You are an op­ti­mizer. Act like it!

agentydragon20 Feb 2020 23:46 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Goal-di­rected = Model-based RL?

adamShimi20 Feb 2020 19:13 UTC
21 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 6: Seek­ing Sense

Mark Xu20 Feb 2020 17:33 UTC
10 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Cu­ri­os­ity Killed the Cat and the Asymp­tot­i­cally Op­ti­mal Agent

michaelcohen20 Feb 2020 17:28 UTC
28 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do you sur­vive in the hu­man­i­ties?

polymathwannabe20 Feb 2020 15:19 UTC
29 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Mak­ing Sense of Coron­avirus Stats

jmh20 Feb 2020 15:12 UTC
23 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

Map­ping down­side risks and in­for­ma­tion hazards

20 Feb 2020 14:46 UTC
23 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Tes­sel­lat­ing Hills: a toy model for demons in im­perfect search

DaemonicSigil20 Feb 2020 0:12 UTC
97 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

EA Kansas City plan­ning meetup, dis­cus­sion & open questions

samstowers19 Feb 2020 23:12 UTC
7 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

On un­fix­ably un­safe AGI architectures

Steven Byrnes19 Feb 2020 21:16 UTC
33 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

[AN #87]: What might hap­pen as deep learn­ing scales even fur­ther?

Rohin Shah19 Feb 2020 18:20 UTC
28 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Train­ing Regime Day 5: TAPs

Mark Xu19 Feb 2020 18:11 UTC
26 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Does donat­ing to EA make sense in light of the mere ad­di­tion para­dox ?

George3d619 Feb 2020 14:14 UTC
8 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Stuck Exploration

Chris_Leong19 Feb 2020 12:31 UTC
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does any­one have a recom­mended re­source about the re­search on be­hav­ioral con­di­tion­ing, re­in­force­ment, and shap­ing?

Eli Tyre19 Feb 2020 3:58 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Assem­bling Sets for Contra

jefftk19 Feb 2020 3:40 UTC
8 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Is there an in­tu­itive way to ex­plain how much bet­ter su­perfore­cast­ers are than reg­u­lar fore­cast­ers?

William_S19 Feb 2020 1:07 UTC
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

We Want MoR (HPMOR Dis­cus­sion Pod­cast) Com­pletes Book One

moridinamael19 Feb 2020 0:34 UTC
31 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there soft­ware for goal fac­tor­ing?

philip_b18 Feb 2020 19:55 UTC
11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

What are in­for­ma­tion haz­ards?

MichaelA18 Feb 2020 19:34 UTC
41 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Blog Post Day (Unoffi­cial)

Daniel Kokotajlo18 Feb 2020 19:05 UTC
49 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Big Yel­low Trac­tor (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Feb 2020 18:43 UTC
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 4: Murphyjitsu

Mark Xu18 Feb 2020 17:33 UTC
31 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] In a ra­tio­nal world is there a place for ide­ol­ogy?

wachichornia18 Feb 2020 17:09 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

(In)ac­tion rollouts

Stuart_Armstrong18 Feb 2020 14:48 UTC
11 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tu­als ver­sus the laws of physics

Stuart_Armstrong18 Feb 2020 13:21 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to ac­tu­ally switch to an ar­tifi­cial body – Grad­ual remapping

George3d618 Feb 2020 13:19 UTC
9 points
3 comments18 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

Wire­head­ing and discontinuity

Michele Campolo18 Feb 2020 10:49 UTC
21 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Set Ups and Summaries

Elizabeth18 Feb 2020 5:00 UTC
14 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

[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