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
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The Uni­verse Doesn’t Have to Play Nice

Chris_Leong6 Jan 2020 2:08 UTC
21 points
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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
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[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
251 points
40 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews

What cog­ni­tive bi­ases feel like from the inside

chaosmage3 Jan 2020 14:24 UTC
253 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
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[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
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Does GPT-2 Un­der­stand Any­thing?

Douglas Summers-Stay2 Jan 2020 17:09 UTC
37 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

PlanAlyzer: as­sess­ing threats to the val­idity of on­line experiments

Three-Monkey Mind2 Jan 2020 7:42 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(blog.acolyer.org)

Mak­ing de­ci­sions when both morally and em­piri­cally uncertain

MichaelA2 Jan 2020 7:20 UTC
13 points
14 comments20 min readLW link

The­o­ries That Can Ex­plain Everything

Chris_Leong2 Jan 2020 2:12 UTC
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Char­ac­ter­is­ing utopia

Richard_Ngo2 Jan 2020 0:00 UTC
36 points
5 comments22 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

[Question] Since figur­ing out hu­man val­ues is hard, what about, say, mon­key val­ues?

Shmi1 Jan 2020 21:56 UTC
37 points
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SSC NYC Meetup: Stay­ing Classy & Yoda Timers

Shrikantr1 Jan 2020 20:44 UTC
1 point
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[Question] What will quan­tum com­put­ers be used for?

maximkazhenkov1 Jan 2020 19:33 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Toy Organ

jefftk1 Jan 2020 19:30 UTC
5 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Don’t Dou­ble-Crux With Suicide Rock

Zack_M_Davis1 Jan 2020 19:02 UTC
91 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #79]: Re­cur­sive re­ward mod­el­ing as an al­ign­ment tech­nique in­te­grated with deep RL

Rohin Shah1 Jan 2020 18:00 UTC
13 points
0 comments12 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Cir­cling as Cousin to Rationality

Vaniver1 Jan 2020 1:16 UTC
72 points
98 comments6 min readLW link1 review

ESC Pro­cess Notes: De­tail-Fo­cused Books

Elizabeth31 Dec 2019 22:00 UTC
26 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Con­ver­sa­tional Cul­tures: Com­bat vs Nur­ture (V2)

Ruby31 Dec 2019 20:23 UTC
143 points
92 comments9 min readLW link5 reviews

100 Ways To Live Better

Jacob Falkovich31 Dec 2019 20:23 UTC
68 points
8 comments13 min readLW link

BIDA Mu­si­cian Booking

jefftk31 Dec 2019 20:10 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What is a Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup?

JohnBuridan31 Dec 2019 16:15 UTC
4 points
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Lis­bon SSC Meetup #4

tamkin&popkin31 Dec 2019 14:33 UTC
1 point
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