[CKC] [May 2018] What sub­jects are most im­por­tant for an AI safety re­searcher to know? (Open Call)

Andrew Quinn18 May 2018 21:11 UTC
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Talents

Benquo18 May 2018 20:30 UTC
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(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

“Poli­tics is the Mind­kil­ler” is a mindkiller

Odinn18 May 2018 19:07 UTC
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The po­ten­tial ex­ploita­bil­ity of in­finite options

Donald Hobson18 May 2018 18:25 UTC
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Fun­da­men­tals of For­mal­i­sa­tion level 2: Ba­sic Set Theory

null18 May 2018 17:21 UTC
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The First Circle

Zvi18 May 2018 14:40 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Triv­ial in­con­ve­niences as an an­ti­dote to akrasia

Adam Zerner18 May 2018 5:34 UTC
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The Con­text is Conflict

Jacob Falkovich18 May 2018 2:16 UTC
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$5m cryp­tocur­rency dona­tion to Al­cor by Brad Arm­strong in mem­ory of LWer Hal Finney

gwern17 May 2018 20:31 UTC
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(www.alcor.org)

Pat­tern recog­ni­tion and processing

IAFF-User-30017 May 2018 17:04 UTC
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(alternativeai.blogspot.com)

Of Two Minds

Valentine17 May 2018 4:34 UTC
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Lo­tuses and Loot Boxes

Davidmanheim17 May 2018 0:21 UTC
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LW Open Source – Overview of the Codebase

Raemon16 May 2018 23:50 UTC
20 points
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Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Disagree­ing Pro­duc­tively (LW/​EA joint meetup)

RobinZ16 May 2018 2:57 UTC
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Henry Kiss­inger: AI Could Mean the End of Hu­man History

ESRogs15 May 2018 20:11 UTC
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(www.theatlantic.com)

The Devil’s Ad­vo­cate: when is it right to be wrong?

Jameson Quinn15 May 2018 17:12 UTC
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RFC: Philo­soph­i­cal Con­ser­vatism in AI Align­ment Research

Gordon Seidoh Worley15 May 2018 3:29 UTC
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De­cou­pling vs Con­tex­tu­al­is­ing Norms

Chris_Leong14 May 2018 22:44 UTC
170 points
51 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews

The anti-psy­chotic Q-learner trick

IAFF-User-29914 May 2018 20:58 UTC
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(github.com)

Per­sonal re­la­tion­ships with goodness

KatjaGrace14 May 2018 18:50 UTC
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(meteuphoric.com)

Ra­tional spiritu­al­ity: tran­scend­ing your metaphysics

monktastic14 May 2018 17:25 UTC
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(monktastic.github.io)

The Align­ment Newslet­ter #6: 05/​14/​18

Rohin Shah14 May 2018 16:00 UTC
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AskRed­dit: Hard Pills to Swallow

ESRogs14 May 2018 11:20 UTC
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(www.reddit.com)

Men­tal Ill­ness Is Not Ev­i­dence Against Abuse Allegations

sarahconstantin13 May 2018 19:50 UTC
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A De­tailed Cri­tique of One Sec­tion of Steven Pinker’s Chap­ter “Ex­is­ten­tial Threats” in En­light­en­ment Now (Part 2)

philosophytorres13 May 2018 19:41 UTC
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Fun With DAGs

johnswentworth13 May 2018 19:35 UTC
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Gain­ing Ap­proval: In­sights From “How To Prove It”

Logan Riggs13 May 2018 18:34 UTC
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Why Univer­sal Com­pa­ra­bil­ity of Utility?

AK13 May 2018 0:10 UTC
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Ho­tel Concierge: Shame & So­ciety

norswap12 May 2018 23:36 UTC
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(hotelconcierge.tumblr.com)

A De­tailed Cri­tique of One Sec­tion of Steven Pinker’s Chap­ter “Ex­is­ten­tial Threats” in En­light­en­ment Now (Part 1)

philosophytorres12 May 2018 13:34 UTC
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Soviet-era Jokes, Com­mon Knowl­edge, Irony

Martin Sustrik12 May 2018 10:52 UTC
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(250bpm.com)

Ter­ror­ism, Tylenol, and dan­ger­ous information

Davis_Kingsley12 May 2018 10:20 UTC
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LW Up­date 2018-05-11 – Suggest Cu­ra­tion

Raemon12 May 2018 3:26 UTC
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Critch on ca­reer ad­vice for ju­nior AI-x-risk-con­cerned researchers

Rob Bensinger12 May 2018 2:13 UTC
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A Self-Re­spect Feed­back Loop

ialdabaoth11 May 2018 23:09 UTC
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Affor­dance Widths

ialdabaoth10 May 2018 23:37 UTC
67 points
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Tech eco­nomics pat­tern: “Com­modi­tize Your Com­ple­ment”

gwern10 May 2018 18:54 UTC
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(www.gwern.net)

April links

gwern10 May 2018 18:53 UTC
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(www.gwern.net)

Some­thing is rot­ten in the chan­nel of Slack

Medarla10 May 2018 16:19 UTC
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Dis­solv­ing Scotsmen

Paperclip Minimizer10 May 2018 16:08 UTC
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Upvotes, knowl­edge, stocks, and flows

Jameson Quinn10 May 2018 14:18 UTC
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Far fu­ture, ex­is­ten­tial risk, and AI alignment

Jan_Kulveit10 May 2018 9:51 UTC
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Thoughts on “AI safety via de­bate”

Gordon Seidoh Worley10 May 2018 0:44 UTC
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Sav­ing the world in 80 days: Prologue

Logan Riggs9 May 2018 21:16 UTC
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Thoughts on AI Safety via Debate

Vaniver9 May 2018 19:46 UTC
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Hy­po­thet­i­cals: The Direct Ap­pli­ca­tion Fallacy

Chris_Leong9 May 2018 14:23 UTC
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Dojo: Al­gorith­mic Creativity—Chap­ter 1

Chriswaterguy9 May 2018 8:03 UTC
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Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: [Moved In­doors] Out­door Fun & Games + Picnic

RobinZ9 May 2018 3:32 UTC
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Is epistemic logic use­ful for agent foun­da­tions?

Richard_Ngo8 May 2018 23:33 UTC
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Tem­porar­ily Out of Office

Ben Pace8 May 2018 21:59 UTC
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