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Humans Consulting HCH
paulfchristiano
Nov 25, 2018, 11:18 PM
39
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Approval-directed bootstrapping
paulfchristiano
Nov 25, 2018, 11:18 PM
24
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How rapidly are GPUs improving in price performance?
gallabytes
Nov 25, 2018, 7:54 PM
31
points
9
comments
LW
link
(mediangroup.org)
Values Weren’t Complex, Once.
Davidmanheim
Nov 25, 2018, 9:17 AM
36
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A culture of exploitation?
Bae's Theorem
Nov 24, 2018, 10:00 PM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Fixed Point Discussion
Scott Garrabrant
Nov 24, 2018, 8:53 PM
45
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Four factors that moderate the intensity of emotions
Ruby
Nov 24, 2018, 8:40 PM
63
points
11
comments
8
min read
LW
link
deluks917 on Online Weirdos
Jacob Falkovich
Nov 24, 2018, 5:03 PM
24
points
3
comments
10
min read
LW
link
[Montreal] Towards High-Assurance Advanced AI Systems by Richard Mallah
Mati_Roy
Nov 24, 2018, 6:24 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Upcoming: Open Questions
Raemon
Nov 24, 2018, 1:39 AM
41
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A Dragon Confronts the Terasem Movement
Alephywr
Nov 24, 2018, 1:31 AM
−4
points
10
comments
25
min read
LW
link
(dancefighterredux.wordpress.com)
What if people simply forecasted your future choices?
ozziegooen
Nov 23, 2018, 10:52 AM
16
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Oversight of Unsafe Systems via Dynamic Safety Envelopes
Davidmanheim
Nov 23, 2018, 8:37 AM
10
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
On MIRI’s new research directions
Rob Bensinger
Nov 22, 2018, 11:42 PM
53
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(intelligence.org)
LW Update 2018-11-22 – Abridged Comments
Raemon
Nov 22, 2018, 10:11 PM
11
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Approval-directed agents
paulfchristiano
Nov 22, 2018, 9:15 PM
31
points
10
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Believing others’ priors
rk
Nov 22, 2018, 8:44 PM
8
points
19
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Speculative Evopsych, Ep. 1
Optimization Process
Nov 22, 2018, 7:00 PM
41
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
If You Want to Win, Stop Conceding
Davis_Kingsley
Nov 22, 2018, 6:10 PM
47
points
15
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Review: Artifact
Zvi
Nov 22, 2018, 3:00 PM
21
points
3
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Perspective Reasoning and the Sleeping Beauty Problem
dadadarren
Nov 22, 2018, 11:55 AM
6
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Semantic Man
namespace
Nov 22, 2018, 8:38 AM
19
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.generalsemantics.org)
Jesus Made Me Rational (An Introduction)
Motasaurus
Nov 22, 2018, 5:09 AM
−14
points
56
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Iteration Fixed Point Exercises
Scott Garrabrant
and
SamEisenstat
Nov 22, 2018, 12:35 AM
33
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Suggestion: New material shouldn’t be released too fast
Chris_Leong
Nov 21, 2018, 4:39 PM
23
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
EA Bristol Strategy Meeting
thegreatnick
Nov 21, 2018, 10:57 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality Café No. 6 - The Sequences, Part 1; Section B Repeat
thegreatnick
Nov 21, 2018, 10:54 AM
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
EA Funds: Long-Term Future fund is open to applications until November 24th (this Saturday)
habryka
Nov 21, 2018, 3:39 AM
37
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Incorrect hypotheses point to correct observations
Kaj_Sotala
Nov 20, 2018, 9:10 PM
169
points
40
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(kajsotala.fi)
Preschool: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know
Zvi
Nov 20, 2018, 7:30 PM
65
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
New safety research agenda: scalable agent alignment via reward modeling
Vika
Nov 20, 2018, 5:29 PM
34
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Prosaic AI alignment
paulfchristiano
Nov 20, 2018, 1:56 PM
48
points
10
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Moscow LW meetup in “Nauchka” library
Alexander230
Nov 20, 2018, 12:19 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Insert clever intro here]
Bae's Theorem
Nov 20, 2018, 3:26 AM
18
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Alignment Newsletter #33
Rohin Shah
Nov 19, 2018, 5:20 PM
23
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Games in Kocherga club: Fallacymania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery
Alexander230
Nov 19, 2018, 2:23 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Letting Others Be Vulnerable
lifelonglearner
Nov 19, 2018, 2:59 AM
34
points
6
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Clickbait might not be destroying our general Intelligence
Donald Hobson
Nov 19, 2018, 12:13 AM
25
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
South Bay Meetup 12/8
DavidFriedman
Nov 19, 2018, 12:04 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] “They go together: Freedom, Prosperity, and Big Government”
CronoDAS
Nov 18, 2018, 4:51 PM
11
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Collaboration-by-Design versus Emergent Collaboration
Davidmanheim
Nov 18, 2018, 7:22 AM
11
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Diagonalization Fixed Point Exercises
Scott Garrabrant
and
SamEisenstat
Nov 18, 2018, 12:31 AM
40
points
25
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Ia! Ia! Extradimensional Cephalopod Nafl’fhtagn!
ExCeph
Nov 17, 2018, 11:00 PM
14
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Effective Altruism, YouTube, and AI (talk by Lê Nguyên Hoang)
Paperclip Minimizer
Nov 17, 2018, 7:21 PM
3
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
An unaligned benchmark
paulfchristiano
Nov 17, 2018, 3:51 PM
31
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
On Rigorous Error Handling
Martin Sustrik
Nov 17, 2018, 9:20 AM
13
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(250bpm.com)
Act of Charity
jessicata
Nov 17, 2018, 5:19 AM
186
points
49
comments
8
min read
LW
link
1
review
Topological Fixed Point Exercises
Scott Garrabrant
and
SamEisenstat
Nov 17, 2018, 1:40 AM
71
points
51
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Fixed Point Exercises
Scott Garrabrant
Nov 17, 2018, 1:39 AM
64
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Is Clickbait Destroying Our General Intelligence?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Nov 16, 2018, 11:06 PM
208
points
67
comments
5
min read
LW
link
2
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