Re­view: How to Read a Book (Mor­timer Adler, Charles Van Doren)

Elizabeth27 Jan 2020 21:10 UTC
48 points
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(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] What re­search has been done on the al­tru­is­tic im­pact of the usual good ac­tions?

Alexei27 Jan 2020 19:33 UTC
11 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Heal­ing vs. ex­er­cise analo­gies for emo­tional work

Kaj_Sotala27 Jan 2020 19:10 UTC
48 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

The Ben­tham Prize at Metaculus

AABoyles27 Jan 2020 14:27 UTC
28 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

Port­ing My Rhythm Setup

jefftk26 Jan 2020 21:20 UTC
9 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

UML VIII: Lin­ear Pre­dic­tors (2)

Rafael Harth26 Jan 2020 20:09 UTC
9 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What hap­pens if we re­verse New­comb’s Para­dox and re­place it with two nega­tive sums? Doesn’t it kinda maybe af­firm Roko’s Basilisk?

Habby26 Jan 2020 18:08 UTC
1 point
3 comments2 min readLW link

On hid­ing the source of knowledge

jessicata26 Jan 2020 2:48 UTC
115 points
40 comments3 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

He­donic asymmetries

paulfchristiano26 Jan 2020 2:10 UTC
98 points
22 comments2 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Mo­ral pub­lic goods

paulfchristiano26 Jan 2020 0:10 UTC
147 points
74 comments4 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Co­or­di­na­tion as a Scarce Resource

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:32 UTC
251 points
22 comments4 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] Are the bad epistemic con­di­tions global?

jmh25 Jan 2020 23:31 UTC
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ma­te­rial Goods as an Abun­dant Resource

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:23 UTC
81 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Con­straints & Slack­ness as a Wor­ld­view Generator

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:18 UTC
55 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Tech­nol­ogy Changes Constraints

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:13 UTC
116 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

SSC Zürich Fe­bru­ary Meetup

Vitor25 Jan 2020 17:21 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ten Causes of Mazedom

Zvi25 Jan 2020 13:40 UTC
59 points
6 comments22 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On the on­tolog­i­cal de­vel­op­ment of consciousness

jessicata25 Jan 2020 5:56 UTC
51 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

[Question] Have epistemic con­di­tions always been this bad?

Wei Dai25 Jan 2020 4:42 UTC
210 points
106 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Cam­bridge Pre­dic­tion Game

NoSignalNoNoise25 Jan 2020 3:57 UTC
13 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

SSC Hal­i­fax Meetup—Jan­uary 25

interstice25 Jan 2020 1:15 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Li­tany Against Anger

namespace25 Jan 2020 0:56 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

AI al­ign­ment con­cepts: philo­soph­i­cal break­ers, stop­pers, and distorters

JustinShovelain24 Jan 2020 19:23 UTC
20 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

The two-layer model of hu­man val­ues, and prob­lems with syn­the­siz­ing preferences

Kaj_Sotala24 Jan 2020 15:17 UTC
70 points
16 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] How much do we know about how brains learn?

Kenny24 Jan 2020 14:46 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Epistea Sum­mer Ex­per­i­ment (ESE)

24 Jan 2020 10:49 UTC
49 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

2018 Re­view: Vot­ing Re­sults!

Ben Pace24 Jan 2020 2:00 UTC
135 points
59 comments6 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing Group De­ci­sion Making

June Ku24 Jan 2020 1:29 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

Emer­gency Pre­scrip­tion Medication

jefftk24 Jan 2020 1:20 UTC
12 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

LW/​SSC War­saw Fe­bru­ary Meetup

kaftanowicz23 Jan 2020 19:49 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] The­ory of Causal Models with Dy­namic Struc­ture?

johnswentworth23 Jan 2020 19:47 UTC
24 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

To­kenis­ing hu­man ver­ifi­ca­tion in or­der to de­rive in­for­ma­tion from the re­sult­ing markets

Will Clark23 Jan 2020 19:20 UTC
3 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

New pa­per: The In­cen­tives that Shape Behaviour

RyanCarey23 Jan 2020 19:07 UTC
23 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

For­mu­lat­ing Re­duc­tive Agency in Causal Models

johnswentworth23 Jan 2020 17:03 UTC
33 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Cas­sette Tape Thoughts

Elizabeth22 Jan 2020 22:50 UTC
48 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Con­cerns Sur­round­ing CEV: A case for hu­man friendli­ness first

ai-crotes22 Jan 2020 21:03 UTC
1 point
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(A → B) → A in Causal DAGs

johnswentworth22 Jan 2020 18:22 UTC
48 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #83]: Sam­ple-effi­cient deep learn­ing with ReMixMatch

Rohin Shah22 Jan 2020 18:10 UTC
15 points
4 comments11 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Terms & liter­a­ture for pur­posely lossy communication

ozziegooen22 Jan 2020 10:35 UTC
14 points
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Three signs you may be suffer­ing from im­poster syndrome

lc21 Jan 2020 22:17 UTC
9 points
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Log­i­cal Rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Causal Models

johnswentworth21 Jan 2020 20:04 UTC
37 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Disasters

jefftk21 Jan 2020 19:20 UTC
16 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Safety reg­u­la­tors: A tool for miti­gat­ing tech­nolog­i­cal risk

JustinShovelain21 Jan 2020 13:07 UTC
13 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

How Doomed are Large Or­ga­ni­za­tions?

Zvi21 Jan 2020 12:20 UTC
81 points
42 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book Re­view—The Ori­gins of Un­fair­ness: So­cial Cat­e­gories and Cul­tural Evolution

Zack_M_Davis21 Jan 2020 6:28 UTC
27 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(unremediatedgender.space)

Whipped Cream vs Fancy Butter

jefftk21 Jan 2020 0:30 UTC
−2 points
36 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

In­ner al­ign­ment re­quires mak­ing as­sump­tions about hu­man values

Matthew Barnett20 Jan 2020 18:38 UTC
26 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Work­shop on As­sured Au­tonomous Sys­tems (WAAS)

Aryeh Englander20 Jan 2020 16:21 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Why Do You Keep Hav­ing This Prob­lem?

Davis_Kingsley20 Jan 2020 8:33 UTC
47 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Use-cases for com­pu­ta­tions, other than run­ning them?

johnswentworth19 Jan 2020 20:52 UTC
30 points
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