[Question] What sub­fields of math­e­mat­ics are most use­ful for what sub­fields of AI?

Rudi C6 Dec 2019 20:45 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

What is Ab­strac­tion?

johnswentworth6 Dec 2019 20:30 UTC
35 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist sols­tice Lund

Laural6 Dec 2019 11:40 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Com­ment on Co­her­ence ar­gu­ments do not im­ply goal di­rected behavior

Ronny Fernandez6 Dec 2019 9:30 UTC
30 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a web­site for track­ing fads?

romeostevensit6 Dec 2019 4:48 UTC
8 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

The Ac­tion­able Ver­sion of “Keep Your Iden­tity Small”

Hazard6 Dec 2019 1:34 UTC
81 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing “Deep Dou­ble Des­cent”

evhub6 Dec 2019 0:00 UTC
150 points
51 comments5 min readLW link4 reviews

Tap­ping Out In Two

philh5 Dec 2019 23:10 UTC
16 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Values, Valence, and Alignment

Gordon Seidoh Worley5 Dec 2019 21:06 UTC
12 points
4 comments13 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—De­cem­ber 2020

Next5 Dec 2019 20:51 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Novem­ber 2020

Next5 Dec 2019 20:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

LW Team Up­dates—De­cem­ber 2019

Ruby5 Dec 2019 20:40 UTC
40 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

On Sto­ries vs. Data

Ian David Moss5 Dec 2019 20:07 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(medium.com)

To Be De­cided #3

Ian David Moss5 Dec 2019 19:06 UTC
4 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

LW For Ex­ter­nal Com­ments?

jefftk5 Dec 2019 18:30 UTC
52 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Read­ing list: Start­ing links and books on study­ing on­tol­ogy and causality

aaq5 Dec 2019 17:19 UTC
13 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Is there a sci­en­tific method? Physics, Biol­ogy and Beyond

Jimdrix_Hendri5 Dec 2019 16:50 UTC
9 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

The Devil Made Me Write This Post Ex­plain­ing Why He Prob­a­bly Didn’t Hide Dinosaur Bones

Virgil Kurkjian5 Dec 2019 15:53 UTC
−1 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Linkpost: Search­ing Along the Trail of Crumbs

Zvi5 Dec 2019 14:20 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Or­a­cles: re­ject all deals—break su­per­ra­tional­ity, with superrationality

Stuart_Armstrong5 Dec 2019 13:51 UTC
20 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] What is an Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion The­ory agent?

Chris_Leong5 Dec 2019 13:48 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Mul­ti­ple con­di­tions must be met to gain causal effect

MoritzG5 Dec 2019 10:15 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Seek­ing Power is Often Con­ver­gently In­stru­men­tal in MDPs

5 Dec 2019 2:33 UTC
162 points
39 comments17 min readLW link2 reviews
(arxiv.org)

Ele­men­tary Statistics

jefftk5 Dec 2019 2:00 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Kansas City Dojo meetup 11-19-19

Bae's Theorem5 Dec 2019 0:13 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What are some non-purely-sam­pling ways to do deep RL?

evhub5 Dec 2019 0:09 UTC
15 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Karate Kid and Real­is­tic Ex­pec­ta­tions for Disagree­ment Resolution

Raemon4 Dec 2019 23:25 UTC
102 points
23 comments4 min readLW link

Re­cent Progress in the The­ory of Neu­ral Networks

interstice4 Dec 2019 23:11 UTC
83 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

Paper-Read­ing for Gears

johnswentworth4 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC
164 points
6 comments4 min readLW link1 review

On de­ci­sion-pre­dic­tion fixed points

jollybard4 Dec 2019 20:49 UTC
5 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Oc­to­ber 2020

Noct4 Dec 2019 20:17 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Au­gust 2020

Noct4 Dec 2019 20:16 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Septem­ber 2020

Noct4 Dec 2019 20:14 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—July 2020

Noct4 Dec 2019 20:13 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—June 2020

Noct4 Dec 2019 20:12 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What ad­di­tional fea­tures would you like on LessWrong?

Mati_Roy4 Dec 2019 19:41 UTC
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #76]: How dataset size af­fects ro­bust­ness, and bench­mark­ing safe ex­plo­ra­tion by mea­sur­ing con­straint violations

Rohin Shah4 Dec 2019 18:10 UTC
14 points
6 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

2019 Win­ter Sols­tice Collection

dspeyer4 Dec 2019 17:25 UTC
31 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

“Fully” acausal trade

Stuart_Armstrong4 Dec 2019 16:39 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If giv­ing un­so­lic­ited feed­back was a so­cial norm, what feed­back would you of­ten give?

Mati_Roy4 Dec 2019 13:11 UTC
10 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] In which ways have you self-im­proved that made you feel bad for not hav­ing done it ear­lier?

Mati_Roy4 Dec 2019 12:33 UTC
13 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

A let­ter on op­ti­mism about hu­man progress

jasoncrawford4 Dec 2019 4:21 UTC
34 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(letter.wiki)

Sym­biotic Conflicts

lsusr4 Dec 2019 0:06 UTC
29 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Long-last­ing Effects of Sus­pen­sions?

jefftk3 Dec 2019 20:40 UTC
20 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

(Rein­vent­ing wheels) Maybe our world has be­come more peo­ple-shaped.

aaq3 Dec 2019 20:23 UTC
5 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter #2, fall 2019

avturchin3 Dec 2019 16:54 UTC
22 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Search­ing Along the Trail of Crumbs

Zvi3 Dec 2019 13:10 UTC
8 points
0 comments31 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The De­cem­ber SSC AtlantaMeetup

Steve French3 Dec 2019 12:14 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—May 2020

Noct3 Dec 2019 4:00 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—April 2020

Noct3 Dec 2019 3:59 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link