Ought: why it mat­ters and ways to help

paulfchristiano25 Jul 2019 18:00 UTC
89 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

On the pur­poses of de­ci­sion the­ory research

Wei Dai25 Jul 2019 7:18 UTC
64 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Me­taphor­i­cal ex­ten­sions and con­cep­tual figure-ground inversions

jessicata24 Jul 2019 6:21 UTC
38 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

AI Safety De­bate and Its Applications

VojtaKovarik23 Jul 2019 22:31 UTC
38 points
5 comments11 min readLW link

How to take smart notes (Ahrens, 2017)

Yuxi_Liu23 Jul 2019 15:34 UTC
69 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion as coordination

jacobjacob23 Jul 2019 6:19 UTC
42 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

The Real Rules Have No Exceptions

Said Achmiz23 Jul 2019 3:38 UTC
135 points
57 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews

“Short­form” vs “Scratch­pad” or other names

Raemon23 Jul 2019 1:21 UTC
14 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Cam­bridge LW/​SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoise23 Jul 2019 0:47 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Where is the Mean­ing?

Hazard22 Jul 2019 20:18 UTC
21 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

The Self-Unaware AI Oracle

Steven Byrnes22 Jul 2019 19:04 UTC
21 points
38 comments8 min readLW link

APL AI Safety Conference

Aryeh Englander22 Jul 2019 18:18 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #60] A new AI challenge: Minecraft agents that as­sist hu­man play­ers in cre­ative mode

Rohin Shah22 Jul 2019 17:00 UTC
23 points
6 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Solv­ing for X in­stead of 3 in love tri­an­gles?

Eruvnal22 Jul 2019 16:35 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Self-ex­per­i­ment Pro­to­col: Effect of Cho­co­late on Sleep

NoSignalNoNoise22 Jul 2019 3:32 UTC
30 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How Much Do Differ­ent Users Really Care About Upvotes?

Evan_Gaensbauer22 Jul 2019 2:31 UTC
14 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Should I wear wrist-weights while play­ing Beat Saber?

Raemon21 Jul 2019 19:56 UTC
8 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Cross-Val­i­da­tion vs Bayesian Model Comparison

johnswentworth21 Jul 2019 18:14 UTC
28 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Learn­ing to Learn and Nav­i­gat­ing Moods

calebo21 Jul 2019 15:53 UTC
22 points
13 comments11 min readLW link

Bayes’ The­o­rem in three pictures

Sunny from QAD21 Jul 2019 7:01 UTC
30 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What ques­tions about the fu­ture would in­fluence peo­ple’s ac­tions to­day if they were in­formed by a pre­dic­tion mar­ket?

Mati_Roy21 Jul 2019 5:26 UTC
20 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Do you fear the rock or the hard place?

Ruby20 Jul 2019 22:01 UTC
74 points
10 comments5 min readLW link3 reviews

Bayesian Model Test­ing Comparisons

johnswentworth20 Jul 2019 16:40 UTC
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Book re­view: The Tech­nol­ogy Trap

Richard_Ngo20 Jul 2019 12:40 UTC
28 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

The Costs of Reliability

sarahconstantin20 Jul 2019 1:20 UTC
153 points
13 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Ap­peal to Con­se­quence, Value Ten­sions, And Ro­bust Organizations

Matt Goldenberg19 Jul 2019 22:09 UTC
45 points
90 comments5 min readLW link

Watch Elon Musk’s Neu­ral­ink presentation

Alexei19 Jul 2019 21:48 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] When does adding food make an or­ganism re­li­ably bet­ter?

Slider19 Jul 2019 21:22 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Scope Insen­si­tivity Judo

Gordon Seidoh Worley19 Jul 2019 17:33 UTC
22 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

From Laplace to BIC

johnswentworth19 Jul 2019 16:52 UTC
21 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Against Ex­ces­sive Apologising

Chris_Leong19 Jul 2019 15:00 UTC
7 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] In­tro to causal in­fer­ence by Michael Niel­sen (2012)

yagudin19 Jul 2019 12:19 UTC
29 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] When does adding more peo­ple re­li­ably make a sys­tem bet­ter?

jacobjacob19 Jul 2019 4:21 UTC
30 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Ro­bust Agency for Peo­ple and Organizations

Raemon19 Jul 2019 1:18 UTC
65 points
10 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] What do you think of cog­ni­tive types and MBTI? What type are you? What do you think is the per­centage of the 16 differ­ent per­son­al­ity types on LessWrong?

NikoTM18 Jul 2019 20:20 UTC
1 point
6 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on the 5-10 Problem

Tofly18 Jul 2019 18:56 UTC
18 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Pr­ereq: Ques­tion Substitution

Hazard18 Jul 2019 17:35 UTC
28 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

The Na­tional Se­cu­rity Com­mis­sion on Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Wants You (to sub­mit es­says and ar­ti­cles on the fu­ture of gov­ern­ment AI policy)

quanticle18 Jul 2019 17:21 UTC
31 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(warontherocks.com)

Laplace Approximation

johnswentworth18 Jul 2019 15:23 UTC
30 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Nor­mal­is­ing util­ity as will­ing­ness to pay

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jul 2019 11:44 UTC
17 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Dialogue on Ap­peals to Consequences

jessicata18 Jul 2019 2:34 UTC
33 points
87 comments7 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Why it feels like ev­ery­thing is a trade-off

Sunny from QAD18 Jul 2019 1:33 UTC
35 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Pr­ereq: Cog­ni­tive Fusion

Hazard17 Jul 2019 19:04 UTC
17 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Why did we wait so long for the bi­cy­cle?

Ruby17 Jul 2019 18:45 UTC
47 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

1st Athena Ra­tion­al­ity Work­shop—Retrospective

Linda Linsefors17 Jul 2019 16:51 UTC
24 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Wolf’s Dice II: What Asym­me­try?

johnswentworth17 Jul 2019 15:22 UTC
37 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Nutri­tion heuris­tic: Cy­cle healthy options

aaq17 Jul 2019 12:44 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

In­terthe­o­retic util­ity com­par­i­son: examples

Stuart_Armstrong17 Jul 2019 12:39 UTC
12 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

RAISE AI Safety pre­req­ui­sites map en­tirely in one post

RAISE17 Jul 2019 8:57 UTC
18 points
5 comments38 min readLW link

Dou­ble­crux is for Build­ing Products

Raemon17 Jul 2019 6:50 UTC
33 points
14 comments9 min readLW link