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Look at the Shape of Your Utility Distribution

zulupineapple30 Aug 2019 23:27 UTC

15 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] Does anyone know of a good overview of what humans know about depression?

Eli Tyre30 Aug 2019 23:22 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

September Bragging Thread

Raemon30 Aug 2019 21:58 UTC

47 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

2-D Robustness

Vlad Mikulik30 Aug 2019 20:27 UTC

85 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness

John_Maxwell30 Aug 2019 17:30 UTC

60 points

32 comments7 min readLW link

A Game of Giants [Wait But Why]

kilotaras30 Aug 2019 5:48 UTC

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(waitbutwhy.com)

The Crisis of Evidence Use

Ian David Moss30 Aug 2019 4:50 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(medium.com)

AI Alignment Writing Day Roundup #1

Ben Pace30 Aug 2019 1:26 UTC

32 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Minneapolis SSC meetup September 2019

Drake Thomas29 Aug 2019 23:01 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

LW Team Updates—September 2019

Ruby29 Aug 2019 22:12 UTC

39 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Why study perturbative adversarial attacks ?

Yuxi_Liu29 Aug 2019 20:15 UTC

19 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

AI Forecasting Resolution Council (Forecasting infrastructure, part 2)

jacobjacob and bgold

29 Aug 2019 17:35 UTC

35 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why are the people who could be doing safety research, but aren’t, doing something else?

Adam Scholl29 Aug 2019 8:51 UTC

27 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence (SSC)

ioannes28 Aug 2019 22:57 UTC

46 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] I think I came up with a good utility function for AI that seems too obvious. Can you people poke holes in it?

litten828 Aug 2019 22:33 UTC

1 point

7 comments1 min readLW link

The Missing Math of Map-Making

johnswentworth28 Aug 2019 21:18 UTC

40 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

This sometimes helps to expose assumptions

MoritzG28 Aug 2019 18:42 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What Programming Language Characteristics Would Allow Provably Safe AI?

Davidmanheim28 Aug 2019 10:46 UTC

4 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t Pull a Broken Chain

johnswentworth28 Aug 2019 1:21 UTC

31 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Cartographic Processes

johnswentworth27 Aug 2019 20:02 UTC

23 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Dual Wielding

Zvi27 Aug 2019 14:10 UTC

60 points

23 comments2 min readLW link 3 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Personal Rationality Wishlist

DanielFilan27 Aug 2019 3:40 UTC

53 points

54 comments4 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

Six AI Risk/Strategy Ideas

Wei Dai27 Aug 2019 0:40 UTC

69 points

17 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Embedded Agency via Abstraction

johnswentworth26 Aug 2019 23:03 UTC

42 points

20 comments11 min readLW link

Reversible changes: consider a bucket of water

Stuart_Armstrong26 Aug 2019 22:55 UTC

25 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Toy model piece #3: close and distant situations

Stuart_Armstrong26 Aug 2019 22:41 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do you learn foreign language vocabulary, beyond Anki?

Elizabeth26 Aug 2019 21:00 UTC

9 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How Can People Evaluate Complex Questions Consistently?

Elizabeth26 Aug 2019 20:33 UTC

46 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Problems with AI debate

Stuart_Armstrong26 Aug 2019 19:21 UTC

21 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests

Zack_M_Davis26 Aug 2019 2:43 UTC

59 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

Limits of and to (artificial) Intelligence

MoritzG25 Aug 2019 22:16 UTC

1 point

3 comments7 min readLW link

Gratification: a useful concept, maybe new

Stuart_Armstrong25 Aug 2019 18:58 UTC

17 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Under a week left to win $1,000! By questioning Oracle AIs.

Stuart_Armstrong25 Aug 2019 17:02 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] I’m interested in a sub-field of AI but don’t know what to call it.

fowlertm25 Aug 2019 14:55 UTC

9 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Am I going for a job interview with a woo pusher?

CronoDAS25 Aug 2019 14:39 UTC

6 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

OpenPhil on “GiveWell’s Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat”

Raemon24 Aug 2019 23:28 UTC

17 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Epistemic Spot Check: The Fate of Rome (Kyle Harper)

Elizabeth24 Aug 2019 21:40 UTC

39 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Performance IQ and higher mathematics

c5pi24 Aug 2019 17:31 UTC

4 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] how should a second version of “rationality: A to Z” look like?

Yoav Ravid24 Aug 2019 7:01 UTC

6 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Petrov Day Celebration 2019 - Oxford Campsite

jbeshir24 Aug 2019 3:42 UTC

8 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] How has rationalism helped you?

Sunny from QAD24 Aug 2019 1:31 UTC

9 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is LW making progress?

zulupineapple24 Aug 2019 0:32 UTC

21 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

LessLong Launch Party

Raemon23 Aug 2019 22:18 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a simple parameter that controls human working memory capacity, which has been set tragically low?

Liron23 Aug 2019 22:10 UTC

17 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Optimization Provenance

Adele Lopez23 Aug 2019 20:08 UTC

38 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Troll Bridge

abramdemski23 Aug 2019 18:36 UTC

86 points

59 comments12 min readLW link

Understanding understanding

mthq23 Aug 2019 18:10 UTC

24 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Actually updating

SaraHax23 Aug 2019 17:46 UTC

56 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

When do utility functions constrain?

Hoagy23 Aug 2019 17:19 UTC

30 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

Parables of Constraint and Actualization

Spencer Wyman23 Aug 2019 16:56 UTC

13 points

0 comments6 min readLW link