[Question] Ra­tion­al­ist Town Hall: Pan­demic Edition

Ben PaceOct 21, 2020, 11:54 PM
50 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Mal­i­cious link!

bmeachamOct 21, 2020, 11:24 PM
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

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

DirectedEvolutionOct 21, 2020, 11:04 PM
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

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

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Oct 21, 2020, 6:27 PM
11 points
8 commentsLW link

The Uncer­tainty of Death and Taxes

ZviOct 21, 2020, 6:10 PM
25 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Rohin ShahOct 21, 2020, 5:10 PM
28 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Re­ward large con­tri­bu­tions?

SarahNibsOct 21, 2020, 4:26 PM
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Stupid Ques­tions Oc­to­ber 2020

ChristianKlOct 21, 2020, 11:41 AM
48 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

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

Ben PaceOct 21, 2020, 3:27 AM
48 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

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

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Oct 21, 2020, 12:20 AM
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Could we use recom­mender sys­tems to figure out hu­man val­ues?

Olga BabeevaOct 20, 2020, 9:35 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing by Sut­ton and Barto

billmeiOct 20, 2020, 7:40 PM
52 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Pro­ject Objects

Hans van der BurgOct 20, 2020, 5:11 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Prob­lems In­volv­ing Ab­strac­tion?

johnswentworthOct 20, 2020, 4:49 PM
30 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Box in­ver­sion hypothesis

Jan KulveitOct 20, 2020, 4:20 PM
59 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Launch­ing Fore­cast, a com­mu­nity for crowd­sourced pre­dic­tions from Facebook

Rebecca KossnickOct 20, 2020, 6:20 AM
111 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Mes­sage Length

Zack_M_DavisOct 20, 2020, 5:52 AM
134 points
25 comments12 min readLW link

Bet­ting Thread

AmandangoOct 20, 2020, 2:17 AM
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?

DarklightOct 19, 2020, 8:13 PM
13 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

It’s hard to use util­ity max­i­miza­tion to jus­tify cre­at­ing new sen­tient beings

dynomightOct 19, 2020, 7:45 PM
10 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

Group de­bug­ging guidelines & thoughts

Kaj_SotalaOct 19, 2020, 11:02 AM
65 points
3 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What colour were the shad­ows?

Mary ChernyshenkoOct 19, 2020, 9:11 AM
3 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Cam­bridge, MA Ra­tion­al­ist Read­ing Group

NoSignalNoNoiseOct 19, 2020, 4:01 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What posts do you want writ­ten?

Mark XuOct 19, 2020, 3:00 AM
47 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Re­tain flex­i­bil­ity with habits?

vroomerifyOct 18, 2020, 10:58 PM
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tIt: Pres­i­den­tial Mar­ket is In­creas­ingly Wrong

ZviOct 18, 2020, 10:40 PM
37 points
28 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

AnnapurnaOct 18, 2020, 5:52 PM
15 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

A tale from Com­mu­nist China

Wei DaiOct 18, 2020, 5:37 PM
281 points
65 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Bet On Biden

sapphireOct 17, 2020, 10:03 PM
42 points
89 comments2 min readLW link

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

ioannesOct 17, 2020, 7:58 PM
7 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

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

Oct 17, 2020, 7:36 PM
33 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

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

Kaj_SotalaOct 17, 2020, 8:00 AM
52 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

[Question] GPT-3 + GAN

stick109Oct 17, 2020, 7:58 AM
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

Bird ConceptOct 17, 2020, 6:32 AM
155 points
140 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Moloch games

Chris van MerwijkOct 16, 2020, 3:19 PM
80 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

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

MiltonOct 16, 2020, 8:26 AM
3 points
2 commentsLW link

Jour­nal ar­ti­cle: “The Myth­i­cal Ta­boo on Race and In­tel­li­gence”

CronoDASOct 16, 2020, 2:58 AM
−17 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(journals.sagepub.com)

Elec­tion Preparation

jefftkOct 15, 2020, 8:30 PM
18 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Covid 10/​15: Play­time is Over

ZviOct 15, 2020, 2:30 PM
74 points
21 comments17 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Eval­u­at­ing ex­per­tise: a clear box model

JustinShovelainOct 15, 2020, 2:18 PM
36 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Bab­ble & Prune Thoughts

abramdemskiOct 15, 2020, 1:46 PM
80 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

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

Bird ConceptOct 15, 2020, 7:23 AM
31 points
45 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is Stu­pidity Ex­pand­ing? Some Hy­pothe­ses.

David GrossOct 15, 2020, 3:28 AM
71 points
42 comments5 min readLW link

The Col­lid­ing Ex­po­nen­tials of AI

VermillionOct 14, 2020, 11:31 PM
28 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Le­gal­ize Black­mail: An Example

Tim LiptrotOct 14, 2020, 9:18 PM
0 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Liber­tar­i­anism, Ne­oliber­al­ism and Med­i­care for All?

Logan ZoellnerOct 14, 2020, 9:06 PM
5 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

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

CheerfulWarriorOct 14, 2020, 7:04 PM
−14 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #121]: Fore­cast­ing trans­for­ma­tive AI timelines us­ing biolog­i­cal anchors

Rohin ShahOct 14, 2020, 5:20 PM
28 points
5 comments14 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What is your elec­tronic draw­ing set up?

ElizabethOct 14, 2020, 5:42 AM
18 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Solomonoff Prior is Malign

Mark XuOct 14, 2020, 1:33 AM
179 points
52 comments16 min readLW link3 reviews