The Se­cond Circle

ZviMay 20, 2018, 1:40 PM
23 points
12 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Evan_GaensbauerMay 20, 2018, 7:19 AM
57 points
70 comments12 min readLW link

Can our uni­verse con­tain a perfect simu­la­tion of it­self?

HazardMay 20, 2018, 2:08 AM
6 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Challenges to Chris­ti­ano’s ca­pa­bil­ity am­plifi­ca­tion proposal

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 19, 2018, 6:18 PM
124 points
54 comments23 min readLW link1 review

Di­men­sional decoupling

brianluiMay 19, 2018, 3:26 PM
3 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

Last chance to par­ti­ci­pate in the 2018 EA Survey

Peter WildefordMay 19, 2018, 12:37 AM
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 QuinnMay 18, 2018, 9:11 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Talents

BenquoMay 18, 2018, 8:30 PM
18 points
15 comments4 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

“Poli­tics is the Mind­kil­ler” is a mindkiller

OdinnMay 18, 2018, 7:07 PM
−13 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The po­ten­tial ex­ploita­bil­ity of in­finite options

Donald HobsonMay 18, 2018, 6:25 PM
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tals of For­mal­i­sa­tion level 2: Ba­sic Set Theory

nullMay 18, 2018, 5:21 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The First Circle

ZviMay 18, 2018, 2:40 PM
23 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Triv­ial in­con­ve­niences as an an­ti­dote to akrasia

Adam ZernerMay 18, 2018, 5:34 AM
20 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

The Con­text is Conflict

Jacob FalkovichMay 18, 2018, 2:16 AM
29 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

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

gwernMay 17, 2018, 8:31 PM
22 points
1 commentLW link
(www.alcor.org)

Pat­tern recog­ni­tion and processing

IAFF-User-300May 17, 2018, 5:04 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(alternativeai.blogspot.com)

Of Two Minds

ValentineMay 17, 2018, 4:34 AM
94 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Lo­tuses and Loot Boxes

DavidmanheimMay 17, 2018, 12:21 AM
14 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

LW Open Source – Overview of the Codebase

RaemonMay 16, 2018, 11:50 PM
20 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

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

RobinZMay 16, 2018, 2:57 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Henry Kiss­inger: AI Could Mean the End of Hu­man History

ESRogsMay 15, 2018, 8:11 PM
17 points
12 commentsLW link
(www.theatlantic.com)

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

Jameson QuinnMay 15, 2018, 5:12 PM
5 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

RFC: Philo­soph­i­cal Con­ser­vatism in AI Align­ment Research

Gordon Seidoh WorleyMay 15, 2018, 3:29 AM
17 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

De­cou­pling vs Con­tex­tu­al­is­ing Norms

Chris_LeongMay 14, 2018, 10:44 PM
170 points
52 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews

The anti-psy­chotic Q-learner trick

IAFF-User-299May 14, 2018, 8:58 PM
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 commentLW 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
11 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
15 points
1 comment17 min readLW link

Soviet-era Jokes, Com­mon Knowl­edge, Irony

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

Ter­ror­ism, Tylenol, and dan­ger­ous information

Davis_Kingsley12 May 2018 10:20 UTC
149 points
47 comments3 min readLW link

LW Up­date 2018-05-11 – Suggest Cu­ra­tion

Raemon12 May 2018 3:26 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Critch on ca­reer ad­vice for ju­nior AI-x-risk-con­cerned researchers

Rob Bensinger12 May 2018 2:13 UTC
120 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

A Self-Re­spect Feed­back Loop

ialdabaoth11 May 2018 23:09 UTC
39 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

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 commentsLW 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