Sleep­ing Beauty Re­solved?

ksvanhorn22 May 2018 14:13 UTC
16 points
77 comments10 min readLW link

Against Not Read­ing Math Books Prob­lems-First (If You’ve Found It Helpful Be­fore)

Andrew Quinn22 May 2018 12:59 UTC
10 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Search­ing for a Se­cond Brain

larriant22 May 2018 12:32 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(julyandavey.com)

Glide Med­i­ta­tions: A State­ment of Intent

musicmage411422 May 2018 7:48 UTC
7 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Mini-re­view: The Book of Why

Brian Slesinsky21 May 2018 23:11 UTC
21 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Co-Proofs

abramdemski21 May 2018 21:10 UTC
40 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

The Align­ment Newslet­ter #7: 05/​21/​18

Rohin Shah21 May 2018 16:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Imi­ta­tive Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing as an AGI Approach

TIMUR ZEKI VURAL21 May 2018 14:47 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Third Circle

Zvi21 May 2018 12:10 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Vi­sions of Sum­mer Solstice

Raemon21 May 2018 5:50 UTC
23 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

Bay Sum­mer Solstice

Raemon21 May 2018 4:28 UTC
13 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

LINK: Where Hu­mans Meet Machines: In­tu­ition, Ex­per­tise and Learn­ing (Bryn­jolfs­son talks to Kah­ne­man)

fortyeridania21 May 2018 2:50 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

The Se­cond Circle

Zvi20 May 2018 13:40 UTC
23 points
12 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Berkeley Com­mu­nity & The Rest Of Us: A Re­sponse to Zvi & Benquo

Evan_Gaensbauer20 May 2018 7:19 UTC
57 points
70 comments12 min readLW link

Can our uni­verse con­tain a perfect simu­la­tion of it­self?

Hazard20 May 2018 2:08 UTC
6 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Challenges to Chris­ti­ano’s ca­pa­bil­ity am­plifi­ca­tion proposal

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 May 2018 18:18 UTC
124 points
54 comments23 min readLW link1 review

Di­men­sional decoupling

brianlui19 May 2018 15:26 UTC
3 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

Last chance to par­ti­ci­pate in the 2018 EA Survey

Peter Wildeford19 May 2018 0:37 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Andrew Quinn18 May 2018 21:11 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Talents

Benquo18 May 2018 20:30 UTC
18 points
15 comments4 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

“Poli­tics is the Mind­kil­ler” is a mindkiller

Odinn18 May 2018 19:07 UTC
−13 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The po­ten­tial ex­ploita­bil­ity of in­finite options

Donald Hobson18 May 2018 18:25 UTC
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tals of For­mal­i­sa­tion level 2: Ba­sic Set Theory

null18 May 2018 17:21 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The First Circle

Zvi18 May 2018 14:40 UTC
23 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Triv­ial in­con­ve­niences as an an­ti­dote to akrasia

Adam Zerner18 May 2018 5:34 UTC
20 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

The Con­text is Conflict

Jacob Falkovich18 May 2018 2:16 UTC
29 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

$5m cryp­tocur­rency dona­tion to Al­cor by Brad Arm­strong in mem­ory of LWer Hal Finney

gwern17 May 2018 20:31 UTC
22 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.alcor.org)

Pat­tern recog­ni­tion and processing

IAFF-User-30017 May 2018 17:04 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(alternativeai.blogspot.com)

Of Two Minds

Valentine17 May 2018 4:34 UTC
94 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Lo­tuses and Loot Boxes

Davidmanheim17 May 2018 0:21 UTC
14 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

LW Open Source – Overview of the Codebase

Raemon16 May 2018 23:50 UTC
20 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Disagree­ing Pro­duc­tively (LW/​EA joint meetup)

RobinZ16 May 2018 2:57 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Henry Kiss­inger: AI Could Mean the End of Hu­man History

ESRogs15 May 2018 20:11 UTC
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(www.theatlantic.com)

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

Jameson Quinn15 May 2018 17:12 UTC
5 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

RFC: Philo­soph­i­cal Con­ser­vatism in AI Align­ment Research

Gordon Seidoh Worley15 May 2018 3:29 UTC
17 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

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
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(github.com)

Per­sonal re­la­tion­ships with goodness

KatjaGrace14 May 2018 18:50 UTC
40 points
20 comments3 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Ra­tional spiritu­al­ity: tran­scend­ing your metaphysics

monktastic14 May 2018 17:25 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(monktastic.github.io)

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

Rohin Shah14 May 2018 16:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

AskRed­dit: Hard Pills to Swallow

ESRogs14 May 2018 11:20 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

Men­tal Ill­ness Is Not Ev­i­dence Against Abuse Allegations

sarahconstantin13 May 2018 19:50 UTC
4 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

A De­tailed Cri­tique of One Sec­tion of Steven Pinker’s Chap­ter “Ex­is­ten­tial Threats” in En­light­en­ment Now (Part 2)

philosophytorres13 May 2018 19:41 UTC
8 points
1 comment17 min readLW link

Fun With DAGs

johnswentworth13 May 2018 19:35 UTC
15 points
21 comments6 min readLW link

Gain­ing Ap­proval: In­sights From “How To Prove It”

Logan Riggs13 May 2018 18:34 UTC
9 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Why Univer­sal Com­pa­ra­bil­ity of Utility?

AK13 May 2018 0:10 UTC
8 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Ho­tel Concierge: Shame & So­ciety

norswap12 May 2018 23:36 UTC
10 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(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
14 points
1 comment17 min readLW link

Soviet-era Jokes, Com­mon Knowl­edge, Irony

Martin Sustrik12 May 2018 10:52 UTC
17 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

Ter­ror­ism, Tylenol, and dan­ger­ous information

Davis_Kingsley12 May 2018 10:20 UTC
147 points
46 comments3 min readLW link