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"AIXIjs: A Software Demo for General Reinforcement Learning", Aslanides 2017

Keeping up with deep reinforcement learning research: /r/reinforcementlearning

"The unrecognised simplicities of effective action #2: 'Systems engineering’ and 'systems management' - ideas from the Apollo programme for a 'systems politics'", Cummings 2017

Decision Theory subreddit

Rationality Heuristic for Bias Detection: Updating Towards the Net Weight of Evidence

Bias tests look for violations of basic universal properties of rational belief such as subadditivity of probabilities or anchoring on rando

Recent updates to gwern.net (2015-2016)

Previously: 2011; 2012-2013; 2013-2014; 2014-2015 "When I was one-and-twenty / I heard a wise man say, / 'Give crowns and pounds and guin

The Brain Preservation Foundation's Small Mammalian Brain Prize won

The Brain Preservation Foundation’s Small Mammalian Brain Prize has been won with fantastic preservation of a whole rabbit brain using a new

Recent updates to gwern.net (2014-2015)

Previously: 2011; 2012-2013; 2013-2014 “Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. / For wisdom is be

[Link] 2015 modafinil user survey

I am running, in collaboration with ModafinilCat, a survey of modafinil users asking about their experiences, side-effects, sourcing, effica

LW survey: Effective Altruists and donations

Analysis of 2013-2014 LessWrong survey results on how much more self-identified EAers donate http://www.gwern.net/EA%20donations