org)

Confabulation

lsusr8 Dec 2019 10:18 UTC

62 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Chakras & Qi—Old Stories for the Base-Line Experience. Improve your physical & mental health by connecting body and mind.

leggi8 Dec 2019 4:22 UTC

5 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What do the Charter Cities Institute likely mean when they refer to long term problems with the use of eminent domain?

mako yass8 Dec 2019 0:53 UTC

3 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

The Lesson To Unlearn

Ben Pace8 Dec 2019 0:50 UTC

37 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(paulgraham.com)

Ungendered Spanish

jefftk7 Dec 2019 16:20 UTC

20 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The ‘5 Main Muscles of Movement’ Made Easy.

leggi7 Dec 2019 9:17 UTC

5 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What is a reasonably complete set of the different meanings of “hard work”?

Pee Doom7 Dec 2019 4:54 UTC

9 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

The New Age of Social Engineering

VivaLaPanda7 Dec 2019 0:23 UTC

22 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What subfields of mathematics are most useful for what subfields of AI?

Rudi C6 Dec 2019 20:45 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

What is Abstraction?

johnswentworth6 Dec 2019 20:30 UTC

35 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Rationalist solstice Lund

Laural6 Dec 2019 11:40 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Comment on Coherence arguments do not imply goal directed behavior

Ronny Fernandez6 Dec 2019 9:30 UTC

30 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a website for tracking fads?

romeostevensit6 Dec 2019 4:48 UTC

8 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

The Actionable Version of “Keep Your Identity Small”

Hazard6 Dec 2019 1:34 UTC

81 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Understanding “Deep Double Descent”

evhub6 Dec 2019 0:00 UTC

150 points

51 comments5 min readLW link 4 reviews

Tapping Out In Two

philh5 Dec 2019 23:10 UTC

16 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Values, Valence, and Alignment

Gordon Seidoh Worley5 Dec 2019 21:06 UTC

12 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Sydney Rationality Dojo—December 2020

Next5 Dec 2019 20:51 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Sydney Rationality Dojo—November 2020

Next5 Dec 2019 20:50 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

LW Team Updates—December 2019

Ruby5 Dec 2019 20:40 UTC

40 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

On Stories vs. Data

Ian David Moss5 Dec 2019 20:07 UTC

2 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(medium.com)

To Be Decided #3

Ian David Moss5 Dec 2019 19:06 UTC

4 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

LW For External Comments?

jefftk5 Dec 2019 18:30 UTC

52 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Reading list: Starting links and books on studying ontology and causality

aaq5 Dec 2019 17:19 UTC

13 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Is there a scientific method? Physics, Biology and Beyond

Jimdrix_Hendri5 Dec 2019 16:50 UTC

9 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

The Devil Made Me Write This Post Explaining Why He Probably Didn’t Hide Dinosaur Bones

Virgil Kurkjian5 Dec 2019 15:53 UTC

−1 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Linkpost: Searching Along the Trail of Crumbs

Zvi5 Dec 2019 14:20 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Oracles: reject all deals—break superrationality, with superrationality

Stuart_Armstrong5 Dec 2019 13:51 UTC

20 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] What is an Evidential Decision Theory agent?

Chris_Leong5 Dec 2019 13:48 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Multiple conditions must be met to gain causal effect

MoritzG5 Dec 2019 10:15 UTC

9 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Seeking Power is Often Convergently Instrumental in MDPs

TurnTrout and Logan Riggs

5 Dec 2019 2:33 UTC

162 points

39 comments17 min readLW link 2 reviews

(arxiv.org)

Elementary Statistics

jefftk5 Dec 2019 2:00 UTC

12 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Kansas City Dojo meetup 11-19-19

Bae's Theorem5 Dec 2019 0:13 UTC

3 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What are some non-purely-sampling ways to do deep RL?

evhub5 Dec 2019 0:09 UTC

15 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Karate Kid and Realistic Expectations for Disagreement Resolution

Raemon4 Dec 2019 23:25 UTC

102 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

Recent Progress in the Theory of Neural Networks

interstice4 Dec 2019 23:11 UTC

83 points

9 comments9 min readLW link

Paper-Reading for Gears

johnswentworth4 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC

163 points

6 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

On decision-prediction fixed points

jollybard4 Dec 2019 20:49 UTC

5 points

10 comments1 min readLW link