[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 link1 review

Ex­tract­ing Value from Inad­e­quate Equilibria

eapache18 May 2020 17:25 UTC
50 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
31 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
24 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 link1 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)