Crit­i­cism as Entertainment

Elizabeth9 Jan 2020 22:20 UTC
53 points
12 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

South Bay Meetup, Satur­day 1/​25

DavidFriedman9 Jan 2020 20:03 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Post-mortem on the Cen­ter for Long-Term Cy­ber­se­cu­rity fore­casts

bgold9 Jan 2020 19:38 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

[Question] Ra­tion­al­ist Scrip­tures?

John Igo9 Jan 2020 16:59 UTC
3 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Prefer­ence syn­the­sis illus­trated: Star Wars

Stuart_Armstrong9 Jan 2020 16:47 UTC
20 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

[Per­sonal Ex­per­i­ment] Train­ing YouTube’s Algorithm

lsusr9 Jan 2020 9:04 UTC
13 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Old Airports

jefftk9 Jan 2020 3:30 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Are “su­perfore­cast­ers” a real phe­nomenon?

reallyeli9 Jan 2020 1:23 UTC
36 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Sub­script­ing Ty­po­graphic Con­ven­tion For Ci­ta­tions/​Dates/​Sources/​Ev­i­den­tials: A Proposal

gwern8 Jan 2020 22:20 UTC
59 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #81]: Univer­sal­ity as a po­ten­tial solu­tion to con­cep­tual difficul­ties in in­tent alignment

Rohin Shah8 Jan 2020 18:00 UTC
32 points
4 comments11 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Strip­ping Away the Protections

Zvi8 Jan 2020 13:10 UTC
49 points
6 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Pre­dictably Pre­dictable Fu­tures Talk: Us­ing Ex­pected Loss & Pre­dic­tion In­no­va­tion for Long Term Benefits

ozziegooen8 Jan 2020 12:51 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

(Dou­ble-)In­verse Embed­ded Agency Problem

Shmi8 Jan 2020 4:30 UTC
27 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Vot­ing Phase of 2018 LW Re­view

Ben Pace8 Jan 2020 3:35 UTC
51 points
29 comments4 min readLW link

How to Throw Away In­for­ma­tion in Causal DAGs

johnswentworth8 Jan 2020 2:40 UTC
20 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity vs re­lated concepts

MichaelA7 Jan 2020 10:47 UTC
26 points
17 comments8 min readLW link

AIRCS Work­shop: How I failed to be re­cruited at MIRI.

Arthur Milchior7 Jan 2020 1:03 UTC
93 points
15 comments23 min readLW link

Defi­ni­tions of Causal Ab­strac­tion: Re­view­ing Beck­ers & Halpern

johnswentworth7 Jan 2020 0:03 UTC
30 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing safe exploration

evhub6 Jan 2020 21:07 UTC
37 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread—Jan­uary 2020

habryka6 Jan 2020 19:42 UTC
10 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

Look­ing at Mixers

jefftk6 Jan 2020 16:10 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What were the biggest dis­cov­er­ies /​ in­no­va­tions in AI and ML?

Eli Tyre6 Jan 2020 7:42 UTC
9 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

The Uni­verse Doesn’t Have to Play Nice

Chris_Leong6 Jan 2020 2:08 UTC
21 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

What we Know vs. How we Know it?

Elizabeth6 Jan 2020 0:30 UTC
45 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Clump­ing Sols­tice Sin­ga­longs in Groups of 2-4

Raemon5 Jan 2020 20:50 UTC
13 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

UML V: Con­vex Learn­ing Problems

Rafael Harth5 Jan 2020 19:47 UTC
14 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Homeosta­sis and “Root Causes” in Aging

johnswentworth5 Jan 2020 18:43 UTC
86 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

What is Life in an Im­moral Maze?

Zvi5 Jan 2020 13:40 UTC
71 points
56 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Q & A with Stu­art Rus­sell in AISafety.com Read­ing Group

Søren Elverlin5 Jan 2020 11:23 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Dis­solv­ing Con­fu­sion around Func­tional De­ci­sion Theory

scasper5 Jan 2020 6:38 UTC
32 points
24 comments9 min readLW link

Credit Cards for Giving

jefftk4 Jan 2020 23:00 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Less Wrong Poetry Corner: Walter Raleigh’s “The Lie”

Zack_M_Davis4 Jan 2020 22:22 UTC
22 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Dec 2019 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern4 Jan 2020 20:48 UTC
17 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Un­der­ap­pre­ci­ated points about util­ity func­tions (of both sorts)

Sniffnoy4 Jan 2020 7:27 UTC
47 points
61 comments15 min readLW link

Run­ning and Optimizing

jefftk4 Jan 2020 2:40 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Meta-dis­cus­sion from “Cir­cling as Cousin to Ra­tion­al­ity”

Raemon3 Jan 2020 21:38 UTC
11 points
165 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Ill­ness anx­iety di­s­or­der: how to be­come more ra­tio­nal?

completely_irrational3 Jan 2020 21:05 UTC
10 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is car­dio enough for longevity benefits of ex­er­cise?

Rudi C3 Jan 2020 19:57 UTC
4 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the best self-help book sum­maries you’ve read?

willbradshaw3 Jan 2020 17:45 UTC
5 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

CFAR Par­ti­ci­pant Hand­book now available to all

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)3 Jan 2020 15:43 UTC
252 points
40 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews

What cog­ni­tive bi­ases feel like from the inside

chaosmage3 Jan 2020 14:24 UTC
254 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­cite­ment vs childishness

Rafael Harth3 Jan 2020 13:47 UTC
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

SSCNYC: More Dakka with Zvi Mowshowitz

Shrikantr3 Jan 2020 7:17 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tive cod­ing & depression

Steven Byrnes3 Jan 2020 2:38 UTC
27 points
9 comments7 min readLW link

Be­com­ing Unusu­ally Truth-Oriented

abramdemski3 Jan 2020 1:27 UTC
89 points
20 comments10 min readLW link

Do­minic Cum­mings: “we’re hiring data sci­en­tists, pro­ject man­agers, policy ex­perts, as­sorted weirdos”

ESRogs3 Jan 2020 0:33 UTC
80 points
57 comments4 min readLW link
(dominiccummings.com)

Nor­mal­iza­tion of Deviance

Gordon Seidoh Worley2 Jan 2020 22:58 UTC
65 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Has any­one used TAPs to com­bat BFRBs?

Fauna M.2 Jan 2020 21:28 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #80]: Why AI risk might be solved with­out ad­di­tional in­ter­ven­tion from longtermists

Rohin Shah2 Jan 2020 18:20 UTC
36 points
95 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

A re­duc­tio ad ab­sur­dum for naive Func­tional/​Com­pu­ta­tional The­ory-of-Mind (FCToM).

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)2 Jan 2020 17:16 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link