[Question] Is my per­cep­tion of re­al­ity bounded by my in­tel­li­gence?

bvangils5 Nov 2019 20:40 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Nor­ma­tive reductionism

KatjaGrace5 Nov 2019 20:20 UTC
13 points
19 comments1 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Lite Blocking

jefftk5 Nov 2019 13:50 UTC
21 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Book Re­view: De­sign Prin­ci­ples of Biolog­i­cal Circuits

johnswentworth5 Nov 2019 6:49 UTC
219 points
24 comments12 min readLW link1 review

[Question] What would hap­pen if all the wa­ter on Earth were ac­cu­mu­lated into spheres & drop on the sur­face?

Long try5 Nov 2019 4:55 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What AI safety prob­lems need solv­ing for safe AI re­search as­sis­tants?

John_Maxwell5 Nov 2019 2:09 UTC
14 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

To­tal horse takeover

KatjaGrace5 Nov 2019 0:10 UTC
98 points
14 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(meteuphoric.com)

More vari­a­tions on pseudo-alignment

evhub4 Nov 2019 23:24 UTC
27 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Drug Policy

jefftk4 Nov 2019 21:30 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Will trans­parency help catch de­cep­tion? Per­haps not

Matthew Barnett4 Nov 2019 20:52 UTC
43 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Poli­tics is work and work needs breaks

KatjaGrace4 Nov 2019 17:10 UTC
19 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Elon Musk is wrong: Rob­o­taxis are stupid. We need stan­dard­ized rented au­tonomous tugs to move cus­tomized owned un­pow­ered wag­ons.

chaosmage4 Nov 2019 14:04 UTC
36 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Man’s Search for Mean­ing by Vic­tor Frankel

Chris_Leong4 Nov 2019 11:21 UTC
17 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Ways that China is sur­pass­ing the US

Wei Dai4 Nov 2019 9:45 UTC
59 points
19 comments2 min readLW link
(palladiummag.com)

Meetup Notes: Ole Peters on ergodicity

Orborde3 Nov 2019 23:31 UTC
32 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Pic­ture Frames, Win­dow Frames and Frameworks

Raemon3 Nov 2019 22:09 UTC
35 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Skill and leverage

KatjaGrace3 Nov 2019 21:10 UTC
49 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

But ex­actly how com­plex and frag­ile?

KatjaGrace3 Nov 2019 18:20 UTC
87 points
32 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(meteuphoric.com)

[Math] Proofs vs. doc­u­men­ta­tion vs. “it’s triv­ial”

aaq3 Nov 2019 16:50 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Ques­tion] When Do Un­likely Events Should Be Ques­tioned?

NSegall3 Nov 2019 15:21 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Where should I ask this par­tic­u­lar kind of ques­tion?

Long try3 Nov 2019 11:27 UTC
3 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

“em­bed­ded self-jus­tifi­ca­tion,” or some­thing like that

nostalgebraist3 Nov 2019 3:20 UTC
37 points
14 comments5 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Open & Wel­come Thread—Novem­ber 2019

habryka2 Nov 2019 20:06 UTC
12 points
76 comments1 min readLW link

Eco­nomics and Evolu­tion­ary Psychology

Chris_Leong2 Nov 2019 16:36 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.daviddfriedman.com)

Speak­ing up pub­li­cly is heroic

jefftk2 Nov 2019 12:00 UTC
43 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

What are hu­man val­ues? - Thoughts and challenges

Chris_Leong2 Nov 2019 10:52 UTC
11 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

AlphaS­tar: Im­pres­sive for RL progress, not for AGI progress

orthonormal2 Nov 2019 1:50 UTC
113 points
58 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Chris Olah’s views on AGI safety

evhub1 Nov 2019 20:13 UTC
207 points
38 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] Ex­plain­ing Vi­sual Thinking

Teach1 Nov 2019 20:00 UTC
7 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

The Curse Of The Counterfactual

pjeby1 Nov 2019 18:34 UTC
138 points
35 comments19 min readLW link1 review

Shared Cache is Go­ing Away

jefftk1 Nov 2019 15:10 UTC
17 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Break­ing Group Rock Paper Scissors

jefftk31 Oct 2019 23:50 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Do­ing things in a pop­u­lated world

KatjaGrace31 Oct 2019 22:40 UTC
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

[Question] The Si­mu­la­tion Epiphany Problem

Koen.Holtman31 Oct 2019 22:12 UTC
15 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Tables of Pres­ence, Nearby Ab­sence, & De­grees of In­ten­sity (Novum Or­ganum Book 2: 10-14)

Francis Bacon31 Oct 2019 21:56 UTC
16 points
0 comments25 min readLW link

Aella on Ra­tion­al­ity and the Void

Jacob Falkovich31 Oct 2019 21:40 UTC
27 points
8 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a defini­tive in­tro to pun­ish­ing non-pun­ish­ers?

pjeby31 Oct 2019 20:20 UTC
25 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Ro­hin Shah on rea­sons for AI optimism

abergal31 Oct 2019 12:10 UTC
40 points
58 comments1 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

Halloween

KatjaGrace31 Oct 2019 0:20 UTC
28 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

[AN #71]: Avoid­ing re­ward tam­per­ing through cur­rent-RF optimization

Rohin Shah30 Oct 2019 17:10 UTC
12 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Rugby & Re­gres­sion Towards the Mean

Bucky30 Oct 2019 16:36 UTC
15 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Cam­bridge LW/​SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoise30 Oct 2019 13:35 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A new kind of Hermeneutics

aiiixiii30 Oct 2019 12:42 UTC
16 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

The Tech­nique Taboo

lsusr30 Oct 2019 11:22 UTC
55 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Theater Tick­ets, Sleep­ing Pills, and the Idiosyn­crasies of Del­e­gated Risk Management

Davidmanheim30 Oct 2019 10:33 UTC
27 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Prospect­ing for Con­cep­tual Holes

lsusr30 Oct 2019 8:34 UTC
72 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Learn­ing from other peo­ple’s ex­pe­riences/​mistakes

alkay30 Oct 2019 0:43 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

When do you start look­ing for a Bos­ton apart­ment?

jefftk29 Oct 2019 16:30 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Fibromyal­gia, Pain & De­pres­sion. How much is due to phys­i­cal mis­al­ign­ment?

leggi29 Oct 2019 14:58 UTC
7 points
4 comments18 min readLW link

On In­ter­nal Fam­ily Sys­tems and multi-agent minds: a re­ply to PJ Eby

Kaj_Sotala29 Oct 2019 14:56 UTC
41 points
31 comments25 min readLW link