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[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?

SarahNibs21 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

3 comments1 min readLW link

[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

7 comments3 min readLW link

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

12 comments1 min readLW link

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 link 1 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

Ben Pace and Raemon

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

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some beautiful, rationalist artworks?

jacobjacob17 Oct 2020 6:32 UTC

155 points

140 comments1 min readLW link 1 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

2 comments1 min readLW link

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

45 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses.

David Gross15 Oct 2020 3:28 UTC

71 points

42 comments5 min readLW link

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

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Libertarianism, Neoliberalism and Medicare for All?

Logan Zoellner14 Oct 2020 21:06 UTC

5 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Has Eliezer ever retracted his statements about weight loss?

CheerfulWarrior14 Oct 2020 19:04 UTC

−14 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

[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

173 points

52 comments16 min readLW link 3 reviews