Zeno’s Paradoxes

Chris_Leong1 Nov 2020 23:39 UTC
8 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Au­to­mated in­tel­li­gence is not AI

KatjaGrace1 Nov 2020 23:30 UTC
54 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

The Born Rule is Time-Symmetric

lsusr1 Nov 2020 23:24 UTC
1 point
17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why are deaths not in­creas­ing with in­fec­tions in the US?

Tim Liptrot1 Nov 2020 22:43 UTC
3 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Oc­to­ber 2020 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern1 Nov 2020 21:38 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Cow­er­ing To Geno­cide: Uighur Per­se­cu­tion And The World’s Last Hope

willbobaggins1 Nov 2020 21:01 UTC
9 points
21 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What is the right phrase for “the­o­ret­i­cal ev­i­dence”?

Adam Zerner1 Nov 2020 20:43 UTC
23 points
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Notes on Compassion

David Gross1 Nov 2020 19:10 UTC
23 points
2 comments18 min readLW link

A sum­mary re­view on The Age of Em

oge1 Nov 2020 16:18 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(carboncopies.org)

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Oc­to­ber 2020.

NunoSempere1 Nov 2020 13:09 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Why I Pre­fer the Copen­hagen In­ter­pre­ta­tion(s)

dadadarren31 Oct 2020 21:06 UTC
5 points
44 comments4 min readLW link
(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)

“In­ner Align­ment Failures” Which Are Ac­tu­ally Outer Align­ment Failures

johnswentworth31 Oct 2020 20:18 UTC
66 points
38 comments5 min readLW link

Aim to ex­plain, not persuade

lsusr31 Oct 2020 16:35 UTC
26 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Con­tain­ing the AI… In­side a Si­mu­lated Reality

HumaneAutomation31 Oct 2020 16:16 UTC
1 point
9 comments2 min readLW link

Tak­ing Ideas Se­ri­ously is Hard

neilkakkar31 Oct 2020 13:47 UTC
14 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(neilkakkar.com)

How do you read the news crit­i­cally?

ChristianKl31 Oct 2020 11:48 UTC
39 points
15 comments9 min readLW link

Trick-or-treat­ing in Covid Times

jefftk31 Oct 2020 0:30 UTC
29 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

A Parable of Four Riders

matejsuchy30 Oct 2020 23:24 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why does His­tory as­sume equal na­tional in­tel­li­gence?

HumaneAutomation30 Oct 2020 23:11 UTC
1 point
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/​r/​MLS­cal­ing: new sub­red­dit for NN scal­ing re­search/​discussion

gwern30 Oct 2020 20:50 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

Func­tors and Coarse Worlds

Scott Garrabrant30 Oct 2020 15:19 UTC
52 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Re­sponses to Chris­ti­ano on take­off speeds?

Richard_Ngo30 Oct 2020 15:16 UTC
29 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

How to Find the Fron­tiers of Knowledge

Samo Burja30 Oct 2020 10:50 UTC
60 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(medium.com)

The Dar­win Game—Round 1

lsusr29 Oct 2020 21:56 UTC
58 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Con­trol­lables and Ob­serv­ables, Revisited

Scott Garrabrant29 Oct 2020 16:38 UTC
35 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Covid Covid Covid Covid Covid 10/​29: All We Ever Talk About

Zvi29 Oct 2020 15:10 UTC
61 points
50 comments22 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AI risk hub in Sin­ga­pore?

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Oct 2020 11:45 UTC
58 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 con­se­quences of in­tel­li­gent ant colonies

jacobjacob29 Oct 2020 7:21 UTC
23 points
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[Question] What are good elec­tion bet­ting op­por­tu­ni­ties?

Scott Garrabrant29 Oct 2020 7:19 UTC
32 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How should one deal with life threat­en­ing in­fec­tions or air planes?

Nacruno9629 Oct 2020 3:35 UTC
1 point
24 comments1 min readLW link

“Scal­ing Laws for Au­tore­gres­sive Gen­er­a­tive Model­ing”, Henighan et al 2020 {OA}

gwern29 Oct 2020 1:45 UTC
27 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Sec­u­lar Sols­tice On­line (Amer­i­cas)

Raemon28 Oct 2020 23:28 UTC
28 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s hold­ing back out­sourc­ing to cloud labs?

ChristianKl28 Oct 2020 23:07 UTC
25 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Rea­sons that dis­cus­sions might feel hopeless

gogishvilli28 Oct 2020 19:59 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] What risks con­cern you which don’t seem to have been se­ri­ously con­sid­ered by the com­mu­nity?

plex28 Oct 2020 18:27 UTC
17 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #123]: In­fer­ring what is valuable in or­der to al­ign recom­mender systems

Rohin Shah28 Oct 2020 17:00 UTC
20 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Draft pa­pers for REALab and De­cou­pled Ap­proval on tampering

28 Oct 2020 16:01 UTC
47 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Biex­ten­sional Equivalence

Scott Garrabrant28 Oct 2020 14:07 UTC
43 points
13 comments10 min readLW link

“Carte­sian Frames” Talk #2 this Sun­day at 2pm (PT)

Rob Bensinger28 Oct 2020 13:59 UTC
30 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­te­gers as Compression

Chris_Leong28 Oct 2020 7:36 UTC
9 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Why in­door light­ing is hard to get right and how to fix it

Richard Korzekwa 28 Oct 2020 4:46 UTC
209 points
54 comments15 min readLW link1 review

Des­per­a­tion ham­ster wheels

Nicole Ross28 Oct 2020 2:32 UTC
97 points
5 comments6 min readLW link
(www.cuttingmangoes.com)

Notes on Honesty

David Gross28 Oct 2020 0:54 UTC
46 points
6 comments21 min readLW link

How can I rec­on­cile these COVID test false-nega­tive num­bers?

Optimization Process27 Oct 2020 23:56 UTC
15 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways to stop torture

seed27 Oct 2020 19:38 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Spoiler-Free Re­view and then Semi-Walk­through: Star Traders: Frontiers

Zvi27 Oct 2020 18:50 UTC
11 points
1 comment24 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Me­mory re­con­soli­da­tion for self-affection

Kaj_Sotala27 Oct 2020 10:10 UTC
52 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Whence the symp­toms of so­cial me­dia?

KatjaGrace27 Oct 2020 7:30 UTC
20 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Look­ing for Room­mate in California

xiaolongbao27 Oct 2020 5:18 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Dutch-Book­ing CDT: Re­vised Argument

abramdemski27 Oct 2020 4:31 UTC
51 points
24 comments16 min readLW link