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Covid 10/22: Europe in Crisis

ZviOct 22, 2020, 3:40 PM

80 points

13 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

meanderingmooseOct 22, 2020, 2:33 PM

8 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Introduction to Cartesian Frames

Scott GarrabrantOct 22, 2020, 1:00 PM

155 points

32 comments22 min readLW link 1 review

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

Steven ByrnesOct 22, 2020, 11:02 AM

33 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

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

Daniel KokotajloOct 22, 2020, 10:41 AM

150 points

32 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Sydney Rationality Dojo—December 2021

NextOct 22, 2020, 8:45 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

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

ShmiOct 22, 2020, 5:30 AM

16 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

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

Bird ConceptOct 22, 2020, 4:49 AM

34 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

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

David GrossOct 22, 2020, 3:53 AM

36 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

[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 comments LW 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 link 1 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

Ben Pace and Raemon

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 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 comments LW 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