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[Question] If bacteria gave us a tool for bio engineering, have viruses given us a delivery mechanism?

jmh20 May 2020 22:31 UTC

5 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a way to replicate photosynthesis artificially?

basu_enterprise20 May 2020 19:45 UTC

−2 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Comment on “Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization”

Zack_M_Davis20 May 2020 18:04 UTC

151 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

[AN #100]: What might go wrong if you learn a reward function while acting

Rohin Shah20 May 2020 17:30 UTC

33 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Probabilities, weights, sums: pretty much the same for reward functions

Stuart_Armstrong20 May 2020 15:19 UTC

11 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Race for the Galaxy: 9 Choose 6

jefftk20 May 2020 12:10 UTC

12 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Meta] Three small suggestions for the LW-website

B Jacobs20 May 2020 11:18 UTC

9 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Source code size vs learned model size in ML and in humans?

riceissa20 May 2020 8:47 UTC

11 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to learn from a stronger rationalist in daily life?

Thomas Kwa20 May 2020 4:55 UTC

16 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Signaling: Why People Have Conversations

liam_hinzman20 May 2020 3:18 UTC

15 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

(liamhinzman.com)

[Question] What can currently be done about the “flooding the zone” issue?

the gears to ascension20 May 2020 1:02 UTC

6 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online summer program in the history of technology

jasoncrawford20 May 2020 0:52 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] How to convince Y that X has committed a murder with >0.999999 probability?

Colin Tang19 May 2020 22:55 UTC

1 point

34 comments1 min readLW link

Haskenthetical

philh19 May 2020 22:00 UTC

18 points

9 comments14 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

A Problem With Patternism

B Jacobs19 May 2020 20:16 UTC

5 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

Bag-Drying Clips

jefftk19 May 2020 14:00 UTC

11 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Learning and manipulating learning

Stuart_Armstrong19 May 2020 13:02 UTC

39 points

5 comments10 min readLW link

Pointing to a Flower

johnswentworth18 May 2020 18:54 UTC

61 points

18 comments9 min readLW link

Why Artists Study Anatomy

Sisi Cheng18 May 2020 18:44 UTC

98 points

10 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Extracting Value from Inadequate Equilibria

eapache18 May 2020 17:25 UTC

51 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

The Mechanistic and Normative Structure of Agency

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 May 2020 16:03 UTC

15 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(philpapers.org)

Reward functions and updating assumptions can hide a multitude of sins

Stuart_Armstrong18 May 2020 15:18 UTC

16 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

English Bread Regulations

jefftk18 May 2020 13:20 UTC

32 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

“Starwink” by Alicorn

Zack_M_Davis18 May 2020 8:17 UTC

47 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(alicorn.elcenia.com)

[Question] Isn’t Tesla stock highly undervalued?

Liron18 May 2020 1:56 UTC

31 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

Effective altruism and criticism toward activism: Answer to a paradox

Arthur Milchior17 May 2020 21:15 UTC

9 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Why you should minimax in two-player zero-sum games

Nisan17 May 2020 20:48 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Outbuilding Thoughts

jefftk17 May 2020 12:10 UTC

11 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Learning to build conviction

benkuhn16 May 2020 23:30 UTC

36 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

[Question] Do any mammal species exhibit an immune response in some of the herd in response to the infection in other herd members?

jmh16 May 2020 17:33 UTC

5 points

2 comments1 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

Making a Crowdaction platform

B Jacobs16 May 2020 16:08 UTC

25 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

Learning Rhythms

jefftk16 May 2020 11:00 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[link] Biostasis / Cryopreservation Survey 2020

Mati_Roy16 May 2020 7:20 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Multi-agent safety

Richard_Ngo16 May 2020 1:59 UTC

31 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Conjecture Workshop

johnswentworth15 May 2020 22:41 UTC

35 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to choose a PhD with AI Safety in mind

Ariel Kwiatkowski15 May 2020 22:19 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Movable Housing for Scalable Cities

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 May 2020 21:21 UTC

123 points

28 comments21 min readLW link

The EMH Aten’t Dead

Richard Meadows15 May 2020 20:44 UTC

195 points

87 comments19 min readLW link

Dishwasher Filter

jefftk15 May 2020 20:30 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

Kaj_Sotala15 May 2020 13:21 UTC

90 points

56 comments19 min readLW link

How should AIs update a prior over human preferences?

Stuart_Armstrong15 May 2020 13:14 UTC

17 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Subspace optima

Chris van Merwijk15 May 2020 12:38 UTC

61 points

7 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Distinguishing logistic curves

Stuart_Armstrong15 May 2020 11:38 UTC

24 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Distinguishing logistic curves: visual

Stuart_Armstrong15 May 2020 10:33 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are Michael Vassar’s beliefs?

Chris_Leong15 May 2020 6:15 UTC

21 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Song for a Red Planet

Slimepriestess15 May 2020 5:30 UTC

8 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(hivewired.wordpress.com)

[Question] What was your reasoning for deciding whether to raise children?

Mati_Roy15 May 2020 3:53 UTC

4 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

“It’s Okay”, Instructions, Focusing, Experiencing and Frames

Ouroborus15 May 2020 0:49 UTC

16 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

(ouroborusdotblog.wordpress.com)

Covid 5/21: Limbo Under

Zvi14 May 2020 22:30 UTC

15 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)