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Interpretations of “probability”

So8res9 May 2019 19:16 UTC

69 points

22 comments5 min readLW link

What Botswana Can Teach Us About Political Stability

Samo Burja9 May 2019 18:30 UTC

40 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Kissing Scars

Logan Riggs9 May 2019 16:00 UTC

39 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] How many galaxies could we reach traveling at 0.5c, 0.8c, and 0.99c?

Ruby8 May 2019 23:39 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How many humans could potentially live on Earth over its entire future?

Ruby8 May 2019 23:33 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Claims & Assumptions made in Eternity in Six Hours

Ruby8 May 2019 23:11 UTC

50 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Dallas SSC Meetup #2

tayfie8 May 2019 17:31 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Raleigh SSC/LW/EA Meetup—Meet MealSquares People

John_Maxwell8 May 2019 0:01 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What speeds do you need to achieve to colonize the Milky Way?

Ruby7 May 2019 23:46 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Could a superintelligent AI colonize the galaxy/universe? If not, why not?

Ruby7 May 2019 21:33 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is it definitely the case that we can colonize Mars if we really wanted to? Is it reasonable to believe that this is technically feasible for a reasonably advanced civilization?

Ruby7 May 2019 20:08 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why is it valuable to know whether space colonization is feasible?

Ruby7 May 2019 19:58 UTC

6 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the claims/arguments made in Eternity in Six Hours?

Ruby7 May 2019 19:54 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Crypto quant trading: Naive Bayes

Alexei7 May 2019 19:29 UTC

33 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

Coordination Surveys: why we should survey to organize responsibilities, not just predictions

Academian7 May 2019 17:43 UTC

68 points

12 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

Models of Memory and Understanding

Hazard7 May 2019 17:39 UTC

19 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Towards optimal play as Villager in a mixed game

Benquo7 May 2019 5:29 UTC

51 points

40 comments3 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

[Question] Which parts of the paper Eternity in Six Hours are iffy?

Ruby6 May 2019 23:59 UTC

21 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

South Bay Meetup

DavidFriedman6 May 2019 23:59 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Space colonization: what can we definitely do and how do we know that?

Ruby6 May 2019 23:05 UTC

31 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How long can people be productive in [time period]?

Elizabeth6 May 2019 22:35 UTC

47 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Hierarchy and wings

Benquo6 May 2019 18:39 UTC

25 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Value learning for moral essentialists

Charlie Steiner6 May 2019 9:05 UTC

11 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Blame games

Benquo6 May 2019 2:38 UTC

46 points

13 comments8 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Building trusted third parties

anithite5 May 2019 23:18 UTC

12 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How much do major foundations grant per hour of staff time?

Raemon5 May 2019 19:57 UTC

22 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

The why and how of daily updates

VipulNaik5 May 2019 15:21 UTC

33 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

A reckless introduction to Hindley-Milner type inference

philh5 May 2019 14:00 UTC

17 points

4 comments20 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Gwern’s “Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs: The Power of Agency”

habryka5 May 2019 5:11 UTC

27 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

345M version GPT-2 released

lifelonglearner5 May 2019 2:49 UTC

37 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

[Question] Is value drift net-positive, net-negative, or neither?

MarisaJurczyk5 May 2019 2:37 UTC

5 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #55] Regulatory markets and international standards as a means of ensuring beneficial AI

Rohin Shah5 May 2019 2:20 UTC

17 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Should Effective Altruism be at war with North Korea?

Benquo5 May 2019 1:50 UTC

14 points

48 comments6 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Dishonest Update Reporting

Zvi4 May 2019 14:10 UTC

61 points

27 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Map of the Lesswrong-O-Sphere of Interest

Elo4 May 2019 4:19 UTC

35 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

[Meta] Hiding negative karma notifications by default

habryka4 May 2019 2:36 UTC

26 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Zurich SSC

ssczurich3 May 2019 20:11 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Totalitarian ethical systems

Benquo3 May 2019 19:35 UTC

33 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Authoritarian Empiricism

Benquo3 May 2019 19:34 UTC

38 points

10 comments10 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The State of Affairs

Jacob Falkovich3 May 2019 16:18 UTC

33 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Oracles, sequence predictors, and self-confirming predictions

Stuart_Armstrong3 May 2019 14:09 UTC

22 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Self-confirming predictions can be arbitrarily bad

Stuart_Armstrong3 May 2019 11:34 UTC

49 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Bay Summer Solstice 2019

Raemon3 May 2019 4:49 UTC

26 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Episode 3 of Tsuyoku Naritai! (the ’becoming stronger podcast): Nike Timers

Bae's Theorem3 May 2019 2:53 UTC

5 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Functional Decision Theory vs Causal Decision Theory: Expanding on Newcomb’s Problem

Geropy2 May 2019 22:15 UTC

2 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What is corrigibility? / What are the right background readings on it?

Ruby2 May 2019 20:43 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

South Bay SSC Meetup May 11th

DavidFriedman2 May 2019 18:09 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Neural networks for games

bipolo2 May 2019 4:28 UTC

0 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Swarm AI (tool)

Alexei1 May 2019 23:39 UTC

17 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread May 2019

ryan_b1 May 2019 15:43 UTC

10 points

66 comments1 min readLW link