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Epistea Summer Experiment

Jan_Kulveit13 May 2019 21:29 UTC

25 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Thinking Fast and Hard

Jacob Falkovich13 May 2019 19:58 UTC

26 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Physical linguistics

Yuxi_Liu13 May 2019 19:30 UTC

16 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

In support of the inside view and a counter to modest epistemology

solomon alon13 May 2019 15:21 UTC

−7 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Cambridge LessWrong / SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoise13 May 2019 1:56 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Ed Boyden on the State of Science

Ben Pace13 May 2019 1:54 UTC

62 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What are some “Communities and Cultures Different From Our Own?”

Raemon12 May 2019 22:03 UTC

29 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Coherent decisions imply consistent utilities

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 May 2019 21:33 UTC

149 points

81 comments26 min readLW link 3 reviews

The Relationship Between the Village and the Mission

Raemon12 May 2019 21:09 UTC

137 points

70 comments18 min readLW link

Tales from the Highway

Zvi12 May 2019 19:40 UTC

16 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Geography of the Room — impact of position, orientation, and visibility on how often extraverts start conversations

less_penguiny12 May 2019 17:21 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.lesspenguiny.com)

Type-safeness in Shell

Martin Sustrik12 May 2019 11:30 UTC

7 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

“UDT2” and “against UD+ASSA”

Wei Dai12 May 2019 4:18 UTC

50 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Narcissism vs. social signalling

Chris_Leong12 May 2019 3:26 UTC

13 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Why books don’t work

lifelonglearner11 May 2019 20:40 UTC

17 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

(andymatuschak.org)

Probability interpretations: Examples

So8res11 May 2019 20:32 UTC

39 points

23 comments5 min readLW link

Programming Languages For AI

Donald Hobson11 May 2019 17:50 UTC

3 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

SSC Atlanta

Steve French11 May 2019 17:38 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] alternative history: what if Bayes rule had never been discovered?

Yoav Ravid11 May 2019 7:29 UTC

7 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do the different star-types in the universe (red dwarf, etc.) related to habitability for human-like life?

Ruby11 May 2019 1:01 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Athena Rationality Workshop—June 7th-10th at EA Hotel

Linda Linsefors11 May 2019 1:01 UTC

26 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How many “human” habitable planets/stars are in the universe?

Ruby11 May 2019 0:59 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Rob B’s Shortform Feed

Rob Bensinger10 May 2019 23:10 UTC

21 points

79 comments1 min readLW link

The Athena Rationality Workshop—June 7th-10th at EA Hotel

Linda Linsefors10 May 2019 22:08 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Complex Behavior from Simple (Sub)Agents

moridinamael10 May 2019 21:44 UTC

113 points

13 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Disincentives for participating on LW/AF

Wei Dai10 May 2019 19:46 UTC

86 points

45 comments2 min readLW link

Financial engineering for funding drug research

ryan_b10 May 2019 18:46 UTC

11 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Where are the Benefits from Conversation?

Davis_Kingsley10 May 2019 17:49 UTC

16 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Correspondence visualizations for different interpretations of “probability”

So8res10 May 2019 17:10 UTC

42 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Fear as fossil fuel

aaq10 May 2019 15:29 UTC

17 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

AI Forecasting online workshop

jacobjacob10 May 2019 14:54 UTC

30 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Training human models is an unsolved problem

Charlie Steiner10 May 2019 7:17 UTC

13 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Twin Cities SSC Meetup

Drake Thomas10 May 2019 5:10 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Episode 4 of Tsuyoku Naritai! (the ‘becoming stronger’ podcast): TAPs

Bae's Theorem10 May 2019 2:16 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Tales From the American Medical System

Zvi10 May 2019 0:40 UTC

64 points

48 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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