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Toy Problem: Detective Story Alignment
johnswentworth
Oct 13, 2020, 9:02 PM
34
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Technology and its side effects
jasoncrawford
Oct 13, 2020, 8:07 PM
17
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Knowledge, manipulation, and free will
Stuart_Armstrong
Oct 13, 2020, 5:47 PM
33
points
15
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What should experienced rationalists know?
sapphire
Oct 13, 2020, 5:32 PM
89
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A prior for technological discontinuities
NunoSempere
Oct 13, 2020, 4:51 PM
71
points
17
comments
6
min read
LW
link
A study on depression
vlad.proex
Oct 13, 2020, 3:43 PM
21
points
1
comment
9
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does anyone worry about A.I. forums like this where they reinforce each other’s biases/ are led by big tech?
misabella16
Oct 13, 2020, 3:14 PM
4
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Achilles Heel Hypothesis for AI
scasper
Oct 13, 2020, 2:35 PM
20
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What features would you like a prediction platform to have?
Mati_Roy
Oct 13, 2020, 12:48 AM
11
points
6
comments
LW
link
[Question]
Have the lockdowns been worth it?
Ben Pace
and
zhukeepa
Oct 12, 2020, 11:35 PM
70
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Police violence: The veil of darkness
dynomight
Oct 12, 2020, 9:32 PM
4
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(dyno-might.github.io)
The Sun Room
Jarred Filmer
Oct 12, 2020, 9:08 PM
19
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A full explanation to Newcomb’s paradox.
solomon alon
Oct 12, 2020, 4:48 PM
−6
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How much to worry about the US election unrest?
NoSignalNoNoise
Oct 12, 2020, 3:39 AM
23
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Msg Len
Zack_M_Davis
Oct 12, 2020, 3:35 AM
66
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Everything I Know About Elite America I Learned From ‘Fresh Prince’ and ‘West Wing’
Wei Dai
Oct 11, 2020, 6:07 PM
44
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.nytimes.com)
All Lesswrong Posts by Yudkowsky in one .epub
sone3d
Oct 11, 2020, 1:17 PM
23
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Charisma is a Force Multiplier
Davis_Kingsley
Oct 11, 2020, 10:21 AM
39
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Reviews of the book ‘The Alignment Problem’
Mati_Roy
Oct 11, 2020, 7:41 AM
8
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Reviews of TV show NeXt (about AI safety)
Mati_Roy
Oct 11, 2020, 4:31 AM
26
points
4
comments
LW
link
Why Boston?
jefftk
Oct 11, 2020, 2:40 AM
60
points
86
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Rule of Equal and Opposite Advice & Slack
tinyanon
Oct 10, 2020, 9:22 PM
42
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Examples of positive-sum(ish) games?
Nicholas / Heather Kross
Oct 10, 2020, 9:09 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Philosophy of Therapy
DaystarEld
Oct 10, 2020, 8:12 PM
121
points
27
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(daystareld.com)
On Slack—Having room to be excited
Neel Nanda
Oct 10, 2020, 7:02 PM
19
points
8
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(www.neelnanda.io)
How to reach 80% of your goals. Exactly 80%.
Bart Bussmann
Oct 10, 2020, 5:33 PM
36
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Logical Foundations of Government Policy
FCCC
Oct 10, 2020, 5:05 PM
2
points
0
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Alpha α and Beta β
lsusr
Oct 10, 2020, 6:27 AM
9
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Dancing With Covid
jefftk
Oct 10, 2020, 2:10 AM
14
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Is libertarianism unsustainable? Why?
Vishrut Arya
Oct 10, 2020, 2:09 AM
2
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
Oct 9, 2020, 3:34 PM
207
points
116
comments
11
min read
LW
link
1
review
[Question]
If GPT-6 is human-level AGI but costs $200 per page of output, what would happen?
Daniel Kokotajlo
Oct 9, 2020, 12:00 PM
29
points
30
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Darwin Game
lsusr
Oct 9, 2020, 10:19 AM
92
points
131
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Shouldn’t there be a Chinese translation of Human Compatible?
mako yass
Oct 9, 2020, 8:47 AM
18
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
More Questions about Trees
digital_carver
Oct 9, 2020, 8:35 AM
3
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(bit-player.org)
How to Price a Futures Contract
lsusr
Oct 9, 2020, 7:37 AM
22
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Some elements of industrial literacy
jasoncrawford
Oct 8, 2020, 7:51 PM
9
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
[Question]
What was your behavioral response to covid-19 ?
George3d6
Oct 8, 2020, 7:27 PM
7
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Sortition Model of Moral Uncertainty
B Jacobs
Oct 8, 2020, 5:44 PM
9
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Help wanted: feedback on research proposals for FHI application
otto.barten
Oct 8, 2020, 2:42 PM
2
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why isn’t JS a popular language for deep learning?
Will Clark
Oct 8, 2020, 2:36 PM
12
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Covid 10/8: October Surprise
Zvi
Oct 8, 2020, 1:20 PM
66
points
17
comments
29
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Online AI Safety Discussion Day
Linda Linsefors
Oct 8, 2020, 12:11 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Upside decay—why some people never get lucky
brianlui
Oct 8, 2020, 8:45 AM
41
points
13
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Babble challenge: 50 ways to escape a locked room
Bird Concept
Oct 8, 2020, 5:13 AM
30
points
83
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Political Lottery in Switzerland
Martin Sustrik
Oct 8, 2020, 5:03 AM
29
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Sunday October 11th, 12:00PM (PT) — talks by Alex Zhu, Martin Sustrik and Steve Byrnes
habryka
Oct 7, 2020, 11:22 PM
23
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on ADHD
romeostevensit
Oct 7, 2020, 8:46 PM
90
points
16
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Lessons on Value of Information From Civ
johnswentworth
Oct 7, 2020, 6:18 PM
54
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How can an AI demonstrate purely through chat that it is an AI, and not a human?
hugh.mann
Oct 7, 2020, 5:53 PM
3
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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