All knowl­edge is cir­cu­larly justified

Chris_Leong4 Jun 2019 22:39 UTC
10 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

See­ing the Ma­trix, Switch­ing Ab­strac­tions, and Miss­ing Moods

Raemon4 Jun 2019 21:08 UTC
36 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How is Solomonoff in­duc­tion calcu­lated in prac­tice?

Bucky4 Jun 2019 10:11 UTC
33 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Agents dis­solved in coffee

rmoehn4 Jun 2019 8:22 UTC
4 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

The In­ner Align­ment Problem

4 Jun 2019 1:20 UTC
103 points
17 comments13 min readLW link

Wash­ing­ton SSC Meetup

Robi Rahman3 Jun 2019 19:30 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Can move­ment from Con­flict to Mis­take the­o­rist be fa­cil­i­tated effec­tively?

SamLibDem3 Jun 2019 17:02 UTC
5 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Our plan for 2019-2020: con­sult­ing for AI Safety education

RAISE3 Jun 2019 16:51 UTC
18 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

To first or­der, moral re­al­ism and moral anti-re­al­ism are the same thing

Stuart_Armstrong3 Jun 2019 15:04 UTC
27 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Con­di­tional meta-preferences

Stuart_Armstrong3 Jun 2019 14:09 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Does Bayes Beat Good­hart?

abramdemski3 Jun 2019 2:31 UTC
48 points
26 comments7 min readLW link

Cam­bridge LW/​SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoise3 Jun 2019 1:55 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the ev­i­dence for pro­duc­tivity benefits of weightlift­ing?

jp2 Jun 2019 19:17 UTC
59 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

On alien science

Richard_Ngo2 Jun 2019 14:50 UTC
44 points
8 comments5 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Mo­ral Mazes and Short Termism

Zvi2 Jun 2019 11:30 UTC
74 points
21 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Selec­tion vs Control

abramdemski2 Jun 2019 7:01 UTC
172 points
25 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

FB/​Dis­cord Style Reacts

Raemon1 Jun 2019 21:34 UTC
77 points
95 comments5 min readLW link

Con­di­tions for Mesa-Optimization

1 Jun 2019 20:52 UTC
84 points
48 comments12 min readLW link

The Fun­da­men­tal The­o­rem of As­set Pric­ing: Miss­ing Link of the Dutch Book Arguments

johnswentworth1 Jun 2019 20:34 UTC
42 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

I trans­lated ‘Twelve Virtues of Ra­tion­al­ity’ into He­brew.

Yoav Ravid1 Jun 2019 18:52 UTC
26 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

May gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern1 Jun 2019 17:25 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Wel­come and Open Thread June 2019

roland1 Jun 2019 13:44 UTC
12 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

“But It Doesn’t Mat­ter”

Zack_M_Davis1 Jun 2019 2:06 UTC
55 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Feed­back Re­quested! Draft of a New About/​Wel­come Page for LessWrong

Ruby1 Jun 2019 0:44 UTC
29 points
26 comments6 min readLW link

A Brief His­tory of LessWrong

Ruby1 Jun 2019 0:43 UTC
38 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The LessWrong Team

Ruby1 Jun 2019 0:43 UTC
59 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Risks from Learned Op­ti­miza­tion: Introduction

31 May 2019 23:44 UTC
185 points
42 comments12 min readLW link3 reviews

Site Guide: Per­sonal Blog­posts vs Front­page Posts

Ruby31 May 2019 23:08 UTC
70 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

When Ob­ser­va­tion Beats Experiment

johnswentworth31 May 2019 22:58 UTC
14 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to de­ter­mine if my sym­pa­thetic or my parasym­pa­thetic ner­vous sys­tem is cur­rently dom­i­nant?

philip_b31 May 2019 20:40 UTC
20 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the best on­line com­mu­nity for ques­tions about AI ca­pa­bil­ities?

bgold31 May 2019 15:38 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ego­ism In Disguise

Wes F31 May 2019 14:40 UTC
1 point
12 comments4 min readLW link

Lonelinesses

Jacob Falkovich31 May 2019 13:55 UTC
53 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How would you ad­vise a peer-sup­ported virtues-ori­ented self-help group?

David Gross31 May 2019 0:20 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

If you are a Ma­chine. A shock­ing find­ing.

Conner_Masolin30 May 2019 23:38 UTC
−3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Uncer­tainty ver­sus fuzzi­ness ver­sus ex­trap­o­la­tion desiderata

Stuart_Armstrong30 May 2019 13:52 UTC
29 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

In­finity is an ad­jec­tive like pos­i­tive rather than an amount

Slider30 May 2019 13:22 UTC
0 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Quotes from Mo­ral Mazes

Zvi30 May 2019 11:50 UTC
114 points
27 comments53 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

OECD agenda [Link]

Thomas30 May 2019 9:51 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Archive of all LW es­say contests

DirectedEvolution30 May 2019 6:40 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to find a lost phone with dead bat­tery, us­ing Google Lo­ca­tion His­tory Takeout

Wei Dai30 May 2019 4:56 UTC
53 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

South Bay Meetup

DavidFriedman30 May 2019 2:32 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Seek­ing sug­ges­tions for EA cash-prize contest

DirectedEvolution29 May 2019 20:44 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What is re­quired to run a psy­chol­ogy study?

Raemon29 May 2019 6:38 UTC
30 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Drown­ing chil­dren are rare

Benquo28 May 2019 19:27 UTC
10 points
173 comments5 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Ev­i­dence for Con­nec­tion Theory

Evan_Gaensbauer28 May 2019 17:06 UTC
14 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(www.scribd.com)

A shift in ar­gu­ments for AI risk

Richard_Ngo28 May 2019 13:47 UTC
32 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(fragile-credences.github.io)

[Question] What should ra­tio­nal­ists think about the re­cent claims that air force pi­lots ob­served UFOs?

avturchin27 May 2019 22:02 UTC
12 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Was CFAR always in­tended to be a dis­tinct or­ga­ni­za­tion from MIRI?

Evan_Gaensbauer27 May 2019 16:58 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Von Neu­mann’s cri­tique of au­tomata the­ory and logic in com­puter science

Ben Pace26 May 2019 4:14 UTC
29 points
4 comments3 min readLW link