Rob B’s Short­form Feed

Rob Bensinger10 May 2019 23:10 UTC
21 points
79 comments1 min readLW link

The Athena Ra­tion­al­ity Work­shop—June 7th-10th at EA Hotel

Linda Linsefors10 May 2019 22:08 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Com­plex Be­hav­ior from Sim­ple (Sub)Agents

moridinamael10 May 2019 21:44 UTC
113 points
13 comments9 min readLW link1 review

Dis­in­cen­tives for par­ti­ci­pat­ing on LW/​AF

Wei Dai10 May 2019 19:46 UTC
86 points
45 comments2 min readLW link

Fi­nan­cial en­g­ineer­ing for fund­ing drug research

ryan_b10 May 2019 18:46 UTC
11 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Where are the Benefits from Con­ver­sa­tion?

Davis_Kingsley10 May 2019 17:49 UTC
16 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Cor­re­spon­dence vi­su­al­iza­tions for differ­ent in­ter­pre­ta­tions of “prob­a­bil­ity”

So8res10 May 2019 17:10 UTC
42 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Fear as fos­sil fuel

aaq10 May 2019 15:29 UTC
17 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

AI Fore­cast­ing on­line workshop

jacobjacob10 May 2019 14:54 UTC
30 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing hu­man mod­els is an un­solved problem

Charlie Steiner10 May 2019 7:17 UTC
13 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Twin Cities SSC Meetup

Drake Thomas10 May 2019 5:10 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Epi­sode 4 of Tsuyoku Nar­i­tai! (the ‘be­com­ing stronger’ pod­cast): TAPs

Bae's Theorem10 May 2019 2:16 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Tales From the Amer­i­can Med­i­cal System

Zvi10 May 2019 0:40 UTC
64 points
48 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

In­ter­pre­ta­tions of “prob­a­bil­ity”

So8res9 May 2019 19:16 UTC
69 points
22 comments5 min readLW link

What Botswana Can Teach Us About Poli­ti­cal Stability

Samo Burja9 May 2019 18:30 UTC
40 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Kiss­ing Scars

Logan Riggs9 May 2019 16:00 UTC
39 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] How many galax­ies could we reach trav­el­ing at 0.5c, 0.8c, and 0.99c?

Ruby8 May 2019 23:39 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How many hu­mans could po­ten­tially live on Earth over its en­tire fu­ture?

Ruby8 May 2019 23:33 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Claims & As­sump­tions made in Eter­nity in Six Hours

Ruby8 May 2019 23:11 UTC
50 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Dal­las SSC Meetup #2

tayfie8 May 2019 17:31 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Raleigh SSC/​LW/​EA Meetup—Meet MealSquares People

John_Maxwell8 May 2019 0:01 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What speeds do you need to achieve to colonize the Milky Way?

Ruby7 May 2019 23:46 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Could a su­per­in­tel­li­gent AI colonize the galaxy/​uni­verse? If not, why not?

Ruby7 May 2019 21:33 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is it definitely the case that we can colonize Mars if we re­ally wanted to? Is it rea­son­able to be­lieve that this is tech­ni­cally fea­si­ble for a rea­son­ably ad­vanced civ­i­liza­tion?

Ruby7 May 2019 20:08 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why is it valuable to know whether space coloniza­tion is fea­si­ble?

Ruby7 May 2019 19:58 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the claims/​ar­gu­ments made in Eter­nity in Six Hours?

Ruby7 May 2019 19:54 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Crypto quant trad­ing: Naive Bayes

Alexei7 May 2019 19:29 UTC
33 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Co­or­di­na­tion Sur­veys: why we should sur­vey to or­ga­nize re­spon­si­bil­ities, not just predictions

Academian7 May 2019 17:43 UTC
68 points
12 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

Models of Me­mory and Understanding

Hazard7 May 2019 17:39 UTC
19 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Towards op­ti­mal play as Villager in a mixed game

Benquo7 May 2019 5:29 UTC
51 points
40 comments3 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

[Question] Which parts of the pa­per Eter­nity in Six Hours are iffy?

Ruby6 May 2019 23:59 UTC
21 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

South Bay Meetup

DavidFriedman6 May 2019 23:59 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Space coloniza­tion: what can we definitely do and how do we know that?

Ruby6 May 2019 23:05 UTC
31 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How long can peo­ple be pro­duc­tive in [time pe­riod]?

Elizabeth6 May 2019 22:35 UTC
47 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Hier­ar­chy and wings

Benquo6 May 2019 18:39 UTC
25 points
22 comments2 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Value learn­ing for moral essentialists

Charlie Steiner6 May 2019 9:05 UTC
11 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Blame games

Benquo6 May 2019 2:38 UTC
46 points
13 comments8 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Build­ing trusted third parties

anithite5 May 2019 23:18 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How much do ma­jor foun­da­tions grant per hour of staff time?

Raemon5 May 2019 19:57 UTC
22 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The why and how of daily updates

VipulNaik5 May 2019 15:21 UTC
33 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

A reck­less in­tro­duc­tion to Hindley-Milner type inference

philh5 May 2019 14:00 UTC
17 points
4 comments20 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Gw­ern’s “Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs: The Power of Agency”

habryka5 May 2019 5:11 UTC
27 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

345M ver­sion GPT-2 released

lifelonglearner5 May 2019 2:49 UTC
37 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

[Question] Is value drift net-pos­i­tive, net-nega­tive, or nei­ther?

MarisaJurczyk5 May 2019 2:37 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #55] Reg­u­la­tory mar­kets and in­ter­na­tional stan­dards as a means of en­sur­ing benefi­cial AI

Rohin Shah5 May 2019 2:20 UTC
17 points
2 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Should Effec­tive Altru­ism be at war with North Korea?

Benquo5 May 2019 1:50 UTC
14 points
48 comments6 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Dishon­est Up­date Reporting

Zvi4 May 2019 14:10 UTC
61 points
27 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Map of the Less­wrong-O-Sphere of Interest

Elo4 May 2019 4:19 UTC
35 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Meta] Hid­ing nega­tive karma no­tifi­ca­tions by default

habryka4 May 2019 2:36 UTC
26 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Zurich SSC

ssczurich3 May 2019 20:11 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link