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Ruby24 Nov 2020 21:35 UTC
45 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC
548 points
90 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The next AI win­ter will be due to en­ergy costs

hippke24 Nov 2020 16:53 UTC
70 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Cri­tiques of the Agent Foun­da­tions agenda?

Jsevillamol24 Nov 2020 16:11 UTC
16 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Sny­der-Beat­tie, Sand­berg, Drexler & Bon­sall (2020): The Timing of Evolu­tion­ary Tran­si­tions Suggests In­tel­li­gent Life Is Rare

Kaj_Sotala24 Nov 2020 10:36 UTC
83 points
20 comments2 min readLW link
(www.liebertpub.com)

[Question] How should OpenAI com­mu­ni­cate about the com­mer­cial perfor­mances of the GPT-3 API?

Maxime Riché24 Nov 2020 8:34 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Man­i­festo of the Silent Minority

lsusr24 Nov 2020 5:30 UTC
63 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Squig­gle: An Overview

ozziegooen24 Nov 2020 3:00 UTC
60 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Com­men­tary on AGI Safety from First Principles

Richard_Ngo23 Nov 2020 21:37 UTC
81 points
4 comments54 min readLW link

Straight-edge Warn­ing Against Phys­i­cal Intimacy

Raphaëll23 Nov 2020 21:35 UTC
17 points
42 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Us­ing false but in­stru­men­tally ra­tio­nal be­liefs for your ca­reer?

Tim Liptrot23 Nov 2020 19:18 UTC
7 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Syn­tax, se­man­tics, and sym­bol ground­ing, simplified

Stuart_Armstrong23 Nov 2020 16:12 UTC
30 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

Con­tin­u­ing the take­offs debate

Richard_Ngo23 Nov 2020 15:58 UTC
67 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

Ret­ro­spec­tive: Novem­ber 10-day vir­tual med­i­ta­tion retreat

Kaj_Sotala23 Nov 2020 15:00 UTC
50 points
7 comments8 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

The Mu­tant Game—Rounds 11 to 30

lsusr23 Nov 2020 9:20 UTC
5 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Mark Man­son and Ev­i­dence-Based Per­sonal Development

Chris_Leong23 Nov 2020 5:13 UTC
31 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Chang­ing the AI race pay­off matrix

Gurkenglas22 Nov 2020 22:25 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Ambition

David Gross22 Nov 2020 19:53 UTC
19 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

[Question] (Pseudo) Math­e­mat­i­cal Real­ism Bad?

Logan Zoellner22 Nov 2020 18:21 UTC
0 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

My in­tel­lec­tual influences

Richard_Ngo22 Nov 2020 18:00 UTC
95 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

[Question] Ways to run mul­ti­ple form-in­com­pat­i­ble men­tal­ities?

Self_Optimization22 Nov 2020 17:57 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

It’s not eco­nom­i­cally in­effi­cient for a UBI to re­duce re­cip­i­ent’s employment

paulfchristiano22 Nov 2020 16:40 UTC
93 points
60 comments4 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

[Question] Why are young, healthy peo­ple ea­ger to take the Covid-19 vac­cine?

CheerfulWarrior22 Nov 2020 15:24 UTC
14 points
59 comments2 min readLW link

De­mys­tify­ing the Se­cond Law of Thermodynamics

Eigil Rischel22 Nov 2020 13:52 UTC
10 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] How to think about wear­ing masks /​ dis­tanc­ing within the house­hold?

Sameerishere22 Nov 2020 6:56 UTC
1 point
5 comments1 min readLW link

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

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 link1 review

Per­sua­sion Tools: AI takeover with­out AGI or agency?

Daniel Kokotajlo20 Nov 2020 16:54 UTC
85 points
25 comments11 min readLW link1 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 link2 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 link2 reviews

[Question] Should I do it?

MrLight19 Nov 2020 1:08 UTC
−3 points
16 comments2 min readLW link