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Murphy’s Quest Ch 2: Empiricism

alkjashMar 4, 2018, 4:50 AM

25 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

On Defense Mechanisms

QuaerendoMar 4, 2018, 6:53 PM

25 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

How to Dissolve It

TurnTroutMar 7, 2018, 6:19 AM

24 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Friendship

alkjashMar 1, 2018, 6:00 AM

24 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

TAPs 3: Reductionism

alkjashMar 15, 2018, 5:20 AM

23 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Hammertime Intermission #2

alkjashMar 1, 2018, 6:20 PM

23 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Diffusing “I can’t be that stupid”

HazardMar 24, 2018, 2:49 PM

23 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

A Developmental Framework for Rationality

lifelonglearnerMar 13, 2018, 1:36 AM

23 points

9 comments9 min readLW link

Non-Adversarial Goodhart and AI Risks

DavidmanheimMar 27, 2018, 1:39 AM

22 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 13: Existential Risk

alkjashMar 11, 2018, 7:10 AM

22 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Editor Mini-Guide

Ben PaceMar 11, 2018, 8:58 PM

22 points

62 comments2 min readLW link

Key lime pie and the methods of rationality

Said AchmizMar 22, 2018, 6:25 AM

22 points

13 comments LW link

(blog.obormot.net)

AI Summer Fellows Program

colmMar 21, 2018, 3:32 PM

21 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Hufflepuff Cynicism on Hypocrisy

abramdemskiMar 29, 2018, 9:01 PM

21 points

78 comments5 min readLW link

If rationality skills were Harry Potter spells...

lifelonglearnerMar 9, 2018, 3:36 PM

21 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Design 3: Intentionality

alkjashMar 16, 2018, 4:30 AM

21 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Murphy’s Quest Ch 9: Double Crux

alkjashMar 9, 2018, 12:10 AM

21 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

LessWrong Diaspora Jargon Survey

namespaceMar 22, 2018, 3:18 AM

21 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

Expertise Exchange

ChristianKlMar 14, 2018, 6:04 PM

21 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 4: Noticing Confusion

alkjashMar 5, 2018, 7:20 AM

21 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Takeoff Speed: Simple Asymptotics in a Toy Model.

Aaron RothMar 5, 2018, 5:07 PM

21 points

21 comments9 min readLW link

(aaronsadventures.blogspot.com)

Rationalist Lent is over

Qiaochu_YuanMar 30, 2018, 5:57 AM

20 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 7: Outside the Box

alkjashMar 7, 2018, 5:50 AM

20 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Yoda Timers 3: Speed

alkjashMar 13, 2018, 6:00 PM

20 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Explanation of Paul’s AI-Alignment agenda by Ajeya Cotra

habrykaMar 5, 2018, 3:10 AM

20 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Rationality Feed: Last Month’s Best Posts

sapphireMar 21, 2018, 2:12 PM

20 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

AI Summer Fellows Program

colmMar 16, 2018, 9:57 PM

20 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

CoZE 3: Empiricism

alkjashMar 17, 2018, 4:10 AM

20 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Using lying to detect human values

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 15, 2018, 11:37 AM

19 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

The most important step

JsevillamolMar 24, 2018, 12:34 PM

19 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 8: False Pentachotomy

alkjashMar 8, 2018, 5:30 AM

19 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Is the Star Trek Federation really incapable of building AI?

Kaj_SotalaMar 18, 2018, 10:30 AM

19 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Kegan and Cultivating Compassion

lifelonglearnerMar 11, 2018, 1:32 AM

18 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Reward hacking and Goodhart’s law by evolutionary algorithms

Jan_KulveitMar 30, 2018, 7:57 AM

18 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Murphy’s Quest Ch 3: Murphyjitsu

alkjashMar 5, 2018, 2:40 AM

18 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Murphy’s Quest Ch 10: Gears-Like Models

alkjashMar 9, 2018, 11:00 PM

18 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

New Paper Expanding on the Goodhart Taxonomy

Scott GarrabrantMar 14, 2018, 9:01 AM

17 points

4 comments LW link

(arxiv.org)

Monthly Meta: Common Knowledge

Chris_LeongMar 3, 2018, 12:05 AM

17 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Person-moment affecting views

KatjaGraceMar 7, 2018, 2:30 AM

17 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Is this what FAI outreach success looks like?

Charlie SteinerMar 9, 2018, 1:12 PM

17 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

The fundamental complementarity of consciousness and work

KatjaGraceMar 28, 2018, 1:20 AM

16 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

My Hammertime Final Exam

moridinamaelMar 22, 2018, 6:40 PM

16 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

AI Alignment Prize: Super-Boxing

X4vierMar 18, 2018, 1:03 AM

16 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

Looking and the no-self

ChristianKlMar 13, 2018, 7:39 PM

16 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

A Concrete Multi-Step Variant of Double Crux I Have Used Successfully

sapphireMar 15, 2018, 1:26 AM

16 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Murphy’s Quest Ch 5: Fail Gracefully

alkjashMar 6, 2018, 5:10 AM

16 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Upcoming stability of values

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 15, 2018, 11:36 AM

15 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

GreaterWrong—several new features & enhancements

Said AchmizMar 27, 2018, 2:36 AM

15 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Taking the Hammertime Final Exam

lifelonglearnerMar 22, 2018, 5:22 PM

15 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Interactive Bayes Theorem Visualization

Allen KimMar 3, 2018, 4:00 AM

15 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(allenkim67.github.io)

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