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Here Be Epistemic Dragons

DirectedEvolution4 Jul 2019 22:31 UTC
8 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

What product are you build­ing?

Raemon4 Jul 2019 19:08 UTC
56 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

How to han­dle large num­bers of ques­tions?

Raemon4 Jul 2019 18:22 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s Read: an es­say on AI Theology

Yuxi_Liu4 Jul 2019 7:50 UTC
23 points
9 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What are good re­sources for learn­ing func­tional pro­gram­ming?

Matt Goldenberg4 Jul 2019 1:22 UTC
22 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s state-of-the-art in AI un­der­stand­ing of the­ory of mind?

ioannes3 Jul 2019 23:11 UTC
14 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Blatant lies are the best kind!

Benquo3 Jul 2019 20:45 UTC
28 points
17 comments5 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

[Question] What was the offi­cial story for many top physi­cists con­gre­gat­ing in Los Alamos dur­ing the Man­hat­tan Pro­ject?

moses3 Jul 2019 18:05 UTC
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread July 2019

ryan_b3 Jul 2019 15:07 UTC
15 points
91 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What would be the signs of AI man­hat­tan pro­jects start­ing? Should a web­site be made watch­ing for these signs?

Ozyrus3 Jul 2019 12:22 UTC
12 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Self-con­scious­ness wants to make ev­ery­thing about itself

jessicata3 Jul 2019 1:44 UTC
44 points
70 comments6 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Opt­ing into Ex­per­i­men­tal LW Features

Raemon3 Jul 2019 0:51 UTC
20 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Epi­sode 7 of ‘Tsuyoku Nar­ita’: CoZE

Bae's Theorem2 Jul 2019 22:38 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some of Robin Han­son’s best posts?

Richard_Ngo2 Jul 2019 20:58 UTC
38 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How/​would you want to con­sume short­form posts?

Raemon2 Jul 2019 19:55 UTC
18 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Re-in­tro­duc­ing Selec­tion vs Con­trol for Op­ti­miza­tion (Op­ti­miz­ing and Good­hart Effects—Clar­ify­ing Thoughts, Part 1)

Davidmanheim2 Jul 2019 15:36 UTC
31 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] The Right Way of For­mu­lat­ing a Prob­lem?

Virgil Kurkjian2 Jul 2019 14:40 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Every­body Knows

Zvi2 Jul 2019 12:20 UTC
127 points
21 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Col­lab­o­ra­tive VS ad­ver­sar­ial truth seeking

Elo1 Jul 2019 23:48 UTC
2 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

PlayS­ta­tion Odysseys

Jacob Falkovich1 Jul 2019 17:41 UTC
22 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

An In­creas­ingly Ma­nipu­la­tive Newsfeed

Michaël Trazzi1 Jul 2019 15:26 UTC
62 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

June 2019 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern1 Jul 2019 14:35 UTC
29 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

[Question] What’s the most “stuck” you’ve been with an ar­gu­ment, that even­tu­ally got re­solved?

Raemon1 Jul 2019 5:13 UTC
14 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

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
19 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)