[Question] Why is this util­i­tar­ian calcu­lus wrong? Or is it?

EconomicModel31 Jan 2019 23:57 UTC
15 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Small hope for less bias and more practability

ArthurLidia31 Jan 2019 22:09 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Reli­a­bil­ity am­plifi­ca­tion

paulfchristiano31 Jan 2019 21:12 UTC
24 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Cam­bridge (UK) SSC meetup

thisheavenlyconjugation31 Jan 2019 11:45 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The role of epistemic vs. aleatory un­cer­tainty in quan­tify­ing AI-Xrisk

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)31 Jan 2019 6:13 UTC
15 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity pod­cast—feed­back?

Bae's Theorem31 Jan 2019 1:46 UTC
11 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Wire­head­ing is in the eye of the beholder

Stuart_Armstrong30 Jan 2019 18:23 UTC
26 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Mas­culine Virtues

Jacob Falkovich30 Jan 2019 16:03 UTC
52 points
32 comments13 min readLW link

De­con­fus­ing Log­i­cal Counterfactuals

Chris_Leong30 Jan 2019 15:13 UTC
27 points
16 comments11 min readLW link

Book Tril­ogy Re­view: Re­mem­brance of Earth’s Past (The Three Body Prob­lem)

Zvi30 Jan 2019 1:10 UTC
48 points
15 comments40 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Align­ment Newslet­ter #43

Rohin Shah29 Jan 2019 21:10 UTC
14 points
2 comments13 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

The Ques­tion Of Perception

The Arkon29 Jan 2019 20:59 UTC
0 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Which text­book would you recom­mend to learn de­ci­sion the­ory?

supermartingale29 Jan 2019 20:48 UTC
27 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Towards equil­ibria-break­ing methods

ryan_b29 Jan 2019 16:19 UTC
22 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Can there be an in­de­scrib­able hel­l­world?

Stuart_Armstrong29 Jan 2019 15:00 UTC
39 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

How much can value learn­ing be dis­en­tan­gled?

Stuart_Armstrong29 Jan 2019 14:17 UTC
22 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

Tech­niques for op­ti­miz­ing worst-case performance

paulfchristiano28 Jan 2019 21:29 UTC
23 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

[Link] Did AlphaS­tar just click faster?

aogara28 Jan 2019 20:23 UTC
4 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

“Gift­ed­ness” and Ge­nius, Cru­cial Differences

ArthurLidia28 Jan 2019 20:22 UTC
6 points
0 comments29 min readLW link

Quan­tum Neu­ral Net and You

ScrubbyBubbles28 Jan 2019 18:42 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link

A small ex­am­ple of one-step hypotheticals

Stuart_Armstrong28 Jan 2019 16:12 UTC
14 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] How would one go about defin­ing the ideal per­son­al­ity com­pat­i­bil­ity test?

digitalcaffeine28 Jan 2019 3:02 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link

Solomonoff in­duc­tion and be­lief in God

Berkeley Beetle28 Jan 2019 3:01 UTC
0 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(randalrauser.com)

Prac­ti­cal Con­sid­er­a­tions Re­gard­ing Poli­ti­cal Polarization

joshuabecker27 Jan 2019 22:26 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

“The Un­bi­ased Map”

JohnBuridan27 Jan 2019 19:08 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion Con­test 2018: Scores and Retrospective

jbeshir27 Jan 2019 17:20 UTC
28 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Freely Com­ply­ing With the Ideal: A The­ory of Hap­piness

Solnassant27 Jan 2019 12:28 UTC
20 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Con­fes­sions of an Ab­strac­tion Hater

Martin Sustrik27 Jan 2019 5:50 UTC
12 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

Río Grande: judg­ment calls

KatjaGrace27 Jan 2019 3:50 UTC
25 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(worldlypositions.tumblr.com)

“Fore­cast­ing Trans­for­ma­tive AI: An Ex­pert Sur­vey”, Gruet­zemacher et al 2019

gwern27 Jan 2019 2:34 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Build­ing up to an In­ter­nal Fam­ily Sys­tems model

Kaj_Sotala26 Jan 2019 12:25 UTC
281 points
86 comments28 min readLW link2 reviews

Fu­ture di­rec­tions for nar­row value learning

Rohin Shah26 Jan 2019 2:36 UTC
12 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] For what do we need Su­per­in­tel­li­gent AI?

avturchin25 Jan 2019 15:01 UTC
14 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

“AlphaS­tar: Mas­ter­ing the Real-Time Strat­egy Game StarCraft II”, Deep­Mind [won 10 of 11 games against hu­man pros]

gwern24 Jan 2019 20:49 UTC
62 points
52 comments1 min readLW link
(deepmind.com)

Thoughts on re­ward en­g­ineer­ing

paulfchristiano24 Jan 2019 20:15 UTC
30 points
30 comments11 min readLW link

From Per­sonal to Pri­son Gangs: En­forc­ing Proso­cial Behavior

johnswentworth24 Jan 2019 18:07 UTC
153 points
26 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] Is Agent Si­mu­lates Pre­dic­tor a “fair” prob­lem?

Chris_Leong24 Jan 2019 13:18 UTC
22 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] In what way has the gen­er­a­tion af­ter us “gone too far”?

Elo24 Jan 2019 10:22 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The hu­man side of interaction

Rohin Shah24 Jan 2019 10:14 UTC
19 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

South Bay Meetup

David Friedman24 Jan 2019 5:29 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Allow­ing a for­mal proof sys­tem to self im­prove while avoid­ing Lo­bian ob­sta­cles.

Donald Hobson23 Jan 2019 23:04 UTC
6 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Café No. 9 - The Se­quences, Part 1; Sec­tion C b

thegreatnick23 Jan 2019 22:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Start­ing to see 2 months later

Pausecafe23 Jan 2019 20:46 UTC
32 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Ed­in­burgh SSC meetup ϛ

Hamish Peter Todd23 Jan 2019 18:36 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

S-Curves for Trend Forecasting

Matt Goldenberg23 Jan 2019 18:17 UTC
113 points
23 comments7 min readLW link4 reviews

One-step hy­po­thet­i­cal preferences

Stuart_Armstrong23 Jan 2019 15:14 UTC
10 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Shang­hai LessWrong Meetup

Mindey23 Jan 2019 12:59 UTC
11 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Games in Kocherga club: Fal­la­cy­ma­nia, Tower of Chaos, Scien­tific Discovery

Alexander23023 Jan 2019 11:57 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Could de­clin­ing in­ter­est to the Dooms­day Ar­gu­ment ex­plain the Dooms­day Ar­gu­ment?

avturchin23 Jan 2019 11:51 UTC
8 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Link: That Time a Guy Tried to Build a Utopia for Mice and it all Went to Hell

Alexei23 Jan 2019 6:27 UTC
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link