Counterspells

Virgil Kurkjian27 Apr 2019 23:37 UTC
99 points
24 comments10 min readLW link

10 Good Things about An­tifrag­ile: a pos­i­tivist book review

JohnBuridan27 Apr 2019 18:22 UTC
21 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

“Every­thing is Cor­re­lated”: An An­thol­ogy of the Psy­chol­ogy Debate

gwern27 Apr 2019 13:48 UTC
41 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

[Question] What’s the best ap­proach to cu­rat­ing a news­feed to max­i­mize use­ful con­trast­ing POV?

bgold26 Apr 2019 17:29 UTC
25 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Evolu­tion “failure mode”: chickens

Yuxi_Liu26 Apr 2019 11:42 UTC
21 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Speak­ing for my­self (re: how the LW2.0 team com­mu­ni­cates)

Ruby25 Apr 2019 22:39 UTC
56 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Asym­met­ric Justice

Zvi25 Apr 2019 16:00 UTC
234 points
104 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What would Fem­totech­nol­ogy, at­totech­nol­ogy, yoc­totech­nol­ogy and planck level tech­nol­ogy be the­o­ret­i­cally ca­pa­ble of ?

Orange Apple Juice25 Apr 2019 7:45 UTC
−7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Strate­gic im­pli­ca­tions of AIs’ abil­ity to co­or­di­nate at low cost, for ex­am­ple by merging

Wei Dai25 Apr 2019 5:08 UTC
69 points
46 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Against Street Epistemology

Eponym25 Apr 2019 5:01 UTC
17 points
28 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Why does cat­e­gory the­ory ex­ist?

Ben Pace25 Apr 2019 4:54 UTC
37 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

“Tsuyoku Nar­i­tai!” (the ‘be­com­ing stronger’ pod­cast): Epi­sode 2 - Yoda Timers

Bae's Theorem25 Apr 2019 4:37 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Femtotechnology

Orange Apple Juice24 Apr 2019 23:43 UTC
−17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

When is ra­tio­nal­ity use­ful?

Richard_Ngo24 Apr 2019 22:40 UTC
28 points
26 comments3 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

[Question] What are re­li­able ways to make a state­ment in such a way that I will be able to prove in the fu­ture that I had made that state­ment?

Mati_Roy24 Apr 2019 16:26 UTC
5 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­view with Putanumonit

Jacob Falkovich24 Apr 2019 14:53 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Airportpourri

Jacob Falkovich24 Apr 2019 14:51 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

[Question] How good are chat­bots?

bipolo24 Apr 2019 14:17 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Show LW: De­bate on Philos­o­phy be­ing dead

CaiwitzAzaria24 Apr 2019 13:35 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(youtube.com)

Many maps, Lightly held

Elo24 Apr 2019 2:25 UTC
19 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Mo­ral Weight Doesn’t Ac­crue Linearly

bgaesop23 Apr 2019 22:14 UTC
12 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

[An­swer] Why wasn’t sci­ence in­vented in China?

Ruby23 Apr 2019 21:47 UTC
95 points
46 comments21 min readLW link1 review

The Prin­ci­ple of Pre­dicted Improvement

Ronny Fernandez23 Apr 2019 21:21 UTC
70 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] De­gree of du­pli­ca­tion and co­or­di­na­tion in pro­jects that ex­am­ine com­put­ing prices, AI progress, and re­lated top­ics?

riceissa23 Apr 2019 12:27 UTC
26 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] How to make plans?

Pee Doom23 Apr 2019 8:29 UTC
24 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

1960: The Year The Sin­gu­lar­ity Was Cancelled

Scott Alexander23 Apr 2019 1:30 UTC
103 points
15 comments11 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

Book re­view: The Sleep­walk­ers by Arthur Koestler

Richard_Ngo23 Apr 2019 0:10 UTC
68 points
26 comments9 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Pas­cal’s Mug­ging and One-shot Problems

Mathilde22 Apr 2019 22:12 UTC
2 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

May 2019 Nashville SSC Meetup

Dude McDude22 Apr 2019 16:38 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

IRL 8/​8: Gen­er­a­tive Ad­ver­sar­ial Imi­ta­tion Learning

RAISE22 Apr 2019 15:02 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(app.grasple.com)

Coun­ter­fac­tu­als about So­cial Media

Zvi22 Apr 2019 12:20 UTC
53 points
23 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On the Na­ture of Pro­gram­ming Languages

Martin Sustrik22 Apr 2019 10:50 UTC
20 points
13 comments4 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

[Question] Nutri­tional Sup­ple­ments: A Pot­ted Guide?

pcm5022 Apr 2019 9:51 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

AI Align­ment Prob­lem: “Hu­man Values” don’t Ac­tu­ally Exist

avturchin22 Apr 2019 9:23 UTC
45 points
29 comments43 min readLW link

NYC Spring SSC Meetup 5/​4

Rachel Shu22 Apr 2019 3:58 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo

Bae's Theorem22 Apr 2019 3:26 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Ev­i­dence other than evolu­tion for op­ti­miza­tion dae­mons?

Liam Donovan21 Apr 2019 20:50 UTC
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Any re­but­tals of Chris­ti­ano and AI Im­pacts on take­off speeds?

SoerenMind21 Apr 2019 20:39 UTC
67 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Pass­ing through St. Louis

Bae's Theorem21 Apr 2019 12:44 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Stack Overflow of Fac­tored Cognition

rmoehn21 Apr 2019 12:19 UTC
4 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

He­len Toner on China, CSET, and AI

Rob Bensinger21 Apr 2019 4:10 UTC
68 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(rationallyspeakingpodcast.org)

[Question] Gen­er­at­ing a nov­elty scale

Three-Monkey Mind20 Apr 2019 9:54 UTC
7 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s Watch: 10-on-10: The Chron­i­cles of Evolu­tion—Eörs Szathmáry

Yuxi_Liu20 Apr 2019 0:13 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mov­ing to a World Beyond “p < 0.05”

lifelonglearner19 Apr 2019 23:09 UTC
23 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.tandfonline.com)

Reflec­tions on Duo Standard

Zvi18 Apr 2019 23:20 UTC
7 points
0 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Align­ment Newslet­ter #53

Rohin Shah18 Apr 2019 17:20 UTC
20 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Crit­i­ciz­ing Crit­ics of Struc­tural-Functionalism

Daniel18 Apr 2019 3:10 UTC
4 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Liar Para­dox Revisited

Chris_Leong17 Apr 2019 23:02 UTC
9 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Epi­sode 1 of “Tsuyoku Nar­i­tai!” (the ‘be­com­ing stronger’ pod­cast/​YT se­ries).

Bae's Theorem17 Apr 2019 21:58 UTC
11 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Crypto quant trad­ing: Intro

Alexei17 Apr 2019 20:52 UTC
62 points
17 comments5 min readLW link