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Postmortem to Petrov Day, 2020

Ben Pace3 Oct 2020 21:30 UTC

97 points

63 comments9 min readLW link

Weird Things About Money

abramdemski3 Oct 2020 17:13 UTC

79 points

31 comments6 min readLW link

On Option Paralysis—The Thing You Actually Do

Neel Nanda3 Oct 2020 11:50 UTC

11 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

AGI safety from first principles: Control

Richard_Ngo2 Oct 2020 21:51 UTC

60 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Muting on Group Calls

jefftk2 Oct 2020 20:30 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Attention to snakes not fear of snakes: evolution encoding environmental knowledge in peripheral systems

Kaj_Sotala2 Oct 2020 11:50 UTC

46 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Math That Clicks: Look for Two-Way Correspondences

TurnTrout2 Oct 2020 1:22 UTC

36 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

A simple device for indoor air management

Richard Korzekwa 2 Oct 2020 1:02 UTC

49 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

Sunday Meetup: Workshop on Online Surveys with Spencer Greenberg

Raemon2 Oct 2020 0:34 UTC

27 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Linkpost: Choice Explains Positivity and Confirmation Bias

Gunnar_Zarncke1 Oct 2020 21:46 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Open & Welcome Thread – October 2020

Ben Pace1 Oct 2020 19:06 UTC

14 points

54 comments1 min readLW link

Hiring engineers and researchers to help align GPT-3

paulfchristiano1 Oct 2020 18:54 UTC

206 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 10/1: The Long Haul

Zvi1 Oct 2020 18:00 UTC

95 points

22 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Words and Implications

johnswentworth1 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC

62 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

Your Standards are Too High

Neel Nanda1 Oct 2020 17:03 UTC

23 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

(neelnanda.io)

Three car seats?

jefftk1 Oct 2020 14:30 UTC

18 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Forecasting Newsletter: September 2020.

NunoSempere1 Oct 2020 11:00 UTC

21 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Babble challenge: 50 ways of sending something to the moon

jacobjacob1 Oct 2020 4:20 UTC

94 points

114 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

AGI safety from first principles: Alignment

Richard_Ngo1 Oct 2020 3:13 UTC

60 points

3 comments13 min readLW link

How to not be an alarmist

DirectedEvolution30 Sep 2020 21:35 UTC

8 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Competence vs Alignment

Ariel Kwiatkowski30 Sep 2020 21:03 UTC

7 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

“Zero Sum” is a misnomer.

abramdemski30 Sep 2020 18:25 UTC

120 points

34 comments6 min readLW link

Evaluating Life Extension Advocacy Foundation

emanuele ascani30 Sep 2020 18:04 UTC

7 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

[AN #119]: AI safety when agents are shaped by environments, not rewards

Rohin Shah30 Sep 2020 17:10 UTC

11 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Learning how to learn

Neel Nanda30 Sep 2020 16:50 UTC

38 points

0 comments15 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

Industrial literacy

jasoncrawford30 Sep 2020 16:39 UTC

306 points

130 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Jason Crawford on the non-linear model of innovation: SSC Online Meetup

JoshuaFox30 Sep 2020 10:13 UTC

7 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Holy Grails of Chemistry

chemslug30 Sep 2020 2:03 UTC

34 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

“Unsupervised” translation as an (intent) alignment problem

paulfchristiano30 Sep 2020 0:50 UTC

61 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

[Question] Examples of self-governance to reduce technology risk?

Jia29 Sep 2020 19:31 UTC

10 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

AGI safety from first principles: Goals and Agency

Richard_Ngo29 Sep 2020 19:06 UTC

76 points

15 comments15 min readLW link

Seek Upside Risk

Neel Nanda29 Sep 2020 16:47 UTC

20 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

Doing discourse better: Stuff I wish I knew

dynomight29 Sep 2020 14:34 UTC

27 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(dyno-might.github.io)

David Friedman on Legal Systems Very Different from Ours: SlateStarCodex Online Meetup

JoshuaFox29 Sep 2020 11:18 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Reading Discussion Group

NoSignalNoNoise29 Sep 2020 3:59 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Cambridge Virtual LW/SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoise29 Sep 2020 3:42 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AGI safety from first principles: Superintelligence

Richard_Ngo28 Sep 2020 19:53 UTC

87 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

AGI safety from first principles: Introduction

Richard_Ngo28 Sep 2020 19:53 UTC

128 points

18 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] is scope insensitivity really a brain error?

Kaarlo Tuomi28 Sep 2020 18:37 UTC

4 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What Decision Theory is Implied By Predictive Processing?

johnswentworth28 Sep 2020 17:20 UTC

56 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are examples of Rationalist fable-like stories?

Mati_Roy28 Sep 2020 16:52 UTC

19 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

Macro-Procrastination

Neel Nanda28 Sep 2020 16:07 UTC

9 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

[Question] What are good ice breaker questions for meeting people in this community?

Mati_Roy28 Sep 2020 15:07 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

On Destroying the World

Chris_Leong28 Sep 2020 7:38 UTC

82 points

86 comments5 min readLW link

“Win First” vs “Chill First”

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)28 Sep 2020 6:48 UTC

101 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

On “Not Screwing Up Ritual Candles”

Raemon27 Sep 2020 21:55 UTC

48 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What to do with imitation humans, other than asking them what the right thing to do is?

Charlie Steiner27 Sep 2020 21:51 UTC

10 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are good rationality exercises?

Ben Pace27 Sep 2020 21:25 UTC

54 points

25 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Puzzle Games

Scott Garrabrant27 Sep 2020 21:14 UTC

57 points

70 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What hard science fiction stories also got the social sciences right?

Mati_Roy27 Sep 2020 20:37 UTC

15 points

30 comments1 min readLW link