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[Question] Generalize Kelly to Account for # Iterations?

abramdemskiNov 2, 2020, 4:36 PM

24 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Waffle Crepes

jefftkNov 2, 2020, 3:30 PM

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Non Polemic: How do you personally deal with “irrational” people?

EmiyaNov 2, 2020, 1:44 PM

12 points

54 comments4 min readLW link

Surface Thoughts Suck

DachNov 2, 2020, 1:24 PM

4 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Worldwide “Portland” SSC Meetup 11/15/20

Noah WaltonNov 2, 2020, 5:39 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Should students be allowed to give good teachers a bonus?

DirectedEvolutionNov 2, 2020, 12:19 AM

25 points

28 comments2 min readLW link

Zeno’s Paradoxes

Chris_LeongNov 1, 2020, 11:39 PM

8 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Automated intelligence is not AI

KatjaGraceNov 1, 2020, 11:30 PM

54 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.com)

The Born Rule is Time-Symmetric

lsusrNov 1, 2020, 11:24 PM

1 point

17 comments1 min readLW link

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

Tim LiptrotNov 1, 2020, 10:43 PM

3 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

October 2020 gwern.net newsletter

gwernNov 1, 2020, 9:38 PM

24 points

0 comments LW link

(www.gwern.net)

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

willbobagginsNov 1, 2020, 9:01 PM

9 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

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

Adam ZernerNov 1, 2020, 8:43 PM

23 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Compassion

David GrossNov 1, 2020, 7:10 PM

23 points

2 comments18 min readLW link

A summary review on The Age of Em

ogeNov 1, 2020, 4:18 PM

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(carboncopies.org)

Forecasting Newsletter: October 2020.

NunoSempereNov 1, 2020, 1:09 PM

11 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Why I Prefer the Copenhagen Interpretation(s)

dadadarrenOct 31, 2020, 9:06 PM

5 points

44 comments4 min readLW link

(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)

“Inner Alignment Failures” Which Are Actually Outer Alignment Failures

johnswentworthOct 31, 2020, 8:18 PM

66 points

38 comments5 min readLW link

Aim to explain, not persuade

lsusrOct 31, 2020, 4:35 PM

26 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Containing the AI… Inside a Simulated Reality

HumaneAutomationOct 31, 2020, 4:16 PM

1 point

9 comments2 min readLW link

Taking Ideas Seriously is Hard

neilkakkarOct 31, 2020, 1:47 PM

14 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(neilkakkar.com)

How do you read the news critically?

ChristianKlOct 31, 2020, 11:48 AM

39 points

15 comments9 min readLW link

Trick-or-treating in Covid Times

jefftkOct 31, 2020, 12:30 AM

29 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A Parable of Four Riders

matejsuchyOct 30, 2020, 11:24 PM

3 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why does History assume equal national intelligence?

HumaneAutomationOct 30, 2020, 11:11 PM

1 point

38 comments1 min readLW link

/r/MLScaling: new subreddit for NN scaling research/discussion

gwernOct 30, 2020, 8:50 PM

21 points

0 comments LW link

(www.reddit.com)

Functors and Coarse Worlds

Scott GarrabrantOct 30, 2020, 3:19 PM

52 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Responses to Christiano on takeoff speeds?

Richard_NgoOct 30, 2020, 3:16 PM

29 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

How to Find the Frontiers of Knowledge

Samo BurjaOct 30, 2020, 10:50 AM

60 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(medium.com)

The Darwin Game—Round 1

lsusrOct 29, 2020, 9:56 PM

58 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Controllables and Observables, Revisited

Scott GarrabrantOct 29, 2020, 4:38 PM

35 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

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

ZviOct 29, 2020, 3:10 PM

61 points

50 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AI risk hub in Singapore?

Daniel KokotajloOct 29, 2020, 11:45 AM

58 points

18 comments4 min readLW link

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

Bird ConceptOct 29, 2020, 7:21 AM

23 points

48 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What are good election betting opportunities?

Scott GarrabrantOct 29, 2020, 7:19 AM

32 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

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

Nacruno96Oct 29, 2020, 3:35 AM

1 point

24 comments1 min readLW link

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

gwernOct 29, 2020, 1:45 AM

27 points

11 comments LW link

(arxiv.org)

Secular Solstice Online (Americas)

RaemonOct 28, 2020, 11:28 PM

28 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

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

ChristianKlOct 28, 2020, 11:07 PM

25 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Reasons that discussions might feel hopeless

gogishvilliOct 28, 2020, 7:59 PM

11 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

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

plexOct 28, 2020, 6:27 PM

17 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

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

Rohin ShahOct 28, 2020, 5:00 PM

20 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Draft papers for REALab and Decoupled Approval on tampering

Jonathan Uesato and Ramana Kumar

Oct 28, 2020, 4:01 PM

47 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Biextensional Equivalence

Scott GarrabrantOct 28, 2020, 2:07 PM

43 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

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

Rob BensingerOct 28, 2020, 1:59 PM

30 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Integers as Compression

Chris_LeongOct 28, 2020, 7:36 AM

9 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

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

Richard Korzekwa Oct 28, 2020, 4:46 AM

212 points

54 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

Desperation hamster wheels

Nicole RossOct 28, 2020, 2:32 AM

97 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(www.cuttingmangoes.com)

Notes on Honesty

David GrossOct 28, 2020, 12:54 AM

46 points

7 comments20 min readLW link

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

Optimization ProcessOct 27, 2020, 11:56 PM

15 points

5 comments2 min readLW link