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Look Under the Light Post

Gordon Seidoh Worley16 Jul 2018 22:19 UTC

22 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Alignment Newsletter #15: 07/16/18

Rohin Shah16 Jul 2018 16:10 UTC

42 points

0 comments15 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Compact vs. Wide Models

Vaniver16 Jul 2018 4:09 UTC

31 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Probabilistic decision-making as an anxiety-reduction technique

RationallyDense16 Jul 2018 3:51 UTC

8 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Buridan’s ass in coordination games

jessicata16 Jul 2018 2:51 UTC

52 points

26 comments10 min readLW link

Research Debt

Elizabeth15 Jul 2018 19:36 UTC

24 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(distill.pub)

An optimistic explanation of the outrage epidemic

chaosmage15 Jul 2018 14:35 UTC

18 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Announcement: AI alignment prize round 3 winners and next round

cousin_it15 Jul 2018 7:40 UTC

93 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup Cookbook

maia14 Jul 2018 22:26 UTC

74 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(tigrennatenn.neocities.org)

Expected Pain Parameters

Alicorn14 Jul 2018 19:30 UTC

87 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Boltzmann Brains and Within-model vs. Between-models Probability

Charlie Steiner14 Jul 2018 9:52 UTC

15 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

[1607.08289] “Mammalian Value Systems” (as a starting point for human value system model created by IRL agent)

avturchin14 Jul 2018 9:46 UTC

9 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Generating vs Recognizing

lifelonglearner14 Jul 2018 5:10 UTC

15 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

LW Update 2018-7-14 – Styling Rework, CommentsItem, Performance

Raemon14 Jul 2018 1:13 UTC

30 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Secondary Stressors and Tactile Ambition

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)13 Jul 2018 0:26 UTC

16 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

A Sarno-Hanson Synthesis

moridinamael12 Jul 2018 16:13 UTC

52 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Probability is a model, frequency is an observation: Why both halfers and thirders are correct in the Sleeping Beauty problem.

Shmi12 Jul 2018 6:52 UTC

26 points

34 comments2 min readLW link

What does the stock market tell us about AI timelines?

Tobias_Baumann12 Jul 2018 6:05 UTC

6 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(s-risks.org)

An Agent is a Worldline in Tegmark V

komponisto12 Jul 2018 5:12 UTC

24 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Washington, D.C.: What If

RobinZ12 Jul 2018 4:30 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Are pre-specified utility functions about the real world possible in principle?

mlogan11 Jul 2018 18:46 UTC

24 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott Alexander11 Jul 2018 17:40 UTC

120 points

16 comments15 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Monk Treehouse: some problems defining simulation

dranorter11 Jul 2018 7:35 UTC

6 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Mathematical Mindset

komponisto11 Jul 2018 3:03 UTC

54 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

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

somervta11 Jul 2018 2:59 UTC

36 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Agents That Learn From Human Behavior Can’t Learn Human Values That Humans Haven’t Learned Yet

steven046111 Jul 2018 2:59 UTC

28 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

On the Role of Counterfactuals in Learning

Max Kanwal11 Jul 2018 2:45 UTC

11 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Clarifying Consequentialists in the Solomonoff Prior

Vlad Mikulik11 Jul 2018 2:35 UTC

20 points

16 comments6 min readLW link

Complete Class: Consequentialist Foundations

abramdemski11 Jul 2018 1:57 UTC

58 points

37 comments13 min readLW link

Conditions under which misaligned subagents can (not) arise in classifiers

anon111 Jul 2018 1:52 UTC

12 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

No, I won’t go there, it feels like you’re trying to Pascal-mug me

Rupert11 Jul 2018 1:37 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Conceptual problems with utility functions

Dacyn11 Jul 2018 1:29 UTC

22 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Dependent Type Theory and Zero-Shot Reasoning

evhub11 Jul 2018 1:16 UTC

27 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

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

AlexMennen11 Jul 2018 1:03 UTC

40 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Bounding Goodhart’s Law

eric_langlois11 Jul 2018 0:46 UTC

43 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Mechanistic Transparency for Machine Learning

DanielFilan11 Jul 2018 0:34 UTC

54 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

An environment for studying counterfactuals

Nisan11 Jul 2018 0:14 UTC

15 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

A universal score for optimizers

levin10 Jul 2018 23:52 UTC

15 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

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

Scott Garrabrant10 Jul 2018 23:47 UTC

86 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

Alignment problems for economists

Chris van Merwijk10 Jul 2018 23:43 UTC

5 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Non-resolve as Resolve

Linda Linsefors10 Jul 2018 23:31 UTC

15 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

A framework for thinking about wireheading

theotherotheralex10 Jul 2018 23:14 UTC

15 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Logical Uncertainty and Functional Decision Theory

swordsintoploughshares10 Jul 2018 23:08 UTC

15 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Repeated (and improved) Sleeping Beauty problem

Linda Linsefors10 Jul 2018 22:32 UTC

12 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Probability is fake, frequency is real

Linda Linsefors10 Jul 2018 22:32 UTC

12 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Conditioning, Counterfactuals, Exploration, and Gears

Diffractor10 Jul 2018 22:11 UTC

28 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Two agents can have the same source code and optimise different utility functions

Joar Skalse10 Jul 2018 21:51 UTC

11 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

The Intentional Agency Experiment

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel10 Jul 2018 20:32 UTC

13 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Announcing AlignmentForum.org Beta

Raemon10 Jul 2018 20:19 UTC

68 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

Choosing to Choose?

Whispermute10 Jul 2018 20:15 UTC

10 points

7 comments5 min readLW link