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Swarm AI (tool)
Alexei
1 May 2019 23:39 UTC
17
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread May 2019
ryan_b
1 May 2019 15:43 UTC
10
points
66
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Nash equilibriums can be arbitrarily bad
Stuart_Armstrong
1 May 2019 14:58 UTC
35
points
24
comments
2
min read
LW
link
April 2019 gwern.net newsletter
gwern
1 May 2019 14:43 UTC
11
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
[Question]
Has government or industry had greater past success in maintaining really powerful technological secrets?
habryka
1 May 2019 2:24 UTC
27
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does the patent system prevent industry from keeping secrets?
habryka
1 May 2019 2:24 UTC
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are concrete historical examples of powerful technological secrets?
habryka
1 May 2019 2:22 UTC
9
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A quick map of consciousness
Elo
1 May 2019 2:17 UTC
11
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why is it important whether governments or industry projects are better at keeping secrets?
habryka
1 May 2019 2:10 UTC
8
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Natural Structures and Conditional Definitions
Chris_Leong
1 May 2019 0:05 UTC
20
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Change A View: An interesting online community
habryka
30 Apr 2019 18:34 UTC
50
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(changeaview.com)
Twin Cities SSC meetup
Drake Thomas
30 Apr 2019 15:07 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Pecking Order and Flight Leadership
sarahconstantin
29 Apr 2019 20:30 UTC
43
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
[Question]
Reference request: human as “backup”
Yuxi_Liu
29 Apr 2019 17:13 UTC
6
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Buying Value, not Price
Jacob Falkovich
29 Apr 2019 15:51 UTC
32
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
SSC Meetup:Meditations on Moloch
marywang
29 Apr 2019 14:24 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
My poorly done attempt of formulating a game with incomplete information.
RocksBasil
29 Apr 2019 4:36 UTC
3
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is the transcencion hypothesis or scenario ? What would a Transcended civilization be capable of ?
Orange Apple Juice
29 Apr 2019 2:13 UTC
−11
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality made me less bad at Mario Kart 8
Three-Monkey Mind
28 Apr 2019 21:29 UTC
12
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Recent updates to gwern.net (2017–2019)
gwern
28 Apr 2019 20:18 UTC
35
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Forces of Blandness and the Disagreeable Majority
sarahconstantin
28 Apr 2019 19:44 UTC
132
points
27
comments
3
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Hull: An alternative to shell that I’ll never have time to implement
Martin Sustrik
28 Apr 2019 7:40 UTC
15
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(250bpm.com)
Aging research and population ethics
emanuele ascani
28 Apr 2019 7:21 UTC
15
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[AN #54] Boxing a finite-horizon AI system to keep it unambitious
Rohin Shah
28 Apr 2019 5:20 UTC
20
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
[Question]
What are some good examples of incorrigibility?
RyanCarey
28 Apr 2019 0:22 UTC
23
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Counterspells
Virgil Kurkjian
27 Apr 2019 23:37 UTC
99
points
24
comments
10
min read
LW
link
10 Good Things about Antifragile: a positivist book review
SebastianG
27 Apr 2019 18:22 UTC
21
points
4
comments
7
min read
LW
link
“Everything is Correlated”: An Anthology of the Psychology Debate
gwern
27 Apr 2019 13:48 UTC
41
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
[Question]
What’s the best approach to curating a newsfeed to maximize useful contrasting POV?
bgold
26 Apr 2019 17:29 UTC
25
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Evolution “failure mode”: chickens
Yuxi_Liu
26 Apr 2019 11:42 UTC
21
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Speaking for myself (re: how the LW2.0 team communicates)
Ruby
25 Apr 2019 22:39 UTC
56
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Asymmetric Justice
Zvi
25 Apr 2019 16:00 UTC
235
points
104
comments
5
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
What would Femtotechnology, attotechnology, yoctotechnology and planck level technology be theoretically capable of ?
Orange Apple Juice
25 Apr 2019 7:45 UTC
−7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Strategic implications of AIs’ ability to coordinate at low cost, for example by merging
Wei Dai
25 Apr 2019 5:08 UTC
69
points
46
comments
2
min read
LW
link
1
review
Against Street Epistemology
Eponym
25 Apr 2019 5:01 UTC
17
points
28
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why does category theory exist?
Ben Pace
25 Apr 2019 4:54 UTC
37
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Tsuyoku Naritai!” (the ‘becoming stronger’ podcast): Episode 2 - Yoda Timers
Bae's Theorem
25 Apr 2019 4:37 UTC
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Femtotechnology
Orange Apple Juice
24 Apr 2019 23:43 UTC
−17
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
When is rationality useful?
Richard_Ngo
24 Apr 2019 22:40 UTC
28
points
26
comments
3
min read
LW
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_Roy
24 Apr 2019 16:26 UTC
5
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Interview with Putanumonit
Jacob Falkovich
24 Apr 2019 14:53 UTC
15
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Airportpourri
Jacob Falkovich
24 Apr 2019 14:51 UTC
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
[Question]
How good are chatbots?
bipolo
24 Apr 2019 14:17 UTC
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Show LW: Debate on Philosophy being dead
CaiwitzAzaria
24 Apr 2019 13:35 UTC
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(youtube.com)
Many maps, Lightly held
Elo
24 Apr 2019 2:25 UTC
19
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Moral Weight Doesn’t Accrue Linearly
bgaesop
23 Apr 2019 22:14 UTC
12
points
42
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Answer] Why wasn’t science invented in China?
Ruby
23 Apr 2019 21:47 UTC
95
points
46
comments
21
min read
LW
link
1
review
The Principle of Predicted Improvement
Ronny Fernandez
23 Apr 2019 21:21 UTC
73
points
17
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Degree of duplication and coordination in projects that examine computing prices, AI progress, and related topics?
riceissa
23 Apr 2019 12:27 UTC
26
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How to make plans?
Pee Doom
23 Apr 2019 8:29 UTC
24
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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