Affor­dance Widths

ialdabaoth10 May 2018 23:37 UTC
67 points
53 comments4 min readLW link6 reviews

Tech eco­nomics pat­tern: “Com­modi­tize Your Com­ple­ment”

gwern10 May 2018 18:54 UTC
41 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

April links

gwern10 May 2018 18:53 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Some­thing is rot­ten in the chan­nel of Slack

Medarla10 May 2018 16:19 UTC
−13 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­solv­ing Scotsmen

Paperclip Minimizer10 May 2018 16:08 UTC
5 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Upvotes, knowl­edge, stocks, and flows

Jameson Quinn10 May 2018 14:18 UTC
21 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Far fu­ture, ex­is­ten­tial risk, and AI alignment

Jan_Kulveit10 May 2018 9:51 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on “AI safety via de­bate”

Gordon Seidoh Worley10 May 2018 0:44 UTC
12 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Sav­ing the world in 80 days: Prologue

Logan Riggs9 May 2018 21:16 UTC
12 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Thoughts on AI Safety via Debate

Vaniver9 May 2018 19:46 UTC
35 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Hy­po­thet­i­cals: The Direct Ap­pli­ca­tion Fallacy

Chris_Leong9 May 2018 14:23 UTC
21 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

Dojo: Al­gorith­mic Creativity—Chap­ter 1

Chriswaterguy9 May 2018 8:03 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: [Moved In­doors] Out­door Fun & Games + Picnic

RobinZ9 May 2018 3:32 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Is epistemic logic use­ful for agent foun­da­tions?

Richard_Ngo8 May 2018 23:33 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Tem­porar­ily Out of Office

Ben Pace8 May 2018 21:59 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

On Bet­ter Men­tal Rep­re­sen­ta­tions Part I: Adopt­ing ‘Think­ing Tools’

Will Lorca8 May 2018 12:45 UTC
−1 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Va­ri­eties Of Ar­gu­men­ta­tive Experience

Scott Alexander8 May 2018 8:20 UTC
99 points
11 comments18 min readLW link2 reviews
(slatestarcodex.com)

Turn­ing 30

Vaniver8 May 2018 5:37 UTC
46 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Prob­lems in­te­grat­ing de­ci­sion the­ory and in­verse re­in­force­ment learning

agilecaveman8 May 2018 5:11 UTC
7 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing the Longevity Re­search Institute

sarahconstantin8 May 2018 3:30 UTC
54 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

On Gen­der and Emo­tional Support

squidious7 May 2018 22:37 UTC
17 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

What are Trig­ger-Ac­tion Plans (TAPs)?

Lulie7 May 2018 18:28 UTC
18 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

The Align­ment Newslet­ter #5: 05/​07/​18

Rohin Shah7 May 2018 16:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy of Mind: Umwelt, In­for­ma­tion, Value, and In­for­ma­tion-Value

Will Lorca7 May 2018 11:55 UTC
10 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Every­thing I ever needed to know, I learned from World of War­craft: In­cen­tives and rewards

Said Achmiz7 May 2018 6:44 UTC
25 points
6 comments9 min readLW link
(blog.obormot.net)

Fuzzy Boundaries, Real Concepts

orthonormal7 May 2018 3:39 UTC
27 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

LW Open Source – Get­ting Started [warn­ing: not up-to-date]

Raemon6 May 2018 23:28 UTC
35 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

LW Up­date 5/​6/​2018 – Meta and Moderation

Raemon6 May 2018 20:33 UTC
12 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Ad­vo­cat­ing for fac­tual ad­vo­cacy

Jsevillamol6 May 2018 8:47 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dict­ing Fu­ture Morality

ESRogs6 May 2018 7:17 UTC
13 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

[Paper]: Clas­sifi­ca­tion of global catas­trophic risks con­nected with ar­tifi­cial intelligence

avturchin6 May 2018 6:42 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(link.springer.com)

Look­ing for AI Safety Ex­perts to Provide High Level Guidance for RAISE

Ofer6 May 2018 2:06 UTC
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Open ques­tion: are min­i­mal cir­cuits dae­mon-free?

paulfchristiano5 May 2018 22:40 UTC
83 points
70 comments2 min readLW link1 review

5-minute timer tool

Gust5 May 2018 15:58 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(gusbicalho.github.io)

A pos­si­ble solu­tion to the Fermi Paradox

Rafael Harth5 May 2018 14:56 UTC
4 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

The Sheep­skin Effect

Zvi5 May 2018 12:10 UTC
10 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AI Safety via Debate

ESRogs5 May 2018 2:11 UTC
27 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(blog.openai.com)

Fun­da­men­tals of For­mal­i­sa­tion level 1: Ba­sic Logic

null4 May 2018 13:01 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

AGI Safety Liter­a­ture Re­view (Ever­itt, Lea & Hut­ter 2018)

Kaj_Sotala4 May 2018 8:56 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Bayes’ Law is About Mul­ti­ple Hy­poth­e­sis Testing

abramdemski4 May 2018 5:31 UTC
36 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

[LINK] How to write a dom­i­nant as­surance con­tract on the Ethereum blockchain

fortyeridania4 May 2018 3:44 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(programtheblockchain.com)

Words, Lo­cally Defined

abramdemski3 May 2018 23:26 UTC
19 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Con­founded No Longer: In­sights from ‘All of Statis­tics’

TurnTrout3 May 2018 22:56 UTC
21 points
7 comments10 min readLW link

Every­thing I ever needed to know, I learned from World of War­craft: Good­hart’s law

Said Achmiz3 May 2018 16:33 UTC
37 points
21 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(blog.obormot.net)

Rig­ging is a form of wireheading

Stuart_Armstrong3 May 2018 12:50 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ral frame­works and the Har­ris/​Klein debate

lincolnquirk3 May 2018 9:49 UTC
5 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Dun­can Sa­bien: “In Defense of Punch Bug”

Davis_Kingsley3 May 2018 8:26 UTC
30 points
187 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Doubts about Updatelessness

Diffractor3 May 2018 5:44 UTC
9 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Ra­tional Feed: Last Month’s Best Posts

sapphire2 May 2018 18:19 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Please Take the 2018 Effec­tive Altru­ism Sur­vey!

Peter Wildeford2 May 2018 7:58 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link