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“Other people are wrong” vs “I am right”
Buck
22 Feb 2019 20:01 UTC
260
points
20
comments
9
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Rule Thinkers In, Not Out
Scott Alexander
27 Feb 2019 2:40 UTC
226
points
67
comments
4
min read
LW
link
4
reviews
(slatestarcodex.com)
Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences
sarahconstantin
25 Feb 2019 20:40 UTC
187
points
35
comments
6
min read
LW
link
1
review
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Unconscious Economics
jacobjacob
27 Feb 2019 12:58 UTC
138
points
30
comments
4
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
Blackmail
Zvi
19 Feb 2019 3:50 UTC
127
points
55
comments
16
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Thoughts on Human Models
Ramana Kumar
and
Scott Garrabrant
21 Feb 2019 9:10 UTC
126
points
32
comments
10
min read
LW
link
1
review
The Tale of Alice Almost: Strategies for Dealing With Pretty Good People
sarahconstantin
27 Feb 2019 19:34 UTC
116
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Epistemic Tenure
Scott Garrabrant
18 Feb 2019 22:56 UTC
89
points
27
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Probability space has 2 metrics
Donald Hobson
10 Feb 2019 0:28 UTC
88
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Some Thoughts on Metaphilosophy
Wei Dai
10 Feb 2019 0:28 UTC
75
points
30
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Test Cases for Impact Regularisation Methods
DanielFilan
6 Feb 2019 21:50 UTC
72
points
5
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(danielfilan.com)
[Question]
How does Gradient Descent Interact with Goodhart?
Scott Garrabrant
2 Feb 2019 0:14 UTC
68
points
19
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Case for a Bigger Audience
John_Maxwell
9 Feb 2019 7:22 UTC
68
points
58
comments
2
min read
LW
link
RAISE is launching their MVP
null
26 Feb 2019 11:45 UTC
67
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Pavlov Generalizes
abramdemski
20 Feb 2019 9:03 UTC
67
points
4
comments
7
min read
LW
link
When to use quantilization
RyanCarey
5 Feb 2019 17:17 UTC
65
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Argument from Philosophical Difficulty
Wei Dai
10 Feb 2019 0:28 UTC
59
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Hamming Question
Raemon
8 Feb 2019 19:34 UTC
59
points
38
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How the MtG Color Wheel Explains AI Safety
Scott Garrabrant
15 Feb 2019 23:42 UTC
58
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
If a “Kickstarter for Inadequate Equlibria” was built, do you have a concrete inadequate equilibrium to fix?
Raemon
21 Feb 2019 21:32 UTC
55
points
39
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Two Small Experiments on GPT-2
jimrandomh
21 Feb 2019 2:59 UTC
54
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why didn’t Agoric Computing become popular?
Wei Dai
16 Feb 2019 6:19 UTC
52
points
22
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Conclusion to the sequence on value learning
Rohin Shah
3 Feb 2019 21:05 UTC
51
points
20
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Coherent behaviour in the real world is an incoherent concept
Richard_Ngo
11 Feb 2019 17:00 UTC
51
points
17
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Urgent & important: How (not) to do your to-do list
bfinn
1 Feb 2019 17:44 UTC
51
points
20
comments
13
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How does OpenAI’s language model affect our AI timeline estimates?
jimrandomh
15 Feb 2019 3:11 UTC
50
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How good is a human’s gut judgement at guessing someone’s IQ?
habryka
25 Feb 2019 21:23 UTC
50
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Arguments for moral indefinability
Richard_Ngo
12 Feb 2019 10:40 UTC
50
points
10
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
Avoiding Jargon Confusion
Raemon
17 Feb 2019 23:37 UTC
46
points
35
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Learning preferences by looking at the world
Rohin Shah
12 Feb 2019 22:25 UTC
43
points
10
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(bair.berkeley.edu)
(notes on) Policy Desiderata for Superintelligent AI: A Vector Field Approach
Ben Pace
4 Feb 2019 22:08 UTC
43
points
5
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Prediction Pyramid: Why Fundamental Work is Needed for Prediction Work
ozziegooen
14 Feb 2019 16:21 UTC
43
points
15
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Is voting theory important? An attempt to check my bias.
Jameson Quinn
17 Feb 2019 23:45 UTC
42
points
14
comments
6
min read
LW
link
HCH is not just Mechanical Turk
William_S
9 Feb 2019 0:46 UTC
42
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Major Donation: Long Term Future Fund Application Extended 1 Week
habryka
16 Feb 2019 23:30 UTC
42
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Philosophy as low-energy approximation
Charlie Steiner
5 Feb 2019 19:34 UTC
40
points
20
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Knowing I’m Being Tricked is Barely Enough
Elizabeth
26 Feb 2019 17:50 UTC
37
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
How to get value learning and reference wrong
Charlie Steiner
26 Feb 2019 20:22 UTC
37
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Implications of GPT-2
Gurkenglas
18 Feb 2019 10:57 UTC
36
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Some disjunctive reasons for urgency on AI risk
Wei Dai
15 Feb 2019 20:43 UTC
36
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New versions of posts in “Map and Territory” and “How To Actually Change Your Mind” are up (also, new revision system)
habryka
26 Feb 2019 3:17 UTC
36
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
When should we expect the education bubble to pop? How can we short it?
jacobjacob
9 Feb 2019 21:39 UTC
35
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The RAIN Framework for Informational Effectiveness
ozziegooen
13 Feb 2019 12:54 UTC
35
points
16
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Can HCH epistemically dominate Ramanujan?
zhukeepa
23 Feb 2019 22:00 UTC
35
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Is the World Getting Better? A brief summary of recent debate
ErickBall
6 Feb 2019 17:38 UTC
35
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(capx.co)
Drexler on AI Risk
PeterMcCluskey
1 Feb 2019 5:11 UTC
35
points
10
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)
[Question]
Why do you reject negative utilitarianism?
Teo Ajantaival
11 Feb 2019 15:38 UTC
34
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
EA grants available (to individuals)
Jameson Quinn
7 Feb 2019 15:17 UTC
34
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Complexity Penalties in Statistical Learning
michael_h
6 Feb 2019 4:13 UTC
31
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is LessWrong a “classic style intellectual world”?
Gordon Seidoh Worley
26 Feb 2019 21:33 UTC
29
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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