InquilineKea

In­quil­ineKea’s Shortform

What can we learn from Microsoft’s Tay, its in­flam­ma­tory tweets, and its shut­down?

After Go, what games should be next for Deep­Mind?

What is the fu­ture of nootropic drugs? Why can’t there be ones more effec­tive than ones that have ex­isted for 15+ years?

Are con­fer­ences an in­effi­cient/​ter­rible dis­cus­sion fo­rum (in ad­di­tion to aca­demic pa­pers)?

Psy­cholog­i­cal val­idity of the “Seven deadly sins”?

How do you ap­proach the prob­lem of so­cial dis­cov­ery?

[LINK] What’s New? Ex­u­ber­ance for Novelty Has Benefits

What are some cool things a LWer can do at Yale, Brown, and UChicago?

[LINK] How a Com­puter Game is Rein­vent­ing the Science of Ex­per­tise

[POLL] LessWrong group on YourMo­rals.org

What are some good sur­vey ques­tions on a ra­tio­nal­ity web­site (like Gene Ex­pres­sion)? Razib would like some input

What are some in­spiring bi­ogra­phies of peo­ple for us LessWrong types?

Can cry­on­i­cally-frozen peo­ple *re­ally* ex­pect to be re­vived?

What are LessWrong’s thoughts on Venkatesh Rao, Gre­gory Rader, and Daniel Lemire?

Fi­nally just cre­ated com­pre­hen­sive re­source col­lec­tions/​guides for au­to­di­dac­tism/​sev­eral sci­en­tific subjects

Les­lie Vali­ant dis­cusses the the “prob­a­bly ap­prox­i­mately cor­rect,” or PAC, model of ma­chine learn­ing.

Be­ing a lab rat for phase I tri­als for ex­tended-re­lease ver­sions of drugs that are already well-known—a po­ten­tial wind­fall fi­nan­cial op­por­tu­nity for ra­tio­nal­ists?

Men­tor­ing as an al­ter­na­tive to hav­ing chil­dren?

What are the best news sources to read for *in­sight­ful* dis­cus­sions?