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Thoughts on The Replacing Guilt Series — pt 1
dragohole
5 Jul 2019 19:35 UTC
9
points
9
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Here Be Epistemic Dragons
DirectedEvolution
4 Jul 2019 22:31 UTC
8
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
What product are you building?
Raemon
4 Jul 2019 19:08 UTC
56
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How to handle large numbers of questions?
Raemon
4 Jul 2019 18:22 UTC
12
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Let’s Read: an essay on AI Theology
Yuxi_Liu
4 Jul 2019 7:50 UTC
23
points
9
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are good resources for learning functional programming?
Matt Goldenberg
4 Jul 2019 1:22 UTC
22
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What’s state-of-the-art in AI understanding of theory of mind?
ioannes
3 Jul 2019 23:11 UTC
14
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Blatant lies are the best kind!
Benquo
3 Jul 2019 20:45 UTC
28
points
17
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
[Question]
What was the official story for many top physicists congregating in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project?
moses
3 Jul 2019 18:05 UTC
13
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread July 2019
ryan_b
3 Jul 2019 15:07 UTC
15
points
91
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What would be the signs of AI manhattan projects starting? Should a website be made watching for these signs?
Ozyrus
3 Jul 2019 12:22 UTC
12
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Self-consciousness wants to make everything about itself
jessicata
3 Jul 2019 1:44 UTC
44
points
70
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(unstableontology.com)
Opting into Experimental LW Features
Raemon
3 Jul 2019 0:51 UTC
20
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Episode 7 of ‘Tsuyoku Narita’: CoZE
Bae's Theorem
2 Jul 2019 22:38 UTC
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are some of Robin Hanson’s best posts?
Richard_Ngo
2 Jul 2019 20:58 UTC
38
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How/would you want to consume shortform posts?
Raemon
2 Jul 2019 19:55 UTC
18
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Re-introducing Selection vs Control for Optimization (Optimizing and Goodhart Effects—Clarifying Thoughts, Part 1)
Davidmanheim
2 Jul 2019 15:36 UTC
31
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
The Right Way of Formulating a Problem?
Virgil Kurkjian
2 Jul 2019 14:40 UTC
15
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Everybody Knows
Zvi
2 Jul 2019 12:20 UTC
137
points
21
comments
4
min read
LW
link
1
review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Collaborative VS adversarial truth seeking
Elo
1 Jul 2019 23:48 UTC
2
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
PlayStation Odysseys
Jacob Falkovich
1 Jul 2019 17:41 UTC
22
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
An Increasingly Manipulative Newsfeed
Michaël Trazzi
1 Jul 2019 15:26 UTC
63
points
16
comments
5
min read
LW
link
June 2019 gwern.net newsletter
gwern
1 Jul 2019 14:35 UTC
29
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
[Question]
What’s the most “stuck” you’ve been with an argument, that eventually got resolved?
Raemon
1 Jul 2019 5:13 UTC
14
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Competence Myth
Davis_Kingsley
30 Jun 2019 18:55 UTC
48
points
31
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is AlphaZero any good without the tree search?
Steven Byrnes
30 Jun 2019 16:41 UTC
31
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
I’m looking for alternative funding strategies for cryonics.
Walker Vargas
30 Jun 2019 3:22 UTC
4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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
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