Stu­pidity and Dishon­esty Ex­plain Each Other Away

Zack_M_DavisDec 28, 2019, 7:21 PM
38 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing Epistemic Rationality

edoaradDec 28, 2019, 6:46 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

An Emer­gency Fund for Effec­tive Altruists

biceDec 28, 2019, 6:02 PM
9 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How was your decade?

namespaceDec 28, 2019, 5:14 PM
26 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Moloch Hasn’t Won

ZviDec 28, 2019, 4:30 PM
187 points
40 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Has there been a “memetic col­lapse”?

Eli TyreDec 28, 2019, 5:36 AM
32 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Out in the Great Northwest

jefftkDec 28, 2019, 3:40 AM
6 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Cam­bridge LW/​SC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoiseDec 28, 2019, 3:07 AM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tion Re­treat: Im­moral Mazes Se­quence Introduction

ZviDec 28, 2019, 12:50 AM
89 points
16 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Cri­tiquing “What failure looks like”

Grue_SlinkyDec 27, 2019, 11:59 PM
35 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

More on po­lio and ran­dom­ized clini­cal trials

jasoncrawfordDec 27, 2019, 9:07 PM
18 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Vac­cine… Help? De­pro­gram­ming? Some­thing?

Golden DeliciousDec 27, 2019, 8:27 PM
4 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Ex­pected util­ity and re­peated choices

Marco DiscendentiDec 27, 2019, 8:26 PM
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

We need to re­visit AI rewrit­ing its source code

ryan_bDec 27, 2019, 6:27 PM
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Firm­ing Up Not-Ly­ing Around Its Edge-Cases Is Less Broadly Use­ful Than One Might Ini­tially Think

Zack_M_DavisDec 27, 2019, 5:09 AM
128 points
43 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] What spiritual ex­pe­riences have you had?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyDec 27, 2019, 3:41 AM
22 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Nam­ing Rooms

jefftkDec 27, 2019, 2:40 AM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Link: Does the fol­low­ing seem like a rea­son­able brief sum­mary of the key dis­agree­ments re­gard­ing AI risk?

DavidmanheimDec 26, 2019, 8:14 PM
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

New pa­per: (When) is Truth-tel­ling Fa­vored in AI de­bate?

VojtaKovarikDec 26, 2019, 7:59 PM
32 points
7 comments5 min readLW link
(medium.com)

[Question] Find­ing a quote: “proof by con­tra­dic­tion is the clos­est math comes to irony”

HazardDec 26, 2019, 5:40 PM
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Talk­ing Through A Fear of Death

jesseduffieldDec 26, 2019, 5:23 AM
6 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Gortha Ick

jefftkDec 26, 2019, 3:20 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[AN #78] For­mal­iz­ing power and in­stru­men­tal con­ver­gence, and the end-of-year AI safety char­ity comparison

Rohin ShahDec 26, 2019, 1:10 AM
26 points
10 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Get a Life

Stanislav KozlovskiDec 26, 2019, 12:51 AM
0 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Values As­simila­tion Premortem

wolverdudeDec 26, 2019, 12:30 AM
16 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing Ma­chine Learn­ing (III)

Rafael HarthDec 25, 2019, 6:55 PM
16 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

12020: a fine fu­ture for these holidays

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 25, 2019, 3:01 PM
41 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Ab­solutely Win­ning Bridge Hands

jefftkDec 25, 2019, 2:50 AM
9 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Another AI Win­ter?

PeterMcCluskeyDec 25, 2019, 12:58 AM
47 points
14 comments4 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Some Com­ments on “Good­hart Tax­on­omy”

Grue_SlinkyDec 24, 2019, 11:59 PM
9 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

ESC Pro­cess Notes: Claim Eval­u­a­tion vs. Syntheses

ElizabethDec 24, 2019, 5:00 PM
19 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Should I floss?

willbradshawDec 24, 2019, 4:06 PM
24 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Funk-tunul’s Le­gacy; Or, The Le­gend of the Ex­tor­tion War

Zack_M_DavisDec 24, 2019, 9:29 AM
13 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

What are you read­ing?

eigenDec 24, 2019, 12:11 AM
7 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Might hu­mans not be the most in­tel­li­gent an­i­mals?

Matthew BarnettDec 23, 2019, 9:50 PM
56 points
41 comments3 min readLW link

Offset Norms

jefftkDec 23, 2019, 9:30 PM
15 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Hu­mans Are Embed­ded Agents Too

johnswentworthDec 23, 2019, 7:21 PM
82 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Autoexperiments

IdeopunkDec 23, 2019, 4:53 PM
10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Yet an­other Simp­son’s Para­dox Post

NaiveTortoiseDec 23, 2019, 2:20 PM
7 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(an1lam.github.io)

Con­ver­sa­tion about whether LW Moder­a­tors should ex­press in­di­vi­d­ual opinions about mod policy − 2019/​12/​22

RubyDec 23, 2019, 3:46 AM
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Freezer Contents

jefftkDec 23, 2019, 2:40 AM
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Can fear of the dark bias us more gen­er­ally?

TurnTroutDec 22, 2019, 10:09 PM
21 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] De­cis­sion The­ory and Quan­tum Self-Measurement

Alan GivréDec 22, 2019, 7:16 PM
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing Ma­chine Learn­ing (II)

Rafael Harth22 Dec 2019 18:28 UTC
24 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

The Towel Cen­sus: A Method­ol­ogy for Iden­ti­fy­ing Or­phaned Ob­jects in Your Home

mingyuan22 Dec 2019 6:04 UTC
29 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What could a World Unifi­ca­tion In­dex track to mea­sure how unified the world is, was, and is be­com­ing?

Mati_Roy22 Dec 2019 4:56 UTC
4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If Antarc­tic be­came hos­pitable to hu­mans, and con­se­quently re­ceived a mass mi­gra­tion, what are likely ways the Antarc­tic le­gal sys­tem could evolve?

Mati_Roy22 Dec 2019 4:31 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Pixel 3a Review

jefftk22 Dec 2019 3:00 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Sec­tion 7: Foun­da­tions of Ra­tional Agency

JesseClifton22 Dec 2019 2:05 UTC
14 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Tem­plates and videos for do­ing an­nual and daily re­views

peterslattery22 Dec 2019 0:48 UTC
16 points
6 comments1 min readLW link