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Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?

Jacob Falkovich9 Dec 2019 17:11 UTC

259 points

78 comments11 min readLW link 3 reviews

Moloch Hasn’t Won

Zvi28 Dec 2019 16:30 UTC

186 points

40 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Paper-Reading for Gears

johnswentworth4 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC

164 points

6 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Seeking Power is Often Convergently Instrumental in MDPs

TurnTrout and Logan Riggs

5 Dec 2019 2:33 UTC

162 points

39 comments17 min readLW link 2 reviews

(arxiv.org)

Understanding “Deep Double Descent”

evhub6 Dec 2019 0:00 UTC

150 points

51 comments5 min readLW link 4 reviews

2019 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks19 Dec 2019 3:00 UTC

130 points

18 comments62 min readLW link

Firming Up Not-Lying Around Its Edge-Cases Is Less Broadly Useful Than One Might Initially Think

Zack_M_Davis27 Dec 2019 5:09 UTC

127 points

43 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

Propagating Facts into Aesthetics

Raemon19 Dec 2019 4:09 UTC

120 points

37 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

We run the Center for Applied Rationality, AMA

AnnaSalamon19 Dec 2019 16:34 UTC

108 points

324 comments1 min readLW link

Karate Kid and Realistic Expectations for Disagreement Resolution

Raemon4 Dec 2019 23:25 UTC

102 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

Against Premature Abstraction of Political Issues

Wei Dai18 Dec 2019 20:19 UTC

93 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

Meditation Retreat: Immoral Mazes Sequence Introduction

Zvi28 Dec 2019 0:50 UTC

89 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Bayesian examination

Lê Nguyên Hoang9 Dec 2019 19:50 UTC

86 points

56 comments5 min readLW link

Recent Progress in the Theory of Neural Networks

interstice4 Dec 2019 23:11 UTC

83 points

9 comments9 min readLW link

Approval Extraction Advertised as Production

Benquo15 Dec 2019 14:51 UTC

82 points

39 comments19 min readLW link 3 reviews

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The Actionable Version of “Keep Your Identity Small”

Hazard6 Dec 2019 1:34 UTC

81 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Humans Are Embedded Agents Too

johnswentworth23 Dec 2019 19:21 UTC

81 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

Free Speech and Triskaidekaphobic Calculators: A Reply to Hubinger on the Relevance of Public Online Discussion to Existential Risk

Zack_M_Davis21 Dec 2019 0:49 UTC

76 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

Programmers Should Plan For Lower Pay

jefftk29 Dec 2019 3:20 UTC

76 points

72 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Under what circumstances is “don’t look at existing research” good advice?

Kaj_Sotala13 Dec 2019 13:59 UTC

74 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Imperfect Competition

Zvi30 Dec 2019 12:20 UTC

73 points

8 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What determines the balance between intelligence signaling and virtue signaling?

Wei Dai9 Dec 2019 0:11 UTC

70 points

37 comments2 min readLW link

Inductive biases stick around

evhub18 Dec 2019 19:52 UTC

64 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

CFAR: Progress Report & Future Plans

Adam Scholl19 Dec 2019 6:19 UTC

63 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

[Part 2] Amplifying generalist research via forecasting – results from a preliminary exploration

jacobjacob, ozziegooen, Elizabeth, NunoSempere and bgold

19 Dec 2019 15:49 UTC

62 points

10 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

Preface to CLR’s Research Agenda on Cooperation, Conflict, and TAI

JesseClifton13 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC

62 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Confabulation

lsusr8 Dec 2019 10:18 UTC

62 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

One Million Dollars

jefftk19 Dec 2019 2:10 UTC

61 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Predictive coding = RL + SL + Bayes + MPC

Steven Byrnes10 Dec 2019 11:45 UTC

56 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

Might humans not be the most intelligent animals?

Matthew Barnett23 Dec 2019 21:50 UTC

56 points

41 comments3 min readLW link

[Part 1] Amplifying generalist research via forecasting – Models of impact and challenges

jacobjacob, ozziegooen, Elizabeth, NunoSempere and bgold

19 Dec 2019 15:50 UTC

55 points

29 comments17 min readLW link

MIRI’s 2019 Fundraiser

Malo3 Dec 2019 1:16 UTC

55 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Perfect Competition

Zvi29 Dec 2019 13:30 UTC

54 points

29 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

“You can’t possibly succeed without [My Pet Issue]”

Raemon19 Dec 2019 1:12 UTC

53 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

The Review Phase

Ben Pace9 Dec 2019 0:54 UTC

53 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

LW For External Comments?

jefftk5 Dec 2019 18:30 UTC

52 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Speaking Truth to Power Is a Schelling Point

Zack_M_Davis30 Dec 2019 6:12 UTC

52 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Generalizing Experimental Results by Leveraging Knowledge of Mechanisms

Carlos_Cinelli11 Dec 2019 20:39 UTC

50 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

T-Shaped Organizations

Vaniver16 Dec 2019 23:48 UTC

49 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Is the rate of scientific progress slowing down? (by Tyler Cowen and Ben Southwood)

Ben Pace2 Dec 2019 3:45 UTC

49 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Self and No-Self

Vaniver29 Dec 2019 6:15 UTC

48 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

2020′s Prediction Thread

bgold30 Dec 2019 23:18 UTC

48 points

77 comments1 min readLW link

Should We Still Fly?

jefftk20 Dec 2019 2:00 UTC

47 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Another AI Winter?

PeterMcCluskey25 Dec 2019 0:58 UTC

47 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

2010s Predictions Review

Tofly30 Dec 2019 21:47 UTC

47 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

[Personal Experiment] One Year without Junk Media

lsusr14 Dec 2019 8:26 UTC

45 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

A parable in the style of Invisible Cities

Daniel Kokotajlo16 Dec 2019 15:55 UTC

45 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Understanding Machine Learning (I)

Rafael Harth20 Dec 2019 18:22 UTC

44 points

12 comments11 min readLW link

A list of good heuristics that the case for AI x-risk fails

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)2 Dec 2019 19:26 UTC

43 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

A dilemma for prosaic AI alignment

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Dec 2019 22:11 UTC

42 points

31 comments3 min readLW link