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Asymmetric Justice

Zvi25 Apr 2019 16:00 UTC

235 points

104 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Forces of Blandness and the Disagreeable Majority

sarahconstantin28 Apr 2019 19:44 UTC

132 points

27 comments3 min readLW link 2 reviews

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Where to Draw the Boundaries?

Zack_M_Davis13 Apr 2019 21:34 UTC

124 points

109 comments13 min readLW link 3 reviews

The Hard Work of Translation (Buddhism)

romeostevensit7 Apr 2019 21:04 UTC

117 points

139 comments5 min readLW link 3 reviews

Announcing the Center for Applied Postrationality

Pee Doom2 Apr 2019 1:17 UTC

110 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Literature Review: Distributed Teams

Elizabeth16 Apr 2019 1:19 UTC

106 points

37 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled

Scott Alexander23 Apr 2019 1:30 UTC

104 points

15 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

(slatestarcodex.com)

Degrees of Freedom

sarahconstantin2 Apr 2019 21:10 UTC

103 points

31 comments11 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Counterspells

Virgil Kurkjian27 Apr 2019 23:37 UTC

99 points

24 comments10 min readLW link

[Answer] Why wasn’t science invented in China?

Ruby23 Apr 2019 21:47 UTC

95 points

46 comments21 min readLW link 1 review

Alignment Newsletter One Year Retrospective

Rohin Shah10 Apr 2019 6:58 UTC

94 points

31 comments21 min readLW link

The Principle of Predicted Improvement

Ronny Fernandez23 Apr 2019 21:21 UTC

73 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

Strategic implications of AIs’ ability to coordinate at low cost, for example by merging

Wei Dai25 Apr 2019 5:08 UTC

69 points

46 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Helen Toner on China, CSET, and AI

Rob Bensinger21 Apr 2019 4:10 UTC

68 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

(rationallyspeakingpodcast.org)

Book review: The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler

Richard_Ngo23 Apr 2019 0:10 UTC

68 points

26 comments9 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

[Question] Any rebuttals of Christiano and AI Impacts on takeoff speeds?

SoerenMind21 Apr 2019 20:39 UTC

67 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

[April Fools] User GPT2 is Banned

jimrandomh2 Apr 2019 6:00 UTC

65 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Slack Club

quanticle16 Apr 2019 6:43 UTC

62 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Crypto quant trading: Intro

Alexei17 Apr 2019 20:52 UTC

62 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Best reasons for pessimism about impact of impact measures?

TurnTrout10 Apr 2019 17:22 UTC

60 points

55 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How do people become ambitious?

Raemon4 Apr 2019 19:12 UTC

59 points

39 comments1 min readLW link

Speaking for myself (re: how the LW2.0 team communicates)

Ruby25 Apr 2019 22:39 UTC

56 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

Long Term Future Fund: April 2019 grant decisions

habryka8 Apr 2019 2:05 UTC

53 points

0 comments46 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Counterfactuals about Social Media

Zvi22 Apr 2019 12:20 UTC

53 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Excerpts from a larger discussion about simulacra

Benquo10 Apr 2019 21:27 UTC

53 points

40 comments6 min readLW link 5 reviews

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

LW Update 2019-04-02 – Frontpage Rework

Raemon2 Apr 2019 23:48 UTC

47 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Defeating Goodhart and the “closest unblocked strategy” problem

Stuart_Armstrong3 Apr 2019 14:46 UTC

45 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

AI Alignment Problem: “Human Values” don’t Actually Exist

avturchin22 Apr 2019 9:23 UTC

45 points

29 comments43 min readLW link

Open Problems in Archipelago

Raemon16 Apr 2019 22:57 UTC

44 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

Pecking Order and Flight Leadership

sarahconstantin29 Apr 2019 20:30 UTC

43 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

“Everything is Correlated”: An Anthology of the Psychology Debate

gwern27 Apr 2019 13:48 UTC

41 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

User GPT2 Has a Warning for Violating Frontpage Commenting Guidelines

jimrandomh1 Apr 2019 20:23 UTC

40 points

37 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why does category theory exist?

Ben Pace25 Apr 2019 4:54 UTC

37 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Robin Hanson on Simple, Evidence Backed Models

Raemon16 Apr 2019 22:22 UTC

36 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.overcomingbias.com)

On AI and Compute

johncrox3 Apr 2019 19:00 UTC

36 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

Recent updates to gwern.net (2017–2019)

gwern28 Apr 2019 20:18 UTC

35 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Buying Value, not Price

Jacob Falkovich29 Apr 2019 15:51 UTC

32 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

On the Nature of Agency

Ruby1 Apr 2019 1:32 UTC

31 points

24 comments9 min readLW link

When is rationality useful?

Richard_Ngo24 Apr 2019 22:40 UTC

28 points

26 comments3 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Reinforcement learning with imperceptible rewards

Vanessa Kosoy7 Apr 2019 10:27 UTC

26 points

1 comment32 min readLW link

I found a wild explanation for two big anomalies in metaphysics then became very doubtful of it

mako yass1 Apr 2019 3:19 UTC

26 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Degree of duplication and coordination in projects that examine computing prices, AI progress, and related topics?

riceissa23 Apr 2019 12:27 UTC

26 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Agency and Sphexishness: A Second Glance

Ruby16 Apr 2019 1:25 UTC

26 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Scrying for outcomes where the problem of deepfakes has been solved

mako yass15 Apr 2019 4:45 UTC

26 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the best approach to curating a newsfeed to maximize useful contrasting POV?

bgold26 Apr 2019 17:29 UTC

25 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Alignment Newsletter #51

Rohin Shah3 Apr 2019 4:10 UTC

25 points

2 comments15 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

The Simple Solow Model of Software Engineering

johnswentworth8 Apr 2019 23:06 UTC

25 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How to make plans?

Pee Doom23 Apr 2019 8:29 UTC

24 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Experimental Open Thread April 2019: Socratic method

null1 Apr 2019 1:29 UTC

23 points

165 comments1 min readLW link

Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05”

lifelonglearner19 Apr 2019 23:09 UTC

23 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.tandfonline.com)