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UDT might not pay a Counterfactual Mugger

winwonce21 Nov 2020 23:27 UTC

5 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Non-Obstruction: A Simple Concept Motivating Corrigibility

TurnTrout21 Nov 2020 19:35 UTC

74 points

20 comments19 min readLW link

[Question] What do people think of the Futurism site?

jmh21 Nov 2020 17:32 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Rationalists from the UK—what are your thoughts on Dominic Cummings?

Davis_Kingsley21 Nov 2020 10:00 UTC

11 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

The central limit theorem in terms of convolutions

Maxwell Peterson21 Nov 2020 4:09 UTC

39 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

AGI Predictions

Amandango and Ben Pace

21 Nov 2020 3:46 UTC

112 points

35 comments4 min readLW link

Predictions made by Mati Roy in early 2020

Mati_Roy21 Nov 2020 3:24 UTC

23 points

6 comments16 min readLW link

Zen and Rationality: Skillful Means

Gordon Seidoh Worley21 Nov 2020 2:38 UTC

18 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

The Darwin Game—Rounds 21-500

lsusr21 Nov 2020 0:58 UTC

27 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Working in Virtual Reality: A Review

ozziegooen20 Nov 2020 23:14 UTC

139 points

40 comments6 min readLW link

Epistemic Progress

ozziegooen20 Nov 2020 19:58 UTC

61 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Why is there a “clogged drainpipe” effect in idea generation?

jacobjacob20 Nov 2020 19:08 UTC

33 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

Embedded Interactive Predictions on LessWrong

Amandango20 Nov 2020 18:35 UTC

243 points

88 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Persuasion Tools: AI takeover without AGI or agency?

Daniel Kokotajlo20 Nov 2020 16:54 UTC

85 points

25 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Hiding Complexity

Rafael Harth20 Nov 2020 16:35 UTC

29 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

Thanksgiving and Covid

jefftk20 Nov 2020 4:30 UTC

13 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Sunday 22nd: The Coordination Frontier

Raemon19 Nov 2020 22:09 UTC

19 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Simpson’s paradox and the tyranny of strata

dynomight19 Nov 2020 17:46 UTC

27 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(dyno-might.github.io)

Notes on Prudence

David Gross19 Nov 2020 16:14 UTC

14 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Covid 11/19: Don’t Do Stupid Things

Zvi19 Nov 2020 16:00 UTC

72 points

29 comments23 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How do you evaluate whether a $500 donation to a project that you know well is a good idea?

ChristianKl19 Nov 2020 12:42 UTC

34 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Some AI research areas and their relevance to existential safety

Andrew_Critch19 Nov 2020 3:18 UTC

204 points

37 comments50 min readLW link 2 reviews

Sunzi’s《Methods of War》- War

lsusr19 Nov 2020 3:06 UTC

43 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Inner Alignment in Salt-Starved Rats

Steven Byrnes19 Nov 2020 2:40 UTC

137 points

41 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

[Question] Should I do it?

MrLight19 Nov 2020 1:08 UTC

−3 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

2020 Election: Prediction Markets versus Polling/Modeling Assessment and Postmortem

Zvi18 Nov 2020 23:00 UTC

71 points

17 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The ethics of AI for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Stuart_Armstrong18 Nov 2020 17:55 UTC

45 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

The Pointers Problem: Human Values Are A Function Of Humans’ Latent Variables

johnswentworth18 Nov 2020 17:47 UTC

128 points

49 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

Normativity

abramdemski18 Nov 2020 16:52 UTC

47 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What would a world of widespread statistical numeracy look like?

Pontor18 Nov 2020 16:23 UTC

5 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Should we postpone AGI until we reach safety?

otto.barten18 Nov 2020 15:43 UTC

27 points

36 comments3 min readLW link

Sunzi’s《Methods of War》- Introduction

lsusr18 Nov 2020 8:23 UTC

48 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Comparative Advantage Intuition

arxhy18 Nov 2020 1:23 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on Voting Methods

abramdemski17 Nov 2020 20:23 UTC

61 points

24 comments5 min readLW link

I made an N95-level mask at home, and you can too

billmei17 Nov 2020 19:00 UTC

40 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

On the Shoulders of Giants

meanderingmoose17 Nov 2020 18:10 UTC

1 point

5 comments6 min readLW link

How the Moderna vaccine works, and a note about mRNA vaccines

masasin17 Nov 2020 17:22 UTC

27 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Comparing Covid and Tobacco

Tim Liptrot17 Nov 2020 16:13 UTC

4 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Writing to think

Adam Zerner17 Nov 2020 7:54 UTC

68 points

27 comments5 min readLW link

Notes on Honor

David Gross17 Nov 2020 5:25 UTC

20 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Debug Headers with GET

jefftk17 Nov 2020 3:10 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Solomonoff Induction and Sleeping Beauty

ike17 Nov 2020 2:28 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The Darwin Game—Rounds 10 to 20

lsusr17 Nov 2020 1:14 UTC

26 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

Propinquity Cities So Far

mako yass16 Nov 2020 23:12 UTC

24 points

48 comments20 min readLW link

[Question] How can labour productivity growth be an indicator of automation?

Polytopos16 Nov 2020 21:16 UTC

2 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Extortion beats brinksmanship, but the audience matters

Stuart_Armstrong16 Nov 2020 21:13 UTC

27 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Anatomy of a Gear

johnswentworth16 Nov 2020 16:34 UTC

79 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

How Roodman’s GWP model translates to TAI timelines

Daniel Kokotajlo16 Nov 2020 14:05 UTC

22 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Brigaded Rounds

jefftk16 Nov 2020 1:50 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] When socializing, to what extent does walking reduce the risk of contracting Covid as opposed to being stationary?

Adam Zerner16 Nov 2020 0:39 UTC

7 points

7 comments1 min readLW link