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An overview of 11 proposals for building safe advanced AI

evhub29 May 2020 20:38 UTC

212 points

36 comments38 min readLW link 2 reviews

The EMH Aten’t Dead

Richard Meadows15 May 2020 20:44 UTC

195 points

87 comments19 min readLW link

Literature Review For Academic Outsiders: What, How, and Why

namespace9 May 2020 22:58 UTC

194 points

6 comments15 min readLW link

(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Studies On Slack

Scott Alexander13 May 2020 5:00 UTC

165 points

34 comments24 min readLW link 1 review

(slatestarcodex.com)

Comment on “Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization”

Zack_M_Davis20 May 2020 18:04 UTC

151 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

Assessing Kurzweil predictions about 2019: the results

Stuart_Armstrong6 May 2020 13:36 UTC

146 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

A non-mystical explanation of insight meditation and the three characteristics of existence: introduction and preamble

Kaj_Sotala5 May 2020 19:09 UTC

134 points

40 comments12 min readLW link

Insights from Euclid’s ‘Elements’

TurnTrout4 May 2020 15:45 UTC

126 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

Baking is Not a Ritual

Sisi Cheng25 May 2020 18:08 UTC

125 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Movable Housing for Scalable Cities

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 May 2020 21:21 UTC

123 points

28 comments21 min readLW link

[Question] What are your greatest one-shot life improvements?

Mark Xu16 May 2020 16:53 UTC

116 points

171 comments1 min readLW link

A non-mystical explanation of “no-self” (three characteristics series)

Kaj_Sotala8 May 2020 10:37 UTC

113 points

65 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

Why Artists Study Anatomy

Sisi Cheng18 May 2020 18:44 UTC

98 points

10 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

A Taijitu symbol for Moloch and Slack

B Jacobs25 May 2020 20:03 UTC

91 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Writing Causal Models Like We Write Programs

johnswentworth5 May 2020 18:05 UTC

90 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Craving, suffering, and predictive processing (three characteristics series)

Kaj_Sotala15 May 2020 13:21 UTC

90 points

56 comments19 min readLW link

Why We Age, Part 2: Non-adaptive theories

willbradshaw26 May 2020 17:41 UTC

89 points

22 comments11 min readLW link

(apomorphic.com)

[Question] Tips/tricks/notes on optimizing investments

Wei Dai6 May 2020 23:21 UTC

83 points

68 comments1 min readLW link

Mazes Sequence Summary

Zvi23 May 2020 16:40 UTC

81 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Oil Crisis of 1973

Elizabeth22 May 2020 15:50 UTC

79 points

10 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

How uniform is the neocortex?

zhukeepa4 May 2020 2:16 UTC

79 points

23 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

How to (not) do a literature review

Katarina Slama30 May 2020 0:11 UTC

79 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

(katarinaslama.github.io)

Why Rationalists Shouldn’t be Interested in Topos Theory

jollybard25 May 2020 5:35 UTC

77 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Book Review: Narconomics

ketchupduck3 May 2020 1:19 UTC

77 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Zoom Technologies, Inc. vs. the Efficient Markets Hypothesis

Zack_M_Davis11 May 2020 6:00 UTC

72 points

47 comments4 min readLW link

On the construction of the self

Kaj_Sotala29 May 2020 13:04 UTC

71 points

18 comments17 min readLW link

OpenAI announces GPT-3

gwern29 May 2020 1:49 UTC

67 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity

Vika, Vlad Mikulik, Matthew Rahtz, tom4everitt, Zac Kenton and janleike

6 May 2020 23:51 UTC

66 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

GPT-3: a disappointing paper

nostalgebraist29 May 2020 19:06 UTC

65 points

43 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Pointing to a Flower

johnswentworth18 May 2020 18:54 UTC

61 points

18 comments9 min readLW link

Subspace optima

Chris van Merwijk15 May 2020 12:38 UTC

61 points

7 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Shuttling between science and invention

jasoncrawford27 May 2020 21:25 UTC

61 points

1 comment6 min readLW link 1 review

(rootsofprogress.org)

LessWrong v2.0 Anti-Kibitzer (hides comment authors and vote counts)

Marcello23 May 2020 23:44 UTC

59 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Project Proposal: Gears of Aging

johnswentworth9 May 2020 18:47 UTC

58 points

43 comments7 min readLW link

From self to craving (three characteristics series)

Kaj_Sotala22 May 2020 12:16 UTC

57 points

21 comments11 min readLW link

Get It Done Now

Zvi22 May 2020 12:20 UTC

56 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Highlights of Comparative and Evolutionary Aging

johnswentworth22 May 2020 17:01 UTC

56 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Wikipedia Edit War Update

jefftk22 May 2020 11:30 UTC

55 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Why We Age, Part 1: What ageing is and is not

willbradshaw24 May 2020 9:06 UTC

55 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

(apomorphic.com)

[Job ad] Lead an ambitious COVID-19 forecasting project [Deadline extended: June 10th]

jacobjacob27 May 2020 16:38 UTC

54 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

SlateStarCodex 2020 Predictions: Buy, Sell, Hold

Zvi1 May 2020 14:30 UTC

53 points

15 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Extracting Value from Inadequate Equilibria

eapache18 May 2020 17:25 UTC

50 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Coping and Cultures

Spiracular6 May 2020 22:49 UTC

50 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

In Search of Slack

Martin Sustrik23 May 2020 11:20 UTC

47 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

On Negative Feedback and Simulacra

Zvi3 May 2020 17:00 UTC

47 points

7 comments29 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

“AI and Efficiency”, OA (44✕ improvement in CNNs since 2012)

gwern5 May 2020 16:32 UTC

47 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

“Starwink” by Alicorn

Zack_M_Davis18 May 2020 8:17 UTC

47 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(alicorn.elcenia.com)

[Question] Should I self-variolate to COVID-19

Eli Tyre25 May 2020 20:29 UTC

46 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Failures in technology forecasting? A reply to Ord and Yudkowsky

MichaelA8 May 2020 12:41 UTC

44 points

19 comments11 min readLW link

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on AI ethics and superintelligence

Kaj_Sotala2 May 2020 7:35 UTC

43 points

19 comments7 min readLW link

(plato.stanford.edu)