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)

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

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

Games in Kocherga club: Fal­la­cy­ma­nia, Tower of Chaos, Scien­tific Discovery

Alexander230Jul 23, 2018, 12:06 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tals of For­mal­i­sa­tion Level 6: Tur­ing Machines and the Halt­ing Problem

philip_bJul 23, 2018, 9:46 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s Dis­cuss Func­tional De­ci­sion Theory

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

Re­place your­self be­fore you stop or­ga­niz­ing your com­mu­nity.

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

Who Wants The Job?

ZviJul 22, 2018, 2:00 PM
24 points
29 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sim­pli­cio and Sophisticus

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

Ex­or­ciz­ing the Speed Prior?

abramdemskiJul 22, 2018, 6:45 AM
14 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

12 Virtues of Ra­tion­al­ity posters/​icons

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

Bayesian Rea­son­ing with Un­song Theod­icy means we shouldn’t de­stroy the universe

pkuJul 22, 2018, 1:25 AM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Stable Poin­t­ers to Value III: Re­cur­sive Quantilization

abramdemskiJul 21, 2018, 8:06 AM
20 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Con­cep­tual prob­lems with util­ity func­tions, sec­ond at­tempt at ex­plain­ing

DacynJul 21, 2018, 2:08 AM
16 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Can few-shot learn­ing teach AI right from wrong?

Charlie SteinerJul 20, 2018, 7:45 AM
13 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

The Psy­chol­ogy Of Re­s­olute Agents

Chris_LeongJul 20, 2018, 5:42 AM
10 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity is Real, and Value is Complex

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

Solv­ing the AI Race Finalists

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJul 19, 2018, 9:04 PM
24 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

“Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence” (new en­try at Stan­ford En­cy­clo­pe­dia of Philos­o­phy)

fortyeridaniaJul 19, 2018, 9:48 AM
5 points
8 commentsLW link
(plato.stanford.edu)

Dis­cus­sion: Rais­ing the San­ity Waterline

ChriswaterguyJul 19, 2018, 2:12 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

LW Up­date 2018-07-18 – Align­men­tFo­rum Bug Fixes

RaemonJul 19, 2018, 2:10 AM
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­ized Kelly betting

Linda LinseforsJul 19, 2018, 1:38 AM
15 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Mechanism De­sign for AI

Tobias_BaumannJul 18, 2018, 4:47 PM
5 points
3 commentsLW link
(s-risks.org)

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)

Sim­ple Me­taphor About Com­pressed Sensing

ryan_bJul 17, 2018, 3:47 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Figur­ing out what Alice wants, part II

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 17, 2018, 1:59 PM
17 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Figur­ing out what Alice wants, part I

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 17, 2018, 1:59 PM
15 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

How To Use Bureaucracies

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

Septem­ber CFAR Workshop

CFAR TeamJul 17, 2018, 3:16 AM
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

(AI al­ign­ment) Now is special

Andrew QuinnJul 17, 2018, 1:50 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Look Un­der the Light Post

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJul 16, 2018, 10:19 PM
22 points
8 comments4 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)

Com­pact vs. Wide Models

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

Prob­a­bil­is­tic de­ci­sion-mak­ing as an anx­iety-re­duc­tion technique

RationallyDenseJul 16, 2018, 3:51 AM
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Buri­dan’s ass in co­or­di­na­tion games

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

Re­search Debt

ElizabethJul 15, 2018, 7:36 PM
25 points
2 commentsLW link
(distill.pub)

An op­ti­mistic ex­pla­na­tion of the out­rage epidemic

chaosmageJul 15, 2018, 2:35 PM
18 points
5 comments3 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

Meetup Cookbook

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

Ex­pected Pain Parameters

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

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

Charlie SteinerJul 14, 2018, 9:52 AM
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)

avturchinJul 14, 2018, 9:46 AM
9 points
9 commentsLW link
(arxiv.org)

Gen­er­at­ing vs Rec­og­niz­ing

lifelonglearnerJul 14, 2018, 5:10 AM
15 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

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

RaemonJul 14, 2018, 1:13 AM
30 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Se­condary Stres­sors and Tac­tile Ambition

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Jul 13, 2018, 12:26 AM
16 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

A Sarno-Han­son Synthesis

moridinamaelJul 12, 2018, 4:13 PM
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.

ShmiJul 12, 2018, 6:52 AM
26 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

What does the stock mar­ket tell us about AI timelines?

Tobias_BaumannJul 12, 2018, 6:05 AM
6 points
5 commentsLW link
(s-risks.org)

An Agent is a Wor­ldline in Teg­mark V

komponistoJul 12, 2018, 5:12 AM
24 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: What If

RobinZJul 12, 2018, 4:30 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

mloganJul 11, 2018, 6:46 PM
24 points
7 comments4 min readLW link