The World as Phenomena

Gordon Seidoh Worley5 Dec 2017 23:21 UTC
18 points
1 comment7 min readLW link
(mapandterritory.org)

Up­dates from Boston

evolution-is-just-a-theorem5 Dec 2017 17:22 UTC
88 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Think­ing as the Crow Flies: Part 1 - Introduction

Anthony Hart5 Dec 2017 15:55 UTC
5 points
16 comments17 min readLW link

Stub: In­for­ma­tion The­o­retic On­tol­ogy

DragonGod5 Dec 2017 8:32 UTC
1 point
18 comments7 min readLW link

Show LW: Di­as­pora Pro­ject Map and Pr­ereg­is­tra­tion Database

namespace5 Dec 2017 6:02 UTC
22 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

What if we’re right?

Jacob Falkovich5 Dec 2017 4:00 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

The Ba­sic Ob­ject Model and Defi­ni­tion by Interface

Chris_Leong5 Dec 2017 0:07 UTC
5 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Towards a Ri­gor­ous Model of Virtue-Signalling

SilentCal4 Dec 2017 19:08 UTC
5 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Book re­view: The Up­side of Your Dark Side: Why Be­ing Your Whole Self–Not Just Your “Good” Self–Drives Suc­cess and Fulfillment

Kaj_Sotala4 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC
10 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Con­vinc­ing the world to build something

whpearson3 Dec 2017 22:11 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Bayes, Backwards

ec4293 Dec 2017 18:17 UTC
4 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Ques­tions about the NY Megameetup

NancyLebovitz3 Dec 2017 14:41 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Be­ing leg­ible to other agents by com­mit­ting to us­ing weaker rea­son­ing systems

AlexMennen3 Dec 2017 7:49 UTC
4 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy of Num­bers (part 1)

Charlie Steiner2 Dec 2017 18:20 UTC
11 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Tax­on­omy of tech­nolog­i­cal re­s­ur­rec­tion—re­quest for comment

Deku-shrub2 Dec 2017 17:06 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link
(hpluspedia.org)

The New Rid­dle of In­duc­tion: Neu­tral and Rel­a­tive Per­spec­tives on Color

Anders_H2 Dec 2017 16:15 UTC
6 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

More Dakka

Zvi2 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC
211 points
29 comments13 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ex­plicit content

Benquo2 Dec 2017 0:00 UTC
7 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

TSR #3 En­train­ment: Discussion

Hazard1 Dec 2017 16:46 UTC
11 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

MIRI’s 2017 Fundraiser

Malo1 Dec 2017 13:45 UTC
19 points
4 comments13 min readLW link

Com­ment on SSC’s Re­view of Inad­e­quate Equilibria

Ben Pace1 Dec 2017 11:46 UTC
13 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Cash trans­fers are not nec­es­sar­ily wealth transfers

Benquo1 Dec 2017 10:10 UTC
59 points
36 comments11 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

De­cem­ber 2017 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Dec 2017 9:02 UTC
1 point
16 comments1 min readLW link

Policy Selec­tion Solves Most Problems

abramdemski1 Dec 2017 0:35 UTC
21 points
7 comments13 min readLW link

A limit to pun­ish­ment

RST30 Nov 2017 17:08 UTC
4 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Im­proved for­mal­ism for cor­rup­tion in DIRL

Vanessa Kosoy30 Nov 2017 16:52 UTC
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Deep­Mind ar­ti­cle: AI Safety Gridworlds

scarcegreengrass30 Nov 2017 16:13 UTC
25 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(deepmind.com)

Why DRL doesn’t work for ar­bi­trary environments

Vanessa Kosoy30 Nov 2017 12:22 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The Im­pos­si­bil­ity of the In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion

DragonGod30 Nov 2017 5:47 UTC
−4 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Up­date­less­ness as a Ro­bust Del­e­ga­tion Problem

Scott Garrabrant30 Nov 2017 4:23 UTC
0 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Ex­am­ples of Miti­gat­ing As­sump­tion Risk

SatvikBeri30 Nov 2017 2:09 UTC
26 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

LDL 7: I wish I had a map

magfrump30 Nov 2017 2:03 UTC
13 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

The Mad Scien­tist De­ci­sion Problem

Linda Linsefors29 Nov 2017 11:41 UTC
6 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

The Right to be Wrong

sarahconstantin28 Nov 2017 23:43 UTC
48 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

Any Good Crit­i­cism of Karl Pop­per’s Episte­mol­ogy?

Elliot_Temple28 Nov 2017 22:31 UTC
−8 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Free Speech as Le­gal Right vs. Eth­i­cal Value

ozymandias28 Nov 2017 16:49 UTC
14 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Stable agent, sub­agent-unstable

Stuart_Armstrong28 Nov 2017 16:05 UTC
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Stable agent, sub­agent-unstable

Stuart_Armstrong28 Nov 2017 16:04 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Re­ward learn­ing summary

Stuart_Armstrong28 Nov 2017 15:55 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Mes­sage to Any Fu­ture AI: “There are sev­eral in­stru­men­tal rea­sons why ex­ter­mi­nat­ing hu­man­ity is not in your in­ter­est”

avturchin28 Nov 2017 15:39 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Big Ad­vance in In­finite Ethics

bwest28 Nov 2017 15:10 UTC
32 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

USA v Pro­gres­sive 1979 excerpt

RyanCarey27 Nov 2017 17:32 UTC
22 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

You Have the Right to Think

Zvi27 Nov 2017 2:10 UTC
17 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Se­cu­rity Mind­set and the Lo­gis­tic Suc­cess Curve

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Nov 2017 15:58 UTC
104 points
49 comments20 min readLW link

An In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of In­fer­en­tial Distance

RichardJActon26 Nov 2017 14:13 UTC
14 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Chang­ing habits for open threads

Hazard26 Nov 2017 12:54 UTC
3 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Let­ter from Utopia: Talk­ing to Nick Bostrom

morganism25 Nov 2017 22:19 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(blog.lareviewofbooks.org)

Se­cu­rity Mind­set and Or­di­nary Paranoia

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Nov 2017 17:53 UTC
132 points
25 comments29 min readLW link

The Dar­win Results

Zvi25 Nov 2017 13:30 UTC
52 points
10 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some mind experiments

RST25 Nov 2017 12:46 UTC
5 points
2 comments2 min readLW link