The Uni­verse Doesn’t Have to Play Nice

Chris_LeongJan 6, 2020, 2:08 AM
21 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Value uncertainty

MichaelAJan 29, 2020, 8:16 PM
20 points
3 comments14 min readLW link

How to Throw Away In­for­ma­tion in Causal DAGs

johnswentworthJan 8, 2020, 2:40 AM
20 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Clar­ify­ing The Mal­ig­nity of the Univer­sal Prior: The Lex­i­cal Update

intersticeJan 15, 2020, 12:00 AM
20 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

AI al­ign­ment con­cepts: philo­soph­i­cal break­ers, stop­pers, and distorters

JustinShovelainJan 24, 2020, 7:23 PM
20 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Prefer­ence syn­the­sis illus­trated: Star Wars

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 9, 2020, 4:47 PM
20 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Go F*** Someone

Jacob FalkovichJan 15, 2020, 6:39 PM
19 points
23 comments8 min readLW link

Test­ing for Rationalization

dspeyerJan 16, 2020, 8:12 AM
19 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #82]: How OpenAI Five dis­tributed their train­ing computation

Rohin ShahJan 15, 2020, 6:20 PM
19 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

If Van der Waals was a neu­ral network

George3d6Jan 28, 2020, 6:38 PM
18 points
3 comments11 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

Sur­vival and Flour­ish­ing grant ap­pli­ca­tions open un­til March 7th ($0.8MM-$1.5MM planned for dis­per­sal)

habrykaJan 28, 2020, 11:36 PM
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are the bad epistemic con­di­tions global?

jmhJan 25, 2020, 11:31 PM
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ex­cite­ment vs childishness

Rafael HarthJan 3, 2020, 1:47 PM
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Dec 2019 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwernJan 4, 2020, 8:48 PM
17 points
2 commentsLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Us­ing Vick­rey auc­tions as a price dis­cov­ery mechanism

epiphiJan 12, 2020, 1:00 AM
16 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(kevinlynagh.com)

Disasters

jefftkJan 21, 2020, 7:20 PM
16 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

“How quickly can you get this done?” (es­ti­mat­ing work­load)

kerspoonJan 18, 2020, 12:10 AM
15 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

The­o­ries That Can Ex­plain Everything

Chris_LeongJan 2, 2020, 2:12 AM
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Avoid­ing Rationalization

dspeyerJan 15, 2020, 10:55 AM
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­am­ple: Markov Chain

johnswentworthJan 10, 2020, 8:19 PM
15 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[AN #83]: Sam­ple-effi­cient deep learn­ing with ReMixMatch

Rohin ShahJan 22, 2020, 6:10 PM
15 points
4 comments11 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

UML VII: Meta-Learning

Rafael HarthJan 19, 2020, 6:23 PM
14 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

Mo­ral un­cer­tainty: What kind of ‘should’ is in­volved?

MichaelAJan 13, 2020, 12:13 PM
14 points
11 comments13 min readLW link

Draw­ing Toward Power

hiblickJan 13, 2020, 4:24 AM
14 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How has the cost of cloth­ing in­su­la­tion changed since 1970 in the USA?

DanielFilanJan 12, 2020, 11:31 PM
14 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

UML V: Con­vex Learn­ing Problems

Rafael HarthJan 5, 2020, 7:47 PM
14 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Terms & liter­a­ture for pur­posely lossy communication

ozziegooenJan 22, 2020, 10:35 AM
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Old Airports

jefftkJan 9, 2020, 3:30 AM
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Per­sonal Ex­per­i­ment] Train­ing YouTube’s Algorithm

lsusrJan 9, 2020, 9:04 AM
13 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Us­ing Ex­pert Disagreement

dspeyerJan 16, 2020, 10:42 PM
13 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Credit Cards for Giving

jefftkJan 4, 2020, 11:00 PM
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[AN #79]: Re­cur­sive re­ward mod­el­ing as an al­ign­ment tech­nique in­te­grated with deep RL

Rohin ShahJan 1, 2020, 6:00 PM
13 points
0 comments12 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Cam­bridge Pre­dic­tion Game

NoSignalNoNoiseJan 25, 2020, 3:57 AM
13 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

A method for fair bar­gain­ing over odds in 2 player bets!

Agrippa KellumJan 11, 2020, 1:18 AM
13 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Li­tany Against Anger

namespaceJan 25, 2020, 12:56 AM
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dictably Pre­dictable Fu­tures Talk: Us­ing Ex­pected Loss & Pre­dic­tion In­no­va­tion for Long Term Benefits

ozziegooenJan 8, 2020, 12:51 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Clump­ing Sols­tice Sin­ga­longs in Groups of 2-4

RaemonJan 5, 2020, 8:50 PM
13 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

UML VI: Stochas­tic Gra­di­ent Descent

Rafael HarthJan 12, 2020, 9:59 PM
13 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Values and Alignment

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 30, 2020, 7:48 PM
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(deepmind.com)

Mak­ing de­ci­sions when both morally and em­piri­cally uncertain

MichaelAJan 2, 2020, 7:20 AM
13 points
14 comments20 min readLW link

Safety reg­u­la­tors: A tool for miti­gat­ing tech­nolog­i­cal risk

JustinShovelainJan 21, 2020, 1:07 PM
13 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Emer­gency Pre­scrip­tion Medication

jefftkJan 24, 2020, 1:20 AM
12 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Towards de­con­fus­ing values

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 29, 2020, 7:28 PM
12 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

In defense of deviousness

Juan Andrés Hurtado BaezaJan 15, 2020, 11:56 AM
12 points
8 comments4 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Re­mote AI al­ign­ment writ­ing group seek­ing new members

rmoehnJan 18, 2020, 2:10 AM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Can we always as­sign, and make sense of, sub­jec­tive prob­a­bil­ities?

MichaelAJan 17, 2020, 3:05 AM
11 points
15 comments13 min readLW link

Meta-dis­cus­sion from “Cir­cling as Cousin to Ra­tion­al­ity”

RaemonJan 3, 2020, 9:38 PM
11 points
165 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What will quan­tum com­put­ers be used for?

maximkazhenkovJan 1, 2020, 7:33 PM
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What re­search has been done on the al­tru­is­tic im­pact of the usual good ac­tions?

AlexeiJan 27, 2020, 7:33 PM
11 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Ill­ness anx­iety di­s­or­der: how to be­come more ra­tio­nal?

completely_irrationalJan 3, 2020, 9:05 PM
10 points
10 comments3 min readLW link