entirelyuseless comments on Open Thread April 4 - April 10, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 April 2016 06:04:21PM 18 points [-]

Sorry to complain, but I opened the site to see what was going on, and Main has gone to utter crap.

"Is spirituality irrational?" and "3 reasons it's irrational to demand 'rationalism' in social-justice activism" are now heavily-commented recent posts in Main. Meanwhile, "Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People" was published a short while ago, and nothing about it appears on this site.

Looks like this site has slid into the River of Low Domain-Knowledge, Easy-to-Discuss General Stuff, rather than staying up in the nice Forest of Stuff LW Purports to be About.

Comment author: entirelyuseless 04 April 2016 10:00:35PM 1 point [-]

I really liked the linked paper, thanks for posting the link.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 April 2016 10:42:11PM 1 point [-]

No problem! I was excited to see it, since I fanboy over that lab.

Comment author: Curiouskid 08 April 2016 09:24:34PM 1 point [-]

A good paper!

I'm curious how you found the paper. I asked myself how I would find such a paper (rather than just stumbling on it here). I first checked Tenenbaum's homepage, but it's out of date. Then I checked the CBMM publications page and found it.

Another interesting paper from that page: "Foveation-based Mechanisms Alleviate Adversarial Examples"

Comment author: [deleted] 09 April 2016 06:05:01PM 1 point [-]

Honestly? I browse /r/MachineLearning pretty regularly, and someone there tends to eventually post Tenenbaum-lab papers.