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Conceptual Problems with UDT and Policy Selection

abramdemski28 Jun 2019 23:50 UTC

64 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Whence decision exhaustion?

Gordon Seidoh Worley28 Jun 2019 20:41 UTC

15 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Aligning a toy model of optimization

paulfchristiano28 Jun 2019 20:23 UTC

53 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

Book Review: Why Are The Prices So Damn High?

sarahconstantin28 Jun 2019 19:40 UTC

61 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

[Question] What’s the best explanation of intellectual generativity?

Raemon28 Jun 2019 18:33 UTC

28 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Systems Engineering Advancement Research Initiative

ryan_b28 Jun 2019 17:57 UTC

22 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(seari.mit.edu)

Self-confirming prophecies, and simplified Oracle designs

Stuart_Armstrong28 Jun 2019 9:57 UTC

10 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

GreaterWrong Arbital Viewer

clone of saturn28 Jun 2019 6:32 UTC

55 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(arbital.greaterwrong.com)

Instead of “I’m anxious,” try “I feel threatened”

Holly_Elmore28 Jun 2019 5:24 UTC

56 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

(mhollyelmoreblog.wordpress.com)

False assumptions and leaky abstractions in machine learning and AI safety

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)28 Jun 2019 4:54 UTC

21 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why would “necro-ing” be a bad idea?

Nebu28 Jun 2019 2:21 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to deal with a misleading conference talk about AI risk?

rmoehn27 Jun 2019 21:04 UTC

21 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is it good practice to write questions/comments on old posts you’re trying to understand?

Liam Donovan27 Jun 2019 9:23 UTC

22 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are principled ways for penalising complexity in practice?

Bucky27 Jun 2019 7:28 UTC

36 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Embedded Agency: Not Just an AI Problem

johnswentworth27 Jun 2019 0:35 UTC

15 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Jordan Peterson on AI-FOOM

Bound_up26 Jun 2019 17:05 UTC

3 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Apocalypse, corrupted

Stuart_Armstrong26 Jun 2019 13:46 UTC

20 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What does the word “collaborative” mean in the phrase “collaborative truthseeking”?

Zack_M_Davis26 Jun 2019 5:26 UTC

26 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic Spot Check: The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance

Elizabeth25 Jun 2019 23:00 UTC

80 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Writing children’s picture books

jessicata25 Jun 2019 21:43 UTC

125 points

22 comments5 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

[Question] Only optimize to 95 %

Leo Shine25 Jun 2019 20:50 UTC

7 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Research Agenda in reverse: what would a solution look like?

Stuart_Armstrong25 Jun 2019 13:52 UTC

35 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Arbital Scrape V2

emmab25 Jun 2019 10:03 UTC

40 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s up with self-esteem?

abramdemski25 Jun 2019 3:38 UTC

39 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

Pittsburgh SSC/RAT-adjacent meetup

fr8train25 Jun 2019 2:11 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

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