Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets: When Do They Work?

ZviJul 26, 2018, 12:30 PM
169 points
19 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Strate­gies for Per­sonal Growth

RaemonJul 28, 2018, 6:27 PM
149 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Paul’s re­search agenda FAQ

zhukeepaJul 1, 2018, 6:25 AM
128 points
74 comments19 min readLW link1 review

Me­la­tonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott AlexanderJul 11, 2018, 5:40 PM
122 points
16 comments15 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Are eth­i­cal asym­me­tries from prop­erty rights?

KatjaGraceJul 2, 2018, 3:00 AM
108 points
37 comments3 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

The Learn­ing-The­o­retic AI Align­ment Re­search Agenda

Vanessa KosoyJul 4, 2018, 9:53 AM
93 points
37 comments32 min readLW link

An­nounce­ment: AI al­ign­ment prize round 3 win­ners and next round

cousin_itJul 15, 2018, 7:40 AM
93 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t Get Dis­tracted by the Boilerplate

johnswentworthJul 26, 2018, 2:15 AM
93 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­pected Pain Parameters

AlicornJul 14, 2018, 7:30 PM
87 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Bayesian Prob­a­bil­ity is for things that are Space-like Separated from You

Scott GarrabrantJul 10, 2018, 11:47 PM
86 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity is Real, and Value is Complex

abramdemskiJul 20, 2018, 5:24 AM
80 points
21 comments6 min readLW link

How to par­ent more predictably

jefftkJul 10, 2018, 3:18 PM
78 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Why it took so long to do the Fermi calcu­la­tion right?

Jan_KulveitJul 2, 2018, 8:29 PM
76 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

A Gym Grid­world En­vi­ron­ment for the Treach­er­ous Turn

Michaël TrazziJul 28, 2018, 9:27 PM
74 points
9 comments3 min readLW link
(github.com)

Meetup Cookbook

maiaJul 14, 2018, 10:26 PM
74 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(tigrennatenn.neocities.org)

Align­ment Newslet­ter #13: 07/​02/​18

Rohin ShahJul 2, 2018, 4:10 PM
70 points
12 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Book re­view: Pearl’s Book of Why

PeterMcCluskeyJul 7, 2018, 5:30 PM
69 points
8 comments6 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

An­nounc­ing Align­men­tFo­rum.org Beta

RaemonJul 10, 2018, 8:19 PM
68 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Re­place your­self be­fore you stop or­ga­niz­ing your com­mu­nity.

RaemonJul 22, 2018, 8:57 PM
65 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

How To Use Bureaucracies

Samo BurjaJul 17, 2018, 8:10 AM
64 points
37 comments9 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Another take on agent foun­da­tions: for­mal­iz­ing zero-shot reasoning

zhukeepaJul 1, 2018, 6:12 AM
64 points
20 comments12 min readLW link

12 Virtues of Ra­tion­al­ity posters/​icons

habrykaJul 22, 2018, 5:19 AM
59 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Com­plete Class: Con­se­quen­tial­ist Foundations

abramdemskiJul 11, 2018, 1:57 AM
58 points
37 comments13 min readLW link

Mechanis­tic Trans­parency for Ma­chine Learning

DanielFilanJul 11, 2018, 12:34 AM
55 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Math­e­mat­i­cal Mindset

komponistoJul 11, 2018, 3:03 AM
54 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Sto­ries of Sum­mer Sols­tice

RaemonJul 8, 2018, 7:16 AM
53 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Buri­dan’s ass in co­or­di­na­tion games

jessicataJul 16, 2018, 2:51 AM
52 points
26 comments10 min readLW link

A Sarno-Han­son Synthesis

moridinamaelJul 12, 2018, 4:13 PM
52 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Sav­ing the world in 80 days: Epilogue

Logan RiggsJul 28, 2018, 5:04 PM
51 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Debt is an Anti-investment

Jacob FalkovichJul 5, 2018, 8:00 PM
48 points
42 comments6 min readLW link

The Fermi Para­dox: What did Sand­berg, Drexler and Ord Really Dis­solve?

ShmiJul 8, 2018, 9:18 PM
47 points
28 comments5 min readLW link

A Step-by-step Guide to Find­ing a (Good!) Therapist

squidiousJul 18, 2018, 1:50 AM
46 points
5 comments9 min readLW link
(opalsandbonobos.blogspot.com)

Good­hart Tax­on­omy: Agreement

Ben PaceJul 1, 2018, 3:50 AM
44 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Bound­ing Good­hart’s Law

eric_langloisJul 11, 2018, 12:46 AM
43 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Align­ment Newslet­ter #15: 07/​16/​18

Rohin ShahJul 16, 2018, 4:10 PM
42 points
0 comments15 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Align­ment Newslet­ter #16: 07/​23/​18

Rohin ShahJul 23, 2018, 4:20 PM
42 points
0 comments12 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Sim­pli­cio and Sophisticus

ZviJul 22, 2018, 1:30 PM
42 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Towards dis­solv­ing the mys­tery of consciousness

GeometryOfTheShadowsJul 6, 2018, 9:36 PM
41 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

A com­ment on the IDA-AlphaGoZero metaphor; ca­pa­bil­ities ver­sus alignment

AlexMennenJul 11, 2018, 1:03 AM
40 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

De­ci­sions are not about chang­ing the world, they are about learn­ing what world you live in

ShmiJul 28, 2018, 8:41 AM
39 points
71 comments11 min readLW link

The risk of an Amer­i­can Civil War is remote

Samo BurjaJul 23, 2018, 6:00 PM
39 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Coun­ter­fac­tual out­come state tran­si­tion parameters

Anders_HJul 27, 2018, 9:13 PM
37 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

De­ci­sion-the­o­retic prob­lems and The­o­ries; An (In­com­plete) com­par­a­tive list

somervtaJul 11, 2018, 2:59 AM
36 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

June gw­ern.net newsletter

gwernJul 4, 2018, 10:59 PM
34 points
0 commentsLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Mak­ing a Differ­ence Tem­pore: In­sights from ‘Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing: An In­tro­duc­tion’

TurnTroutJul 5, 2018, 12:34 AM
33 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Align­ment Newslet­ter #17

Rohin ShahJul 30, 2018, 4:10 PM
32 points
0 comments13 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Let’s Dis­cuss Func­tional De­ci­sion Theory

Chris_LeongJul 23, 2018, 7:24 AM
32 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Com­pact vs. Wide Models

VaniverJul 16, 2018, 4:09 AM
31 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

LW Up­date 2018-07-27 – Shar­ing Drafts

RaemonJul 28, 2018, 2:54 AM
31 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Pretense

TurnTroutJul 29, 2018, 12:35 AM
30 points
1 comment1 min readLW link