Embed­ded Agency (full-text ver­sion)

Nov 15, 2018, 7:49 PM
201 points
17 comments54 min readLW link

Is Click­bait De­stroy­ing Our Gen­eral In­tel­li­gence?

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 16, 2018, 11:06 PM
191 points
65 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

Act of Charity

jessicataNov 17, 2018, 5:19 AM
186 points
49 comments8 min readLW link1 review

In­cor­rect hy­pothe­ses point to cor­rect observations

Kaj_SotalaNov 20, 2018, 9:10 PM
169 points
40 comments4 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Is Science Slow­ing Down?

Scott AlexanderNov 27, 2018, 3:30 AM
129 points
77 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

“She Wanted It”

sarahconstantinNov 11, 2018, 10:00 PM
120 points
21 comments7 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Ro­bust Delegation

Nov 4, 2018, 4:38 PM
116 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Sub­sys­tem Alignment

Nov 6, 2018, 4:16 PM
102 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Embed­ded World-Models

Nov 2, 2018, 4:07 PM
96 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Up­date the best text­books on ev­ery sub­ject list

ryan_bNov 8, 2018, 8:54 PM
92 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Sam Har­ris and the Is–Ought Gap

Tyrrell_McAllisterNov 16, 2018, 1:04 AM
91 points
46 comments6 min readLW link

Embed­ded Curiosities

Nov 8, 2018, 2:19 PM
91 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Dou­ble-Dip­ping in Dun­ning—Kruger

isovectorNov 28, 2018, 3:40 AM
88 points
32 comments3 min readLW link

Coun­ter­in­tu­itive Com­par­a­tive Advantage

Wei DaiNov 28, 2018, 8:33 PM
85 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Manda­tory Obsessions

Jacob FalkovichNov 14, 2018, 6:19 PM
77 points
14 comments6 min readLW link

When does ra­tio­nal­ity-as-search have non­triv­ial im­pli­ca­tions?

nostalgebraistNov 4, 2018, 10:42 PM
72 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Topolog­i­cal Fixed Point Exercises

Nov 17, 2018, 1:40 AM
71 points
51 comments3 min readLW link

Cur­rent AI Safety Roles for Soft­ware Engineers

ozziegooenNov 9, 2018, 8:57 PM
70 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Clar­ify­ing “AI Align­ment”

paulfchristianoNov 15, 2018, 2:41 PM
66 points
84 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

Preschool: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know

ZviNov 20, 2018, 7:30 PM
65 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

His­tory of LessWrong: Some Data Graphics

Said AchmizNov 16, 2018, 7:07 AM
65 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Fixed Point Exercises

Scott GarrabrantNov 17, 2018, 1:39 AM
64 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Four fac­tors that mod­er­ate the in­ten­sity of emotions

RubyNov 24, 2018, 8:40 PM
63 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

The easy goal in­fer­ence prob­lem is still hard

paulfchristianoNov 3, 2018, 2:41 PM
62 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

MIRI’s 2018 Fundraiser

MaloNov 27, 2018, 5:30 AM
60 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Com­pet­i­tive Mar­kets as Distributed Backprop

johnswentworthNov 10, 2018, 4:47 PM
59 points
10 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Corrigibility

paulfchristianoNov 27, 2018, 9:50 PM
57 points
8 comments6 min readLW link

What is am­bi­tious value learn­ing?

Rohin ShahNov 1, 2018, 4:20 PM
55 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

Hu­mans can be as­signed any val­ues what­so­ever…

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 5, 2018, 2:26 PM
54 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

On MIRI’s new re­search directions

Rob BensingerNov 22, 2018, 11:42 PM
53 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(intelligence.org)

Burnout: What it is and how to Treat it.

ElizabethNov 7, 2018, 10:02 PM
51 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Win­ter Sols­tice 2018 Roundup

RaemonNov 28, 2018, 3:09 AM
50 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The Vuln­er­a­ble World Hy­poth­e­sis (by Bostrom)

Ben PaceNov 6, 2018, 8:05 PM
50 points
17 comments4 min readLW link
(nickbostrom.com)

Fu­ture di­rec­tions for am­bi­tious value learning

Rohin ShahNov 11, 2018, 3:53 PM
48 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

If You Want to Win, Stop Conceding

Davis_KingsleyNov 22, 2018, 6:10 PM
47 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­saic AI alignment

paulfchristianoNov 20, 2018, 1:56 PM
47 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

Fixed Point Discussion

Scott GarrabrantNov 24, 2018, 8:53 PM
45 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Pre­face to the se­quence on iter­ated amplification

paulfchristianoNov 10, 2018, 1:24 PM
44 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion-Aug­mented Eval­u­a­tion Systems

ozziegooenNov 9, 2018, 10:55 AM
44 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

The Steer­ing Problem

paulfchristianoNov 13, 2018, 5:14 PM
43 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

Up­com­ing: Open Questions

RaemonNov 24, 2018, 1:39 AM
41 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Spec­u­la­tive Evopsych, Ep. 1

Optimization ProcessNov 22, 2018, 7:00 PM
41 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Sto­icism: Cau­tion­ary Advice

VivaLaPandaNov 14, 2018, 11:18 PM
41 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Di­ag­o­nal­iza­tion Fixed Point Exercises

Nov 18, 2018, 12:31 AM
40 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­plore/​Ex­ploit for Conversations

HazardNov 15, 2018, 4:11 AM
39 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Hu­mans Con­sult­ing HCH

paulfchristianoNov 25, 2018, 11:18 PM
39 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

No Really, Why Aren’t Ra­tion­al­ists Win­ning?

Sailor VulcanNov 4, 2018, 6:11 PM
38 points
90 comments5 min readLW link

Bodega Bay: workshop

KatjaGraceNov 27, 2018, 3:20 AM
38 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(worldlypositions.tumblr.com)

New GreaterWrong fea­ture: image zoom + image slideshows

Said AchmizNov 4, 2018, 7:34 AM
37 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

EA Funds: Long-Term Fu­ture fund is open to ap­pli­ca­tions un­til Novem­ber 24th (this Satur­day)

habrykaNov 21, 2018, 3:39 AM
37 points
0 comments1 min readLW link