Find­ing Lev­er­age: Sys­tem Think­ing & Change Management

JASmithy22 Oct 2020 23:31 UTC
4 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

The Trou­ble With Babbles

DirectedEvolution22 Oct 2020 21:31 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Chang­ing the size of Congress

jefftk22 Oct 2020 20:50 UTC
4 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Should I pre­fer to get a tax re­fund, or not to?

MichaelDickens22 Oct 2020 20:21 UTC
1 point
6 comments1 min readLW link

An Open Let­ter On Love

nroman22 Oct 2020 20:21 UTC
11 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Effec­tive Epidemiology

Mike Harris22 Oct 2020 19:45 UTC
26 points
13 comments9 min readLW link

My case for start­ing blogging

Neel Nanda22 Oct 2020 17:43 UTC
36 points
2 comments16 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Covid 10/​22: Europe in Crisis

Zvi22 Oct 2020 15:40 UTC
80 points
13 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

GPT-X, Paper­clip Max­i­mizer? An­a­lyz­ing AGI and Fi­nal Goals

meanderingmoose22 Oct 2020 14:33 UTC
8 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­tion to Carte­sian Frames

Scott Garrabrant22 Oct 2020 13:00 UTC
155 points
32 comments22 min readLW link1 review

“Lit­tle glimpses of em­pa­thy” as the foun­da­tion for so­cial emotions

Steven Byrnes22 Oct 2020 11:02 UTC
33 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

The date of AI Takeover is not the day the AI takes over

Daniel Kokotajlo22 Oct 2020 10:41 UTC
150 points
32 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—De­cem­ber 2021

Next22 Oct 2020 8:45 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing is (Asymp­tot­i­cally) Com­pu­ta­tion­ally Ineffi­cient, Choose Your Ex­po­nents Wisely

Shmi22 Oct 2020 5:30 UTC
14 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of solv­ing a prob­lem in your life

jacobjacob22 Oct 2020 4:49 UTC
34 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Virtue ethics and why the ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­nity might care about it.

David Gross22 Oct 2020 3:53 UTC
36 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

[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 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
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist art­works?

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