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Being Wrong Doesn’t Mean You’re Stupid and Bad (Probably)
Zack_M_Davis
29 Jun 2019 23:58 UTC
20
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Do children lose ‘childlike curiosity?’ Why?
Raemon
29 Jun 2019 22:42 UTC
44
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How can we measure creativity?
Elizabeth
29 Jun 2019 22:30 UTC
32
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Progress review: genome sequencing—June 2019
Yuxi_Liu
29 Jun 2019 7:58 UTC
25
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
An unconfortable epistemic position regarding “Verb Magic”.
Hijol
29 Jun 2019 3:38 UTC
3
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Conceptual Problems with UDT and Policy Selection
abramdemski
28 Jun 2019 23:50 UTC
64
points
16
comments
9
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Whence decision exhaustion?
Gordon Seidoh Worley
28 Jun 2019 20:41 UTC
15
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Aligning a toy model of optimization
paulfchristiano
28 Jun 2019 20:23 UTC
53
points
25
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Book Review: Why Are The Prices So Damn High?
sarahconstantin
28 Jun 2019 19:40 UTC
61
points
7
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
[Question]
What’s the best explanation of intellectual generativity?
Raemon
28 Jun 2019 18:33 UTC
28
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Systems Engineering Advancement Research Initiative
ryan_b
28 Jun 2019 17:57 UTC
22
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(seari.mit.edu)
Self-confirming prophecies, and simplified Oracle designs
Stuart_Armstrong
28 Jun 2019 9:57 UTC
10
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
GreaterWrong Arbital Viewer
clone of saturn
28 Jun 2019 6:32 UTC
55
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arbital.greaterwrong.com)
Instead of “I’m anxious,” try “I feel threatened”
Holly_Elmore
28 Jun 2019 5:24 UTC
56
points
19
comments
2
min read
LW
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
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why would “necro-ing” be a bad idea?
Nebu
28 Jun 2019 2:21 UTC
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How to deal with a misleading conference talk about AI risk?
rmoehn
27 Jun 2019 21:04 UTC
21
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is it good practice to write questions/comments on old posts you’re trying to understand?
Liam Donovan
27 Jun 2019 9:23 UTC
22
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are principled ways for penalising complexity in practice?
Bucky
27 Jun 2019 7:28 UTC
36
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Embedded Agency: Not Just an AI Problem
johnswentworth
27 Jun 2019 0:35 UTC
15
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Jordan Peterson on AI-FOOM
Bound_up
26 Jun 2019 17:05 UTC
3
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Apocalypse, corrupted
Stuart_Armstrong
26 Jun 2019 13:46 UTC
20
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What does the word “collaborative” mean in the phrase “collaborative truthseeking”?
Zack_M_Davis
26 Jun 2019 5:26 UTC
26
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Epistemic Spot Check: The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
Elizabeth
25 Jun 2019 23:00 UTC
80
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
Writing children’s picture books
jessicata
25 Jun 2019 21:43 UTC
125
points
22
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(unstableontology.com)
[Question]
Only optimize to 95 %
Leo Shine
25 Jun 2019 20:50 UTC
7
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Research Agenda in reverse: what *would* a solution look like?
Stuart_Armstrong
25 Jun 2019 13:52 UTC
35
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Arbital Scrape V2
emmab
25 Jun 2019 10:03 UTC
40
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What’s up with self-esteem?
abramdemski
25 Jun 2019 3:38 UTC
39
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Pittsburgh SSC/RAT-adjacent meetup
fr8train
25 Jun 2019 2:11 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Causal Reality vs Social Reality
Ruby
24 Jun 2019 23:50 UTC
41
points
96
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Machine Learning Projects on IDA
Owain_Evans
,
William_S
and
stuhlmueller
24 Jun 2019 18:38 UTC
49
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Being the (Pareto) Best in the World
johnswentworth
24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC
460
points
60
comments
3
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
[AN #58] Mesa optimization: what it is, and why we should care
Rohin Shah
24 Jun 2019 16:10 UTC
55
points
10
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Explaining “The Crackpot Bet”
glennonymous
24 Jun 2019 15:17 UTC
−40
points
20
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How does one get invited to the alignment forum?
Chris_Leong
23 Jun 2019 9:39 UTC
15
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Podcast—Putanumonit on The Switch
Jacob Falkovich
23 Jun 2019 4:09 UTC
6
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Foundational Toolbox for Life: Introduction
ExCeph
22 Jun 2019 6:11 UTC
23
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
How hard is it for altruists to discuss going against bad equilibria?
abramdemski
22 Jun 2019 3:42 UTC
46
points
6
comments
11
min read
LW
link
The Hacker Learns to Trust
Ben Pace
22 Jun 2019 0:27 UTC
80
points
18
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
“The Bitter Lesson”, an article about compute vs human knowledge in AI
the gears to ascension
21 Jun 2019 17:24 UTC
52
points
14
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.incompleteideas.net)
Decisions are hard, words feel easier
Hazard
21 Jun 2019 16:17 UTC
9
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Splitting Concepts
Hazard
21 Jun 2019 16:03 UTC
8
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Modeling AGI Safety Frameworks with Causal Influence Diagrams
Ramana Kumar
21 Jun 2019 12:50 UTC
43
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Is your uncertainty resolvable?
Raemon
21 Jun 2019 7:32 UTC
30
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Should rationality be a movement?
Chris_Leong
20 Jun 2019 23:09 UTC
48
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Let Values Drift
Gordon Seidoh Worley
20 Jun 2019 20:45 UTC
4
points
19
comments
8
min read
LW
link
A case for strategy research: what it is and why we need more of it
Siebe
20 Jun 2019 20:22 UTC
24
points
19
comments
20
min read
LW
link
[Question]
LW Dev question: FB-style tagging?
Dr_Manhattan
20 Jun 2019 19:19 UTC
11
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
STRUCTURE: A Hazardous Guide to Words
Hazard
20 Jun 2019 15:27 UTC
8
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
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