Si­mu­la­tion of tech­nolog­i­cal progress (work in progress)

Daniel KokotajloFeb 10, 2020, 8:39 PM
21 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

If I were a well-in­ten­tioned AI… II: Act­ing in a world

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 27, 2020, 11:58 AM
20 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Has a tech­nolog­i­cal de­pen­dency graph been made?

Mati_RoyFeb 27, 2020, 8:51 PM
20 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Hoard­ing and Shortages

jefftkFeb 25, 2020, 6:40 PM
20 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Thoughts about Dr Stone and Mythology

mako yassFeb 25, 2020, 1:51 AM
19 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

New ar­ti­cle from Oren Etzioni

Aryeh EnglanderFeb 25, 2020, 3:25 PM
19 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

In­for­ma­tion haz­ards: Why you should care and what you can do

Feb 23, 2020, 8:47 PM
18 points
4 comments15 min readLW link

[AN #88]: How the prin­ci­pal-agent liter­a­ture re­lates to AI risk

Rohin ShahFeb 27, 2020, 9:10 AM
18 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Map Of Effec­tive Altruism

Scott AlexanderFeb 3, 2020, 6:20 AM
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Build­ing and us­ing the subagent

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 12, 2020, 7:28 PM
17 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

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

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 13, 2020, 2:17 PM
17 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread—Fe­bru­ary 2020

ryan_bFeb 4, 2020, 8:49 PM
17 points
114 comments1 min readLW link

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

William_SFeb 19, 2020, 1:07 AM
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tu­als ver­sus the laws of physics

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 18, 2020, 1:21 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Mati_RoyFeb 11, 2020, 9:54 PM
16 points
13 commentsLW link

Refer­ence Post: Triv­ial De­ci­sion The­ory Problem

Chris_LeongFeb 15, 2020, 5:13 PM
16 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

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

George3d6Feb 15, 2020, 8:39 PM
16 points
25 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Money isn’t real. When you donate money to a char­ity, how does it ac­tu­ally help?

DagonFeb 2, 2020, 5:03 PM
15 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

UML XI: Near­est Neigh­bor Schemes

Rafael HarthFeb 16, 2020, 8:30 PM
15 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

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

Rohin ShahFeb 12, 2020, 6:10 PM
15 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Does there ex­ist an AGI-level pa­ram­e­ter set­ting for mod­ern DRL ar­chi­tec­tures?

TurnTroutFeb 9, 2020, 5:09 AM
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Po­ten­tial Re­search Topic: Vingean Reflec­tion, Value Align­ment and Aspiration

Vaughn PapenhausenFeb 6, 2020, 1:09 AM
15 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 13: Re­solve Cycles

Mark XuFeb 27, 2020, 5:45 PM
14 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #85]: The nor­ma­tive ques­tions we should be ask­ing for AI al­ign­ment, and a sur­pris­ingly good chatbot

Rohin ShahFeb 5, 2020, 6:20 PM
14 points
2 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Big Yel­low Trac­tor (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh WorleyFeb 18, 2020, 6:43 PM
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 10: Systemization

Mark XuFeb 24, 2020, 5:20 PM
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Stuck Exploration

Chris_LeongFeb 19, 2020, 12:31 PM
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Epistea Work­shop Series: Epistemics Work­shop, May 2020, UK

Feb 28, 2020, 10:37 AM
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Set Ups and Summaries

ElizabethFeb 18, 2020, 5:00 AM
14 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Re­la­tion­ship Out­comes Are Not Par­tic­u­larly Sen­si­tive to Small Vari­a­tions in Ver­bal Ability

Zack_M_DavisFeb 9, 2020, 12:34 AM
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(zackmdavis.net)

[Question] Look­ing for books about soft­ware en­g­ineer­ing as a field

mingyuanFeb 3, 2020, 9:49 PM
14 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 11: So­cratic Ducking

Mark XuFeb 25, 2020, 5:19 PM
13 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

UML IX: Ker­nels and Boosting

Rafael HarthFeb 2, 2020, 9:51 PM
13 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Gary Mar­cus: Four Steps Towards Ro­bust Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

Matthew BarnettFeb 22, 2020, 3:28 AM
13 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Train­ing Regime Day 7: Goal Factoring

Mark XuFeb 21, 2020, 5:55 PM
13 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Per­cep­trons Explained

lifelonglearnerFeb 14, 2020, 5:34 PM
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(owenshen24.github.io)

Trace: Goals and Principles

johnswentworthFeb 28, 2020, 11:50 PM
13 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 9: Dou­ble-Crux

Mark XuFeb 23, 2020, 6:08 PM
12 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The re­cent NeurIPS call for pa­pers re­quires au­thors to in­clude a state­ment about the po­ten­tial broader im­pact of their work

OferFeb 24, 2020, 7:44 AM
12 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 12: Focusing

Mark XuFeb 26, 2020, 7:07 PM
12 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Step­wise in­ac­tion and non-in­dex­i­cal im­pact measures

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 17, 2020, 10:32 AM
12 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Ap­pendix: math­e­mat­ics of in­dex­i­cal im­pact measures

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 17, 2020, 1:22 PM
12 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Who… (or what) de­signed this site and where did they come from?

thedayismineFeb 9, 2020, 4:04 AM
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do you use face masks?

ChristianKlFeb 13, 2020, 2:18 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 14: Traf­fic Jams

Mark XuFeb 28, 2020, 5:52 PM
11 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

(In)ac­tion rollouts

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 18, 2020, 2:48 PM
11 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

State Space of X-Risk Trajectories

David_KristofferssonFeb 9, 2020, 1:56 PM
11 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Subagents and im­pact mea­sures: sum­mary tables

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 17, 2020, 2:09 PM
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

North­west Pas­sage Update

jefftkFeb 23, 2020, 3:30 AM
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Is there soft­ware for goal fac­tor­ing?

philip_bFeb 18, 2020, 7:55 PM
11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link