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

To­tal­i­tar­ian eth­i­cal systems

Benquo3 May 2019 19:35 UTC
33 points
12 comments3 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Author­i­tar­ian Empiricism

Benquo3 May 2019 19:34 UTC
38 points
10 comments10 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The State of Affairs

Jacob Falkovich3 May 2019 16:18 UTC
33 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

Or­a­cles, se­quence pre­dic­tors, and self-con­firm­ing predictions

Stuart_Armstrong3 May 2019 14:09 UTC
22 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Self-con­firm­ing pre­dic­tions can be ar­bi­trar­ily bad

Stuart_Armstrong3 May 2019 11:34 UTC
49 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Bay Sum­mer Sols­tice 2019

Raemon3 May 2019 4:49 UTC
26 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Epi­sode 3 of Tsuyoku Nar­i­tai! (the ’be­com­ing stronger pod­cast): Nike Timers

Bae's Theorem3 May 2019 2:53 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Func­tional De­ci­sion The­ory vs Causal De­ci­sion The­ory: Ex­pand­ing on New­comb’s Problem

Geropy2 May 2019 22:15 UTC
2 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What is cor­rigi­bil­ity? /​ What are the right back­ground read­ings on it?

Ruby2 May 2019 20:43 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

South Bay SSC Meetup May 11th

DavidFriedman2 May 2019 18:09 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Neu­ral net­works for games

bipolo2 May 2019 4:28 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Swarm AI (tool)

Alexei1 May 2019 23:39 UTC
17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread May 2019

ryan_b1 May 2019 15:43 UTC
10 points
66 comments1 min readLW link

Nash equil­ibriums can be ar­bi­trar­ily bad

Stuart_Armstrong1 May 2019 14:58 UTC
35 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

April 2019 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern1 May 2019 14:43 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

[Question] Has gov­ern­ment or in­dus­try had greater past suc­cess in main­tain­ing re­ally pow­er­ful tech­nolog­i­cal se­crets?

habryka1 May 2019 2:24 UTC
27 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does the patent sys­tem pre­vent in­dus­try from keep­ing se­crets?

habryka1 May 2019 2:24 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are con­crete his­tor­i­cal ex­am­ples of pow­er­ful tech­nolog­i­cal se­crets?

habryka1 May 2019 2:22 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

A quick map of consciousness

Elo1 May 2019 2:17 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why is it im­por­tant whether gov­ern­ments or in­dus­try pro­jects are bet­ter at keep­ing se­crets?

habryka1 May 2019 2:10 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Nat­u­ral Struc­tures and Con­di­tional Definitions

Chris_Leong1 May 2019 0:05 UTC
20 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Change A View: An in­ter­est­ing on­line community

habryka30 Apr 2019 18:34 UTC
50 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(changeaview.com)

Twin Cities SSC meetup

Drake Thomas30 Apr 2019 15:07 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Peck­ing Order and Flight Leadership

sarahconstantin29 Apr 2019 20:30 UTC
43 points
18 comments3 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

[Question] Refer­ence re­quest: hu­man as “backup”

Yuxi_Liu29 Apr 2019 17:13 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Buy­ing Value, not Price

Jacob Falkovich29 Apr 2019 15:51 UTC
32 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

SSC Meetup:Med­i­ta­tions on Moloch

marywang29 Apr 2019 14:24 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

My poorly done at­tempt of for­mu­lat­ing a game with in­com­plete in­for­ma­tion.

RocksBasil29 Apr 2019 4:36 UTC
3 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What is the tran­scen­cion hy­poth­e­sis or sce­nario ? What would a Tran­scended civ­i­liza­tion be ca­pa­ble of ?

Orange Apple Juice29 Apr 2019 2:13 UTC
−11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity made me less bad at Mario Kart 8

Three-Monkey Mind28 Apr 2019 21:29 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Re­cent up­dates to gw­ern.net (2017–2019)

gwern28 Apr 2019 20:18 UTC
35 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

The Forces of Bland­ness and the Disagree­able Majority

sarahconstantin28 Apr 2019 19:44 UTC
132 points
27 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Hull: An al­ter­na­tive to shell that I’ll never have time to implement

Martin Sustrik28 Apr 2019 7:40 UTC
15 points
6 comments4 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

Aging re­search and pop­u­la­tion ethics

emanuele ascani28 Apr 2019 7:21 UTC
15 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

[AN #54] Box­ing a finite-hori­zon AI sys­tem to keep it unambitious

Rohin Shah28 Apr 2019 5:20 UTC
20 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What are some good ex­am­ples of in­cor­rigi­bil­ity?

RyanCarey28 Apr 2019 0:22 UTC
23 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Counterspells

Virgil Kurkjian27 Apr 2019 23:37 UTC
99 points
24 comments10 min readLW link