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Logical Counterfactuals and Proposition graphs, Part 2
Donald Hobson
31 Aug 2019 20:58 UTC
13
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Cambridge LW/SSC Meetup
NoSignalNoNoise
31 Aug 2019 17:10 UTC
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Peter Thiel/Eric Weinstein Transcript on Growth, Violence, and Stories
Ben Pace
31 Aug 2019 2:44 UTC
70
points
20
comments
15
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What does social psychology tell us about getting consistent evaluations out of groups?
Elizabeth
31 Aug 2019 1:11 UTC
22
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How good a proxy for accuracy is precision?
Elizabeth
31 Aug 2019 1:01 UTC
15
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Can this model grade a test without knowing the answers?
Elizabeth
31 Aug 2019 0:53 UTC
20
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Look at the Shape of Your Utility Distribution
zulupineapple
30 Aug 2019 23:27 UTC
15
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does anyone know of a good overview of what humans know about depression?
Eli Tyre
30 Aug 2019 23:22 UTC
13
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
September Bragging Thread
Raemon
30 Aug 2019 21:58 UTC
47
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
2-D Robustness
Vlad Mikulik
30 Aug 2019 20:27 UTC
85
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness
John_Maxwell
30 Aug 2019 17:30 UTC
60
points
32
comments
7
min read
LW
link
A Game of Giants [Wait But Why]
kilotaras
30 Aug 2019 5:48 UTC
5
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(waitbutwhy.com)
The Crisis of Evidence Use
Ian David Moss
30 Aug 2019 4:50 UTC
2
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
AI Alignment Writing Day Roundup #1
Ben Pace
30 Aug 2019 1:26 UTC
32
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Minneapolis SSC meetup September 2019
Drake Thomas
29 Aug 2019 23:01 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LW Team Updates—September 2019
Ruby
29 Aug 2019 22:12 UTC
39
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why study perturbative adversarial attacks ?
Yuxi_Liu
29 Aug 2019 20:15 UTC
19
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
AI Forecasting Resolution Council (Forecasting infrastructure, part 2)
jacobjacob
and
bgold
29 Aug 2019 17:35 UTC
35
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why are the people who could be doing safety research, but aren’t, doing something else?
Adam Scholl
29 Aug 2019 8:51 UTC
27
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence (SSC)
ioannes
28 Aug 2019 22:57 UTC
46
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
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?
litten8
28 Aug 2019 22:33 UTC
1
point
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Missing Math of Map-Making
johnswentworth
28 Aug 2019 21:18 UTC
40
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
This sometimes helps to expose assumptions
MoritzG
28 Aug 2019 18:42 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What Programming Language Characteristics Would Allow Provably Safe AI?
Davidmanheim
28 Aug 2019 10:46 UTC
4
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Don’t Pull a Broken Chain
johnswentworth
28 Aug 2019 1:21 UTC
31
points
6
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Cartographic Processes
johnswentworth
27 Aug 2019 20:02 UTC
23
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Dual Wielding
Zvi
27 Aug 2019 14:10 UTC
60
points
23
comments
2
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
A Personal Rationality Wishlist
DanielFilan
27 Aug 2019 3:40 UTC
53
points
54
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(danielfilan.com)
Six AI Risk/Strategy Ideas
Wei Dai
27 Aug 2019 0:40 UTC
69
points
17
comments
4
min read
LW
link
1
review
Embedded Agency via Abstraction
johnswentworth
26 Aug 2019 23:03 UTC
42
points
20
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Reversible changes: consider a bucket of water
Stuart_Armstrong
26 Aug 2019 22:55 UTC
25
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Toy model piece #3: close and distant situations
Stuart_Armstrong
26 Aug 2019 22:41 UTC
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How do you learn foreign language vocabulary, beyond Anki?
Elizabeth
26 Aug 2019 21:00 UTC
9
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How Can People Evaluate Complex Questions Consistently?
Elizabeth
26 Aug 2019 20:33 UTC
46
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Problems with AI debate
Stuart_Armstrong
26 Aug 2019 19:21 UTC
21
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests
Zack_M_Davis
26 Aug 2019 2:43 UTC
59
points
10
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Limits of and to (artificial) Intelligence
MoritzG
25 Aug 2019 22:16 UTC
1
point
3
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Gratification: a useful concept, maybe new
Stuart_Armstrong
25 Aug 2019 18:58 UTC
17
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Under a week left to win $1,000! By questioning Oracle AIs.
Stuart_Armstrong
25 Aug 2019 17:02 UTC
12
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
I’m interested in a sub-field of AI but don’t know what to call it.
fowlertm
25 Aug 2019 14:55 UTC
9
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Am I going for a job interview with a woo pusher?
CronoDAS
25 Aug 2019 14:39 UTC
6
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
OpenPhil on “GiveWell’s Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat”
Raemon
24 Aug 2019 23:28 UTC
17
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)
Epistemic Spot Check: The Fate of Rome (Kyle Harper)
Elizabeth
24 Aug 2019 21:40 UTC
39
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
[Question]
Performance IQ and higher mathematics
c5pi
24 Aug 2019 17:31 UTC
4
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
how should a second version of “rationality: A to Z” look like?
Yoav Ravid
24 Aug 2019 7:01 UTC
6
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Petrov Day Celebration 2019 - Oxford Campsite
jbeshir
24 Aug 2019 3:42 UTC
8
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How has rationalism helped you?
Sunny from QAD
24 Aug 2019 1:31 UTC
9
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is LW making progress?
zulupineapple
24 Aug 2019 0:32 UTC
21
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LessLong Launch Party
Raemon
23 Aug 2019 22:18 UTC
12
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is there a simple parameter that controls human working memory capacity, which has been set tragically low?
Liron
23 Aug 2019 22:10 UTC
17
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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