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

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

An Ex­er­cise in Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity: A New Apartment

SableJul 8, 2018, 9:18 PM
8 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Es­ti­mat­ing the con­se­quences of de­vice de­tec­tion tech

JsevillamolJul 8, 2018, 6:25 PM
27 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Put­ting Log­a­r­ith­mic-Qual­ity Scales On Time

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Jul 8, 2018, 3:00 PM
12 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Au­to­matic for the people

technicalitiesJul 8, 2018, 2:23 PM
18 points
23 comments7 min readLW link

Sto­ries of Sum­mer Sols­tice

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

How to aban­don reductionism

ExpoundingDhammaJul 8, 2018, 6:10 AM
−17 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Book re­view: Pearl’s Book of Why

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

Over­com­ing Cling­i­ness in Im­pact Measures

IAFF-User-309Jul 7, 2018, 4:26 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Low Im­pact via Whitelisting

IAFF-User-309Jul 7, 2018, 4:25 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

ob­vi­ous epipha­nies

nBrownJul 7, 2018, 3:05 AM
11 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Towards dis­solv­ing the mys­tery of consciousness

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

RFC: Men­tal phe­nom­ena in AGI alignment

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJul 5, 2018, 8:52 PM
12 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Ge­offrey Miller on Polyamory and Mating

Jacob FalkovichJul 5, 2018, 8:01 PM
9 points
0 commentsLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Debt is an Anti-investment

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

An in­tro­duc­tion to worst-case AI safety

Tobias_BaumannJul 5, 2018, 4:09 PM
14 points
2 commentsLW link
(s-risks.org)

An op­ti­miza­tion pro­cess for demo­cratic organizations

selylindiJul 5, 2018, 3:34 PM
9 points
14 commentsLW link
(adelaybeingreborn.wordpress.com)

Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Air & Space Museum

RobinZJul 5, 2018, 3:02 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Authority

quanticleJul 5, 2018, 2:37 AM
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.interfluidity.com)

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

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

June gw­ern.net newsletter

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

Some Re­marks on the Na­ture of Poli­ti­cal Conflict

Paperclip MinimizerJul 4, 2018, 12:31 PM
15 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

The Learn­ing-The­o­retic AI Align­ment Re­search Agenda

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

The Pre­dic­tion Prob­lem: A Var­i­ant on New­comb’s

Chris_LeongJul 4, 2018, 7:40 AM
25 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

In­terthe­o­retic util­ity comparison

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 3, 2018, 1:44 PM
23 points
11 comments6 min readLW link

Moscow LW meetup in “Nauchka” library

Alexander230Jul 3, 2018, 11:25 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

What will we do with the free en­ergy?

ChristianKlJul 3, 2018, 10:50 AM
13 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Let­ting Go II: Un­der­stand­ing is Key

johnswentworthJul 3, 2018, 4:08 AM
11 points
0 comments2 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

The 10% Im­prove­ment Problem

norswapJul 2, 2018, 4:27 PM
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

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

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

Are eth­i­cal asym­me­tries from prop­erty rights?

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

LW Up­date 2018-07-01 – De­fault Weak Upvotes

RaemonJul 1, 2018, 11:47 PM
30 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Melbourne So­cial Meetup July

ShardPhoenixJul 1, 2018, 6:29 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.facebook.com)

Paul’s re­search agenda FAQ

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

Another take on agent foun­da­tions: for­mal­iz­ing zero-shot reasoning

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

Good­hart Tax­on­omy: Agreement

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

Log­i­cal un­cer­tainty and math­e­mat­i­cal uncertainty

AlexMennenJul 1, 2018, 12:33 AM
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

What is the thresh­old for “Hide Low Karma”?

Chris_LeongJul 1, 2018, 12:24 AM
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Over­com­ing Cling­i­ness in Im­pact Measures

TurnTroutJun 30, 2018, 10:51 PM
30 points
9 comments7 min readLW link

The Values-to-Ac­tions De­ci­sion Chain

RemmeltJun 30, 2018, 9:52 PM
29 points
6 comments10 min readLW link

Meta: IAFF vs LessWrong

Vanessa KosoyJun 30, 2018, 9:15 PM
1 point
9 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­solv­ing the Fermi Para­dox, and what re­flec­tion it provides

Jan_KulveitJun 30, 2018, 4:35 PM
28 points
22 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

“Cheat­ing Death in Da­m­as­cus” Solu­tion to the Fermi Para­dox

avturchinJun 30, 2018, 12:00 PM
14 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Sum­mer Read­ing List

krishkhubchandJun 30, 2018, 6:34 AM
1 point
0 commentsLW link
(krishlearns.com)

Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity MUD

rlp10Jun 30, 2018, 3:14 AM
37 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Policy Alignment

abramdemskiJun 30, 2018, 12:24 AM
54 points
25 comments8 min readLW link

Shap­ing eco­nomic in­cen­tives for col­lab­o­ra­tive AGI

Kaj_SotalaJun 29, 2018, 4:26 PM
45 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing Teach­ing Effec­tive­ness: Fi­nal Report

ChristianKlJun 29, 2018, 11:09 AM
15 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.rand.org)

FHI Re­search Schol­ars Programme

habrykaJun 29, 2018, 2:31 AM
28 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)