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The Com­pe­tence Myth

Davis_Kingsley30 Jun 2019 18:55 UTC
48 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is AlphaZero any good with­out the tree search?

Steven Byrnes30 Jun 2019 16:41 UTC
31 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] I’m look­ing for al­ter­na­tive fund­ing strate­gies for cry­on­ics.

Walker Vargas30 Jun 2019 3:22 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Be­ing Wrong Doesn’t Mean You’re Stupid and Bad (Prob­a­bly)

Zack_M_Davis29 Jun 2019 23:58 UTC
20 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Do chil­dren lose ‘childlike cu­ri­os­ity?’ Why?

Raemon29 Jun 2019 22:42 UTC
44 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How can we mea­sure cre­ativity?

Elizabeth29 Jun 2019 22:30 UTC
32 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Progress re­view: genome se­quenc­ing—June 2019

Yuxi_Liu29 Jun 2019 7:58 UTC
25 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

An un­con­fortable epistemic po­si­tion re­gard­ing “Verb Magic”.

Hijol29 Jun 2019 3:38 UTC
3 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

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 link3 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