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The Alignment-Competence Trade-Off, Part 1: Coalition Size and Signaling Costs
Gentzel
Jan 15, 2020, 11:10 PM
30
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)
In Defense of the Arms Races… that End Arms Races
Gentzel
Jan 15, 2020, 9:30 PM
38
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)
Fire Alarm for AGI
user134723
Jan 15, 2020, 8:41 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(blog.acolyer.org)
Go F*** Someone
Jacob Falkovich
Jan 15, 2020, 6:39 PM
19
points
23
comments
8
min read
LW
link
[AN #82]: How OpenAI Five distributed their training computation
Rohin Shah
Jan 15, 2020, 6:20 PM
19
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
ACDT: a hack-y acausal decision theory
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 15, 2020, 5:22 PM
50
points
16
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Nashville January 2020 SSC Meetup
friedelcraftiness
Jan 15, 2020, 5:02 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
In defense of deviousness
Juan Andrés Hurtado Baeza
Jan 15, 2020, 11:56 AM
12
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
[Question]
What plausible beliefs do you think could likely get someone diagnosed with a mental illness by a psychiatrist?
Mati_Roy
Jan 15, 2020, 11:13 AM
4
points
6
comments
LW
link
Avoiding Rationalization
dspeyer
Jan 15, 2020, 10:55 AM
15
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
SSC Dublin Meetup
Dan Valentine
Jan 15, 2020, 8:26 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are beliefs you wouldn’t want (or would feel apprehensive about being) public if you had (or have) them?
Mati_Roy
Jan 15, 2020, 5:30 AM
6
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reno SSC: Visitors from Out of Town
RenoSSC
Jan 15, 2020, 4:35 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences (Why Big Data is not enough to capture biological systems?)
HansNauj
Jan 15, 2020, 1:59 AM
6
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
SSC HIKE—BLACK MOUNTAIN
crewman 51
Jan 15, 2020, 12:18 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Clarifying The Malignity of the Universal Prior: The Lexical Update
interstice
Jan 15, 2020, 12:00 AM
20
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Tips on how to promote effective altruism effectively? Less talk, more action.
culturechange
Jan 14, 2020, 11:17 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
A rant against robots
Lê Nguyên Hoang
Jan 14, 2020, 10:03 PM
65
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Is backwards causation necessarily absurd?
Chris_Leong
Jan 14, 2020, 7:25 PM
22
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Predictors exist: CDT going bonkers… forever
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 14, 2020, 4:19 PM
46
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Austin LW/SSC Far-comers Meetup: Feb. 8, 1:30pm
jchan
Jan 14, 2020, 2:46 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Red Flags for Rationalization
dspeyer
Jan 14, 2020, 7:34 AM
25
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Advanced Anki (Memorization Software)
Arthur Milchior
Jan 14, 2020, 2:25 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Anki (Memorization Software) for Beginners
Arthur Milchior
Jan 14, 2020, 1:55 AM
7
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Repossessing Degrees
jefftk
Jan 13, 2020, 9:40 PM
10
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What is the relationship between Preference Learning and Value Learning?
Riccardo Volpato
Jan 13, 2020, 9:08 PM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Moral uncertainty: What kind of ‘should’ is involved?
MichaelA
Jan 13, 2020, 12:13 PM
14
points
11
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Why a New Rationalization Sequence?
dspeyer
Jan 13, 2020, 6:46 AM
30
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Drawing Toward Power
hiblick
Jan 13, 2020, 4:24 AM
14
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How do you do hyperparameter searches in ML?
lsusr
Jan 13, 2020, 3:45 AM
9
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How has the cost of clothing insulation changed since 1970 in the USA?
DanielFilan
Jan 12, 2020, 11:31 PM
14
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
UML VI: Stochastic Gradient Descent
Rafael Harth
Jan 12, 2020, 9:59 PM
13
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Update on Ought’s experiments on factored evaluation of arguments
Owain_Evans
Jan 12, 2020, 9:20 PM
29
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(ought.org)
[Question]
How would we check if “Mathematicians are generally more Law Abiding?”
Raemon
Jan 12, 2020, 8:23 PM
26
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What long term good futures are possible. (Other than FAI)?
Donald Hobson
Jan 12, 2020, 6:04 PM
8
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Malign generalization without internal search
Matthew Barnett
Jan 12, 2020, 6:03 PM
43
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
How to Identify an Immoral Maze
Zvi
Jan 12, 2020, 12:10 PM
64
points
18
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Key Decision Analysis—a fundamental rationality technique
Eli Tyre
Jan 12, 2020, 5:59 AM
44
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Using Vickrey auctions as a price discovery mechanism
epiphi
Jan 12, 2020, 1:00 AM
16
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(kevinlynagh.com)
[Question]
Is it worthwhile to save the cord blood and tissue?
Alexei
Jan 11, 2020, 9:52 PM
22
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Please Critique Things for the Review!
Raemon
Jan 11, 2020, 8:59 PM
48
points
30
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Moral uncertainty vs related concepts
MichaelA
Jan 11, 2020, 10:03 AM
26
points
13
comments
16
min read
LW
link
10 posts I like in the 2018 Review
Ben Pace
Jan 11, 2020, 2:23 AM
31
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is there a moral obligation to respect disagreed analysis?
km42
Jan 11, 2020, 1:22 AM
6
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A method for fair bargaining over odds in 2 player bets!
Agrippa Kellum
Jan 11, 2020, 1:18 AM
13
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Of arguments and wagers
paulfchristiano
Jan 10, 2020, 10:20 PM
52
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(ai-alignment.com)
Book review: Rethinking Consciousness
Steven Byrnes
Jan 10, 2020, 8:41 PM
90
points
56
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Example: Markov Chain
johnswentworth
10 Jan 2020 20:19 UTC
15
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Offer of co-authorship
Vanessa Kosoy
10 Jan 2020 17:44 UTC
25
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
What is Success in an Immoral Maze?
Zvi
10 Jan 2020 13:20 UTC
48
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
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