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habryka28 Jan 2020 23:36 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Potential Ways to Fight Mazes

Zvi28 Jan 2020 22:50 UTC

53 points

9 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Draining the swamp

jasoncrawford28 Jan 2020 21:37 UTC

99 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Hello, is it you I’m looking for?

Knuckels McGinty28 Jan 2020 20:56 UTC

9 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Using vector fields to visualise preferences and make them consistent

MichaelA and JustinShovelain

28 Jan 2020 19:44 UTC

42 points

32 comments11 min readLW link

If Van der Waals was a neural network

George3d628 Jan 2020 18:38 UTC

18 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

(blog.cerebralab.com)

Assortative Mating And Autism

Scott Alexander28 Jan 2020 18:20 UTC

50 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

[Question] Algorithms vs Compute

johnswentworth28 Jan 2020 17:34 UTC

26 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Appendix: how a subagent could get powerful

Stuart_Armstrong28 Jan 2020 15:28 UTC

53 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Rationalist prepper thread

avturchin28 Jan 2020 13:42 UTC

29 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Cambridge LW/SSC Meetup: Prediction Training

NoSignalNoNoise28 Jan 2020 5:25 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

An Empistemically Rational Superbowl

NoSignalNoNoise28 Jan 2020 4:05 UTC

8 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

AI Alignment 2018-19 Review

Rohin Shah28 Jan 2020 2:19 UTC

126 points

6 comments35 min readLW link

Review: How to Read a Book (Mortimer Adler, Charles Van Doren)

Elizabeth27 Jan 2020 21:10 UTC

48 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] What research has been done on the altruistic impact of the usual good actions?

Alexei27 Jan 2020 19:33 UTC

11 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Healing vs. exercise analogies for emotional work

Kaj_Sotala27 Jan 2020 19:10 UTC

48 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

The Bentham Prize at Metaculus

AABoyles27 Jan 2020 14:27 UTC

28 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

Porting My Rhythm Setup

jefftk26 Jan 2020 21:20 UTC

9 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

UML VIII: Linear Predictors (2)

Rafael Harth26 Jan 2020 20:09 UTC

9 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What happens if we reverse Newcomb’s Paradox and replace it with two negative sums? Doesn’t it kinda maybe affirm Roko’s Basilisk?

Habby26 Jan 2020 18:08 UTC

1 point

3 comments2 min readLW link

On hiding the source of knowledge

jessicata26 Jan 2020 2:48 UTC

115 points

40 comments3 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

Hedonic asymmetries

paulfchristiano26 Jan 2020 2:10 UTC

98 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Moral public goods

paulfchristiano26 Jan 2020 0:10 UTC

147 points

74 comments4 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Coordination as a Scarce Resource

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:32 UTC

251 points

22 comments4 min readLW link 2 reviews

[Question] Are the bad epistemic conditions global?

jmh25 Jan 2020 23:31 UTC

18 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Material Goods as an Abundant Resource

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:23 UTC

81 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

Constraints & Slackness as a Worldview Generator

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:18 UTC

55 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Technology Changes Constraints

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:13 UTC

116 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

SSC Zürich February Meetup

Vitor25 Jan 2020 17:21 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Ten Causes of Mazedom

Zvi25 Jan 2020 13:40 UTC

59 points

6 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On the ontological development of consciousness

jessicata25 Jan 2020 5:56 UTC

51 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

[Question] Have epistemic conditions always been this bad?

Wei Dai25 Jan 2020 4:42 UTC

210 points

106 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Cambridge Prediction Game

NoSignalNoNoise25 Jan 2020 3:57 UTC

13 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

SSC Halifax Meetup—January 25

interstice25 Jan 2020 1:15 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Litany Against Anger

namespace25 Jan 2020 0:56 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

AI alignment concepts: philosophical breakers, stoppers, and distorters

JustinShovelain24 Jan 2020 19:23 UTC

20 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

The two-layer model of human values, and problems with synthesizing preferences

Kaj_Sotala24 Jan 2020 15:17 UTC

70 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] How much do we know about how brains learn?

Kenny24 Jan 2020 14:46 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Epistea Summer Experiment (ESE)

Nora_Ammann, Jan_Kulveit, Anna Gajdova and kotrfa

24 Jan 2020 10:49 UTC

49 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

2018 Review: Voting Results!

Ben Pace24 Jan 2020 2:00 UTC

135 points

59 comments6 min readLW link

Improving Group Decision Making

June Ku24 Jan 2020 1:29 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Emergency Prescription Medication

jefftk24 Jan 2020 1:20 UTC

12 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

LW/SSC Warsaw February Meetup

kaftanowicz23 Jan 2020 19:49 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Theory of Causal Models with Dynamic Structure?

johnswentworth23 Jan 2020 19:47 UTC

24 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Tokenising human verification in order to derive information from the resulting markets

Will Clark23 Jan 2020 19:20 UTC

3 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

New paper: The Incentives that Shape Behaviour

RyanCarey23 Jan 2020 19:07 UTC

23 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Formulating Reductive Agency in Causal Models

johnswentworth23 Jan 2020 17:03 UTC

33 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Cassette Tape Thoughts

Elizabeth22 Jan 2020 22:50 UTC

48 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Concerns Surrounding CEV: A case for human friendliness first

ai-crotes22 Jan 2020 21:03 UTC

1 point

19 comments1 min readLW link

(A → B) → A in Causal DAGs

johnswentworth22 Jan 2020 18:22 UTC

48 points

11 comments2 min readLW link