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[Pro­duc­tivity] How not to use “Im­por­tant //​ Not Ur­gent”

aaq17 Feb 2020 23:42 UTC
22 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 3: Tips and Tricks

Mark Xu17 Feb 2020 18:53 UTC
24 points
5 comments11 min readLW link

Cam­bridge (UK) SSC meetup

rlms17 Feb 2020 18:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Jan Bloch’s Im­pos­si­ble War

Slimepriestess17 Feb 2020 16:14 UTC
112 points
30 comments5 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Subagents and im­pact mea­sures: sum­mary tables

Stuart_Armstrong17 Feb 2020 14:09 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ap­pendix: math­e­mat­ics of in­dex­i­cal im­pact measures

Stuart_Armstrong17 Feb 2020 13:22 UTC
12 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Step­wise in­ac­tion and non-in­dex­i­cal im­pact measures

Stuart_Armstrong17 Feb 2020 10:32 UTC
12 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

How to Lurk Less (and benefit oth­ers while benefit­ing your­self)

romeostevensit17 Feb 2020 6:18 UTC
95 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

At­tain­able Utility Preser­va­tion: Concepts

TurnTrout17 Feb 2020 5:20 UTC
38 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

On the falsifi­a­bil­ity of hy­per­com­pu­ta­tion, part 2: finite in­put streams

jessicata17 Feb 2020 3:51 UTC
26 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

[Question] Want­ing More In­tel­lec­tual Stamina

mr.magpie17 Feb 2020 2:58 UTC
6 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

A Memetic Me­di­a­tor Manifesto

Chris_Leong17 Feb 2020 2:14 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

UML XI: Near­est Neigh­bor Schemes

Rafael Harth16 Feb 2020 20:30 UTC
15 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

[Link and com­men­tary] The Offense-Defense Balance of Scien­tific Knowl­edge: Does Pub­lish­ing AI Re­search Re­duce Mi­suse?

MichaelA16 Feb 2020 19:56 UTC
24 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 2: Search­ing for bugs

Mark Xu16 Feb 2020 17:16 UTC
31 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Tak­ing the Out­group Seriously

Davis_Kingsley16 Feb 2020 13:23 UTC
21 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

On char­ac­ter­iz­ing heavy-tailedness

Jsevillamol16 Feb 2020 0:14 UTC
38 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 1: What is ap­plied ra­tio­nal­ity?

Mark Xu15 Feb 2020 21:03 UTC
33 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] It “wanted” …

jmh15 Feb 2020 20:52 UTC
4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Why Science is slow­ing down, Univer­si­ties and Maslow’s hi­er­ar­chy of needs

George3d615 Feb 2020 20:39 UTC
16 points
25 comments10 min readLW link

Ex­er­cises in Com­pre­hen­sive In­for­ma­tion Gathering

johnswentworth15 Feb 2020 17:27 UTC
141 points
18 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Refer­ence Post: Triv­ial De­ci­sion The­ory Problem

Chris_Leong15 Feb 2020 17:13 UTC
16 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What is the differ­ence be­tween ro­bust­ness and in­ner al­ign­ment?

JanB15 Feb 2020 13:28 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does iter­ated am­plifi­ca­tion tackle the in­ner al­ign­ment prob­lem?

JanB15 Feb 2020 12:58 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian Evolv­ing-to-Extinction

abramdemski14 Feb 2020 23:55 UTC
40 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] A ‘Prac­tice of Ra­tion­al­ity’ Se­quence?

abramdemski14 Feb 2020 22:56 UTC
78 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

The Catas­trophic Con­ver­gence Conjecture

TurnTrout14 Feb 2020 21:16 UTC
45 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

The Rea­son­able Effec­tive­ness of Math­e­mat­ics or: AI vs sandwiches

Vanessa Kosoy14 Feb 2020 18:46 UTC
34 points
8 comments9 min readLW link1 review

Per­cep­trons Explained

lifelonglearner14 Feb 2020 17:34 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(owenshen24.github.io)

Please Help Me­tac­u­lus Fore­cast COVID-19

AABoyles14 Feb 2020 17:31 UTC
34 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

Train­ing Regime Day 0: Introduction

Mark Xu14 Feb 2020 8:22 UTC
40 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Dist­in­guish­ing defi­ni­tions of takeoff

Matthew Barnett14 Feb 2020 0:16 UTC
79 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism 80,000 hours work­shop ma­te­ri­als & out­line (and Feb 10 ’19 KC meetup notes)

samstowers13 Feb 2020 21:48 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How do you use face masks?

ChristianKl13 Feb 2020 14:18 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

In the­ory: does build­ing the sub­agent have an “im­pact”?

Stuart_Armstrong13 Feb 2020 14:17 UTC
17 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What frac­tion of work time in the world is done at a com­puter?

Mati_Roy13 Feb 2020 9:53 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Var­i­ance In­differ­ent Max­i­mizer Alternative

Nevan Wichers13 Feb 2020 9:06 UTC
7 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Con­fir­ma­tion Bias As Mis­fire Of Nor­mal Bayesian Reasoning

Scott Alexander13 Feb 2020 7:20 UTC
43 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Build­ing and us­ing the subagent

Stuart_Armstrong12 Feb 2020 19:28 UTC
17 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #86]: Im­prov­ing de­bate and fac­tored cog­ni­tion through hu­man experiments

Rohin Shah12 Feb 2020 18:10 UTC
15 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Sus­pi­ciously bal­anced evidence

gjm12 Feb 2020 17:04 UTC
50 points
24 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What are the risks of hav­ing your genome pub­li­cly available?

Mati_Roy11 Feb 2020 21:54 UTC
16 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

De­mons in Im­perfect Search

johnswentworth11 Feb 2020 20:25 UTC
107 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Will COVID-19 sur­vivors suffer last­ing dis­abil­ity at a high rate?

jimrandomh11 Feb 2020 20:23 UTC
134 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

The Re­la­tional Stance

Raemon11 Feb 2020 5:16 UTC
48 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence with­out causality

Donald Hobson11 Feb 2020 0:34 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

South Bay Meetup

DavidFriedman10 Feb 2020 22:36 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Si­mu­la­tion of tech­nolog­i­cal progress (work in progress)

Daniel Kokotajlo10 Feb 2020 20:39 UTC
21 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Why do we re­fuse to take ac­tion claiming our im­pact would be too small?

hookdump10 Feb 2020 19:33 UTC
5 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Gricean com­mu­ni­ca­tion and meta-preferences

Charlie Steiner10 Feb 2020 5:05 UTC
24 points
0 comments3 min readLW link