[Question] Ra­tion­al­ist Town Hall: Pan­demic Edition

Ben Pace21 Oct 2020 23:54 UTC
50 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Mal­i­cious link!

bmeacham21 Oct 2020 23:24 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the differ­ence be­tween GAI and a gov­ern­ment?

DirectedEvolution21 Oct 2020 23:04 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] When was the term “AI al­ign­ment” coined?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)21 Oct 2020 18:27 UTC
11 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

The Uncer­tainty of Death and Taxes

Zvi21 Oct 2020 18:10 UTC
25 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[AN #122]: Ar­gu­ing for AGI-driven ex­is­ten­tial risk from first principles

Rohin Shah21 Oct 2020 17:10 UTC
28 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Re­ward large con­tri­bu­tions?

SarahSrinivasan21 Oct 2020 16:26 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Stupid Ques­tions Oc­to­ber 2020

ChristianKl21 Oct 2020 11:41 UTC
48 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Sun­day Oc­to­ber 25, 12:00PM (PT) — Scott Garrabrant on “Carte­sian Frames”

Ben Pace21 Oct 2020 3:27 UTC
48 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Has any­one re­searched speci­fi­ca­tion gam­ing with biolog­i­cal an­i­mals?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)21 Oct 2020 0:20 UTC
9 points
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[Question] Could we use recom­mender sys­tems to figure out hu­man val­ues?

Olga Babeeva20 Oct 2020 21:35 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing by Sut­ton and Barto

billmei20 Oct 2020 19:40 UTC
52 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Pro­ject Objects

Hans van der Burg20 Oct 2020 17:11 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Prob­lems In­volv­ing Ab­strac­tion?

johnswentworth20 Oct 2020 16:49 UTC
30 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Box in­ver­sion hypothesis

Jan Kulveit20 Oct 2020 16:20 UTC
59 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Launch­ing Fore­cast, a com­mu­nity for crowd­sourced pre­dic­tions from Facebook

Rebecca Kossnick20 Oct 2020 6:20 UTC
111 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Mes­sage Length

Zack_M_Davis20 Oct 2020 5:52 UTC
134 points
25 comments12 min readLW link

Bet­ting Thread

Amandango20 Oct 2020 2:17 UTC
33 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] As a Washed Up Former Data Scien­tist and Ma­chine Learn­ing Re­searcher What Direc­tion Should I Go In Now?

Darklight19 Oct 2020 20:13 UTC
13 points
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It’s hard to use util­ity max­i­miza­tion to jus­tify cre­at­ing new sen­tient beings

dynomight19 Oct 2020 19:45 UTC
10 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

Group de­bug­ging guidelines & thoughts

Kaj_Sotala19 Oct 2020 11:02 UTC
65 points
3 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What colour were the shad­ows?

Mary Chernyshenko19 Oct 2020 9:11 UTC
3 points
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Cam­bridge, MA Ra­tion­al­ist Read­ing Group

NoSignalNoNoise19 Oct 2020 4:01 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What posts do you want writ­ten?

Mark Xu19 Oct 2020 3:00 UTC
47 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Re­tain flex­i­bil­ity with habits?

vroomerify18 Oct 2020 22:58 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tIt: Pres­i­den­tial Mar­ket is In­creas­ingly Wrong

Zvi18 Oct 2020 22:40 UTC
37 points
28 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

You have re­cov­ered from SARS-CoV-2. Now what?

Annapurna18 Oct 2020 17:52 UTC
15 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

A tale from Com­mu­nist China

Wei Dai18 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC
281 points
65 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Bet On Biden

sapphire17 Oct 2020 22:03 UTC
42 points
89 comments2 min readLW link

[Link] “Where are all the suc­cess­ful ra­tio­nal­ists?”

ioannes17 Oct 2020 19:58 UTC
7 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Sun­day Oc­to­ber 18, 12:00PM (PT) — Gar­den Party

17 Oct 2020 19:36 UTC
33 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Things are al­lowed to be good and bad at the same time

Kaj_Sotala17 Oct 2020 8:00 UTC
52 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

[Question] GPT-3 + GAN

stick10917 Oct 2020 7:58 UTC
4 points
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[Question] What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

jacobjacob17 Oct 2020 6:32 UTC
154 points
140 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Moloch games

Chris van Merwijk16 Oct 2020 15:19 UTC
80 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is fre­quen­tism com­pat­i­ble with the prin­ci­ple of in­differ­ence in any mean­ingful sense?

Milton16 Oct 2020 8:26 UTC
3 points
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Jour­nal ar­ti­cle: “The Myth­i­cal Ta­boo on Race and In­tel­li­gence”

CronoDAS16 Oct 2020 2:58 UTC
−17 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(journals.sagepub.com)

Elec­tion Preparation

jefftk15 Oct 2020 20:30 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Covid 10/​15: Play­time is Over

Zvi15 Oct 2020 14:30 UTC
74 points
21 comments17 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Eval­u­at­ing ex­per­tise: a clear box model

JustinShovelain15 Oct 2020 14:18 UTC
36 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Bab­ble & Prune Thoughts

abramdemski15 Oct 2020 13:46 UTC
80 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of hid­ing Ein­stein’s pen for fifty years

jacobjacob15 Oct 2020 7:23 UTC
31 points
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[Question] Is Stu­pidity Ex­pand­ing? Some Hy­pothe­ses.

David Gross15 Oct 2020 3:28 UTC
71 points
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The Col­lid­ing Ex­po­nen­tials of AI

Vermillion14 Oct 2020 23:31 UTC
28 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Le­gal­ize Black­mail: An Example

Tim Liptrot14 Oct 2020 21:18 UTC
0 points
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[Question] Liber­tar­i­anism, Ne­oliber­al­ism and Med­i­care for All?

Logan Zoellner14 Oct 2020 21:06 UTC
5 points
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[Question] Has Eliezer ever re­tracted his state­ments about weight loss?

CheerfulWarrior14 Oct 2020 19:04 UTC
−14 points
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[AN #121]: Fore­cast­ing trans­for­ma­tive AI timelines us­ing biolog­i­cal anchors

Rohin Shah14 Oct 2020 17:20 UTC
28 points
5 comments14 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What is your elec­tronic draw­ing set up?

Elizabeth14 Oct 2020 5:42 UTC
18 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Solomonoff Prior is Malign

Mark Xu14 Oct 2020 1:33 UTC
171 points
52 comments16 min readLW link3 reviews