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Causal Reality vs Social Reality

Ruby24 Jun 2019 23:50 UTC

41 points

96 comments6 min readLW link

Machine Learning Projects on IDA

Owain_Evans, William_S and stuhlmueller

24 Jun 2019 18:38 UTC

49 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Being the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC

462 points

60 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

[AN #58] Mesa optimization: what it is, and why we should care

Rohin Shah24 Jun 2019 16:10 UTC

55 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Explaining “The Crackpot Bet”

glennonymous24 Jun 2019 15:17 UTC

−40 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

How does one get invited to the alignment forum?

Chris_Leong23 Jun 2019 9:39 UTC

15 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Podcast—Putanumonit on The Switch

Jacob Falkovich23 Jun 2019 4:09 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

The Foundational Toolbox for Life: Introduction

ExCeph22 Jun 2019 6:11 UTC

23 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

How hard is it for altruists to discuss going against bad equilibria?

abramdemski22 Jun 2019 3:42 UTC

46 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

The Hacker Learns to Trust

Ben Pace22 Jun 2019 0:27 UTC

80 points

18 comments8 min readLW link

(medium.com)

“The Bitter Lesson”, an article about compute vs human knowledge in AI

the gears to ascension21 Jun 2019 17:24 UTC

52 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

(www.incompleteideas.net)

Decisions are hard, words feel easier

Hazard21 Jun 2019 16:17 UTC

9 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Splitting Concepts

Hazard21 Jun 2019 16:03 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Modeling AGI Safety Frameworks with Causal Influence Diagrams

Ramana Kumar21 Jun 2019 12:50 UTC

43 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Is your uncertainty resolvable?

Raemon21 Jun 2019 7:32 UTC

30 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Should rationality be a movement?

Chris_Leong20 Jun 2019 23:09 UTC

48 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Let Values Drift

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 Jun 2019 20:45 UTC

4 points

19 comments8 min readLW link

A case for strategy research: what it is and why we need more of it

Siebe20 Jun 2019 20:22 UTC

24 points

19 comments20 min readLW link

[Question] LW Dev question: FB-style tagging?

Dr_Manhattan20 Jun 2019 19:19 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

STRUCTURE: A Hazardous Guide to Words

Hazard20 Jun 2019 15:27 UTC

8 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

Should there be a header feature?

Chris_Leong20 Jun 2019 6:45 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Defending points you don’t care about

Hazard19 Jun 2019 20:40 UTC

41 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Words Aren’t Type Safe

Hazard19 Jun 2019 20:34 UTC

22 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

Arguing Definitions

Hazard19 Jun 2019 20:29 UTC

12 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

LW2.0: Technology Platform for Intellectual Progress

Ruby19 Jun 2019 20:25 UTC

31 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

LW2.0: Community, Culture, and Intellectual Progress

Ruby19 Jun 2019 20:25 UTC

27 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

1hr talk: Intro to AGI safety

Steven Byrnes18 Jun 2019 21:41 UTC

36 points

4 comments24 min readLW link

Reneging prosocially by Duncan Sabien

philip_b18 Jun 2019 18:52 UTC

70 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Magic Arena Bot Drafting

Zvi18 Jun 2019 16:00 UTC

18 points

1 comment18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is the “business cycle” an actual economic principle?

Liron18 Jun 2019 14:52 UTC

43 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Reason isn’t magic

Benquo18 Jun 2019 4:04 UTC

160 points

19 comments2 min readLW link 3 reviews

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Discussion Thread: The AI Does Not Hate You by Tom Chivers

Ruby17 Jun 2019 23:43 UTC

26 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Research Agenda v0.9: Synthesising a human’s preferences into a utility function

Stuart_Armstrong17 Jun 2019 17:46 UTC

70 points

26 comments33 min readLW link

Preference conditional on circumstances and past preference satisfaction

Stuart_Armstrong17 Jun 2019 15:30 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] In physical eschatology, is Aestivation a sound strategy?

mako yass17 Jun 2019 7:27 UTC

17 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a guide to ‘Problems that are too fast to Google’?

Vaniver17 Jun 2019 5:04 UTC

48 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

ISO: Automated P-Hacking Detection

johnswentworth16 Jun 2019 21:15 UTC

7 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does scientific productivity correlate with IQ?

Eli Tyre16 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC

27 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does the _timing_ of practice, relative to sleep, make a difference for skill consolidation?

Eli Tyre16 Jun 2019 19:12 UTC

30 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is “physical nondeterminism” a meaningful concept?

Liron16 Jun 2019 15:55 UTC

23 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

SSC-Madison: Andrew Yang

marywang16 Jun 2019 14:09 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Reasonable Explanations

Alicorn16 Jun 2019 5:29 UTC

78 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Accelerate without humanity: Summary of Nick Land’s philosophy

Yuxi_Liu16 Jun 2019 3:22 UTC

36 points

24 comments12 min readLW link

Let’s Read: Borges’s Stories

Yuxi_Liu16 Jun 2019 2:35 UTC

7 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

28 social psychology studies from Experiments With People (Frey & Gregg, 2017)

Yuxi_Liu16 Jun 2019 2:23 UTC

12 points

1 comment26 min readLW link

The Univariate Fallacy

Zack_M_Davis15 Jun 2019 21:43 UTC

34 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

On Seeing Through ‘On Seeing Through: A Unified Theory’: A Unified Theory

gwern15 Jun 2019 18:57 UTC

26 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

[Question] Do policy makers frequently underestimate non-human threats (ie: epidemic, natural disasters, climate change) when compared to threats that are human in nature (ie: military conflict, economic competition, Cold War)?

RocksBasil15 Jun 2019 16:29 UTC

5 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Press Your Luck

Zvi15 Jun 2019 15:30 UTC

14 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Paper on qualitative types or degrees of knowledge, with examples from medicine?

Kenny15 Jun 2019 0:31 UTC

5 points

2 comments1 min readLW link