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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

Nash equil­ibriums can be ar­bi­trar­ily bad

Stuart_Armstrong1 May 2019 14:58 UTC
35 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

April 2019 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern1 May 2019 14:43 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

[Question] Has gov­ern­ment or in­dus­try had greater past suc­cess in main­tain­ing re­ally pow­er­ful tech­nolog­i­cal se­crets?

habryka1 May 2019 2:24 UTC
27 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does the patent sys­tem pre­vent in­dus­try from keep­ing se­crets?

habryka1 May 2019 2:24 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are con­crete his­tor­i­cal ex­am­ples of pow­er­ful tech­nolog­i­cal se­crets?

habryka1 May 2019 2:22 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

A quick map of consciousness

Elo1 May 2019 2:17 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why is it im­por­tant whether gov­ern­ments or in­dus­try pro­jects are bet­ter at keep­ing se­crets?

habryka1 May 2019 2:10 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Nat­u­ral Struc­tures and Con­di­tional Definitions

Chris_Leong1 May 2019 0:05 UTC
20 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Change A View: An in­ter­est­ing on­line community

habryka30 Apr 2019 18:34 UTC
50 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(changeaview.com)

Twin Cities SSC meetup

Drake Thomas30 Apr 2019 15:07 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Peck­ing Order and Flight Leadership

sarahconstantin29 Apr 2019 20:30 UTC
43 points
18 comments3 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

[Question] Refer­ence re­quest: hu­man as “backup”

Yuxi_Liu29 Apr 2019 17:13 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Buy­ing Value, not Price

Jacob Falkovich29 Apr 2019 15:51 UTC
32 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

SSC Meetup:Med­i­ta­tions on Moloch

marywang29 Apr 2019 14:24 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

My poorly done at­tempt of for­mu­lat­ing a game with in­com­plete in­for­ma­tion.

RocksBasil29 Apr 2019 4:36 UTC
3 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What is the tran­scen­cion hy­poth­e­sis or sce­nario ? What would a Tran­scended civ­i­liza­tion be ca­pa­ble of ?

Orange Apple Juice29 Apr 2019 2:13 UTC
−11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity made me less bad at Mario Kart 8

Three-Monkey Mind28 Apr 2019 21:29 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Re­cent up­dates to gw­ern.net (2017–2019)

gwern28 Apr 2019 20:18 UTC
35 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

The Forces of Bland­ness and the Disagree­able Majority

sarahconstantin28 Apr 2019 19:44 UTC
132 points
27 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Hull: An al­ter­na­tive to shell that I’ll never have time to implement

Martin Sustrik28 Apr 2019 7:40 UTC
15 points
6 comments4 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

Aging re­search and pop­u­la­tion ethics

emanuele ascani28 Apr 2019 7:21 UTC
15 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

[AN #54] Box­ing a finite-hori­zon AI sys­tem to keep it unambitious

Rohin Shah28 Apr 2019 5:20 UTC
20 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What are some good ex­am­ples of in­cor­rigi­bil­ity?

RyanCarey28 Apr 2019 0:22 UTC
23 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

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
235 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