Sun­day Oc­to­ber 11th, 12:00PM (PT) — talks by Alex Zhu, Martin Sus­trik and Steve Byrnes

habryka7 Oct 2020 23:22 UTC
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Thoughts on ADHD

romeostevensit7 Oct 2020 20:46 UTC
90 points
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Les­sons on Value of In­for­ma­tion From Civ

johnswentworth7 Oct 2020 18:18 UTC
54 points
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[Question] How can an AI demon­strate purely through chat that it is an AI, and not a hu­man?

hugh.mann7 Oct 2020 17:53 UTC
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Re­view and Sum­mary of ‘Mo­ral Uncer­tainty’

fin7 Oct 2020 17:52 UTC
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(www.finmoorhouse.com)

[AN #120]: Trac­ing the in­tel­lec­tual roots of AI and AI alignment

Rohin Shah7 Oct 2020 17:10 UTC
13 points
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(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Inac­cessible finely tuned RNG in hu­mans?

Sandi7 Oct 2020 17:04 UTC
23 points
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Open Com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the Days of Mal­i­cious On­line Actors

ozziegooen7 Oct 2020 16:30 UTC
20 points
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] How wor­ried are the rele­vant ex­perts about a mag­netic pole re­ver­sal?

Sunny from QAD7 Oct 2020 16:19 UTC
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[Question] Brain­storm­ing pos­i­tive vi­sions of AI

jungofthewon7 Oct 2020 16:09 UTC
52 points
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Buy­ing micro-biostasis

Mati_Roy7 Oct 2020 10:55 UTC
13 points
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Can we hold in­tel­lec­tu­als to similar pub­lic stan­dards as ath­letes?

ozziegooen7 Oct 2020 4:22 UTC
84 points
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Forc­ing Freedom

vlad.proex6 Oct 2020 18:15 UTC
43 points
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The Align­ment Prob­lem: Ma­chine Learn­ing and Hu­man Values

Rohin Shah6 Oct 2020 17:41 UTC
120 points
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(www.amazon.com)

Large Effects Can’t Prove Small Causes

Bucky6 Oct 2020 17:34 UTC
23 points
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Con­ver­sa­tions from in­side early singularity

faint reminder6 Oct 2020 16:46 UTC
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Not Even Evidence

Dach6 Oct 2020 1:20 UTC
6 points
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[Question] Fermi Challenge: Trains and Air Cargo

Ben Pace5 Oct 2020 21:51 UTC
23 points
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The Rise and Fall of Amer­i­can Growth: A summary

jasoncrawford5 Oct 2020 21:41 UTC
58 points
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(rootsofprogress.org)

Do­mains of truth

mxln5 Oct 2020 19:46 UTC
1 point
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COVID Strat­egy 101

Mike Harris5 Oct 2020 19:30 UTC
58 points
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The Felt Sense: What, Why and How

Kaj_Sotala5 Oct 2020 15:57 UTC
153 points
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Univer­sal Eudaimonia

hg005 Oct 2020 13:45 UTC
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[Question] Ra­tion­al­ity and Cli­mate Change

Emiya5 Oct 2020 10:21 UTC
38 points
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AGI safety from first prin­ci­ples: Conclusion

Richard_Ngo4 Oct 2020 23:06 UTC
71 points
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[Link] Faster than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Pre­limi­nary Thoughts—Stephen Wolfram Writings

Kenny4 Oct 2020 20:26 UTC
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[Question] What re­acts would you like to be able to give on posts? (emoti­cons, cog­ni­cons, and more)

Mati_Roy4 Oct 2020 18:31 UTC
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[Question] One hub, or many?

abramdemski4 Oct 2020 16:58 UTC
26 points
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AI race con­sid­er­a­tions in a re­port by the U.S. House Com­mit­tee on Armed Services

NunoSempere4 Oct 2020 12:11 UTC
42 points
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Public trans­mit metta

Kaj_Sotala4 Oct 2020 11:40 UTC
29 points
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(kajsotala.fi)

[Question] Is there any work on in­cor­po­rat­ing aleatoric un­cer­tainty and/​or in­her­ent ran­dom­ness into AIXI?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)4 Oct 2020 8:10 UTC
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Fish­bowl re­al­ity

Elo4 Oct 2020 2:16 UTC
11 points
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Post­mortem to Petrov Day, 2020

Ben Pace3 Oct 2020 21:30 UTC
97 points
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Weird Things About Money

abramdemski3 Oct 2020 17:13 UTC
79 points
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On Op­tion Paral­y­sis—The Thing You Ac­tu­ally Do

Neel Nanda3 Oct 2020 11:50 UTC
11 points
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(www.neelnanda.io)

AGI safety from first prin­ci­ples: Control

Richard_Ngo2 Oct 2020 21:51 UTC
60 points
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Mut­ing on Group Calls

jefftk2 Oct 2020 20:30 UTC
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(www.jefftk.com)

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

Kaj_Sotala2 Oct 2020 11:50 UTC
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(kajsotala.fi)

Math That Clicks: Look for Two-Way Correspondences

TurnTrout2 Oct 2020 1:22 UTC
36 points
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A sim­ple de­vice for in­door air management

Richard Korzekwa 2 Oct 2020 1:02 UTC
49 points
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Sun­day Meetup: Work­shop on On­line Sur­veys with Spencer Green­berg

Raemon2 Oct 2020 0:34 UTC
27 points
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Linkpost: Choice Ex­plains Pos­i­tivity and Con­fir­ma­tion Bias

Gunnar_Zarncke1 Oct 2020 21:46 UTC
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Open & Wel­come Thread – Oc­to­ber 2020

Ben Pace1 Oct 2020 19:06 UTC
14 points
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Hiring en­g­ineers and re­searchers to help al­ign GPT-3

paulfchristiano1 Oct 2020 18:54 UTC
206 points
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Covid 10/​1: The Long Haul

Zvi1 Oct 2020 18:00 UTC
95 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Words and Implications

johnswentworth1 Oct 2020 17:37 UTC
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Your Stan­dards are Too High

Neel Nanda1 Oct 2020 17:03 UTC
23 points
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(neelnanda.io)

Three car seats?

jefftk1 Oct 2020 14:30 UTC
18 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Septem­ber 2020.

NunoSempere1 Oct 2020 11:00 UTC
21 points
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[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of send­ing some­thing to the moon

jacobjacob1 Oct 2020 4:20 UTC
94 points
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